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- 6161: Ceremony
- ... then" (Silko 2). For example, one day Josiah found a bunch of dead flies in the house and confronted Tayo about it. Josiah asked why he did it and Tayo replied that the teacher at school said flies are bad because they carry sickness and disease. The white teachers had taught him something against his culture because Indians are supposed to respect all life forms on the earth. Josiah told him ...
- 6162: Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caulfield
- ... the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. "Holden Caulfield had much going for him--a comfortable suburban life and a privileged educational background in a private school." (Coles) During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book. Shortly after Holden leaves Pencey Prep, he checks in to the Edmont Hotel. This is " what Holden Caulfield would call ‘the phony ...
- 6163: The Catcher in the Rye: True Picture Of Human Behavior
- ... to business. In chapter 3 of the novel the reader is introduced to the character Ackley. Ackley is described as “a terrible personality.” Why doesn’t Holden or any of the other guys in the school tell Ackley how bad his teeth are and how bad his personality is? Sometimes people don’t speak of things that annoy them to the actual person that is annoying them. That might be the ...
- 6164: Catch 22
- ... are an old man……. You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before you were stepping into high school, ....... only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten week summer vacation that lasted a hundred years and still ended to soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so ...
- 6165: Careful, He Might Hear You
- ... in life until Vanessa entered and shattered it into disharmony. The arrival and presence of PS's invidious aunt creates a lot of stress for the small boy. He must endure changes in his home, school, and lifestyle. All of this was done against the will of PS, who strongly resented the proposition of these changes. This incident displays the lack of importance the opinion of a child holds in society ...
- 6166: The Moral Life and Leviathan: Ideas of Hobbes and Pojman
- ... clear, he takes a look at the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Lord of the Flies is a modern allegory on the nature and purpose of morality. A group of British private school boys are marooned on an island; detached from the constraints of civilization, they turn into savages. The significance of the book lies in the fact that it illuminates the need for and purpose of ethical ...
- 6167: Bread Givers
- ... to their religion. Sara has an overwhelming will to educate herself in order to make herself a person. She sacrifices just about everything in her life in order to attain her goal of becoming a school teacher. She is willing to live alone, work and starve herself nearly to death, and give up all things other girls her age covet like going out on dates or wearing make-up. She address ...
- 6168: Dorothea Lange
- ... to the United States as immigrants. When Dorothea was seven years old, she suffered from polio. In 1907, her father left her family. And soon, her mother became an alcoholic. Dorothea was lonely in high school until she began studying photography. At the age of twenty-three, Dorothea left home, and in 1918, began an around the world trip. She taught Ron Partridge photography and people started calling him her assistant ...
- 6169: Bless Me Ultima - Character Analysis
- ... a strong yearning for knowledge. He is "driven by the desire to make [his] the magic of the letters and numbers" (64) and works hard, "eager to learn the secret of the magic." (76) At school, while others "cry…and wet [their] pants" (58), Antonio spends his time in the corner "writing [his] name over and over." (58) Even Ultima praises Tony’s willingness to study, saying, "[he] learns as much ...
- 6170: Black Boy
- ... Wright overcomes this abstract oppression is reflected upon his personality, which helps him become that great American author. One of the examples to prove this true, occurs when it was Richard’s first day of school. "During that noon hour I learned all the four-letter words describing physiological sex functions, and discovered that I had know them before…A tall black boy recited a long, funny piece of doggerel, replete ...
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