...An Analysis of Longfellow's A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins his poem "A Psalm of Life" with the same exuberance and enthusiasm that continues through most of the poem. He begs in the first stanza to be told "not in mournful numbers" about life. He states here that life doesn't abruptly end when one dies; rather, it extends into another after life. Longfellow values this dream of the afterlife immensely and seems to say that life can only be lived truly if one believes that the soul will continue to live long after the body dies. The second stanza continues with the same belief in afterlife that is present in the first. Longfellow states this clearly when he writes, "And the grave is not its goal." Meaning that, life doesn't end for people simply because they die; there is always something more to be hopeful and optimistic for. Longfellow begins discussing how humans must live their lives in constant anticipation for the next day under the belief that it will be better than each day before it: "But to act that each to-morrow / Find us farther than to-day." In the subsequent stanza, Longfellow asserts that there is never an infinite amount of time to live, but art that is created during one's life can be preserved indefinitely and live on long after its creator dies. In the following stanzas, Longfellow likens living in the world to fighting on a huge field of battle. He believes that people should lead heroic and courageous lives and not sit idle and remain...
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... The theme of the Wednesday Wars is, when unexpected and most needed, kindness appears. Mrs. Baker gets Holling the cream puffs he so desperately needs showing kindness because she felt empathy. Danny gives up his signed baseball to make Holling feel better showing kindness through loyalty. And Mrs.Baker gives Mai Thi her hot chocolate to show her that she has done nothing wrong, showing kindness through responsibility. The first example of kindness appears early in the book when Holling learns that Mrs.Baker might not despise him after all. Holling, ostracized by his classmates because of their jealousy that he got a cream puff saves up his money and brings a box of cream puffs to school, only to have them eaten by Sycorax and Caliban. Mrs.Baker, knowing how hard he worked to get those cream puffs, replaces them herself."But you know that stuff about the darkest nights turning into the brightest dawns? That can sometimes come true. Even when you least expect it. Because when we came back in from recess, on the shelf was a long box from Goldman's Best Bakery.. Filled with twenty-four cream puffs! Twenty- four brown, light, perfect cream puffs! Twenty-four buttery vanilla cream puffs!!'Mr.Hoodhood was simply playing a joke on you all,' said Mrs.Baker. 'Now enjoy.' And we did” (Schmidt 70).It applies to the topic because Holling was ready to "die" because of the cream puffs and really thought Mrs.Baker had it out for him. But she saw him struggling and came to his rescue. Up...
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...until some paying journalist or amateur or professional art connoisseur found someone who knew something. One day there were perhaps eighteen cars outside of the cave where Oliver had stayed. Two days later the property was purchased by an unnamable prestigious university that took measures to preserve and duplicate what Oliver had painted in it. Little more than...
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...OLIVER TWIST Charles Dickens Plot Overview Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London. Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. When he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, Oliver is horrified and runs off. He is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. Mr. Brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him...
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...Oliver Twist’s will to survive Oliver Twist is one of the most famous novels Charles Dickens ever wrote. It is a tale of childhood innocence, surrounded by evil; whereby, it portrays the dark unlawful mob of a London, occupied by strong and unforgettable characters. It is a timeless rags-to-riches story about an orphan, who has to navigate his way across a city full of criminals, and stay away from being corrupted. Oliver Twist's will to survive throughout the novel, is the ultimate contributing factor to his finding his biological family. Dickens draws out a convincing image of a disturbing childhood preoccupied by a struggle between the poor laws and criminality; the forces of good and evil; and a sense of alienation. In one of the most common places where poor laws is depicted is that of where Oliver Twist’s birth takes place: a workhouse, where his mother takes refuge and dies after giving birth to her illegitimate son, and is unable to make her identity known to anyone. According to Chlebek, this is where everything “begins, the nightmare of abandonment, exploitation, and terror that constitute the orphan’s early life” (“Childhood in Oliver Twist"). During Oliver’s first year, he is brought up in the workhouse. He is then sent to Mrs. Mann’s baby farm, where he is regularly starved for the next eight years. However, on Oliver’s ninth birthday, the parish beadle, Mr. Bumble, returns Oliver to the workhouse so that he can learn a useful trade: picking oakum. When...
