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- 3341: Leslie Marmon Silko
- ... her. Storyteller The main character in this story is s young Eskimo woman. Her parents are dead so she is cared for by her grandmother and grandmother s boyfriend. While she is away at reform school her grandmother dies leaving her in the care of the man . This man was whom her grandmother lived with who the girl was not blood related. The man abuses her sexually and has for a ... that is supposed to keep them warm. The boarding schools take away the young people in the village and cause them to lose traditions and cultural traits. The young men who had been away at school forgot how to hunt the seals. Silko is saying that whites are destroying the Indian culture. Eskimo and Navajo are completely different cultures, which Silko describes and details beautifully. Yellow Woman This I would say ...
- 3342: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- ... must occur more frequently and severely than in others of the same age. Most of all, the behaviors must create a true handicap in at least 2 areas of the person's life (e.g. school, home, work, social settings). One of the difficulties in diagnosing ADHD is that it is usually accompanied by other problems. Many children who have ADHD also have a learning disability. This means that they have ... serious conduct disorders. Children with this disorder, in conjunction with ADHD, may be stubborn, have outbursts, and act belligerent or defiant. They may take unsafe risks and break laws -- ultimately getting them into trouble at school and with the police. Still, not all children with ADHD have an additional disorder. The same is true for people with learning disabilities, Tourette's syndrome, etc. They do not all have ADHD with their ...
- 3343: Culture Clash
- “Culture Clash” I am a born Vietnamese, and Chinese American. For more than a decade I have made many friends coming from diverse cultures. I recall one friend back in high school that demonstrated the importance of one’s own private culture, and language. From this experience with my friend, Hong, I realized that families who had a strong cultural, and language practice at home had a ... joyful, and happy. I stared to realize that embracing the English language, and culture somewhat blocked out our language, and cultural participation. In fact my parents worked on the Vietnamese New Year, and I attended school on those days. What made this sound worse was that my family celebrated the American New Year’s thru the roof. The American’s New Year was celebrated at my home. Our friends, and family ...
- 3344: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... France had annexed the island. He had 7 brothers and sisters, and his father was a lawyer whose family stemmed from the Florentine nobility. His original nationality was Cursican-Italian. In 1779 Napoleon went to school at Brienne in France. There he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as ... did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him. Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army ...
- 3345: To Kill A Mockingbird - The Ne
- ... there was injustice in the world. He slowly matures and begins to understand that there are such thing as prejudice and racism. Scout first learns to show compassion and tolerance by refusing to go to school because she hates Miss Caroline. Atticus tells her that, First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you ll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a ... story where Scout shows tolerance is when she gets into a fight with Cecil Jacobs because he tells Scout that her father defends niggers . Atticus says You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down (76). Atticus wants Scout to ignore the things that her classmates are saying about the ...
- 3346: The Mind, Music, and Behavior
- ... attainment of "significantly higher mean scores on examinations than those who were not exposed to the music." In addition, music can also be used to aid in the education of mentally handicapped students. In a school district in Prescott, Arizona, music was added to the academic environment of special education students. This resulted in an increase in performance, especially in the area of mathematics. Thus, it has been established that there ... Effects of Background Music on Anxiety, Satisfaction with Communication, and Productivity." Psychological Reports, 72, pp. 171-177. McLaughlin, T. F., and J. L. Helm. (1993). "Use of Contingent Music to Increase Academic Performance of Middle-School Students." Psychological Reports, 72, p. 658. Ogata, Shigeki. (1995). "Human EEG Responses to Classical Music and Simulated White Noise: Effects of a Musical Loudness Component on Consciousness." Perceptual Motor Skills, 80, pp. 779-790. Perrewe ...
- 3347: Illness
- ... it however. See if everyone just said they were sick everytime they did not want to complete an assignment it would get out of hand. People would just make up excuses not to come to school. That is not right and the assignment is due on the day assigned. No ifs ands or buts. Illness not only takes your concentration and does crazy things to it. It also takes away your will to do the tasks on hand. you know your paper is due, and that you must get it to school somehow, but yet you do not want to do it and only want to curse the teacher that gave it to you. Of course people will say that I could have written a good three ...
- 3348: The Tempest - Bringing It All Together
- ... his] bands with the help of your good hands." In other words, clap so that the sails of the boats his friends are riding in will be safely returned and Prospero can be "relieved by prayer" of the audience. All of what Prospero has said is very nice cute, but the most interesting part of this monologue is what Shakespeare himself is saying. "Now that my charms are all o'erthrown ... the play is over, Shakespeare could not allow his final play to be bad, his project "was to please." He reiterates this point by saying "and my ending is despair unless I be relieved by prayer", or the clapping of the audience and it frees "all faults" and allows Shakespeare to indulge the clapping and joy of the audience. Finally, after we seperate the two different perspectives, we can step back ...
- 3349: Charles Dickens
- ... life. He was the son of a clerk who was imprisoned for debt. Even when his father was free, there was not enough money to support the family adequately. So Charles was taken out of school at the age of 12 to go to work in a factory pasting labels on bottles. He only had the job for a few months, but the shock affected him deeply. The images of prison life and of mistreated or lost children appeared in many of his novels. Charles attended school off and on until the age of 15 when he left for good. He loved reading and was influenced by some of the early English writers like William Shakespeare. But most of his knowledge that ...
- 3350: Mother Teresa
- ... is where she took the name of Sister Teresa, after Saint Teresa of Lisieux, who also found her vocation while still a child. As a nun, Mother Teresa began teaching at St. Mary's high school in Calcutta. After a few years of teaching she became principal of the school. Mother Teresa had a special place in her heart for children, and she showed it her actions. In 1982, during a the siege of Bierut, she convinced the Israeli army and Palestinian guerillas to stop ...
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