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- 4621: Stephen King: Telekinesis And It’s Effects On The Innocent
- ... oblivious and unaware. Her peers took this to their advantage and ridiculed her to no end. The whole bloody mess of Carrie’s womanhood “coming out” took place in the shower/ locker room of her high school. With Carrie laying curled up in the corner of a shower stall, with blood and water dripping form her body, the girls in her class began to throw sanitary supplies at her. Carrie continued to ...
- 4622: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... lives of women and the effects the war had on the home front. The role of women changed greatly during the years of World War I. Women went from being housewives and maids to becoming high income businesswomen, mathematicians and any other jobs that the men at war would normally do. The war also had drastic effects on the home front. World War I was called “total war” because everyone was ... war and life during the war are all facts. Remarque accurately describes the new weapons and tactics used in the war. Remarque shows visuals of the camps and the battlefields. “The camp is surrounded with high barbed- wired fences.” (P 187) However, All Quiet on the Western Front best shows the attitudes of the soldiers before the war and during the war. Before the war there are high morals and growing nationalist feelings. During the war however, the soldiers discover the trauma of war. They discover that it is a waste of time and their hopes and dreams of their life fly ...
- 4623: The Good Earth: Summary
- ... s resources. This story was also taking place in the midst of the Boxer rebellion and during pre-revolutionary times. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Boxer Rebellion led to the establishment of school systems with a Western influence. This led to the revolution in 1911 in which a president was elected to take the place of the emperor. These changes due to the West’s power dynamic played ... was successful in telling Wang Lung’s story. Near the end of Wang Lung’s life, the Western power dynamic was noticeable. It was also compelling to read about a peasants rise to riches and high status through hard work with his land. I was able to parallel his life which was tied into farming and land to that of his sons. Their lives were based on materialism after being influenced ...
- 4624: Abortions
- ... that Dowdy's heart had stopped. Dowdy and Alston were planning on a January or February wedding and the couple didn't want a child because Dowdy wanted to go to a two year accounting school. The police officials tried to squelch news by omitting the tragic abortion death from their daily report that Dowdy died after an abortion(according to the case of http://www.roevwade.org/rvw//.html). They ... chance. Abortions should be illegal no one except rape or incest patients should have them. After finding out that nearly 4,400 legal abortion occur each day in the United States, this is a very high number of babies that never make it into the world they are just killed. Reference Brooklyn Woman Dies from Legal Abortion, Police Engage in Cover Up. Retrieved February 23, 2000, From the World Wide Web ...
- 4625: Bulimia
- ... laxatives or diuretics, strict dieting or fasting, or excessive exercise. Although the disorder can affect men, the preponderance of people with bulimia are female adolescents and young women. Many are self-critical, perfectionist women from high achieving families. There are two subtype of bulimia nervosa: purging and nonpurging, it occurs in 0.5 percent to 2.0 percent of adolescents and young adult women. Purging type: this subtype describes presentations in ... bulimia is thought to be related to a complex network of psychological and emotional factors. Rather than food itself being the central issue, other underlying concerns such as low self- esteem, feelings of inadequacy, a high need for approval from others, a sense o being out control, and high expectations for achievement can lead to bulimic behaviors. In this culture, societal messages also play a significant role by placing an exaggerated importance on physical attractiveness and thinness, and offering an often unattainable and ...
- 4626: Prophecy in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
- ... the cold uncompassionate and selfish morals in which Montag's world exists: "I've had two children by Caesarian section. No use going through all that agony for a baby . . . I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month . . . You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch. It's like washing clothes: stuff the ... noticing. Children are no longer a priority for today's young adults, who tend to be more orientated towards career objectives. Having four or five children running around the house tends to be associated with high-strung fathers and depressed mothers. In a sense, Bradbury's analogy about the washing machine is accurate. More and more children are being dropped off at day-care centres and baby-sitters' houses. One thing ...
- 4627: A Child’s Verdict
- ... a parent’s: treatment, restriction, caring and teaching of and to a child. It also includes interaction by their teachers, pupils and others, besides their parents. In the case of a boy only in elementary school named Robbie Mackessy from the novel, A Map of the World, he is effected negatively by his surroundings and is therefore driven to act in certain ways and ultimately put him through trouble. Robbie is told to lie in court by his mother and this sends another women to jail. He sends the nurse of his school to jail by lying to the police, in order to please his mother. Robbie isn’t guilty of his actions because his surroundings have shaped him into what he is and his age keeps him ... quivering (Hamilton, 367).” Robbie didn’t understand the situation because he was too young to have been taught about it. This would lead him to act in certain ways later on. During many occasions at school, Robbie would go to the nurse’s office for assistance. He tended to dislike her and acted very stubbornly while she tried to help him. He yelled when she tried to touch him and ...
- 4628: Animal Farm Relating To Russia
- ... later of Stalin during the development of the Soviet Union, which resulted in the deaths and terror that deeply affected the lives of tens of millions of Soviet citizens. For example, Napoleon had made other high-status animals confess to things they had never committed. When the eggs of the three hens were crushed really by Napoleon s dog, they were forced to confess, Snowball had appeared to them in a ... system, not replace it. A second example is by telling nice sounding lies, dictators can become more secure by increasing cruelty. Napoleon s idea of keeping all the apples and milk for himself and other high-status animals won him the backing of ruthless supporters. This was acceptable because he cleverly said, Never mind the milk comrades The harvest is more important, (44). He then made food hard to get for ... cent, three hundred per cent or five hundred per cent, as the case might be, (99). Stalin had taken over all the farms in his country, reserving much of the wheat and other crops for high government officials. Millions of Soviet citizens died of starvation because of Stalin s ideas. The pigs of Animal Farm and government officials in the Soviet Union took the food made by those of lower ...
- 4629: The Advantages Of Stupidity
- ... stupid, and does it in the wrong crowd, like a group of adults, it will seem more immature than funny. If one is forced to act stupid while dealing with lower life forms, for example, high school teachers, one may encounter barriers such as cruelty and insensitivity, with the utterance of statements like, "Think with your head straight!" or, "You have a brain, use it." Yet these are all true, there are ...
- 4630: Langston Hughes
- ... an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of Charles Henry Langston. His brother was John Mercer Langston, who was the the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living as a writer. His father ...
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