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...Wombles famously choose their names from an old Atlas in Great Uncle Bulgaria’s study. What continent was Orinoco looking at when he chose his name? South America (Venezuela) TV (UK) 1. On which TV show do the characters watch Itchy and Scratchy? The Simpsons 2. Byker Grove was set in which UK city? Newcastle 3. Which character did Arnold Ridley play in Dads Army? Private Godfrey 4. Which character did Catherine Zeta Jones play in The Darling Buds of May? Mariette 5. Benny, Judy, Trisha and Tucker were characters in which new series in 1978? Grange Hill 6. What is the name of the Vicar of Dibley? Geraldine Grainger 7. Who is Ricky Gervais normal writing partner? Stephen Merchant 8. In Happy Days The Fonz was played by Henry Winkler but what was character Fonzie’s first name? Arthur www-better-fundraising-ideas.com Film 1. Film star Nicholas Cage is the nephew of which Oscar winning Director? Francis Ford Coppola 2. Which 4 times Oscar winner founded Aardman Animations? Nick Park 3. What was the name of Hans Solo’s ship in Star Wars? The Millennium Falcon 4. Which Native American tribe features in the film Dances With Wolves? The Sioux 5. Forrest Gump 6. What character said “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”? The song “Hopelessly devoted to you” is...
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...Oliver Twist in relation to the Newgate Calendars Born into a poor English family in 1812, Charles Dickens worked his way up from a life of poverty and debtor's prison, to become a writer of national acclaim. In his Victorian era, he was an exception to the rule because it was very difficult to break through the barriers of social class and better oneself. Because of his bleak childhood, Dickens was one of the few writers of his time who could express the horrors of society as they really were. One of his most famous novels is Oliver Twist. This story centers on a young boy named Oliver whose real identity is unknown when his mother dies in childbirth. As an orphan, he is exploited by corrupt and selfish authority figures, and is forced into a life of poverty, hard labor, misery and crime. Oliver suffers horribly and often takes the blame for others' misdeeds. Dickens is showing that Oliver is a good person, and the bad things that happen to him are through no fault of his own, but because society and the people around him are bad. From his earliest childhood days, Oliver is treated harshly by society. He was born in a workhouse where he is barely given enough food to live and is forced to do hard manual labor. Dickens satirically describes the authorities' view of the poor in this passage: "'Oho!' said the board, looking very knowing, 'we are the fellows to set this to rights; we'll stop it all, in no time.' So they established the rule that all poor people should have...
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...Mycroft 23 November 2015 William Skiles History 102 Term Paper: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, written in 1837, illustrates what is like to be a child in the 1830’s in London. This novel shows the truth about how the Victorian society’s viewed and treated the unfortunate. The foolishness of individualism, failure of charity, clarity of an immoral city, and how the countryside is overemphasized are all main themes of this novel. With being a child in this time period it was really hard to be noticed as an innocent; these kids were growing up in the middle class as workers in terrible conditions. Survival of the fittest was what the Victorians lived their lives by. They believed that if everyone in their society would look out for their own interests, that everything would run effortlessly. But that isn’t at all what happened; Dickens shows us that there was much more issues and problems with they way children were being treated. “[…] as Oliver looked out of the parlour window, and saw the Jew roll [his old clothes] up in his bag and walk away, he felt quite delighted to think that they were safely gone, and that there was now no possible danger of his ever being able to wear them again” (14.8). At the end of the novel everyone is starting to turn against each other and give in to the philosophy, of everyone for himself or herself. However, the second group of Oliver and his many friends prove their community and society wrong by linking...
