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- 4181: Ordinary People
- ... a more renewed atmosphere, Conrad begins to understand his emotions and, therefore, deals with the circumstances of his brother's death better. Conrad Jarrett. the protagonist, is a seventeen year old student attending a public high school. Conrad represents more of a heroic figure in this story because he has begun to overcome the overwhelming obstacles of life. This complex individual realizes that love gives one the strength to endure life. However ...
- 4182: Gothic
- ... comprised at least a cloister, a dormitory and a refectory for the monks. But the cathedral also was around a complex of buildings, the bishop's palace, a cloister and the house of canons, a school, a prison, and a hospital. However the cathedral dominated them all, rising high above the town like a marker to be seen from afar.6 The architectural needs of the Church were expressed in both physical and iconographical terms. Like its Romanesque predecessor, the Gothic cathedral was eminently ...
- 4183: Movie: The Last Supper
- ... make it to the salad before dying. In total they had killed about eleven people including a seventeen-year old girl who was against the distribution of condoms and the teaching of sex education in high school. I think that at this point they all have realized that everything has really gotten out of control. The director seems to miss out on a few flaws that I observed while watching the film ...
- 4184: Violence on the Tube
- ... to television, videotapes, and films in the classroom. Children in day- care centers often watch Sesame Street. There are filmed and videotaped versions of great works of literature such as Orson Welles' Macbeth. Nearly every school shows films of laboratory experiments. But what of our viewing outside of the classroom? Television is also one of our major sources of informal observational learning. According to Sweet and Singh, viewing habits range from ... Chip 536). Media violence and aggressive video games increase viewers' levels of arousal. In the vernacular, television works them up. We are more likely to engage in dominant forms of behavior, including aggressive behavior, under high levels of arousal. Media violence has cognitive effects that also prime aggressive ideas and memories. Media violence provides scripts , or ideas on how to behave in situations that seem to parallel those they have observed ...
- 4185: TV Shows and Real Life
- ... his marriage, he says that if he was sober that night, none of this would have happened. He calls his children accidents and the only good memory he has, is of him being a great high school football player, which he would take to the next level had all his dreams not been crushed by Peg. The only living thing Al really likes on the show is his dog, Buck, to which ...
- 4186: Movie: Dead Poet's Society - The Dead Poet That Killed Himself
- Movie: Dead Poet's Society - The Dead Poet That Killed Himself The movie Dead Poet's Society raises an interesting question: When educating teen-agers, is it better to use the school's policy of Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence or Mr. Keating's philosophy of carpe diam (seize the day)? Mr. Keating believed that people should "suck the marrow out of life" and live like a ... rapped on the knuckles" by a nun with a ruler can attest to this fact. The one thing that a student needs in life is structure. Without this, he or she cannot function in a school environment. When a bell rings, you must go to class. When a teacher assigns homework, you do it. No questions asked. No individual thought. The only marrow that should be sucked out of a students life is that of education. That, after all, is why they are in school. To learn and no other reason. In the end, it should be noted that although Mr. Keating's teaching philosophy was debunked, he made one good point. Neil should have spoken to his parents. ...
- 4187: Recent Changes To Welfare
- ... spell disaster. The preparation program has little to no focus on post secondary education, which is really what leads into most of the worthwhile jobs (The Issues, Welfare Reform p.2-3). Without even a high school diploma, the majority of the jobs taken are merely in the fast food industry, making 5-6 dollars an hour with no benefits (Heaven knows what would happen if there was an accident.) These type ...
- 4188: The Joy Luck Club: Cuture Gap
- ... was that she had not protected me better" (Tan 111). There are other ways in which the mystery of the mother-daughter relationship isuncovered. Because of a mother's enduring love, they often put up high expectations that are often hard to meet. As well, in the case of Waverly and June, a mother's love is expressed in the novel by proudly showing off: "From the time we were babies ... hears her Sony Walkman, her cordless phone..." (Tan 64). Ying-Ying ponders upon the fact that, "She follows my Chinese ways until she learned how to walk out the door by herself and go to school" (Tan 289). Because of heavy resentment on the mother's part, in some instances, the American culture is frowned upon and is stereotyped as having "morbid thoughts"(Tan 105). Many problems, especially embarrassment, surface when ...
- 4189: Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An
- ... and Self-Dependence Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham on the Thames, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, in 1822. He had to live in the shadow of his famous father who ran the Rugby school beginning in 1828. He went to the Rugby school since age 6, but his achievement were inconsistent. He got a scholarship to Oxford anyway in 1841. School came easy to him there. His father died in 1842 of a heart attack. In 1844 he was awarded second honors in Oriel College Oxford, to the disbelief of his friends. That year he ...
- 4190: Man Is Evil The Lord Of The Fl
- ... he still believes that man is evil. Just read this passage. I don t care what they call me, he said confidently. So long they don t call me what they did at my other school. Ralph was interested. What was that? the fat boy glanced over his shoulder, then leaned toward Ralph and whispered they use to call me Piggy Ralph shrieked with laughter he jumped up Piggy!,Piggy! (Golding ... trust in Ralph and in seconds it is shattered. This could relate to society in that if some one tells another person something in private. Then the next day when the kid goes back to school it s all around school it would be nearly the same thing. There is another passage from this book that may help prove that man is naturally evil. It reads, I ve got the conch, Ralph thinks you re ...
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