...Amir Suleiman Ms. Pozzebon ENG 3U1 31 May 2011 A breakdown of the Hero in Charles Dickens’s Books The hero is a very important element in a story. Every good novel has one. The essence of the hero is not bravery or nobility, but self-sacrifice. The hero must pay a price to obtain his goal. The hero's journey during a story is a path from the ego, the self, to a new identity which has grown to include the experiences of the story. This path often consists of a division from family or group to a new, unfamiliar world, and finally a return to the ordinary, but now expanded, world. The hero must learn in order to grow. Often the heart of a story is not the barriers, but the new wisdom he gets from a mentor, a lover, or even sometimes a villain. Charles Dickens made note of having an excellent hero in Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist), Hard Times (Stephen Blackpool), and The Great Expectation (Pip). To commence, we will look at Oliver in Oliver Twist. As the child hero of a melodramatic novel of social dispute, Oliver Twist is meant to appeal more to our feelings than to our literary sensibilities. On many levels, Oliver is not a believable character, because although he is raised in corrupt surroundings, his purity and virtue are absolute. In the ten years we know of Oliver Twist he is portrayed as continuously childlike and morally upright, despite the fact that he’s had very little treatment that differs from contempt, violence, or indifference. Oliver is thrown into every situation...
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...Charles Dickens by, Charlotte Toal “Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.” These inspirational words spoken by Charles Dickens are not what come to mind when people think of this remarkably talented and widely appreciated author, but his great and timeless works are. As a man of compassion, insight, and aptitude, the English author had many thoughts, both those he incorporated into his books, and those he did not. As a young boy in England, Dickens got a generous taste of hardship and suffering. Many poor families—like his—worked in factories. The particular factory, in which he worked for several years, was a shoe polish factory. While his father was in debtors’ prison, Dickens’ family moved away from him to be close to the prison. The twelve-year-old boy was forced to live alone and work. Although the first years of his life were neither the most pleasant nor advantageous, it was not always that way for Dickens. Though most present-day authors, business men, or politicians don’t establish themselves in a particular working venue or business until later in life, Charles Dickens became an accomplished freelance reporter and stenographer, and by age twenty he had become a reporter for two newspapers. Shortly after beginning his writing career, Dickens began submitting—and publishing—sketches...
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...AUTHOR British author Charles Dickens was born Charles John Huffam Dickens on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, on the southern coast of England. He was the second of eight children. His father, John Dickens, was a naval clerk. Charles Dickens’ mother, Elizabeth Barrow, aspired to be a teacher and school director. Despite his parents’ best efforts, the family remained poor. In 1822, the Dickens family moved to Camden Town, By then the family’s financial situation had grown dire, as John Dickens had a dangerous habit of living beyond the family’s means. Eventually, John was sent to prison for debt in 1824, when Charles was just 12 years old. Following his father’s imprisonment, Charles Dickens was forced to leave school to work at a boot-blacking factory alongside the River Thames. At the rundown, rodent-ridden factory, Dickens earned six shillings a week labeling pots of “blacking,” a substance used to clean fireplaces. It was the best he could do to help support his family. The horrific conditions in the factory haunted him for the rest of his life. Apparently, Dickens never forgot the day when a more senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens in how to do his work more efficiently. For Dickens, that instruction may have represented the first step toward his full integration into the misery and tedium of working-class life. The more senior boy’s name was Bob Fagin. Dickens’s residual resentment of him reached a fevered pitch in the characterization...
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...Taylor World Literature 14 April 2012 Charles Dickens Charles Dickens is one of the most known and famous authors from the 1800’s. He is better known as that guy who wrote A Christmas Carol . He is the most famous author born in the year 1812. He had a normal early childhood, but strange adolescence and young adulthood, and a strange adulthood. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812. His parents were John and Elizabeth Dickens. Fred Kaplan says that even though Charles had the two middle names, he never used them and never forgave his parents for them (19). His father worked as a clerk in the payroll office for the Navy. He was born in No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth England. “He was baptized on March 4th in St. Mary’s church near the modest, narrow house on the mile end terrace that his family rented” (Kaplan 19). His parents were not very good with money and had a lot of problems with debt. In fact, his father was sent to debtor’s prison when Charles was twelve years old. Even though Charles Dickens is a world famous author, he had very little formal education and was primarily self-taught. He did attend William Giles’ school in Chatham, Kent between the ages of nine and eleven. He loved to read and perform. In the fall of 1821 at the age of nine, he wrote a tragedy called Misnar, the Sultan of India and liked the attention he got for being an author (Kaplan 28). When he was twelve, Charles was forced to leave school and work in...
