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- 2071: Freud
- ... the point of running himself into debt at various bookstores. Among his favorite authors were Goethe, Shakespeare, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche. To avoid disruption of his studies, he often ate in his room. After medical school, Freud began a private practice, specializing in nervous disorders. He was soon faced with patients whose disorders made no neurological sense. For example, a patient might have lost feeling in his foot with no evidence ... seeping out in dream symbols and slips of the tongue. 2. Regression - retreating to an earlier, more infantile stage of development where some psychic energy still fixates. Thus, when facing the anxious first days of school, a child may regress to the oral comfort of thumb sucking. 3. In reaction formation, the ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites. En route to unconsciousness, the unacceptable proposition of "I hate ... fail to adequately resolve the developmental task. Delving further into these differences, Erikson contended that each stage of life has its own psychosocial task. Young children wrestle with issues of trust, then autonomy, then initiative. School-age children develop competence, the sense that they are able and productive human beings. In adolescence, the task is to synthesize past, present, and future possibilities into a clearer sense of self. Adolescents wonder: " ...
- 2072: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... soldier in the Civil War, contracted typhoid fever and dies. This caused Kate to go into seclusion for two years. She spent most of her time in the family attic. Missing a great deal of school at this time did not cause Kate to flounder. Although she was a scholastic student, she being a creative storyteller. After finishing school, she took two years off and became the belle in St. Louis Society in which her mother, Eliza, was so fond of. It was during this time that Kate started being criticized for her rebellious life style. She would be seen walking around the city unaccompanied, and even smoking. This was a period in time when her behavior was not considered as a norm among high society. Women were treated as second class people. They could not vote or have an open opinion on any thing other than the duties of a wife. Why was Kate not allowed to walk ...
- 2073: Catch-22 Book Review
- ... can never tell whether an event you were reading about happened before or after previous happenings in the book. For instance, when Lieutenant Scheisskopf first made an appearance, it was while Yossarian was in flight school. However, the book began with Yossarian out of flight school and well on his way to his fortieth mission. This organization provides for quite a bit of confusion for the average reader. Joseph Heller had excellent use of the power of description at his fingertips ... hall. Overall, this is an educational, detailed, in-depth look at life in war and the conquering of the rational mind over mindless authority. It is an enjoyable book that will stand highly recommended to high school students. Yossarian seems to be surrounded by lunatics, yet they all think him crazy. He is the only one sane enough to claim insanity and ask to be sent home. His proposal is ...
- 2074: Atm Network
- ... for faster information processing and therefore the need for faster communication systems. Specific data networks were introduced such as packet switched data networks (PSDNs), to meet the new service requirements. In the early 1970's, high bit rate digital time division multiplexing (TDM) systems were realized, allowing multiple high speed digital connections on a single line. The requirement for the integration of voice and data signals on a single network emerged. In the early 1980's, the design for an integrated systems digital network (ISDN) was proposed. The design described a digital packet switched network capable of providing telephone services and other data services. Optical fibre technology emerged providing a high speed transmission media with a low susceptibility to noise. These advancements coupled with the ISDN concept have led to the current information age: the notion of wideband networks capable of supporting high speed data ...
- 2075: African Culture
- ... 072,602 to 22,354,059! The result is that in states like California 45 percent of the residents are already Black, Asian or Hispanic, and non-White children are already a majority in the school system. The rapid pace of cultural diversity is reflected in Census data for non- White population growth, which show that between 1980-1990, Blacks grew by .2 percent and Native Americans by .09 percent, but ... stage for its own destruction because, over centuries, whites forced nonwhites to forge their own identities, to draw on their own profound cultural and political resources, to suppress their differences, and to unite outside the high walls of a supposedly democratic society whose rights and privileges were systematically restricted on the basis of race. Racial war of maneuver can be linked to the racial dualism discerned by Du Bois. If in ... the 1990s, what does it mean to be "yellow" or "brown"? Before the success of civil rights (and particularly immigration) reforms in the mid-1960s, racialized groups of Asian and Latin American origin experienced very high levels of exclusion and intolerance. After 1965 these communities began to grow rapidly. Previously isolated in enclaves based on language and national origin, Koreans, Filipinos, Japanese, and Chinese underwent a substantial racialization process from ...
- 2076: Barbie
- ... only women who collect, men do too. There are clubs, magazines etc for adults who love Barbie. Now that everything has a lot to do with the new technology, such as computers, Barbie is going high tech too. There are programs and discs to buy to the computer where Barbie is the main character. It is also a way to guide the kids in the high tech world that they live in. So Barbie isn't just anyone she is the most famous doll of all times. Here is some useless information about Barbie: Barbies full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts. She is from Willows in Wisconsin and went to Willows High School. Right now about 120 new dresses and clothes are designed every year and more than 105 million yards of fabric has been used to create them. After stamp collecting Barbie collecting is the ...
- 2077: Commentary: A Child Called "It"
- ... father just tried to stay out of her way to save his own skin. I will discuss specific events later in this piece. The primary method for socialization for Dave and his family is the school that David and his brothers attended. Media did not play a factor because David was isolated in his home and not allowed to know anything but school and home. The community had no knowledge of the alcoholism infecting this home because people either turned their heads or refused to believe what was happening. David's peers were no help for two reasons ... naturally cruel and hostile to negative elements that they do not understand and do not have to be involved with. They also could not conceptualize the things that were going on in the Pelzer home. School was Dave's only refuge. The kids teased him about his ragged clothes and poor hygiene. Its hard to keep yourself clean when you live in your house's basement and cannot even make ...
- 2078: Teenage Years
- ... to force us to buy their product that, as it turns out, we never wanted or needed in the first place. Our lives are filled with stress. One of the greatest sources of pressure is school. Where we are herded like cattle from room to room, chewing on our cud, while the hay of knowledge is force fed to us as we are trying our hardest to gulp it down as ... common. There are thousands of poems floating around written by bitter or depressed teenagers that are never recognised as works of art. Another form of escape for teenagers is, unfortunately, suicide. It is alarming how high the teen suicide rates have risen over the past decade. Yet, it is comforting that there are support groups and counsellors available now to aid teens through their troubles. Because no one wants to see ... they are never missed. At sixteen, a teenager knows about suffering, because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. Although, some teenagers face their problems. They plod along through school. Some of them get after-school or weekend jobs. They learn responsibility. Eventually, they enter adulthood and the work force. Successful, confident, and eager to work. They lead their lives using the knowledge they ...
- 2079: Teaching
- ... in todays society deserve the best possible education and how are they able to get that when the teachers are not getting a fair salary? Every since the first day I walked into elementary school I realized I wanted to be a teacher. I am not really sure what it was but something just set off a spark which has continued to get brighter and brighter over the past 13 ... children, whether it be baby-sitting, tutoring, or just playing I was always working one on one with children. Only this year I was fortunate enough to be able to be involved in the Alexander High School Interning for Life Planning Program which allowed me to work with children hands on for a semester. This helped me see what being a teacher was all about. Everyday I had papers to grade, ...
- 2080: As For Me And My House and Surfacing: Heros
- ... wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses are helpless against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high , tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind" (Ross 8). Mrs. Bentley does not have a belief system from which she can derive comfort. McMullen writes: "From the beginning wind and rain ... up in introduces to her a Christian reality. As a child, the protagonist was fascinated by the community's religiosity. When the narrator recalls that in childhood it was important for her to attend Sunday school in order to 'fit in': " When I started school myself I begged to be allowed to go to Sunday School, like everyone else; I wanted to find out, also I wanted to be less conspicuous" (Atwood 59). Religion had an important impact on ...
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