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- 2291: 1984: The Party Has Many Slogans
- ... a voice from the telescreen. An exercise instructor on the screen leads the people in stretches and exercises, called the Physical Jerks. After dressing, etc., the adults go to work while the children go to school. Lunch is in the middle of the day. There are periodic two minute hates to arouse the people's anger and excitement. After work, there are social gatherings at the community centers and then everyone ... is a machine. It has no feelings. The name, versificator, comes from the word versicle. A versicle is a verse that is chanted by a priest and responded to by his congregation. This is a prayer with a lot of emotion. Second, the songs, despite being mechanically produced, have an emotional feminine undertone (Weatherly 82). This side is related to the mother figure of the family unit that the Party is ...
- 2292: Jane Eyre 2
- ... The book takes place in the mid 1800 s. Jane lives in five different places which greatly affect her life. The first place Jane stays is Gateshead Hall. She then goes to live at Lowood School. From Lowood Jane proceeds on to Thornfield Hall. She then advances on to Moor House. Finally, Jane reaches her final home at Ferndean. All of this happens within two decades and the novel is told ... became terrified and thought she saw or heard the flapping of wings. The treatment Jane received caused her to become bitter and to truly dislike Mrs. Reed. Jane then goes on to live at Lowood School. While at Lowood Jane meets a young girl named Helen Burns. Helen taught Jane many things about life and religion. Jane recalls a time when Helen was scolded for not cleaning her nails or washing ... Lowood. Helen tells her no because she was sent to get an education. This shows how mature, intelligent, and religious Helen is and how she tries to teach Jane this. Mr. Brocklehurst was visiting the school one day, and during his visit he criticized and scolded Miss. Temple for feeding the children extra food. During his tirade Jane dropped her slate and immediately was called up by Mr. Brocklehurst. Mr. ...
- 2293: Catcher In the Rye: The Quest For Love
- ... fake maturity. That is why he seeks to find adolescents, to catch them from falling into the kind of fake maturity that they are destined for. He seeks children, free of impurities. At Phoebe's school, "....I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'Fuck You' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other kids would see it, and how ... Holden's life that pushes him over the cliff of realization, giving him a new light of seeing the many contours of his life. This theme was suggested in an earlier passage in Phoebe's school, Holden's old school, where there is a certain profanity that is unacceptible to younger children. Holden tries desperately to rub off the word, and eventually succeeds in doing so. However, this leads him to an insignificant realization ...
- 2294: Gap Between Rich And Poor
- ... with a set of routines and traditions that encompass most of their waking hours” (p.83). The students graduate feeling separate and superior over those outside of the upper class community. One alumnus stated, “At school, we were made to feel somewhat better [than other people] because of our class”. There is more funding through parental and alumni support, therefore private schools are able to offer a wider variety of classes ... tools in a comfortable learning environment. The schools in the poor neighborhoods are unable to provide for their students in any of these ways. One student described how she had to take a shower after school to remove the plaster from her hair. Kozol asked a principal what he considered helped in making a good school. His reply was, “ The building and teachers are part of it, of course. But it isn’t just the building and the teachers. Our kids come from good families and the neighborhoods are good” ( ...
- 2295: Peyton Place
- ... corrupt young minds. Wealthy communities banished Peyton Place. To read Peyton Place was to read it in secret and were sometimes discussed only among the closest of friends. Everyone was reading it - college and high school students, college graduates, mothers, wives, and even husbands and fathers. In 1956, a sexual act such as sodomy, oral sex, and intercourse with another married person in most states was illegal. Also, abortion was illegal ... As a child, Allison was always teased about being childish, and not interested in boys, and always into books. But as she grew up she was full of conflicting sexual emotions, and after graduating high school, she left Peyton Place to pursue a writing career in New York. Connie Mackenzie, to her neighbors, was a beautiful, young, widow that owned her own thrift store. Many eligible bachelors Everyone had a desire for her and wished to have her, until Thomas Makris, a teacher from New York City arrives into town to take the job of headmaster at the Peyton Place grade school. Thomas pursues Connie and terrified that he knows her secret, she avoids him. He shows up at her house one night and persuades her to a date, which leads to him raping her. They ...
- 2296: Identity Crisis Of Enkidu And
- ... in many respects. On the broad level, one possible explanation for this is the idea of social conditioning. “…children learn of the association of aggression, say, with masculinity from the fact that parents and nursery school teachers treat boys more roughly and boisterously than girls, and from their experience in nursery school, for instance, that the boys tend to be more often involved than the girls in rough-and-tumble and aggressive interaction.” (Sayers 24). Although Enkidu did not attend a nursery school, he was raised in the wild, and in the wild it is often true that many wild animals have different definitions of gender roles, such as females hunting ad males watching the young in ...
- 2297: Beloved
- ... 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 ...
- 2298: Beloved: Sethe's Character
- ... that her show of mercy is also murder. Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the stubburn 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 stand by her refusal to allow ... 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 ...
- 2299: Margaret Thatcher
- ... what she wanted to do with her life. The British education system required young people at that age to choose between two totally separate curriculums which they would follow for the remainder of their secondary school career. One was an arts and humanities course, and the other was science. Margaret had little trouble making up her mind. Though she had always been interested in politics, the idea of a political career ... children changed Mrs. Thatcher's life somewhat, but not nearly as much as it did many women of that time. She decided not to seek elective office again until the twins were old enough for school. But, with the help of a nanny, she continued to work, and just four months after they were born, she passed her final and was called to the bar. When her children were at the age to go to school Margaret Thatcher decided to return to politics. She "decided to restrict her search for a constituency to the London area, the metropolis itself and the immediately surrounding counties. Her reasoning was simple: if she ...
- 2300: Is Jesus A Socialist - The Jun
- ... known as the Court of Gentiles, and was angered by the usury and the exploitation of the temple [money changers, vendors] to earn money: “It is written…‘My house will be called a house of prayer’, but you are making it a ‘den of robbers’” (Matthew 21: 13). By doing this he angered the Sadducees, who were of holy lineage which took positions as high priests. He offended the Pharisees by ... man for the Sabbath,” which means that the Sabbath is flexible not just a “day of rest” (Mark 2:27). Jesus tried to show people, not only Jews, the way of God, not a new school politics. Jesus, the “Son of Man,” did not try to appeal to any particular class, but tried to make it known to people that God can accept them. Many times over he feasted with the ...
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