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- 341: Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros?
- Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros? A hero? We’re expected to write an entire report on a hero? Two actually. Compare and contrast your two chosen people, are they heroes or aren’t they, blah, blah, blah. Three pages on that? How easy! Definition of a hero: batman, superman, or someone of that stature that has either been in a movie, cartoon series or has gained the privilege ... nor had I recalled browsing through Publix and seeing Cyrano de Bergerac holding his MVP trophy on the Wheaties box I was picking up for breakfast the next morning. I realized that the assignment wasn’t going to be so easy as I thought it would. I was puzzled. Now what was I going to do? I needed to figure out why these people were still known today. Again, how hard ... out with my dilemma. I read again. I looked over notes again. I read again. I looked over notes again. I think you catch my drift. And it turns out that this Cyrano guy ain’t half bad. In all actuality he may be a hero. Mr. de Bergerac was an eccentric man, and yes he did have quite the olfactory organ, but he was much more complex than that. ...
- 342: Beloved: Sethe's Motivation For Killing Her Baby
- Beloved: Sethe's Motivation For Killing Her Baby "It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave"(Morrison 1987). These are the words that Toni Morrison used to describe the ... presented as a former slave woman who chooses to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the physically, emotionally, and spiritually oppressive horrors of a life spent in slavery. Sethe's action is indisputable: She has killed her child, that terrible. Sethe's motivation is not so clearly defined. By killing her "Beloved" child, has Sethe acted out of true love or selfish pride? The fact that Sethe's act is irrational can easily be decided upon. ...
- 343: The Joy Luck Club: Relationship Between Mother and Daughter
- ... Club, Amy Tan explores the different mother-daughter relationships between the characters, and at a lower level, relationships between friends, lovers, and even enemies. The mother-daughter relationships are most likely different aspects of Tan's relationship with her mother, and perhaps some parts are entirely figments of her imagination. In this book, she presents the conflicting views and the stories of both sides, providing the reader--and ultimately, the characters ... to become like everyone else and not to be different are what motivate the daughters to resent their nationality. Being Chinese, I have also faced this same problem, but not to the extent that Tan's characters do, for the Chinese-American daughters grew up in the 50s, when it was not as "fashionable" to be ethnic than it is today, in the 80s and 90s, the years of my childhood. Nevertheless, I have still felt pressure to belong, to fit in with my schoolmates, the majority of whom are Caucasian. Besides that, I have also felt that I didn't quite belong around my classmates, as Tan's characters had, and that's partly why so many of my friends are Chinese (the "Chinese clique" =^D) and Asian--we look similar and come from ...
- 344: Growth Of A Chrysanthemum
- Growth of a Chrysanthemum D. H. Lawrence’s 1914 short story, "Odour of Chrysanthemums", is still in print and considered worth reading in 1999. Perhaps it’s printed and reprinted as a matter of habit. Perhaps editors like it because other editors have. But maybe it’s a success because it’s an exceptional work. Of these three possibilities, the last is certainly the most appealing. Luckily, it seems most likely to be true. Lawrence made a conscious effort to improve ...
- 345: Beloved: Sethe's Character
- Beloved: Sethe's Character "It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave"(Morrison 1987). These are the words that Toni Morrison used to describe the actions of the central ... presented as a former slave woman who chooses to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the physically, emotionally, and spiritually oppressive horrors of a life spent in slavery. Sethe's action is indisputable: She has killed her child, that terrible. Sethe's motivation is not so clearly defined. By killing her "Beloved" child, has Sethe acted out of true love or selfish pride? The fact that Sethe's act is irrational can easily be decided upon. ...
- 346: Princess Diana
- ... the third female child to Viscount and Viscountess Althorp. Diana had two older sisters, Sarah and Jane and one younger brother, Charles. Her family was well off and Diana had a privileged childhood. The Spencer’s made their money as successful sheep traders in the 15th century. With their fortune they built Althorp House in Northamptonshire and acquired a family crest and motto – "God defend the right" (Morton 10). The Spencer’s occupied various offices of State and Court. When Diana’s was born her father was disappointed she was a girl. He was hoping for his third children to finally be a male heir to carry on the Spencer name. Diana’s father and the ...
- 347: John Coltrane
- ... that I'm just beginning. I have part of what I'm looking for in my grasp, but not all." John Coltrane This phrase, from the liner notes of "My Favorite Things" clearly defines Coltrane's life and his search for the incorporation of his spirituality with his music. John Coltrane was not only an essential contributor to jazz, but also music itself. John Coltrane died thirty-two years ago, on ... for this aspect of his work. In composition he excelled in an astonishing number of forms – blues, ballads, spirituals, rhapsodies, elegies, suites, and free-form and cross-cultural works. The closest contemporary analogy to Coltrane's relentless search for possibilities was the Beatles' redefinition of rock from one album to the next. Yet the distance they traveled from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues. Asked by a Swedish disc jockey in 1960 if he was trying to "play what you hear," ...
- 348: Im The King Of The Castle
- Chapter 1: this chapter is an introduction to the story, the first two characters are introduced here. These characters are named mr. Hooper and Edmund Hooper. The story starts with the death of edmund's grandfather, they visit him and later het dies. Mr. Hooper and Edmund went to live in the house of Edmund's grandfather, it was a big ugly house made of dark, red brick, it was called Warings , there were no other houses near it. one night Edmund got out of bed. He walked across the hall and he took a key from the desk. This was the key to the Red Room, he walked to a very big door and he unlocked it. The room was like a museum, Edmund's father had been a great collector of moths and butterflies. Edmund looked in a glass case and he touched a large black moth then the moth became dark dust. The next day mr. Hooper ...
- 349: John Coltrane
- ... that I'm just beginning. I have part of what I'm looking for in my grasp, but not all. John Coltrane This phrase, from the liner notes of "My Favorite Things" clearly defines Coltrane's life and his search for the incorporation of his spirituality with his music. John Coltrane was not only an essential contributor to jazz, but also music itself. John Coltrane died thirty-two years ago, on ... for this aspect of his work. In composition he excelled in an astonishing number of forms blues, ballads, spirituals, rhapsodies, elegies, suites, and free-form and cross-cultural works. The closest contemporary analogy to Coltrane's relentless search for possibilities was the Beatles' redefinition of rock from one album to the next. Yet the distance they traveled from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues. Asked by a Swedish disc jockey in 1960 if he was trying to "play what you hear," ...
- 350: Written Speech On Teen Suicide
- ... The people around you are wondering what was going through your mind and why you did it. Maybe you even told some of your friends that you were going to do it, and they didn't believe you, thinking it were a joke. You may have told your friends about your plans, but apparently your parents had no clue as to why you would choose to take your life, but this is the case with most teenage suicides. A lot of the time the parents don't have any clue that there was anything wrong in their children's lives, and also the teen's friends might have had some kind of clue, but they didn't do anything about it. Overall, they are left grieving their dead child or friend who took ...
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