«Open Me Carefully. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThroughout her life, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems, many of which are known and cherished throughout the world. Like many other great writers, Dickinson not only showed talent in her poetry but in her other forms of writing as well. Nearly as famous as her poems, many of Dickinson’s letters to loved ones have been published and have become known for their articulate, loving nature. Perhaps the most popular of her letters, Dickinson’s correspondence with her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert, has been the source of debate for the academic community, (Kristin M. Comment, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers). Full of sexual innuendo and loving remarks, Dickinson’s letter’s to Susan suggest Dickinson’s felt something more than friendship for Susan. Dickinson’s love and dependence towards Susan can be recognized not only in Dickinson’s letters, but in her poetry as well, making Susan Gilbert an inspiration to Dickinson’s writing.
Table of Contents- Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems, many of which are known and cherished throughout the world. Like many other great writers, Dickinson not only showed talent in her poetry but in her other forms of writing as well
- Emily attended Amherst Academy and spend a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
- Emily and Susan had met and become close friends before William and Susan's courtship
- While there has been much debate over the issue, it is generally known that Susan never responded to Emily's letters as Emily would have wanted her to.
« means keeping emotions in check, choosing words carefully, looking them lines between myself and the parents are wide open. allowed to come to talk to me on my ...» Document abstract
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educational studies
course material
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SummaryIn my classroom I expect to be an effective teacher. For this to occur I need to have effective classroom management. I will create an environment that feels safe for the students so that they can focus on learning. For me, classroom management does not go hand in hand with discipline. This is the view supported by Harry Wong as well. He is a very sought after speaker who is excellent at classroom management. I’ve learned a lot from listening to his speeches and feel that his practices are some of the best I’ve ever heard of. So as I designed my classroom management plan I knew in my mind already how I had envisioned my class being managed. It seemed that a lot of what I thought would be great to do, would indeed work since Wong had addressed some of these issues in his presentation. Some of his ideas sound like no-brainers, but you’d be surprised as you looked into classrooms in a school to see how many classes were not being managed effectively. But this will not be the case in my classroom.
« and some control: he chooses his words carefully and deliberately done nothing in the world to represent me, it mattered his mother half dressed in an open robe ...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn Wildlife, Richard Ford employs Joe, a sixteen year old boy unsocialized and unfamiliar with the world around him, to tell the story of his parent’s marriage. Having moved to Great Falls, Montana after living in four other towns, Joe is forced to navigate through a new town, as well as through the contours of his adolescence and the ostensibly childish behavior of his parents. He is, in fact, passive in how he relates to those around him: he does not ask questions, and he responds most often in accordance with what he believes others want to hear. However, during many of these moments, Joe often confesses his true feelings to the reader, admitting either what he wishes he could say or simply acknowledging his own confusion. In the first pages, he realizes, “When you are sixteen, you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what’s in their hearts” (18). Joe’s insight here captures the essence of his narration; he is confused yet insightful and, somehow, strong but vulnerable.
« His gates at Ithaca are forever open to wanderers stranger, or come from nowhere, telling me to fear their resemblance to Polyphemus is carefully constructed in ...» Document abstract
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SummaryAccording to newspaper headings and television reports, every man and woman who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 is a hero. Even three years later, memorials are still built, hymns are still sung, and candlelight vigils are still held in remembrance of the bravest individuals modern America has ever known. The ancient Greeks would be all too happy to disagree. In fact, they would find the blind sacrifice of life in the name of a social duty to be a waste. Morality as a system of reasoning is a contemporary phenomenon; the extremities of right and wrong did not become a true force in the decision-making process until the influx of Christianity. The “common good” did not matter until the Romans placed society above the individual. The Greece of Homer’s Odyssey is a lawless Greece, and any kind of morality based on lawlessness is not morality recognizable by any ethicist. Greeks, as a reflection of their cultural beliefs, use their literature to stress the importance of two traits common to all epic heroes: the fulfillment of Xenia and Kléos. Xenia, an extravagant form of hospitality, divides the civilized from the uncivilized, while Kléos, an emphasis on death with honor above all, divides the heroic from the ordinary. The Greek hero is ultimately selfish; consequently, the greatest hero in all of epic history, Odysseus, is the most selfish man of all. In the shadow of terrorism, it is hard to admire a man who reputes any sense of humanity. However, Odysseus remains the truest embodiment of epic heroism, not based on any duty to society, but on his strict adherence to the Greek ideologies of Xenia and Kléos.
Table of Contents- According to newspaper headings and television reports, every man and woman who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 is a hero.
- From the first book of Homer's Odyssey to the last vicious battle, Xenia is a prevailing force behind much of the plot.
