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- 771: Movie: Stand and Deliver - Mr. Escalante Should Be An Inspiration to Everyone
- ... students and the school. Finally, he finds a handhold and clings to it as if his life depended upon it. In the end, Angel, as well as the other students, makes a huge stride by studying and passing the AP Calculus exam. In yet another interpretation of this seemingly meaningless statement, Mr. Escalante could be referring to the hole caused by discrimination. Jaime knows that because of their ethnic origin, they ...
- 772: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... her a Greyhound ticket to go home (i.e. back to cemeteries) in scene eight. It also fades in and out of the scene where Mitch confronts Blanche about her true past (Corrigan 52). In studying the main character of A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois, it is necessary to use both a literal translation of the text as well as interspersed symbolism to have a complete understanding of her. Tennessee ...
- 773: Pompeii
- ... spot. The ash that covered the people and the living things also covered belongings that the people carried. All of this preserved matter would be very useful to the archeologists and anthropologist that would be studying Pompeii. The matter that could decompose did but it still left a 'shell' of thin rock. Preserved matter such as this could determine several things about Pompeii live. What the people wore, what they ate ...
- 774: The Gothic Novel
- ... Such readings tend to taint the text by ignoring the historical aspect of the work and focusing narrowly upon aspects that are beyond the intent of the author. The use of such literary devices when studying Gothic novels diminishes the validity of the text by focusing on aspects that are irrelevant and reduces the text to a device to perpetuate certain ideals that were not in the original text. The rise ...
- 775: Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations Speech and Yezierska’s The Bread Givers
- ... wall of the synagogue, near the Holy Ark. Women often became the breadwinners so their husbands could devote themselves to study, while householders thought it their duty, indeed privilege, to support precocious sons-in law studying the Holy Word” (8-9, italics mine). This, in essence, summarizes the roles of Reb Smolinsky and his daughters, especially Bessie. They are there, along with their mother, to bear the burden of the family ...
- 776: Who Are The Role Models Of Today?
- ... new career change. While still working as a dental assistant, she attended night school at the College of St. Catherine’s. For seven years she went through this difficult task. With trying to balance her studying, working, and spending time with her two boys, she did a great job. After finally getting what she so often desired to become, she was finally a registered nurse. She then applied for jobs at ...
- 777: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- ... and law. Rousseau, however, takes a different approach. He argues that modern man is way to far away from the original state of nature to be able to understand it, and that ‘by dint of studying man we have rendered ourselves incapable of knowing him.’ (853) As for inequality, most people would argue that ‘men [are] by common consensus, … naturally as equal among themselves as were the animals of each species ...
- 778: Sigmund Freud
- ... years of publication, his ideas gradually began to attract faithful followers and students - along with a great number of critics. While exploring the possible psychological roots of nervous disorders, Freud spent several months in Paris, studying with Jean Charcot, a French neurologist from whom he learned hypnosis. On return to Vienna, Freud began to hypnotize patients and encouraging them while under hypnosis to speak openly about themselves and the onset of ...
- 779: Writing Styles of Poe and Hoffman
- ... example in his article, I feel it is the best example because of the reading assignment in class. In this story the patient M. Valdemar is bed ridden in a hospital, and the narrator is studying mesmerism. Before the time of Valdemar’s death, the narrator wants to see if he can keep Valdemar alive through mesmerism, and the story goes on. I myself believe that the reason why Poe writes ...
- 780: Secular Ethics
- ... or she has to start making many decisions based on secular ethics. Each person must choose between bad ethical decisions such as partying all the time, drinking, cheating, missing classes, and not doing homework or studying; and more desirable ethical decisions such as choosing not to drink, getting things done on time, and never giving up. The most important thing about secular ethics is that it is something that everyone can ...
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