Essays Tagged: "mischievous"

Childhood Delinquence. Definition, the extent, causes, and what has been done to deal with the problem

Remember doing something mischievous or wrong when you were a kid and getting the label'delinquent' slapped on you ? Did you ...

(4 pages) 187 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Juvenile delinquency, the extent, some suggestions on what it's caused by, and what is being done in various communities to deal with this growing problem

Do you remember doing something mischievous or wrong when you were a kid and getting the label 'delinquent' slapped on you ? Did you ...

(4 pages) 293 2 3.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Juvenile Delinquency

Remember doing something mischievous or wrong when you were a kid and getting the label "delinquent" slapped on you? Did you ...

(4 pages) 200 1 1.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

The Scarlet Letter (Little Pearl's role in the story and how unrealistic Hawthorne made her)

med to constantly torment her mother simply by her presence and more so by her actions. Pearl was a mischievous little girl, very curious as well. Even as a baby, she would point to Hester's scarlet l ...

(4 pages) 61 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Huckleberry Finn: The Contrasting Views on Life of Tom and Huck.

completely unlike them. The reader soon discovers that these opposite qualities in the knifing and mischievous Tom Sawyer allow him to be the perfect foil for Huck.Huck Finn begins the story at the y ...

(4 pages) 45 1 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

Comparison of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "1984" by George Orwell.

David Lilienthal, a writer, once said, "The idea of utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic" (www.famousquotes.com). A dream for a utopian society always exi ...

(5 pages) 115 1 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The SImpsons.

. Together they have three children. Bartholomew Jo-Jo "Bart", their eldest child, is an incredibly mischievous fourth grader. Lisa Marie is the overlooked middle child, an eight-year-old second grade ... out of trouble. As the oldest child he is the most rebellious. Many episodes focus on one of Bart's mischievous acts. In the episode of Reverend Lovejoy's daughter Bart falls in love with the Reverend ...

(4 pages) 237 6 4.2 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Talks about bad traits and how Robert Cormier views human beings as cruel and greedy, two characteristics that are found in the human nature.Supported with details from the text.

Bad TraitsBeing rebellious and mischievous are two qualities of the human nature.A person that is clever and conniving throughout h ...

(2 pages) 37 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Alfred Hitchcock Biography Essay. 860 word summary of Hitchcock's life, his achievements, and his death.

ting event occurred early in his life. When Hitchcock was five, his father got mad at him for being mischievous, and sent young Hitchcock to the police station with a note for the officer. Alfred was ...

(3 pages) 78 0 3.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors

Louisa May Alcott

1832, to Amos and Abigail Alcott in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second born and the most mischievous of the two. Her father thought that she was unusually strong willed, and temperamental. ...

(4 pages) 51 0 2.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The "Spark" that United America

rgo into the Boston harbor, America would be changed forever. What was, at first, seen as an act of mischievous rebellion, turned out to be one of the most influential events in America's revolutionar ...

(4 pages) 26 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Scarlet Letter Process Paper

evidence in the text. In the novel The Scarlet Letter the character Pearl is portrayed as the young mischievous daughter of Hester Prynne. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Pearl's physical trait as a spit ...

(1 pages) 29 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Comparison between Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" and Rowan Atkinson's "Mr. Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie"

Ultimate Disaster Movie respectively, both have child-like qualities, and the tendency to be rather mischievous. Mr. Bean is naive and self-centered, sometimes to the extent of becoming somewhat mean. ...

(6 pages) 49 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

General Study on Greek Mythology

s and numerous mortals, the bitter jealousy of Juno and her attempts to thwart Zeus's pursuits, the mischievous games of Aphrodite and Cupid, the heroic journeys of numerous mortals to destroy multipl ...

(3 pages) 81 0 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The story of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna

, she much rather be climbing trees or playing with her dog. She was nicknamed "imp" because of her mischievous ways, she loved playing pranks on people, one time she went as far as rolling a rock in ...

(3 pages) 27 0 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Poo Humor (based on a real story)

asn't the perfect kid, I tell you, but my mother thought I was fine - until I decided to become the mischievous pixie of the house. At some point in my childhood I decided I needed to fill the role of ...

(3 pages) 61 2 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" - Film Review

ted as a high-spirited and unruly exercise in democratic self-expression. Mixing sober outrage with mischievous humor and blithely trampling the boundary between documentary and demagoguery, Mr. Moore ...

(3 pages) 111 0 4.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

To kill a mockingbird

s and they start to act out what they think is the 'Boo Radley story'. Atticus puts a stop to their mischievous play, but they are compelled to find out more about Boo Radley and Nathan shoots at the ...

(3 pages) 28 2 4.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Racism

ovel by the way the other characters treat Huck. Twain portrays Huck as an average boy of his time, mischievous, adventurous and funny. The society Huck lives in labels him "uncivilized" because he ha ...

(3 pages) 65 1 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Great Expectations - Character Analysis of Trabb's Boy

g of his personality is seen through his numerous actions. His personality is frank, vivacious, and mischievous. In the way Mr. Trabb speaks to Trabb's Boy in Chapter Nineteen, there is evidence that ...

(2 pages) 19 1 4.2 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens