Introduction Whereas the Boys and Girls Club of America is historically one of the most significant after-school programs in the country, within the academic literature, there is a dearth of articles within the last five years that discusses this particular organization. This lack, however, also provides the opportunity for a...
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In “Mr Bennet and Mrs Brown”, Virginia Woolf (1924) argues that in 1910, human nature – intended as human character – changed. As Bell (1987, p. 122) pointed out, what Woolf really means by this statement is that in the early 20th century, all human relations appeared to have shifted...
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s work The Namesake is a classic coming of age tale about an immigrant who struggles with identity and attempting to be his own man. The work is about a boy of Indian decent who has to struggle not only with the changes in environment, but also with how...
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Topic: Paying the Ultimate Price for Justice Attention Getter: Throughout human life, since the beginning of the world, conflicts have existed and people have suffered injustice in the hands of the powerful. Thesis Statement: In line with the general theme of ‘Ashes for the Wind’, I can relate to Juan’s...
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Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success is an informative take on some of the author’s thoughts on the nature of success. The author spend many years at Yale before joining the faculty of Stanford, and during her career, she came up with a number of theories on...
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This paper concerns the book 'The Conquest of the North Atlantic' by G. J. Marcus. Marcus, a historian specializing in the early middle-ages, provides a narrative of excursions into North Atlantic territory by a range of people, including Irish Monks seeking places to worship and Viking warriors. It covers the...
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The romance of Beauty and the Beast is both ancient and timeless. Countless retellings attest to its enduring power. Because the central elements are easily recognizable and quite malleable, it can carry myriad meanings and allow for nuanced commentary on love. As such, it provides a lens for examining contemporary...
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Introduction When Virginia Woolf specifically cites December of 1910 as marking significant changes in human character, she is in fact indicating a vast range of movements and international events that would define the decade. As the centuries were changing and nations were moving toward war, what was occurring was a...
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In Oedipus, Sophocles uses the motif of sight to show that there is a major difference between having one's eyesight and having the ability to see the truth about life and about one's self. The author makes clear, time and again, that simply being able to see does not guarantee...
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This paper is concerned with the essay 'Themes and Topics' by Daniel A. Madigan. Madigan is professor of Islamic Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and has published a full length work entitled The Qur ?n's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture. He is someone who should...
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Victorian literature often supports the basic reality of Victorian life. It tends to focus characters and stories on the powerful force of class status in this world. Class is so important to the Victorians, it becomes the way people are defined as people. George Eliot's Silas Marner is an example...
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Throughout history, women have been repeatedly, systematically oppressed and disempowered. Even today, women are often represented as the inferior sex, and still even limited to traditionally feminine roles—both in professional and domestic contexts. However, the feminist and equality movement has, historically, been closely linked with the authorship of powerful women,...
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The Tell-Tale Heart is one of the "scary" short stories by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. This is the story told by the man whose name is unknown to the reader. This man killed the old man, who lived with him under one roof. The narrator insists on...
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In Jhumpa Lahiri’s book Unaccustomed Earth there are many short stories which describe the challenge of immigrant families in America as they navigate their old and new cultures in terms of their own identity. There is a sense of displacement felt by the initial immigrant generation which continues to impact...
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The stories throughout the “Tales of the Elders of Ireland” are those that can be considered “mythic history,” of the ancient Irish Celts, where it can be found a mixture of fantastic, mystic and even Christian elements. Given the fact that the narrative within these tales does not have a...
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Recently, I was the surprise commencement speaker at the promotion ceremony for a Seattle alternative high school. I spoke to sixty students, who’d come from sixteen different districts, and had survived depression, attempted suicide, gang warfare, sexual and physical abuse, absentee parents, poverty, racism, and learning disabilities in order to...
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