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- 1221: Symbolism In To Kill A Mocking
- "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want , if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to ... the niggers and trash he works for!" not only show us her own views, but they also represent the views of the rest of Maycomb County. As they were going by the house later that day Jem snatched Scout's baton and "ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard...He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush ... the novel, Atticus Finch personifies justice, and acts rationally as the voice of reason. Thus, we are, finally, brings us back to the title of the story, To Kill A Mockingbird, as Atticus says, "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin ...
- 1222: Jimi Hendrix
- ... by Bob Dylan, about whom Hendrix said: "Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. I felt like "Watchtower" was something Id written but could never get together. I often feel that way about Dylan" (Fairchild, "Electric Ladyland 20). "All Along the Watchtower" is a protest song, pure and simple. During this period of the late 1960 ... The Band of Gypsies was outasite as far as Im concerned. It was just...going through head changes is what it was, I really couldnt tell I dont know.... And here Id been fighting the biggest war I ever fought. In my life. Inside, you know? " (Burks 42). Hendrix got together with The Experience midway through 1970, but they never recorded another album (Burks 40). The Band ... him was because his band included two other white members. Through the filter of history, though, the praise that Hendrix has been given has been both color- blind (as far as his influence on modern-day rock musicians) and based on his ethnicity (when he is praised as a blues and R&B guitarist). The evolution of the albums of Jimi Hendrix was influenced by multiple occurrences: his early affinity ...
- 1223: The Effect of Prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... different from others. He is not normal so he is punished by a society that is very judgmental. Boo does not act like a normal person. In society, his actions are mysterious and abnormal. One day Boo was cutting the newspaper with scissors, and when his father passed "Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activity"(Lee, 11). Boo just sat there after stabbing his father. He did not apologize or feel remorse for his actions. Boo Radley isolates himself from the people of Maycomb. Boo stays inside his home all day and nobody ever sees him. After some trouble with the law, "Mr. Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years"(10). If Boo chooses to go outside, he will be unfairly viewed as ... It weren't safe for any nigger to be in a-fix like that.'
'you weren't in a fix
were you scared she was going to hurt you?'
"No suh, I's scared I'd be in court
scared I'd hafta face up to what I didn't do"(198) In the thirties a white person's word is superior to that of a black person's. Mr. ...
- 1224: Lawrence's "Snake": An Analysis
- Lawrence's "Snake": An Analysis In D.H. Lawrence's poem entitled "Snake," he examines the differences between feelings and education. He expresses this theme in three ways. The speaker knows that he should kill the snake, he questions his own manliness, and tries to hit it with a log. The speaker in this poem learns that if you listen to your feelings then you will be a lot better off in life. D.H. Lawrence does an excellent job of displaying this theme through this poem and this is one of the reasons that he is one of the most prolific English writers of the twentieth century. The ... to talk to one of the lords, but he tried to hard to listen to his education about what men should do and not enough to his feelings about the snake. If everyone in this day would listen to their feelings for other people and not to their education, then there would not be dead people on the streets every single day.
- 1225: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
- ... controversy since it was banned in America after it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have been any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and as a result of the fact that it was 'The Catcher In The Rye', a book describing nervous breakdown, media speculated widely about the possible connection. This gave ... are the opposite values to those Holden calls 'phony'. One of the things Holden often calls 'phony' is the world of movies and everything about it. Examples of it are his anger toward his brother D.B. because he moved to Hollywood, aversion of Sunny the prostitute who tells him she spends most of her time in film theaters and derision to the three women he met at the bar ...
- 1226: Confused In America
- ... hasty experience of taking the GRE and TOEFL tests, sending my credentials everywhere and trying to get information from everywhere. For the past ten months I have been sitting in front of m y computer day in and day out to read school pages on the Internet and look for employment news. When I finally summoned up enough money to get several I-20 forms, my enthusiasm for going to university plummeted suddenly and ... talked it in such a way that it seemed we would rather do anything to stay abroad. Even the jails in America are better than the shabby house of my home in a big yar d in Beijing. If I was a big gambler, I would just stay undocumented and underground. Although I am 40, when I do the pull-ups, I can still reach the standard of passing the ...
