Hard Times

While the exact reason for aggressiveness is unknown, scientist have recently been making new discoveries on the root of the growing problem. Regarding this, Jane E. Brody’s “A Bully’s future, from Hard Time to Hard Life” highlights the growing problem of bullying and how it affects not only the bullies but also the victims later on in life. In addition, Pamela Paul’s “The Playground gets Tougher” looks into younger children’s viciousness and how the parent’s attitude could influence the growth…

that portrayed heredity and environmental factors as the primary causes of human behavior through the accurate rendition of external realities,” explains editor Tobin Nellhaus. Miss Julie contains these naturalistic elements as it takes place in real time and focuses heavily on survival of the fittest between two main characters who develop a conflict based around their gender and social status in society. Plot: The story takes place on Midsummer’s Eve in the kitchen of the Count’s house and…

teaching, or being a nurse. The pay for women was also very low, and required minimal skills. During this time, a woman’s piety, also known as religion, was one of the most valuable things to both herself…

situation. This also proves that the American Dream is not a singular dream, but a plethora of dreams. Security is a reality that a vast amount of people yearn for. Security comes in many shapes and forms, but a general idea can be seen in The Worst Hard Time. Certain chapters focus on the southern plains people that dealt with what they perceived as betrayal by the government, banks, and the environment. Providing land for the people, the government insured them that planting wheat on the…

Throughout our human lives we face many hard times. Everyone will experience tragedies like death, heartbreak, disease. There are many ways that people cope with the hard times. I was going through a hard time in my life and a couple of my buddies would smoke cigarettes, I always told them they were bad for them. So my hard time that I had to deal with was my only parent being hauled off to jail. I had no idea what happened. I was so upset and distraught, just seeing my only parent being put…

I had a really hard time at first on how I was going to manage to be a full-time single mom as well as working a full-time job. But one I was able to accomplish that I knew in my heart that I would be able to add going back to school to that. I try to plan my day when I get up in the morning by that I mean I try to figure out when I get off how much time I will spend on homework and how much time I will spend on being a mommy and spending time with my daughter Emma. The one day that I take off…

in Arc of Justice; forced assimilation in Bury My Heart at wounded Knee; the fight between the genders in Mays Homeward Bound; authoritarian governments and their subjects in With The Old Breed, and the victimization of poor people in the Worst Hard Time each share the theme of oppression. People in positions of power enact oppression. Oppressors refuse to assimilate the issues of a minority group. Targets of oppression survive by repressing feelings of torment, and by creating a euphoric…

about Schools from Hard Times and Jane Eyre “You will be never more than someone who flips burgers!” Sometimes, very rarely, teachers may tell this to their students. Whether it be that the teacher may feel that that student be stupid, or maybe that teacher doesn’t like that student for a reason. Although it is very highly unlikely for this incident to occur in today’s society, this occurred all the time in Victorian schools. It has been noted that Victorian teachers at this time were; dull,…

Good Morning, After reading a few stories on foodasalens.com, I found the article about "Barbecue during Hard Times" to be an interesting read. As an avid fan of Barbecue and smoking meats, I didn't realize that our culture and society put so much emphasis on soldiers during war time. To see a common bond between individuals and the efforts made in order to supply troops with the nutrition, leads to a wonderful eye-opening experience on how food has common connection between people. The…

Hard times in the Hometown was written by Martin Dusinberre, an English teacher who travels to Kaminoseki, a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a small town on Japan’s Inland Sea who later returns to start dissertation fieldwork in 2003. This book is featured more so in parts rather with the inclusion of chapters to broaden his study rather than use each chapter to focus on one topic at hand. At first thought, the method of writing Kaminoseki in a broad manner seemed opposite to what history…