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- 2661: Frankenstein Essay
- ... encounter of humans, he declared war on the human race. The wicked being's source of hatred toward humans originates from his first experiences with humans. In a way the monster started out with a child-like innocence that was eventually shattered by being constantly rejected by society time after time. His first encounter with humans was when he opened his yellow eyes for the first time and witnessed Victor Frankenstein ... twice the havoc! Reoccurring images of painful events originating from a first encounter could fill a person with hate and destruction. We as a society are the ones responsible for the transformation of the once child-like creature into the monster we all know. The public needs to know that our society has flaws and they must be removed before our primal instincts continue to isolate and hurt the people who ...
- 2662: Emilie du Chatelet
- ... and fell in love with the Marquis de Saint-Lambert, a courtier and poet. This affair did not destroy her friendship with Voltaire. Even when she found out that she was carrying Saint-Lambert's child, Voltaire was there to support her. Along with Voltaire and Saint-Lambert, she was able to convince her husband that it was his child she was carrying. During the course of her pregnancy in 1749 she finished her work with Clairaut, an old friend with whom she had been studying, but her book on Newton was not completed yet ...
- 2663: Evita: Saint or Sinner?
- ... like no other. The details of this ascension are often disputed, making Santa Evita's tale all the more intriguing. . . Maria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919,1 the fifth and youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress, Juan Ibarguen. The week of her birth was known as Tragic Week, when the army massacred striking workers, perhaps a foreshadow of what was to come in her life ... with nothing. Thus, early in her life, Eva learnt the humiliation of poverty. The Duartes were further put down by the stiff Argentine caste system, which divided the poor from the wealthy. Being a bastard child, Eva and her four sisters were seen as 'brats,' and were stopped from associating with the other village children. Rejection, thrown upon young Eva through no fault of her own, would not be forgotten nor ...
- 2664: The Scarlet Letter: The Theme of Punishment
- ... pride and dignity. Hester knew that what was done in the past was wrong and that the scarlet A was the right thing to do, therefor it is worn with a sense of pride. The child, Pearl, is "a blessing and as a reminder of her sin." As if the scarlet A were not enough punishment there "was a brat of that hellish breed" which would remind Hester of what happened ... given away to Governor Bellingham yet Hester proclaimed that Pearl "is my happiness!...Ye shall not take her! I will die first!" Not a person in Boston, nor Hester herself thought highly of the little child and Hester refused to let Pearl go. Hester carried the kid around only because it was a direct reflection of her sin and to cast away here sin as freely as that to give it ...
- 2665: John Paul Jones
- ... The Bonhomme Richard vs. The HMS Serapis John Paul was born in the small fishing village of Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from Fife but John Paul's father had taken the family and moved to Arbigland where William Craik, the ... Paul grew up on this estate and to those who watched him grow up, it seemed that he always had a fascination and a passion to sail something. Whether it was a leaf as a child or a bit of wood blown by a small paper sail, John Paul was a seaman from birth. He attended Kirkbean School but spent much of his time at the small port of Carsethorn on ...
- 2666: Grover Cleveland
- ... Civil War. Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name was Richard Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughter of a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth child in a family of four brothers and five sisters. Grover Cleveland's family let a hard life, having little money and moving around alot. After Grover Cleveland's father died, he had to help support ... get married in the White House. Reporters pried into every detail of Grover Cleveland's life which he called "colossal impertinence". Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the first and only child of a President to ever be born in the White House. In 1884, Grover Cleveland's supporters suggested that he run for President of the United States. His motto was "a public office is a ...
- 2667: Binge Drinking On Americas Cam
- ... would be a mandatory meeting or group session within the freshman orientation program that brought in a police officer and a campus safety official. The police officer could inform students of the laws concerning alcohol abuse, the methods by which those laws are enforced, and the consequences for violating them. The campus safety official could tell students about the school's policy on underage drinking; this would include the school's ... Harvard University study. Newsweek 21 September 1998: 89. New UNC Initiave. February 28, 1999.http://www.cspinet.org/new/aluncorn.htm Thompson, J.J. Plugging the Kegs: students benefit when colleges limit excessive drinking; alcohol abuse by college students. US News & World Report January 1998: 63.
- 2668: The Awakening By Kate Chopin
- ... states that "Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-women," she did not truly fit that profile until further along in the novel. For the duration of her marriage she stayed in her place as a child-bearing wife, doing little but existing for the pleasures of her husband as a prized token more than a companion. These philosophies all profess the logic of abandoning culturally imposed responsibility in order to pursue ... herself by a series of "awakenings" throughout the story. These events give her justification for actions that most readers would perceive as selfish, lacking fore-thought, and avoiding responsibility. Her actions resemble those of a child. She has an inherent inability to deal with her emotions and lacks the responsibility to maintain her "freedom." Mrs. Pontellier no doubt loves her children, yet she seems to lack any motherly characteristics of the ...
- 2669: Barney The Hitler Of My Genera
- ... children "A stranger is a friend you've never met" when the rates of kidnapping and molestation are rising. Barney encourages children to place boxes, and other objects (such as bags), over their heads, despite child mortality rates from suffocation. ("Hate" 3) Barney is turning our children into sissies, raising them with a false sense of security and universal harmony that bears little resemblance to reality. What is going to happen ... Friends is detrimental to today's children. Parents should use the television more as a tool, and less as a babysitter. Barney & Friendsclaims to be educational when the producers admit it is escapism for a child. It teaches children to repress their emotions and conform to his will. Barney has formed his own legions of toddlers and is planning on domination of the earth. It is time that we must unite ...
- 2670: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... Huckleberry Finn, The great American epic, may be one of the most interesting and complex books ever written in the history of our nation. This book cleverly disguises many of the American ideals in a child floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a black slave. On the outside of the story, one can see an exciting tale of heroism and adventure; however, that is not all. The book ... the Grangerford family member that he had come to know well, Buck, was killed in the feud. His timely death made Huck realize that there really shouldnt be something silly enough to make a child no older than himself become a crazed murderer. He was mature enough to realize that Bucks statement, A feud is something where everyone on one side wants to kill everyone on the other side ...
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