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- 1971: Symbolism Of The Scarlet Lette
- ... be an embarrassment and form of torture for Hester, this scarlet letter seems to become a sense of pride for Prynne. This scarlet letter grows to become a part of Hester an identification to her child Pearl. The scarlet letter is a constant recurring symbol in Hawthorne s novel, but it doesn t satisfy only one purpose. As many symbols tend to do, the scarlet letter serves numerous functions, which enhance ... other people have done things morally wrong and deserve punishment. While the wrong-doers are being punished, the punishers in turn commit wrongs. Here many questions arise. Was it wrong for Hester to keep her child s father a secret from the public? Was is wrong for her to have to live her life as a walking, breathing example of what that Boston community thought was bad? Another usage of symbol ... who didn t know of Hester Prynne, and after many years she was known for her hardiness with a needle. Not only was the scarlet letter a way the public recognized Hester, but her own child Pearl grew up looking and admiring the A . She didn t know her mother without it. There is a place in the book where Hester removes the scarlet letter and Pearl is outraged. She ...
- 1972: Censorship...Who gives a F**k!!!
- ... a felony which is up to $2000 and five years in jail. The Parent's Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.) does not want recordings that include topics of sexuality, violence, drug or alcohol abuse, and suicide to be produced. They also want store owners to be punished if they produce or sell any music that contains these previous topics. Many people think it objectionable to have unlabeled CDs available ... of this issue. Is it true that many parents can't control their children and need help by government? Kids say that it should be the parents job. It is proven that the way a child will act as an adult is not only because of the way they were brought up, but also by the environment in which they were raised. Music, wel
- 1973: Drugs in the Music Industry
- ... kids and pay bills just as we do, but this is still no excuse to put your life into your own hands. The music industry may be finally facing up to the truth that drug abuse has become a serious problem, though. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gathered in 1996 to discuss what could be done about it. The sense of crisis has been growing since Kurt Cobain committed suicide, blamed at least partly on his heroin abuse.(Time p57)Expressions of concern are easy to come by, but the chances for meaningful industry action are less clear. Record executives refuse to be drug police, especially in a society where drug abuse has long been accepted, and even condoned, as part of the creative process. Geffen Records has retained a drug counselor for it's musicians who seek help. (Time p 58). But the industry must ...
- 1974: Tupac Shakur: Stealing From A Dead Star
- ... other Death Row performers (Saltonstall). This shows you how Death Row Records can milk millions from any star. Afeni’s lawsuit also alleges that Tupac was charged $2,700 for another Death Row performer’s child-support payment. The suit further alleges that in February 1996, Tupac was billed $115,507 for jewelry purchased from a business owned by a personal Friend of Knight’s accountant. According to the suit, Knight ... Roberts). Tupac Shakur’s public life began when he joined the seminal Bay area rap ensemble, Digital Underground, first as a tour dancer, then as a rapper. The day before he was convicted of sex abuse in New York, Tupac was shot five times in the lobby of a Times Square recording studio. The crime was officially classified as a robbery; and the police dropped their investigation when Tupac failed to ...
- 1975: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow I can remember as a child in the 1950’s and early sixties, the air-raid sirens, and everyone getting under their desk, or going to the ground floor of the school building and curling up with our faces against the ... giggle with our friends. I recall pictures and televisions programs showing bomb shelters, fully stocked with supplies such as bottled water, canned goods, blankets and first-aid kits. I can remember receiving instructions as a child on how to survive a nuclear bomb. They told us we had to be behind a lead shield. Now, who had a lead shield? They told us to go underground, but most of us could ... remember movies showing soldiers in nuclear test areas. The blast and the wind and the mushroom shaped cloud. I remember news reels at the movie theater about the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a child, I do not really recall feeling threatened by this. I do not remember being disturbed. Perhaps my parents did an especially good job of assuring us that we needn’t worry about such things. ...
- 1976: Historical Psychoanalysis And Dream Interpretation: The Freudian Methodology
- ... was obviously a valuable item, perhaps the jewel-case represented Ida and she wanted to save her from being sexually victimized. Most mothers hold their children as "valuable" and a normal mother would save her child first from a burning building. But, Ida's father would not let her mother save the jewel-case, obviously the father was the dominant figure in the home and this dream portrays this fact. His ... now that Ida's father is dead that she could come. With him dead, does this mean that the home is now safe and that Ida would not have to endure her father's sexual abuse? In the dream Ida searches for the train station and questions the departure time over and over again. To me this points to confusion in her real life. She enters into thick woods in her ...
- 1977: Winter Celebrations Of The World
- ... major icon to children during Christmas in America is a man named Santa Clause. According to American folklore, Santa rewards children by giving them gifts on Christmas for being good boys and girls. If the child were bad, Santa would leave a stump of coal in their stocking, (but what type of parent would do that!) Santa Clause delivers gifts by riding magical reindeer and enters houses through chimneys. Depending on ... vary diversely, from being an elf who delivers gifts in shoes, to a saint who died in A.D. 300 Christmas originated in the Bible under a story of three wise men and a sacred child born in a manger. This child was born to a virgin named Mary and a man named Joseph. Basically, in a nutshell, an angel appeared to three wise men outside of Bethlehem. They follow a star to his birth in ...
- 1978: Ontological and Cosmological Arguments of God's Existence
- ... scientific reasons that are not fully explained. Humans are happier with a religious explanation because it rests in the idea of a Supreme Being that people are afraid of, and feel secure in, like a child is to a parent. Most humans are religious and generally speaking older people are more religious than younger people are. Why do people turn to religion? There are many different answers given to this question ... or gives them rationalization for the lack of justice in this world. Others turn to religion as a kind of irresponsible reaction to a world we cannot cope with. This reaction is similar to a child's unwillingness to give up an illusion of security that he or she should have outgrown in adolescence. Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud were critical of religion and believed it to be an obstacle to man ... philosophers and "free spirits" felt redemption in this event. Another person to attack religion was Sigmund Freud, who reduced the grand aspirations of religion to, mere illusions, but, even worse, the illusions of an insecure child who has never properly grown up. According to him, religious ideas are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end results of thinking; they are illusions, fulfillment's of the oldest, ...
- 1979: The Count Of Monte Cristo
- ... Villefront, Monte Cristo slowly reveals to Villefront that he knows about a love affair that Villefront had long ago with Madam Danglars. He also revealed to him, by hints, that he knows about the illegitimate child whom he fathered, a child whom Villefront had believed to be buried alive. The child lived, however, and was now engaged to Mademoiselle Danglars, who is really his half-sister. Ironically, Villefront's wives proves to be more villainous than her husband, for she poisons her parents and her ...
- 1980: Theories of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Julian Rotter's Locus Reinforecement Control
- ... me. I have a place and a family that has taught me rules and discipline, which will stay with me for the rest of my life. Simple rules of safety whether it be teaching a child to fend for themselves helps build character. Belonging and love needs is the third stage. This covers relationship with family, and friends. I have a close relations with my parents and my brother and sister ... right now I'm having fun. The fourth step is self esteem needs. The two meanings are respect for yourself and the need for respect from others. I have respect for myself. I do not abuse myself, I feel good about myself. I've worked very hard to achieve what I have today ( I worked very hard to restore my 1967 mustang) I've put a lot of hours in my ...
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