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...Final Years of Reagan’s Presidency • Republicans lost control of the Senate in the off-year elections of November 1986. o Hope rose among Democrats that the “Reagan Revolution” might be showing signs of political vulnerability. • Democrats also relished the prospect of making political hay out of both the Iran-Contra affair and disquieting signs of economic trouble. • The “double mountains” of deficits-the federal budget deficit and the international trade deficit-continued to grow ominously. • Falling oil prices blighted the economy of the Southwest, slashing real estate values and undermining hundreds of savings and loans institutions. o The damage to the S&Ls was so massive that a federal rescue operation was eventually estimated to carry a price tag of well over $500 billion. • Meanwhile, many American banks found themselves holding near worthless loans they had unwisely foisted upon Third World Countries, especially in Latin America. o More Banks and savings institutions were folding than at any time since the Great Depression. o A wave of mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts washed over Wall Street, leaving many brokers and traders mega-rich and many companies saddled with mega-debt. Failures Tarnishing Reagan’s Presidential Legacy Ronald Reagan's successes in economics, politics and foreign affairs are not the most important. Just as important was how he responded to his failures, such as his response to his greatest failure—the Iran-Contra...
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...| Humanities Today | | | | 6/25/2012 | HUM102 | | Humanities could be described as the blend of history, culture, mythology, literature and art in some cases. It establishes the past, the present, and the future, life, and destiny of society. With humanities, we are able to discover how life and all humanity became of existence and evolve over time. Humanities can assist people in different cultures and ethnic backgrounds to recognize, understand, and establish the meaningful modifications of American history. It seems as if society has become entirely dependent on visible consumption and leisure and is being denied of how we truly evolved into the existence of today. The lessons that we learn throughout our lives are taught so that we can learn about the creation of humanity. The cultures throughout the world have been molded by historical events. Items such as technology set distinct areas that could be integrated to additional assessment of our history. Art offers our culture with a distinctive image that is custom-made towards our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and freedom of expression. The internet can show all the features of this. Modern museums were the first place for revealing such works of art, but now there is a constant effort to try to compete with the vast production of computers and the internet. Without human inquiry and expression, I do not think there would be a society today or a sense of humanity. When you think about how society evolved...
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...Essay on Quentin Tarantino & His American Dream Quentin Tarantino exemplifies the American Dream because he has achieved and maintained material success through his passion of directing, writing, and acting in films. Many people desire to live the American Dream. This involves gaining and maintaining of material success through ones passion. Quentin Tarantino exemplifies the American Dream because he has achieved and maintained material success through his passion of directing, writing, and acting in films. Quentin Tarantino had an unusual childhood. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1963 to Tony and Connie Tarantino. Their marriage was just for Connie to get away from her family and they divorced before Quentin was born (Wild 3). After the divorce his mother took him to California when he was two years old, here he grew up in the Southbay area (Wild 3). Quentin frequented the movies and his mom exposed him to many films, many of which were restricted (Dawson 19). In school Quentin was recognized as very bright, he scored over 150 on IQ tests, yet he hated school ("Tarantino, Quentin" 559). As a result of his hatred of school, he soon became a truant and his mother decided it would be better for him not to go and she know where he is, rather than he not go and her not know where he was, so she allowed him to drop out when he was sixteen years old and still in the ninth grade (Dawson 22). Still a child, Tarantino entered the work force. After Quentin dropped out of...
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...principled and incentives work together to enforce hte values of responsibility and trust, which the Berkshire Hathaway model is predicated on. Our presentation outline includes the company's history; its unique approach in corporate governance; the secret of success in terms of acquisition using human resources wisely and effectively; the company's culture and conclusions. Initially, Berkshire Hathaway is one of the largest corporations in the world, which has significant minority hildings in American Express, M&T Bank, Procter & Gamble and IBM. It is known for its control by the investor Warren Buffet, who is the company's chairman and CEO. Berkshire Hathaway traces its roots to a textile manufacturing company established by Oliver Chace in 1839 and its business units employ over 250,000 employees. Being built on a model based on centralization of capital allocation decisions within corporate headquarters along with extreme decentralization of operating decisions within individual business units, Berkshire Hathaway showed an absolutely unique approach in corporate governance that works effectively. Despite the company has a considerable number of employees – over 250,000 individuals – managers, who oversee each unit, hold complete discretion over operating and capital decisions within their businesses, without obligation to submit budgets for approval or develop long-term operating plans to the senior management. Thereby, “delegation just short of abdication”...
