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- 1961: A Culture Destroyed
- ... felt was when Rose wrote “Would’ve put her in my mouth like a snake if I could”(570). I interpreted this as meaning that there was no way that she could have protected her child and if there were she would have hidden her away from all the madness. When I read this I could really picture something like this happening in slavery. During slavery, children were expected to do ... in the poem the slave mothers were all about the safety of their children. I think that all mothers have that same mentality. I think that it is just that special love that woman and child share and the feeling that a mother gets when something has happened to their child that drives them to go to all limits to keep them safe. The last part that really stood out in my head was when Rose wrote; “Not enough magic to stop the scientists. Not ...
- 1962: Scarlet Letter Essay +
- ... be revealed. She was forced to wear a scarlet A on her bosom, which stood for adultery, for her entire life. Truth was revealed to Hester by the fact that she became pregnant with a child as a result of her sin. Pearl noticed her mother s scarlet A as a baby and was attracted to it instantly for some reason. Pearl notices the letter as an infant as her eyes ... she could be more properly raised. While the Reverend convinced them that Pearl should stay with Hester this was still a devastating conflict for any mother to be faced with. They fact of losing your child and for Hester Pearl was also her only real companion. While guilt destroyed Hester in these ways, it had a different effect on the Reverend Dimmesdale. The Reverend described his soul as A mockery at ... the Reverend calls Hester and Pearl up to the podium with him so that he may confess his sin, Chillingworth runs up to Dimmesdale and tells him to wave back that woman! Cast off that child! All shall be well! (253). Yet, as stated earlier, after the Reverend tells the town the truth Chillingworth runs away out of his guilt for what he did to the man and fear of ...
- 1963: Anne Bradstreet’s Expression of Anger
- ... a paradox, and other literary devices to express her anger. Bradstreet expresses her anger mostly through the extended metaphore which flows throughout the poem. This extended metaphore compares Bradstreet’s poetry to an ill-formed child. “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who after birth didst by my side remain,/ Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,/ Who thee abroad, exposed to public view”(1-4). Bradstreet explains in these lines, her anger towards her brother-in-law. She compares the publicizing of her poetry to the exposure of her ugly child to public view and humiliation. Bradstreet uses this comparison as a major way to express her anger. Bradstreet also uses a paradox to express her frustration, “I washed thy face, but more defects I saw”(13). Bradstreet compares washing the face of her child to trying to erase her own problems. With this paradox, Bradstreet expresses her failing efforts to make her problems wash away. She expresses her desperation about her inability to get her life back to ...
- 1964: The Theme of Death in Poems
- ... her death, and is able to pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a kindly, gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home. A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in Nova Scotia" tells of a young boys death, and his cousins view of it. We are shown Arthur's death through the eyes of a child. The little girl, our narrator, describes the scene of her cousins funeral. Her focus however is not how we might think that she would perceive it. She describes to us pictures of the Royal family ... in his hand, yet another personification of innocense by the color of the flower. This defining of the color is symbolic, or the youth and innocence of Arthur. It represents how he was but a child, and his death was not such a sad occasion, but the taking of innocence from one place, to a better one. Again in this poem death was not personified as evil, but as a ...
- 1965: The Theme of Death in Poems
- ... her death, and is able to pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a kindly, gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home. A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in Nova Scotia" tells of a young boys death, and his cousins view of it. We are shown Arthur's death through the eyes of a child. The little girl, our narrator, describes the scene of her cousins funeral. Her focus however is not how we might think that she would perceive it. She describes to us pictures of the Royal family ... in his hand, yet another personification of innocense by the color of the flower. This defining of the color is symbolic, or the youth and innocence of Arthur. It represents how he was but a child, and his death was not such a sad occasion, but the taking of innocence from one place, to a better one. Again in this poem death was not personified as evil, but as a ...
- 1966: Subject of War in the Poems of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, and Sandburg
- ... Kind" presents a dilemma from the outset as it uses two words "war" and "kind" that are dissimilar. Crane then highlights acts of destruction and despair with the "kindness" of war. He notes that a child should not weep when his father was killed, "Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches, Raged at his breast, gulped and died. Do not weep. War is kind." As if a child could think that someone who killed his father was kind. Or he contrasts "virtue" with "slaughter" ("Point for them the virtue of slaughter") and "excellence" with "killing." ("Make plain to them the excellence of killing ... anything else. The urgency of the moment rules. "Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds", "Make no parley - stop for no expostulation." "Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,". In "The Arsenal at Springfield", Longfellow notes the senselessness of war. " ...
- 1967: Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair
- ... Having children at a young age and while being unmarried is an occurrence we see far too much of today in our own society. What animal can rejoice in this truth of breeding poverty, of child abuse, of ignorance, and of uneducated children and call it beautiful? Those that are chosen, no forced to lead our society in the past of our grandparents, are not getting the proper training to do so ...
- 1968: Allowing Evil to Triumph
- ... would try to stop the evil. Often times, two parents of a household work and do not spend enough time with their children. Because the parents do not act as a good influence in the child's life, the child may begin to do drugs, get bad grades, and become involved in crime. Each of these things is evil but could have been prevented if the parent had done something and acted as a good influence in the child's life. This is an example of how the good doing nothing allows the evil to triumph in the life of an average person. Also, many times there are bullies within a school who ...
- 1969: Raves
- ... pressures. Also many organizations have been designed to inform the public of club drugs, such as ecstasy, and to take a stance to try and prevent future use. For example, NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) passed out 330,000 free informative postcards to major cities nation wide. The postcards featured the human brain and the severity of the difference before and after the use of ecstasy(). Drugs and alcohol continually cause national problems, but as long as individuals and national organizations attempt to prevent future abuse the problems will diminish. It also is important to look at the locations where the density of the drug problem exists. If activities at all-night rave clubs are better restricted the use of ecstasy ... All the Rave. http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/clubdrugs/mdma.html (2000) Leshner, Alan I. “Club Drugs.” NIDA Community Drug Alert Bulletin. http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofax/ecstasy.html Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Ecstasy: Just the Facts. http://www.tcada.state.tx.us/research/facts/ecstasy.html Word Count: 1363
- 1970: Music Censorship
- ... reflected their life and what they were really like. Today's performers, however, do not act like that in real life, for the most part. Today, performers take on challenges, like the dare of a child. . . "Betcha won't do it!" These rock performers cannot turn down a dare or back away from even the slightest bit of public notoriety. By listening to one of their "questionable" albums, it is easily ... PMRC, managed to get eight percent of the music industry to place PG labels on albums with lyrics or pictures thought to be sexually explicit and/or promoting violence, suicide, rape, the occult, or drug abuse. (Eight percent is about twenty-four companies) (Zucchino 9). The label reads :"Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics," (Zucchino 1). As if the PG rating was not enough, the PMRC felt it had been watered down too ...
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