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...Charles Manson Diana L. French Psychology 552 Instructor Jessica Ryan February 22, 2015 Charles Manson, better known as “Charlie”, “Manson Family Leader” was one of the most famous serial killers of our time. Interestingly he was tried and found guilty of murders that he himself did not commit yet he ordered his “family” to do so. The crimes that Charles was tried for took place in the late 1960’s and to this day Manson is still in prison. The following text will explore Manson’s life, the trial, where he is today and what psychological events were present to lead to this point in Manson’s life. Internal factors from Birth to Early 20’s November 12, 1934 Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati Ohio to Kathleen Maddox. Kathleen during this time was considered a promiscuous teen that drank alcohol and would end up in trouble of one kind or another regularly. Kathleen was briefly married to a man named William Manson who gave Charles his last name. Charles has never known his biological father. To better understand some of Manson’s thinking and behaviors it is helpful to look at some history regarding his mother and her life. This will help to explain how Charles was raised and socialized. Kathleen was...
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...Charles Baudelaire, a Poet of Shock Charles Baudelaire’s poems within Le Fleurs du Mal were all essentially invested in the experience of shock. The notion of shock was a main feeling and expression that was found in modernist literature. The notion of shock was shown through Charles Baudelaire’s poem through his texts focus on the rapid pace of modern life as well as reminiscing of prior occurrences in history. The cultural progression of Modernism produced many different types of expressions from most of society ranging from the notion of alienation, disruption as well as shock. Baudelaire mainly displayed the notion of modernism within his text by taking notice of the flaring difference between reality and society’s understanding of it. Looking in more depth of the modernist text of Charles Baudelaire within Le Flurs du Mal, we can see that he truly embraced this movement. This can be shown through Baudelaire’s interpretation of reality that was through the perspective of a modernist. Baudelaire perspective of reality was quite different than most other individuals within society then. As Charles Baudelaire, highlights the correlation between experiences under a modern environment and his own understanding of it. The modernism movement formed a break with traditions and prior literary movements and was motivated by the artists desire to overcome the past. Baudelaire’s poetry was a prime example of a modernist text. Charles Baudelaire modernism text of poetry was extremely...
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...Charles Spearman has been a strong influence throughout the psychology world. Working with powerful people he studied correlation and statistics. He started out differently than most psychologists but made his name known. Charles was born on London on September 10th, 1863 into a respected family. Charles Spearman was the second son of Alexander Young Spearman. Alexander died at the age of 33 in 1865. His mother, Louisa Ann Caroline Amelia Spearman remarried to Henry Seel who taught in London. But, eventually, his mother became widowed again. In 1901, Spearman married Fanny Aikman, with whom he had a son and four daughters with but his son inevitably died in World War 1. Even though Spearmen excelled in mathematics and science, his heart belonged to philosophy which would later turn into psychology. He went to Leamington College and after that, enrolled into the Royal Engineers of the British Army in 1988. He was awarded many medals throughout his 15 years in the Army but always believed that life’s problems could be solved using psychology . He studied abroad because at the time psychology was thought of as philosophy in Great Britain. He eventually got his PhD in experimental psychology. He chose to study in Leipzig under William Wundt, but also worked together with Oswald Kaulpe (1862-1915) at the University of Waurzburg and with Georg Elias Mauller (1850-1934) at the University of Gaottingen. Spearman was soon back in action though, because of the South African War or...
