Childlike College Essays Samples For Students

For centuries, the fairy tale has been the cornerstone of imaginative children's fiction - the genre provides a canvas by which amazing tales can be told. The fantastic becomes possible in fairy tales, and for many, childlike wonder can be recaptured by the simple act of reading one. However, in many children's books, there is a pervading theme of maturation, and "growing up"; in these stories, the fairy tale land the characters inhabit is shown to be fleeting and transient. Two such fairy tales - Ursula Dubosarsky's The Red Shoe and Neil Gaiman's Stardust - frame the fantastic story they tell ...

The 1931 James Whale film Frankenstein bears, at times, little more than a surface resemblance to the original Mary Shelley novel on which it was based, Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus. One of the few distinct parallels that the book and film share beyond their core concept is a scene in which the monster interacts with an innocent little girl near a body of water. However, whereas in the book the monster saves the girl from drowning, Boris Karloff’s monster in the film unknowingly drowns the girl, only realizing what he had done far too late. The difference in these two scenes ...

This study aimed to establish whether there existed differences in the way black and white children were treated (Atiba & Jackson, 2009). It aimed to establish whether black children were treated as inferior children compared to their white counterparts of the same age.
The study also purposed to establish whether the characteristics associated with childhood behaviors were observed in black boys. They were expected to show a mature character while they were still at young age as compared to their male counterparts who were believed that they were excused for a longer period to display childhood behavior (Frederickson, 2010).
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Every person has different roles they play within the relationships they have, from wife and mother to a father and king. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a bizarre play written by William Shakespeare which highlights the details of these relationships. While the play features many characters, the two who most affect everyone else are the King and Queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania. Although Oberon and Titania are in positions of power, and have responsibility for a child, they both live a childlike existence. Oberon and Titania put other activities and people ahead of their relationships, get ...

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a highly intelligent play that, in its time of the nineteenth century, stood out against all other dramatic works. The protagonist of A Doll’s House is Nora Helmer. Nora is perhaps one of the deepest, most internally complicated characters in nineteenth century plays.

At the beginning of the play, Nora behaves in rather a childlike manner. She prances around like a young girl might do, secretly eats deserts which she has bought while out shopping, and when asked by her husband if she has eaten macaroons, she completely denies it. This incident with ...

Introduction

One of the most controversial issues during the last few years is the right to assisted suicide. It is a burning topic that raises debates all over the world, and patients with terminal illnesses insist on been given the right to choose whether they can end their life, with the help of a physician or not. Those against point mainly to their religious beliefs and morals to reject assisted suicide. Physicians are also divided on this matter because, to them; the line between providing relief from dying and killing is extremely thin and vaguely defined. No matter how viewpoints collide, the ...

Introduction

This lesson on the dangers of materiality, madness, isolation and innocence among the people in the society is important because it discourages the children from engaging in such aspects of life. The lesson is important in shaping the moral behavior of the children by discouraging them from involvement in various activities like war and sexual activities. The lesson educates about mental torture relating to war and sexual innuendos are well brought in this story in order to warn the children and members of the society against the negative consequences of war and sexual abuse in life.
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie was a breakthrough in exposing international audiences to French film – the film remains the highest-grossing French film to date in America (Box Office Mojo, 2014). There are many factors inherent to the film that contribute to its success, not the least of which is the film’s stylistic appeal – Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s unique, slightly grotesque yet endlessly quirky style made it a very entertaining and unconventional film compared to many domestic and international releases. Jeunet’s use of unconventional coloring and cinematography (making heavy use of CG) modernized the French film in ways previously unheard of. The ...

Candide is a piece written by Voltaire and is still relevant today. The piece was written in order to warn the public of consequences of radical optimism. Voltaire is known for his satirical work that is suggestive, and Candide is one of his masterpieces which demonstrate mastery of literature. Candide, the main character, is a young man who is naïve and also trusting and is banished from home. Despite the bizarre disaster that fills his life, he holds to his optimism fast. This is an example to the audience. Voltaire makes an emphasis of radical optimism dangers through incorporation of ...

Neil Gaiman's children's novel Coraline is a tale of mother and child, of belonging, and of the difference between fantasy and reality. Moving into an apartment made from a divided home, Coraline finds a way to escape her boring, disinterested parents into the "Other World," a place of what appears on the surface to be Coraline's ideal world. Her Other Parents are exciting and pay attention to her, she has much more exciting toys and games, and even the elderly neighbors are exciting to be around. However, as Coraline learns, there is a heavy price to pay for being in this world. Coraline is a ...

ABSTRACT

Stanley Elkins proposed a groundbreaking theory about the effect of oppression and totalitarianism on subject races, one that drew from multiple academic disciplines. James McPherson’s interpretation is more fact-based and less theoretical, drawing from anecdotal archival sources to develop an environment-centric picture of slavery in the Antebellum and Civil War periods. Ultimately, the success of African-Americans in all walks of life have tended to show that, as abolitionists argued, servility was a temporary product of the powerlessness of their situation in the plantation South.

Debating America’s Legacy of Slavery

James McPherson and Stanley Elkins represent two different approaches to the discipline of historical study and ...