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- 3241: The Scarlet Letter: The Unavoidable Truth
- ... dignified. However, internally, she feels great agony, for she was scorned and mocked by the accusing Puritans. She finally arrives at the scaffold, displaying the two results of her adultery; the scarlet letter and her child, Pearl. In order to escape her isolation, Hester goes into her inner soul and into the past. In Hester's "dusky mirror" of imagination, she remembers her old home in England, her mother, her father ... wall", which represents her aged husband. She tries to loser herself in past memories, but reality rears its ugly head. A few moments later, her mind jumps back to reality. In astonishment, she clutches the child and places her finger on the scarlet letter. This shows that reality is unavoidable, even though we try to escape from it sometimes. This courageous journey to reality won my admiration and understanding. When I ...
- 3242: Snow Falling On Cedars: Hatsue and Ishmael's Incompatibility
- ... that she was still learning what love really is. She moved on with her life, whereas Ishmael could not. Ishmael's view of love did not change throughout the novel. He met Hatsue as a child, and formed the idea that he loved her through his limited knowledge and through his adolescent view of relationships. His love was simplistic, yet real. He had concrete reasons for his love. He enjoyed being ... s innocence late in the novel, he hesitated in bringing it forward. This reveals much about the type of love Ishmael had for Hatsue. His love was definitely the same love he had as a child for her. It was selfish love. He wanted to be with Hatsue, no matter what she wanted. He did not care substantially about her happiness. Instead of accepting the fact that she was happy with ...
- 3243: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... January 17, 1706 to Josiah and Abiah-Folger Franklin, who were very religious. His father was a soap and candle maker and didn't make much money. He was the youngest son and the fifteenth child out of seventeen. Benjamin described his father's qualities as "a sound understanding and solid Judgment." He described his mother as "a discreet and virtuous Woman." Benjamin Franklin was not an formally educated man, but ... was described as a happy person who did not enjoy reading as much as her husband, but was very devoted to him. They had three children; Mary, William and Francis. Francis died as a young child during a small pox epidemic. William became Governor of New Jersey. Mary married a merchant. In 1718, he became a printer's apprentice for his brother, James, who was the printer of the New England ...
- 3244: 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 ...
- 3245: Chromosome Probes At The Unive
- ... to have no children or to have only girls. Confirming gender in children with ambiguous genitalia is another medical reason for using the test. A quick examination of the X and Y chromosomes of the child would indicate whether genetically the child is male or female. As yet, Willard has been unable to develop a probe for chromosome 21. Down's Syndrome results from three copies of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21). "I think we'll know within ...
- 3246: Drugs Debate
- ... In cases where a pregnant women uses mind constricting drugs, such as crack, she gives birth to crack babies (30,00-50,000 crack babies are born every year) and is statistically more likely to abuse her infants than mothers not using crack. Anyone using certain mind constricting drugs is more likely to abuse their children and less likely to fulfill their familial and social obligations . Mill said that "if he refrains from molesting others in what concerns them
he should be allowed, without molestation, to carry his opinions ...
- 3247: An Analysis Of Violence In The
- ... parents to blame? Do we need to bring back the switch? Discipline is a greatly under addressed issue that needs to 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 ...
- 3248: Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown
- ... becomes nightmarish." (Shear 545) He comes back to the town "projecting his guilt onto those around him." (Tritt 114) Brown expresses his discomfort with his new surroundings and his excessive pride when he takes a child away from a blessing given by Goody Cloyse, his former Catechism teacher, as if he were taking the child "from the grasp of the fiend himself." His anger towards the community is exemplified when he sees Faith who is overwhelmed with excitement to see him and he looks "sternly and sadly into her face ...
- 3249: War Of The Worlds: Human Survival
- ... that when a cylinder falls it must be destroyed. "New plans were formed to destroy the object before it opened" (24) but the right munitions were needed to accomplish the task. The warship "The Thunder Child" was sent in to help in the fight because it had large guns and that were capable of destroying large objects. "The Thunder Child" waited in the harbour for the Martian fighting machine to come close enough and instead of firing would ram it. The reason for knocking the Martian fighting machine over is because the Navy had already ...
- 3250: Media And Culture
- ... viewers were right, but what made them think that way if it was the ideas that mattered? According to Giddens, if the current trends in TV watching continue, by the age of 18 the average child born today will have spent more time watching TV than in any other activity except sleep (Giddens, 449). In 1947, there were 170 000 TV sets in US homes, by the year 1991 the number ... promotion of a stereotyped consumption fetishism. It is the most favored mean of communication which "demands not to be spoken to while it is speaking- in the name of the TV- a law that any child will invoke against its stuttering parents" (ONeill, 13). The second step in the visual influence process starts at this point. For all the reasons described above, television is the most trustworthy medium to give ...
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