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- 9231: The Aztec Civilization
- ... new fire of the celebration and feast. A partial list of the Aztec gods: CENTEOTL, The corn god. COATLICUE, She of the Serpent Skirt, EHECATL, The god of wind. HUEHUETEOTL, The fire god. HUITZILOPOCHTLI, The war/sun god and special guardian of Tenochtitlan. MICTLANTECUHTLE, The god of the dead. OMETECUHLTI and his wife OMECIHUATL, They created all life in the world. QUETZALCOATL, The god of civilization and learning. TEZCATLIPOCA, The god of Night and Sorcery. TLALOC, The rain god. TONATIUH, The sun god. TONANTZIN, The honored grandmother. XILONEN, "Young maize ear," Maize represents a chief staple ...
- 9232: “I Won’t Learn From You” And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
- ... desire to learn certain things. According to Kohl, these students turn to creative maladjustment while “breaking social patterns that are morally reprehensible, taking conscious control of one’s place in the environment, and readjusting the world one lives in based on personal integrity and honesty.” The concept of not-learning, being something that can be learned is an interesting phenomenon to me that is explored by Kohl in the title essay ... Kohl’s own words, “To agree to learn from a stranger who does not respect your integrity causes a major loss of self. The only alternative is to not-learn and feject the stranger’s world” (Kohl 6). Kohl distinguishes between failure and not-learning when he states that “the results of failure are most often a loss of self-confidence accompanied by a sence of inferiority and inadequacy,” wheras not ... economic status, and make judgements through the filters of your own cultural, gender, and racial biases, you’ll find the characterisics you expect....On the other hand, if you look for stregnths and filter the world through the prism of hope, you will see and encourage the unexpected flowering of child life in the most unlikely places” (Kohl, 44). In Kohl’s third essay, the author points out that excellence ...
- 9233: Glass Menagerie Commentary
- ... general treats people with disabilities today - the same as everyone else. I also liked the development of Laura's character over the course of the plot. At first she was timid and afraid of the world. But as the play progressed, and her character grew, she started to grow out of her timidness and started to be more trustful of people. By the end of the play, she had completely opened ... with Jim, and living "happily ever after". But that is not how real life is, and I like the way that Williams shows us that not everything works out to be alright in the real world. I don't like the way that Amanda kept accusing Tom of being selfish. I think that Tom is being very generous and noble by supporting Amanda and Laura. It's not his duty to do so, but he is still doing it, regardless. He could be out in the world having fun with his money, but instead he chooses to support Amanda and Laura. I would recommend that you continue to use this play as study material for grade eleven students. I say this ...
- 9234: The Holocaust, An Injustice And Tragedy
- ... as Gypsies. Of all the examples of injustice against humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews and other "lesser races". The Holocaust was a dark time in the history of the 20th century. When the Nazi party of Germany, lead by Adolf Hitler, came to power. Hitler's anti ... a labor camp and an extermination camp. About 1,300,000 people perished at Auschwitz; approximately 1,000,000 of those died in the gas chambers. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, people around the world were shocked by final tallies of human losses, and the people responsible were punished for their inhuman acts.
- 9235: Mixed Emotions in The Story of an Hour
- ... she is afraid of this new feeling of freedom, something different that she never experienced before. She is frightened because she was not born to be independent and “it is not of her true womanhood world; it reaches to her from the larger world outside and would possess her” (Papke 133). Finally she accepts it, the wonderful joy of being free. “Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body” (Chopin 47 ... later she is taken back by force to the darkness of her past life. Mary E. Papke said the end of the story leaves the reader with a warning: “Should a woman see the real world and her individual self within it only to be denied the right to live out that vision, then in her way lies non-sense, self division and dissolution” (Papke 134). Clearly this is what ...
- 9236: Keeping the Reader in Suspense
- ... Gault changed his hair color very often, and it ranged from platinum to shoe-polish black. Temple was described as a man who liked weapons and army. He wore heavy army boots, probably from the World War II, and a long army coat. Gault was very intelligent and by letting the reader know that, Patricia gets the reader to start thinking of Gault’s abilities, and of what his brilliant sick mind ...
- 9237: Night
- In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For ...
- 9238: Native Son...what Does The Nov
- ... America. On page 276 half way through the first paragraph in the thoughts of Bigger Thomas is this first illustrated. Bigger is thinking the following: "that they regarded him as a figment of that black world which they feared and were anxious to keep under control. The atmosphere of the crowd told him that they were going to use his death as a bloody symbol of fear to wave before the eyes of that black world". It is common knowledge that people fear what they don't know but what is not common knowledge is how those fears are manifested. In this part of the novel we see fully how fear ... full paragraph. In Buckley's argument you can hear the fear but most of all you hear those words of control. The words that he uses are not just meant for the judge but the world outside the courtroom. He says "My voice may sound vindictive…but I am really saying is that the law is sweet when it is enforced and protects a million worthy careers…from the ravishing ...
- 9239: The Tempest 3
- Explain how Ariel and Caliban serve as character foils for each other. Be sure to consider their physical appearance and their roles as servants to Prospero. In the world of The Tempest , Ariel, the airy spirit, and Caliban, the earthy monster, can be described as character foils. Unlike and contrasted as they are, they have some traits in common. They both have an aversion ... She knows no other woman and therefore had no female figure to aid the process of raising her. She is naïve and unaware of life s experiences, having been shielded from the rest of the world. Throughout her life, which began at age three on the island, to the time in which she met the only other human contact, Ferdinand, at age fifteen, she learned many things from her father about ... Being a father, mother, friend, companion, and teacher has been a tough task for Prospero, but it is now up to Miranda to take what he has taught her and bring it into this new world that she is a part of and make him a proud father. He is confident that she will do so and she is too. It is time for her to become a woman and ...
- 9240: Iliad
- ... is full of doubts and fears. He is like a stallion that has been pampered too much, a child who is allowed to get everything he wants. Because of his attitude, he starts the Trojan War and brings on the fall of Troy. Paris is portrayed in this passage as being a walking contradiction. He appears to be a hero, but is one of the causes of the war because he kidnapped Helen for his own selfish interests. Homer uses the contradictions in Paris’ behavior to suggest the ironic contrasts in his character. For example, in line 40, after seeing his formidable opponent Atrides ... In this quote, Hector is highlighting Paris’ ability to ruin virtually everyone’s future. After all, Hector’s comment suggests, he is not only an unrepentant heartbreaker, but also a self-centered catalyst for the war. Hector specifically describes Paris as “appalling” and, in another ironic twist, juxtaposes this idea with Paris’s unofficial title as the reigning “prince of beauty.” This contradiction allows these apparently unlike ideas to be ...
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