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- 1351: Birth Order 2
- ... born child, is he or she going to be rebellious? If people are last born are they more likely to be on television? Are first born children inconsiderate and selfish or highly motivated? A person's birth order can affect his personality. Birth order definitely affects your personality, your attitude, your children, your occupational choice, and even how well you get along with God (Leman, Birth Order 10). There is an awful lot of research and plain old "law of averages" supporting the affect of birth order on personality. It doesn't explain everything about human behavior--no personality test or system can--but it does give us many clues about why people are the way they are (Leman, Birth Order 11). There are four basic classifications ... born children (Leman, Birth Order 12). Another trait that is often typical of the first born child is the tendency to choose careers that involve leadership. For instance, fifty-two percent of the United State's presidents have been first borns (Leman, Birth Order 44). First borns are "first come" and they are "first served" by eager parents who want to do this job of parenting better than anyone has ...
- 1352: Othello-values And Attitudes
- If Othello didn t begin as a play about race, history has made it one. The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text ... of Elizabethan society in England in the sixteenth-century. Although Othello is set in Venice and Cyprus, the attitudes and values shared in the text are probably reflective of the attitudes and values of Shakespeare's own society. It is difficult to assess the attitudes and values of people in sixteenth-century Britain to the relatively few blacks living amongst them. We are given an insight into those attitudes and values ... Iago and Roderigo. This attitude may have been encouraged by the widespread belief in the legend that blacks were descendants of Ham in the Genesis story, punished for sexual excess by their blackness. The Elizabethan's discussed at length whether this skin colour was due to life in a hot climate or whether it was a punishment for sin. To the Elizabethan's, who thought hierarchically, fair skin was the ...
- 1353: The Maltese Falcon
- ... different ways in the film to show the distinct functions of masculinity and femininity between the characters. Sam said to Effie, Your a nice rattle brain angel. (The Maltese Falcon, John Huston, 1941) Sam Spade s assistant, Effie is a conservative and a practical woman. As the detective s assistant, she possesses more of masculine qualities than feminine qualities. Since she works in an environment around men, she has a tendency to be more influenced by their activities and their ideas. Sam said to ... act this way, she is still a woman who is somewhat ladylike and very polite. In some ways, women are used to bring forth the ideas of sex and lust, but in this case, Effie s role was necessary in helping the story to develop and to present how the role of woman could be played and perceived. Sam said to Effie, Your a good man,sister. (The Maltese Falcon, ...
- 1354: Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury
- Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury In the short monologue from William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, the title character likens life to a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury.” Benjy, a thirty-three year old idiot, begins to relate William Faulkner’s unfortunate tale of the Compson family in The Sound and the Fury. Just as it is a story told by an imbecile, it is one characterized by “sound” and “fury.” Benjy’s meaningless utterances and reliance on his auditory senses, the perpetual ticking of clocks, Quentin’s mysterious bantering, the insignificant accompaniment. Jason’s lust for power and control, the inescapable nemesis of time, Miss Quentin’ ...
- 1355: As You Like It: Rosalind as Ganymede
- As You Like It: Rosalind as Ganymede All of William Shakespeare’s plays include a wide variety of characters, and his comedy, As You Like It, is no exception. There are characters that represent members of the high social class, or royal class, including both of the ... Boys. On the opposite end of the social ladder are the servants Adam and Dennis, and in the middle are the members of the working class represented by Touchstone, Sylvius, Phoebe, Audrey, and others. Shakespeare’s way of differentiating between these characters is what gives the play its structure. What he does for almost every single person in his play is give them a certain view on a subject, and then ... the only person in the play that has a level head on her shoulders, and he leaves it up to her to straighten everyone else out. This essay will explore what Shakespeare included in Rosalind’s character that makes her the only balanced person in the play, and it will also show how she balances the other characters out. The first action taken by Rosalind that indicates her balanced state ...
- 1356: Creative Writing: A Sunday
- ... home. I have to, the children want their dinner. She sits in the bus away from the window. Afraid to look out. Cars and people on the footpath. People watching. For her. Tom says it's a nice place, Mum. Warm and clean and friendly and plenty to do. Except that everything to do there ends up with dying and there are better places to do that and better people to do it with. She grips the sides of the seat with her hands and they are hot and sweating. Jack said I don't want to leave you, Jess. Jess? And she took his head in her hands and cradled him against her body. Rocked and rocked him, tender and gentle for the last time and whispered to him ... road. She has her book ready in her bag but how much?; she has to think, too, about the withdrawal slip. All thats done for her now. Tom said it'd be easier. Tom doesn't know sometimes easier is harder. In the end she stands still and quiet and breathes in deeply. Makes herself think to write the name and the numbers. She has to stop and hold her ...
- 1357: Creative Writing: A Sunday
- ... home. I have to, the children want their dinner. She sits in the bus away from the window. Afraid to look out. Cars and people on the footpath. People watching. For her. Tom says it's a nice place, Mum. Warm and clean and friendly and plenty to do. Except that everything to do there ends up with dying and there are better places to do that and better people to do it with. She grips the sides of the seat with her hands and they are hot and sweating. Jack said I don't want to leave you, Jess. Jess? And she took his head in her hands and cradled him against her body. Rocked and rocked him, tender and gentle for the last time and whispered to him ... road. She has her book ready in her bag but how much?; she has to think, too, about the withdrawal slip. All thats done for her now. Tom said it'd be easier. Tom doesn't know sometimes easier is harder. In the end she stands still and quiet and breathes in deeply. Makes herself think to write the name and the numbers. She has to stop and hold her ...
- 1358: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... 1940 her mother divorced and remarried to Hugh D. Auchincloss II in 1942. Jackie then moved with her mother to Newport, Rhode Island (22-23). The government source also indicates that Jackie attended Miss Porter’s School for Girls in Connecticut and Vassar College where she excelled in history, literature, art and French. Her junior year she spent at the Sorbonne in Paris, studying French and learning more about the French culture. She then returned to the United States and earned a degree in French literature from George Washington University and graduated in 1951. Jackie’s favorite interest as a child and young adult were reading, sketching, writing poems and short stories, riding horses, ballet and studying the French culture and language (23). Jackie’s first job was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times-Herald. She would spend her working day walking around the city with her camera capturing citizens’ reactions to issues of the day. At ...
- 1359: Alzheimer's Q&A
- Alzheimer's Q&A Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Assoc. Inc. 70 E. Lake Street, Suite 600 Chicago, Illinois 60601 What is Alzheimer's Disease? The most common form of dementing illness, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive, degenerative disease that attacks the brain, causing impaired memory, thinking and behavior. The person with AD may experience confusion, ...
- 1360: Brave New World - Is It A Warn
- ... most of them have already come true but not to the extent that he writes about. The society in Brave New World is significantly different to the present one, and to the society in Huxley’s time. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World not as a warning, but as something to look forward to. The people in Brave New World are everything we, as a society, want to be. Mustapha Mond sums up the perfections of the society in Brave New World with an explanation he gave John: “The world’s perfect now. People are happy; they get what they want and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or ...
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