Abstract
This paper discusses Robert Frost's poem "After Apple Picking." The paper suggests that "After Apple Picking" is Robert Frost's response to the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, as the poem suggests that desire and free will seem more treacherous than they actually are. It describes these themes throughout the poem and how the use of the narrator telling the story is effective in portraying them.

From the Paper
"His daydreaming also signals a need for change, which is as natural as the changing of the seasons. Apple harvests usually occur at the end of summer, a time of transition. Autumn and winter, suggest the narrator, are not fearsome. They are the natural products of a successful, rich, and ripe summer. After his daydreaming on the ladder the narrator realizes that his apple-picking did not meet his expectations but he does not harbor any remorse. Frost suggests that desire fuels all human activity and creative enterprise, and even when the endeavor is of "no worth" it has intrinsic value as a personal learning experience."

Tags:imagery, stanza, daydreaming

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This essay discusses an important aspect of Maya Angelou's work, "Cotton Picking Time", which is its spiritual content and power. The paper states that Angelou is known for her religious and spiritual beliefs and how they reflect through her work. This paper analyzes how, "Cotton Picking Time", Angelou discusses one day in her life when she realizes both the bounties and harshness of Southern life as a black person.

From the Paper
"As mentioned earlier, language is used as a powerful tool by the author. According to Angelou, it was the language that helped her community survive. There may actually be more to the folk language than we realize at first. By communicating about their pain and hard times, the community could verbalize their situation that helped in survival. Angelou admits that: 'It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians and blues singers)' (p. 180). Black authors have almost unanimously agreed that language has helped them in survival. By talking about the pain, they could at least let it out or in other words, writing and singing provided an outlet to their pain and frustrations."

Tags:theme, spirituality, power, content, harshness, african-american

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To identify the typical applications and genre of these instruments over the years, this paper provides a introduction and overview of percussion instruments and a review of selected percussive pieces and their composers. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.

From the Paper
"The music historians report that the term "percussion instruments" dates back to 1619, when Michael Praetorius wrote of percussa, klopfende Instrument (from the German klopfen, "to beat") as with any struck instrument, including struck chordophones (stringed instruments). The same combination of instruments, including the pre-bow chordophones, comprised the divisio rhythmica in the 7th-century Etymologiae of Isidore, archbishop of Sevilla (Seville) (Bowles, 2003). Percussion instruments include those belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones. Generally speaking, idiophones are those instruments whose own substance can vibrate to produce sound (as opposed to, for instance, the strings of a guitar or the air column of a flute); examples include bells, clappers, and rattles."

Tags:bells, drum, idiophone, membranophone

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses James Frey's controversial memoir about his recovery from addiction through willpower alone in' A Million Little Pieces'. The validity of the author's approach to addiction recovery is addressed.

From the Paper
"James Frey's A Million Little Pieces tells the story of the author's addiction to alcohol and crack and his last-ditch effort at recovery at the Hazelden treatment center in Minnesota. Frey's book pulls no punches about the personal horrors of addiction and the destruction it plays in the lives of an addict and those around him. Broken relationship routine vomiting failed sexual and romantic relationships injurious falls and multiple arrests characterize the author's life before his parents meet him at a Chicago airport ..."

Tags:Alcoholics Anonymous, rehabilitation, parents, responsibility, God, violence, mental health

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This paper reviews the book 'A Million Little Pieces' by James Frey, the book said to be a memoir of a young man's brave fight with crippling substance abuse problems. This paper reports how not only did the critics love it, but it was seen as an immensely important contribution to the small but important genre that focuses on drug addiction issues.

Tags:frey, james, addiction

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If one of the important uses of rhetoric is the ability to address a given audience through communication, through writing, then it would seem that the best analysis of a given example of rhetoric's use would be to dissect how said example goes about addressing its particular audience. In the case of this essay, a piece written by Father James Burtchaell, former professor and provost at the University of Notre Dame, is analyzed. This article, "Major Decisions: How to Pick Your Major in College," is discussed in terms of how it addresses its particular audience, that audience being college students or prospective college students.

