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- 1311: A Critique Of Tuesdays With Mo
- ... not think of death as an end, as a final farewell. He viewed the end of his life as a new beginning and an opportunity for reflection. The last line of this memoir reads the teaching goes on. Morrie wanted people to continue learning from him even after he was gone. After reading this account I can truly say that Morrie s dream was accomplished. Morrie s lessons were not only ...
- 1312: A Review Of The Scarlet Letter
- ... is the youngest female member of his parish. He has to restrain himself from whispering evil things that might mislead her. Next, he meets a group of young Puritan children. He must stop himself from teaching them "evil words. He walks onward and meets a drunken seaman from the ship on which he will sail. He wants to greet the sailor and preach to him, but again he restrains himself. The ...
- 1313: A Lesson Before Dying 2
- ... s what they want, Jefferson said. No, not what they want; what you want, says Grant If that s what they want, I m go n die anyhow, says Jefferson. (p.135) Wiggins begins his teaching as he has taught for years, which is not allowing it to change his life. However, as he continues to teach Jefferson, he not only speaks, but starts to listen and learn. Jefferson sees that ...
- 1314: Alice Walker
- ... and Other Poems was Walkers second volume of poems, in this she addressed such topics as love, individualism, and revolution. When Alice Walker lived in Mississippi and was active in the civil rights movement and teaching she experienced these such things. With Walker's most recent poems she expresses her ideas of races, gender, environment, love, hate and suffering, the same topics she writes about in her novels. In addition to ...
- 1315: The Chosen, By Chaim Potok
- ... In this predominately Jewish setting, Billy Merrit and Tony Savo give Reuven a window into the outside world. Reuven learned about Gentile culture when with them. They serve an important role in the novel by teaching Reuven that suffering is universal and life isn't always fair. It really awakened him to new ideas. Each of the main characters have obvious flaws. Danny has a good mind, but no soul. He ...
- 1316: Prime Of Miss Jean Broadie
- ... Broadie. Each girl was selected for their individual personality traits, and further chosen because Miss Broadie knew that none of their parents would ever have a problem or make complaints about her unorthidoxed method of teaching. Mary was the stupid character of the set. Miss Broadie, along with the other girls, treated Mary as their scapegoat. They blamed everything on her stupidity. Miss Broadie harshly accused her and blamed her for ...
- 1317: New Women Of The Victorian Era
- ... a previous holiday, she purchased two reproduced plaster statues of two Roman Gods, Venus and Apollo. This led to her losing her job and her residence because her landlord disapproved. Jude got Sue a job teaching at Mr. Phillotson’s schoolhouse after she was fired from her job. She took her students to Christminster where they observed a modeled recreation of Jerusalem. Sue commented to Phillotson, “I think that this model ...
- 1318: Matilda
- ... do when she moved it. Because Miss Trunchbull had done what she did to Miss Honey, Matilda felt she should do what she could to get back at her. Another day that Miss Trunchbull was teaching Matilda’s class, Matilda began moving the chalk around the chalkboard. The chalk spelled out words which read: “This is [Dr. Honey]. This is [Dr. Honey]. [Miss Trunchbull], give my Jenny back her house, give ...
- 1319: Character Study Of Blance Dubo
- ... all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with" (Williams 178). This “desire” is the driving force, the vehicle of her voyage. It was this desire that caused her to lose her high school teaching position, and it is this desire that brings her to the next stop of her symbolic journey, “Cemeteries,” and finally to "Elysian Fields". The inhabitants of this place are described in Book six of the ...
- 1320: Beauty And The Beast
- ... Beauty and the Beast affected the children of yesterday, today and tomorrow? I hope to show how fairy tales, more importantly Beauty and the Beast, is helpful to children in many ways, but mostly by teaching them the way that they should act in society. There are three very important lessons that Beauty and the Beast teaches us. First, and probably, the biggest one, is that beauty is only skin deep ...
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