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- 4331: Wuthering Heights - Catherine And Heathcliff
- A Presentation of the Personalities of Heathcliff and Murray Kempton once admitted, No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting. The human race continually focuses on characters who intentionally harm others and create damaging situations for their own benefit. Despite popular morals, characters who display an utter disregard for the natural ... to hardship and uncomplainingly accepted suffering. Heathcliff displays his strength and steadfastness when he had the measles, and when Hindley treated him cruelly if he got what he wanted. From the very beginning he showed great courage, resoluteness, and love. Few have the audacity to be victimized (as Heathcliff was by Hindley after Mr. Earnshaws death) and find secret delight in his persecutor sinking into a life of debauchery which ... in discovering it in each other as well. Possibly, they are emotionally trapped in their natural habitat- absorbing the savage beauty of the countryside while escaping adult mind games and romantic rules and procedures. The great tragedy in the book is when Catherine, in all her elegant refinement, attempts to grow up and marry an established man. With the exception of wealth and position, all is lost in this hasty ...
- 4332: With Malice Toward None
- ... had some formal education, amounting to a little less than a year in all. To support his family it was necessary that Abe worked for a wage on nearby farms. "He was strong and a great athlete, but Abe preferred to read instead. Although few books were available to a backwoods boy such as himself, anything that he could obtain he would read tenaciously" (p 56). Although his formal education had ... won national recognition in the process. As a result of holding his own with the "Little Giant" (referring to Douglas's physical stature and political power), the entire nation was able to see just how great and powerful of a leader Abraham Lincoln could become. Lincoln put the Senatorial defeat in its proper perspective six years later when he said, "It's a slip, and not a fall." (p 143) After ... 1865 "Abraham Lincoln...was at home and welcome with the humblest, and had a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876 "If one would know the greatness of Lincoln one should listen to the ...
- 4333: We All Take Things For Granted
- ... Take Things For Granted Helen Keller is a very recognized author throughout the world. Not only did she have to deal with the competition of other authors, but she also had to deal with a great handicap. At the age of nineteen months, she developed an illness that claimed her ability to hear, see, and speak. With her self-determination and help from a great teacher, Anne Sullivan, Helen developed the ability to read Braille, lips, and even speak. After educating herself Helen began writing everything from poetry to a book about her life struggle. In the short story "Three ... and sounds to behold there. Sounds pretty simple, right? Now think of what it would like if you had a disability. The blind can not see the beauty of the rushing water flowing down that great mass of earth. Deaf people can not hear the water making the rushing noise as it comes over the apex, or the pulsing of the water hitting the ground. When you think of a ...
- 4334: "The Beats Generation
- ... of a phenomenon. They shared what can be called a complex web of feelings, ambitions, perceptions, and judgments. They had an inborn individuality. They were bought up during the accumulated miserable circumstances of a dreary depression, disengaged during the collective uprooting of a world war. Hence, they distrust collectivity. Their own craving for freedom led to black markets, bebop, narcotics, and sexual promiscuity. The beatness was embedded later. It was a ... the waste and the apparent social irresponsibility and wondered what happened to the younger generation. However, there were those that believed that in generations such as these there is always the constant chance of a great new idea, brought into existence in desperation. Beat begins with a sense of cultural displacement and disaffiliation, a distrust of efficient truth, and an awareness that things are often now that they seem to be ...
- 4335: Teens And The Price They Pay To Look Good
- Teens And The Price They Pay To Look Good Today's teens are so looks oriented that they will go to great lengths to try to get the look of perfection. At first teens believed that in the summer their physical attractiveness measured up to how dark of a tan they had gotten. Now it has elevated ... My sister on the other hand is fair skinned with dark hair. When she first saw that all the boys her age were going crazy over this beautiful young woman she decided it would be great if she could look like her to impress the boys. She went to the tanning bed every day for three weeks and preceded to get her hair dyed to make a close match with Ms. Spears'. After my sister went to all of that trouble she realized that the boys still thought of her the same. This goes to show that teens will go to great lengths to improve their looks even do things to themselves that are potentially harmful. To me society centering everything with appearance is influencing kids in bad ways. Tanning beds are one of the easiest ...