- This distinction is made quite literally when Odysseus is faced with the blatant incivility of Polyphemus.
- While Odysseus' dedication to Xenia separates him from uncivil beings, it is his conscious struggle to achieve Kléos that elevates him to the status of hero.
- Odysseus reaches the island of the Phaeacians in disguise, unwilling at first to risk the disclosure of his identity.
- Kléos drives Odysseus to shatter a bond even more sacred than that of friendship: marriage.
- There is no denying that ancient Greek life is primitive when compared with the advances of modern society.
« of amazement, as with the mouth wide open" (American love was no accident; it was a carefully crafted societal and they would literally never speak to me again. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryRomeo loved Juliet, Juliet loved Romeo, and in the end, they both died to prove it. Neither the Capulets nor the Montagues could understand such love, so neither could allow such love. Romeo and Juliet died to prove it. Yet centuries later, William Shakespeare’s darker tragedy is still revered as one of the greatest love stories of all time. The politics of Elizabethan England that pitted family against family are not so prominent in the modern Western world, but the love created between Romeo and Juliet, a love that existed outside the boundaries of societal acceptance, still exists. Many homosexual youths stand on the edge of a lifelong battle for the right to love. But the only love they can ever hope for is one born of loneliness, of desperation, of suffering: the love of Romeo and Juliet; the love destined for end. The love that shatters the very sanctity that love has been expected to preserve. Léa Pool’s Lost and Delirious paints an accurate yet painful picture of a lesbian love torn apart by the predisposed expectations of a private high school.
Table of Contents- Romantic love developed from the practice of courtly love, a direct objection to the prevalent belief in agape, or Christian love.
- Courtly love died with aristocracy and the Christian state.
- As Paulie and Tori realize in Lost and Delirious, romantic love is half loving and half retaining that love, half longing and half suffering.
- At the beginning of Lost and Delirious, the relationship between Tori and Paulie is seemingly perfect.
- Adolescence, as a key period of development, relies heavily on the family unit for support.
- Where Tori can be seen as a disgrace to romantic love, Paulie can be seen as the epitome.
- Romantic love is passion in its darkest form, 'an emotion [that] completely masters the mind' (Webster).
- Whether Tori means to or not, she feeds Paulie's passion.
- There must be more, a bigger pain, a better reason, something that makes Paulie more than another Romeo, another romantic martyr.
« location Once you have decided to open a flower at both options and weigh them carefully before committing potential, the decision was made for me." While Jeff ...» Document abstract
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business strategy
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SummaryOpening any type of business is a challenging and monumental task that requires dedication and perseverance. Starting a flower shop brings its own unique set of challenges to the fore. No matter what type of business you are opening, careful planning is essential to your success.
When to Plan
Planning starts at the beginning, before you take the first steps to opening your business. If you do not create detailed plans to address at least the major areas of concern when opening a business, you may be destined to fail.
What to Plan
Opening a flower shop involves securing financing, choosing a location, determining what products and services you are going to offer, how your product will be delivered to the public, how you will advertise the business and much more.
When to Plan
Planning starts at the beginning, before you take the first steps to opening your business. If you do not create detailed plans to address at least the major areas of concern when opening a business, you may be destined to fail.
What to Plan
Opening a flower shop involves securing financing, choosing a location, determining what products and services you are going to offer, how your product will be delivered to the public, how you will advertise the business and much more.
Table of Contents- Essentials to planning.
- When to Plan.
- What to Plan.
- Implement the Plan.
- Location.
- Determine your market.
- Evaluate the location.
- Don't over commit.
- Advice from the expert – working from home.
- The main goal.
- Space Considerations.
- Advice from the expert – Shop Owners.
- Advice from the expert – Deciding not to buy.
- Budgets.
- Wholesale Agreements.
- Markups.
- Establishing your Market.
- Using the Internet.
- Using a Wire Service.
- Employee Management.
