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- 2251: Personal Writing: About Me
- ... but solely on the size of your heart. I get very downhearted and angry when I see any animal being abused in any way. I feel that anyone who feels they have the right to abuse an animal should be put away in jail as if they were an animal themselves. Humans think they have more rights then animals, but I think the very opposite. Call my crazy but when I ... be near my Godfather and his family. Family is a very important aspect in my life and I have to be near family always. I want to have two kids because I am an only child and I feel that kids should always have someone to play with and relate with. Everyone is unique. I am my own individual with my own ideas of what the perfect life is. I believe ...
- 2252: The Fog
- ... Jones broke both his legs and lost one arm, he is in Therapy and will need long term rehabilitation. Which means he will lose his business, and he will not be able to pay his child support, which is going to his ex-wife. She will loose the house that has been in her family for 100 years and they will have to move to a different area, which means Tommy ... to go to a different school, his girlfriend will break up with him because he has moved to far away. His mother has turned into an alcoholic and was forced into a drug and alcohol abuse program. Mr.jones has gotten out of the hospital only to be told that he has lost everything, and a little old lady is suing him by the name of Mrs.little for 12.6 ...
- 2253: Latin Drug Trade
- ... elected officials, including the president, directly or indirectly on its payroll. Demand reduction must also be an integral part of the global response. The need for demand reduction is obvious, since escalating drug use and abuse continue to take a devastating toll on the health, welfare, safety, security, and economic stability of all nations. Changing patterns of drug abuse, supply, and distribution compound the problem, at the same time as international drug syndicates and gangs are carrying out ever more ruthless, vigorous, and sophisticated marketing techniques and strategies. The U.S. response has been ... to prevent both first use and further use, and effective treatment programs for the afflicted and addicted. Other aspects encompass education and media campaigns to increase public awareness of the deleterious consequences of drug use/abuse and community coalition-building. Coalitions are necessary in order to mobilize public and private social institutions, the faith community, and law enforcement entities in targeted campaigns against drugs. Though we cannot neglect any stage ...
- 2254: Corporal Punishment
- ... in reply to the recent publication of an item on the topic of corporal punishment. I do not agree that it is needed to bring discipline back into our schools. It is assumed that a child who has been caned would be less likely to commit another offence , but this was never proved and , in fact , one theory holds that severe corporal punishment increases the likelihood of future offences. There are better ways to discipline students than hitting them. Some parents may believe that spanking a child may be beneficial but apart from being potentially dangerous physically, it can lower their self esteem, hinder their academic abilities and may even contribute to disruptive and violent behaviour. Some pupils may feel so afraid ... schools. A passage from the book tells of how , aged nine, Dahl was caned six times for talking during prep. Even though he had had a perfectly good excuse he got the same punishment another child would probably have got for defacing school property or stealing. I think that this reinforces my earlier suggestion that teachers may take advantage of their authority and harass pupils they may have taken a ...
- 2255: If I Cant Have Her, No One Can
- ... than in the hands of another person. In Old Woman Magoun, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, the old woman is in that position. She is burdened with relinquishing custody of her granddaughter, Lily, to the child s father. Throughout the story, the old woman faces an inner struggle over caring for and, ultimately, losing her granddaughter. She deals with her struggle in a very realistic, human response. Old Woman Magoun is ... www.georgetown.edu/libraries/ 2). Old Woman Magoun has a mysterious command over people, but it doesn t help her when it comes to keeping Lily. She still has to relinquish her control over the child and she has no power to change the circumstances. Freeman makes the old woman suffer the realities of nineteenth-century New England (2). These realities are that a woman must abide by her socially defined ... she is punished in an indirect fashion. She is expected to give the little girl to her father with little or no argument. She cannot perceive doing this because of her incredible love for the child. Old Woman Magoun has to face an issue she hoped she would never have to deal with. Her response to her situation is a form of denial. The old woman understands that she will ...
- 2256: Iliad 2 -
- Paris: Magnificent Hero or Spoiled Child? Homer uses tone, imagery, epithets, and similes to describe Paris character. Outwardly, Paris is a brave person, but inwardly, he is full of doubts and fears. He is like a stallion that has been pampered too much, a child who is allowed to get everything he wants. Because of his attitude, he starts the Trojan War and brings on the fall of Troy. Paris is portrayed in this passage as being a walking contradiction ... quality registered in favorite and cool currents. It is as if he were not drawn to adventure, but merely seeking out the familiar and comfortable. Even his breaking free becomes trivial because, like a spoiled child, he refuses discipline of any kind.
- 2257: Ibsens Ghosts
- ... ghosts of past actions, comes at length to know the complete irrevocability of deeds done long ago. ? Ghosts can also be seen as a play about family conflict, tracing out the interaction of parent and child, rather than a play concerned with physical inheritance: Much that Ibsen wrote about Oswald's illness reflected the attitudes of physicians of his day. Thus he suggested that its cause lay in the degeneration - or ... Regine's case, the mere thought of returning home with her father is enough to make her relive, in the most terrifying fashion, some of the more degrading and humiliating scenes she endured as a child. Unable to forget what she once experienced, she can now certainly never forgive Engstrand. All she feels is the desire to wound, for it is only at this level that she can communicate with her ... is conditioned, not so much by what is said and done in the present, but rather by the memory of what was said and done in Engstrand's household. Regine is still her mother's child and responds to Engstrand quite instinctively in the way she learnt at home. Here, as elsewhere in the play, praxis and process are inextricably linked. ? Engstrand, for his part, is not unmoved by all ...
- 2258: Pen Pals: Based On X-Files Characters
- ... is being used to infringe or defame these characters or the X-Files television series. The story is based on my speculation of what happened to Agent Fox Mulder's sister when she was a child. According to the writers of the X-Files, this story has no affiliation to what really happened to Samantha Mulder when she was a child, as no one really knows the whole story. As the series unfolds, we will hopefully learn more about what happens. I have submitted my story to the writers & producers of the X-Files via the ... memories for you. Love, Mom Smiling at some of the memories the box did evoke, Dana reverently lifted the lid. It was filled with smudged envelopes with the name "Danni" scribbled on them in a child's handwriting. Danni had been her nickname in elementary school, a name she had gotten through a pen-pal program between her class and a third grade class somewhere in New England. Dana had ...
- 2259: Carl Gustav Jung
- ... Switzerland. He was born on July 26, in the small village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. He was named after his grandfather, a professor of medicine at the University of Basel. He was the oldest child and only surviving son of a Swiss Reform pastor. Two brothers died in infancy before Jung was born. Jung's mother was a neurotic and often fought with his father. Father was usually lonely and very irritable. When the child could not take his mother's depressions and his parents' fights, he sought refuge in the attic, where he played with a wooden mannequin. Carl was exposed to death early in life, since his father ... There are two principles of psychic dynamics. What happens to all that energy?1. Principle of Equivalence. Energy is not created nor destroyed. If it leaves something, it has to surface. For example, if a child devoted a lot of energy to reading comics, it might be redirected into a different persona, som ething like being Mr. Cool Dude! He then will loose interest in reading comics. Energy also has ...
- 2260: Huck Finn
- ... s free-spirited soul keeps him from joining the constraining and lonely life the two women have in store for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer's gang is nothing more than romantic child's-play. Raiding a caravan of Arabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday School picnic, and the stolen "joolry" is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom ... is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the civilizing effects that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. However, Pap does not symbolize freedom; he promotes drunkenness, prejudice, and abuse. Thus, Huck escapes the cabin to search for the freedom he yearns for. It is after Huck Finn escapes to Jackson Island that he meets the most influential character of the novel, Jim. After conversing ...
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