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Fairy Tales Snow White
593 wordsWhether openly stated or only hinted at, oedipal difficulties and how the individual solves them are central to the way his personality and human relations fold. By camouflaging the oedipal predicaments, or by only subtly intimating the entanglements, fairy stories permit us to draw our own conclusions when the time is propitious for out gaining a better understanding of these problems. Fairy stories teach by indirection. (201) This is an excerpt from Bruno Bettelheim's Snow White essay fro the ...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
764 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, is a display of characters and incidents portrayed through the eyes of an adolescent. Holden Caulfield, the main character has been revealed in the first person view in a unique narrative of a teenage boy who forms a transition into adulthood. Holden perceives the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no purity and that individuals in the world acquire a trait known as "phony. " Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield refers to the conditions of...
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Katherine Anne Porter Holy Spirit
1,063 wordsBorn May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas; Katherine Anne Porter has written numerous short stories and a novel. Katherine Anne Porter uses autobiographical information and symbolism to relate the story of Miranda's maturation into adulthood in her short story The Grave. In The Grave, Miranda discovers her feminine side (West 28), and although she is only a child, Miranda understands a few of the events that shape a person into adulthood (Mooney 20). Porters genius as a writer is most evident in...
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Palazzo Vecchio Ser Piero
1,058 wordsSometime soon after the year 1430, a bronze statue of David stood in the courtyard of the house of the Medici. The work was commissioned of Donatello by Cosimo d'Medici himself, the founding father of the Republic of Florence. It was the first free-standing, life sized nude since classical victorious athletes of Greece and Rome. But soft, and some how oddly unheroic. And the incongruity of the heads: of hair and shaded by a laurel-crowned peasant's hat; Goliath's tragic, contorted expression, ma...
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Alcoholic Beverages Heavy Drinking
852 wordsWho influences the alcohol use and misuse of British teenagers? Although the health risks of Heavy drinking is known and understood, the social habit continues to be accepted as a cultural norm. Is it? Surprising then, that the young people are beginning to drink at school ages. It is illegal to purchase An alcoholic drink under the age of 18, it would appear through the current research that teenage drinking A recent Scottish survey by McKegney N et al (1996), found that at least 50 % of teenag...
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Back To School First Day
1,082 wordsHelgerson 1 Over the years, as you think back to when you were a kid. Going back to school meant a variety of things. With it came all the emotions and feelings that you carry with you for the rest of your life. At the time you had no idea what they meant or how to deal with it. You just knew how it made you feel. Like your first day at kindergarten, scared and totally overwhelmed. All night before my big day, I threw up. That morning I walked through the door, sat down at my desk and threw up. ...
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Child Is Abused Sense Of Attachment Son
779 wordsAttachment is where an infant starts to become familiar with those who have cared for he / she . When I take my son to my grandmothers so she can watch him while I run errands he has a sense that hes going to be left and starts to wine. My son is seventeen months old and started to act attached to his mother and I about seven or eight months old pretty much what the book said. When we pick him up from school or someones house he runs to our arms and gives us hugs and kisses. This is a feeling li...
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Ernest Hemingway Committed Suicide
881 wordscould ernest hemingway be considered a tragic figure in contemporary literature? Looking at Ernest Hemingway's past, you'd see that he lived a very tough, strict childhood. He was raised under the thoughts that if you had strong religion, hard work, physical fitness, and self determination you would be very successful no matter what field you were to go into. This made his relationship with his parents sort of complex. It was more of a difficult relationship with his mother. She was demanding, a...
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Alice In Wonderland Identity Crisis
729 wordsIdentity Crisis Loss of innocence is often a theme in stories that center on a single, isolated child who is struggling to grow up. However, a theme authors often overlook is the loss of identity that accompanies such a lonely journey. In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the author portrays the transition from childhood to adulthood as a lonely, traumatic experience. Exaggerated growth and shrinking represent the changes Alice endures but cannot come to terms with. Carroll intends to show th...
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Gene And Finny Separate Peace
1,611 wordsIn John Knowles A Separate Peace, symbols are used to develop and advance the themes of the novel. One theme is the lack of an awareness of the real world among the students who attend the Devon Academy. The war is a symbol of the "real world", from which the boys exclude themselves. It is as if the boys are in their own little world or bubble secluded from the outside world and everyone else. Along with their friends, Gene and Finny play games and joke about the war instead of taking it serious...
