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- 2931: William Faulkner
- ... 11). Faulkner settled down in Oxford, while he raised his family. He would only go to Hollywood and work on different scripts whenever he was in need of some money. "The Faulkners lost their first child soon after its birth; their second child, also a girl, they named Jill"(Volpe 12). From the early 1930's to the early 1940's Faulkner spent a lot of his time writing. Before the end of 1942, he published seven novels ...
- 2932: Psychology Of Television
- ... are skeptical because there is a soft line for all of the true facts. With the same aspect parents do not want their young children to learn about sex related issues too early. When a child reaches adolescence he or she has already spent more time watching television than going to school, and had been exposed to all of television s deceiving messages (Signorielli, 1987). Violence is not the only distortion ... of the television. You are watching more than just some thing on TV. Television today is getting more violent and graphic, and that is not the worst of it. Programmers are playing with a young child s mind with my mind, and even with yours. People just don t realize it, or they choose to ignore it, until something drastic happens.
- 2933: Information Warfare
- ... more extensive way to show how they feel are they really imposing their views on others. It also opens the door to the sick and perverted, who can take away the innocence of our children. Child pornography and scheduled meetings between a sick pedophile and a seven-year child have become all too common. There are a variety of ways to look at the newfound freedom that the Internet provides. One is a positive outlook, which points to the fact that by having cyberspace ...
- 2934: Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"
- ... in a story where a young girl has society's unwritten rules forced upon her. At the time of the story, society did not consider men and women equal. The name symbolized how the male child was superior in the parents eyes and in general. Along with that, the name also symbolizes the difference between the sexes when this story took place. The time when this story took place was a ... were even stricter rules of conduct for girls. The narrator's parents are more lackadaisical than the grandmother and a lot less out-spoken. She voices what was taught to her when she was a child. At the time of the story, girls were expected to be dainty and quaint, while a man was expected to be the rough and tumble one. "Girls don't slam doors like that." "Girls keep ...
- 2935: How "First Love" is Represented by Different Artists
- ... in their lives. Theodore Roethke writes, "At every step you missed, My right ear scraped a buckle" (758). This means that Roethke was very young to have been experiencing this and unless he was a child when he wrote "My Papa's Waltz," he did not realize his first love until he was much older. Some artists realize very early their first loves and some take a long time, but the ... Not all artists' first loves were people. Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki- Rosa" is a piece that illustrates the fact that first loves are not always people. Giovanni's first love is her lifestyle as a child, and she does not realize what she has or had, until she grows up. Giovanni writes, "…all the while I was quite happy" (613). She writes that even though she seemed to not have the ...
- 2936: History Guidelines
- ... knowledge in your future. It is true that we can’t sometimes control history, but we have the power to educate youths about the hidden truth so they may become more independent thinkers. Imagine a child to become an independent thinker. Wow. Imagine how many more Martin Luther King’s, and Thomas Paine’s their would be in the future. After all they did have a distorted picture of America and ... these guidelines. When all the facts are weighed what should we do? Continue to hide these facts about history from our children? Or possibly expose their minds to a few hell raisers and let each child generate their own idea about history? When the children eventually learn these facts about the past won’t they become even more rebellious against us? After all George Orwell once wrote, “Who controls the present ...
- 2937: History Of Psychology
- ... in the United States. He has been described as the first of the 'new' psychologists in the U.S. William James was born on 11 January 1842 in New York City. He was the eldest child of a wealthy, unconventional family. His father moved the family around America and Europe and was plagued be panic attacks and nervous problems. All the children were educated privately and in this unusual household they were encouraged to formulate and discuss their own personal opinions from an early age. James as a child was interested in and showed great aptitude at art but this career was quickly terminated by his father. James was encouraged to go into science so in 1861 James went to Harvard, where he first ...
- 2938: 2001 A Space Odyssey - Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite - Set
- ... which appear to be in the renaissance style put forth this idea also. Countless explanations have been offered as to the reason for Dave’s rapid aging, the meaning of the monolith and the star child. Despite their differences, all share the idea of eternal optimism and divinity. This can be attributed largely to the set design and its role in channeling our thoughts and emotions during these bizarre encounters. This ... aware of the happenings at Jupiter, some believe this was a call to announce Earth’s human race to the rest of the universe). With a new camera shot, we are introduced to the star child: Dave has reached complete divinity, the sublime. Far more significant than visually aging, Dave has been reborn. He has outlived his physical body and has evolved to the beginning new level, hence we see the ...
- 2939: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... printed in 1756. In 1763, Leopold was made vice-Kapellmeister at the Salzburg court, whose sympathetic archbishop, Sigismund Von Schrattenbach, appreciated and encouraged the activities of Leopold and his children. Wolfgang was the greatest musical child prodigy who ever lived. He began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at 9. His father took him on a series of concert tours together with his sister, Maria Anna, born four and one-half years before Wolfgang; she, too, was a child prodigy. Both played the keyboard, but Wolfgang became a violin virtuoso as well. In 1762 the Mozart children played at court in Vienna; the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, received the ...
- 2940: Holocaust Surviovor Testimony
- ... living with six nuns at a seminary in Louvain. "One day the Gestapo came in and they knocked on the door and said we want her - with the guns and all - we want that Jewish child. We know you have a Jewish child there. The nuns said they don’t have anybody. They broke the door. And what I will never forget is that the six nuns, they pushed me in the laundry to hide me and they ...
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