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- 3081: Jackaroo: Gwyn Versus Tad
- ... all to the family and their needs. Gwyn worked a full day doing chores and helping out around the Inn. She did everything that was asked of her. She could be seen as the model child. As Gwyn continued on in the novel, she began to feel really unappreciated. Gwyn's parents kept driving her, expecting more and more. Gwyn understood her role as the daughter, and did not complain in ... discipline at all. Having their first son die as a baby, Da and Gwyn's mother did not want to risk anything with Tad. It was also important to the family to have a male child to carry on the family name. Tad would never have lifted a finger if it wasn't for Gwyn. She was always jumping on him to do his part and to quit whining. As Gwyn ...
- 3082: My Antonia: A Review
- ... stated before, the past is what My Antonia focuses around. Although the memories emanate from many years ago, each scene seems immediate and vivid, as if time has been suspended. Jim's memories from a child to when he matures are all described with lucid detail. The childhood days were best for Jim Burden, as he discovers when he leaves home. Jim's carefree childhood is flavored by the land. He ... Hawk to try to regain some of the warm feelings of the past. He finds Antonia with her own family, continuing a kind of life he himself has lost. He feels he can become a child again by playing with her children. Moved by her assuredness as well as her love for the land, Jim suddenly confesses his feelings for her; he thinks of her more than anyone else from his ...
- 3083: An Analysis Of Violence In Pub
- ... Are parents to blame? Do we need to bring back the switch? Discipline is a greatly under addressed issue that should be considered. Many people argue that violence begets violence, and that physically punishing a child is not the answer. However, children must learn that some things are off limits, and that consequences must be faced if rules are broken. Parents today are too busy to effectively discipline their children. Schools can't do it; they barely have adequate resources to teach fundamental academics. How can they possibly condition a child? Regardless of the method of execution, parents must discipline their children from the beginning. Many parents lack the skills to do so. This is where the media can redeem itself. If television contributed to the ...
- 3084: The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
- ... she eagerly turned towards the spiritual aspects of life. Beginning to pray for her son's endangered life. The doctor who had resided in the upper-class section of the town, refused to assistant the child, turning them away when they arrived at the door. Lastly they turned to the sea to seek their fortune. When Juana set sight on the "Pearl of The World." she felt as though all her ... Not once in his long career would he have dared refuse to aid a wealthy lawyer or noblemen. However when Kino and the group of money hungry peasants arrived at his door with a poisoned child he had refused them entry saying "Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for `little Indians'? I am a doctor, not a veterinary." for the doctor had known that the peasants hadn ...
- 3085: Hard Times: The Gradgrind System of Education
- ... such as Sissy, does not need the factual requirement of the Gradgrind system of education, in fact the totally opposite. In Sissy the chance to let her own imagination wonder when she was just a child travelling with her real father, has led her to be the most individual and most rounded person in Hard Times. Sissy understands and is able to deal with the even most complicated problems that crosses ... dependent Tom is on Louisa, and how incompetent he is to look after himself. As to Louisa, her mind has been twisted and she has remained naοve and curious about life. Louisa is a precious child, she treats Bounderby with contempt throughout the book, even early in the book when he insists a kiss from her. It comes evident all through the book of her love for Tom, she would do ...
- 3086: The Worth of Huckleberry Finn
- ... group of people goes to lynch a man, and end up leaving quietly without doing anything. This summarizes the basic view Mark Twain held of the average southern person. Mark Twain demonstrated the way a child might think when Tom Sawyer started a band of outlaws in which everyone had to sign an oath in blood in the beginning of the book. In Tom's band of thieves we see a ... punished. In conclusion, I feel that Mark Twain wrote this book with no intention of greatness in mind, but as a story for those who needed to see the world through the eyes of a child again. The results achieved, however, were beyond the scope of the time period, and deserve to be read for generations to come. Huckleberry Finn is a book that has outlasted many of the original expectations ...
- 3087: 1984: Summary
- ... in on the conversations of their parents. Through groups and activities that were provided , the children were actually taught how to spy and were given justification for this act. They were given the title of "Child Hero" when they denounced their parents and reported them to the thought police. The children felt it was perfectly acceptable to inform on their parents to the authorities even though it meant punishment for their mothers and fathers. When Winston was in jail he met a colleague named Mr. Parsons who's child turned him in for saying " down with big brother " in his sleep. Husbands and wives were also affected. They would report their spouses or children if they said anything improper, did anything improper, displayed a ...
- 3088: Feminism in Jane Eyre
- ... considered a fairly high class and intellectual job, in the Victorian era a governess was little more than a servant who was paid to share her scarce amount of knowledge in limited fields to a child. With little respect, security, or class one may certainly feel that an intelligent, passionate and opinionated young woman such as Jane Eyre should deserve and be capable of so much more. The insecurity of this ... glowing; They lay stark, chill, livid, corpses, they could never revive. [She] looked at [her] love: that feeling which was my master's - which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle." It is evident that Jane is left with a bitter feeling after this shocking incident. This may have been used to express that though the two sexes should be treated equally ...
- 3089: Wuthering Heights (comments)
- ... future wedding of Hareton and Cathy. CHARACTERS Heathcliff Mr. Earnshaw found him in Liverpool and he took him to Wuthering Heights. His origins are unknown and this gives him an air of mystery. As a child, the first impressions we get of him are through Nelly s words; for her, he is a dirty, ragged, black-haired child , as dark almost as if it came from the devil (chapter 4,vol.1). But, as an adult, Mr. Lockwood describes him as a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman ...
- 3090: Personal Writing: My Dog Oso
- ... summoned to her meals by the flicking of the porch lights, on and off, to get her attention. Yet, she just kept trucking along, happy as can be. I adored that dog, and being a child, I believed that I would always be able to press my face against her long black hair, taking comfort in the warmth of her body, feeling her chest rise with every laboured breath. I always ... head turned, and I found the problem. She said people die. I wondered if my mother happened to be included in the people category. I asked and was rewarded with a yes. Sound the alarm!! Child utopia in danger!! My mother who I can run to for, reassurances, kisses, hugs, and boo-boos that need fixing, is going to die? My provider is going to be absent? No tucking in at ...
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