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- 631: Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
- ... his back on the religion that he grew up with and his mother taught him. He is simply becoming more observant and appreciative of nature and the gift of spiritual healing in which Ultima is teaching. He does not understand until close to the end of the novel that Ultima is passing him this precious gift of healing before she dies. Finally, when the owl dies, symbolizing her death, she is ...
- 632: An Analysis of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife of Bath's Tale
- ... strength to her arguments. For instance, she argues that there is nothing wrong with her having had five husbands, pointing out that Solomon had hundreds of wives. In another debate, she argues that despite the teaching of the Church that virginity is "a greater good than the most virtuous of marriages," there is no biblical comment opposing marriage(Bowden 77). Even though these ideas may not seem so radical to today ...
- 633: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huckleberry Finn
- ... like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place ...
- 634: The Life of Edward Albee
- ... seeing audiences uncomfortable or unhappy, blasting what he's termed Broadway's "pandering to the public's need for self-congratulation and reassurance as the real theater of the Absurd.'" So Albee roams from university teaching stints to European premieres. He'll start his next play when characters force their way out of his mind, after he's improvised scenes for them to make sure he knows them well enough to ...
- 635: To Teach or Not To Teach?
- ... itself against being banned. People who would ban "Huckleberry Finn" simply for the on the surface racial content are no better than the character of Miss Watson. The idea of banning a book and not teaching it to others is selfish and subjective in itself. Those who are seeking to ban it would often follow their own agendas, like Miss Watson in only trying to get their own view across and ...
- 636: The Little Prince, Siddhartha, and the Monkey God: Journey
- ... has reached his ultimate goal, the power of love and life in everything. He also learned that knowledge can be taught, but wisdom must be obtained. This is represented by being dissatisfied even hearing the teaching of Buddha. Similar to the Little Prince, Siddhartha met Govinda again and bestow what he learned upon him with knowledge but not with wisdom. Similar to the two preceding novels, the Monkey God sets on ...
- 637: A Review of Lord of the Flies
- ... at all. Painful though it may be, this loss of innocence by coming to terms with reality is necessary if humanity is to survive. The loss of identity Civilization separates man from the animals by teaching him to think and make choices. When civilization slips away and man reverts to his more primitive nature, his identity disintegrates. The boys use masks to cover their identity, and this allows them to kill ...
- 638: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huckleberry Finn
- ... like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place ...
- 639: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... their country, and remove the segregation that runs rampant throughout the community. WORKS CITED Alexander, Peter. "Man and manifesto." Times Higher Education Supplement, August, 1994, 15-16. Hogan, Patrick C. "Paternalism, Ideology, and Ideological Critique: Teaching Cry, The Beloved Country." College Literature, October, 1992, 206. Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Collier, 1987.
- 640: Zinn's A People's History of The United States of America
- ... flexibility, passion and potency, to their partnership with one another and with nature" (21-22). In the middle of the first chapter, Zinn uses the historical treatment of Columbus to explain his own view on teaching history. "Thus began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European invasion of Indian settlements in America. That beginning, when you read [Bartolomι de] Las Casas... is conquest, slavery, death. When we read history ...
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