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- 3001: Puritans And Witches - Natural
- ... s first responsibility was to serve God. The Bible was a Puritan's road map toward that duty. While Puritans respected authority, they did not revere tradition or ritual. Their churches were plain and unadorned. Prayer and listening to sermons were constant companions to the righteous Puritan. The family was a homage to God. A man's gift to God was a happy, prayerful family centered within the church. A Puritan ... any clear-thinking Puritan knew in his heart that he was not a perfect person. So, then, how to atone? Good deeds were looked upon with suspicion by the clergy and other citizens. Quiet, desperate prayer seemed the only hope for one's soul. A wrathful God and man's shaky grip on salvation were most often the themes of sermons in Puritan worship services. Indeed, the Devil was on the ...
- 3002: Africa 2
- ... in common, but now there are many differences. People's work and standards of living vary not only according to where they live but also according to the opportunities they have had to go to school, to better themselves, and to find better jobs. As these changes occur, the people learn to identify with many different groups, not just their geographic roots. Thus, Africans, like other peoples, have many loyalties: to their family, neighborhood, school, social class, state, and nation. People in the large cities share a way of life and cultures similar to those of urban people in other parts of the world. Although nearly 70 percent of the ...
- 3003: All Quiet on the Western Front: "The Cause of Death"
- ... because someone called them the enemy. The main character is Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old man who is swept into the war, along with his friends, not one day before he is out of school. They are sent to the front to "protect the fatherland" or Germany as it is called. Paul and his friends go from this idealistic opinion to disillusionment throughout the book as they discover the truth ... change from idealism to disillusionment, the loss of Paul's friends, and especially the loss of Paul's innocence. The change from idealism to disillusionment is really the driving force behind the novel. From young school boys, listening to their schoolmaster asking "Won't you join up comrades?"(11) to "weary, broken"(294) men, idealism and disillusionment play a major role on Paul's decisions and thoughts. For example, on the ...
- 3004: Salzman's "Iron and Silk": Losing Face
- ... The students told him he would receive a reward if he brought it to the Rat Collection Office. The office denied Mark the five cent reward sole on the fact he was a foreigner. The school denied there was a rat problem, so giving Mark the money would simply be admitting to the rat problem. The school would loose face and so would the guards at the collection office. It is amazing how far people will go in order not to admit their wrong. In Salzman's book he shows Chinese culture ...
- 3005: A Couple of Frosted Poems
- ... Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco. When he was eleven years old his father died, and he relocated to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where his grandparents lived. In 1892, he graduated from Lawrence High School and shared valedictorian with honors with Elinor White, whom he married just three years later. After graduation, Frost attended Dartmouth College, taught in a grade school, worked in a mill, and served as a newspaper report. He published a book of poetry at his own expense. In 1897 Frost entered Harvard University as a special student, but left before receiving a ...
- 3006: Charles Dickens Hard Times And
- ... what drop in the social ocean shall be free!" Dickens' has a more exact view of the educational system from a speech on November 5, 1857 he states, "I don't like that sort of school - and I have seen a great many of these latter times - where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged,. . . . . where I have never seen among pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and ... not aware of such a system being in operation anywhere in England. They believed that there might have been too great a part of the studies dedicated to mythology, literature, and history. "In almost every school in the kingdom passages of our finest poets are learned by heart; and Shakespeare and Walter Scott were among the Penates." It was their opinion that schools such as the one that Gradgrind governed were ...
- 3007: Alchemy
- ... art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the Alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was brought to Morocco and thus in the eighth century to Spain, where it flourished exceedingly. Indeed, Spain from the ninth to the eleventh century became the repository of ... On the introduction of chemistry as a practical art, alchemical science fell into desuetude and disrepute, owing chiefly to the number of charlatans practicing it, and by the beginning of the eighteenth century, as a school, it may be said to have become defunct. Here and there, however, a solitary student of the art lingered, and in the department of this article "Modern Alchemy" will demonstrate that the science has to ...
- 3008: T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
- ... shadow of this land. Yet the shadow is more than fear: it concentrates the valley of shadow into a shape of horror, almost a personification of its negative character. The passage from the Lord's Prayer relates the Shadow to religion, with irony in the attribution. Next the response about the length of life relates it to the burden of life. Lastly the Lord's Prayer again relates the Shadow to the Kingdom that is so hard. This repetition follows the conflict of the series that produces life itself, frustrating the essence from descent to being. This is the essential irony ...
- 3009: Romantic Sonnet
- ... whose lives, ideally, should be the most simple. Also included in this simplicity are the innocence of the children and the simplicity of the tone, metaphors, and images in the works. In Blake's "The School Boy," the character of the poem is a young boy whose joy in life should be rising on a summer morning when the birds are singing and when he, in his happiness, can sing with them. Here, there is simplicity in the pleasure of the child and also in the life of the child himself. The boy's biggest problem in his life is having to go to school and having to curb his "youthful spring," which Blake compares to the cutting of a plant's blossoms (l. 20). In this poem, the simplicity and the innocence are not only key factors, but they ...
- 3010: Helen Keller
- ... for the Blind in Boston in 1888 to provide Helen with a more formal education. Helen and Miss Sullivan moved to New York in 1894 in order for Helen to study at the Wright Humason School for the deaf. Anne raised money so that her student could attend the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. In 1896, Helen began her studies at Cambridge which included French, Greek, literature, mathematics, geography, and history. She then went on to attend Radcliffe College in 1980. In 1904, she graduated cum ...
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