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- 6911: Everything That Rises Must Converge
- ... the plot interesting. The exposition consumes the beginning of the story. This is important because it gives the reader a better understanding of the characters, and sets tones for causality. Being introduced first is Julian’s mother. Her attitude and actions are best described on page 207. It states, " She sat forward and looked up and down the bus. It was half filled. Everybody was white. ‘I see we have the bus to ourselves." This allows the reader to assume that Julian’s mother is prejudice, and was most likely raised in that time era. A good example O’Conner uses to explain Julian is found on page 208. It states, "Most miraculous of all, instead of being ... He stared at her, making his eyes the eyes of a stranger. He felt his tension suddenly lift as if he had openly declared war on her." The reader feels the anger building in Julian’s mother beginning on page 209. It reads, "Her eyes retained their battered look. Her face seemed to be unnaturally red, as if her blood pressure had risen." Complications continue when are third and fourth ...
- 6912: Wuthering Heights: A Novel of Revenge
- ... Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff, however, was not welcomed by anyone, especially his foster-brother Hindley, who tortured him every time he got a chance. As Catherine states, “ Poor Heathcliff! Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor let him sit with us any more; and, he says he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break ... is overheard by Heathcliff. “I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he is handsome, Nelly he is more myself than I ... to marry Edgar Linton for his material things rather than spiritual qualities, he becomes vengeful and runs away. In summary, Heathcliff is mistreated by Hindley and Catherine and later seeks revenge towards these two. Heathcliff’s return as an adult meant that his primary object was to obtain revenge towards his former tormentors. Heathcliff first took revenge on Hindley. he found out that Hindley had a gambling and drinking problem. ...
- 6913: Ordinary People: Dysfunctional Family
- ... The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and Calvin Jarret, home after eight months in a psychiatric hospital, there because he attempted suicide by slashing his wrists. Canard’s mother, is very self-possessed. She appears to have a highly developed super-ego making Conrad feel like she despises him. She does all the rights things relating to keeping a spotless home, plays golf and bridge with the other women in her social cycle, but in her own words, “its an emotional cripple”(Guest 253). Conrad on the other hand shows his personality to be different from Beth’s. He seems anxious to please everyone, putting their needs before his. Guest develops the theme “ forgiveness sets one free”, through the characters Beth and Conrad. Both are unable to forgive themselves for similar reasons, but ... mother. He is an overachiever, an "A" student, on the swim team and a list-maker. His father tells the psychiatrist, "I see her not being able to forgive him. For surviving, maybe. No, that's not it, for being too much like her"(147). In some cases weak people tend on to forget what’s real and what’s not, “Depending upon reality one must face, one may prefer ...
- 6914: Theory and Research
- ... used in survey based researches such as the attached article entitled "Horatio Alger lives". Social research is a collection of methods people use to systematically combine theories and ideas to produce knowledge. Because of it's complexity, researchers must be able to carefully select a method or methods that will best suit their study objectives. Quantitative research method consists of: experiment, content analysis, existing statistics (correlation), and survey. The correlation and ... percentage of sons of fathers in the lower income families made more money than their father. Class Discussion The class discussion evolved around two questions. The first question was; do you agree with the researcher's angle in which he derived a general assumption that, sons of wealthy fathers will make more money than sons of lower income fathers? Before allowing anyone to answer I quickly brought up the third variable ... added that wealtheir families had higher expectations on their children and as a result the child were likely to live up to that expectation. On the contrary, the other classmate (male) disagreed with the researcher's approach and generalization. His argument was that regardless of how rich one's father may be it is solely dependent upon the individual's attitude. He further argued that if that individual had a ...
- 6915: To Kill A Mockingbird: A Summary
- ... winning film. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. There are so many characters in this book that I can't name all of them. Here are most of the characters. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), (Jem) Jeremy (The oldest of Atticus's two children), (Scout) Jean Louise (The youngest of the two . She also trys to be a boy by doing boy things). And you can't forget their black maid. Her name is Calpurnia. Miss ...
- 6916: Birches
- ... The idea of trees being bent by ice and snow is much less romantic than the idea of a young boy enjoying himself, teaching himself some lessons about Physics and life. This idea of nature's self-destruction is one that isn't often addressed in our time, since most destruction to nature is blamed on humans and pollution. Frost, being a man of the country, realizes that nature often destroys itself, but he wants to imagine a different cause for the leaning branches. The speaker's fantasy offers him a way to make some good come out of the injury to the branches, thereby allowing himself to recollect his past as a boy swinging from branch to branch. This fantasy ...
- 6917: Salzman's "Iron and Silk": Losing Face
- Salzman's "Iron and Silk": Losing Face Everyone has experienced losing face. I can remember as a kid, being caught in a lie and trying desperately to weasel my way out without looking stupid. There were times as an adult, I would deny having problems at my job, too worried of loosing creditability. In Mark Salzman's book “ Iron and Silk”, he shows the Chinese culture and how important it is to keep face in front of a foreigner. Early in the book, Mark is introduced to Pan a marital arts expert ... pulled aside by Pan. Pan tells Mark he can fix his wushu but if he fails it will be Pan who looses face. People will loose respect for the greatest martial arts expert who couldn't teach a foreigner. During one of the class discussions Mark had with his students, the topic of kissing was brought up. Mark wanted to know why public sighs of affection were so rare in ...
- 6918: Evolution From A Molecular Perspective
- ... in our genes was available to the public? Would insurance companies and employers base their selections on these traits? Also, with the total knowledge of every sequence of every amino acid chain in a person's genome, couldn't a laboratory perceivably reconstruct an exact copy of, or clone, that person? These are all issues that will have to be dealt with in the near future, but for now we need only concern ourselves ... exactly the same weight. Most organisms have their own unique, individual chain of proteins to make up their hemoglobin, but all organisms share certain similarities, so striking that they are unable to be ignored. Let's take, for example, the first twenty-five amino acids in the alpha hemoglobin chains of 7 different animals: a human man, rhesus monkey, cow, platypus, chicken, carp (bony fish), and shark (cartilaginous fish) (See ...
- 6919: Eating Disorder
- ... that the current thin ideal for women in Western society, which is unattainable for all but a very small percentage of the population, is compounding this problem. It is a very serious issue when someone's body shape is determined by genetic disposition and yet they try to alter it to fit some kind of imaginary ideal of how a person should look. Thus, one of the most serious problems is that female nature is not what society says it should be. Some researchers theorize that anorexia is a young woman's way of canceling puberty. Since they lack body fat, anorexics don't get their periods and often lose their sexual characteristics such as public hair. They remain, in other words, little girls. There is also the complex issue of women feeling that by having an eating ...
- 6920: Ronald Reagan
- ... as a sportscaster for WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. Reagan moved to Hollywood in 1937 and began a 25 year acting career. Some of his noted movies were Knute Rockne-All American, King’s Row, and Bedtime for Bozo. During his acting career, Reagan was elected as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (the union for film actors) six times. He married Jane Wyman, had two children, but divorced her eight years later. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and they had two more children. As president of the union, he tried to remove communists from the movie industry. Reagan’s first national political scene was when he did a speech supporting Republican presidential candidate Senator Barry Goldwater. Even though Goldwater lost the election, he brought in money and praise from fellow Republicans around the country ... November 1979, after making political friends at party fund-raising dinners around the country. He easily defeated the other nominees for the Republican nomination. He chose Gerald Ford as his vice-president. But when Ford’s negotiators proposed that the vice-president should share presidential powers, Reagan chose George Bush instead. During the campaign against Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, the biggest issue was the economy. Reagan blamed Carter for weaknesses ...
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