...and Brits that travel all over Europe after World War One. This is very similar to how Hemingway lived in the 20’s because he too traveled around Europe in the 20’s when this book took place. In the book a group of friends go to a bull fighting festival. The protagonist is Jake Barnes who is an American journalist living in Paris. In the war he suffered a wound that left him impotent, which means he can’t have sexual intercourse with a woman. Even though he cannot have sex he is in love with an Englishwoman, Lady Brett Ashley. Brett embodies the sexual freedom of the 1920’s. Her style is very close to the new woman, bobbed hear and many love affairs. In the first part of the book you can sense the sexual tension between Brett and Jake. While in the cab she confesses she loves him but a relationship would never work. When she tells him this they both are extremely drunk because they have been to a night club all night. The next part of the book Jake goes on a fishing trip with his friend Bill. They enjoy a quite few days with little drinking, playing cards and fishing. After the five days they rejoin their friends in Pamplona, where the festival is. They start to drink heavy again. The group is not fond of a fellow on the trip there with them, Robert Cohn. He had an affair with Brett even though she is engaged with Mike Campbell, who is with the group right now. Later that day they attend the fiesta while drinking and eating the whole day. Brett notices this nineteen year old...
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...Washington was a selfless man who gave up his whole life for the freedom and independence of America and its citizens. Both John Wooden and Washington were great leaders in their different periods, but they held similar leadership strategies and qualities. Washington had many selfless qualities of wanting a better future for the youth of America where the British would not control them. John Wooden also displayed selflessness many times in his career to help his players understand the main point of achieving their goals. He has inspired his players to be the best they can be and be the next generation of leaders. Both John Wooden and George Washington displayed a leadership quality where they cared more about the process of their success than if they achieved what they wanted. Wooden and Washington had important qualities that could help our society improve and learn for the better, and their qualities helped bring out the next generation of leaders. In conclusion, leaders like John Wooden in our history have paved the way for future generations to develop a stronger community. These leadership qualities that Wooden has possessed help our society and world to...
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...the inhumane abuse and degradation of a people in the now, United States. Plantation crops such as sugar, molasses for rum, cotton for textiles and tobacco were transported from the U.S. to Europe for manufacturing. The manufactured goods were taken to Africa and offered in exchange for African men and women. Bound and chained together, the next quest was to the slave houses lined the west coast of Africa. Enslaved African could be housed in any of the dungeons for as long as a year until the journey across the Atlantic took place. what was ahead of them after such treatment. It is said that only the strong survive. What is known as the Middle Passage, the journey from Africa to America across the Atlantic Ocean, proves just that. Forced to lay on, beside and underneath dead bodies, in vomit and feces, it is said that some # Africans died of European diseases, malnourishment, murder and suicide while in transport to North and South Americas or any of the bordering islands to begin their new lives as servants to whites in a foreign land. What began as indentured servitude, allowing the enslaved Africans to work for their freedom over time, gradually turned into white men and women owning the Africans and their offspring as property. Africans were willed to the offspring of the whites as well. This was the tradition...
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...around freedom. It remains one of the most popular mobilizations ever created. It was planned and birthed by a union of civil rights activist and people of feminist support, in which most were African Americans. The protest drew nearly a quarter of a million people to our nation’s Capital. One of, if not the most memorable moment of The March on Washington is Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech (“The Forgotten Radical History of the March on Washington”). The entire speech was an ascending oratory that still speaks volumes today just as it did fifty plus years ago. The speech commanded social and racial neutrality, and looked to a desegregated society. The main idea behind Dr. King’s famous speech was very simple; equality for all mankind was necessary for the future. It was 1963 but yet Dr. King was so far down the line in terms of the next generation and what was needed for the nation and all people of different backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities. He had the formula; the very last portion of the speech summed it all up when he said: “This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together...
