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- 1261: Christina Rossetti And The Fea
- ... deaf and blind?" (ln 259). Rossetti does not reward Laura for her sumptuous deeds that took place at the Goblin Market. Laura's life and youth must be relinquished, because her curiosity led her to abuse her physical senses. This is exposed through Rossetti's repetition of verbs as Laura feeds upon the fruit of the Goblin men, "She sucked and sucked and sucked the more…She sucked until her lips ... snail, One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry, One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry. Ln. 71-76 This description of the goblins, as seen through Laura's character, emphasizes the circus like and child like (through rhyme) emotion that Laura would have felt upon seeing the goblins. This enticement of visual pleasure ultimately leads Laura to the goblins. Although it should be noted that, Laura and Lizzie are not ... life will lead to an eventual spiritual reward. Each of the female characters in the poem represents some paradigm of the connections between the goblins(sensuous life) and women in general. Jeanie, becomes the poster child of hedonism, while Laura is the recovering pleasure-seeking woman. Of course, Lizzie is the model example because she braves the depths of the Goblin Market to save Laura and returns without her hair ...
- 1262: Causes Of Civil War
- ... states opened new hospitals for the insane and others improved their supervision of penitentiaries, asylums, and poorhouses. Prohibiton deals with the banning of alcohol . Religious groups consider drinking alcohol is a sin and women being abuse rosed. Poverity and crime rose, so the Anti-Saloon League was formed. It was organize in Ohio by women, who marched to saloons to make them give up their businesses. Abolitionist Movement stated with the ... did nothing to separate the Norh from the South. Men in the North and the South belived it was too extreme for women to have equal rights because they thought women as nothing more than child barriers and housekeepers. Prohibition was an idea that alcohol should be illegal because it ruin many home lives of Americans. Women were abuse by their drunk husbands and as result battered women spoke out. Prohibiton did no separate the North and South because the majority of the men from both sides loved alcohol too much to listen. ...
- 1263: Christmas, Retailers, and the Santa Claus Conspiracy
- ... that their first thoughts will be about buying the perfect gifts, having the most eye-damaging house decorations on the block, or having a hairy old fat man in red underwear arrested for putting their child on his lap and whispering to them to tell him what they "really" want (strangely enough there are some parents out there who actually pay money each year to have this abuse inflicted upon their children). The whole idea of Santa Claus is one of the scariest I've come across and yet we embrace it. The entire story sounds like something you should threaten your kid ... story sounds like a softening cover-up fed to us as propaganda. The truth of the matter is there's a Mafia hitman out there named Santa the Claw who runs a sweatshop using illegal child labour to manufacture products in a remote location where he can't be easily apprehended; or so that's what my skills of deductive reasoning tell me. So why the cover-up? Simple. The ...
- 1264: Stephen Crane
- By: Anonymous Stephen Crane Today in modern America, it has become almost impossible to avoid the tales of horror that surround us almost anywhere we go. Scandals, murders, theft, corruption, extortion, abuse, prostitution, all common occurrences in this day in age. A hundred years ago however, people did not see the world in quite such an open manner despite the fact that in many ways, similarities were ... by corruption as well. Many were too blind to see beyond their own homes and into the lives of others who dealt with a more unfortunate fate. Those being the ones who lived in poverty, abuse, and other harsh conditions which were finally exposed to America in 1893 by a 22-year old college free lance writer who simply wished to show things as they appeared to him: bitterly real. Stephen ... of the novel lies in this change that occurs to Maggie. When first introduced to Maggie, we are given a picture of complete and utter innocence. She is presented to us as a strong, defiant child battling to overcome life’s hardships. She is unaware of life beyond her way of living and is much too naïve to realize how poorly she lives. All this changes when she meets Peter. ...
- 1265: Censorship
- ... all either, there are millions of things we use or see every day that are censored for a reason. The reason can be many but the three most important reasons are for an adult or child’s wellbeing, for the decency of our society and for privacy of each other. All of these things are censored because our lives are influenced by these reasons in one way or another. This will ... tell you that with out censorship we would live in a world so dirty and irresponsible so indecent and shameful that it could not exist. We pretty much ignore the growth in violence and sexual abuse in our movies and on television. Have they gone away? According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, by the time an average child leaves high school, he or she will have watched the happening of 18,000 murders on television. Prime time says the National Coalition on Television Violence, is filled with degrading sexual material and incidents ‘ ...
