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- 1981: Existentialism In Film
- ... blessing to Ingmar, himself now a middle-aged adult. His voice enfeebled, the dying minister cannot make himself heard, and clutches at Ingmar's sweater, pulling him closer. When Ingmar hears his father's whispered prayer for his own son, he pulls his father's fingers from his garment in anger and disgust, rejecting completely the old man's final expression of regret and plea for forgiveness. The final scene depicts ... film industry, and its need to be populist, makes it restrictive and pandering. Hence in recent years we have seen a solid group of quality independent works spring up in the fallout of the film school generation's creation of the global blockbuster movie. Eschewing all desire for fame and fortune in favor of creative control, the independent filmmakers of our nation have been much freer to handle dark and contemplative ...
- 1982: The Souls of Black Folk
- ... the two sides of his identity to try to be part of the chase while at the same time serving as the catch. Following in the steps of the Atlanta schools or in the trade school method proposed by Washington will not give the Negro the tools to better himself or to become a true American. Booker T. Washington's idea of education presents a huge dilemma because it accepts the ... his heritage. Instead it completely undermines the identity of his soul and threatens to lose it for the sake of making the Negro a contestant in the 'race.' Du Bois places blame on the public school system in his article Of The Sons of Master and Man for creating this materialistic attitude in the Negro scholar. He states that "for every five dollars spent for public education in the State of Georgia, the white schools get four dollars and the Negro one dollar; and even the white public-school system, save in the cities, is bad and cries for reform. If this is true of the whites, what of the blacks?" (146) This accusation expresses the difficulty the Negro faces in trying to ...
- 1983: The Effects of Alcohol on People
- ... addictive. Alcohol is found and drank in many parts of the world including the United States. ( Pittman , page 1 ) Thirty five percent of wine cooler beverages are sold to and drank by middle and high school students. Between middle school students and high school students drink one point one billion cans of beer a year. Roughly over half of the United States traffic fatalities are alcohol related. Alcohol or alcohol related problems cost society over ninety billion dollars ...
- 1984: Babe Ruth
- ... only Ruth had the power in his arms. George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore in 1894, and grew up around his father's downtown Baltimore bar. He was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, but in 1914 left school to join a minor league baseball team, much to his father's dismay. Ruth started his minor league career with the Baltimore Orioles as a pitcher in the "Golden Age of Sport". With his talent ... Four years after he retired, marked twenty-five years since his professional pitching debut and Ruth was still a crowd pleaser. To mark the occasion Cobb and Ruth donned their uniforms at the Knox Girls' School gym. Cobb, keeping up his competitive spirit, put a note in Ruth's cleats saying "I can beat you any day in the week and twice on Sunday at the Scottish game". Tensions between ...
- 1985: Drugs Should Not be Legalized
- ... own without the help of their country. Legalizing drugs would have a devastating result that would affect society as a whole. "Audiences need to understand that 70% of drug users are employed, and that the school bus driver who drives your children to school could smoke marijuana, that the surgeon who operates on you may have cocaine in his system, and that the driver in back of you may be on speed. The debate needs to demonstrate graphically how ... American farmers earned from all crops combined. About 60% of the illegal drugs sold worldwide end up in the United States" (Grolier). The problems that society already faces with the unemployed, homeless, criminals, and high school drop-out rate will simply increase. What society would want such problems to escalate. The thought of how seriously this could impact our entire nation is both ridiculous and terrifying. I strongly believe that ...
- 1986: The Color Of Water - A Search For Identity
- ... McBride felt that his mother's color was hindering him, so he began his "own process of running, emotionally disconnecting [himself] from her" (138). Though he was previously an outstanding student, he dropped out of school and began his search for someone with whom he could identify. He joined a gang made up of black boys and participated in their criminal activities. Although he physically fit in with the gang, he ... to discover the religious aspect of her identity. Her family was extremely strict in its Jewish beliefs, and her father was an Orthodox rabbi. Because her father forced her to spend her time outside of school working at his store, she became lonely and unhappy. At school, the painful name-calling she received from the other students made her feel further separated from society. With the exception of Frances, she was friendless. Ruth was "starving for love and affection" (83). When ...
- 1987: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... United States are living in fatherless homes - this adds up to 19 million children without fathers. Compared to children in two parent family homes, these children will be twice as likely to drop out of school, twice as likely to have children out of wedlock, and they stand more than three times the chance of ending up in poverty, and almost ten times more likely to commit violent crime and ending ... doing the violent crimes are more impulsively violent and remorseless than ever. For instance, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham who sits on the Council on Crime in America, speaks of the frightening reality of elementary school kids who pack guns instead of lunches. Likewise, Dan Coburn, a former Superior Court Justice and Public Defender in New Jersey, recently wrote that "This new wrote horde from hell kills, maims, and terrorizes merely ... least one of his parents also has an arrest history. He has received long-term and continuing social services from as many as six different community service agencies, including family, youth, mental health, social services, school, juvenile, or police authorities, and continues to drain these resources for years before he is finally incarcerated as a career criminal. The typical SHO's family history follows a classic pattern of social pathologies: ...
- 1988: The Chosen
- ... of all the conflicts in the entire novel stem from the differences in family life which are brought on by the discrepancies of religious beliefs. Rueven, who is an Orthodox Jew, goes to a parochial school where Hebrew is taught instead of Yiddish (which would be considered the first Jewish language). Rueven's school is also very integrated with many English speaking classes. But on the other hand, Danny, who attends a yeshiva (also a Jewish school), considers himself a true Jew because he (unlike Rueven) wears the traditional side curls and is educated in Yiddish. At first the two boys cannot stand each other, many times Danny refers to Rueven ...
- 1989: Respect In Eveline and Teenage Wasteland
- ... that his parents did not respect him or even trust him. He became a disruptive student, his grades dropped, and began drinking at a young age because of these problems. He was moved to another school and his parents were still called to even more meetings with his teachers because he did not change his ways. Donny got sent to a tutor but got too much freedom and his grades dropped. In the end he got kicked out of school because he had some beer in his locker. Within a month of his expulsion he runs away from home never to return. "Eveline" and "Teenage Wasteland" ended very similarly. Neither of the two main characters ... anything. Donny ran away in the end of "Teenage Wasteland," and caused nothing but confusion to his parents, instead of gaining the respect that he wanted to gain. He never even finished with his high school education. Both of these stories were very creatively written. They both tackle the issue of growing up, no matter what age the character may be, and the lengths they will go to to gain ...
- 1990: Hacking
- ... eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world...Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers expain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid ... from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... you bet you ass we're all alike... we've been spoon- fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak.. the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that ...
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