Abstract This paper compares and contrasts the conception of teenage life presented in Keenan's "Nancy Drew" series and Pascal's "Sweet Valley High". More specifically, the paper considers the sibling relationship, as well as the relationship between parent and child.
From the Paper "Between the time that Carolyn Keene penned the "Nancy Drew" series and Francine Pascal wrote her "Sweet Valley High" books, our society underwent many changes, including a rethinking of the family unit and increasing pressure on adolescents. More importantly the young adult readers that both Keene and Pascal intended as their audience changed significantly. As a result of their different social contexts, the two series present distinct views of adolescent life. Yet, both Keene and Pascal aim to teach young adult readers about life and relationships within their respective worlds..."
Tags: pascal, keenen, drew, sweet valley, sibling, parent, lesson
Abstract This paper explains that Charles Bukowski's poem, "My Old Man" portrays a conflict between a father and son. The complete opposite of this poem is Nancy Willard's poem, "Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him", which conveys affection between a parent and child. The author points out that the themes of these poems are different: Charles Bukowski gives the father and son a strong sense of disconnection and refusal of one another; whereas, in Willard's poem, the theme exposes involvement and acceptance between a parent and child. The paper relates that Charles Bukowski creates a sense of misery with the son having a feeling of unimportance; Nancy Willard's poem expresses a deeper meaning of time through life.
From the Paper "The imagery created through the questions and answers in Willard's poem, produces an outlook on life relating time. In the course of the parent and son's intimate relationship, it allows them to involve time on the view of life within the questions and answers. Through time the son will find out if butterflies make noise, if he can eat a star, and if the years ever run out. Even the answers given to him are through time. For example the last question asks, "Do the years ever run out?" This question inquires the time in living every day to a year to find his answer. Even though his parent answers, "God said, I will break time's heart", the son must live and learn so he can eventually interpret the answers to his questions."
A teacher's reflection on Nancy Atwell's writing workshop model as described in Atwell's book "In the Middle: Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents".
Abstract In this paper, the writer describes how Nancy Atwell focuses on the ways teachers can motivate students to read and feel comfortable in their writing. The writer describes Atwell's proposed classroom community that nurtures these effective writing behaviors and skills. The writer then turns to his experience as a teacher using Nancie Atwell's writing workshop model and relates that overall, it was very successful. The writer posits that in the future he would want to create a writing workshop that balances this type of personalized writing with a more formal discourse.
From the Paper "Atwell proposes activities that garner the teacher's participation with his or her students. She uses her own experiences to illustrate how a teacher can become an "evolutionist," one who shares their own work with students. Atwell proposes that when students come to realize that the writing process is an activity that adults struggle with too, they are more willing to work on their own challenges. Here, students and teacher learn together in the workshop experience. In this classroom setting, Atwell promotes the collective practice of daily writing, students writing at their own individual pace, and allowing students do choose their own topics for their own writing as well as for the texts they are reading."
An insight into stereotyping in society through the review of two books, "Women's Magazines 1940-1960" by Nancy A. Walker and "Black Boy" by Richard Wright.
Abstract This paper discusses how sexism and racism both involve imposing a set of expectations on groups in society and how sexism has not been eliminated from American life any more than racism has. In "Women's Magazines 1940-1960" by Nancy A. Walker, it shows how women's magazines package a set of behaviors, roles, expectations, attitudes, and values related to domesticity and which, of followed, would enclose women in a relatively narrow range of choices. In writing about blacks and how they are treated in American society, Richard Wright in his book "Black Boy" also suggests ways in which blacks are given a packaged set of roles and attitudes to which they are expected to conform. This paper provides a short biography of Richard Wright and attempts to analyze how he would have viewed the expectations and attitudes imposed on women and how alike or how different would he have seen them from those imposed on blacks.
