...have to come to a conclusion about. All people will be faced with the final questions; was their life good or bad? Will people remember them as a good person or a bad person? Will their legacy live on or die with them? This struggle is fought by every generation who has to face the same ancient questions time and time again. Steinbeck believes that humans never have and never will learn from the past and overcome this but will continue to fight this battle for all eternity. The theme of good v evil is not of them as polar opposites but as the struggle between them. Every character in this novel struggles with this but some of them give up and decide to go completely one way or another. “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel— ‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on man. For if ‘Thou mayest’— it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not’” (Steinbeck 303). All the characters in this novel that believe in thou mayest struggle the most with good and evil because they know there is a choice and they can choose to go one way or the other. They do not just have to go one way because they think it is in their genes or because they are being pushed in that direction. Steinbeck’s tone is very optimistic because he believes that there is a choice and the bad can choose to be good even if they are meant to be bad. Cornell West says that we are who we are because of our families but Steinbeck is challenging...
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...HT, 915516360 SXS/SPY 320, Fall 2014 Is a Bad Kisser a Deal Breaker? He turns her towards him, looks into her eyes with a slight smile. He bends towards her and their lips meet. All of a sudden, he starts kissing aggressively. She feels something wrong. The kiss is wrong. It gradually becomes a sloppy, wet and gooey kiss. She has thought he was perfect, but for the first time ever, she ends up dating a bad kisser. This half-way romantic scene seems to happen with a lot of people. Some agree that bad kissers do not work out for them, or they cannot maintain a long term relationship because of the lack of chemistry. However, I personally would not break up with a potential partner if he or she was a “bad” kisser because there are other factors that we need to consider such as individual physical attractions, conversation, personality, and that bad kissers can be fixed. While kissing technique does a crucial element in stimulating chemistry, individual physical attractions such as hearing, visualizing, and touching are equally important in contributing to the sexual attraction between couples. According to the article “Puckering Up Now Just Lip Service?” the lips are the most sensitive parts and kissing is the fastest way to stimulate sex drive between two people (Elia/Chen, p. 11). However, there are other erogenous zones - particular areas on the body that responds to sexual attraction - that can work the same as the lips (Lecture, 09/17/14). Different people are attracted...
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...day and age. The family consists of a mother, a father, a five year old daughter, a three year old son, and the father of the man of the house. The family that was chosen was interviewed as a family, but also individually. Family Assessment This family consists of RCT, DLT, their daughter JET, and son TLT. The family lives in a four bedroom brick house with their large sized dog, with two entrances, four steps to enter the front of their home, and a back door that you have to go through a fence to get to. Their home is in a quiet neighborhood with an elementary school a quarter of a mile down the road they live off of. Their daughter, CED, goes to this elementary school and is in the first grade. The family’s neighbors are all young couples who the neighbors across the street have two children ages 8 and 10. Their mortgage is $1,100/month. They have city water and sewage. The heat is gas heat and they have a central air conditioning. Their house is kept clean and well maintained since BAD is unemployed at this time. Their young son LRD, who is three also stays home with BAD during the day because the family cannot afford daycare at this time. When you walk in the front entrance it is a split level home. You can either go up four steps to the main level or go down four steps to the lower level. On the first level when you go up the stairs to the right is a living...
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...for our actions? In “The Story of the Bad Little Boy” and “The Story of the Good Little Boy” by Mark Twain, it shows us the different consequences for several actions made by two boys, a bad one and a good one. In “The Story of the Bad Little Boy” during Jim’s school day, he took a pocket knife from his teacher. Knowing he may get in trouble, Jim placed the pocket knife in the hat one of the most innocent boy’s in his school. Twain spoke about how when boys who steal and try to blame it on someone else, the blame and consequences usually end up on the bad boy. But ironically, Jim not only did not get caught with stealing or replacing the pocket knife, but watched the poor innocent boy get shunned. For Jim, his plan seemed to work out perfectly and did not learn his lesson about stealing and blaming things on others like a typical bad boy would. When Jim became older, he abused his sister without an ounce of remorse. This was because unlike typical sisters that get bashed in the head, Jim’s sister did not get mad or retaliate at him. She quietly forgave and carried on with her life. This is ironic because people do not usually get hit in the head and walk away with no anger or frustration with the person that struck them. Jim could have learned his lesson if his sister’s feelings were hurt, but once again he slid by another sticky situation of his. At the end of the story, Twain explains about after several years of leaving his family, he married a woman and made his own. But...
