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- 2331: Scarlet Letter Chapter Summari
- ... noon. Then he cries out a blessing that in the "righteous" Massachusetts Bay Colony sin is "dragged out into the sunshine." Hester, followed by a crowd of "stern-browed men," "unkindly visaged women," and "curious school-boys," begins the walk from the jail to the market-place. Through her manner seems proud, she is in agony, as if her heart were being tramped on by the accusing Puritans. She finally arrives ... to her past in Europe, as she pictures "scenes" and faces much contrasted with the rough town streets and inhabitants of the Boston colony. She reviews happenings from her infancy, as well as from her school days. Also, recollections of things of more recent years fly through her mind like events in a "play." Because she tries to lose herself in memories of the past, she is able to endure the ...
- 2332: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... not provide the luxury of spiritual affirmation. He grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon to working class- parents in a alcoholic home where reading material was limited to Zane Gray novels, and the newspaper. Following high school, Carver married his pregnant high school sweet hart. His drinking became heavier. A list of meaningless jobs followed , in which writing only provided a emotional outlet. During this time, Carver's hard life may have instigated the disjunction he portrayed in ...
- 2333: Sports And Society
- ... between Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma fans from both sides were extremely rude and obnoxious towards each other. "Schools should support one another... and fans should support their team and represent their school with class (Cudd, Campus' Voice). The behavior at these events is unacceptable and needs to stop. In England rowdy fans were arrested after a soccer game. These English hooligans attacked a British journalist and two ... another match, France actually had to enforce an emergency legislation that expelled some English supporters to prevent insubordinate and unlawful behavior (Balmer, Reuters). Improper behavior is also a problem at youth events. "On the high school level and in the youth recreation leagues, many spectators... are prime examples of unbecoming behavior" (Quesenberry, Blare County Messenger). Parents and other relatives go to the youth events and behave like uneducated hoodlums; they curse ...
- 2334: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... England, many opted to move to the New World to seek their religious freedom. By 1640 the Massachusetts Bay Colony had about 10,000 settlers. The colonists built churches, where they gathered in song and prayer to receive moral instruction. Their churches not only were places of worship, they doubled as the seat of Puritan colonial government. At church, men gathered to vote, elect officials, debate laws, write charters, and consider ... the Putnum family. They all became members of the secret circle, but none of them could keep a secret."9 Guilt began to set in on Betty Parris. She began to act strangely at evening prayer and rather than reciting her prayers with her family she would speak gibberish. Only Tituba could recognize the words as a chant from her native West Indian tongue. Betty's fit spread like wildfire to ...
- 2335: Nelson Manndela
- ... stories of his ancestors struggles during the wars of resistance gave him dreams of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people (Ngubane). After receiving a primary education at a local mission school, Nelson Mandela was sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a ...
- 2336: Rude Strength
- ... own voice: I have something of a rude strength of my own. The first member of my family to go to college, let alone pursue a graduate degree, the language I brought with me to school was not quite the typical language of the academy. It was the piecemeal language of immigrants, of the tavern, of the factories and warehouses where I worked before becoming a student. When I went to ... said one morning in class, in all seriousness, that people from blue-collar backgrounds could never succeed in the academy because, as children, they were not taught to value learning. I dropped out of graduate school after I heard that comment, which made me more aware than I ever had been of the difference between my fellow students and me not just my speech, but my clothes, my posture, everything about ...
- 2337: Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
- ... poet (Derleth 14), but most of all he wanted to live with freedom to think and act as he wished. Immediately after graduation from Harvard, Henry David applied for a teaching position at the public school in Concord and was accepted. However, he refused to flog children as punishment. He opted instead to deliver moral lectures. This was looked down upon by the community, and a committee was asked to review the situation. They decided that the lectures were not ample punishment, so they ordered Thoreau to flog recalcitrant students. With utter contempt he lined up six children after school that day, flogged them, and handed in his resignation, because he felt that physical punishment should have no part in education (Derleth 15). In 1837 Henry David began to write his Journal (16). It started ...
- 2338: The Bluest Eye 2
- ... the actual story but there is also an omniscient narrator who tells us about the character's lives. The book starts in the fall of 1940 and Claudia and Frieda have just gone back to school. Their family is having some troubles paying the bills so they rent a room out to Mr. Henry but then find out that they will have another guest soon because Pecola Breedlove is going to ... of all the other students and teachers. Claudia, Frieda and Maureen are walking home together, even though Claudia and Frieda don't like her, when they see Pecola getting harassed by some boys in the school yard and they rescue her. Maureen tries to befriend Pecola but only to torture her some more. Frieda stands up for Pecola but then Maureen makes a comment on how the girls are black and ...
- 2339: Elduc In 2000
- ... more modern than the monograms Marie used. Now, Eliduc is called Eli, Guildeluec is Gail and Guilliadun is Jill. Here is how the story goes in 2000. Eli and Gail were together all through high school. They eventually got married because their love had grown into a bond of true friendship and love. The two-shared happiness but Eli would focus the majority of his time on his career. Gail accepted ... asked if Eli was there. The dispatcher asked if Jill was a friend of his wife. Jill stopped short and said, "his what?" Dispatcher says, "yeah hes been married for quite a while, high school sweethearts, I think." Jill continued to act as if nothing was wrong but the tears started to role down her cheek and she ran out. Now Jill didnt know what to do. She still ...
- 2340: Fuch's "The American Way of Families": Is the Dream Really as Sweet as Apple Pie?
- ... ask, "Hey, what's Johnny and Sally up to theses days?" Quite to the contrary, most parents want to be able to tell their friends straight in the eye that their kid is going to school to learn to be a doctor just like them. When Fuch mentioned in his piece, "In America a new kind of family system emerged, based on the search of individual members for personal independence.", I ... Henry David Thoreau and their respective contributions to the mannerisms of the modern American family. Personally, I am only familiar with the little portions of these poet's works that I was fed in high school. I questioned my parents of these men's influence on their parenting and they were aware of none. Then, I asked myself, "How does my family play into the "American Way of Families"?" It is ...
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