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- 5891: America— Take Care Of Your Own
- ... we can't provide better homes and a supported future for the children? Is it fair that just because you live in a bad part of town you have to go to an over crowded school that is falling apart. How can we expect children to learn under these circumstances? Where classmates are more concerned with life and death situations than about learning. Where you don't feel safe to go to school, but you have no choice. America has diminished the value of the tradition family making any type of mixed up mess an OK family. We need to stop worrying about Kosovo, Iraq or any other ...
- 5892: The Phonograph
- ... was developed in which the needle traveled across the record from the center to the rim, reversing the usual process, and in which the record revolved at 90 rpm; this machine produced sound of very high quality for the period. Swiss music-box manufacturers specialized in the production of small portable phonographs. The immense success of the phonograph led to demands for improved sound. About 1920, the old mechanical process began ... are encoded into words", made of varying mixtures of ones and zeroes; these are then read by a computer and turned back into sound. Digital recording gives a uniformity and accuracy of performance, particularly on high notes, that have eluded all pred 983 ecessors. It is also the system used by compact discs (CDS). Although records can use digital technology, it is only on CDS that the benefits of digital recording ...
- 5893: Coro Concert Experience
- ... as I walked out I was a bit amazed at the performance. I had an appreciation for the music and the performers that I have never had before. The concert had two groups; The Moores School Chamber Singers conducted by Roger S. Keele, and Coro conducted by Joel F. Plaag. The Moores School Chamber Singers were flawless. The men wore black and white tuxes and the women were dressed in all black. There were nine males and eight female singers. The accompanying chamber music was played by a ...
- 5894: A Critical Analysis of Tension's In Memorial A. H. H.
- ... relationship with Arthur Hallam, a figure linking humanity's present condition to the superior race yet to come. In poem sixty-four, Tennyson speaks of Hallam, describing him with the words: “And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The center of a world's desire” (64.13-16). In subsequent sections, he speaks of the divinity present in ... come. Humanity must yet “Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die” (118.27-28). In other words, a nature now brutal and cold, careless of life, will someday become, “High nature amorous of the good” (109.10-11). These words suggest a slow process, not to be accomplished in the life of merely one man, no matter how great he may be. Tennyson seems comforted ...
- 5895: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- ... a winning race" (54). In Housman's words: The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. (Housman 967). Stanza two describes a much more somber procession. The athlete is being carried to his grave. In Leggett's opinion, "The parallels between this procession and the former triumph are carefully drawn" (54). The reader should see that Housman makes another reference to "shoulders" as an allusion to connect the first two stanzas: Today, the road all runners come, Shoulder high we bring you home, And set you at the threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. (967) In stanza three Housman describes the laurel growing "early" yet dying "quicker than a rose." (967) This parallels ...
- 5896: Arthurian Legend
- ... he has been a popular figure in literature for over 800 years, not a lot is known about the real Arthur. It is believed that Arthur was a 5th-century British King named Riothamus (meaning “high King”) who ruled from four hundred fifty-four to four hundred seventy A.D. And led an army into Gaul where he was defeated by the Goths of Burgundy. Two men by the names of ... long story as a knight. Lancelot defended a woman who was being attacked by knight. Lancelot killed the man responsible for this thievery he said, for shame that a knight not withhold or respect his high calling. Lancelot also showed his dedication to his knighthood and his King when he was tempted to sleep with Gwynevere but didn’t sleep with her by riding out and looking for adventure to prevent ...
- 5897: Emily Dickinson
- ... close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ) for only a year ... stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of grazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely ...
- 5898: A Separate Peace - A Journey To Maturity
- ... novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene and Finny. The boys were able to surmount the ins and outs of friendship, conformity, and growing up. Friendship is certainly a major theme throughout ... Devon River. Even though he would have rather not done it, he went along with the crowd to fit in. Another example of Gene trying to fit in and be liked is when he ditches school with Finny. Gene never would have considered breaking the rules, but he feared that he would not be accepted by Finny if he didn't go along. Most teenagers are confronted with peer pressure, and ...
- 5899: Alcoholism
- ... the alcohol influences the person's choice of friends and the things that they do. Alcohol becomes used as more of a relaxer than as a casual beverage. At first, the alcoholic may have a high tolerance of alcohol, drinking more and showing less effects than other drinkers. The alcohol becomes a very serious hazard to the users health. The person progresses by losing control over their drinking and are not ... U.S. There is also an increase of alcohol-related problems growing around the world. Specialized treatment facilities within general or psychiatric hospitals are rapidly increasing in number. Earlier and better treatment has led to high recovery rates. In addition to physical complications and withdrawal symptoms, treatment involves counseling and group therapy such as AA are directed at complete recovery from the symptoms from alcoholism. The desired goal, of these facilities ...
- 5900: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... historical writing and poetry. The theme of Benet's poetry ranged widely. The most successful poem is the novel-length John Brown's Body, whose theme is American victory. Being paid for at such a high level, this poem had been well worth it's wait. He won a Pulitzer Prize for it and gave his personal version of history center stage (Magill 1: 170,174). Stephen Vincent Benet wrote books ... his family of Americans may have been a bigger gift than anyone could ever receive. Knowledge is the power Benet used and it was the power that gave American literature the victory of achieving such high standards. So, if the times, the life, and the literature of Stephen Vincent Benet are as strong in leadership and knowledge as an American force, then the country has won a victory for it's ...
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