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- 2021: Emily Dickenson
- ... had a greater impact and seriousness to an audience from the period Dickinson lived in. Dickinson was raised in a strict Calvinist household and received most of her education in her youth at a boarding school. In this short, witty piece Dickinson addresses two of the main obsessions of her generation: The pursuit of empirical knowledge through science, faith in an all-knowing, all-powerful Christian god and the debate on ... Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989. Loving, Jerome. Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986. Oberhaus, Dorothy Huff. "’Engine Against th’ Almightie’: Emily Dickinson and Prayer." ESQ: A Journal of American Renaissance 32 (3rd quarter 1986) 118-19, 121.
- 2022: US History
- ... replied, ¡° The interest of the United States citizens are in no way threatened by the present situation ... which the Ministry hastens to point out is a purely internal affair¡±(Musicant 374). The Chancellor of the school, Charles Modica, was announcing that the students were in no danger, and that the school was expected to continue to have good relations with the ¡°Government¡± (Weinberger 108). This display of good will coincided with the report Margaret Thatcher, Britian¡¯s Prime Minister, received from the Deputy High Commissioner in ... In fact, eight days after the murder of Bishop, no incident involving an American had arisen. The idea doesn¡¯t even make sense considering that one of the island main sources of income was the school and tourism. Tourism, was the answer given by Grenada to the questions of our State Department who asked what the air strip being constructed was to be used for. They did not; however, believe ...
- 2023: Catcher In The Rye - Character
- ... and his idiomatic style, which helped to re-introduce the common idiom to American literature. While the young protagonists of Salinger's stories (such as Holden Caulfield) have made him a longtime favorite of high school and university audiences, establishing Salinger as "the spokesman for the goals and values for a generation of youth during the 1950's" (qtd. in Davis 317), The Catcher in the Rye has been banned continually ... And he knows how to write about kids. This book, though, it's too long. Gets kinds of monotonous. And he should have cut out a lot about these jerks and all at that crumby school. They depress me. They really do. Salinger, he's best with real children. I mean the ones like Phoebe, his kid sister. She's a personality. Holden and little Phoebe, Hel said, they kill me ... fantasy and live forms" (3).Generally, critics view the novel as Holden Caulfield's melodramatic struggle to survive in the adult world, a transition that he was supposed to make during his years at preparatory school. Some critics will point to the fact that Holden has flunked out of three Pennsylvania prep schools, and use it to symbolize the fact that he is not truly ready for adulthood (Davis 318). ...
- 2024: Its A Right Handed World
- ... handed people are much more serious than most people realize. There are many things that right-handed people take for granted that are more difficult for left-handers. This includes many basic skills taught in school, such as learning to write, learning to use scissors, and learning various crafts, hobbies, sports, and other activities. If we don't teach left-handed children just as well as we teach right-handers, they are more likely to lose interest in school and to lose confidence in themselves. It is not exactly clear how all left-handers fare in our society, but indications are that many are not doing well. Studies show a higher dropout rate for ... bitter memories about the way their parents and teachers treated them. Younger left-handers have had an easier time of things, but they still have many complaints and frustrations. How would this world, or this school, be different if left-handed people were a majority? First of all, a right-handed person might be writing an article like this complaining about the injustices towards the right-handed. Binders would open ...
- 2025: JFK Assasination
- ... on Main Street and then made a right on Houston. The motorcade went one block and then made a left-turn on Elm. On the corner of Elm and Houston was the large, ominous Texas School Book Depository, where the fatal shots were later accused of being fired from. When the President’s car turned west on Elm and crossed the Depository, three shots were fired at the motorcade. The President ... the President. The 880-page report was submitted to President Johnson on September 24, 1964. The commission concluded that the three shots that killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired from the Texas School Board Depository. It also concluded that the bullet that pierced the throat of the President hit and wounded the Governor, as well. The report implies that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin based on the fact that he was seen carrying the rifle into the Texas School Book Depository and the rifle used to kill Kennedy was owned by Oswald. Also, the shots were fired from a window where Oswald had been seen standing in at the time of the murder. ...