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...“Monarchy returned mot because of its own strengths but because of the weaknesses of the regimes it replaced.” Assess the validity of this view with reference to the years 1658 to 1660 Following the death of Oliver Cromwell England needed a ruler that could gain support of the army, who, since the execution of Charles I in 1649 had been the most influential groups in the country. The successor of Oliver was his son, Richard who seemingly did not possess the characteristics of his late father. The key to control of the country and the regimes following those of Oliver lay in whether a leader had the military prowess similar to that of Oliver. Furthermore the issue of whether monarchy came to power as a result of its own powers or due to the failures of various regimes that preceded it is only answered by taking into consideration the weaknesses of the regimes and the strengths of the monarchy. Following the death of Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell became Lord Protector under the terms of the Humble Petition and Advice. Unlike his father Richard found it difficult to keep a balance with the remands of the army, religious radicals and traditionalists. Due to the amount of power held by the army, the power of the Protector was dependent upon the army. The lower ranks of the army resented the fact that Richard was not a soldier; on the other hand the higher ranks supported such a leader mainly because they could easily manipulate him and use him to voice their views. It is...
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...Abstract I will talk about the movie Any Given Sunday in which Oliver Stone directed. I will talk about how Oliver Stone portrayed war on the screen onto the gridiron and into the world of professional football world. I will talk about how in the movie the owner Christina Pagniacci played by Cameron Diaz, does not see the players as people but as meat. How the business part makes her not feel for her employee's health or mental capacity and only looking at what they can do for me now. Any Given Sunday When I sat down and watched Any Given Sunday director Oliver Stone really brought out the realism in the football world. In the sport of football you have people eyes glued to the game either by television or in person. You have men and woman young or old watching this sport as a gladiator going at each other like there is no tomorrow. Oliver Stone also shows all the sides in how the game has changed from a true sport into a cut throat business. Where players and the doctors don’t care whether they may be permanently injured as long as they can make extra money in the process. Which the move shows the team doctor Harvey Mandrake played by James Woods clearing defensive end Luther 'Shark' Lavay played by Lawrence Taylor to play. Dr. Harvey knows that if he gets hit or is hit could kill him or be brain dead from all the concussions he has received in his career. He does not mind taking that risk because the only thing he needs is to get his tackles in order for him to...
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...“The World Turned Upside Down” by Christopher Hill reveals the unsung heroes during the English Revolution and their radical thinking that did not seem so radical after all. These ideas that Hill mentions throughout his book are radical ideas of the lower class groups such as; The Ranters, Levellers, Quakers, and Diggers. This Marxist Historian presents the “lunacy” of these groups during the 17th century. During this time those groups were referred to as lunatics, but may have well been saner than the society which rejected them, as Hill says, “If we dismiss such ideas because they seem irrational to us, we may be depriving ourselves of valuable insights into society.” (pg ___) Hill is interested in such radical thinking not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies which gave rise to them. He tries to acknowledge to the reader not to be ignorant of what the common people thought. Hill discovers religious movements in England abundant with the ideas and themes that would eventually give birth to secular radical ideologies like materialism, secularism, and communism. He also is far more empathetic and understanding to those revolutionaries who introduced economic ideas of national communism. If you do not have the slightest interest in history this book is not for you. This book is not something a beginner reader would read, your average reader would struggle with his extensive vocabulary and lack of prior knowledge of the English Civil wars...
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