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- 25011: A Critique Of Inside The Brain
- ... an early age, are crucial. Armed with this information, any parent would be likely to spend more time with their children in an effort to ensure their ultimate success in life. It is a parent's responsibility and obligation to provide their children with the strongest mental armament available in order to enter the intellectual battlefield that will be their future. Those who are not properly intellectually prepared for life will ... handle the overwhelming amount of societal misfits that we will be producing. The book does go on to provide some hope for tomorrow as well as fear. The latter chapters focus more on the body's abilities to repair and heal the brain and mind. Much attention is given to potential treatments and therapies for those suffering from debilitating injuries and diseases. Along with explaining how the brain and associated tissue ... taking their newborns home from the hospital. A few hours spent reading this book, could help parents raise a child who could exceed all expectations. The information contained in this book implies that a child's future outlook is not predicated by his parents' genetic makeup. A child could surpass the successes of his parents if his parents give him the right start in life. After all, is it not ...
- 25012: Ella Baker
- Ella Baker To document Ella Baker's life is to recount the history of the civil rights movement. Whenever there was a cause to fight for or a group to organize, this dedicated women was there. Ella was born 1903, she grew ... time, president of the New York branch Ella went South in the 1950s to help the civil rights movement as it was developing in Alabama. With 30 years of organizing experience under her belt, Ella's advice to Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 was invaluable. She stayed South and helped Dr. King set up the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ... student sit-in demonstrations that were occurring all over the South. This activity led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most powerful student-activist movements formed in U.S. history. She also helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964, which helped to give African Americans in Mississippi more political power. Ella continued to serve as the "godmother" and mentor of ...
- 25013: Beloved: The Degradation of Slaves
- ... what some of these trials consist of and the effects they have on American black slaves. One of the more obvious degradations the characters in Beloved face is that of physical abuse. Morrison writes, “ That’s what they said it looked like; a chokecherry tree.” In this instance, Sethe is describing the tree-like shape of the scars on her back. Like many slaves, Sethe is whipped, only so badly that ... are forced to deal with. In addition to physical degradation, the characters also undergo a brutal dehumanization process or spiritual degradation. In the novel Paul D. asks, “ They used a cowhide on you?” and Sethe’s response is, “And they took my milk.” At this point, Sethe is no longer disturbed or concerned with the violation of her body, as any untainted human, but upset with the robbing of her milk ... that she, like them, no longer places any real value on her life, but only the stolen milk for her baby. Also, Sethe takes the life of her own baby daughter, Beloved. This is Sethe’s desperate attempt to save her daughter from the torturous life of a slave, such as the one that she must deal with day after day. Instead of seeing her daughter grow up to be ...
- 25014: Agamemnon, Symbolism Of Darkne
- ... revenge, both of which are traditionally sinful in nature. Agamemnon is murdered in the play by his wife Clytaemestra, who does so in hopes of avenging the death of her daughter, among other reasons. Clytaemestraā€™s daughter was killed in an act of sacrifice by Agamemnon, ironically, in hopes of ending a cycle of revenge already out of hand within the families of Agamemnon and his enemy Aegisthus. Although justice can ... it seems evident that evil still plays a part in motivating one to kill. Hence the symbolic darkness of night present in the opening scene of the play, foreshadowing the death of Agamemnon, and Clytaemestraā€™s conversion to the dark-side of hatred and revenge. Another commonly used significance of darkness is that of concealment. When a soldier wishes to hide his actions from an enemy, it is typically said that ... darkness.ā€¯ Just as a soldier used darkness to hide his actions, so has the characters of Clytaemestra. Secretly while Agamemnon was away fighting in the Trojan War, Clytaemestra carried out an affair with Agamemnonā€™s sworn enemy, Aegisthus. Agamemnon knows nothing of this affair and upon his return he is greeted with an overjoyed and welcoming Clytaemestra. Clytaemestra proceeded to inform Agamemnon that she had resisted all of the ...
- 25015: Father I Love You
- ... weekends just to be with him. Unlike part of the story my father was never abusive towards my mother or us. I only got hit once that I can remember by my father and that’s only because I deserved it. One thing that I did not do and will regret for the rest of my life is not say to my father that I loved him. I know that he ... lung cancer. It was hard for the family to except. It was especially hard for my mother. I was only sixteen years old I did not quite understand what was going on with my father’s health. I saw my father go from a well-built six foot two inch construction worker to a skinny very sick man. My mother pulled me aside one day about a week after we all ... was going to happen. The next day I went to go see him at the hospital. The minute I saw him I started to cry he grabbed my hand and told me “stop crying it’s not that bad “ The family tried to convince him to get the treatment he needed to stay alive a while longer but he refused. He passed away a month later. One thing my father ...
