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- 2641: Catcher In The Ryes Holden Cau
- ... works, and wants to be the "catcher in the rye," protecting society's children from it's evilness and corruption, keeping them safe. Holden has an ephiphany during the novel as he passes the elementary school halls and notices the obscenities scribbled on the walls. His attempt to efface them is unsuccessful, and he realizes that he can't make them go away. This symbolizes Holden's need to protect, and realization that he can't be the savior of society's corruption. Although the scene in the elementary school halls hint to Holden that he can't make the imperfections of the world disappear, nothing provides the determining insight better than his little sister, Phoebe. Upon his departure, Holden giving up, as he always ...
- 2642: Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
- ... poet (Derleth 14), but most of all he wanted to live with freedom to think and act as he wished. Immediately after graduation from Harvard, Henry David applied for a teaching position at the public school in Concord and was accepted. However, he refused to flog children as punishment. He opted instead to deliver moral lectures. This was looked down upon by the community, and a committee was asked to review the situation. They decided that the lectures were not ample punishment, so they ordered Thoreau to flog recalcitrant students. With utter contempt he lined up six children after school that day, flogged them, and handed in his resignation, because he felt that physical punishment should have no part in education (Derleth 15). In 1837 Henry David began to write his Journal (16). It started ...
- 2643: Rudyard Kipling
- ... contribution to English Literature in various genres including poetry, short story and novel. His birth took place in an affluent family with his father holding the post of Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the Bombay School of Art and his mother coming from a family of accomplished women. He spent his early childhood in India where an "aya" took care of him and where under her influence he came in direct ... received, he suffered from insomnia for the rest of his life. This played an important part in his literary imagination. His parents removed him from the Calvinistic foster home and placed him in a private school at the age of twelve. The English schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team. Returning to India in 1882 ...
- 2644: Literature of Native Canadians
- ... Our children, for generations, were seized from our communities and homes and placed in indoctrination camps until our language, our religions our customs, our values, and our social structures almost disappeared. This was the residential school experience." Natives were hunters and gatherers who lived in harmony with their physical environment. Their limited technological developments placed few constraints on the ecology and the small number of people meant that population pressures were ... Indian Women in Fur Trade society in Western Canada," follows with the theme that the natives were severely abused at the hands of the savage new Canadians. Currie: For an enriching perspective on the residential school experience, see Vickie English- Currie's disturbing essay. Currie devotes herself to presenting an accurate and truthful view of the vicious indignities little children and their parents suffered because the were native. She assess and ...
- 2645: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- ... with a white picket fence, a garden, a place for Travis to play outside and a bathroom that is not shared by other tenants. Walter’s sister, Beneatha has a dream of going to medical school and being able to help others. And Walter wants it all! Walter wants the money, the house, a business, and an overall good life for him and his family. Walter, like many other Americans, measures ... business venture and Walter loses the money that the family had so many hopes for! Desperate and destitute, Walter has dashed the family’s dreams of owning a home, of Beneatha’s chance at medical school and the dream of living among the hegemony. Walter’s lust for instant wealth and status has taken his family to the brink, forcing Walter to devise a scheme to extract a high price from ...
- 2646: Television Violence and Children
- Television Violence and Children What has the world come to these days? It often seems that everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a major source of violence. In many families’ living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the ... into a hypnotized non- thinker (Langone 48). As you can see, television violence can disrupt a child’s learning and thinking ability which will cause life long problems. If a child cannot do well in school, his or her entire future is at stake. Why do children like the violence that they see on television? Since media violence is much more vicious than that which children normally experience, real-life aggression ...
- 2647: Catcher In The Rye 5
- ... Beginning to learn the truths of society and growing up, sixteen year old, Holden has a hard time adjusting to maturity. After the death of his younger brother Allie, his inability to remain in one school, and his ongoing dislike of many people and their morals, Holden has been driven to depression in which he dispenses to a psycoanaylgist throughout the novel. Through his novel, Salinger incorporated the theme reality verses ... fear of facing reality though avoiding the truth. After failing out of Pencey, he decided to hide out in New York City, until his parents reached notice of his being kicked out of yet another school, because of his fear to face problems. Yet in reality the only way Holden could fix the problems he had would be to face them, not avoid them. He simply ran away from any instance ...
- 2648: What is a Luxury?
- ... around his luxuries. Personally, I have been there and experienced this kind of stupor or addiction to a possession of mine. I met Denny Hippchen and Aaron Steinmetz during my first year at Shasta High School and these two young men awakened my interest in computers. A computer has been around me ever since. You could call it a luxury but now I am so used to using the computer that it is now a necessity. All of my homework is done on my computer, and it is one of my many ways of communicating. It provides entertainment, music, school needs, and many other things upon which I depend. In a sense, the computer has become indispensable to me. I am now to the point where I cannot live without a computer. My computer beckons ...
- 2649: An Autobiography: Tom Landry
- ... very dangerous job, so he greatly respected his father. He looked up to his dad a lot. For example, he would follow his dad whenever he would go to a fire. He was good in school, which you could probably attribute to his parent's discipline. His parents were Christians, but they didn't really focus on teaching him the Word. They wanted to teach him other stuff. Tom ended up playing high school football, which led to his love for pro football. He ended up coaching for the Dallas Cowboys. He led them to many playoffs and Super Bowls. He was a great coach for them. After he ...
- 2650: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a draftsman in Chicago. Wright worked for several architectural offices until he finally found a job with the most skillful architect of ... as his former employer, she gave him the cultural background he lacked; she gave him social polish as well. Now, as an independent architect, Wright became the leader of a style known as the Prairie School, which is described as houses with low-pitched roofs and extended lines that blend into the landscape. Between the year of 1903-1906, Wright began using more modern materials, such as concrete. In 1904, he ...
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