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- 641: Salzman's "Iron and Silk": Losing Face
- ... were concerned with loosing face, but the Chinese government was the same way. I think the best example of trying to keep face was when Mark killed a rat. Mark was in the middle of teaching when a rat fell on his desk, he quickly swatted it. The students told him he would receive a reward if he brought it to the Rat Collection Office. The office denied Mark the five ...
- 642: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... the two men to be seen even more strongly. As William P. Kelly (1983) states, the setting created by Cooper allows the story to have a certain myth-like quality, a quality which makes the teaching of a lesson by Cooper all that much more acceptable. "Cooper does not locate his narrative within the flux of history, but evokes a sense of timelessness consistent with the world of myth. For example ...
- 643: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... taboo" words, to the Beatles' songs, which the band were not allowed to sing as total artistic freedom was not allowed (Traver, 1989, 190/91). The Soviet educational system's most important goal is the teaching of collectivism (kollektiv). Students learn that improving society is more important than self well-being which is selfish and not for the good of the whole. "Children are not praised for being different from their ...
- 644: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... its immensity and imperative in its universal role." Many other stylistic devices are employed; most of them fall into the category of figurative language, (i.e. metaphors, similes, etc.). As Abner Hale, a missionary , was teaching Malama Kanakoa, a Hawaiian ruler, to rebuild a fish pond for the survival of the village, Malama "ordered her handmaidens to help, and the three huge women plunged into the fish pond, pulling the back ...
- 645: Analysis of Children's Fairy Tales
- ... the words are describing. The pictures may give them an idea of what the words are. These books help them to learn as well as teach them to read. I also noticed that instead of teaching lessons they are trying to teach the more basic things such as simple reading. It also helps the children to recognize different things and animals after they have read the word. I also noticed that ...
- 646: Diary of Anne Frank
- ... there were other people such as the Van Daans. Mr. Frank let them stay because they needed a place to hide and since they had helped him out so much in the past by actually teaching Mr. Frank German, he felt it was the least he could do. The Van Daans had a son which Anne later became interested in. Peter was the only person who Anne could understand and knew ...
- 647: Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
- ... Lynda S. and Sara DeSaussure Davis. Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State UP, 1992. Delaney, Bill. Masterpieces of Women's Literature. New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. Koloski, Bernard. Approaches to teaching Chopin's The Awakening. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1988. Nickerson, Meagan. "Romanticism in The Awakening", The Kate Chopin Project. America On-line. February 1997. Seyersted, Per. Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography. Baton Rouge : Louisiana ...
- 648: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... me; but it rough living in the house all the time considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways^Ô (Twain 11). 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. In this first chapter, Twain gives us the first direct example of communicating his feelings through Huck Finn ...
- 649: Nine Tomorrows: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
- ... take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computer ould start to control humans' lives and make humans become too dependent on the computers. Another point that is criticized by Asimov is ...
- 650: Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy
- ... the young main character in the story, lost his innocence when exposed to the harsh world since he learned what life is really like. Ultima is a good whitch whom tries to guide Tony by teaching him morals and lessons. Narsico is percieved as the town drunk, but is a good person. Tenorio is the demon in this story, as he wants to destroy Ultima. This book is about Tony's ...
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