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- 6141: The Bluest Eye
- Misdirection of Anger "Anger is better [than shame]. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth."(50) This is how many of the blacks in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye felt. They faked love when they felt powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they did have with anger. The Bluest Eye shows the way that the blacks were compelled to place ... circulating among themselves, in effect oppressing themselves, at the same time they were being oppressed by the white people. Pecola Breedlove was a young black girl, growing up in Lorain, Ohio in the early 1940's. Her life was one of the most difficult in the novel, for she was almost totally alone. She suffered the most because she had to withstand having others' anger dumped on her, internalized this hate, and was unable to get angry herself. Over the course of the novel, this anger destroys her from the inside. When Geraldine yells at her to get out of her house, Pecola's eyes were fixed on the "pretty" lady and her "pretty" house. Pecola does not stand up to Maureen Peal when she made fun of her for seeing her dad naked but instead lets Freida ...
- 6142: Going Out On My Own
- ... re twenty-one. My cousin Joe was already living there and knew I was looking for an excuse to move out on my own. Since this was my first time on my own it didn’t hurt that it was only thirty miles from home and I could get help if it was needed. Joe was leaving his job at Kelly’s, a local restaurant in downtown Norman, and thought I might be interested in replacing him. I came down and met with Rick Rubinski, the owner, who turned out to be an old hippie friend of my father’s from the early seventies, and was hired on the spot. I was hired as a cook and was soon running the kitchen for the day shift. Our menu mainly consisted of home cooked favorites ...
- 6143: The Sun Also Rises: A Hero
- The Sun Also Rises: A Hero In Hemingway's novels, he has an idea of a "hero", in which a man must do certain things to be considered a hero. A man has to be a "man's man". The man has to like driking beer, wild game hunting, enjoy bullfights, and participate in love affairs. In the story, The Sun Also Rises, Robert Cohn could be considered the opposite of a "Hemingway Hero" for several reasons. Robert feels that bullfighting is "abnormal". Cohn doesn't like to box, but learns to, so that if he had to he could defend himself. Also, Cohn is not considered a hero, because many of his experiences came to him by reading and ...
- 6144: There Are No Children Here
- ... out Pharoah would go to his room and practice both the spelling of words and controlling his studer. He had gone through the spelling bee a year before. On the previous spelling bee he wasn't able to control his studer enough to spell the word and he ran out of time. Even though this happened, he believed in himself and tried again. At the spelling bee, he determination showed. He thought out the words and concentrated on every letter to make sure he didn't studder. On the last round, he was against his friend Clarise. Pharoah missed his word and Clarise won the spelling bee. Pharoah was still very please because his friend won and second place was good ... did, when she found out I made it she was so happy, she was screaming and telling me how talented I was. I asked her if she made it and she told me she didn't but it was ok because half of her wish came true, I made it. I can also relate to the feeling of prejudice. In There Are No Children Here, Lafeyette actually felt more threatened ...
- 6145: The Romance Of Lace
- The Romance of Lace Perhaps it s the touch of romance it adds. Or the way light filters through it, suffused and softened. For others, it reminds them of the home of a beloved grandmother or a gentler time. The delicate threads ... clothes, have found a second life as design elements. A lot of people like baby clothes to hang in nurseries or to add a touch of softness or whimsy to a room, Tackett said. There s something comforting about a delicate gown or bonnet hanging near a window or on a hook. In one instance, a woman came into Tackett s shop and spotted a pinafore that was almost an exact copy of a dress her sister had worn as a child. The woman bought it and displayed it in a shadow box along with ...
- 6146: The Call Of The Wild - Symbolism
- In Jack London’s book, The Call of the Wild, he symbolizes many things in the book. Buck, gold sacks, Mercedes, and others are looked on as symbolic. In this essay, you will find out what these items symbolize ... becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Here London makes Buck a symbol of one that reaches full potential. Instead of lying around and doing nothing, he learns to work in a way he doesn’t know too well about. He learns to fight and/or steal his food, if he didn’t , he would have starved to death. That is why Buck is portrayed as one who achieves full potential. Mercedes portrays the absolute opposite to Buck. She represents all that is weak in a civilized ...
- 6147: Flouridation
- ... the University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station M. C. Smith, E. M. Lantz, and H. V. Smith discovered that when given drinking water supplied with fluorine, rats would develop tooth defects. Further testing by H. T. Dean and E. Elove of the United States Public Health Service confirmed this report, and stated that what is known as mottled tooth. Mottled tooth is a condition in which white spots develop on the ... press conference in which they said that: “Communities desiring to fluoridate their communal water supplies should be strongly encouraged to do so.” (Waldbott pg. 263) In June 1951, dental health representatives from around the U. S. met with dental health officials to discuss the promotion and implementation of fluoride. It was at this conference that the United States Public Health Service formally endorsed fluoridation. It had finally succumb to the pressure. Two years later in 1953, the American Dental Association also began to support fluoridation, when they released a pamphlet, sending it to every dentistry office in the U. S. The pamphlet told the advantages of using fluoride, encouraged acceptance and use of fluoride, and sought to overcome public resistance to fluoride (Coffel). From 1953 till 1977 the only debates going on about fluoridation ...
- 6148: Teenage Violence
- ... Evening Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Kyra. We are here tonight to discuss with you a problem that is plaguing our nations' youth. Violence among youth, especially in schools is one of American society's most pressing concerns. It has become a source of controversy also. To begin our brief presentation I would like to present a scenario that will hopefully open your eyes and give you a sense of ... than half the time both sides can win. Here to tell you about some of the reasons teenagers resort to violence is Louise. REASONS FOR TEENAGE VIOLENCE Teenage violence is an increasing problem in today's society. I will try to show some of the reasons for this mutiny. Things are different for today's teenagers compared to a generation ago. Teenagers are exposed to massive amounts of violence in the media. Violent acts are glorified in the media. Children are subjected to a relentless stream of violent acts ...
- 6149: Themes Displayed In To Kill A
- ... Also, there theme of many helpless victims comes across. Lastly, growing up is a prevalent theme in the novel. Harper Lee does an excellent job of making these themes come across. One of the story's greatest themes is that social justice is not always easy to achieve. It tells the story of one Tom Robinson. Tom is a black man in a racist town who is accused of a crime that he didn't commit. Atticus believes and tries to show others that all people are created equal, at least under the law. Bob Ewell accused Tom of beating and raping his daughter and only the black families and a handful of whites (including Atticus) seem to believe in his innocence. Therefore his chance of a fair trial was slim. The jury's racism cuts short an innocence man's life. Unfortunately, the small southern town's social values raised white children to think of blacks as the 'second-class' race. Case closed, Tom must be guilty, ...
- 6150: Fasle Memory
- ... causes physical and mental disorders in a person. This view of memory has two elements: (1) the accuracy element and (2) the causal element. The reason this model is questionable is not because people don't have unpleasant or painful experiences they would rather forget, nor is it claiming that children often experience both wonderful and brutal things for which they have no conceptual or linguistic framework and hence are incapable ... of functioning as a healthy human being and (b) one remembers being abused as a child that therefore (A) one was abused as a child and (B) the childhood abuse is the cause of one's adulthood problems. There is no evidence that supports the claim that we remember everything that we experience. In fact, there is plenty of evidence to support the claim that it is impossible for us to ... have been sexually abused, get treated as a 'fact' by many people. Psychologist Carol Tavris writes In what can only be called an incestuous arrangement, the authors of these books all rely on one another's work as supporting evidence for their own; they all recommend one another's books to their readers. If one of them comes up with a concocted statistic--such as "more than half of all ...
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