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...Larkin’s poetry can be dark, amusing, cynical or deeply reflective, all communicated in a distinctive voice. Explore those features of style that gives Larkin’s poetry its distinctive voice. Larkin’s style is an incongruent blend of formal structure and ordinary colloquial diction which often includes crude language and sardonic humour. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Larkin distinctively communicates his rather fatalistic but at the same time amusing views of life. Larkin’s style is a ‘piquant mixture of lyricism and discontent[Footnote]’. Philip Larkin approaches profound topics such as religion, death and the restrictions of society from a peculiar angle and employs his trademark style of transparent expression, humorous and coarse diction which gives him his distinctive voice. ‘Highly-structured but flexible verse forms[Footnote]’ is the best representation of the Larkin’s use of structure in his poem ‘Church Going’. It is evident that the poem has a rhyme scheme of ABABCDECE and uses iambic pentameter. The rhymes are soft and regular (‘silence/reverence’) except for the addition of a non-rhyming line which breaks the sequence. This creates a sense of ambivalence towards religion: he is both attracted to and uncertain about it. In the second stanza, he bluntly tells us that the church ‘was not worth stopping for’ and that he hears the ‘echoes snigger briefly ’after reading a passage from a Bible. However, later on in a more poetic voice he contemplates...
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...INTRODUCTION Traditional Family Destruction I. “The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations.” Letty Pogrebin knew what she was stating when it came to understanding how important family is to an individual; however a new generation is in danger as the traditional family disappears. Today I will illustrate how internet, television, and lack of adult presence are destroying the traditional family, and how a chain-reaction may cause selfish and irresponsible adults, and possibly the downfall of the United States. BODY II. If families today are so busy with work and using entertainment media, when does a family have time to be a family? A. In 1998, the Los Angeles Times reported 51% of mothers and fathers in an American family worked a full time job. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that number has risen to 64% as of last year. 1) With the majority of parents working, what do the children do? B. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media in a typical day. This includes internet, television, video games, and cell-phones. That’s more than 53 hours...
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...This report is based upon the book Ten Generations of Bondage: Eleven Generation of Faith, written by Johari Ade. This book is published by Sakhu Schule publications and is copyrighted 2012 by Johari Ade. The book Ten Generations of Bondage: Eleven Generation of Faith, was written by Johari Ade. The author author Johari Ade is an American wife, mother and grandmother. She has written many articles about blacks and has three books: Ten Generations of Bondage, the Clues, and People vs. Chester Tyson. Ade graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver and she has a master’s degree in law from the University of Denver. She is interested in the black history, which makes her give lectures and attend genealogy workshops and of course...
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...for children. There was a growing distinction between children’s and adults clothing. By the 18th Century, hand books were being made on rearing children, there was a sign of growing child centeredness of family life at least among the middle class. Then in the 18th-20th Century major changes happened. Laws were made restricting child labour and excluding children from work. This change was made in order to stop children from carrying out all types of labour but most importantly to stop intense or dangerous labour e.g. young boys working in mines and chimneys. Compulsory schooling was introduced 1880. The growth in industry meant that a more educated workforce was required so children went to school as they were going to be the next generation following on into this industrialised workforce.Child protection and welfare acts came into order e.g. (1889) Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act. (1989) Children Act made the welfare of the child the fundamental principle underpinning the work of agencies...
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...The Freedom Writers Freedom Writers was released in 2007 on January 7. It was based on the book the Freedom Writer's Diary by Erin Gruwell, who wrote the story based on a school name Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Eastside Long Beach, California. This film tells a story about Erin Gruwell, who is a young teacher who just started her job as a freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School. She is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino and Asian gang members who had excessive hate for the new teacher, Erin Gruwell. The most significant themes in The Freedom Writers is tolerance, journal writing/empowerment, determination and last but not least is freedom. Erin Gruwell, the teacher starts on her first day at Woodrow Wilson High School. She is unprepared for the nature of her classroom because the students live by their generations history of strict rules and rivalries amongst other “groups.” Most of the students in her classroom are in gangs and almost everybody knows somebody that has been killed by gang violence. Once she steps in the class, Gruwell quickly learned that her students had more to worry about than homework; her students went home to gunfire, gangs, drugs, and a host of other difficult situations. Gruwell did not know what she was getting into. The students was convinced that they didn’t have nothing in common, or that they could learn from a white teacher because she never experience what they previously and currently...