From the Paper "Richard Wright was born in 1908 on a plantation outside Natchez, Mississippi. His father was a sharecropper, while his mother taught in a country school. Richard's childhood was spent in one of the most poverty-stricken and rigidly segregated regions of the South. When he was six, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, so his father could get a better job, and the father then worked as a night porter in a hotel, while the mother worked as a cook for a white family. Richard's father left the family for another woman son after that, and in 1915 Richard's mother became ill to such a degree that she was an invalid for the rest of her life. Richard, his mother, and his brother then moved to Jackson, Mississippi. to live with Richard's grandmother for a time."
Abstract This paper examines how being the First Lady is to live in the spotlight and to be a role model for thousands of women, not just in the United States, but also worldwide. It shows how First Ladies prefer to let their husbands be the president, focusing on such issues and foreign and domestic policies, whereas they prefer to focus on issues closer to home that directly affect the American people. It describes the lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Barbara Bush, and Nancy Reagan, three First Ladies who each had to deal with criticism, controversy and pressure in their time. It provides a brief biography of each of their lives and analyzes their contribution to society.
From the Paper "When Eleanor was 15 years old , she was sent to the Allenswood Academy in London, England. While there, Eleanor developed lifelong interests in politics, social causes, history, and literature. Upon her return to New York, she joined various social-reform organizations, including the National Consumers? League, which sought to improve working conditions for women, and volunteered as a teacher in settlement houses (charitable establishments that offered social services to the urban poor). ?Very early,? she says, "I became conscious of the fact that there were men and women and children around me who suffered in one way or another" (Roosevelt, p. 27). "
Tags: domestic, policies, women, organizations, america
A review of the work, "From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration" by Nancy Foner about Jewish and Italian immigration in early 20th Century America.
Abstract This paper examines "From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration" by Nancy Foner which looks at why the immigrant experience of America has so often proved to be a successful one. It dispels the myth that successful immigrants came from "nothing" and from ?persecution,? an idea enjoyed by many of their children and grandchildren and discusses how many of these immigrants came to the country proud and tall and not huddled and yearning. It shows how they were rich, if not in land and money, then in social connections and in family connections and how they were well versed in the social skills of creating networking relationships amongst those of their ethnic and religious background.
From the Paper "Jewish immigrants, says Foner, were not ?from the depths of their societies.? In other words, high proportions of the Jewish immigrants to America were skilled rather than unskilled laborers. They did not come ?naked,? but possessed a marketable trade, often tailors, carpenters, dressmakers, and shoemakers. These individuals thus could be resourceful in setting up their own businesses. They often had or could develop connections to larger professional and social networks than cast-off individuals. Their immediate integration into the professional life of a community because of their skills, combined with the theological centrality of the synagogue facilitated these immigrant's integration into the American economic fabric in a way that still allowed them to retain their essentially Jewish character."
Abstract This is a summary of "Making Sense of Strangeness: Silvis in the Blues written by Nancy Langston. The paper explores how foresters are interested in why trees and various habitats in the forest work together, yet in competition of one another.
Abstract This paper examines the issue of corporate responsibility and public interest. This paper looks at the recent conflicts between Dr. Nancy Olivieri and a private partner, Barry Sherman's pharmaceutical company, Apotex Corp. The author describes this case as tragic and compares it to recent tragedy's around the world where corporations are not taking responsibility for their mishaps. In this particular case, there is a huge imbalance of power between pharmaceuticals and any individual scientist and/or hospital responsible for drug trials and approvals. This issue takes place in Toronto Canada.
This paper reviews Nancy Folbre's "The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values", which discusses how families are adversely affected by today's economics.
750 words (approx. 3 pages), 1 source, 2004, $ 26.95
Abstract This paper explains that there is a conflict in our society between the economics of supply and demand and family values. The author points out that Folbre feels the problems of the welfare system are a direct result of the government's lack of providing care for its citizens. The paper relates that, originally, school schedules were established in the days when farm families needed children to help with crops; but, today, this model is nothing more than an example of economic inefficiency.
From the Paper "The economic value of care giving has never been established and remains undervalued. So how do women who are the traditional caregivers move out of that role without feeling guilty because they are not living up to their familial obligations? There must be mutual responsibility when both parties maintain careers or work to enhance the quality of family life and maintain standards of living."
