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- 18061: Hester Prynne: Comparion beween Reynold and Herzog Essays
- ... The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is a character about whom much gas been written such as, Toward Hester Prynn, by David Reynolds, and The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and Awesome, by Kristin Herzog. Reynold's essay dealt with Hester as a heroine, who is an artistic combination of disparate female types. Herzog's essay dealt with the idea that Hester is both wild and passionate, as well as, caring, conservative, and alien. Towards Hester Prynne, by David Reynolds, expressed Hester as a heroine composed of many different stereotypes of females from the time period Hawthorne was writing. Hawthorne created some of the most skeptical and politically uncommitted characters in pre-civil war history. Reynolds went on to say, His [Hawthorne's] career illustrates the success of an especially responsive author in gathering together disparate female types and recombining them artistically so that they become crucial elements of the rhetorical and artistic construct of his fiction ( ...
- 18062: Personal Writing: My Father's Desire To Be A Doctor
- Personal Writing: My Father's Desire To Be A Doctor Born in a poor family, my father and several of his brothers were sent to military schools for their education. Interested in medical careers, he studied pharmacy throughout his school ... to another city to get proper training. After months of training and trafficking between home and school, he got his license as a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Now he has a brand new doctors office of his own, which is always crowded with patients. Thinking that he is a great doctor, many patients bring other patients with them. He has not only provided his patients with good medical treatments ...
- 18063: Id, Ego, and the Superego
- Id, Ego, and the Superego Self is one's awareness of ideas and attitudes about one's own personal and social identity. Self is shaped since young by reflecting self-image from other in order to sense one's own identity. Sigmund Freud developed a model of personality; it consists three items: id, ego and superego. Id is the basic drive and instinct for food, sex etc. that need to be satisfied unconsciously, ...
- 18064: Charles Dickens 5
- ... childhood memories. John was transferred back to the London office and moved his family to Camden Town in 1822. John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was finally imprisoned for debt at the Marshalsea debtor's prison in Southwark in 1824. 12 year old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory earning six shillings a week to help support the family. Charles considered this ... compassion for the lower class, especially the children. Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short storys and articles before his death in 1870. The inscription on his tombstone in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey reads: He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world. The storys, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever. Dickens 1842 On January 3, 1842 Charles Dickens sailed from Liverpool on the steamship Britannia bound ...
- 18065: Women and the Fight for Reform
- ... service to reach those too poor to pay for doctors and hospitals. Her Henry Street Settlement offered a host of vital services for immigrants and the poor. Wald suggested the formation of a Federal Children's Bureau. By the end of the 19th century, many women reformers focused on the need for state laws to restrict child labor. Young children from poor families had to work late hours in mines and ... dependent children was Sophie Loeb, a Jewish immigrant from Russia Once her father was deceased, she watched the desperation of her mother as the family slipped into poverty. As a journalist, Loeb campaigned for window's pensions when this was still a new idea. Helen Stuart Campbell, born in 1839 in New York, began her public career as an author of children's books. Then she used novels to expose slim life's damaging effect on women. In 1859 she wrote a novel about two women who break from their dependence on men and chart new lives. ...
- 18066: Money and the Way it Alters the Mind
- Money and the Way it Alters the Mind In most cultures, there is one aspect which is valued above the rest, whether it be education, social status, or any other significant attribute. In Lewis Laphams Money and Class in America, ideas are produced about the importance of money in Americas culture. It is obvious, to those who read Laphams passage, that he researched thoroughly the ways we, as Americans, have been brought up differently than the rest of the world. The way Americans honor what is important is perceived as ridiculous, by many ...
- 18067: Education: "We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom To Think"
- Education: "We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom To Think" This essay is about the article called "We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom to Think." It was written by Kie Ho, a business executive who was born and raised in Indonesia. Ho writes this article about why he thinks that American education is, in many ways better ...
- 18068: Xerox
- ... markets you must first examine the culture, social, and demographic issues impacting foreign businesses. The Colombian culture has begun to show a bias towards American products as recently as 1998. As written in Carol Casper s New York Times article, There is a lot of interest in U.S. concepts and products... in not only Colombia but also all of Latin America. The interest has caused more American firms to begin to see these developing attitudes and expand their businesses into Latin America. For ... to also take part in this expansion they would be able to take advantage of the new interest. Colombians, although, are not welcoming these companies with open arms. There is an interest in the U.S. businesses but as Dianna Jean Schemo reports; it is not uncommon to be threatened by the cartels of Colombia. These cartels want in on the inflow of money and will get involved in kidnappings ...
- 18069: The Hobbit 2
- ... and glory Bilbo decides to join the party after all. Gandalf reveals a key and a map of their journey which ends at the Lon ely Mountain. It is there that the treasure of Thorin's ancestors are kept-guar ded by Smaug. The quest begins and the party meets at the Green Dragon Inn. From there they venture into the Lone-lands. As heavy rains begin to fall, Bilbo notice s that Gandalf is missing. When it starts to pour they stop to investigate a light. There Bilbo finds three trolls grumbling about food. Bilbo decides to live up to title of burglar and attempts to pick one of the trolls pocket. However they quickly capture him. The dwarfs see what's going on and try to save poor Bilbo... yet all of them except Thorin is caught. Thorin formulates a plan of freeing them but fails. Gandalf returns and occupies the trolls till dawn, then ...
- 18070: Hard Times By Dickens, Structu
- ... firm character basis with. The opening chapter emphasizes on Thomas Gradgrind Sr., and his students fittingly referred to as "little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts." (Dickens 10). Gradgrind's methods of education are employed to show Dickens' 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's informative definition of a horse, as a child in book one, occurs in book three as he speaks of the necessity of apprehending Tom Gradgrind Jr. Sissy represents what Dickens is attempting to foster ...
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