- 4336: Birdhouse
- ... school was even worse
Each room was painted a dark green, while the desks where in a triangular form as if it were an elementary class. Besides the schools lack of fashion Beverly had a great time getting to know everyone. If you lived close by (which she did) you could just spend the night at home, but if not the school principles were always willing to rent dorms to those ... a nightstand right beside it. So clearly they were very small! That is unless you had a room-mate then you were allowed to have a two to three bedroom dorm which are obviously a great deal larger then the one bedroom. When summer was over she went back home to her mother, but soon after she left Chuffy had sent a letter informing Beverly that they wished her to back ... Beverly Clare. A young adult, who fights to have both emotional and physical independence. Basically it tells the story of her life, who she is and what she does. During the novel Beverly meets a great number of men. Some of these men were married, while some just couldnt handle long distant relationships. Luckily Ms. Cleary found her special someone. His name was Clarence and is about the same ...
- 4337: The American Basketball Association
- ... Association When you ask teenagers or young adults about the ABA, most will inform you that they have never heard of it. The American Basketball Association had a short and wild life, yet it made great contributions to professional basketball. It increased the level of talent, changed the way the game was played, and produced some of the greatest stars to ever play the game. It also caused an increase in ... game of basketball. The ABA created some of the greatest players ever. Players like Julius Erving and Moses Malone were the soul of the ABA. At its end in 1975, they introduced all of the great accomplishments and innovations into the NBA which made the combined league even greater. With the tradition of the NBA and the flair of the ABA, a new league was created which would become the greatest ... s savior, and made huge contributions to the talent level and the history of the game. The ABA was a league which made tremendous contributions to professional basketball. By increasing the talent level, producing some great innovations like the three-point shot which is still used today, and producing some of the greatest players ever, the reformulated NBA is now a sport that millions watch. The NBA of today was ...
- 4338: Female Infanticide in China and India
- ... Female infanticide was a major social problem faced by Chinese and Indian women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but how did British colonialism help to bring about important changes for women in these two great nations? The arrival of British colonialism in China and India provided a major catalyst of change for women and their roles in society which helped to change the viewpoint of many parents during the time ... to poverty. Adele Fielde, a missionary who wrote such perceptive and vivid accounts of the lives of a number of Chinese women during the 1880's, made some attempt to ascertain "the extent of a great crime" and concluded that: The causes of this crime are two, poverty and superstition. The acceptance of Christianity brings about a cessation from child-murder, because it destroys the superstition, which is its cause, leading ... Although these European influences help to change things for Chinese and Indian women it was still practiced in both nations due to firm beliefs and tradition. Overall the arrival of British colonialism to these two great nations may have brought with it corruption and exploitation on one hand, but on the other it brought about some very important social and ethical changes that helped the women in these nations by ...
- 4339: Television Is Ideally a Tool
- ... with the outside world, something that wont scare them, but rather inform them. Too much television can be very harmful to anyone. A portion of television, for a child, can be used as a great tool. If a kid were to watch approximately three and half-hours everyday, this cure for boredom could start to become a bad influence. You should have a heavy persuasion on the content. Letting your ... into our government. It seems ignorant to allow someone who does not know your child to choose programs that your child should watch. Keeping the parent involved with the shows their kids watch is a great way to improve ratings. The interactive shows that allow the parent and child to stay interested are great; Bill Nye (The Science Guy) an excellent interactive show, for all ages. We are still trying to perfect the use of television as a tool. You can familiarize a child with the outside world ...
- 4340: Central Theme of the Upanishads
- ... evolution of the soul. Liberation, the final goal of spiritual development becomes less attractive, as the seeker loses his own identity in his merger with the Absolute. The entire process of Creation delineated with such great care in the Upanishads is reduced to a mere illusion. Texts describing Brahman, the Supreme Being, as sarvaj~na (all knowing), sarva-shaktimaan (All Powerful) are also relegated to be descriptions of Ishwara or the ... other to the development of this central theme and none of them will look secondary or suprefluous. In the larger context of the Vedanta, as a whole, the Vedas, Brahmana-s, Aranyakas, Upanishads and the great Epics which include the other Prasthaana texts -- Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Suutra are woven into a glorious tapestry of the indescribable but realizable, fathomless but understandable glory of the Supreme Person, who has been extolled by great devotees in all Bhakti compositions. The artificial concept of two Brahmans, Saguna and Nirguna simultaneously existing, though totally different in essence, created by Monism to explain away the wealth of texts describing the glory ...
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