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Young Adult Essays and Term Papers
Lifes Many Obstacles - CatcherIn J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” the protagonist, Holden, is faced with many obstacles. Like most tragic heroes, he is a man who is reasonably happy at the beginning of the tragedy, but as the tragedy develops, some failure in his personality begins to affect events, so that his ...
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Comparison And Contrast Of William Blake's PoemsIntroduction (Innocence)
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a lamb!"
So I piped with merry chear.
"Piper, pipe that song again;"
So I piped, he wept ...
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Exploring The Theme Of Premature Death In Three PoemsDeath in the family is shocking, and it is even more appalling when it is unforeseen and when it takes a child. Three poets have written from personal experience three renowned poems on this theme. Margaret Atwood wrote “Death of a Young Son by Drowning”, Seamus Heaney gave us “Mid-term Break”, ...
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Romeo And Juliet: The Betrayal Of The Adults To JulietIn Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the adults betray Juliet because
they are unable to understand her. Juliet's parents, Capulet and Lady
Capulet, fail to understands Juliet's decision not to marry Paris. The
Nurse fails Juliet by not supporting Juliet's decision to remain married to
Romeo. The ...
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A Separate Peace - A Journey TThe novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene and Finny. The ...
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Adolescent Depression - The Under Acknowledged DiseaseDepression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now ...
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Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court??
Over the past ten years, more research has been done involving
children's testimony than that of all the prior decades combined. Ceci & Bruck
(93) have cited four reasons for this :
- The opinion of psychology experts is increasingly being accepted by courts as
testimony,
- Social research is ...
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A Separate Peace: An AnalysisThe classic " A Separate Peace" is a challenging novel that everyone should read. Upon completing this novel I pondered many questions in my mind. I certainly was not ready for the harsh realities that were given in this story. My measly 15 years of life hadn't prepared me for the lessons I ...
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Silly Old Bear“!” Almost every child and adult has heard this phrase before which comes from the Winne the Pooh series written by A.A. Milne. In this series of books written about Winnie the Pooh, the “,” his friends, and their adventures together in the Hundred Acre Wood Forest, ...
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Comparison And Contrast Of William Blake's PoemsIntroduction (Innocence)
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a lamb!"
So I piped with merry chear.
"Piper, pipe that song again;"
So I piped, he wept ...
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Drugs In SportsDrug use has been a part of competitive sport for almost a century. At the
first olympics in Athens in 1896, marathon runners drank a mixture of
brandy and strychnine to help them on their ways and used opiates to
control pain during a race. Use of alcohol was very common in the early
years of the ...
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A Separate Peace - A Journey To MaturityThe novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene and Finny. The ...
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Premarital Sexis sex before marriage. The Bible calls fornication. Webster defines fornication, as "consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other." Paul in writing to the church at Corinth said, " Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who ...
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Lyme DiseaseIn the early 1970s, a mysterious clustering of arthritis occurred among children in Lyme, Connecticut, and surrounding towns. Medical researchers soon recognized the illness as a distinct disease, which they called . They subsequently described the clinical features of , established the usefulness ...
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The Scarlet Letter SymbolismSymbolism is any object, person, place or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as an idea, belief or value. Symbolism is important in the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The letter “A” and Pearl is a symbolic ...
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The Concept Of Death In The Things They CarriedBy Dilara Eynula
As a novel that centers on the lives of American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War, The Things They Carried is a text that is very concerned with the concept and reality of death. Throughout the novel, several of the characters that the author Tim O’Brien introduces to the ...
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Jing Mei In Two KindsAmy Tan, in her story of ‘Two Kinds’, draws ‘Jing-mei’ character as a symbol of all those children, who struggle to get their identity against their parents’ high expectation. Jing-mei is a nine years old girl living with her parents and struggling to become a prodigy to be her parent’s ideal ...
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Lord Of The Flies Allegory EssayCatching Flies with Vinegar
When told to imagine an average English schoolboy, one most likely does not see a bloodthirsty animal with a painted face and long hair, unless he or she has read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. In the famous novel, a plane full of young English boys crashes on a ...
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Fairy Tales and Gender RolesFairy Tales and Gender Roles
Some things about fairy tales we know to be true. They begin with "once upon a time." They end with "happily ever after." And somewhere in between the prince rescues the damsel in distress. Of course, this is not actually the case. Many fairytales omit these ...
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Class Act ResearchRESEARCHING ACTION AND CHANGE
Rob McBride and John Schostak
A. INTRODUCTION
In this chapter we will consider two key forms of qualitative research, viz. Action Research and Evaluation, though it is with the former that we are chiefly concerned.
(A whole school example of Action Research ...
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