Abstract This paper outlines and compares the explanations Nancy Chodorow, a preeminent social scientist, and Simone De Beauvoir, feminist author and historian, offer for the subservient role of women in society.
From the Paper "In, ?A Room Of Her Own,? the feminist novelist and author, Virginia Woolf demonstrated that one of the reasons why women writers were in overwhelmingly low numbers than their male counterparts was because of the lack of economic opportunity. (Woolf, 1991) Victorian perceptions also saddled women with the responsibilities of motherhood and domesticity. This took away the opportunity for women (except for a few) to truly come into their own. Nancy Chodorow, a preeminent social scientist addresses the issue. (Chodorow, 1999) She does not get caught up in the traditional feminist or socialization mindset. Even psychologists, Chodorow avers, have not pursued the matter at a higher granularity. All can agree that, explicitly or implicitly, women have been subjugated. Chodorow addresses the problem using psychoanalysis."
Abstract This paper examines the ethical medical question concerning the Nancy Cruzan "right to die" case. The paper examines this case from a consequentialist paradigm, a morally relativistic paradigm and from an alternative Buddhist paradigm.
From the Paper "The ethical paradigm of consequentialism, as its name suggests, is the view that "normative properties," in other words, ethical actions in the world, should be judged upon and "depend only" upon their resultant consequences. (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2003) The Nancy Cruzan case is famous legal a 'right to die' case whereby, after Nancy Cruzan was almost killed in a car crash, "years later, Cruzan's parents wanted to withdraw the artificial hydration and nutrition that kept their daughter alive," whom was deemed 'brain dead' or in a permanent vegetative state, at the time (Healthcare ethics, 2004) "
Abstract This paper studies the lives of Ann and Nancy Wilson, sisters who started their musical careers with a folk background but became leading figures in the rock world with their band Heart. The author traces the women's meteoric careers through a review of their albums. The paper also discusses the band's influences and their influence on the music industry as a whole.
From the Paper "The band was founded in 1963 by the group's bassist, Steve Fossen, and by brothers Roger and Mike Fisher from Vancouver, British Columbia. Originally named "the Army," the band later changed its title to "White Heart" and then simply to "Heart" in the early 70s. A romantic involvement between Ann Wilson and Roger Fisher brought the former member into the group. Her sister, Nancy, followed in 1974, through a romantic relationship with Mike Fisher, who at that time was the band's primary sound engineer. Later, Howard Leese and Michael Derosier joined the band as keyboardist and drummer, respectively."
Abstract This paper reviews an article by Nancy Hornberger in which she discusses the issue of biliteracy. The paper discusses how Hornberger stresses the fact that although there has been an established plan for first and second language learners in the United States, there has been little evidence that discusses the development of a biliteracy continuum which is essential for multiple language learners. The paper further discusses how according to the article, most educators in today public education system have not previously had the ability to realize that there are correlations in biliteracy that can be used in support of both languages.
Abstract This paper discusses and reviews Nancy Dickenson Hazard 2004 article, "Global Health Issues and Challenges" which presents an overview of a number of Arista conferences held in various world regions. Participants identified global issues and conditions which affect nursing. They also focused on strategic actions for the nursing profession and on recommendations for actions aimed at creating healthy communities. The paper explains that Hazard's article was presented as an executive summary and synthesis of the reports made from the various Arista conferences.
Abstract This paper discusses the focus of Nancy Guy's book the 'Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan' and its connection to the political realm of Taiwan is an important study of a nation that has been affected in every manner by political ideologies. The book not only provides a look into how the performing arts can be altered by a country's leaders, it speaks to how an entire nation be enticed to alter individual opinions and shape public beliefs.
From the Paper " This is an important work in relation to music, as it reinforces the knowledge that music not only speaks through melodies and words, but through its association with societal histories that continually influence change. Summary Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan reflects Nancy Guy's research and insight into the evolution of this type of musical performance, which was impacted by political regimes throughout history."
