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- 3321: Bruce Lee
- ... his first movie at the age of six months, Bruce would go on to appear in over twenty films as a child actor. In his teen years, Bruce was a rebellious adolecent, his favorite after school activity beating up British boys, he began studing wing chun kung-fu under Yip Man in Hong Kong at the age of fifteen. At the age of 18 he was crowned cha-cha king of ... where all the kids are impossible". Arriving in San Fransisco with just one-hundred dollars in his pocket, he began washing dishes in a resteraunt in chinatown, but for unknown reasons, left to begin attending school at the university of Washington as a philosophy major. That's is where he met his future wife, Linda Lee. The only problem was, she was white and he was chinese. Back then interacial marriges ...
- 3322: Troublesome Farmhouse
- ... the 'Lion', "We have been waiting for you, but before you assume leadership you must complete the task of initiation to test if you are truly the chosen one. You must say The Lord's prayer backwards and renounce the name of God. To complete the initiation you must make love to a virgin and then sacrifice her to our master." She then said, "If you are the one we have ... his hands off her soft breasts, down her stomach and past her navel and between her legs. He then turned to the virgin woman tied to the floor and started to say The Lord's prayer backwards. Once he had renounced the name of God, the High Priestess returned to her position on the pentogram and they began chanting again. Louis kneeled, on his very painful knees, behind the door and ...
- 3323: William Shakespeare
- ... first period include The Comedy of Errors (1592), The Taming of the Shrew (1593), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594), and Love's Labour's Lost (1594). These plays we do not read much ins school, but they are studied extensively in college. Shakespeare's second period includes his most important history plays, his so-called joyous comedies, and two of his major tragedies. In this period, his style and approach ... Well That Ends Well (1602) and Measure for Measure (1604) both question accepted patterns of morality without offering solutions. These are Shakespeare’s more common plays as we read Othello and King lear in high school. Also Macbeth is one of the most famous books of all time, along with All’s well that End’s well. The fourth period of Shakespeare's work includes his principal romantic tragicomedies. Toward the ...
- 3324: Stress
- ... to married and never married at 57 percent, and 58 percent respectively. The widowed respondents maintain the least stress at 38 percent (Robinson, 1996). College graduate respondents possess more stress at 64 percent than high school graduates at 55 percent. Only 43 percent of the less than high school respondents felt stress in the workplace. Those with more education feel more stress, possibly because their jobs involve greater managerial and financial responsibility (Robinson, 1996). Stress is an epidemic in American life. In nationwide polls ...
- 3325: The Narrator and Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls to Control?
- ... the narrator is kicked out of college for making a decision on his own. The narrator's hard work earns him in being given the privilege of taking Mr. Norton, a White benefactor to the school, on a car ride around the college area. After much persuasion and against his better judgement, the narrator takes Mr. Norton to a run down Black neighborhood. Then he takes Mr. Norton to a bar and risks his health and life. When Dr. Bledsoe found out about the trip the narrator was kicked out of school because he showed Mr. Norton anything less than the ideal Black man. The next example in Invisible Man that implies the narrator and all black men have no control or say so in their lives ...
- 3326: Hands
- ... Anderson points out that society has alienated Biddlebaum through exclusion and violence. During his career as a teacher, Biddlebaum expressed himself "by the caress that was in his fingers." Tragically, "a halfwitted boy of the school became enamored of the young master. In his bed at night he imagined unspeakable things and went forth to tell his dreams as facts. Trembling lads were jerked out of bed and questioned," where the ... at fault, again, expresses society's exclusion of those who seem to be "quiet" or "peculiar." The author further addresses alienation from society through violence inflicted on Biddlebaum. "Calling Adolph Myers (Wing Biddlebaum) into the school yard [Henry Bradford] began to beat him with his fists." The narrator explores the horrible violence inflicted on Biddlebaum when he describes the angry mob throwing "balls of soft mud at the figure that screamed ...
- 3327: Cue For Treason
- ... Peter threw a rock at them. Fortunately when they shoot at Peter, they only nicked his hat. He was not hurt and returned safely home, but he had returned without his hat. That morning at school, Peter came across Sir Philip demanding to see him. He was on his afternoon break and he realized that his name was in the hat. This is how Peter finds himself in Penrith running away ... and innocence. You are more understanding and less ignorant to suggestions and criticism when you are mature. I think that not getting into much trouble was a good moral for this book. Most of high school students get into a lot of trouble these days, considering they do not have to. Trouble is not something you can avoid by thinking carefully about your actions and their possible consequences.
- 3328: Booker T. Washington 2
- ... his diploma. After graduation he taught at various schools and the founder of Hampton University was so impressed with his ability to educate that he made him the organizer and principal of a black trade school. He named it Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. While at Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington incorporated the idea of integrating blacks into society by teaching them skills needed to work. While at Tuskegee, blacks could learn such skills as carpentry, welding, fabrication, and agricultural qualities. The school was very popular among black, but also whites. Whites did not enroll, but they did not object to blacks learning trades. Money poured into the institution and Washington was considered the spokesperson for the black ...
- 3329: To Kill A Mockingbird-racial P
- ... pressure because he is defending Tom, but he is a strong man and won't stoop down to the other naïve resident's level. The pressure Jem and Scout get from the other kids at school is very different yet similar to the pressure Atticus receives. At school, the kids taunt Jem and Scout calling them and their father nigger-lovers and the kids just expect them to take it. Jem being the mature child of the family, ignores them, but Scout doesn ...
- 3330: Huck Fin 2
- ... simply the observer. Often, Twain uses the book and Huck¹s character to voice his own ideas about society. For example, he denounces organized religion in the opening chapters with the raid on the Sunday school picnic. He exposes slavery and an evil and show blacks to have feelings just like others, especially in the episode where Jim tells Huck about his daughter. Twain also shows an aversion to royalty with ... Tone Twain¹s tone in the story gives a humorous and informal mood but in much of the observations he makes on society, he is often critical. For example, during the raid on the Sunday school picnic, he shows a distaste for organized religion. He also shows a slight disrespect to the government during the incidents were Pap gets arrested. During the conversation with Jim and Huck, Twain also reveals his ...
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