- 1266: The Rajahs Of The Western Worl
- ... faults and talks about him trying to commit suicide to the boys; although she is begging of them to humour their father her tone of voice implies that she really does see Willy as a child. Just because Linda and Gina see through their husbands does not mean that they do not love them. In fact they seem to endure emotional and verbal abuse from their husbands without any protest. Gina does not defend herself when Hialmar finds out she slept with Werle before their marriage but admits her guilt. When she asks him but would you have married ... s dinner and even mentions shooting her beloved wild duck, but Hedvig still worships her father. When Hialmar leaves the house and says he will never come back because of Hedvig s not being his child she cries oh, this will kill me! What have I done to him? Mother, you must fetch him home again . The children of Willy, Biff and Happy, have a different attitude towards their father, ...
- 1267: Rastafarianism
- ... reproduction of labor power and struggle based upon the village and its tenure of the commons. Increasingly, for Rastas, Babylon is no longer a reference to a Biblical city, nor is it a term of abuse. Around the globe there are huge inequalities in the distribution of wealth. To many Rastas, nothing is more symbolic of the absurd abuse of funds and power than the space program. Rastafarians question how the West can morally justify the amount of money spent on space expeditions while the poor can hardly afford the basic necessities for survival ... commemorating Marley's birthday. Turner (44, 1995) reports that: "While Government repression discourages the display of any Rasta symbolism or the Garveyite colors of red, gold, and green; phrases such as 'beat down Babylon, ghetto child,' may be seen traced in the dust on a city bus." Rastafarianism is a way of life that has emerged in response to the oppression, poverty, and colonialism imposed upon African peoples by the ...
- 1268: Sixteen Most Significant Events in US History between 1789 to 1975
- ... and curb corruption. Socially, the Progressives were successful in improving the living conditions of the city. They were responsible for legislation governing minimum wages for workers, limiting the hours in the work day, and controlling child labor. However, many of the reforms brought about by the Progressive movement were reversed by the social and economic attitudes that grew out of World War I and the postwar years. Demobilization and the resulting ... policies. Government, which had supported labor during the war, now began to side with big business, and labor strife was again common. Gains attained by the Progressives for workers were reversed by the Supreme Court. Child labor was reinstituted and minimum wages for women were declared unconstitutional. In addition, the reduction of the income tax, elimination of the excess profits' tax, and an increase in the protective tariff once again created ... spent over $150 billion on the war. Of the 2,700,000 men and women who fought in the war, many returned with deep psychological problems and suffered form a high rate of divorce, drug abuse, suicide, and joblessness. Many Americans opposed the U.S. role in Vietnam and criticized returning veterans, leaving them with a feeling that the nation did not appreciate their sacrifices. Also as a result of ...
- 1269: Jane Eyre: Ladies First
- ... to manipulate everyone except Mr. George Knightley. In Jane Eyre, Jane demonstrates a strong need to be herself, to take responsibility for her action. She is put to the test by her daily teasing and abuse from her cousins. When she is brought to a boarding school she soon distinguishes herself through her classes. Eventually ends up in Thornfield where she meets Edward Rochester. While growing up in Gateshead Hall, Jane ... Mr. Philip Elton to be his future spouse. This planned fail because of Mr. Elton loved Emma instead of Harriet. Jane Eyre soon arrives in Lowood, where she becomes friends with Helen Burns, a sickly child whose saint-like encouragement helps Jane with the hardships of school life. Here is where Jane's renewal in faith starts to develop. Helen who dies in Jane's arms tells Jane that they will meet again in heaven. Jane soon begins to thrive on her academic successes and becomes a teacher. Where she decides to take a job in Thornfield, where she is to teach a foster child Adéle Varens, who speaks French mixed with English. The owner of Thornfield, Edward Rochester often travels therefore Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper maintains the house will Rochester is gone. Jane and Rochester introduced each other ...
- 1270: Frederick Douglass
- ... Perry, Sarah and Eliza in the fields of Edward Lloyd. The slave head in charge of Frederick was the cruel cook, Aunt Katy. Although perhaps he deserved some of her wrath, being a very mischievous child, she was undoubtedly a little out of line. She took up a need to abuse him, mentally and sometimes physically. This may have sprouted from a resentment against his mother. One of Katy’s favorite acts of punishment was starvation. On one occasion when Frederick’s mother had come to ... Eventually he met with Lloyd’s young son Daniel. They became friends and Daniel began to smuggle Frederick in the house through the garden. In slavery it was very common, before puberty, for a slave child to play with the master’s children. By the time he was eight it was time for Douglass to pack up and move again. This time he was sent to Baltimore to live with ...
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