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- 3441: Hands
- ... Anderson points out that society has alienated Biddlebaum through exclusion and violence. During his career as a teacher, Biddlebaum expressed himself "by the caress that was in his fingers." Tragically, "a halfwitted boy of the school became enamored of the young master. In his bed at night he imagined unspeakable things and went forth to tell his dreams as facts. Trembling lads were jerked out of bed and questioned," where the ... at fault, again, expresses society's exclusion of those who seem to be "quiet" or "peculiar." The author further addresses alienation from society through violence inflicted on Biddlebaum. "Calling Adolph Myers (Wing Biddlebaum) into the school yard [Henry Bradford] began to beat him with his fists." The narrator explores the horrible violence inflicted on Biddlebaum when he describes the angry mob throwing "balls of soft mud at the figure that screamed ...
- 3442: D.h. Lawrence
- An English novelist and poet, D.H. Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Nottingham, England. He was the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status between his parent s was a recurrent motif in Lawrence s fiction. David Herbert was ranked ...
- 3443: Creative Story: Everything Ends
- ... sinister hand of sleep had stricken her. She dreamed about the past; how she got here. She relived all the major milestones that happened in her life. She dreamt that when she was in high school, her mother got into a car accident and died, in October. She dreamt her father exploding and being constantly angry, in October. She dreamt of after not being able to deal with her father, dropping out of school, in October. She dreamt of running away from home, in October. She dreamt of the termination of her career as a lounge singer after being signed by a major record company, in October. She dreamt ...
- 3444: David Livingstone
- ... become a doctor. Livingstone s father, a deeply religious man, wanted him to go into a religious field, and would not allow him to go. Livingstone eventually convinced his father to let him go to school and become a missionary in China. After finishing school, Livingstone had planned to go to China to perform his missionary duties, but because of the Opium War, Livingstone s plans were altered. He continued his studies, and became a respected member of the medical ...
- 3445: AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- ... States, have instituted stringent rules for testing long-term foreign visitors or potential immigrants for AIDS, as well as testing returning foreign nationals. In the United States one frequent phenomenon is the effort to keep school-age children with AIDS isolated from their classmates, if not out of school altogether. Governmental and civil rights organizations have countered restrictive moves with a great deal of success. There is little doubt in my mind that the ultimate physical toll of the AIDS epidemic will be high ...
- 3446: Creative Story: Concussion
- Creative Story: Concussion " Ding , Ding, Ding." School had just ended. My butt had been just freed from the oppression of that chair for the rest of my life. Never again was I planning to sit down in Mr. Dicksons room again. But ... trails?" I asked. "to the bike trails" they replied. We had been going to the bike trails for weeks now. Every day we came back for another thrill. So, with haste we sped away from school. Our first stop was my house. " going to the bike trails , Mom" I said while grabbing a box of little debbie snacks. "O.K., be home for supper" she said. This was in code it ...
- 3447: Bruce Lee
- ... his first movie at the age of six months, Bruce would go on to appear in over twenty films as a child actor. In his teen years, Bruce was a rebellious adolecent, his favorite after school activity beating up British boys, he began studing wing chun kung-fu under Yip Man in Hong Kong at the age of fifteen. At the age of 18 he was crowned cha-cha king of ... where all the kids are impossible". Arriving in San Fransisco with just one-hundred dollars in his pocket, he began washing dishes in a resteraunt in chinatown, but for unknown reasons, left to begin attending school at the university of Washington as a philosophy major. That's is where he met his future wife, Linda Lee. The only problem was, she was white and he was chinese. Back then interacial marriges ...
- 3448: Health
- ... 30 or 40 years from now will not have childhood diseases. Most people who are now old have had them all. Better education is also a reason for prolonged and healthier lives. Where a grade school education was typical for the older generation, more than half of all Americans now 30 or 40 years old have completed at least high school, and studies show that people with more education live longer. They get better jobs, suffer less economical stress, and tend to be more engaged with life and more receptive to new ideas. Finally, the fitness ...
- 3449: Huck Fin 2
- ... simply the observer. Often, Twain uses the book and Huck¹s character to voice his own ideas about society. For example, he denounces organized religion in the opening chapters with the raid on the Sunday school picnic. He exposes slavery and an evil and show blacks to have feelings just like others, especially in the episode where Jim tells Huck about his daughter. Twain also shows an aversion to royalty with ... Tone Twain¹s tone in the story gives a humorous and informal mood but in much of the observations he makes on society, he is often critical. For example, during the raid on the Sunday school picnic, he shows a distaste for organized religion. He also shows a slight disrespect to the government during the incidents were Pap gets arrested. During the conversation with Jim and Huck, Twain also reveals his ...
- 3450: William Shakespeare
- ... first period include The Comedy of Errors (1592), The Taming of the Shrew (1593), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594), and Love's Labour's Lost (1594). These plays we do not read much ins school, but they are studied extensively in college. Shakespeare's second period includes his most important history plays, his so-called joyous comedies, and two of his major tragedies. In this period, his style and approach ... Well That Ends Well (1602) and Measure for Measure (1604) both question accepted patterns of morality without offering solutions. These are Shakespeare’s more common plays as we read Othello and King lear in high school. Also Macbeth is one of the most famous books of all time, along with All’s well that End’s well. The fourth period of Shakespeare's work includes his principal romantic tragicomedies. Toward the ...
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