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- 6571: Gender Testing in The Odyssey
- ... She began to swear the oath that I required…and when she’d finished, then, at last, I mounted Circe’s gorgeous bed…” (p. 241) If that was Penelope being described, she would lose her high standing in the poem. Sexual freedom is more of a man’s trait, whereas the women are more restricted and restrained. The women tend to embody the home, like Penelope embodying Ithaca and Odysseus’s home. The high valued women in the poem are pure, nurturing, maternal, and hospitable. Nausicaa and Penelope are ideal women because they have these traits. We are told of Nausicaa and her nursemaids bathing and pampering Odysseus. We ...
- 6572: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... Harvard in 1837 and became interested in natural history, religion, and world literature. Thoreau taught briefly but was dismissed when it became known that he opposed corporal punishment. He and his brother founded their own school based on transcendentalist principles, but he still wanted to be a poet. His dream came true when Ralph Waldo Emerson invited him to come live with them in Concord. In Walden Thoreau wrote, “Why should ... Indians by British troops at Amristar; when the Government refused to admit their wrong doing, Gandhi organized a campaign of noncooperation. Indians in office resigned, government agencies were boycotted, and children were taken out of school. Throughout India the roads were blocked by Indians who refused to move even if beaten by the police. Like Thoreau, Gandhi was arrested, but the government could not hold him long, this time. Gandhi would ...
- 6573: Comparison Between Gandhi and Hitler
- ... stubborn and when his father refused to let him chase a career as an artist, he decided to stop doing his work, and his grades began to fall drastically. When his father died he quit school and for the next few years lived off his family’s money. He did nothing but read books, draw pictures and daydream all day long. When he was 18 (in 1907) he moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and tried to get into an art school there. But unfortunately for the world, he failed his entrance exams, twice. His mother died a few years later and he inherited quite a bit of money, so for the next part of his life ...
- 6574: Everyday Use 2
- ... Dee became controversial in a lot of issues regarding her family's life. She seemed to have wanted a change in their customs and morals. While her mother and Maggie waited her return home from school in Augusta, Dee had gone through a certain transformation. Dee now goes by the name, "Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo" which maybe of African decent. Her mother asks, " What happened to 'Dee', and she says, "She's ... show that Dee is different from here mother and Maggie. Dee hated her surroundings growing up and she was very feminine in contrast to them. Dee also made a major transformation when she left for school, because on her arrival back home she came back a new person with a new name. A change in a name can be symbolic to a change in reputation or character. Usually characteristics come with ...
- 6575: Invisible Man
- ... becomes indicative of the thoughts and problems of at least part of society. Bearing this in mind, a pursuit of "true" human invisibility will be examined. According to the web page for The Monte Vista School for Invisible Boys, invisibility is a disease that affects .02% of all children. These children suffer from a translucence of the pigmentation in their skin and are not cared for. This school aims to aid invisible children.(42) In another area of humanity, adults are becoming invisible. A woman stands in line in the post office for hours with people continually pushing in front of her, and ...
- 6576: Commercialism As Americas Hidd
- ... changed the history books thought outside of the box, and was unique in some way. As I drive up Sunset Blvd. my eye sometimes tears at the sight of John Lennon s face 50 feet high on the side of a building. He was put there by an ad team to make me feel better about my own human uniqueness. I cheer at the face of Ansel Adams as I drive ... humanity. He never considered himself an artist. So is it bad that we think our art culture doesn t exist among the common folk? Wouldn t all chaos rein if the people who considered themselves high class realized that they were just like the rest of us? Perhaps it is safe to say that as long as everyone secretly appreciates American consumer culture across the globe, it is no longer important ...
- 6577: Animation
- ... mixed sounds are synchronized with animation. After the animation is completed it is printed to film by a computer film printer, and is ready for viewing. The second process, which with the production of powerful high speed computers is becoming more familiar in films with computer generated animation and special effects, an example of this process is in the films "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator 2". The process I am describing is ... quality animators, such as Disney Productions use, but with computer-generated objects still often mixed with the traditional animation, adding a new outlook to the animation. As we near the year 2000, and enter the high-tech age of computer generated graphics and animation, I believe that the true admirers of the art of animation will always have a nostalgia for the techniques first used by the pioneers of animation. Reference ...
- 6578: Underage Drinking: A Big Problem
- ... just took up space, and did not drink as much as the above 21 crowd. People in Ontario also started to notice more accidents involving alcohol and more public displays of drunkenness by young people. School officials also were distressed by the fact that students were allowed to drink at lunch, and then returned to class too intoxicated to take part in the learning process. Also, school functions, such as dances and sporting events became occasions to drink. It seemed the only people still supporting the new age law were the young people who gained the privilege of drinking from the new ...
- 6579: Culturalpluralism
- ... child rearing responsibilities. The family grew to a total of eight, with the birth of four girls. All children learned to speak Spanish. Family interactions with one another were in Spanish. As children entered grammar school they had to enter as non-English speakers, fully immersed in English. At the time there was not an opportunity for bilingual education or ESL programs since these children were the only non-English speakers ... of her husband acquiring American ways. He was regularly encouraged and influenced by business. The mother was influenced indirectly by her husband and to a certain degree by her children, who were constantly influenced at school. The mother who possessed the richest part of their native culture was being left behind from her evolving family.
- 6580: Technological Development and the Third World
- ... development politics has revolved around the economic aspect of producing surplus, and gaining capital. Because of our relatively rich land resource base, our method of technological development has been quite successful. Statistics show us as high wage earners, wealthy in public services such as health care and education, low infant mortality rate, long lifespan, and high GNP per person. Because of the comfort that our economic development has brought us, we have omitted the aspect of development in regard to human psychological well-being and the preservation of our natural surroundings ...
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