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- 5791: Huckelberry Finn- Censorship
- ... book which are represented as racist or hatred, because "Twain Attributed a stereotyped ^Negro^ dialect"(Cox pg.129). There has been acts of depriving children to read this great novel by removing it from most school libraries. "The book is a rich, deep text on many important issues: not only race and slavery, but violence, child abuse, alcoholism, and many other problems still relevant to American society. At the same time ...
- 5792: Egotism In Kokoro By Natsume Soseki
- ... This story's major theme, egoism, is directly connected to us. We all are egotistical as Sensei and "I" are. Since childhood, we are all trained to rise above another in order to succeed. In school, we are trained everyday on how can we get a better grade than others. This concept does not halt after childhood, but it continues on throughout one's entire life. When we apply for jobs ...
- 5793: House On Mango Street
- ... rubs lard on the places were it hurts" (93). There is not enough lard in the world to be able to cure the pain within Sallys heart. Sally, "met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar" (101). Pretty soon " sally got married, she has her house now, her pillowcases and her plates" (101). Her marriage seems to free her from her father, but in reality she has now stepped into ...
- 5794: Emily Dickinson 6
- ... close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ) for only a year ...
- 5795: Herman Melville
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ...
- 5796: Hedda Gabler
- ... been friends with Thea in order to solicit her confidence: Thea - "But that's the last thing in the world I wanted to talk about!" Hedda - "Not to me, dear? After all, we were at school together." Thea - "Yes, but you were a class above me. How dreadfully frightened of you I was in those days!" Once Hedda learns of Thea's misgivings about Lovborg's newfound resolve, she uses it ...
- 5797: Hedda Gabler
- ... been friends with Thea in order to solicit her confidence: Thea - "But that's the last thing in the world I wanted to talk about!" Hedda - "Not to me, dear? After all, we were at school together." Thea - "Yes, but you were a class above me. How dreadfully frightened of you I was in those days!" Once Hedda learns of Thea's misgivings about Lovborg's newfound resolve, she uses it ...
- 5798: Heart Of Darkness
- ... name and count. Then she will learn to sew" (Emecheta 9). In Ibo culture, girls were valued for their domestic abilities. Adah refused to be measured by this, instead she was determined to go to school and get an education. She worked had to overcome the sexist attitude that her culture held. This sexist attitude continued after she got married to Francis. Francis is a typical Ibo male. He held the ...
- 5799: Heart Of Darkness
- ... lies in the heart of our souls. Bibliography Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York, N.Y., Ballantine Books, 1959. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York, N.Y., St. Martins Press, Inc., 1989. School, Beacon. Http:/www.beaconschool.org/ ebernabe/Darkness.html.
- 5800: Hard Times
- ... view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "little pitchers" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas, serving Dickens for allegorical purposes. Bitzer, the model student of Gradgrind's school of "facts, facts, facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying to portray, as he learns to take care for number one, himself. Reflection of this and Bitzer ...
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