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...INTRODUCTION Commonly referred to as “The Prince of Preachers,” Charles H. Spurgeon is deserving of that title. Many have studied the work of Mr. Spurgeon, whether his sermons or his writing, in order to come to a deeper appreciation for the Holy Spirit inspired Word. It was a devotion to the Word that would begin and fuel the ministry that Spurgeon would devote most of his lifetime to. He was a preacher, a writer, and the founder of a number of great institutions. Each area of Spurgeon’s life continues to inspire and thrive today. LIFE AND DEATH Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born at Kelvedon, in Essex. His father, John, and Grandfather, James, were both Independent (Congregational) pastors and evangelical Calvinists. Charles’ mother Eliza bore seventeen children with only eight of them surviving through infancy. Due to the hardship that his parents faced, Charles was sent to live with his grandfather in Stambourne. It was in Stambourne where Spurgeon learned to walk, talk and read with the aid of his aunt Ann. During his early teen years, Spurgeon enrolled in an agricultural college with the aspirations of becoming a farmer. A year later, he transferred schools to Newmarket and there learned Latin and Greek but more importantly it was at Newmarket where he learned much about theology from the school cook, Mary King. Spurgeon and King often discussed the sermons they heard when they arrived back at school. “(I)t was from her that Spurgeon learned...
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...Roderick M. Thomas Jr. American Popular Music October 25, 2013 Personal Selection Paper I decided to do my paper on Ray Charles because he is a staple in music history. He was always a very influential person in music and revolutionized music by mixing the sound of gospel with blues. Personally, my favorite song to listen to preformed by Ray Charles is “Hit the Road Jack”, which is a part of the blues genre written by Percy Mayfield. The reason I enjoy this song is because it explains a story of a woman who is fed up with a good-for-nothing man who tries to get her back but she does not fall for his deception. I enjoy songs that explain a situation that is going on or a song that is telling a story. You can really get into it with the song when you listen because you get wrapped up in what is happening. Ray Charles Robinson was born September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia. He was born to the parents of Aretha (Williams) Robinson, a sharecropper, and Bailey Robinson who was a railroad repairman, a handyman and mechanic. When he was still a baby, his family moved to a poor black community on the west side of Greenville, Florida. He became interested in music at young age when he was at Mr. Wiley Pit’s Red Wing Café. He would watch Pit play the piano while he was the café. Mr. Pit would often watch Ray and Ray’s little brother, George. Ray started to lose his sight at the age of five and became completely blind by the age of seven from glaucoma. From then he began attending...
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...Charles Lindbergh was a man of many accomplishments. In his time, everybody loved him. Charles was well known all over the world. He was a hero, he represented all that could be accomplished in the future. He was a figure for doing what nobody else thought could be done. Lindbergh was one of those people that everyone else wanted to be. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit on February 4, 1902, to Charles Lindbergh, Sr., and Evangeline Land Lodge. Yet, he grew up in a small town in Nebraska. Lindbergh was a whiz with mechanics. By age twelve, he was in charge of driving and fixing the car. In high school, he assembled a tractor from a mail order kit. When he was eighteen he entered the University of Wisconsin to study engineering. He found he was more interested in flying, so after two years of college, he dropped out and became a barnstormer, which was a pilot who performed daredevil stunts at fairs, and airshows. Lindbergh was a favorite among the crowds. People would travel from all different places, even Europe, to come see his daredevil tricks. In 1924 Lindbergh enlisted in the U.S. Army so he could be trained to be a pilot. During this time he was given the nickname;Lucky Lindy'; because he would attempt daredevil stunts with his airplane, and always seem to evade punishment from upper officers. In 1925 he graduated as the top pilot in his class. He soon began working as a mail deliverer between St. Louis and Chicago. ...
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...Charles Darwin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other people named Charles Darwin, see Charles Darwin (disambiguation). Charles Darwin Darwin, aged 45 in 1854, by then working towards publication of On the Origin of Species Born Charles Robert Darwin 12 February 1809 The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom Died 19 April 1882 (aged 73) Down House, Downe, Kent, United Kingdom Residence England Citizenship British Nationality British Fields Naturalist Institutions tertiary education: University of Edinburgh (medicine) University of Cambridge (ordinary Bachelor of Arts) professional institution: Geological Society of London Academic advisors John Stevens Henslow Adam Sedgwick Known for The Voyage of the Beagle On the Origin of Species evolution by natural selection, common descent Influences Alexander von Humboldt John Herschel Charles Lyell Influenced Joseph Dalton Hooker Thomas Henry Huxley George Romanes Ernst Haeckel Sir John Lubbock Notable awards Royal Medal (1853) Wollaston Medal (1859) Copley Medal (1864) Spouse Emma Darwin (married 1839) Signature Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist.[I] He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors,[1] and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect...