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Red Badge Of Courage Rite Of Passage
1,292 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye and The Red Badge of Courage detail the gradual maturation of two immature boys into self-reliant young men. The steady speed at which Salinger's and Cranes language streams enables the reader to see the independent events that lead up to the ultimate rite of passage for both Henry and Holden. Although the pinnacle of maturity Holden reached concerned his pessimistic view of the world and Henrys was a unifying moment of bravery, both boys experienced an epiphany over the c...
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Wrong With Growing Holden Salinger Holden's
320 wordsScience can be seen as the study of what is held in common between many particular instances. Art, among other things, is an attempt to capture the specific, and thus illuminate the general. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is first and foremost about the journey of one individual, Holden Caulfield, into self-discovery. However, in writing about Holden, Salinger has somehow managed to capture the conflicts and identity crises which many young adults his age are caught in. Also, despite Ho...
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Alfred A Knopf Good And Evil
1,350 wordsCharles Dickens literary works are comparable to one another in many ways; plot, setting, and even experiences. His novels remain captivating to his audiences and he draws them in to teach the readers lessons of life. Although each work exists separate from all of the rest, many similarities remain. Throughout the novels, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, the process of growing up, described by the author, includes the themes of the characters ability to alienate themselves, charity given to ...
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Child Obesity Lose Weight
778 wordsThe children of today are becoming more obese, for the fact that they are obtaining laziness. They are spending more time in front of the television then they are getting their daily exercise. Their growing bodies need exercise to lose baby fat before it gets to be a serious problem. The growth of technology has formed a major impact on the obesity of today's children. This technology has substituted normal childhood play exercises with computer games that take less physical effort. Because of t...
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End Of Innocence Contemporary Authors
1,084 wordsThe ability to create characters of depth plagues many a contemporary writer. Many of those writers should look to William Golding for expertise on this issue. Golding diverges from the path of contemporary authors and sets an example of how character development should be accomplished in his novel, Lord of the Flies. Golding's Ralph exemplifies this authors superior style of character development in this novel. At the commencement of the novel, the author introduces Ralph as an innocent boy far...
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Willa Cather Quot Bloom
1,366 wordsIn the past, critics have ad moralized and / or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his / her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel, My Antonia. Their criticisms lie on the basis that My Antonia is based on cyclical themes with no structure holding each of the My Antonia's books. In other words, as a collection of five different ac...
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Doe Season Woman Body
865 wordsIt has been said, The only thing constant is change itself. A change that we all must go through is the inevitable evolution from childhood into adulthood. In Doe Season, David Michael Kaplain writes about Andy, a young girl, who makes this transition while she is on a hunting trip. In the story the author uses parallels between light, water, and blood, all things with continuous movement, to symbolize the constant changes that are a part of life. Light plays a very important role in the story. ...
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Changed Dramatically Teenage Years
1,212 wordsNapster and the Stereo type The construction of Napster, and its incredible popularity have changed the way many people around the world both obtain and listen to music. The Napster technology is defined as a person-to-person file sharing community. In other words, it is a forum where any number of people can go and exchange media. This technology has proved so effective with the transfer of music files that people have now begun exchanging pictures, movies, books, and other media at Internet si...
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Pull Out His Eyes Hope For The Future
2,025 wordsIn Joyce? s novel, A portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, he weaves the stories of his youth and his growth as a young man to tell us about who he was as an individual and the sort of life he lead. Joyce uses many techniques such as stream of consciousness to help us picture his mindset and help his audience feel the emotions he had after the certain situations of his life. In the novel, Joyce uses the young character Stephen as his protagonist to display the deep emotional turmoil and growth o...
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Negative Affect Social Phobia
272 wordsA strong relationship has been established between negative events and circumstances during childhood and the development of drug use and drug-related problems in adolescence and young adulthood. Individuals who report parental strife or separation as a child, physical and sexual abuse, parental drug abuse and depression, frequent family geographic relocation, and failure in school, also tend to report a high rate of experimentation with drugs, abusive consumption, and a range of psychological p...
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