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- 11291: Emma
- ... affectionate father. Her mother had died when she was only a child and her sister, Isabelle, had married at an early age. This made her mistress of his house from a very early period. Emma’s self image is very strong and she is doubly pleased with her match-making skills, which turn out to be disastrous for her friend Harriet. Harriet Smith is a young girl of an unknown background, but she was a student at Mrs. Goddard’s School. Emma challenges herself to reform and refine Harriet. She becomes to aspire to see Harriet marry a person in a higher social station. Harriet is very pretty. She was "short, plump, and fair, with ... hair, and a look of great sweetness." (Austen, 20) The other main character of the story is Mr. Knightley. He is a sensible man of about thirty-seven. He is the elder brother of Isabelle’s husband and a friend of the Woodhouse family. Mr. Knightley had a very cheerful manner which pleased Emma. He was also one of the few people that could see faults in Emma and he ...
- 11292: Antogonistic Enlightenment
- ... to effect the severity of that measure. The protagonist in "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses", is strikingly remarkable mainly due to the fact that initially he is described quite feebly. It is through the story's development that he is later revealed to be durable, deep, and determined. These qualities enable him to successfully petition for humane treatment, in a racially oppressive climate, without begging the question of propriety. Brille is ... anyone would assume he joined politics to end apartheid. Yet, in describing the unbelievable "human brutality" he has witnessed, he describes the fighting of his 12 children (21). Hannetjie assumed Brille was accustomed to Hannetjie's oppressive behaviors, but ironically Brille was only now a victim of violence (21). He did not use politics to better his life, until he was imprisoned for only pretending to do so before (23). Brille likens his experience in prison to his experience with his family, he becomes aware of his power to make others behave humanely. Brille's physical shortsightedness is symbolic of a mental shortsightedness, he that it will be more effective to punish Hannetjie's poor behavior like a child. Hannetjie is initially described as inhuman, and his reform by ...
- 11293: A Dolls House, Theme Of Impris
- ... Oz span every ethnic, religious and social class background. It would take too much to name all of the characters, and there is no main character because the show spends time dealing with each character's situation equally, especially since they all intertwine. The inmates are broken up into ten groups by McManus with four inmates in each group so as to even the population. The groups are as follows: bikers ... almost every group present in our society today. The struggles are not always between the inmates either. The warden, administrator, guards, and even the mayor play a vital role in the unveiling of the creator's vision. There are a vast majority of underlying themes contained within the plot of "Oz." Much of our society and its problems are thrown into this small cell block for the world to view at ... of whether or not man is truly evil. This has been a philosophical question argued for centuries. "Oz" present us with ample evidence for the pro side to this argument. When discussing this question, it's best to think of man in his primitive state in which he is alone and fending for himself. At this point it is agreed that man does what he has to in order to ...
- 11294: Girl, Interrupted
- ... psychiatric hospitalization and the callousness of even the most upper-class of families and hospitals. "Lunatics," says Kaysen, "are similar to designated Hitlers. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside." Although she says very little about her family, she clearly sees herself as the family scapegoat. Caisson's " incarceration" in McLennan Hospital in Belmont, Mass., by reputation one of the nation's best psychiatric hospitals, let off her family the difficulties of having to live for two years with this "borderline personality." As diagnosed by the clinician's bible, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
- 11295: Summary of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- ... Jurgis. Jack Duane is an experienced and educated criminal who is also "politically connected". A man called Ostrinski is a half-blind tailor who teaches Jurgis about Socialism. There are also the members of Ona's family, each of whom play minor roles in the story. The story opens with the feast at Jurgis and Ona's wedding in America, but soon flashes back to the time before they left Lithuania. Jurgis met Ona at a horse fair, and fell in love with her. Unfortunately, they were too poor to have a wedding, since Ona's father just died. In the hopes of finding freedom and fortune, they left for America, bringing many members of Ona's family with them. After arriving in America, they are taken to Packingtown to ...
- 11296: The Battle of Saratoga
- ... army advanced upon the American camp in three separate columns. Two of them headed though the forests covering the region; the third, made of German troops, marched down the river road. American scouts detected Burgoyne’s army in motion and ordered Col. Daniel Morgan’s riflemen of Virginia to track the British march. At about 12:30 p.m., some of Morgan’s men came in contact with the advance guard of Burgoyne’s center column in a farm area about a mile north of the American camp. The battle went back and forth over the farm ...
- 11297: Environmental And Genetic Affects And Schizophrenia
- ... 5 per 1000 depending on the diagnostic criteria used - representing a lifetime risk of 1 per cent (Strange, 1992). Onset of the disease is most commonly in late adolescence or early adulthood. In the U.S.A., schizophrenia fills more beds than almost any other illness and the financial cost of schizophrenia due to direct medical costs, lost productivity and Social Security pensions is between $30 billion and $48 billion according ... schizophrenia through inadequate care. Such a mother was characterised by being "cold, distant and unfeeling" and due to this was called "schizophrenigenic" (APA, 1996). This has since been discredited as a theory. However, it wasn't until more sophisticated techniques for examining brain structure in vivo were introduced in the late 1970s that schizophrenia was thought to be due to 'organic' brain changes. Previously it was a "general feeling that...it ... two roads to schizophrenia" (Neumann et al., 1995). Six female and 23 male schizophrenics (average age of 35) were compared with a psychiatrically normal brother or sister. Their mothers were asked to recall the children's behaviour during the four four-year periods from birth to age sixteen. The symptoms included in a checklist included social withdrawal, anxiety, depression, attention deficits, delinquency, and aggression. They reported that: "as a group, ...
- 11298: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: Summary
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: Summary This story is about a young mischievious boy named Tom Sawyer. Tom lives with his aunt Polly and his little brother Sid on his aunt's farm. He lives with his aunt Polly because his mother died, and she was the only person to take him, and his brother in. Tom's aunt Polly always trys to make him do work, and help around the house. But Tom always trys to get out of doing it. Major characters Tom Sawyer: Tom is a kind of person that ... when she trys her conscience hurts her that she feel sorry for the person. She is very sympathetic. Huckleberry Finn: Huck is a young reckless boy without a family or a home. Beckey Thatcher: Tom's "love" Becky is a smart girl that never wants to get in trouble, and saves Tom at the end. This story takes place during the 1800's in the village of "St. Petersburg" where ...
- 11299: Mendin Wall
- Walls Have Two In Robert Frost s Mending Wall, he shows a man views about a wall. The man names both pros and cons of having the wall. He also hints at how a wall might affect a particular society. The poem is a conversation between two neighbors on either side of a wall. The main speaker s conversation shows his views about the purpose of the wall, and it s effectiveness to either bring people together, or it s tendency to separate them. The main speaker s conversation shows his feelings about the purpose of the wall. His monotonous feeling toward mending the wall ...
- 11300: Lord Of The Flies 13
- ... she runs back to Jake. Jake knows that he will never be able to have her for his own, and he accepts this as fact. This is clear when the Count asks them ³why don¹t you get married, you two? (68)² To this question, they give a lame half hearted awnser which implies that it will never happen. He is tolerant of her behavior because he loves her unconditionally and is willing to overlook everything she does. Jake s willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s promiscuity and infidelity is an indication of the skewed values of the age. It was an ³anything goes² era right after the first war, and Jake¹s message to Brett seems to be the ...
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