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- 2831: Monks and Today's Society
- Monks and Today's Society The strict ideals taken by Christian Monasticism (Monks, etc.) are quite different from those views or values that are taken in the modern day United States. A majority of the United States citizens, today, are more likely to have values that are opposite of those seen through the three monastic vows (poverty, chastity, and obedience). As a whole the ... last vow in which the monks lived by was obedience. This vow was not only used to keep order, but it was also used to make the monks humble and not proud. In the modern day United States the dominant values are more along the line of selfishness. It seems, for the most part, that the main values in today's American society are, fulfilment of desires, and a rebelling type ... past year there have been more stories of teens killing other teens than in recent years. However, adults also break the law and commit many crimes. All in all, the monastic ideals and the modern day values are at exact opposites. Where the monks strived for poverty, chastity, and obedience the majority of the United States set their values exactly opposite. Although, the monk's guidelines would be extremely difficult ...
- 2832: Gender Roles
- ... practices females carry on into motherhood. Surpassingly, in a class room experiment done with a doll called Baby, Think Again, which is a computerized doll, which is programmed to cry at certain times of the day for certain reasons, male participants were vary successful with their “child”. The computer can tell someone how many times the baby cried, what the“mother/father” didn’t or did do correctly. Orland Richard’s ... a responsibility, they try so much harder and care for their “baby” more intensely than some of the young women in the class because they have so much to prove. “ They come in the next day and wait for me tom open the computer to see if the lights are blinking, and they arrant. They even say, ‘See Mr.Richards, I can be a good father.’ The funny thing is that they even come back the next day and say, ‘ Hey, Mr. Richards, can I have the same baby again tonight, you know, the one that looks like me!’ That makes me feel so good inside, and there will be one less ...
- 2833: Gender Roles 2
- ... practices females carry on into motherhood. Surpassingly, in a class room experiment done with a doll called Baby, Think Again, which is a computerized doll, which is programmed to cry at certain times of the day for certain reasons, male participants were vary successful with their child . The computer can tell someone how many times the baby cried, what the mother/father didn t or did do correctly. Orland Richard s ... a responsibility, they try so much harder and care for their baby more intensely than some of the young women in the class because they have so much to prove. They come in the next day and wait for me tom open the computer to see if the lights are blinking, and they arrant. They even say, See Mr.Richards, I can be a good father. The funny thing is that they even come back the next day and say, Hey, Mr. Richards, can I have the same baby again tonight, you know, the one that looks like me! That makes me feel so good inside, and there will be one less ...
- 2834: Les Miserables
- ... must meet increasing finances for her daughter from the Thenardiers. Fantine looks for money and does everything possible such as selling her hair, her central incisors, and then turns to prostitution. She is arrested one day but is saved by Madeleine. Fantine moves in with Madeleine and gets very sick. Fantine wants to see her daughter which Madeleine promises her that he will bring her to her before she dies. However ... Jean Valjean. A few days later Jean Valjean is arrested by Javert at Fantine's bedside and this scene kills her. The same evening Valjean escapes, but is quickly recaptured and sent to Toulon. One day he saves a fallen sailor. As he plunges into save him, he escapes by making the belief that he drowned. He then goes to Montfermeil where the Thenardiers' inn is located. After burying his money ... finally finds a good job, and with this helps build his satisfaction. He then falls passionately in love with a beautiful young lady in the Luxembourg Gardens, who is Jean Valjean's daughter, Cosette. One day, Marius gets very curious and peeps through a hole in the wall to the neighbors room and sees the family living in poverty. Soon after he witnesses the entrance of a philanthropist, so called ...
- 2835: Henry Thoreau
- ... partially as a tribute to his beloved brother. When he returned from Walden in September of 1847, he again performed an assortment of jobs. He hired himself out as a painter, carpenter, mason, or a day-laborer believing "the occupation of a day-laborer to be the most independent of any," he also became interested in surveying land and went on to become one of the best surveyors in Concord. He even made time to contribute to the ... him saddened and partially caused his retreat to Walden. Thoreau wrote many things while he was alive, and many of his stories and essays gained much acclaim after his death. He began writing Journals, a day-to-day recording of many of his ideas and observations. It would go on to span approximately 14 volumes and become a storehouse of innovative ideas. During his life, The Transcendental Club (of which ...
- 2836: Gynephobia
- ... help these unstable victims to regain their courage and eventually eliminate their fear of women. The lifetime of damage done to victims of this nature is not something that can be simply undone from one day to the next. Time consumming therapy with appropriate psychiatrists is a victim's best chace of ever recouperating and unfortunatelly miraculous cures from one day to another are just simply non-existent. These problems, which took a life time to develop, will not be solved in a short period of time but rather with long periods of time in psychiactric councelling. This phobia can be cured only with time, patience and a lot of courage and effort from the gynephobian. Gynephobian people have not developed this problem from one day to another . It is most likely that it took many years and a lot of negative incidents fro this to happen, hence it will not be cured from one day to another but rather ...
- 2837: Road Less Traveled By William
- ... or world view that is realistic...we must constantly revise and extend our understanding to include new knowledge of the larger world. (p. 191) What he means by this is that our religion can change day to day because the world changes day to day. So we must always review the way we think about the world. One of the main themes of the book is expansion of knowledge. Religion and love are both expansions of knowledge ...
- 2838: Death And Bereavement
- ... cream. In contrast to the avoidance of death in American culture, Mexican culture sees life and death as different phases of an underlying process of regeneration.. The national fiesta El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead is a two day celebration of the communion between the living and the dead (Despelder & Strickland, 1992). During the Day of the Dead celebration families clean and decorate the graves of deceased family members, placing food offerings and lighted candles before the souls of ancestors. The night is devoted to meditative communion and mourning ...
- 2839: Robinson Crusoe
- ... his personal growth and contributed to why he survived for so long. On the island he made a lot of smart decisions of what to do in order to stay a live. On his second day he made a choice to go back to the ship to explore what was there. He spent a lot of time building his home when he could have done something more important. He also took ... home so that another storm wouldn t knock it down (29). Robinson also had a choice to add more things to his house to make it better and to protect him. It took me all day to put up my fence, so that no wild animals could attack me (31). After all the effort and hard work he put into making his home it paid off because when a storm came ... Friday into his life. Instead of leaving him on the island and being killed by hunger or wild animals, he cared for him and raised him and taught him the things he knew. The next day I took Friday around the island and showed him how to hunt (90). Also now it would take Robinson less time to complete a task and it would be faster to begin one. Robinson ...
- 2840: Gender Roles In Moderen Advert
- ... obsessed with appearance and dating; while men are more likely to be shown as aggressive and powerful, accomplishing some all important task(Ruth 1995, 388). Different gender stereotypes are portrayed at different times of the day and evening in order to target certain audiences. All of these images portray different levels of traditional gender roles. Often these differences are not discrete, ³Men are generally thought of as independent, objective, active, competitive, self-confident, and ambitious; while women are seen as dependent, subjective, passive, not competitive, lacking self-confidence and ambition²(Coltrane, Adams 1997, 325). Women / mothers are more likely to be watching television during the day, therefore advertisements tend to target the typical American housewife(Craig 1992, 209). During soap operas commercials go beyond matching a product aimed at a housewives particular needs, they portray stereotypical roles they should sustain. Daytime ... Housewives are seen as happy to serve others and to relinquish their spare time and personal needs; all in an effort to insure that their families feel loved and cared for(Niemi 1997). Throughout out day time commercials there are never any connotations of single families(Niemi 1997), which in reality being a single parent is a common occurrence. Some advertisements may even play on a women's guilt and ...
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