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...In Tangerine many good and bad things happen to paul.Such as him getting kicked off of the Lake Windsor Middle School soccer team.But a good thing that happened to him was he made the soccer team for Tangerine Middle school. Most of the things that happen to Paul are good. Such as Paul making friends with Victor and all of his friends.That is good because if Paul wasn’t there friend he would be made fun of by them, but that can also be bad.Another good thing that happens to Paul is he makes the Tangerine Middle school soccer team. This is good because before he went to Tangerine he went to Lake Windsor Middle school, and he got cut from that soccer team. A couple other good things that happened to Paul where he got some goals in the soccer...
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...emphasized as the building blocks for interventions and to facilitate family resiliency (p. 567). The following paragraphs will describe a typical family. The family consists of a mother, a father, a 10 year old daughter, and a six year old son. The family chosen was interviewed individually and as a family. This family consists of SM, CM, daughter EM, and son DM. The family lives in a three bedroom brick house, with three entrances, nine steps to enter the front of their home, 8 steps to enter from the garage and four steps to enter the back door. The back yard is fences with a four foot wood privacy fence. Their home is in a quiet neighborhood with an elementary school across the street where DM attends. Mom can watch DM play on the play ground at school from their back deck. Their daughter, EM, attends middle school. The family’s neighbors are all young couples with ten children ranging from age four to thirteen. Their mortgage is $998.00/month. They have city water and sewage. They gas heat, gas logs and a heat pump. Their house is kept clean and well maintained since CM only works part-time at a local physician’s office. CM’s, part-time position allows her to stay home when the children are ill or school is out. When you walk in the front entrance it is a split level home. You can either go up six steps up to the bedrooms or walk straight in to the main level or go down eight steps to the garage and down eight steps to the basement. On the main level you enter the great...
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...our life if we don’t have one of our own. In the memoir The Mountains and the Fathers by Joe Wilkins, we follow a boy search for a father figure he so desperately wants to find. He develops many father figures throughout the memoir, some are good figures and others are bad. In the end he still learns valuable lessons from each one, shaping him into the man he becomes by the end of his memoir. As it might seem apparent, the man that is considered the good figure in the memoir didn’t share all the lessons Wilkins would learn throughout his story. He would learn a lot from both the good and the bad and attempt to fill the void he formed when his father passed away. A figure that begins to take a big role I thought would be Wilkins grandfather. After his father died he had his mother to raise him which was hard at times. Wilkins would spend a lot of long hard days working with his grandfather on the farm learning how to ranch. His grandfather would teach him lessons that at the time might not have hit Wilkin as much as it did when he got older and could better understand what seemed as senseless things at the time, really meant. Wilkins would look to his grandfather to fill that father figure he is longing for. Being that his grandfather is a family member makes it easier for Wilkins to relate to his grandfather and find pieces he uses to have in his dad in someone else. As him and his grandpa spend time together working on the farm ranching, his...
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...poems, dramas, etc. on whether or not they can be deemed as literary merit. There are many exceptions to the rule in some eyes while others believe it is more clean cut than that. One of those controversial works is the film "The Village" which was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It takes place in what seems to be a 19th century village surrounded by woods, but is later revealed that it is actually modern day and the village is just tucked into a well guarded wildlife preserve. The biggest issue that sets off alarms about the film is the fact that the ending was left open-ended while merits often have fixed endings. While it surely has commercial aspects...
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...When Bad Things Happen to Good People Man’s search for understanding why bad things happen to people have raised many issues and challenges resulting to some questioning their faith. When tragedy occurs many are quick to ask why, and begin to question God for allowing those things to happen. We often blame others, ourselves, or even God, resulting to bitterness, hatred, and even loneliness. How tragic the news is when we hear something very distressing or how awful it is when it hits so close to home. Why do we react in that manner? Why must we blame God? Why do bad things happen to good people? Harold Kushner’s, When Bad Things Happen to Good People allows one to better understand why he wrote the book and his positive insight bringing light to a seemingly dark matter. Kushner is a Rabbi, a man of God, whom “spent most of his life trying to help other people believe, and was compelled by a personal tragedy to rethink everything he had been taught about God and God’s ways (p.3)”. Hence, it was difficult for Kushner to fathom why or how this could happen to him, his son, and his family. It is easy to sympathize with Kushner because we would probably have reacted in the same way if we were in his shoes. True, it seems unfair how bad things can happen to some, more than others, especially if one attempts to live a life led by God and believes in the goodness of the world, we ask, "how can God let this happen? Kushner contends that the main reason...
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...encounters a fellow slave that he was friendly with on his escape from abuse and torture who helps Huck grow his personality. Jim, the runaway black slave, who Huck was taught to bring shame upon, helped Huck morally grow throughout the story. Hucks decisions to save vulnerable people from disaster constitutes moral growth because he is able to reject the poor moral teachings of his father and Miss Watson and embrace his own value structure that recognises the humanity of his fellow man. The 13 year old boy basis his adventure off of bad teachings...
