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- 3341: Bless Me, Ultima
- ... through the process of growing up and losing his innocence as well throughout the novel. In the beginning of the whole story, Tony is concerned with nothing much but his own little world like every child ought to be. His worries and experiences are really nothing compared to what he had in store for him later on, but although his later experiences would be rather unreal it still would be how any child would grow up, very gradual learning and taking things in stride. So as the story progresses we see that Tony loses his innocence in everything that he learns. Almost every new thing and experience he ...
- 3342: Myth- Aliki, The Gods and Goddesses of Olympics
- ... fascinating example of how Greek mythology explains the theories about life , death , and the wonders of nature . Although I enjoyed the book , I also wondered if it was a little too confusing to a young child , since many long Greek names were used and many characters interacting together became too complicated and involved. The story began with the creation of the earth , sky, all living things, and with the birth of ... this would be when " Cronus married his sister Rhea , and they had many children . But Cronus was afraid that one of them might overthrow him just as he had overthrown his father . So as each child was born , he swallowed it ." Although Cronus eventually "throws up" the unharmed children in the end, I feel the initial reaction might be more lasting , as well as the fact that Cronus married his sister ...
- 3343: Mavis Gallant's Bernadette
- ... the books she read and the men she saw. Her images of her dead siblings as angels would comfort her fears at time, but would also bring up new ones. She would wonder about her child and the life that was waiting for it; would it live a life like hers or would it pray for her in the heavens. The Knights were a couple that were brought together by convenience ... anxieties in each of the characters. These fears are manifested at the initial start of the relationships and continue to grow if not put to rest. This is seen when the pressure of the unborn child is released from Bernadette's conscience when Nora is forced to corner Bernadette in the kitchen to question her about the suspicions of her pregnancy. Bernadette and the Knights are characters that display for us ...
- 3344: Margaret Sanger
- ... a woman in her 20's who had tried to abort herself. The scene was awful; Jake, Sophie's husband, sat crying nearby and Sophie herself could barely sit up. Sophie was informed that another child would kill her. Upon crying out to the doctor for advice on what to do to prevent that outcome, the doctor replied that the only thing to do was to have Jake sleep on the ... to packed halls (when they were not locked and barred against her) and in her wake she left hundreds of local birth control leagues. It was Margaret's premise that "the first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned with an intensity of love that gives it's title to being "(Miller 218). After the tour, back at her apartment, Margaret, who was both ...
- 3345: Consequences Of Unsafe Sex
- ... Statistical Abstracts of the United States.) If you are already pregnant or a teenage mother, do not give up. There are organisations like the Spirit of Excellence Parent Empowerment Project: Sponsored by the National Black Child Development Institute in Washington, D.C., [it] is one such social service agency that is trying to make a difference in the lives of inner-city pregnant teens and young mothers. Though the PEP [sic] project, teens learn about women issues, relationship building, parenting, child development, nutrition and career opportunities. ("Spirit of Excellence" http://www.nbcdi.org/an2.html) If you do not live in Washington, D.C. there may still be a few organisations designed that can help you ...
- 3346: The Kalapalo Indians
- ... of kindred. The Kalapalo distinguished material and paternal filiation by making use of different symbols. These symbols define the sexual relation between parents as different from other kinds of sexual relations. The parents of a child doesnt have to be married to be declared its mother and father. What is importance is knowing who the parents are, since it is very important to establish the childs otomo relationships. Kalapalo marriage takes one of two forms. The first is an arranged marriage, which involves a girl being engaged before puberty and to a older man. This type of marriage is marked ...
- 3347: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- ... money to support all her children, so she took over managing her familys glass factory in Aremziansk. The family had to pack up and move there. Maria favored Dmitri because he was the youngest child and started saving money to put him through college when he had still been quite young. As a child, Dmitri spent many hours in his mothers factory talking to the workers. The chemist there taught him about the concepts behind glass making and the glass blower taught him about the art of glass ...
- 3348: Frankenstein, Every One Needs
- ... particular was missing a female role. The Frankenstein family had no mother, but they did have Elizabeth who was the only other female in the house and she was adopted when she was just a child. The monster was created because of this absence, not necessarily to fill the role of the mother, but to fill in the role of the missing family member. However, the monster is shunned away when ... from the poor family, they were breaking up another family. Although Elizabeth was not a part of that family to begin with, she was still taken from her original foster parents. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Her mother was a German, and had died on giving birth (34). The additional family member from early on might have given Victor the idea of bringing in ...
- 3349: Sigumand Freud and Nietzsche: Personalities and The Mind
- ... acts as if it were unconscious, namely the id. It could then be said that the id represents the primitive, unconscious basis of the psyche dominated by primary urges. The psyche of a newly-born child, for instance, is made up of primarily the id. But then contact with that child and the outside world modifies the id. This modification then creates the next part of the psyche, the ego, which begins to differentiate itself from the id and the rest of the psyche (Dilman, 163 ...
- 3350: American Drug Laws- Do They He
- ... Laws for prevention of illegal drug use are wildly unsuccessful and have resulted in making drug-related criminals the majority of incarcerated offenders in U.S. prisons. The result of illegalizing use, and not necessarily abuse at all, is a 100% increase in drug criminals in the last ten years (Hamowy) for use of substances which have no more, and probably less, intrinsic potential for abuse. Even if drug laws could be justified morally, they could never be enforced. Since the demand for drugs will never be eradicated, a network for supplying them to consumers will always be in place. Short ...
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