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- 401: Wuthering Heights
- ... wandering the streets, brought him home and "christened hum Heathcliff." (WH-p.52) However, Heathcliff's happiness at Wuthering Heights was short lived and "died in childhood" (WH-p.52) as a result of the abuse he had received form his step sibling. As children, Catherine and Heathcliff were passionately close: "It was the greatest punishment ever invent[ed] for her to be keep separate from him," (WH-p.55) yet ... which worsened with the death of Mr. Earnshaw. Hindley stopped the "naughty, swearing boy" (WH-p.65) from his studies and forced him to live a life similar to that of a servant. As the abuse of Heathcliff's grows, he finds Catherine is his only means of please in his hostile environment. The two play endlessly on the moors by Wuthering Heights and in essence are children of the heaths ... blinded by the Victorian ideals of ignorance to those not prosperous. Upon her arrival home to Wuthering Heights, she dismisses her soul mate Heathcliff and his gypsy manners. Even the maid Nelly notices the "unfeeling child [and] how slightly she dismisses her old playmate's troubles. I could not have imagined her to be so selfish." (WH-p.69) Like Dracula, Heathcliff rejects the Victorian ideals Cathy has embraced. Catherine' ...
- 402: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... however, not all cases of ADD may be genetically linked. . Studies have shown that 20-30% of all hyperactive children have a least one parent with ADD. The environment is a big influence on a child during pregnancy and after. Some studies show that a small percentage of ADD cases were influenced by smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs during pregnancy. Exposure to toxins, such as lead, may also alter the ... your symptoms, your diagnosis may be categorized as ADD, inattentive type ADD, or hyperactive/impulsive type ADD. After your diagnosis you may learn that you are also suffering from a learning disability, depression, or substance abuse, which is often associated with ADD. There is no cure for Attention Deficit Disorder. "Along with increasing awareness of the problem, a better understanding of its causes and treatment has developed (3 Wender)". There is ... and maintaining physical order, coordinating schedules and activities, and accepting and meeting responsibilities. Parents with children suffering with ADD have to learn how to deal with the obstacles that they will have while raising their child. Adults dealing with ADD often have chronic employment problems, impulsive spending, and erratic bookkeeping and bill paying. Raising healthy, well-adjusted children requires patience, sound judgment, good humor, and, discipline which is difficult for ...
- 403: Sigmund Freud
- ... of unconscious psychic energy that continually toils to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce and aggress. The id operates on the pleasure principle - if unconstrained, it seeks instantaneous gratification. It is exemplified by a newborn child who cries out for satisfaction the moment it feels hungry, tired, uncomfortable - oblivious to conditions, wishes, or expectations of his environment. As the child learns to cope with the real world, his ego develops. The ego operates on the reality principle, which seeks to superintend the id's impulses in realistic ways to accomplish pleasure in practical ways, avoiding ... It is the personality executive. The ego arbitrates between impulsive demands of the id, the restraining demands of the superego and the real-life demands of the external world. Around age 4 or 5, a child's ego recognizes the demands of the newly emerging superego. The superego is the voice of conscience that forces the ego to consider not only the real but also the ideal. Its focus is ...
- 404: Frankenstein 3
- ... the Prometheus legend (Florescu 85). A final theme of Frankenstein, a theme of parenting, is explored with nearly every character introduced in the novel. Mary Shelley, in the development and education of the monster, discusses child development and education and how the nurturing of a loving parent is extremely important in the moral development of an individual. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley examined her own fears and thoughts about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development (Coulter 1). In 1816, when the 19 year old Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she had already birthed two children, and lost one. Thoughts of child-rearing and child-birth already occupied her mind. After the death of her first child, Clara, Mary wrote a letter to her friend Hogg. In the letter she expresses loneliness, heartache, and grief. Mary ...