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...read the story do I think the title crossing, can relate to the death. You are crossing from the earth and into the heaven. The short story is about a father and his son that try to cross a river. The father takes his own son to exactly the same place that he went with his own father back in the days. In the beginning of this story are we introduced with the father and his very difficult period of his life. He always reminds himself about his own childhood. When he was about 17 years old, took his father and him on a trip. He had a bad relationship with his father. His father often speaks hard to him and use swearword when he talk to his son. I think because he had a bad relationship to his own father and he has felt it first-hand. In the text: ““ It didn’t matter. Whatever it was had passed. He and his son would be friends. Nothing mattered more.” That shows us that he only want to be a better father than his own father was for him. The themes of this story would be failure as parents and also that learn from other mistakes, and things that really have a big impact on you will you never forget, it can be good but also bad things. He has had a bad childhood and a bad relationship with his father and therefore will he do everything to give his own child a good childhood. I think the father...
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...ENGL 1102 25 March 2015 Film Techniques in Breaking Bad The directors of Breaking Bad were clever with the filming techniques by especially using color symbolism and the use of flashforwards. Color symbolism was used obviously but in a subtle way in that the general audience may not notice such as Jesse wearing a lot of red and Walt wearing green at the beginning of the show. Flashforwards, on the other hand, was the most notable film technique used in the filming of Breaking Bad by using them in such a confusing way that most viewers would not be able to interpret until at least the end of that episode. Flashforwards were not used very often in the early seasons of the show. When flashforwards were first used, the audience did not understand what was going on since they are always used at the very beginning of episodes. Viewers wouldn’t understand about any connections that it has to the plot until episodes later or until the end of the episode. Flashforwards are used intentionally to confuse the audience. The confusion may end up causing viewers to watch the flashforwards without paying much attention to them. However, most instances of flashforwards would make viewers think about what will happen and create their own events in their head only to find it out it was about something completely different. Directors of the show used flashforwards as an attempt to grab viewers’ attention. The very second an episode starts, viewers are hooked into understanding the situation...
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...disease. He also had sicknesses and illnesses with the fight of mosquitoes. He was the leader of the Revolutionary War. Then he had got sick in the middle of the war. Later after the war he became president of the United States.George Washington overcame the odds of his diseases and all of the sicknesses and illness that he had. George Washington had a lot of diseases, illnesses, illnesses, and he had a lot of disabilities. Their disability was the disease that he had and the disease was called the Tuberculosis Bacilli disease. He had to go throw a fight of mosquitoes. This is the disability that George Washington had and he had some of the things when he was little. He was lucky to get some things to help him, but i did not help him all the way. They had to do a lot of things to help him. They have got something to help him. All of the disabilities that he had were bad. Then what do the diseases do....
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...Introduction Fox Butterfield was the author of this book that referred back to the history of the Bosket Family. The family had a lot of history that interweaved with the larger social history of America. Therefore, there are multiple questions that must be answered when discussing Fox Butterfield’s book, All God’s Children. The first question that must be answered in order to discuss All God’s Children must be about the historical and cultural forces. These were the cultural and historical influences that produced the criminal behavior in the Bosket family. There were many different factors that came into play throughout the history of the Bosket family. One of these examples is that someone must fight and be “bad” in order to gain respect or to be considered a man. After all, this idea of being “bad” actually became almost like tradition for the men in the Bosket family. The Bosket family only knew how to be bad men. Every man in the Bosket family had a reputation, and each one of the men wanted to keep their reputation. The men in the Bosket family would fight because all they really had was their name. Therefore, these men almost needed to maintain their tough guy images in order to feel good about themselves, but also to keep their reputation. Another part of the history of the Bosket family, and really a lot of different families is the self fulfilling prophecy idea. For the self fulfilling prophecy idea, the younger generation is expected to do as the generations...
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...lake was written in a limited omniscience point of view with a participant Narrator. When I read the story on idea or behavior the it show is, we all wear a mask but we can never lie to ourselves. Many people have outward personas that we show the world. If it’s that were good people, courageous, fearless. The persona changes depending on the situation and with how we are interacting with it can be different if were at work, in front of family friends, our parents. This is not always a bad thing we wear these masks so that people see us as we want them to. However In greasy lake this was the mask of a “bad boy”. In the beginning of the story we get an internal monolog from the narrator setting the scene and telling us what kind of person he want us to think he is. “We were all dangerous characters then.” When the narrator says characters it really dive the point that they were acting. “We wore torn-leather jackets, slouched around with tooth picks in our...
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