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- 2101: Beloved 2
- ... that her show of mercy is also murder. Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the duplistic nature of her actions. Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. I wasn't going back there[Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead"(Morrison 42). Sethe's words suggest that she has made a moral stand by her refusal to ... saying is that's a selfish pleasure I never had before. I couldn't let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn't let her or any of em live under School Teacher. That was out"(163). Sethe's love for her children is apparent, yet she still shifts the burden of responsibility away from herself. She acknowledges that it was a "selfish pleasure" to make something ... was clean.(251) Sethe's words suggest that the only part of herself that she cares for is her children. Indeed, the only reason that she killed her daughter is because Sethe refused to let School Teacher or any other white person "dirty" her children as Sethe herself had been dirtied. Sethe's nobility, however irrationally predicated, is apparent. She loves her children to much to let them be tarnished ...
- 2102: With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
- ... That is to say he may be a lowly tutor, but he care's about justice and the atrocities committed by the "high-born" class. I, through faults of my own and Injustices of my school's administration, also was limited, as Alexei was as to what people thought of me and how they treated me. Alexei was torn between his love of gambling and his love of a woman who ... feel is coming. It's so frustrating knowing all these things and not being able to change them, or at least feeling as though you can't change them. In my junior year in high school, I took up a personal crusade against what I called the evil administration at my school. I repeatedly got in trouble for things I deemed acceptable but were still "against the rules." For instance, one morning I decided that I didn't want to salute the flag. I was sent ...
- 2103: Aristotles Life
- ... in Stagira, and both of his parents died when he was a boy. His legal guardian named Proxenus raised him (World Book 663). At the age of 18 years of age, Aristotle entered Plato s school in Athens called the Academy. When Plato died in 347 BC, Aristotle left the Academy to live with some of Plato s disciples who were living with Hermeias. In 334 BC, he returned to Athens and founded a school called the Lyceum (World Book 663). His school, philosophy, and his followers were called peripatetic, which is Greek for walking. The reason for this name was because Aristotle did most of his teaching while he was walking with his students. After Alexander ...
- 2104: Freedom of Speech
- ... of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans. Freedom of speech is honestly being challenged as is evidenced in a recent court case where a Gloucester County school district censored reviews of two R-rated movies from a school newspaper. Superior Court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students' rights because it limits editorialcontrol of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. One of the more controversial issues was the recent 2 Live Crew incident involving obscenity in rap music. Their record, "As ...
- 2105: The New Initiatives of George W. Bush
- ... tutors or private schools if the formerly mentioned circumstance occurs (Bush and McCain on the Issues, 2). Bush has also established the fact that he believes government must be ...wise enough to give states and school districts more authority and freedom. And it must be strong enough to require proven performance in return. (The True Goal of Education, 1) Bush would like to hold states and districts receiving federal School Safety funds accountable for measuring and demonstrating proven safety. (On The Issues, 2) Furthermore, Bush would withdraw federal subsidy to schools which do not corroborate safety, thus demonstrating the federal government s capacity to require ... commission for teachers, and where Bush has called for broadening the Education Departments scope, McCain wants to trim budget and give cash to the states. The two contenders agree on national testing standards (oppose), school vouchers (just not how they are funded), education savings accounts (support), charter schools (support), and local control (support). (Education Comparison Results, 1) Therefore, the candidate you prefer rests on whether or not you prefer ...
- 2106: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read ... loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories. In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the football team at Oak Park High School. As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and studied English with a fervor. He contributed articles to the weekly school newspaper. It seems that the principal did not approve of Ernest's writings and he complained, often, about the content of Ernest's articles. Ernest was clear about his writing; he wanted people to " ...
- 2107: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- ... the education arena. From pre-schoolers to college students, learning adapting to this multimedia craze was not hard to do. Teachers and Professors alike share in this technology to plan out their curricular schedules and school calendar. Most will agree that classroom computers seem to have a positive effect on students of the 90's. As schools and universities become more technology driven, there will be an even bigger plea for ... the number of computers used in U.S. elementary and secondary schools increased from under 100,000 to over 2.5 million. A majority of students now use computers and computer software sometime during the school-year, either to learn about computers or as a tool for learning other subjects. By the end of the decade, the typical school had 1 computer per 20 students, a ration that computer educators feel is still not high enough to affect classroom learning as much as books and classroom conversion do.
- 2108: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... Manchester, England in early 1917. (Stinson 1). Both of Burgess's parents were members of the theatric arts: His father was a pianist, his mother was a musical actress. Burgess went to a Catholic elementary school, and was one of the many victims of the "iron discipline and largely rote memorization" (Stinson 2) typical in such schools of the time. Burgess attended Xaverian College, and later moved on to the inexpensive ... discharged with the rank of sergeant-major. Burgess found himself employed in several different jobs, and living in several different countries in the years that followed. In 1948 he became English Master at a grammar school in Banbury, near Oxford. During his time in Banbury, Burgess wrote occasionally, but saw writing as a time consuming process that took away from his composing. It was around this time of transition that Burgess ... these influences of Burgess's life on A Clockwork Orange, Burgess's love of music, and its effect on his writing are perhaps the most evident. As mentioned earlier, Burgess originally wanted to go to school for music, but he was not accepted due to the fact that he had failed physics (Stinson 6). This minor set back did not, however, keep Burgess from learning how to play the piano ...
- 2109: Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also
- ... cello lessons, however the musical knowledge he acquired from his mother helped him share in his first wife Hadley's interest in the piano (1). Hemingway received his formal schooling in the Oak Park public school system. In high school he was mediocre at sports, playing football, swimming, water basketball and serving as the track team manager (1). He also worked on the school newspaper called the Trapeze. Hemingway graduated in the spring of 1917 and instead of going to college the following fall like his parents expected, he took a job as a reporter for the Kansas ...
- 2110: Substance Abuse Increasing in Inner-City Minorities
- ... just almost anybody I come across. If I don't get my shit for a while I start shaking. It's like food for me. I need it to survive. Me: Did you finish high school? T.J: Naw kid, like five months after I hit the pipe I dropped out. Me: What are you trying to do about you problem? T.J: Well right now I'm in Detox. I ... s party. This is twice as good as beer, I thought. It seemed every new drug I tried I like better then the last one. I started tripping on acid when I get home from school. Then my friend's brother stole a tank of laughing gas. I loved it. Me: Did you ever try cocaine? Molly: I do coke every once and a while. But not half as much as ... But you don't see people passing out coke. If they did, I'd do it. These two people are very different ones black, ones white, ones a man , ones a woman, ones a high school drop out, the others enrolled in a state university. They probably have only have three common traits, they are human beings, Americans and drug abusers. Inner-city minorities are treated very differently when it ...
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