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“I Won’t Learn From You” And Other Thoughts On Creative Maladjustment
Number of Words: 787 / Number of Pages: 3
... concept of not-learning, being something that can be learned is an interesting phenomenon to me that is explored by Kohl in the title essay of his book. Sometimes a teacher may mistake a student for having a learning disability or a behavior problem, when rather the child is actually making a conscious choice to “not learn” certain values or morally unfavorable material that is being imposed on them. In Kohl’s own words, “To agree to learn from a stranger who does not respect your integrity causes a major loss of self. The only alternative is to not-learn and feject the stranger’s world” (Kohl ...
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Number of Words: 496 / Number of Pages: 2
... books with strictly text, these features concretely show and describe the Indians situation. The songs give a feeling of the Indians culture. The quotes stand off the pages an give an idea of what the Indians were experiencing, while the pictures show what words can’t even help you to picture in your mind. They give you a true sense of there culture and make images of atrocities stick out in your mind, leaving a lasting impression that no words can describe.
helps to open a door into our past. It forces us to look at the dark side of our American history and the lengths white men went to fulfill ...
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To Kill A Mokingbird
Number of Words: 1160 / Number of Pages: 5
... was young and liked to climb trees. I can also relate to the closeness shared by the siblings because I am very close to my younger brother, Brandon. Charles Baker "Dill" Harris was the only other child mentioned in the story that was a friend of Scout and Jem. He was from Meridian and the trio became aquatinted because Dill would come to Alabama and visit with his Aunt Rachel in the summer who stayed across from Scout and Jem. Dill had a different outlook on family situations than the two siblings had. Dill was given just about anything he asked for. He seldom got attention from his mother or stepfath ...
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Abuse Of Power Within A Clockwork Orange
Number of Words: 1314 / Number of Pages: 5
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my brothers . . . then I jumped"(131). The music that represents his freedom
to choose is now gone. He is left without any reason to live. When he realizes
that he is no longer a man because of his absence of choice, Alex decides to end
his life. The author illustrates through Alex's violent actions, how they
represent his abuse of power through his freedom of choice. Alex consistently
chooses evil as a means to display his power over the innocent and the good.
While beating and raping a young girl, he states with pride, "So he did the
strong-man on the devotchka, who was still creechin ...
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A Doll House By Ibsen
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... separate room from his and limits her time with the children. Helmer is the rule maker of his house. He meticulously gives details on how he wants his house run. He has set time for everything, when the meals are prepared, when the children should go to sleep, when they should wake up, what to eat, when to check the mail etc. This is probably the reason why he is successful in his career. He is again putting his career as first priority and uses the principal that he applies to it in the family. Helmer has an office in the house of with he gives limited accesses to his wife, Nora. He treats her as if s ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... their lives. On the contrary to Scout's primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree. She never gave anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout escorts Arthur home and stands on his front porch, she sees the same street she saw, just from an entirely different perspective. Scout learns what a Mockingbird is, and who represents one.
Arthur Radley not only plays an important role in developing Scout and Jem, but helps in developing the novel. Boo can be divided into three stages. Primitively, B ...
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Symbolism In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of Words: 1729 / Number of Pages: 7
... is very symbolic. There was not enough snow to make a snowman
entirely out of snow, so Jem made a foundation out of dirt, and then
covered it with what snow they had. One could interpret this in two
different ways. First of all, the creation of the snowman by Jem can be
seen as being symbolic of Jem trying to cover up the black man and showing
that he is the same as the white man, that all human beings are virtually
the same. Approval of these views is shown by Atticus when he tells Jem, "I
didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry
about what'll become of you, son, you ...
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Brave New World: The Perfect World?
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... his or her work because he or she was "made" or trained for it when
young. Consequently, from birth, everyone in Brave New World is slotted to
belong to a specific social and intellectual strata. In conjunction with this
idea, all births are completely planned and monitored. There are different
classes of people with different intelligence and different "career plans." The
social order was divided into the most highly educated, the Alpha+, and then in
descending intelligence, the following divisions: Alpha, Beta, Beta -, Gamma,
Delta, and Epsilon, which is the last group comprised of those citizens o ...
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Jose Donoso's Paso: Summary
Number of Words: 1192 / Number of Pages: 5
... a mixture of feelings from pity to happiness. This is
the result of traditional tail, it is intertwined with common feelings and
situations to which all can identify with that all are affected by the
story.
In the beginning the situation is introduced to the reader by a
narrator recounting the story from a childhood experience. It is known
quite quickly in the story that the home in which the story takes place is
very empty of feelings as is expressed by the narrator say “it was not
happy” instead of “it was sad” because that is exactly what I mean to say”
(Donoso315).
This absence of feeling is t ...
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Antigone 3
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... the people of Thebes because family honor is very important to them. Therefore, the people of Thebes will not remember Creon because of his offensive deeds performed while he is on the throne.
Second, Creon will be forgotten because he decides to execute Antigone. Her punishment is to be locked in a blocked cave until she dies. Although later on in the story, Creon does decide to free her, it is too late. The people of Thebes are astounded at the fact that Creon would even conceive of such a horrible punishment. Antigone acted on family honor, which is understood. Therefore, his people will forge ...
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