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Michel De Montaigne On The Edu
Number of Words: 1017 / Number of Pages: 4
... and talent of the tutor; the individual attention paid to a student and the well-rounded nature of the curriculum. Montaigne asserts that a pupil is only as good as the skill of his tutor. The ideal tutor in Montaigne's eyes would be one that is more wise than learned, having "a well made rather than a well filled head" (110). The tutor should not have the student repeat what is told to him, as the goal of the education is not to memorize, but rather to learn. The tutor should be a guide in order to offer the ideas of great authors to the student and then "let him know how to make them his own ...
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Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
Number of Words: 628 / Number of Pages: 3
... As Suyuan creates a better life in America, she perseveres with her determination, optimism, and strong will. These are exactly the kind of things she tries to pass on to her daughter when she forces her to play the piano. She says "Only ask you be your best. For you sake." In trying to do her best for June, she is trying to do for June, what she could never do for her other babies.
The conflicts that June and her mother face are based on misunderstandings and negligence concerning each other’s feelings and beliefs. June does not understand or know her mother fully because she does not really ...
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One More River
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... as an enemy. Mustapha made Lesley a more understanding person towards different kinds of people. The character I would most admire is Lesley for her ability to adapt to a new home, country and way of life.
Throughout the book there were many turning points. The war made Lesley really feel a part of Israel and the people. Another turning point was when Lesley was allowed to join the p’oola because she was finally excepted as one of them. The most important turning point is when Lesley, at the end of the book, takes the picture Mustapha threw at her and wrote "a peace between us and between ...
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John Stuart Mill: Ethical Decision Making
Number of Words: 1194 / Number of Pages: 5
... command the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people. Mill further explores the need for pleasure by noting “a being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy.” . He acknowledges that some pleasures are more alluring than others are. He adds to this by making known that when placing value in things to calculate pleasure, not only quantity important but quality as well. Mill’s criteria for happiness is easily understood, some statements that he gives are questionable.
John Stuart Mill plainly laid out what he believes that the basis for ethical decision-making. First, t ...
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Cathedral
Number of Words: 858 / Number of Pages: 4
... trying to make himself seem more important in the lives of others. He simply calls his wife's first husband "the officer"(P720) or "the man"(P720). His refusal to even use his wife's name while narrating as well as constantly referring to Robert as the "the blind man"(P720) shows that he has decided to block out the importance of the people around him. He is even less considerate of Roberts wife, whom he refers to as "Beulah, Beulah"(P721). The narrator chooses not to see everyone around him as individuals, but as a whole group. A group he is scared to look at. The narrator's feelings toward Robert ar ...
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The Awakening
Number of Words: 895 / Number of Pages: 4
... finds themselves needing a release, in the end despising reason, and eventually pursuing only their true happiness.
After being "reasonable" for the twenty-eight years of her life, Edna breaks down. She wants to pursue love and disregard her duty to her husband and children. She falls in what she considers "girlish" love with the character Robert. She proclaims to him:
"I love you . . . only you; no one but you. If was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream . . .Oh! I have suffered! Now you are here we shall love each other. Nothing else in the world i ...
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Comments On This Be The Verse
Number of Words: 1293 / Number of Pages: 5
... considered more acceptable to the general public were not used. Then, I will discuss the three stanzas of the poem and what they were meant to do for the audience. Lastly, I will explore why Larkin would write such a poem, and what he was trying to get across to his audience by writing it.
The second line in this poem contains the word "fuck," a word that is usually not considered acceptable for the general public. Yet Larkin incorporates it almost immediately into his poem. I can think of four possible reasons why. Firstly, words such as fuck quickly and easily grab the audiences attention. This ...
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Mowat's "Observing Wolves", Goodall's "First Observations", Booth's "The Social Lives Of Dolphins": Observating Animals
Number of Words: 329 / Number of Pages: 2
... eating meat. She was
extremely surprised because the rest of the world thought that chimpazees
were vegetarians. She also observed the chimpazees making the use of tools.
Such as sticking a blade of grass into a termite mound to get at the
insects.
In Booth's essay, "The Social Lives of Dolphins", Booth draws a
parallel between the lives of dolphins and the lives of chimpazees. He
compares the two creatures showing their likenesses. With some minor
differences. This essay is based on observations of another group as well,
who were Conner and Smolker (undergraduate students 1982).
With the work of all ...
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The Art Of Storytelling And Folktales
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... one main reason.
Stith Thompson , a folklorist himself, has studied reasons in which a
folktale is told. He states “Stories may differ in subject from place to
place, the conditions and purposes of taletelling may change as we move
from land to land or from century to century, and yet everywhere it
ministers to the same basic social and individual needs. The call for
entertainment...” (484) With every tale being told, an audience is eager to
listen and retell the story to a new audience. The call of curiosity has
pulled a variety of new audiences to hear the great tales. This great
tradition has been ...
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To Kill A Mocking Bird Movie R
Number of Words: 361 / Number of Pages: 2
... caring person while in the movie, his characteristics are not as strongly expressed. Boo Radley does not seem to be as bad in the book as he is in the movie. In conclusion, the reason why the movie is not as detailed as the book is because there are just too many important details to cover and so the movie does not add the insignificant events. Also, the orders of events are different because many things will not go as smoothly if events do not switch places. Moreover, the events or characteristics of the characters are not as detailed in the movie because the movie is rushed. There is a limit o ...
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