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- 2211: Everyday Use 2
- ... but she wasn't interested then. She had also made a promise that she would give them to Maggie. Dee became frustrated with the idea of giving the quilts to Maggie, because she said, "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use." (356) The mother felt the sudden feeling to stand in her promise to Maggie and not give the quilts to Dee, as she took them ... Dee was upset at the decision of her mother and tells her, "You just don't understand," when it comes to the family's heritage. (357) Dee ends by saying, "It's really a new day for us, [but] from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it." (357) In concluding, there are a couple of issues to show that Dee is different from here mother and Maggie. Dee hated her surroundings growing up and she was very feminine ...
- 2212: An Analysis of The Glass Menagerie
- ... Tom and Laura do not like the dark atmosphere and their mother always tries to make it as pleasant as possible. The two women do not get out much to socialize. Amanda sometimes goes to D.A.R. (Daughters of the Revolution) meetings, but Laura does not like to socialize at all. She has a slight limp and is extremely shy with people. When she does leave the apartment, she falls ... When Laura is enrolled at the Business School she becomes very shy and embarrassed, hence causing her to become ill in the classroom. She can not bare to face those same faces again the next day and decides to give up on going to her classes. Laura chooses to spend her time with her tiny glass animals, and she treasures them more than actually participating in daily contact with other people ... Depression-Era. He presented the problems of being constrained to monotonous work and how one's dreams may not always come true. He also stressed that not everyone is comfortable with living in the present day. There were always better times than the ones that are being lived now. He acknowledged that there are those who wish not to participate and are not comfortable living in the outside world. Through ...
- 2213: Enders Game--enders Empathic A
- ... to children about certain things, such as pain. A short while later in the novel, still before he departs for battle school, Ender demonstrates even more dramatically the expediency of his empathic ability. The very day his monitor is removed, Ender is attacked by the leader of a gang in his school, Stilson. Ender manages to kick Stilson so that he falls down, and appears to be unconscious. Ender comes to ... You might having some idea of ganging up on me. You could probably beat me up pretty bad. But just remember what I do to people who try to hurt me. From then on you'd be wondering when I'd get you, and how bad it would be.' He kicked Stilson in the face. Blood from his nose spattered the ground nearby. 'It wouldn't be this bad," Ender said. 'It would be worse'." ...
- 2214: The Adventures of Huck Finn: Jim Is A Hero
- ... footing with him. This is shown by Jim's statement of his own self worth. "Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'." This statement is one of the first that lead to the reversal of Huck's attitudes toward Jim while they navigate the river ... into slavery, Huck is left alone and begins to feel lonely without the presence of Jim. Huck speaks of his being alone in this way: I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the ...
- 2215: Children And The Single Parent
- ... children in this age group need to understand the child's' need for attention. Being a single parent places high demands of time on the parent, however, there is only so much time in the day. The custodial parent must go to work and then come home and handle household duties. Most times, when the child asks to play, the parent is too busy and the child is left to feel ... and this places them in a troubling position. Parents begin a tug-of-war, and the children are the rope. In Divorce and Your Child by Sonja Goldstein LL.B and Albert J. Solnit M.D., they state that as a condition of custody, parents should choose why they would want responsibility for the child and which parent has the desire to look after the child. If the parents want to ... About Single-Parent Families. New York: A Dolphin Book, 1985. Garrity, Carla B. and Mitchell A. Baris. Caught in the Middle. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994. Goldstein LL.B., Sonja and Albert J. Solnit M.D.. Divorce and Your Child. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Kalter, Neil. Growing Up With Divorce. New York: Ballantine, 1990. Troyer, Warner. Divorced Kids. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. Word Count: 1551
- 2216: The Catcher in The Rye: Chapter by Chapter Summary
- ... in. Inside, Ernie, the piano player of the club is about to finish his song. It is very crowdy, but after a while Holden gets his table on the back. Then, an old girlfriend of D.B., Holden's older brother who is writing novels in Hollywood, recognizes him and invites him to join her on her date this night. Holden doesn't feel like that and says that he has ... dollars, but she says that it was 10, which wasn't true. Chapter 14 ---------- After girl has left, Holden sits down in a chair and thinks about his dead brother Allie. He still remember the day he took Allie with him to shoot his BB gun. He always thinks about this when he's depressed. Holden gets undressed and goes to bed. He felt like doing a prayer for a while ... gets upstairs and calls Jane to come and bandage up his wounds. He feels like commiting suice too, but he doesn't jump out of the window because no one would catch him when he'd fall. Chapter 15 ---------- The next morning, Holden sleeps til 10. He gives Sally Hayes a ring and makes a date for a matinee. Then he packs his luggage and leaves the hotel, takes a ...
- 2217: Dante 2
- ... had put her on a pedestal and made her the ideal of womanhood. "He believed that only by living as he thought she would want him to live could he hope to be fit one day to enter Paradise"(Smith 24). Beatrice can be looked at as almost being an abstract concept; some scholars believe that Beatrice might not have even existed, just a figment of Dante's imagination(Smith 25 ... in Paradiso, XIV, 71-76 when he says "O genuine glitter of eternal beam! With what a sudden whiteness did it flow, o'erpowering vision in me. But so fair, so passing lovely, Beatrice show'd, mind cannot follow it, nor words express her infinite sweetness"(Smith 26). Smith also adds that all this doesn't mean that Beatrice has no symbolic significance, but that she cannot have one, which would ... VIII, known as Benedict Caetani before his election into Papacy(Mandelbaum 356). Boniface, a fiery old man, lawyer and veteran in the papal service, is said to have given much needed hours of prayer every day according to Dante(Mandelbaum 356). Dante along with many other of his colleagues thought that the Pope should have no business in politics, but Boniface saw differently as he made many political decisions in ...
- 2218: Sex Education: Does it Really Work?
- ... sex are, and how healthy relationships work. This would provide the young teens a way to examine their relationships and determine the quality of them before they have sex. One boy told Sheehan this, "I'd like to hear more stories....how they met....how they kept the love alive" (Sheehan 11). This proves that many teens want to learn about relationships. They want to learn about what makes a good ... classes should also be taught once a year because at the high school level it is harder to find time for sex education classes. This program should be 4 weeks long and 45 minutes a day. It should be taught very interactively not as a lecture. There should be a lot of time devoted for discussion of the issues covered each day and for questions. There should also be a private councilor available to the students that need it. The AIDS education portion of the class would discuss how AIDS is spread. It should also discuss ...
- 2219: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... examine any predicament he might find himself in: "They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low
Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,- s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad
" (p.127). Only a few weeks with Jim and still feeling great ambivalence, Huck returns to the river to think. Twain tries here to tell the reader how strong the "mob" really is ... his own. Eventually he goes as far as to risk his life for Jim:"And got to thinking of our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow I couldn't see no places to harden me against him, but only ...
- 2220: Interview with Mr. Smallwood
- ... measure motion to incredibly accurate measurements. When asked about his own background in mathematics, Mr. Smallwood explained that he had a very rigorous mathematics background. He attended a high school prep-school in the Washington D.C. area, which offered a wide variety of applied math courses that set him on his lifetime course through mathematics. He considers himself a life long learner, and continues to study, read and enjoy the ... receiving useful information. Mr. Smallwood was quick to defend this area of study. He referred to the many jobs available for people with good mathematical aptitude and then went on to discuss some of the day to day applications of Calculus that people tend to overlook. His opinions were very astute, and reconfirmed my interested in continuing my studies of mathematics. Conducting this interview gave me a better understanding of the applications ...
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