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...The Notorious Cult Murder Charles Manson Raynette Andre ENC 1101 0B Mr.Newberry Date Due: May 4, 2011 Final Draft Raynette Andre Mr. Newberry ENC 1101 01B 4 May 2011 Charles Manson: The Notorious Cult Murder Charles Manson is a man who is famous for his notorious crimes; though he didn’t partake in them physically he did control others into doing the crimes mentally. Manson is still alive to this day, locked up in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Many people do not understand the significances of his crimes and how he affected hundreds of lives with his theories. He took the steps and controlled his follows by regulating: food intake, drug intake and what news they received from the ‘outside’. I chose this subject because many people do not understand how ill this world can be and how it has been. Hitler has been one of the few who has practiced controlling people with the steps stated above, and he was successful in his planning too. Another person is Bin Laden, who controlled people and they were willing to die for him, he mentally and physically controlled them, which made them believe that what they were doing was okay. I want everyone to be aware of people who do and say such things as Charles Manson does. In this paper I plan to make one understand that what is going on in today’s society has occurred before in the past but in different styles and more exact on who their targets were to be. These are clear signs that...
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...Generally regarded as the most prominent of the nineteenth-century evolutionary theorists, Charles Darwin is primarily known for his, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the publication of which in 1859 ushered in a new era of naturalistic thinking that was to influence not only the field of biological science, but also the disciplines of art, literature, philosophy, and theology”(2). In the work Darwin identified genetic mutation and natural selection as the mechanisms that controlled the development of species. His theory introduced the concept of ever-present competitive struggle in nature, “There by decentering the commonly held Romantic view of nature as a benign, even benevolent force, and pushed the role of God to the margins of human existence on earth”(2). Although one of many contributors to the field of evolutionary biology, Darwin is commonly associated with the popular acceptance of evolutionary theory, and his Origin is believed to be the impetus for an intellectual revolution as philosophers, social scientists, and writers began to explore the far reaching implications of his theory, which posed a serious challenge to the orthodoxy of Victorian religion, science, and philosophy. Darwin wrote several books on a range of scientific topics, including botany, zoology, and geology. “Among his earliest works, the Journal of Researches is as much a travelogue as a book on science...
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...Charles Darwin Biologist, Scientist (1809–1882) Charles Darwin is best known for his work as a naturalist, developing a theory of evolution to explain biological change. Synopsis Naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, on February 12, 1809. In 1831, he embarked on a five-year survey voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle. His studies of specimens around the globe led him to formulate his theory of evolution and his views on the process of natural selection. In 1859, he published On the Origin of Species. He died on April 19, 1882, in London. Early Life Naturalist Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in the tiny merchant town of Shrewsbury, England. He was the second youngest of six children. Darwin came from a long line of scientists. His father, Dr. R.W. Darwin, was as a medical doctor, and his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, was a renowned botanist. Darwin’s mother, Susanna, died when he was only 8 years old. Darwin was a child of wealth and privilege who loved to explore nature. In October 1825, at age 16, Darwin enrolled at Edinburgh University along with his brother Erasmus. Two years later, Charles Darwin became a student at Christ's College in Cambridge. His father hoped he would follow in his footsteps and become a medical doctor, but the sight of blood made Darwin queasy. His father suggested he study to become a parson instead, but Darwin was far more inclined to study natural history. Voyage on the HMS Beagle While...
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...Charles dickens English novelist generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. He had also experienced in his youth oppression, when he was forced to end school in early teens and work in a factory. Dickens's good, bad, and comic characters, such as the cruel miser Scrooge, the aspiring novelist David Copperfield, or the trusting and innocent Mr. Pickwick, have fascinated generations of readers. Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, during the new industrial age, which gave birth to theories of Karl Marx. Dickens's father was a clerk in the navy pay office. He was well paid but often ended in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. The schoolmaster William Giles gave special attention to Dickens, who made rapid progress. In 1824, at the age of 12, Dickens was sent to work for some months at a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his father John was in Marshalea debtor's prison. "My father and mother were quite satisfied," Dickens later recalled bitterly. "They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge." Later this period found its way to the novel LITTLE DORRITT (1855-57). John Dickens paid his £40 debt with the money he inherited from his mother; she died at the age of seventy-nine when he was still...
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