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- 7081: The Cat In The Rain: Self Control and Communication
- ... the waves. I watched as there heads bounced to the rhythm of the river. The little girl in the back still crying and her father still willfully riding his enjoyment to the maximum. As a child growing up my parents taught me that self control is key to a balanced life. This self control lies in everything that you do and must be frequently be assessed and revised. In order to ...
- 7082: Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald's Self-Portrait
- ... Fitzgerald incorporated Zelda’s famous utterance at Scottie’s birth into The Great Gatsby, “I hope she will be a beautiful fool.” Daisy retorted her nurse with the same phrase when she found out her child, Pammy, was a girl. The last line from The Great Gatsby reads, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” In writing this sentence, Fitzgerald had realized the artistic ...
- 7083: Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
- ... fantasy novels, Catherine (at age eight) feels she would be fond of music lessons. She tries them for one year and of course does not like them. Her mother is not one to hold her child to something they do not like, so she allows Catherine to quit. The day that Catherine left her music teacher was "the happiest day of her life" (22). It is not that Catherine despises music ...
- 7084: “Playing Solo Through Life”
- ... children, but in view of my father to focus all of their attention and resources on me. (Salzman 4) This is the first example of Renne being a soloist, in which he is the only child and his parents are going to keep it that way so he can be the best at his talent. In school he was different from other kids because he loved music and he wasn’t ...
- 7085: Anselm's Philosophy
- ... existence is timelessly-eternal. This means that God cannot stop existing. On the other hand, contingent beings (such as ourselves) depend on something else for their existence. One example of this is, that as a child we utterly depended on our parents for food, clothing, and shelter. Contingent beings therefore can begin to be or cease to be at anytime. They can, unlike God, be here today and gone tomorrow. Anselm ...
- 7086: Joining The Tribe: Homosexuality
- ... that gay children exist because it is an adult thing. "By identifying sexuality of all stripes as an adult behavior. And homosexuality in particular as a species of depravity, we preclude the possibility that a child can be both gay and innocent, which is why gay kids who haven’t a clue sex exists can look in a mirror and never see a reflection" pg. xxv. Society has defined homosexuality as ...
- 7087: Heart of Darkness: Different Centers of Darkness
- ... the world becomes more secularized, the foundations of moral civilization, such as religion, are beginning to crack. We are seeing the acceptance today of loose morals which include lying, cheating, heavy drinking, and even drug abuse. Do we not see the destruction as the final destination of this perilous path? Or will there be something to steer back the other civilized and direction and away from the heart of darkness?
- 7088: A Separate Peace: An Analysis
- ... Gene didn't really believe that the war was not real. However, it seemed easier to think of it through the eyes of Finney than to accept the reality of war. Like growing from a child into a adult. To accept maturity and the responsibilities that go along with it. It just was easier to follow Finney's believe then to grow up. Just as Gene didn't want to hear ...
- 7089: To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus
- ... don’t pay attention to her she’ll get over this "stage". I believe it takes a lot more control to ignore the comment and continue doing what you were as opposed to punishing the child for such a minor incident. By taking this approach to the problem, it shows that Atticus took the time to assess the problem before taking any action. If she didn’t understand what it meant ...
- 7090: Summary of Jane Eyre
- ... says that she wants to go to school. For weeks nothing happens. At one day Mr. Brocklehurst arrives. He is the head of Lowood Institute. Jane goes to Lowood and meets Helen, a very intelligent child. Helen dies of tuberculosis. Many other children die at the same time of typhus, because of the bad food. Mr. Brocklehurst is degraded to the post of treasurer and other people are caring for the ...
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