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- 1121: Moll Flanders 2
- ... to and gets married to Robin (younger brother). She doesn't love him but marries him and has 2 kids with him. When he passes away she marries a Draper and with him has one child. The Draper spends all the money Moll had saved up and goes bankrupt. Then she marries a sea captain and has one more child who turns out to be her own half brother. Through the embarrassment they both separate from each other. After that she has an on going affair with a mad women's husband and has 3 children's and has another affair with Jemmy again has another child. From there she marries a banker for 5 years has 2 kids with him. She couldn't be penitent because she never keeps almost any of the kids that she has and doesn't ...
- 1122: For Active Euthanasia
- ... accident. The second man plans on drowning his cousin but when he enters the bathroom the boy slips, hits his head, and falls face down in the water. The man stands and watches as the child drowns. The child drowns accidentally as the man does not try to help. (474) Both men make the same decision. The one mans actions were acceptable because he let the child die and did not kill the child. This reasoning is not morally right. Both had the same reason for either killing or letting the child die. This is the same as using active or ...
- 1123: The Scarlet Letter 4
- ... have differed in many ways. The Puritans are one example. Many people in this time period died because of their "branded sin." In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet Letter, the character Hester Prynne and her child Peral deal with this sin by wearing a Scarlet A. "when the young woman stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom ... her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself." Hester did have have the opportunity of removing the scarlet letter only ifd she revealed the father of her child. For example, 'Woman, transgress not not beyond limits of heaven's mercy! hat little babe hath been gifted with a voice, to second and confirm the councel which thou hast heard. Speak out the name ... off. And would that I might endure his agony as wellas mine!" So as you can see she leaves the A on her bosom. Hester was not the only one mistreated by the Puritans. Her child, Pearl, also was a sinner because she had been convinced by her mother (a sinner). She was also called an elf-child. This was a name used by Mr. Wilson. "What' little bird of ...
- 1124: The Scarlet Letter
- ... Unfortunately, during this waiting period, she had become pregnant by another man, and the town's people have forced her to wear an A across her chest to signify her sin. She has a young child named Pearl who is her sole motivation in life. Hester is a strong, caring woman who made a poor decision early in life, and now pays dearly for it. Pearl- An odd child, she is often compared to an elf. Her nature is that of any rambunctious toddler, but she has a fascination with her mother's scarlet A. Her name, Pearl, was given to her to describe ... is taken from the scaffolds, she is brought into a prison cell, and a new doctor in town, who happened to be Hester's husband, is brought in to take care of her and her child. After unsuccessfully trying to get the name of her illegitimate partner, he decides that no one is to know that he is her husband. After her release, Hester moves to a small house in ...
- 1125: Margaret Atwoods Surfacing - A
- ... narrator and is not given a name probably because readers will be able to identify with her as the story's heroine. Early in the story, she talks about being married, divorced, and having a child. Later it is made known that she was never married, but has had an affair with her art professor. As a result of the affair, she gets pregnant and has to have an abortion. Her ... good to her living in the city. In the first chapter, the narrator talks about the time Anna read her palm : "'You had a good childhood but then there's this funny break.'" As a child the heroine idolized her parents. Her parents were atheist, so she was never taught to believe in God. She refers to Him as the alien god, and her parents become her gods since they are ... is not certain that she is actually pregnant, and it does not matter. What matters is that her pregnancy symbolizes the recovery of the loss she incurred during the abortion : "I can feel my lost child surfacing within me, forgiving me ... " Like the Americans who killed the heron, her lover had tried to possess her by killing something that was a part of her. He did not just kill a ...
- 1126: Lewis Carroll In Wonderland
- Through the writing of Lewis Carroll in the story Alice in Wonderland the difference between fantasy and reality can be seen through the eyes of a child. The stories created by Carroll are a combination of make believe stories made to entertain children he talked to on an almost daily basis. Seen as odd by adults in society Carroll better associated himself ... of his stammering disability when speaking. Carroll the man of many talents was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832. Out of a family of eleven children Dodgson was the oldest son and third child. As a child he was very academic and had many interest which he pursued after becoming a deacon in the Church of England. His many accomplishments include Mathematician, English logician, photographer, and novelist ("Carroll, Lewis"). From the ...
- 1127: Personal Commentary on the Drug Problem
- ... drug use has begun a serious investigation into its causes, a massive investment of social efforts to contain it, and a mobilization of medical and par- medical resources to treat its victims. Why do people abuse drugs? Many people continually use drugs because they want a pleasurable change in their state of mind. This pleasurable change may range from a mild lift to an increased psychoactive effect. People use such drugs ... and the Department of Health and Human Services stepped up to try to help our parents protect their children from the resurgence of drugs. The government is doing everything to let parents know about drug abuse, but it is ultimately up to the users. The Gov. cannot change childrens behavior or anybody elses. In schools there is even a bigger problem. The states have created an educational program against drug abuse for the public school system and some authorities claim that this is not a school problem, but the truth is that it has not only been said by some school officials but by disturbed ...
- 1128: The Women of the Nineties
- ... traditional fifties lifestyle is for the children. If mothers are staying home instead of going to work everyday then their children do not have to be raised in daycare. It is not fair to the child to have to spend ten hours a day in a facility where they can not get the attention they need and deserve. Children need their parents. Only a parent can truly give their child what he/she needs. A daycare provider can not give each and every child in the daycare center the love and attention that one of their parents can give them. One of the things people do or are supposed to do when they have a baby is make ...
- 1129: Violence In Television Programs
- ... children saw attractive perpetrators of aggression use violence that seemed justified on victims who suffered minimal consequences, with the aggressors showing no remorse in the process. In an incident in Norway, two children beat another child by jumping and kicking the child in the head and other parts of the body numerous times. As a result, the child died from being left in the cold because she was not able to move due to her injuries. ( Centerwall, 1993) After an investigation officials had discovered that the incident occurred because the children had ...
- 1130: Zeus The King Of The Gods
- ... and storms, and generally of the weather and everything that had to do with the sky. The father of Zeus was Kronos (Saturn) and his mother was Rhea. Kronos was afraid that one day a child of his would take away his domination, so he was eating his children right after they were born. As Rhea's despair was getting deeper with the loss of every child, she paid a visit to her mother Gaia and asked her what she could do to save the one she was caring those days. So Gaia told her to hide the child from Kronos and instead of it, to give him a stone raped with the child's cloths. And Rhea did so. So Kronos ate the stone instead of his son. Then Rhea gave the ...
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