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- 201: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... down. All he knew now was himself and that of his tendencies. His own nature was the only real and raw thing that he was able to hang on to. A life of mistreatment and abuse, his last actions displayed his true feelings. "I should have stopped you in the womb. When I had the chance I should have taken it. YOU, were my worst mistake." "LEAVE! Nobody here wants you ... It was wrong wasn’t it? I need help to figure this out. It feels so good," he spoke with a smile of revenge and his hands clenched tighter and tighter with every word. "My child I am here. This is what I am going to help you with. How to pay the dues that others can’t. You will be my "Tax Collector." There will be nothing you can’t ... him was here. He wasn’t alone. He was wanted and he would be cared for. The man wrapped his hands around his new protégé. He comforted him and held him. He spoke to the child as if it was his own. The man smiled. "Now we must leave this place. Come with me and we will start your training. You will now learn the ways of the wonderful, you ...
- 202: Child Labor
- Child labor was and is still an existing practice in the world today. Manuel, a five-year old worked at a seafood cannery in Biloxi, Mississippi, with a shrimp pail in each hand and a mountain of oyster shells behind his back. He is typical for thousands of working children in the years before the civil war, especially the turn of the century. America's army of child laborers had been growing steadily for the past century. The nation's economy was expanding. Factories, minds and mills needed plenty of cheap labor. Around 1911, more than two million American children under the age ... twelve-year-olds on factor night shifts. Across the country, children who should have been in school or at play had to work for a living. By the early 1900's, many Americans were calling child labor "child slavery" and were demanding an end to it. They argued that long hours of work deprived children of an education and robbed them for useful lives as productive adults, child labor promised ...
- 203: Psychology: Human Development
- ... on which part of their body gave them sexual gratification. Freud's psychosexual stages of development are five in total. The Oral stage takes place from birth to about one year. During this stage, a child is orally oriented. The mouth is the child's erogenous zone. Everything a child touches is put in his mouth. Freud believes children do this because it gives them pleasure. When a child sucks his thumb, it does so because it gives it gives him gratification. According to ...
- 204: ... especially the French Revolution, begins by criticizing the aristocrats' treatment of the poor people of France. In the seventh chapter of book two, the Monsieur the Marquis had accidentally driven his carriage over a young child, killing him. Instead of worrying about the child's welfare, the Monsieur's reaction was to worry about his horses: "One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done to my horses."(Dickens, 111) He deemed their lives inferior and insignificant, as illustrated when he threw a gold coin to the child's devastated father as compensation. The Monsieur the Marquis revealed his true sentiments to his nephew: "Repression is the only lasting philosophy. . . fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the ...
- 205: Scarlet Letter Chapter Summari
- ... her on ahead to America while he settled some business affairs. Alone in the small town of Boston, Hester has shocked and angered her neighbors by secretly taking a lover and bringing forth a girl child. The Puritans of Boston are shocked that she has done this thing. They are angry because she will not reveal the name of the father of the child. Although the usual penalty for adultery is death, the Puritan judges (called magistrates) have decided to be merciful to her, declaring that Hester's punishment will be to stand for several hours on the scaffold ... important points about the story: 1. The tale begins in Puritan Boston, in June, 1642. 2. Hester Prynne has committed adultery. Wearing the scarlet letter, "A," she is soon to leave the prison with her child. Then she will stand for a few hours on the scaffold for all to see. 3. The Puritans are a very critical group, always ready to punish wrongdoing. 4. Nature, symbolized by a "token" ...
- 206: Wolf's "The Child By Tiger" and Bowen's "Tears, Idle Tears": The Innocence Of The Child
- Wolf's "The Child By Tiger" and Bowen's "Tears, Idle Tears": The Innocence Of The Child Many writers have found writing about the human psyche very interesting. The story, "The Child by Tiger", by Thomas Wolf, is about an African American servant who initially seems to be very skilful and moral but who turns out to be very vengeful, eventually running around, shooting up the ...
- 207: Nature Versus Nurture For Rors
- ... be a psychological argument. A super hero is neither born nor shaped by environment, it is the creation of an alter ego to suppress childhood conflicting inner issues. Rorshach dealt with issues as a young child that rationalized in his mind to hide behind a costume and a mask in order to live. The first character the book introduces to the reader to is Rorschach, Walter Joseph Kovacs, one of the ... you cost me, you ugly little shit. I shoulda listened to everybody else! I shoulda had the abortion." (Pg.4, chap.6, panel 6-7) Walter’s mother did’nt hesitate to physically or verbally abuse him. Her first reaction was to punch him in the face. This reflects the issue of a chain of a abuse. Walter’s mother was probably abused in more ways than one by her parents. Through her behavior of name calling and the rage she portrays it is most likely she was subjected to the ...
- 208: Family: Good or Evil?
- ... they come home from school and nobody is there), or they have both parents. Most probably are in the first category, however, and this is very said. When living in this kind of environment the child only has one role model or person to share their problems with. As long as families continue to deteriorate, social deviance will continue to increase. In my eyes the imitate family is the leading cause ... reason that young teenage girls end up on the street and not in college trying to get a job is usually problems at home. The teenager experiences one, possible all three types of violence or abuse: physical, sexual, or mental. This abuse can start at any age anywhere from birth up through adulthood. Children who are abused at a young age according to the textbook are likely to view the world as hostile, have suspicion or ...
- 209: Blake's "London" and "The Garden of Love"
- ... saw this increase of social injustice and was overwhelmed, so he began to write about this hypocrisy of social values that he felt was being carefully hidden from the mainstream. While most considered this unavoidable, child labor was a topic that they did not discuss openly in social groups. Blake wanted to change all of that. As a social critic, he wrote many poems condemning the hypocrisy between these two worlds ... sweet flowers." In the next stanza, Blake turns toward the dark implication again as youth turns looks upon the Garden and sees ". . . it filled with graves." That line has such a strong emotional presence. A child is trying to get in touch with his or her inner feeling. The reader can actually feel the whiplash of feelings this child must have felt when seeing this image of the garden being filled with death. Death is symbolizing the inadequacies of the Church during this time. What is most disturbing is that Blake was a ...
- 210: Multiple Personalities: Do They Really Exist?
- ... caused by brain malfunctions and can be treated with drugs, whereas suffers of MPD cannot because MPD is an almost purely psychological disorder. MPD seems to be caused mainly by incredibly violent and terrible childhood abuse. In fact, about 98% of MPD sufferers were abused as children. The disorder also occurs between three to nine times more in women than men, the person being abused creates other personalities to handle the ... forced the boy to dig his own grave, burying him alive with only a stove pipe to breath through. Then the father urinated into the pipe onto the boy's face. With that kind of abuse, you either go crazy, die, or develop other personalities. That is why, in many people with MPD, there are agitated and distracted child personalities. These personalities were created in order to suffer the pain of abuse. When the abuse was over, their call was no longer needed and the primary personality could resume control, dropping with that ...
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