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- 411: Creative Writing: The Gift of Wisdom
- ... to cut the baby in half. His plan was to trick the two women by offering to cut the baby in half, allowing one half to go to each mother. The real mother of the child said to the King “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!” (I Kings 3:26). The mother of the dead child said to the King “Neither I nor you shall have him cut him in two” (I Kings 3:26). After hearing the reply of both women, King Solomon said “Give the living baby to the ... judgement. Three character traits of the two women are harlots, motherhood, honesty/dishonesty. Both women were harlots, and had a sense of motherhood; even so, one was honest, and one was dishonest. The mother whose child was dead was dishonest because she stole the other woman’s baby. King Solomon was a participant narrator, and he is also the author of the story. Not only does he tell the story, ...
- 412: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter by Chapter Review and Analysis
- ... as bad. CHAPTER 2- The Market Place- This chapter tells of Hester Prynne being led through the city and in to the market place with the finely stitched Scarlet Letter. She walks protecting her young child against her bosom as she is scorned by the crowd. Her punishment is quote “as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France,” (Page ... In this chapter, Hawthorne finally gets around to doing characterization on Prynne's daughter, Pearl. She was named this “as being of great price,- purchased with all she had,- her mother's only treasure!” The child grew up to be wild, which might have been due to the lack of spankings the kid had, as it says on page 84, that Prynne didn't believe in such punishment. Pearl often had a look “so perverse, sometimes so malicious... that Hester could not help questioning,.., whether Pearl were a human child.” Hawthorne uses dramatic approaches at convincing the reader that this child is not normal, despite her physical beauty. It cites times where Pearl would throw sticks and stones at the Puritan children when they ...
- 413: Woman To Man
- ... essays and studied in schools for years. The poem requires an intelligent and educated audience to appreciate its poetic proficiency. Wright's purpose in writing this text was to articulate her feelings about her unborn child and its creation. On one level this was an announcement to her husband about the procreative act: "…the third who lay in our embrace" and the mystery of the operations of life, "…silent, swift and deep from sight…". She reveals, to her husband, her emotions about the child they have created, as it grows inside her. However, Wright has also taken a feminist stance by speaking about conception, pregnancy and childbirth in an era when women did not speak of such things publicly ... were enjoying their role as 'breadwinner' and the 'traditional' place for women was in the home with the children. While Wright, on one level, is tenderly revealing her emotions about her 'yet to be born' child she is also taking a feminist stance. She is being up front and confrontational by speaking so openly about the act of sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy and birth. This was something that was 'not ...
- 414: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... which it lived. The children were protected and controlled from outer forces by this large family with strong religious, cultural and family ties. Similarly, the Samoan children share this strong value system. The longer the child is kept in controlled state, the more of the general cultural attitude it will absorb and the less of a disturbing element it will become (Mead, 1973, 163). In recent years, with Russian urbanization, family has become limited to parents and their children. They have more material goods but lose out socially and emotionally (Wilson, 1988, 28). From a young child nursery schools or kindergarten have taken over previous parental obligations. The schools help them do morning exercises. It feeds them, takes them out for walks, puts them to bed, teaches them to keep things tidy ... to be kind, considerate and honest, organizes parties for them, and takes them for health check-ups (Vishneva, 1984, 161). While the biological parents work, the state educational system becomes a new "parent" to the child. The close relationship between child and parent no longer exists, however, "the state sees the family as respon-sible for the children's welfare and for instilling in them behaviour acceptable to the existing ...
- 415: TV Violence
- ... be the same in real life as they were on television (Howe 72). These are certainly startling examples of how children watching violent television directly causes violent behavior. Not only does television violence affect the child's youth, but it can also affect his or her adulthood. Some psychologists and psychiatrists feel that continued exposure to such violence might unnaturally speed up the impact of the adult world on the child. This can force the child into a kind of premature maturity. As the child matures into an adult, he can become bewildered, have a greater distrust towards others, a superficial approach to adult problems, and even an unwillingness to ...
- 416: Teenage Parenthood
- ... one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is therefore classified more severely than cocaine and morphine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banned for general use, but can be prescribed by doctors. It is ... life imprisonment, plus fines and forfeiture of property. In addition to criminal justice efforts, the federal government, state government, and local communities spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on prevention programs such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), in which local police officers visit schools to teach young people to refrain from trying marijuana and other drugs. However, public controversy has been growing over the two assumptions-high abuse potential and no legitimate medical use-that underlie marijuana s status as a Schedule I drug. In turn, disputes over the abuse and medical potential have shaped differences of opinion over public policy. Many ...
- 417: 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, ...
- 418: 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, ...
- 419: The Fifth Child
- The Fifth Child In the novel The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, the author asked the reader to determine the true nature of the character Ben. Ben is portrayed as a selfish, brutal, belligerent child. He relates to society in a cruel, aggressive manner. Based on the authors analysis, the reader is lead to believe that Ben’s personality and behavior is a product of genetics, and that therapeutic ...
- 420: Silas Manner
- ... money to comfort him. Elliot also shows how Godfrey fails as a father . And finally Eliot shows the opinions and practices of English villagers. Godfrey Cass's too terrible mistakes-marrying Molly and rejecting his child -bringing great sorrow to Godfrey and the whole Cass family, but these very same mistakes, coupled with Silas's good decision to take the child , are what provides a solution to Silas's terrible alienation from humanity nature and himself Godfrey Cass's failure as a human being and as a farther saves Silas Mariner from a life alone with ... cupidity."(33). For reasons not stated in the book Dunstan has a deep-seated hate towards his brother. Godfrey soon acquires a huge debt to both his brother and his wife who has had his child, to keep quiet about the marriage. Godfrey is afraid of his secret getting out because he will lose his girlfriend and his father will disown him. To cover the debts Godfrey borrows from one ...
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