- 405: An Analysis Of Buried Child
- ... among friends can be fun, or helpful when you need to confide in someone you trust. Other secrets can do more harm than good. They can fester inside you and cause endless pain. In Buried Child, this is the case. The family is permanently altered by their secret, which becomes a growing moral cancer to them, leaving each impotent in their own way. The play takes place on Dodge s farm ... preacher. Vince is the only person capable of facing the world and life, but he too is corrupted by the secret at the end. The answer to the question is that their secret, the dead child, is a secret festering them from the inside out. It is unclear how long this moral degradation took, it may have taken years for all this to happen. We do know that it has left ... effect this impotence has on Bradley and Tilden. While Bradley denies the truth, telling Tilden he doesn t know, he wasn t born yet, Tilden is on an active search for the body of this child. Bradley wants the secret to remain a secret. Tilden wants it out in the open, wants the closure, even if subconsciously. That s why he finds corn, carrots, and potatoes out in the fields, ...
- 406: An Analysis Of Buried Child
- ... among friends can be fun, or helpful when you need to confide in someone you trust. Other secrets can do more harm than good. They can fester inside you and cause endless pain. In Buried Child, this is the case. The family is permanently altered by their secret, which becomes a growing moral cancer to them, leaving each impotent in their own way. The play takes place on Dodge s farm ... preacher. Vince is the only person capable of facing the world and life, but he too is corrupted by the secret at the end. The answer to the question is that their secret, the dead child, is a secret festering them from the inside out. It is unclear how long this moral degradation took, it may have taken years for all this to happen. We do know that it has left ... effect this impotence has on Bradley and Tilden. While Bradley denies the truth, telling Tilden he doesn t know, he wasn t born yet, Tilden is on an active search for the body of this child. Bradley wants the secret to remain a secret. Tilden wants it out in the open, wants the closure, even if subconsciously. That s why he finds corn, carrots, and potatoes out in the fields, ...
- 407: Ballad of Birmingham
- ... the poem Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall uses of irony to describes the events of the mothers decision, and also her concern for the welfare of her darling little child. It seems odd that this child would even know what a freedom march is, but this would be considered normal back in the early 1960's, when Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. had rallies and freedom marches to free the African American people from discrimination and segregation (Hunter 6). It also seems very ironic that the young child is acting like an adult in this particular situation (Hunter 12). I think the mother would be the one who would want to got to the march to free her people, not the child. ...
- 408: Abortion Debate - Pro-Life Stance
- ... that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determined at that very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or a girl; which of his parents he will ... are less disturbed by the slaughter of thousands of unborn children than by the personal problems of a pregnant women across the street. To rationalize this double standard, they pretend to themselves that the unborn child is a less valuable human life because it has no active social relationships and can therefore, be disposed of by others who have an arbitrary standard of their own for the value of a human ... that they have that right, the standard being arbitrary. To say that a 10 week fetus has less value that a baby, means also that one must consider a baby of less value than a child, a young adult of less value than an old man. Surely one cannot believe this and still be civilized and human. A society that does not protect its individual members is on the lowest ...
- 409: Technology And Special Education
- ... other institutions. Over 5 million children ages 6 through 21 receive special education and related services each year in the United States. Each of these children receives instruction that is specially designed: to meet the child's unique needs (that result from having a disability); and to help the child learn the information and skills that other children are learning (Questions often asked by Parents about Special Education Services, 1999). Its time that more consideration is given to exceptional students who have disabilities and ... difficulties learning to read and write. For those same students, obtaining an equal education in mathematics is hampered by the lack of adapted math curricula (Metheny, Rick, 1997). The most important factor in deciding a childs educational needs are his/her parents. After all, parents know what his/her childs needs are and they are the best source for the teachers in order to develop an effective Individualized ...
- 410: Acculturation: The Beginning Of Music Education
- ... The Beginning Of Music Education A detailed synopsis of the guidance of young children from Absorption to Purposeful Response. Early is the best time to start children with an enriched musical background. The earlier the child starts to hear and learn about music, the more enriched and fulfilling the childs experience of music is going to be. This is even more beneficial for talented children. A child cannot receive the full benefit of music and will not learn as much or at all without the first three stages of preparatory audiation. With this in mind, I will now show you how ...
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