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- 2651: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... was given free run of the playroom filled with paste, paper, and cardboard. On the door were the words, SANCTUM SANCTORUM (Latin for place of inviolable privacy). Wright was seen as a dreamy and sensitive child, and cases of him running away while working on the farmlands with his uncles were noted. This pattern of running away from one thing or another continued throughout his lifetime. WRIGHT’S FIRST BREAK In ... built the house around existing trees, following his practice of disturbing nature as little as possible during construction. The chimney is made around an existing boulder that the owner used to sit on as a child. Fallingwater is one, if not the best, of Wright’s houses. The rooms and ledges are all dramatically different from the traditional boxy houses of Wright’s time period. The Guggenheim Museum has been considered ...
- 2652: The Mayor Of Casterbridge By T
- ... inevitable; however, because of Farfrae’s sincerity, Farfrae leads a successful life. Most significantly, man’s intellect results in an enjoyable future. Assuring Newson a wonderful life and showing how much he cares for his child, Newson conjures a plan that if Susan “thinks me[Newson] dead she’ll go back to him[Henchard], and the child will have a home” (285). Farfrae’s superior reasoning skills and wit in his grain business and in his life deliver a most luxurious future. As the positive qualities of man determine man’s destiny ...
- 2653: The Media As An Institution
- ... setting social norms as to how to behave in relation to others. The social institution that seems to have been most profoundly affected by the mass media and more specifically television is the family. The child who is punished may learn that it should not commit the same act again, or it may learn that he / she will be punished if found to be committing the act. The same may be said of the influence of television and the mass media. There is no evidence to state that a child is more likely to become a criminal because he watches Australia s Most Wanted any more than he wants to become a pirate because he read Treasure Island . The other way the mass media has ...
- 2654: The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great
- ... him in his adult life to his grandfather's (Egbert) contemporary Charles the Bald (grandson of Charlemange), who, being illiterate, knew the value of learning, and surrounded himself with educated men (Collins 297). As a child Alfred received little formal training or schooling. He did possess a highly retentive memory and particularly enjoyed listening to the court bards reciting poetry. One day his mother, holding a fine manuscript book in her ... ed. The Norton Anthology Of English Literature. 6th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Europe 300-1000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Dickens, Charles. A Child's History Of England. Bureau of Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1992. Fadiman, Clifton, ed. The Little, Brown Book Of Anecdotes. Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1985. Keynes, Simon, and Michael Lapidge, Introduction, Notes, and Trans. Alfred ...
- 2655: The Work of Stephen King
- ... Everybody goes to horror movies, reads horror novels-it's almost like trying to preview the end" (King 219). In all of King's horror books somebody always dies. Horror fiction "Lets you become a child again" (King 220). King can bring out the fears that are kept deep down in our souls. He knows that we have been set down in a frightening universe, full of real demons like death ... fear of the dark. "At night, when I go to bed I am still at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blankets, after the lights go out. I'm not a child anymore...I don't like to sleep with one leg sticking out. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and grabbed my ankle, I might scream. Yes, I might scream ...
- 2656: Death Be Not Proud
- Death Be Not Proud The novel, Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther, is the story of the struggle of a child to stay alive. Johnny Gunther Jr.'s constant hope got him out of bed every morning with a positive attitude. His outright opposition to the fact that he was going to die and his determination ... courage and strength to face the next world he would enter. Johnny's gallant fight for life, against the most hopeless odds, should convey a message to anyone who has ever been ill. Through a child's hope, determination and courage when about to die, a for of a hero is made. Johnny's manner in facing the awful reality of dying is something that is looked up to by all ...
- 2657: Sex in Advertising
- ... ads for some practical, everday items were shunned. "Hygiene products, deodorants, laxatives... and simular products are generally not accepted, " the NBC code of 1943 noted. Today women can model lingerie or even breast feed a child (as seen in a Gerber ad) on television. Consider a much noted A Calvin Klein ad insert in New York and Los Angeles editions of Vanity Fair, was described by Advertising Age as "boy meets ... is offensive to the dignity of women or fails to respect the rights of children. ( Edward Mark Mazze, Britannica Annual 1989, pg 265). The United States has no such legislation, except for strict laws against child pornography. An attempt to introduce such legislation would be met with stern opposition from the corporate world, whose industries profit from such advertising. Advertising agencies have taken advantage of the freedoms of speech and expression ...
- 2658: Fate, Mayor Of Casterbridge
- ... temper, naivety, control problems, and shyness. Hardy takes his character and places them in a situation where their personalities usually make the situation worse. Throughout the novel the character, Lucetta, is portrayed as a spoiled child. She likes things to be the best for herself. She comes to Casterbridge in order to finish what she and Henchard proposed to do earlier, that is, marry one another. When she refuses to see ... the whole story off. At the fair in Weydon - Priors, he becomes angry with his wife while he is drunk. Henchard tries to sell her because he believes that it is Susan's and the child's fault that he is not successful. This is evidently not the first time. He finds an interested man who pays five pounds and five shillings for her. This of course is the beginning of ...
- 2659: Pride And Prejudice
- ... times he is present, but instead is "walking around the room, looking grave and anxious." (Austen, 334) As he starts to speak it becomes clear just how much Darcy's announcement affected Mr. Bennet. "My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life" (Austen, 335) he exclaims, not only admitting the mistake of his marriage but also showing enough love to admit ... of the relationship between her and her father. It would be impossible for her to grow up without noticing the affection that he felt, and not to benefit from it. Because she is the only child he really cares for, she truly becomes her father's daughter - smart, witty and realistic. Even as she develops as a person during the progress of the events, the qualities Elizabeth obviously inherited from Mr ...
- 2660: Comparison Of Brave New World
- ... that is highlighted more in GATTACA is that wealth means more privileges. Based on how much money one has, a set of parents can determine just how perfect and aesthetically beautiful they would like their child to be. Niccol is showing us that if we do not draw the line, these decisions could lead to a world that worships predictability and perfecion, leaving no room for the dreams and desires of God-children like Vincent. However, in BNW, there is more of a predestined life and there are no mothers of fathers to choose what they want in a child. Huxley uses satire to humor almost everything in today's world, wheras Niccol's view of a futuristic world is not as satirical but it seems like it is, rather, a warning. In their separate ...
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