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- 2631: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... not provide the luxury of spiritual affirmation. He grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon to working class-parents in a alcoholic home where reading material was limited to Zane Gray novels, and the newspaper. Following high school, Carver married his pregnant high school sweet hart. His drinking became heavier. A list of meaningless jobs followed , in which writing only provided a emotional outlet. During this time, Carver's hard life may have instigated the disjunction he portrayed in ...
- 2632: Why Corporal Punishment Is No Longer Justifiable in Discipling Children
- ... down the halls, use proper table manners, et cetra, in order to avoid being beaten. Grown ups had little respect for the children, making them do slave labor at home, and display best behavior in school. When looking back, I can see why corporal punishment was allowed to be used. The year is 1991, the students are all rebels without a cause... If corporal punishment was used today, it would fail ... does not whip or beat them like years ago, instead: writing the childs name on the board, or giving them detention does the job. Strange enough, most of the children in Jr. High and High School are larger than the teacher, and one would think that the teacher would be injured gravely if the child was threatened with bodily harm. Sure, I would like to see some of the little trouble ...
- 2633: Violence
- ... 11, staying in a domestic abuse shelter, it was found that these children had higher levels of aggression than children who were not victims or witnesses. The girls with the highest levels of aggression were school aged, while the boys were pre-school aged. Children 12 and over were not allowed into the shelter because of the behavioral patterns they had learned at home. This shows how violence can also be a learned action. Children who have been ...
- 2634: Marilyn Monroe
- ... death. She didn’t believe in a person being a failure, either. She did believe the mind could achieve anything it wished to achieve.” Marilyn had problems with her diction when she went to High School. She also stuttered a lot. No one really knew, but her mother bought her a piano that belonged to the famous actor Fredric March. Marilyn Monroe always looked older than her age. When she was ... death. She didn’t believe in a person being a failure, either. She did believe the mind could achieve anything it wished to achieve.” Marilyn had problems with her diction when she went to High School. She also stuttered a lot. No one really knew, but her mother bought her a piano that belonged to the famous actor Fredric March. Marilyn Monroe always looked older than her age. When she was ...
- 2635: Effects Of Graffiti 2
- ... over the place. A few examples would be under bridges, on the walls of many different buildings, and just about anywhere else you could possibly imagine. People place graffiti in bathroom stalls, on desks in school, and even on trains and tractor trailers. Graffiti is even considered a form of art by some individuals. There were a few web pages and books that displayed pictures of graffiti and called it art ... be totally empty. Douglas Barmore Throughout my life I have committed many acts of graffiti. Some of them I had realized were acts of graffiti, but some of them I didn't. I remember in school, some other student and I had a conversation on a desktop. Each of us had that class at different periods and would leave messages for each other. I hadn't realized that it was graffiti ...
- 2636: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... thinks that a wound will somehow bring him into true soldierhood, will combat his youthful anxiety. He idealizes the brave veterans who he imagines have "red, live bones sticking out through slits in the faded uniforms. These images of red wounds are saved for the quick; dead men are never described in red, but rather in gray. The red badge of courage is for those who survive. Ironically, even after Fleming ... the color of many omens of death, and of each dead or deathly person Fleming encounters. Gray, first of all, is the uniform color of the opposing army: " Fleming perceived with dim amazement that their uniforms were rather gay in effect, being light gray . . ." (186). This realization is a little ironic since gray so quickly loses its gaiety within this narrative. Perhaps it reflects Fleming's growing awareness of the battlefield ...
- 2637: Dubliners
- ... Allen is pointing to the reason behind Jimmy's freedom of choice about his life. He says the reason he does what he wants to do is that he just wants to fit in at school. He makes friends with rich people and gets along with them relatively well. However, later on in the story he is robbed of a lot of money by his friends during a poker game. In the end it might seem that even though Jimmy used his friends to gain status at school, his friends used him for his money. The final bit of freedom besides the final sentence of the story happens at the start of their party aboard Farley's yacht. Joyce writes, "Villona played a ...
- 2638: Realism In A Raisin In The Sun
- ... most frequently depicted conflict is that between Walter and his sister Beneatha. Walter wants nothing more than to be a wealthy entrepreneur that can provide for his family, while Beneatha plans to go to medical school and become a doctor. Both characters are opposed to the others dreams. This opposition creates serious conflict within the Younger household, and specifically among Walter, Beneatha, and Mama. During the course of the play, conflicts ... friends and buy a liquor store. However, furthermore, Mama will not allow him to spend obtained insurance check for 10,000 dollars, and instead plans to give most of her money to Beneatha for medical school. Walter, in a way, is jealous of his sister, for she will be able to fulfill her dreams of becoming a doctor. He, however, will have to keep living a monotonous life, not being able ...
- 2639: The Internet
- ... job openings they are interested in, they can post their resumes to employment service Web sites which try to match employers with those seeking employment. The Web can also be a useful place for high school students applying to college or college graduates who wish to delay their job hunt by going to graduate school. Many colleges and universities around the world are getting on the Internet to provide their students with access to the enormous amount of information available on it. This allows students the opportunity to browse Web ...
- 2640: Battle of the Bytes: Macintosh vs. Windows 95
- ... make very long file names on Windows 95 instead of short and strange names that leave you wondering about, such as on Windows 3.x I could not name a folder This is stuff for school it must be a lot shorter. The Help system helps you implement its suggestions. A multilevel Undo command for all file operations safeguards your work, something Macintosh does not have. Something that Windows 95 has ... a long time, if ever, that they will decide to make it for a Mac. Plus since of the many people with IBM PC's at home, people can bring their work to and from school. If everyone had the same kind of computer on a network, students could go into the computers at schools all over the world to use programs there. So since now that the quality of computers ...
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