- 1227: Effective Listening
- ... away from that which you want, or need, to pay attention to (Curtis, Floyd and Winsor 1992, p.60). It is difficult to avoid distraction. There may be distraction in the environment and within you - day dreaming. When we dream, we pretend to listen but we actually drift about in our interior fantasies. Instead of disciplining ourselves to truly concentrate on the input, we turn the channel to a more entertaining ... will be lost in a second and you are not able to understand the content because you will bot remember it (Tyson 1982). Everyone can increase attention by realizing its importance, avoid common tendency to day dream, fighting the tendency to give in to external and internal distractions, remove distractions if possible or learn to listen over distraction. We have the ability to listen to and understand speech even when there ... and powerful skill we need. When someone is willing to stop talking or thinking and begin truly listening to others, all of their interactions become easier, and communication problems are all but eliminated. Bibliography Curtis, D.B., Floyd, J.J., and Winsor, J.L. (1992), "Business and Professional Communication", New York: HarperCollins. Floyd, J. J. (1985), "Listening: A practical approach", Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman. Johnson, K.R., "Effective Listen Skills", [ ...
- 1228: Creative Writing: Jimmy Valentine the Safe Cracker
- Creative Writing: Jimmy Valentine the Safe Cracker As Ralph D. Spencer strolled down the sidewalk, he knew of a few things he had to do. For he liked being Ralph Spencer and did not want to return to being Jimmy Valentine. First, he went back ... that stated that in the event of a divorce, or the death of Jimmy, the shoestore would be completely owned by his wife, Annabelle. Two months later, Jimmy and Annabelle Spencer were married. That same day, Jimmy threw all his safe cracking tools over the bridge into a small stream. For three years everything went well. Their shoestore had great buiesness, They had 2 children, and they bought a beautiful home in the country. Everything was going well untill one day Annabelle woke up and her beloved husband was missing. Nowhere to be found. Also, when Jimmy had thrown the tools into the shallow stream, they had not gone far and you could still see ...
- 1229: Chaplin's, The Kid
- ... cavalier panache of a gentleman of leisure with a dozen other pairs of handwear at his immediate disposal. Just as he is about to surrender himself to the joys of his first smoke of the day, his tranquillity is shattered by earsplitting distress signals from the squalling infant who has been abandoned on the garbage heap, plaintively demanding to be heard by someone, anyone. Taking one glance at that miserable child ... so startling about Chaplin's comedy of fathering a lost baby is the fact that he first conceived and immediately began to shoot this film barely two weeks after the death of his own three-day-old, firstborn infant son. Having turned his personal pain to such a creative purpose, he gets us to break bread with him and take communion with his grief and loss. By chancing upon a universal ... loss. Griminess is next to Godliness in a comic universe where the disinherited can inherit the earth. Works Cited Published in Images in Our Souls: Cavell, Psychoanalysis and Cinema. Edited by Joseph H. Smith, M.D. & William Kerrigan, Ph.D. Copyright 1987, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- 1230: Prescribed Burning
- ... we spotted a yellow-shirted, hard-hatted fire crew from the Chemult Ranger district. They were matter-of-factly tending flank and back lines (see illustration, page 16) on a low-intensity ground fire they'd set earlier. It gradually burned through bitterbrush and light woody debris, mimicking the natural understory fires of old and thus protecting a stand of mature ponderosas. The fire was moving ionals throughout the U.S ... fires for The Nature Conservancy from his base in Florida. Such concerns are real. Paul Tine, acting Forest Service fuels specialist for the sprawling eastern U.S. region, remembers well what he calls "the lowest day I've ever had in my 18-year career." As fire boss on a 40-acre prescribed burn on Minnesota's Superior National Forest in the '80s, he had taken a little time off to ... burn seldom does the trick, citing historical three- to 15-year cycles of natural fuel-reduction burns through much of the West. "Tomorrow if you could [prescribe] burn the whole western national-forest system, you'd still have to commit to a long-term burning program," he emphasizes. In other words, in prescribed burning you burn again and again until natural fires can - at least in some areas - take over ...
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