Essays Tagged: "schoolmates"

Holden Caulfield - The Catcher In The Rye

liefs and values often contrast with those of his peers. Holden finds it difficult to relate to his schoolmates and he isolates himself from the entire environment. He separates the world he knows int ...

(4 pages) 96 1 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". The assignment was to write a well thought out comment on each chapter of the book.

es rather than play sports. Stephen is a very good student and he seems to get along withall of his schoolmates except for Wells the bully. Even though Wells pushedhim into a filthy ditch and taunts h ...

(5 pages) 86 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Adolph EiIchmann, a Jewish boy who lived through the holocaust.

same town as Adolf Hitler, Eichmann was ridiculed about his looks and dark complexion. Some of his schoolmates even called him names like "little Jew." That marked only the beginning of his feelings ...

(3 pages) 26 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

A book report on They Cage The Animals At Night

d friendship.Sal is always there for Jennings. Jennings wrist is cut when he is in a fight with his schoolmates. Sal rescues Jennings from his schoolmates. (Burch.1984, p.155) Sal wants to keep him fr ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Lord of the Flies: Character analysis

eader, the sort of intelligent, well-adjusted, athletic boy who easily might become the idol of his schoolmates. We meet him in the first chapter as he leads the way out of the jungle while Piggy lumb ...

(7 pages) 55 0 4.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Analysis of Holden Caulfield from the Catcher in the Rye

ething to do with his emotional state: the death of his brother Allie and the suicide of one of his schoolmates. But, even with that knowledge, Holden's peculiarities cannot simply be explained away a ...

(2 pages) 31 1 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Important Events that Occur in Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter's Friendship, in the novel The Chosen, by Chaim Potok." Mr. Digout ELA B30 Amanda W

f at the beginning of the book when the two boys, Danny and Reuven, are playing baseball with their schoolmates and Danny Saunders is standing on the same base as Reuven. Reuven tries to talk to Danny ...

(5 pages) 25 0 4.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The controversy in China about whether university students should marry.

oreign Language University ignored the rules and got married in his final year. More than 50 of his schoolmates attended his wedding feast--the first-ever case of a student marriage in the country. Wh ...

(7 pages) 49 0 4.7 Jun/2005

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Complexity of Language Increases in Proportion to the Protagonist's Development in Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

just after the protagonist Stephen Dedalus begins his schooling. He is walking with a group of his schoolmates, one of whom speaks to another boy, Simon Moonan. Young Stephen hears a speaker's senten ...

(9 pages) 35 0 1.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

MacKinlay Kantor's "Andersonville".

his name more appropriate to his ethnic background. Soon he became simply "Mack" to his friends and schoolmates. Shortly thereafter, he, Effie, and his sister, Virginia, moved in with his grandparents ...

(11 pages) 27 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

MacKinlay Kantor's "Andersonville."

his name more appropriate to his ethnic background. Soon he became simply "Mack" to his friends and schoolmates. Shortly thereafter, he, Effie, and his sister, Virginia, moved in with his grandparents ...

(11 pages) 13 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Inspirational Quote by Maya Angelou

this case, can gain respect but not be fulfilled by it. I used to have a hard time with many of my schoolmates a while back and I did everything I could possibly think of to get their respect. A lot ...

(2 pages) 12 0 3.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The Existentialism In Nietzche And Camus

omen, godliness, and provincialism, three things he detests later in life (14.4). Next, Nietzsche's schoolmates called him "the little minister," and described him as "a Jesus in the Temple." ...

(3 pages) 13 0 5.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Art Of Mazatlan

ar self image growing up, since there are two Simons: one with his family, one with his friends and schoolmates G. Many situation present conflicts where his cultural beliefs collide H. ...

(4 pages) 4 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Red Badge Of Courage

hich was fueled by passionate images of "Greeklike struggles" and glorious victories in battle. His schoolmates crowded around him and glowed with admiration as he "swelled with calm pride". He felt a ...

(2 pages) 931 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Violence

society today. On May 98, a 15-year-old boy from Springfield, Oregon, allegedly opened fire at his schoolmates, killing two and wounding twenty others. On April 99, two students from Columbine High S ... ident, there comes another horror in Conyers, Georgia, on May 99. A student with two guns, shot six schoolmates to death and himself afterward.What really causes those tragedies and what makes teenage ...

(5 pages) 65 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Popularity

eginning of elementary school to the end of middle school I accepted my role as the prey and saw my schoolmates as predators. I could only leave this jungle when school ended, in which case I would re ...

(5 pages) 920 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Persuasive Essay

icken pox, measles, and mumps are communicable diseases that spread if a schoolmate coughs on other schoolmates or shares a juice box at lunch. The flu virus is a virus that often starts in school. Th ...

(3 pages) 107 2 4.2 Oct/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Comparative essasy - comparing

le. I have had many influential people in my life. I believe my friends, people I have worked with, schoolmates and even television has helped mold me into who I am today, but I think the two most inf ...

(5 pages) 1225 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Lord if the Flies A reflection

ral leader, the sort of intelligent, well adjusted, athletic boy who easily becomes the idol of his schoolmates. He is quick to assess the situation of the boys in realistic terms. He sees what must b ...

(5 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature