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- 481: Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys....": Alienation and Other Such Joys
- ... forces him into only one possible direction, failure. This essay is the maturing Orwell's response to childhood subjugation, a subtle exposure to the evolution of Orwell's thought. Orwell's life as a boarding school student at Crossgates occupies his memory of childhood and serves as the platform for his views on life. Repeatedly Orwell describes the society of the school from which he is outcast: That bump on the hard mattress, on the first night of term, used to give me a feeling of abrupt awakening, a feeling of: This is reality, this is what ... mentality of insecurity and inferiority and becomes the fodder of others--the winners of society. Sim and Bingo, the spiritual and emotional guides of Crossgates, feed off of this pitiful mentality and their carefully constructed school environment. By the social standards that prevailed about me, I was no good, and could not be any good. But all the different kinds of virtue seemed to be mysteriously interconnected and to belong ...
- 482: ... an office something like mayor- and that he was the eldest of six children. As the son of one of the wealthier citizens, he probably had a good basic education in the town's grammar school, but we have no facts to prove this. We also have no information on how he spent his early years or on when and how he got involved with the London theater. At 18 he ...
- 483: The Town of El Dorado Springs
- ... little bit about what I hoped to search for. "El Dorado is a town that is what you could classify as "red neck," they are, in most cases, very conservative people. I went to high school there and then later on I was a teacher at the high school for nineteen years. I don't live in the town, I have a house about six miles out of town and I drive down and stay there weekends, but I know about most of the ... is still on the books, but I know of one time it was overlooked. There was a girl, the daughter of one of the town's wealthier families, that left El Dorado Springs after high school. I don't remember where she ended up, but she married a black football player and had a child. Well, things didn't work out for her; she ended up getting a divorce, so ...
- 484: A Separate Peace: Finny How Things Change
- A Separate Peace: Finny How Things Change In the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a boy named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace. While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Gene's best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. Phineas, or Finny as he was sometimes called, was the most popular boy in school. He was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. Gene, on the other hand, was a lonely, self-sufficient intellectual. Somehow the two became good friends, or so Finny thought. Gene, unfortunately, was bitten by the ...
- 485: Child Abuse: Who's at Risk and the Outcomes?
- ... to feed and clothe a child, beating a child, torturing a child, withholding medical care from a child, allowing a child to live in a "deprived or depraved" environment, and keeping a child out of school have all been defined at various times and in various laws as "child abuse"(p. 82). The definition of child abuse varies over time, across cultures, and between different social and cultural groups. Many of ... and others may not be as fortunate. Some are haunted by nightmares, questions of "Why me?" and feelings of shame. There is however an unfortunate similarity of characteristics of those that have experienced child abuse. School performance, self-esteem, weight, depression, and suicidal behavior have been attributed to victims. School Performance "The physically abused children studied stood out as markedly problematic in school, at home, and in the community, displaying academic deficits, problem behaviors, lowered self-esteem, delinquency, elevated feelings of aggression, and pervasive ...
- 486: Alcohol An Issue Within Colleg
- Alcohol: An Issue within College Society Do you remember graduating high school? Remember all the questions you had to ask yourself. What are you going to do now? Do you want to work? Do you want to go to school again for another four years? These questions are eventually answered and some choose to find a job, and others figure out that going to college is probably a good thing. Now you have realized that ... constant drinking. It obviously has serious physical and mental effects on a person. According to Louis Joylon West, M.D., a professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine, the attributes that define an addiction, in this case alcohol, include craving, tolerance and withdrawal phenomena (West, 28). This is a problem that exists among men and women of all ages. Alcohol ...
- 487: Student Development in Higher Education
- ... level of the freshmen student when applying Marcia's theory within the psychosocial theory is extremely prominent in her case. She communicated that she relied on her parents for direction when choosing a major in school. Her father had attended a university and her mother had not. The father strongly stated that she should be chemistry major because of the security of the career field, which conflicted her mother's views ... conflict between the parents could move her into the stage of Moratorium because she places a high value to her parent's opinion with regards to her college career. Also, since she has been at school, other people in her living environment have influenced her choices when considering changing her major. She has spoken with Resident Assistants, giving and expanding other possibilities at the university. After speaking with her, She seems ... exploration stage of Super's theory. Even though, she does not fit the age requirement for the exploration stage, she does know what job she wants to have and already has work experience while in school that have confirmed her career path. Also, as before in Marcia's theory, she has progress through a crisis period and has grown to an Identity Achievement. The crisis that she experienced was in ...
- 488: History Of The Detective Novel
- ... the story is an excellent example of the mystery detective novel. From about 1920 onwards there became two major schools of detective writing, the country house clue puzzle and the private eye or hard boiled school. The leaders in each particular school have become legends of literature. Agatha Christie was the most famous of the writers in the country house clue puzzle school, where the outcome of the book rested more on the intelligence and thought processes of the hero, which was usually an amateur. Agatha Christie was responsible for creating many of the world's best- ...
- 489: Americans Take Their Education For Granted
- ... With seventeen years of formal education, a person can do almost anything he or she wants to do. Yet many in America take this for granted. Some American students today would rather not be in school. They would be much happier at home or going someplace with their friends. Once in school, many students forget why they are thereto get an education. Instead of going to classes, students might cut class or not even show up to school at all. I think our decreasing status as an economic super power can be attributed in part to the effects of this attitude. I believe there are two reasons behind this attitude--the lack ...
- 490: Religion in Schools
- ... are economics, law, and government. To understand all these points you have to under stand the basic beliefs of the society you are studying. In 1996 there was a big debate in a small Seattle school regarding wether the students at this school would be able to hold group prayer. The parents at this small school protested that their children should be allowed to have prayer on school grounds . The school board ruled for the students and allowed the students to pray on school property.The Seperation of Church and ...
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