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- 1551: Teen Workers
- ... rises along with the grade level. The kind of job varies depending on the sex of the child. Boys tend to deliver newspapers and girls tend to babysit. As the teens grow older the job interest change with teenage girls turning to restaurants and retail outlets, while the boys will work in the family business , restaurants and other food related businesses. The hours that the kids have to chose from are ... work that the school systems seem to make fewer and less demands of the students. The school systems also seem to cut into the student activities and by doing so help the student to lose interest in what is going on at school. This also gives the teen reason to look for other amusements, including work. A typical day of the working teenager would start with a 5 :30 am wake ...
- 1552: Huck Finn Notes
- ... he and Tom had found six thousand dollars apiece. Since then, the Widow Douglas has been trying to civilize Huck, and judge Thatcher has invested the money for him, bringing a dollar a day in interest. The widow's sister, Miss Watson, also lives in the house, and she is forever picking at Huck, trying to make him do things her way. Unlike the Widow Douglas, who is kind and patient ... landowner, whose youngest child is Buck, about Huck's age. The two boys share a bedroom together and soon become good friends.The house is furnished in a manner that impresses Huck, but of special interest to him are the crayon drawings made by Emmeline Grangerford, who died when she was fourteen. Most of the drawings are of rather morbid subjects. Her attempts at poetry about dead people are also rated ...
- 1553: Herodotus' The History
- ... to be founded in immutable divine power, sanctioned by the Olympian gods, were in fact merely human inventions which other societies either ignored or directly contravened. Herodotus’ framework, in The History, is that of Greek interest. He provides a series of assumptions of Greek practice that can be contrasted with barbarian modes of behavior. Herodotus’ description of the East begins with a kingdom that is nearest to Greece, Lydia- an “in ... The History of Herodotus, Grene, Book 8, chapters 60-70, p. 576-581). Also, at this point in the book, Herodotus’ makes another striking comparison between the Persians and the Greeks. Herodotus describes the self-interest of the Persian grandees while both sides are discussing their strategies. This he associates with Greeks and therefore concludes that angling for personal advantage is not confined to one side (The History of Herodotus, Grene ...
- 1554: The Adults Are Always Right?
- ... much time with these kids because they think that they're going to grow up and be nobodies in life. What they look at as fooling around and not paying attention, is really lack of interest. Lack of interest because the class is too boring. To open up these minds classes have to have more life in them. I mean, who wants to be in a classroom for an hour and listen to a ...
- 1555: Books And Technology Is The Future Of Printed Books In Jeopa
- ... some important way in which the sensory experience of reading a hand-held book feeds into thinking about it." (Lauerman). I feel that nothing can replace the experience of reading a book of a respective interest. You can find information on the Internet, but this process is almost too easy in the sense that you can read only specific areas of a subject without exploring all areas of that particular subject ... Problem: Books Crumbling into Dust. Scholars Join Hands to Save Millions of Brittle Tomes." The Christian Science Monitor. 4 January 1995: 3. Landers, Jim. "Cutting the Literary Paper Trail: Firms Hope to Stir Reader's Interest in Handheld Electric Devices." The Chicago Tribune. 2 November 1998: 8. Lauerman, Connie. "To Be Continued? Computers are Being Blamed for Many Things, Including the Imminent Extinction of Reading as We Know it " The Chicago ...
- 1556: The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
- ... a whole year. Albert Clevoue shot Ned in both. Joe had to pay colonel Dye for getting him out of trouble with the Ku Klux Klan. Colonel Dye was selfish and asked for money as "interest", most find him just greedy. Once Jane and Joe moved away, Jane had a couple of dreams that Joe would be killed by some horse, so she went to a hoo-doo. Sure enough, Joe ... a whole year. Albert Clevoue shot Ned in both. Joe had to pay colonel Dye for getting him out of trouble with the Ku Klux Klan. Colonel Dye was selfish and asked for money as "interest", most find him just greedy. Once Jane and Joe moved away, Jane had a couple of dreams that Joe would be killed by some horse, so she went to a hoo-doo. Sure enough, Joe ...
- 1557: Escaping Harlem
- ... distant his brother had become when he reads about him in the newspaper. “He became real to me again. A great block of ice settled in my belly…” Sonny’s brother never respected Sonny’s interest in music. He thought it was only some fantasy or passing phase. He never took the time to actually listen to his brother and take him seriously. In the end Sonny’s brother realizes how ... in my gut again.” When the narrator one several instances uses metaphors to describe his brother. “All the light in his face had gone out”, implying he had lost all hope. The narrator takes special interest when describing the setting. He refers to Harlem as a “trap.”, “Some escaped the trap, most didn’t.” , “…as some animals amputate a leg and leave it in the trap. It might be said, perhaps ...
- 1558: The French Lieutenant's Woman
- ... is revealed through Charles' compromising type of character. At the beginning he appears the exact opposite of Sarah, a shining example of the socially condoned gentleman. He plays his role to perfection, taking a fashionable interest in paleontology while still carrying out his duty of attending all the proper social events. However, it soon becomes obvious that Charles is caught in the middle of two very different ideals; passion and duty ... makes The French Lieutenant's Woman a truly unique and intriguing book. Depending on how the reader sees himself, either more as an individual, a compromiser or a conformer, it is sure to hold his interest and attention. Each character holds different meaning and can teach a different lesson to every person. Whether or not the reader relates to the actual situations or merely can understand them, it is a matter ...
- 1559: Charlotte Temple Essay
- ... pursuit of pleasure, he minded not the miseries he inflicted on others, provided his own wishes, however extravagant, were gratified. Self, darling self, was the idol he worshipped, and that he would have sacrificed the interest and happiness of all mankind. Montraville ... generous in his disposition, liberal in his opinions, and good-natured almost to a fault; yet eager and impetuous in the pursuit of a favorite object, he staid not ... friends, and plunge her into all the evils a narrow income and increasing family conflict, I will leave you to enjoy the blessed fruits of your rashness; for by all that is sacred , neither my interest or fortune shall ever be exerted in your favor. I am serious , therefore imprint this conversations on your memory, and let it influence your future conduct ( Rowson 40). After the warning from his father, Montraville ...
- 1560: A Century Of Dishonor, a Triumph or Tragedy?
- ... is a detailed account of the last six years of Jackson’s life (1879-1885), when she struggled to promote the rights of American Indians displaced and dispossessed by the U. S. government” (Mathes). “This interest climaxed when she heard Ponca chieftain Standinng Bear and Suzette “Bright Eyes” La Flesche lecture in Boston in 1879 on the suffering of many dispossessed Plains Indians. As Odell notes, Jackson’s was a “sudden and consuming interest.” For the first time, she identified herself with a national reform movement, not having written for the causes of black-white equality, temperance, and suffrage.... Jackson became determined to write a nonfiction book that would ...
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