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- 11141: Let's Really Reform Our Schools
- Let's Really Reform Our Schools In her essay, "Let's Really Reform Our Schools," Anita Garland suggests several controversial changes in the way high schools are run, such as banning troublemakers from class and requiring students to wear uniforms. I agree with Garland that troublemakers ... from the traditional high school. When I was in California there were two ways to deal with this situation: first is special schools for troublemakers and second is work-placement programs for those who don't want to attend any school. The first way is to have special neighborhood schools that are designed to deal with students who have a history of being very disruptive in a traditional school setting. ...
- 11142: Saturday Climbing: Resolving Conflicts
- ... turning point in the short story "Saturday Climbing" by W.D. Valgardson provides an opportunity for an individual to examine his ability to handle a situation, to learn to acknowledge and accept a fact that's imminent in his life, and to let go. of other when the time is right. The stubborn father in the short story, Barry, has discovered, through rock-climbing, his predicament of getting along with his teenage dauther, Moira, his awareness of Moira's leaving in the future, and his inability to retain his relationship with Moira as before. As a result, Barry finally relizes that he has to resolve their conflicts by letting them go. At the beginning ... climbing, Barry was confident of handling every single obstruction. He thought that "the climbing was little more difficult then walking up stairs." It clearly indicates that when Moira was just a little girl, it wasn't so hard for Barry to manage his relationship with her. However, as time goes by, "cliffs that had looked flat and smooth as polished marble became a series of problems and solutions." Barry has ...
- 11143: The Odyssey
- The Odyssey The Odyssey, written by Homer, is a story about a man (Odysseus) and his twenty-year journey home from the wars of Troy. This book also contains another journey traveled by Odysseuss son Telemachus. His journey is not about travel, but becoming a man. Throughout The Odyssey Telemachus reaches manhood, but never the level of greatness like his farther. Telemachus enters the story as a grown man ... suitors are trashing his home and soon he will just except their terrible behavior. Telemachus also has doubts as to who his father really is. My mother always told me Im his son, its true, but I am not so certain. (I, 249). This is mentioned because Telemachus, and the suitors, feel that if he were really the son of Odysseus then he would have the strength to stop ... and give the order for each of the suitors to scatter to his own place. She also instructs him to grow up and stop wining. You must not cling to your boyhood any longer- its time you were a man. (I, 340). Athena instructs Telemachus to, travel to Pylos and Sparta, talk to their kings, and search for rumors of his fathers return home. Finally her last words ...
- 11144: Atticus Finch
- Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior, to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, and the struggle between blacks and whites. Atticus Finch, a lawyer and single parent in a small southern town in the 1930's, is appointed by the local judge to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, who is accused of raping a white woman. Friends and neighbors object when Atticus puts up a strong and spirited defense on ... gone to a black church earlier, the children found out that Tom is actually a kind person, church-going and a good husband and father to his children. The town of Maycomb in the 1930's was split into two sections, the white section and the black section. This was a time of racial segregation, where blacks were not permitted to go to the same schools as the whites. They ...
- 11145: Analysis Of Grendel And Beowul
- Point of View in Grendel and Beowulf Contrasting points of view in Grendel and Beowulf significantly alter the reader s perception of religion, good and evil, and the character Grendel. John Gardner s book, Grendel, is written in first person. The book translated by Burton Raffel, Beowulf, is written in third person. Good and evil is one of the main conflicts in the poem Beowulf. How is Grendel ... of good and evil? Grendel is an alienated individual who just wants to be a part of something. His desire to fit in causes him to do evil things. Grendel is fascinated by the Shaper s poetry. He often returns to the mead hall to listen to it. One night while he is listening, he hears the story of Cain and Abel, including the Danes explanation of Grendel. His reaction ...
- 11146: Comparison Between Gandhi and Hitler
- Comparison Between Gandhi and Hitler In the late 1800s and the early 1900s the people of northern Europe, southern Africa and Asia were in despair. They had no leaders. They were defenseless. India had been taken over by the British Empire and now the 315 million Indians were ... career as an artist, he decided to stop doing his work, and his grades began to fall drastically. When his father died he quit school and for the next few years lived off his familys money. He did nothing but read books, draw pictures and daydream all day long. When he was 18 (in 1907) he moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and tried to ...
- 11147: Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
- ... see what the city near me had to offer. I ended up choosing the Fairmount Park tour. I chose this one because it was a name that sounded familiar to me, but yet I didnt know what it had to offer. I soon was to find out that Fairmount Park is a beautiful landscape filled with fascinating knowledge. The tour started out from the historic beginning. Through the entire tour ... learned a little bit about Grace Kelly and Her Dad. So has it that there was an amusing remark making the rounds in 1956 when Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco that her father's domain (John B. Kelly, Sr., was president of the Fairmount Park Commission) was larger than her husband's. Indeed, the Principality of Monaco covers only .6 square miles, but the 4,077.59 acres of Fairmount Park extend over 6 square miles. The road we would be taking was, thusly, called Kelly ...
- 11148: Ireland, History And Nature
- Ireland, History And Nature You stand on the top of the valley. Down, far below you, you see a brook, windind it's way through the valley. As you are thirsty you go down there. And while the wind are blowing upon the green fields you suddenly notice a deer. Standing on the other side of the valley, it's carefully watching you in case you'll do something threatening. You reach out your empty hand to show that you mean no harm. But as you reach out your hand towards it, it seems to be aware of something else. Because it suddenly turns and starts running away from you, and the sound from it's race against the heart of the forest is the only sound which breaks the silence. Even the birds have stopped singing now, and the feeling of magic is even stronger than it was before. ...
- 11149: Passing By Nella Larsen
- By: T. Yeager Nella Larsen's novel, Passing, provides an example of some of the best writing the Harlem Renaissance has to offer. Nella Larsen was one of the most promising young writer's of her time. Though she only published two novels it is clear that she was one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Her career as writer probably would have lasted ...
- 11150: Neuromancer By William Gibson
- ... being published and it continues to be published today by writers like K. W. Jeter and Rudy Rucker. Perhaps the best and most representative anthology of cyberpunk writers is Mirrorshades., edited by Sterling, the genre's most outspoken advocate. But cyberpunk's status as the revolutionary vanguard was almost immediately challenged. Its narrative techniques, many critics pointed out, were positively reactionary compared to the experimentalism of mid-60s "new wave" SF. One of the main sources of its vision was William S. Burroughs' quasi-SF novels like Nova Express, (1964), and the voice of Gibson's narrator sounded oddly like a slightly updated version of old Raymond Chandler novels like The Big Sleep, (1939). Others pointed ...
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