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- 1401: Education History
- ... the New England Primer, was America’s own contribution to education(Pulliam, Van Patten 86). Used from 1609 until the beginning of the 19th century, its purpose was to teach both religion and reading. The child learning the letter a, for example, also learned that "In Adam’s fall, We sinned all." As in Europe, then, schools in the colonies were strongly influenced by religion. This was particularly true of schools ... Germany in the 16th century, the Puritans sought to make education universal. They took the first steps toward government-supported universal education in the colonies. In 1647, Puritan Massachusetts passed a law requiring that every child be taught to read. [It being the chief object of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures,…it is therefore ordered, that every township…after the Lord hath increased ... instead of preparing them to immediately enter the work force. America’s educational ladder was unique. Where public school systems existed in European countries such as France and Germany, they were dual systems. When a child of the lower and middle class finished his elementary schooling, he could go on to a vocational school. The upper-class child did not attend the elementary school and was instead tutored until the ...
- 1402: Blind Obedience
- ... he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled up with drawings and ideas. This book shows just how easy it is to mold a child. It uses a classroom of children facing a major change in their lives as the setting. The story moves quickly and the characters are only briefly sketched out. The story has a science fiction “feel ... of all her classes led to a “legion” of faces of which none stood out. In contrast, the “new” teacher memorizes in advance all the students names and birthdays. That is enough to impress any child. Although the children in the story resist at first, it doesn’t take this “new” teacher long to convince them to do away with the Pledge of Allegiance and to rip up the flag. Not a single child could explain why they say the pledge or what they were pledging allegiance to. When the students initially showed curiosity on the topic, they were rebuffed by the “old” teacher. The message was clear, ...
- 1403: Biological Determinism
- ... industrial revolution, as well as cultural and ideological. Some ideologies of biological determinism assert that sophisticated behaviour is not taught, but develops automatically. There is a difference between mankind and animal's behaviour. For example, child learns how to speak his first words under the influence of the parents or relatives, but a child who is raised in an isolated environment cannot communicate in a normal way. We can conclude from this example that a child begins to speak not because of genetic variations of his or her parents, but because of the environment he is located in. History knows the cases when a child was raised among animals, but ...
- 1404: Violence Against Women Act
- ... states that "Gender based crimes and fear of gender based crimes...reduces employment opportunities and consumer spending affecting interstate commerce." Sara Benenson has been abused by her husband, Andrew Benenson, since 1978. Because of this abuse, she sued her husband under various tort claims and violations under the Violence Against Women Act. Now Mr. Benenson is protesting the constitutionality of this act claiming that Congress has no right to pass a law that legislates for the common welfare. However, Congress has a clear Constitutional right to regulate interstate commerce. This act is based solely on interstate commerce and is thereforeConstitutional. Because of abuse, Sara Benenson was afraid to get a job because it would anger her husband. She was afraid to go back to school and she was afraid to go shopping or spend any money on her ... to do is give women a weapon to protect themselves from violent spouses. Without this act, many women would be left incapable of getting any form of financial redress for the years of suffering and abuse they went through. It is wrong to deny women a tool to rebuild they're lives after an abusive relationship. The years of abuse they went through makes it hard if not impossible for ...
- 1405: Frederick Douglass
- ... the town of Easton, Maryland. Harriet Baily was Frederick's mother. She worked the cornfields surrounding Holmes Hill. As a boy, he knew little of his father except that the man was white. As a child, he had heard rumors that the master, Aaron Anthony was his father. Frederick's mother was required to work long hours in the fields, so he lived with his grandmother, Betsey Baily. Betsy Baily lived ... company in Baltimore. When Frederick got to the Auld home his only duties were to run errands and care for the Auld's infant son, Tommy. Frederick liked the work and grew to love the child. Sophia Auld was the master's wife, she often read the bible to her son and Frederick. She started to teach Frederick to read and write but soon after the master learned of this and ... Frederick would have to change his name so the slave catchers would not catch him. So by the suggestion of Johnson, Frederick Baily became Frederick Douglass. In June 1839 Anna gave birth to their first child Rosetta, the next year they had a son Lewis. Douglass became involved in the abolitionist movement next. Someone approached Douglass and asked him if he wanted a subscription to the Liberator, an abolitionist paper ...
- 1406: "An Inspector Calls": Issues and Priestly's Viewpoint
- ... of the Birling family, a good of example of this is how Mrs Birling decides to blame somebody other than her family for the whole suicide, she blames it on the father of Eva's child. This made her feel good about herself until she found out that Eric her son was the father of the child therefore making her the grandmother of the child. So after all Mrs Birling only brought more shame onto the family. "Mrs Birling- I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have, if as she ...
- 1407: Violence on Television
- ... violence and later aggressive behavior warrants a major organized cry of protest from the medical profession" (Palmer, 122). The issue of the public's infatuation with television can be paralleled with that of a young child and his desire for candy and "junk foods." The child enjoys eating such foods, though they produce the harmful effects of rotting away at his teeth. With a parent to limit his intake of such harmful sweets, however, the child is protected from their damage. Similarly, the American public desires to view violent programs at the risk of adapting induced aggressive behaviors. Because the networks refuse to act as a "mother," and to limit ...
- 1408: Frankenstein
- ... various quarters of the heavens. I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight (Shelley 20). Victor Frankenstein was a bright young man with a dark fascination which began as a child, with the raising of ghosts or devils... a promise liberally accorded by my favorite authors (Shelley 20). First manifesting itself as a deep interest in science while a college student, it grew into an obsession ... exploring and literally exploding the myth of motherhood, Mary Shelley created a new dimension to the genre, the Female Gothic ( Frankenstein: Birthing the New Female Gothic ami.frank.html). Having recently given birth to a child who died shortly thereafter, Shelley employed the theme of birth, which had always been depicted as miraculous and beautiful, and put a terrifying spin on it as Dr. Frankenstein gives birth to his creation. According ... This is also supplied in Frankenstein, in the character of Elizabeth Lavenza. Adopted by Victor s parents, Elizabeth is the fairest and frailest of young ladies, having been seriously ill with scarlet fever as a child. She also provides the perfect Gothic contrast between darkness and light. Of his beautiful and adored companion, an enamored Victor would say, Everyone loved Elizabeth. The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all ...
- 1409: Mozart
- ... originates from St. John Chrysostom, whose feast falls on the 27th of January. The name Wolfgang was given to him in honor of his maternal grandfather, Wolfgang Nikolaus Pertl. He was the seventh and last child born to musical author, composer and violinist, Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Pertl. Only Wolfgang and Maria Anna (whose nickname was ‘Nannerl’) survived infancy. He was born in a house in the Hagenauersches ... Wolfgang dream of escaping from Salzburg. A new extensive tour was planned for Mozart in 1776, but the music world was this time not so easily conquered by Mozart. He was now twenty years old-child prodigy no longer. The music world had in the past lavished its adoration upon a little pug-nosed child who could achieve miraculous musical feast and dazzle them with specially crafted parlor ticket. Now that child had entered manhood, he had lost his great apparel. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the greatest ...
- 1410: A Prayer For Owen Meany
- ... a noble name as well and symbolizes good. He also is a humble boy and a student at the start of the novel. What is most interesting about John, however, is his uncertainty as a child. He loses his mother to an unfortunate accident as child and is very upset by that. More importantly, he is uncertain of his place in the whole scheme of things. His mother makes him change churches frequently, as he never feels connection with God as a child. It is through his best friend, that he comes to what he is on the earth for. Therefore, it is evident that the protagonists of each novel are similar in nature as a result ...
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