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- 1291: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... in the Rye . Like most people, Holden s mind wanders, and that s what I found the most interesting about him. He s sixteen years old, and he just got kicked out of another boarding school: Pencey Prep. He s tall, and skinny and he's not broad-shouldered. He s got a crewcut. His dad s a corporate lawyer and he is pretty rich. Holden really is a nice guy ... keeps showing up. Her old man s always a tall attractive gentleman about 20 years of age. That kills me. Old Phoebe. I swear to God you d like her." Setting Pencey Pencey is the school Holden attends until the beginning of the story, when he has just got kicked out. The story starts there. The Christmas vacation is about to start for all the students. It s pretty a traditional school, its advertisements in the papers say: "Since 1888 we have been molding young boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men." New York City, New York, USA. Christmas 1949. The book doesn t make you ...
- 1292: Catcher In The Rye 6
- ... only with information of what occurred, but also how he felt about what happened. Holden's thoughts and ideas reveal many of his character traits. One late Saturday night, four days before the beginning of school vacation, Holden is alone, bored and restless, wondering what to do. He decides to leave Pencey, his school, at once and travels to New York by train. He decides that, once in New York, he will stay in a cheap motel until Wednesday, when he is to return home. His plan shows the ... who values honesty and sincerity. He is unimpressed with people who try to look good in other's eyes. Therefore, since it is obvious that Holden is bright, the reason for his flunking out of school would seem to be from a lack of interest. Holden has strong feelings of love towards children as evidenced through his caring for Phoebe, his little sister. He is protective of her, erasing bad ...
- 1293: Catcher In The Rye
- ... being phonies, and expresses his love for his sister through out the novel. So what is the book Catcher in the Rye really about? Superficially the story of a young man getting expelled from another school, the Catcher in the Rye is, in fact, a perceptive study of one individual’s understanding of his human condition. Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in 1950’s, New York, has been expelled from school for poor achievement once again. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days prior to the end of term, and goes to New York to take a vacation before returning to his parents’ inevitable irritation. Told as a monologue, the book describe Holden’s ...
- 1294: Criminology, John Widemans Bro
- ... his only ticket out of poverty and his community is through a good education. Status must be earned through hard work and determination. Robert is just the opposite of John. Early on, Robert acknowledged that school and sports could not satisfy the glamour that Robert so much desired? Unlike John who disliked blackness, Robert got a thing about black. See black was like the forbidden fruit (84). Robert embraced the people ... it s contrary to what society says or is (58) . Inversion of values is practically portraying what society views as socially acceptable, unacceptable. A great example explaining this inversion of values is captured during a school strike. Robert recaptures the greatest moment of his life when he took over the school. Through his eyes, [i]t was the white man s world and wasn t no way round it or over it or under it ... so I kept on cutting classes and fucking up and ...
- 1295: Catcher In The Rye 3
- ... being phonies, and expresses his love for his sister through out the novel. So what is the book Catcher in the Rye really about? Superficially the story of a young man getting expelled from another school, the Catcher in the Rye is, in fact, a perceptive study of one individual s understanding of his human condition. Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in 1950 s, New York, has been expelled from school for poor achievement once again. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days prior to the end of term, and goes to New York to take a vacation before returning to his parents inevitable irritation. Told as a monologue, the book describe Holden s ...
- 1296: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... novel and autobiography, I feel called upon to see Joyce's schoolfellows in two ways at once. They are characters in a novel, bigger than life, and they are real people like me and my school and college pals. (280) The Catholic religion is a significant and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Though brought up in the church, several major events lead Stephen to defy the lessons of his Catholic school education and choose a life of his own, the life of an artist. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and gradually discovers an identity of his own. As a young boy, religion is crucial to Stephen's life. Stephen was reared in a strict Catholic family. The demand for compliance placed on Stephen shapes his life early at Clongowes, a preparatory school run by the Jesuit order. Even as he is adhering to the principles of his Catholic school upbringing, he becomes increasingly disillusioned. Even though Joyce spoke warmly of his own experiences at Clongowes he ...
- 1297: America Is In The Heart
- ... started beating them. Allos’ dad stopped them and when it was over, Leon left the town with his bride and started a new life. Amado, the youngest of his four brothers, who was attending grade school in town living with his mother and their baby sister. His father brought him to the village to help them on their farming. His other brother, Luciano was on camp serving the United States. They all worked so hard for his brother Macario, who was attending high school at the province capital. They needed money for Macario’s education so his father sold a hectare of their four-hectare land. When they needed more, they sold more land. They gave up almost everything they owned just to make their son Macario go to school. One day when his father and his brother Amado were farming, Amado started beating up the carabao. His father stopped him and Amado told his father that he couldn’t live like this anymore. ...
- 1298: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... novel and autobiography, I feel called upon to see Joyce's schoolfellows in two ways at once. They are characters in a novel, bigger than life, and they are real people like me and my school and college pals. (280) The Catholic religion is a significant and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Though brought up in the church, several major events lead Stephen to defy the lessons of his Catholic school education and choose a life of his own, the life of an artist. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and gradually discovers an identity of his own. As a young boy, religion is crucial to Stephen's life. Stephen was reared in a strict Catholic family. The demand for compliance placed on Stephen shapes his life early at Clongowes, a preparatory school run by the Jesuit order. Even as he is adhering to the principles of his Catholic school upbringing, he becomes increasingly disillusioned. Even though Joyce spoke warmly of his own experiences at Clongowes he ...
- 1299: Invisible Man
- ... becomes indicative of the thoughts and problems of at least part of society. Bearing this in mind, a pursuit of "true" human invisibility will be examined. According to the web page for The Monte Vista School for Invisible Boys, invisibility is a disease that affects .02% of all children. These children suffer from a translucence of the pigmentation in their skin and are not cared for. This school aims to aid invisible children.(42) In another area of humanity, adults are becoming invisible. A woman stands in line in the post office for hours with people continually pushing in front of her, and ... becomes indicative of the thoughts and problems of at least part of society. Bearing this in mind, a pursuit of "true" human invisibility will be examined. According to the web page for The Monte Vista School for Invisible Boys, invisibility is a disease that affects .02% of all children. These children suffer from a translucence of the pigmentation in their skin and are not cared for. This school aims to ...
- 1300: Basketball
- ... to the game, but no young, brash superstar wants to take time to learn the game when his talents alone will allow him to drive the most luxurious Lexus now. My junior year of high school my team played one of the perennial powerhouses, Elsik. We lost the game by a large amount of points, but what was most impressive was Rashard Lewis. He was drafted right out high school into the NBA. Considering that we were about the same age, I question how can he be ready for the NBA? I can barely handle college classes, and he is already started his career. Rashard ... exceptions, because Jermaine O'neal, Al Harrington, and now Jonathan Bender are experiencing what the NBA is like off of the television. These kids are possibly ready physically, but mentally they are retarded. Every high school player who jumps straight to the NBA has difficulties adjusting to the wild women of different cities, the power of their enormous salary, and the pressure to perform right away. Tim Duncan, as talented ...
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