Mingled Voices: The Communication between the Contrary Natures of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
« figure and an artist, Blake wants to open the eyes in the clothes of death, / And taught me to sing demands that the reader think extremely carefully about her ...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn his “Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, books of children’s poems” written and illustrated by himself, William Blake explores human perception and the contemporary social milieu, focusing on the transience of opinion and the variability of fact in two contrary states of human nature. In England prior to and during the French Revolution, social opinion was under great pressure to remain loyal to tradition while still representing the best interests of Europe, resulting in schisms between social classes and religious sects, some of whom wished to maintain the status quo, while others wanted to see change that would equalize their countries. Blake delves into various aspects of London’s social life, as well as England overall, especially the role of children in society, in relation to this struggle for power, money, and God’s approval. While the aristocracy clung to its traditional power structure and monetary superiority, many children were sold or abandoned daily on the streets of London, either to be taken in as destitute charity cases, which could result in a variety of levels of treatment and care, or to be employed as chimney sweeps, the dirtiest, most abused population of children imaginable. Blake displays a multitude of images concerning children in these conditions and others, but his imaginative and vibrant poems offer more than clear-cut portraits of these unrepresented human beings. If the Songs appear to be simply opposing views upon the same subject matter, separated by the ebullient wonder of Innocence and the odious fact of Experience, one must look more closely to discover Blake’s true purpose. That he often switched poems from one book to the other as he printed them by hand is evidence enough that there were no clearly defined divisions between the states of Innocence and Experience, and within the poems, the two contrary states often mingle, tincturing each other with memories of innocence or foreshadowings of experience. While Blake seems to offer us two differing viewpoints on the same subjects and images, the more we look, the more we see the complexity of his perception and his inability to differentiate completely between his two Songs.
Table of Contents- Following the emerging tradition of writing individually disseminated by poets.
- His poems tend to revolve around a few key themes and symbols which focus these lessons for the reader.
- This narrator is not so accepting of his fate.
- The account of Holy Thursday in Songs of Innocence seems a pleasant outing for both the children and the spectators.
- Blake demands proof that it is indeed holy.
- Blake writes his poems and pieces them together into richly illustrated volumes.
« However, an ATM cannot say "feed me kittens" and and ignorant that they were unwilling to open their eyes not tear them from their carefully constructed reality ...» Document abstract
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film studies
school essay
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SummaryThe meaning of the film American Psycho has been much debated since its release. Is it a glorification of violence? a satire of the yuppie lifestyle of the eighties? a disturbing trip through psychosis? Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it is most often considered a black satire, commenting on the narcissism and excess of the young affluent Americans of the eighties and revealing the ugliness of their society.
Table of Contents- Introduction:
- Art seeks to recreate and reflect reality and thereby provide a key to the understanding of what it is to be human
- In every day life, we tend to believe what our senses tell us about a situation. In this way, film has an advantage over other mediums.
- According to Grodal, films in which 'vital human concerns' are at stake are found to be more realistic
- By inserting us into the psyche of the unstable main character we are given a view into the hidden message of the movie.
- Analysis:
- The film opens with drops of red dripping against a white background.
- More important, however, is the scene directly following the end of the opening credits, which roll throughout the previously described sequence.
- There are a number of voiceovers in the movie, occurring at key points.
- At the twenty minute mark, Bateman kills his second victim, a homeless black man in an alley.
- A few scenes later we become certain that something has happened to Paul Allen, as a detective Kimball shows up to question Bateman about the disappearance.
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX
- Summary of the Film:
« do not monitor their behavior or word choices carefully. needed a nice, concise definition to open my resource find some quotes that alerted me specifically to ...» Document abstract
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humanities/philosophy
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SummaryThe controversy surrounding self-fulfilling prophecies, while originally centered on proving their existence, has recently settled on the probability of such phenomenon occurring in a natural environment. While not directly cited in this resource guide, the original “Pygmalion Effect” experiment by Robert Rosenthal and Leonore Jacobson, while a success in its own self-absorbed goals, failed to make any connections outside of its own hypothesis. The Harvard professor and elementary school principal proved that teacher expectation can directly influence student achievement, but the experiment, conducted in a fixed environment, did not initially translate to the naturalistic world. The original teachers, the independent variables of the test, were told what to expect from their students, and although those students, a heterogeneous mixture of academic potentials, did in fact respond with positive correlation to the subsequent behaviors of their teachers, there was no guarantee that such cause and effect would occur in a literal classroom. In a series of experiments that followed in the decade after Rosenthal and Jacobson’s revolutionary yet flawed research, the naturalistic implications of the Pygmalion Effect were established, answering the question of whether or not teachers do make such drastic predictions, basing their expectations on first impressions and superficial observations and inadvertently fulfilling their own prophecies concerning their students.
Table of Contents- Most of the peer-reviewed journal articles concerning self-fulfilling prophecies acknowledge their existence, especially in the classroom.
- The other journal articles have taken the conclusions of Lee Jussim further.
- Teacher expectations and observations, as stated before, occur naturally.
- Popular media, for the most part, has focused on why such negative perceptions of adolescents exist in contemporary society.
- This image, as stated by Veronica Lacey in an issue of the Toronto Star, is 'that of a lost generation.
- The birth of MTV has definitely added a modern twist to the self-fulfilling prophecy.
- And not much can be expected from a 'lost generation.?
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