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- 3451: Catcher in the Rye and Generation X: Holden and Andy
- ... does not want to accept any change in his life. He sees sex as a way that society is using to lure him into being like the people that he hates. At Pencey, his boarding school, he equates sex with perversion. He refers to his studly roommate, Stradlater as a "very sexy bastard" because of his interest in all things related to sex. And then when Holden is obsessing over the ... who represents (at least to Holden) sex and aggression. The connection between sex, death, and aggression all come together near the end of the novel when Holden visits his younger sister phoebe, at her elementary school. Holden sees a sign that someone has put up that says, "Fuck You." This phrase is so important to the novel because it represents, a very aggressive insult, and it is also a work that ...
- 3452: Pigeon Feather
- ... is almost Joycean, and he has often imitated Joyce in the almost mechanical way of someone doing an exercise in a creative-writing class: how his virtuosity must have charmed his writing teachers! His evident school-brightness and the first-class education it brought him provided every opportunity for the overdevelopment of his onomastic tendencies. They are most obvious in his verse ("Conceptually a blob,/ the knob/ is a smallish object ... in "Flight," remembering what looks like this same girl and his mother's jealousy of her, reconstructs a glowing world of details about his grandfather and grandmother (who turns up in several other stories), of school and classmates, of dances and debates. It is a meticulous, loving and beautiful re-creation, and Mr. Updike's mind probes it with the delicacy of a surgeon, seeking what makes it in memory seem ...
- 3453: Pied Beauty
- ... made me think of being outdoors, camping, on a picnic, or looking up at the sky. The poem also has a joyful tone. It also has a little religious insight. It is almost like a prayer, in that the poem gives praise to God, and celebrates his creations. There is much alliteration in this poem. In the second line, the "C" sound is repeated where the speaker says "of couple-color ... dappled, brinded, stipple, and more). The poem does not have a plot, or a setting, so I thought it would be very difficult to interpret. The poem seemed like a long description, or a long prayer. However, after I looked up the words in a dictionary, I began to understand what the speaker was talking about. I still did not like the poem, but at least I could understand it. Now ...
- 3454: Philistinism In England And America
- ... attain a certain level of righteousness. This may have been a good idea 2300 years ago, but today, I see it as very limiting and impractical. In his time, only the rich aristocrats went to school. It’s purpose was not for the students to learn skills or ideas that would help them later in life, but to expand their minds, thus making them into ‘better people.’ There was no need ... have a regular, day to day job, whether it be in an office, store, factory, or anywhere else. We have to earn our wealth by working, not inheritance. That is why most people go to school today. I am attending NYU so that I can get a job later in life. I study chemistry and engineering, in the hopes that I can become a chemical engineer. According to Plato, this is ...
- 3455: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- ... home was ordinary, but good in the sense that my parents were passionately interested in the future of my sister and myself. At the same time, they gave us a good education - not only in school, but at home as well (Gardiner, 1975, p.13). As a child, thrift and practicality were instilled in Margaret's character. The Methodist church played an active part in the lives of the Roberts. She ... chronically and traumatically frustrated, and that she went into politics for recognition and gratification. Fellow politicians were not enamored of Thatcher, especially after she ended a £8 million a year free milk program for primary school children while Secretary of State for Education. He says: the public subliminally sensed she was acting out the role of a depriving mother, as indeed she was, and reacted with fury. ‘Thatcher, milk snatcher' rang ...
- 3456: Steven Spielberg
- Steven Spielberg As a kid in Phoenix, Steven Spielberg charged admission to his home movies while his sister sold popcorn. Although Spielberg excelled at making movies he was not a good student. He hated school and was one of the most unathletic students there. His movie making career began at the age of twelve when his father bought a movie camera that Spielberg used all the time. Instead of doing his school work he was using the camera. While he was working with his mom and sister on his projects, his father helped him make miniature sets out of paper mache.He turned out his first production ...
- 3457: Lester Pearson
- ... born on April 23 1897, in Newtonbrooke Ontario (now part of Toronto). He died on December 27 1972. He was born the son of a Methodist parson. As a child he worked very hard in school, and he became one of the minority of high school graduates who went on to college. In his studies he went to Victoria College and the Methodist College inside the University of Toronto. In his free time he played hockey and baseball. He then became ...
- 3458: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Life
- ... As they flashback to the past and show him with his sons he is still the obsessive man that he is in the present, it’s just in the past his sons are successful in school. The Qualities Willy tries to instill in his kids are to be well liked, and have a strong mind for business. In the past he was a great dad, but that’s because his sons ... looking for but he is too proud or stubborn to take it. Charley is a business owner who had a son named Bernard. When Bernard was younger he was reserved or quiet, but good in school. Willy never thought Bernard would be successful because he wasn’t the most popular boy. Willy believed that being liked was the key to success, but in the end Willy learns Bernard is an attorney ...
- 3459: John Paul Stevens: Biography
- ... always knew he was going to make something of himself. He was always awfully smart....When John was six, he could play better bridge then most adults today>² Stevens attended the University of Chicago High School, and then later went to the University its self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered ... worked with a group assigned to break Japanese codes. for doing this, he was awarded the Bronze Star. After he returned to Chicago, (at the end of the war) he enrolled himself into Northwestern University School of Law to earn his J.D. degree, where he graduated first in his class. Not long after that, he was admitted into the Order of the Coif and the Phi Delta Phi law society ...
- 3460: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage Todd Gitlin grew up in Brooklyn in the 1950’s. He attended Bronx High School of Science and during his tenure, he won numerous scholarships and math awards. Todd Gitlin considered himself “studious and clean-cut”. After he graduated from high school, he attended Harvard University. During his sophomore year in 1960, he joined a Harvard-Radcliffe peace group called Tocsin. The group consisted of campus organizer-intellectuals who called themselves the “New Left”. In 1963, at ...
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