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...Name: Course Instructor: Class: Date: Fences View of Dreams The damaged dreams of one generation can also damage the dreams of the next generation. Troy Maxson is an incarnation of an African American generation that finds itself in a position that it can ultimately realize the American ideal of liberty, life, and pursuit of happiness. Troy became more successful that his dad, who remained an impoverish sharecropper and never owned property or land but instead, spent his wages and life unscrupulous land owner (Jang). Troy bought his own house, even though he felt guilty about the means he used to pay for the house. Through his sexual relationships, Troy embodied the freedom of an individual to follow his own dreams and desires in pursuing...
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...computer to maintain the system and so as her dog, Brownie, his brain has to put into the system for traffic regulation. To me, this is a horrify story because if this is our future, it is a dystopias. We are not living in a free will and even our lives’ purpose is serving as the hardware component of a computer. If we are not suitable for the computer, we will be trashed. Gunn does not give much about the background, but she has stated that the building that Elizabeth took the test is built before the war. I can assume that there is World War III and the war almost destroy the mankind or human have the war with High A.I. computer like Skynet in the Terminator. Nevertheless, both situations lead to one result, human was almost extinct or lost the war and now human is depending and listening to the computer. “He had just come off work, and she knew he would be...
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...time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes, and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future ? Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom, we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future...
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...Two Cultures: Bridging the Gap with Etic and Emic Viewpoint Culture is defined as a learned system of beliefs, feelings, and rules for living through which they organize their lives. Culture is a way of life that is passed from one generation to the next, and societies within the culture are guided by their learned system of beliefs, feelings, and rules for living. Within the customs of their culture, people within society are taught that they share some common understandings with one another. Being taught the customs, members of society are expected to follow the traditional customs of the group. Cultural relativism recognizes that different cultures have distinct social trajectories, or chosen paths (Carpo, 2013). In understanding a specific custom within a culture, it is important to view the culture from an outside perspective (etic). This is exactly what I will demonstrate within the first section of this paper while expanding and discovering another culture from an inside perspective (emic) which shows how even though customs are different within various cultures a different viewpoint can illuminate the entire picture and bridge the gap between both cultures – the Aboriginals and African Americans. Part I – Religion and the African American Culture among Other Things Religion and the Black Church in African American society, in regards to the socio-cultural, economic and political issues of the 20th century, has branched the African American experience of mere individual...
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...and people have poor lives in California. History is vey important for every nationality. Everyone should know about his/her background and country history. But now most of children have lack of their own history. It is really disappointed for grandparents and parents. Many Vietnamese people immigrate and build a new life in the United States during the Vietnam War. The reason people from Vietnam run to the United States was if they continued living in Vietnam, they had less chance to survive in their own country. Even though they moved to the United States, especially to California, from other countries with their family, they still wanted to keep their homeland’s tradition. Many old people, first-generation, are superstitious and they want and ask their children, 1.5 generation, to keep their own cultures until now. But children who are born in Vietnam and grow in the United States do...
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...national anthem. Playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before every sporting event is a grand old tradition since 1942, but according to some sports fans and athletes, so is disrespecting the flag and the song (Andrews and Barbash). However, there is NO excuse to disrespect the anthem of the country that provides you with freedom. Moreover, just think about the words in our anthem for a moment - “And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.” When it was written, our country was in a great battle with tremendous bloodshed with many young lives lost. For many years at sporting events, people have paused and stood silent with hats off, right hand over their heart during this brief tribute to our flag. It is a time to reflect on what it means to be free. It is a way to pay respect to all those who have given their lives protecting that freedom. Furthermore, paying respect and honor to our flag and country that we live in is part of our responsibility as citizens of the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” Consequently, it’s just a time-honored tradition passed down from generation to generation, to respect the flag and country when it comes to the playing of the national anthem. However, some people seem to think that doing other things such as talking to friends, walking around the stadium, or worse during the song, is more important than placing their hand over their heart and listening to the playing of...
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