- 25016: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... the very beginning of the story, she starts off by stating that she does not want to go to Florida. She would rather go to east Tennessee and tried anything she could to change Bailey s mind (Page 426). Later in the story, as they began the trip to Florida, the grandmother talked the entire time. She would tell stories of her youth to the grandchildren and lecture them about being ... thing that showed her love and attention. Her only son, had a family of his own, her grandchildren were older now, and she felt like she was not important to them anymore, and the children s mother was involved with the baby. By bringing the cat, she felt like she would not be lonely. The reader can also tell that the woman is extremely prejudice. She refers to the black child ... her life. It has unraveled and now she thinks it is lost. The most action in the story takes place when the grandmother meets the antagonist. The family gets into an accident when the grandmother s cat startles Bailey. After the wreck, they saw a car approaching from the distance. The three men get out of the car and the grandmother recognizes one of them from somewhere. At this point ...
- 25017: Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
- Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, a village in northern Spain. The family later moved to Saragossa, where Goya's father worked as a gilder. At fourteen years old, Goya was apprenticed to Jose Luzan, a local painter. Later he went to Italy to continue his study of art. On returning to Saragossa in 1771, he painted frescoes for the local cathedral. These works, done in the decorative rococo tradition, established Goya's artistic reputation. In 1773 he married Josefa Bayeu, sister of Saragossa artist Francisco Bayeu. The couple had many children, but only one--a son, Xavier--survived to adulthood. From 1775 to 1792 Goya painted cartoons ... to the French. He expressed his horror of armed conflict in The Disasters of War, a series of starkly realistic etchings on the atrocities of war. They were not published until 1863, long after Goya's death. Upon the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya was pardoned for serving the French, but his work was not favored by the new king. He was called before the Inquisition to explain his ...
- 25018: A Story About Shy Copper
- ... best metal. They went to a court and start to prove to a Periodic Table who is the best and most important. Silver said: “I am the best, because my melting point lower than Copper’s and Gold’s, I have been discovered in the ancient time and can be used in the photography.” Then Gold starts to talk: “No, I am the best and important metal, because I am good looking guy and ... she said. On the next morning she took him to the court and said to Periodic Table: “You was wrong when you said that Copper is the worse metal, because he is one of man's most important metals. May be he is not so nice as Gold and Silver, because he is reddish colored, but he takes on a bright metallic luster, and he is malleable, ductile and a ...
- 25019: The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold
- ... platform where criminals are punished before all the townspeople. In this case, the criminal is Hester Prynne and the crowd has gathered to witness her shame. The first scene at the ominous platform is Hester's first public appearance with the child and the scarlet letter. Hester's husband, Roger Prynne (Chillingworth) makes a sudden reappearance and is among the onlookers. The Reverend Mr. Dimmsdale is also there but he does not stand with Hester on the scaffold, instead he stands on the ... electric chain” as if they were always meant to be together if something, or someone, had not gotten in their way (140). But it is here that Hester finally realizes the damage which hiding Chillingworth's identity has caused Dimmsdale. Chillingworth was “a secret enemy...continually at his side, under the semblance of a friend and helper...” when in truth he was tormenting Dimmsdale at every opportunity (153). When Hester ...
- 25020: Analysis Of Nathaniel Hawthorn
- ... frightful place (244). With the words, "staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake" (244) and "The moment his fingers touched them, they became strangely withered and dried up as with a week s sunshine" symbolizes the devil (246). Another important literary element that Hawthorne uses is characterization. He also uses symbolism to represent his characters. For instance, Faith is the wife of Young Goodman Brown and is represented ... person. When Hawthorne writes, "the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap", symbolizes Faith to be a beautiful and pleasant person (244). Also Hawthorne writes, "as the wife was aptly named, and she s a blessed angel on earth" symbolizes that Faith is faithful and honest (243). In contrast to Faith is the mysterious travellar. He represents the devil in the forest which represents hell. Hawthorne writes, "his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake" (244) and "The moment his fingers touched them, they became strangely withered and dried up, as with a week s sunshine" (246) symbolizes the hellish powers of the devil. Young Goodman Brown plays the middle man within the story. He is married to a beautiful wife and is urged to become bad in the ...
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