Tags:rhetoric, writing, english

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This paper discusses how organizational learning is becoming an increasingly important tool in helping organizations to adapt to our quickly changing economy and social environment. It does this through the review of four different articles by different theorists. These articles offer a variety of approaches from cognitive and psychological, to an understanding of employee motivation and job satisfaction. Taken together, they offer a solid guide for organizational learning in the new economy.
The articles are :
"Organizational Learning II : Theory, Method, and Practice" by Chris Argyris & Donald A Schon.
"Motivation through the design of work? Test of theory" by J.R Hackman and G.R Oldham.
"Review and Clinical Utility of: The Neurotic Organization" by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries and Danny Miller.
"The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover up, Pick up the Pieces, Please the Boss, and Perpetuate Sick Organizations" by Anne Wilson Schaef and Diane Fassel.

From the Paper
"Hackman and Oldham's job characteristics model focuses on how enrichment and job satisfaction derive from attitudes and behaviors. The five core dimensions of skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and the degree of direct feedback are important criteria in defining any job. Hackman and Oldham argues that the five core job dimensions in turn influence the worker's psychological states. These three states are experienced meaningfulness of work, experienced responsibility for the outcome of work, and the knowledge of the results of the work outcomes."

Tags:economy, social, theorists, maps, job, satisfaction, workers

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This paper reviews, discusses and analyzes the impact that incarceration has on a prisoner's family and community. According to the paper, the majority of the incarcerated population are men, most of whom are fathers with families. The paper takes a look at how the families of prison inmates are left behind to pick up the pieces.

From the Paper
"Mass incarceration places a tremendous strain on the extended networks of friends and family that have traditionally sustained poor African American families in difficult times, thereby weakening the communities' ability to cope and survive economic and social hardships (Roberts 2004). Although loss of family contact may be seen by many as simply part of the offender's deserved punishment, there are damaging consequences to families, social networks, and communities. According to Roberts, the "injury to social networks is also a counterbalance to claims that removing criminals may benefit their relatives by relieving the families of problems caused by the offender's antisocial behavior" (Roberts 2004). However, the type of offender has changed due to the new sentencing reforms that impose harsh prison terms for relatively minor drug offense, thereby increasing incarceration of first-time, nonviolent offenders, who most likely have valuable ties to the community networks and institutions, which means that the loss to communities is greater today in terms of the quality as well as quantity of inmates (Roberts 2004)."

Tags:prison, co-dependent, relationship, role, model, child, children, incarcerated, prisoners, foster

Abstract
This paper discusses how to teach students the critical impact that a setting holds within a story. The paper does this by analyzing two traditional picks for the high school classroom, Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie" and Willa Cather's "My Antonia". Both of these works require an in-depth understanding of the setting in order for students to grasp the full situations within the story.
This paper analyzes two aspects for each work. The first is looking at the eminent connection the setting has to the plot for each creation. The second is constructing a basic plan as to how to help students visualize the setting and how it effects the character's action within the piece.


Table of Contents:
Introduction
Story Setting
Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie"
"My Antonia" by Willa Cather
Conclusion
Appendix: Website to Aide Setting Comprehension in "The Glass Menagerie"

From the Paper
"The third layer of the setting for students to consider is the fact that "The Glass Menagerie" is a play meant to be performed on the stage. Drama invites a creative collaboration with the playwright as the student enters imaginative worlds created by scenery, lighting, costumes, make-up, gestures, and dialogue. In this play student not only come in contact with traditional dramatic aspects, but also with Williams creative play writing touches. For example, throughout the play reference is frequently given to the screen that is meant "to give accent to certain values in each scene.""

Tags:frontier, dramatic references memory, time period, mind-set

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The author of this paper uses four films and quotes to illustrate the influence that the Godfather Saga had on the film "Goodfellas." It summarizes each of the Godfather movies including character analysis and connects them to the characters in Goodfellas.

From the paper:

"Gangster films have been popular for many years. Everybody loves a film that depicts the days of mobsters and the many deals and connections that were portrayed within those films. Perhaps there is a small piece of each of us secretly wishing we could throw away the straight-laced life and become a part of the gangster scene back when it had respect. Whatever the reason America loves the films they are a sure moneymaker at the box office. The Godfather Trilogy began in 1972 and had three films to its saga. Each one was popular and picked up where the other left us hanging to continue the story. We expected each Godfather film to resemble the previous work of art. What we didn't expect was the impact and influence these three films would have on a more recent project called Goodfellas. While Goodfellas is its own movie in its own right the movies is filled with the obvious influence of the Godfather Saga. "

Tags:movies, films, mob, society, characters, project, audience, influence, history, family