- 2026: Educating Rita
- ... in her life, and is not seduced by him. "Tch – be serious…" This point opposes the true love story, in which both characters would fall desperately in love, and the play. When Rita leaves to school for summer, they both write to each other very often. Frank is glad for her that she is learning so much and making a great deal of progress. When Rita returns, she has changed immensely ... her. She is asked to go to Europe with a couple of them, and Frank becomes a bit envious. "You can’t go – you’ve got your exams." Once she has returned from her summer school, their relationship does not seem to be as close as it was previously. In a love story, the lovers stay together as much as possible. In this case, the Rita seems to have a liking ... the hope that it’ll make you feel like a poet you might be able to talk about things that matter instead of where I do or don’t work…" Since she has attended the school, she has learned a great deal of life and about herself. Frank shows a large amount of fondness for Rita as well. Rita has a very important exam that is soon to take place. ...
- 2027: Willem De Kooning
- ... a beer distributor and his mother ran a bar. At the age of twelve he became an apprentice at a commercial design and decorating firm. He studied for eight years at Rotterdam's leading art school. In 1926, de Kooning secured a passage on a streamer to the United States, illegally entering and settling in New Jersey. He quickly moved to Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New ... fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York. Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in Europe and one in America. He combined ... art. There was not mere criticism by critics, who even hired some neurologists to back up their claim for faulty paintings. A lot was written to acknowledge and criticize the originator of the Abstract Expressionist School. The exhibition at San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art drew paintings from private and public collections. Most of the observers and curators called it the most fluid, sensual and celebratory works created in the ...
- 2028: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and progressively becomes more individualistic as he grows. Though reared in a Catholic school, several key events lead Stephen to throw off the yoke of conformity and choose his own life, the life of an artist. Religion is central to the life of Stephen Dedalus the child. He was ... to raise him to be a good Catholic man, is evidenced by statements such as, "Pull out his eyes/ Apologise/ Apologise/ Pull out his eyes." This strict conformity shapes Stephen's life early in boarding school. Even as he is following the precepts of his Catholic school, however, a disillusionment becomes evident in his thoughts. The priests, originally above criticism or doubt in Stephen's mind, become symbols of intolerance. Chief to these thoughts is Father Dolan, whose statements such as, " ...
- 2029: Preparing The Educational Syst
- ... sole domain of the friction-zone residents. What I mean is the inevitable pressures our children were exposed to via the media s description of the events, public mobilization exercises, Civil Defense exercises in the school, lethal terrorist activities, security checks at the entrances of amusement parks, the father s departure for reserve service, conversations of adults in their vicinity, etc. Besides the threat in the form of physical strength in ... non-bombarded kibbutz, and in a catharsis of stress situations that is enabled by discussions on the subject between the adults and the kids. From here stems the need for enforcing the level of the school s level of organization, in improving the readiness of the educational staff in dealing with the predicted difficulties. As well as in insuring the readiness of the team itself in dealing with stress situations. The ... Nord Pub., Haifa. Eilon, A., Lahad, M. (1990). Children in the Shelter, The Remainder Citizen Defense Journal, and HagMa r 5, the Ministry of Defense, pp. 50-52. Binyamini, K. (1975). Emergency Psychological Help for School, Opinion 5, pp. 5-13. Granot, C., Brander, M. (1987). Community Services in a state of Emergency, the Matnasim Society, Jerusalem. Lahad, M. (1981). Program for Preparation of teachers and Students for States of ...
- 2030: HRM - Ever Evoloving
- ... increasing number of single parent homes. Single parent homes have grown from 12% in 1970 to 49.8 % in 1995. (10) As the sole burden of child rearing is placed on a worker, childcare arrangements, school obligations, and childhood illnesses are far more likely to interfere with attendance and productivity. Another social phenomenon, which strains workers and, in turn, disrupts the workplace, is increasing longevity. As the population grows older the ... Motivation Techniques," Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, vol. 15 no.2 April 1976 111 17. Dessler, 323-338 18. Beer, et al, 165-167 19. Tushman and O'Reilly, Winning Through Innovation, (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997) 299 Biblography Primary Sources Collected Documents Nybor, Jan. Navy Times, 14 Sept. 1994 Pritchard, DeLao, Von Bergen, "A Feild Test of Expectancy - Valence Incentive Motivation Techniques," Organizational Behavior and Human Performance vol.15 ... Prentice Hall, 1988 Kalleberg, R.P. Social Perspectives on Labor Markets, New York: Academic Press, 1991 Vroom, Victor H. Work and Motivation, New York: Wiley, 1964 Tushman & O'Rielly, Winning Through Innovation, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997
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