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- 6961: She Works Hard for Her Money
- ... that she learns a lot about people in her line of work, and enjoys talking to her customers. She invents ways to keep her job interesting, and likes to converse with her customers about a great number of topics. Dante says that giving service and being servile are two different things (Terkel 294). Delores Dante takes pride in her work, and aims to please all of her customers. She says that ... of restaurant workers tend to drink a lot. She equates waitressing with being "on stage", and says that waiting tables is an art (Terkel 297). She aims to please all of her customers, and takes great care to insure that she is doing everything just right. Near the end of the interview, she seems to open up, and gets a little emotional about the stress and the degradation that is implicit ...
- 6962: The Howl of a Generation
- ... the Beat Generation by studying not only the chronology of its past, but its intricate and unique structure as well as its themes and ultimate message. Following is an examination of the poem as the great expression of Beat defiance, beginning with a short history of the poem. Ginsberg’s Beat career began at Columbia University in 1943 where he met Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassidy and others. This ... were worth. As my loves were impractical and my thoughts relatively unworldly, I had nothing to gain, only the pleasure of enjoying on paper those sympathies most intimate to myself and most awkward in the great world of family, formal education, business and current literature (Art 44). Ginsberg expanded on the line from his journal, changing it to a second draft of the bast-known line in 20th Century poetry: "I ...
- 6963: Understanding Interpretation of Meaning
- ... which give us the chance to compare and contrast each author’s point of view. This is just one of the many examples that we have covered in this class. This type of exercise is great to use our mind and to express how we feel. We also have writing assignments related to the readings, where we make up a question or pick from four or more questions. Each question is ... out the author’s meaning of the essay. In our class there is a lot of diversity in age wisdom and state of mind. Clearly we haveget of different opinions and interpretations. This is a great oppurtunity to completelyunderstand the way things are interpreted. It’s interesting to find out if our interpretation varies from another. I believe in this class people get to discuss the interpretation of the author’s ...
- 6964: The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... discussion. The exact dating of their formulation is unknown. However, "the Pharisees first appear by name in the time of Jonathan Maccabee (150 BCE). Rabbinic sources trace their history back to the 'Men of the Great Assembly', who are said to have provided the religious leadership for Israel in the Persian and early Hellenistic periods."21 When the "Pharisees appear in Hasmonaean times, they are part of a governing council that ... not a messianic Temple, rather it is an ideal Temple, built upon principals of scriptural exegesis and beliefs of the author(s)."43 It is clear that the subject of the Temple would be of great interest to a priestly sect such as the Sons of Zadok, who had withdrawn to the desert, have no Temple, and consider themselves the true priests. Schiffman sees the Temple Scroll as seeking "to define ...
- 6965: “Bartleby The Self-Reliant Scrivener”
- ... life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. … but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” This statement allows us to see more clearly how Bartleby may not just be a person who ... touch with what he wants and what he is about. Taking a look at Bartleby, we see that he has many qualities that would convince society that he is self- reliant. As Emerson said, “the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Bartleby definitely fits that description, because no matter what people said to him his mind could never ...
- 6966: Critique of My Reverend
- ... strikes me as a man of strong faith. Content As I stated earlier that Mr. Waugh is a reverend. And the fact that he is working To spread the good news for Christ is a great thing. The central idea of this service is to let you know that God can, and will us any one that he sees fit to go and preach his word. The main point is to ... hadn't been to this church. You would have had to cone a few times to be able to under stand his accent voice didn't show much variety only in a few spots for great importance. Physical Delivery He didn't use much body language or formal hand motions hardly at all. He sometimes leaned on the podium to show sincerity and emotion with a small amount of hand motions ...
- 6967: My Personal Experiences With Math
- ... my time instead of learning but my parents support and persistence kept my nose to the grindstone. Looking back at those days and being where I am now in my life, striving to become this great mathematician, I can say I have done an enormous 360°. Through my high school career there was one person that really inspired me and gave me this drive that has gotten me here in college ... just step back and look at the bigger picture. Math is a subject that everyone already knows and uses. We as mathematicians just need to expand our thoughts and ideas and the ideas of others. Great minds have brought this country to where it is today and I know civilization did not come this far without using math as a tool. So as you can see, Math is a subject that ...
- 6968: The Growth of a “Scholarship Boy”
- ... is that he can also be considered a bad student in spite of all the successes that he has achieved. Hoggart explains this by saying, “The scholarship boy is a bad student. He is a great mimic; a collector of thoughts, not a thinker; the very last person in the class who ever feels obliged to have an opinion of his own”(582). This is exactly what Rodriguez does, he never ... really cares about them. I think that Richard feels this way also even though he doesn’t admit it. He seems to feel more comfortable with the fact that his parents do not have a great education. You get a pretty good understanding that he is getting along with his parents when he comes home. He is able to eat and walk with them without feeling embarrassed. He even was able ...
- 6969: Silent Dancing: Memories of Childhood
- ... sight, a sound, perhaps a smell…all of these things can trigger a deluge of retrospection. We have a home movie of this party…it is grainy and of short duration, but it's a great visual aid to my memory of life at that time. And it is in color - the only complete scene in color I can recall from those years. -Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Silent Dancing" In her essay ... I think back to these carefree and exploratory days in trying to sort through my interactions with other people today. Perhaps that is why the memory remains o vivid. Such an important development has a great impact on one's life. Memories that are looked to often for insight into the present tend to stay with you longer. They may fade over the years, but they will always remain stronger than ...
- 6970: A Modest Proposal: Spontaneous or Serious Idea
- ... want without the confrontation. My opinion of this man is that he must have been a little off in the head. How can a person even consider eating another human being, unless in situations of great extremes? For example, the people that had the plane crash in the 1980's. They crashed in Alaska, stranded with little food and water. As the wounded died they had no choice but to eat ... children to barren couples, couples who would cherish the thought of having a baby. Some families would even return to get more babies until their families were complete. Considering all that this man wrote, the great detail he went to on this matter, I can only conclude that he must have been serious about the solution of which he thought. He thought he was doing his country a service by finding ...
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