Leave It to Beaver

His significant tombstone, in which indicates he is buried with his son Alfred claims he drowned and the body never found on October 4, 1882. However, he appears in the 1891 census! Could it be the tombstone should have 1892 instead? And then there is the other story about how he died — by being killed by a bear north of Parry Sound resulting in naming Killbear Park after the bear. (The naming of this park, from Killbear Point, is more likely named from the Objiwe Mukwa-Nayosh meaning 'Bear…

I believe that the researchers research method was good they had the right number of people selected and ensured that they would have the participants follow specific guidelines throughout the treatments. I think that there was enough information to inform the reader and overall I believe that this was a great empirical article. In the article Mind, body, emotions and spirit: reaching to the ancestors for healing the issue discusses the meaning of the personal integrated inner body, mind,…

There are times in life when we lose faith. We eagerly search for a mentor who can make us believe in ourselves. Poems from the movie “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara/ Life Ain’t coming back once again” are the work of a famous lyricist and poet from India by name “Javed Akhtar”. In his work, he talks about the process of finding your fire within. He is a connoisseur of Urdu poetry. He has addressed the students of Harvard University as a keynote speaker on “Secular elements in Urdu Poetry”. Also he…

I never could have guessed five years ago, when I walked onto the MWBC grounds that my world would change forever. I didn’t know it then, but that cozy little patch of land in the middle of nowhere would become the biggest influence in my life. I had no inkling that the people I would meet would become like a second family to me. If I had it wouldn’t have taken me so long to get there. Growing up I was very wary of summer camp. The idea of sleeping in the woods surrounded by bugs and…

The suburbs was a benefit only for the middle class white and white elite. The Black and Puerto Rican families had taken up the residence in the urban areas that the white Americans had left behind. “… Segregation is imposed not by religion or color but by the sharp knife of income or lack of income.” Segregation was still a large issue in the United States and racism had impact on all aspects of life including the price of homes. In the 1950s census African Americans were still paying one…

complex. The show was also known as the first “blue collar” family sitcom because it told the story both a bus driver and a sewer worker. Then by the 60s however, blue-collar family sitcoms made way for the “nuclear” family model with shows like Leave it to Beaver and The Dick Van Dyke Show. These family sitcoms were called the nuclear families because it created an idealized world of US middle and upper class family life and the mold of what the TV family should be like. By the 1970s “blue…

narrator’s mental decomposition. Because the women is not able to naturally stimulate her highly imaginative mind, she still is imaginative but in an unhealthy manner. (Haney-Peritz, 116) Janice Haney-Peritz, who is head of the Department of English at Beaver College, took a close look at the mental breakdown of the narrator in Monumental feminism and literature’s ancestral house: Another look at “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The narrators first realization of the wallpaper is that it, “is dull enough…

--- layout: post title: As Seen on TV, Predicting Box Office Outcomes for Film Adaptations of TV Shows --- Back in 2011, a very popular TV show called [Friday Night Lights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series) "Friday Night Lights") was wrapping up it's final season. As with all shows that rally cult followings, fans cried out for a followup movie; but this one was different. What this meant is that in it's lifetime as a story "Friday Night Lights" was a real life…

Everybody in this world is different. But, how different are we? Many people have different views on what they believe in. It all hinges on their ethnic background, how they were raised, the color of their skin, and more. I guess you could say that I’m curious in different people. Where they come from, how they are raised, what their profession is, if they were in the war, and lots of other things. The United States is filled with special people and it makes them who they are. Let me share with…

After Effy McDougall died in 1906, her husband Malcolm lived for another 6 years. Annabella 's father had lived 93 years finally succumbing to old age in his Foley home with its beaver meadow nearby, showing the McDougall genes for longevity. Murdoch 's life was much calmer than his Watts namesake. He had two children by his first wife Isabella Liness, Flora in 1878 and Murdoch Wilder in 1885. He still could have his share of trouble however. As he had done 15 years previously Murdoch had to…