It is almost impossible to get a good education in Haiti. For the poorest children it is very difficult to get any education at all. Only about half of Haiti’s children ever attend school. Most who do never graduate from primary school; and only 38 of every thousand students complete high school. Grade levels are not broken down by age, but rather by the quality of work that students are able to do. Children tend to be more dependent, conforming, and willing to place family welfare over individual wishes.…
The American writer, Lois Lowry in her novel, The Giver, claims that in creating a utopian society the creator manufactures a dystopia, since the individuality of a person contradicts the creator’s idea of a utopia. She develops her claim by first creating a utopia where the residents lack individuality conforming to the criteria of sameness, then presenting the absence of intense emotions, then convey the reader’s thoughts of the utopia by placing a main character who gains his emotions and individuality, and finally declares that the utopia lacks morality spawning a dystopia. Lowry’s purpose is to criticize conformity in order to state that to enjoy life one must suffer to appreciate life. She establishes a thoughtful tone for the audience…
What is more valued - personal rights or the common good of the community? In The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, a boy perfectly adapted to his unique community named Jonas begins to open his eyes, sees the reality of his world, and searches for the true values in life. In this community, the citizens want to live a simple, predetermined life and also strongly believe that they are living in a “perfect” society through the system of sameness which eliminates risks. However, they do not have any knowledge of history and the time before the idea of sameness except for The Receiver, the person who holds all the memories of the delightful but sometimes painful past. When Jonas gets chosen as the next Receiver, The Giver who is responsible for handing…
The book, Bread Givers is a novel written by Anzia Yezierska following the lives of woman who have to go through struggle because of new tradition verses old tradition. In the book I found that there are several themes within the book Bread Givers. Woman Rights, being one of them, seem to be an issue throughout the book. This book revolves around the lives of woman in a household on Hester Street in New York City.…
Generosity is the virtue of not being tied down by concerns of one’s possessions and giving away those possessions without expecting anything in return. The stories, “Day 10, Story 3” and “Day 10, Story 4” from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio are splendid examples of generosity that express the values and different aspects of generosity. Both Nathan from “Day 10, Story 3” and Gentile from “Day 10, Story 4” are generous, however Nathan’s the actions that Nathan takes make Nathan more generous. Nathan’s and Gentile’s generosity is illustrated through the intentions associated with their actions, the manner by which they express their generosity, and the results that they obtain because of their generosity.…
Success is achieved by hard work and dedication. In Anzia Yezierska’s book “Bread Givers” Sara Smolinsky shows how that applied to her life. The author can relate to the story because she was an immigrant from a small Polish village and had to overcome many obstacles to become successful. She rebelled against her parents’ wishes of following the traditional path of a women immigrant and left home at the age of seventeen to live at the Clara de Hirsch home for working girls. The American dream for most female immigrants was the expectation of marriage and motherhood, a factory job, or if they were lucky a salesgirl. As for Sara and Anzia, that was not enough for either of them. The goal of Yezierska in her books were to recreate the feelings of the immigrant girl she had once been, and how she tried to break away from oppressive strictures of her religion to make a name for herself. “Bread Givers” was a one of her best works by reliving her struggles and obstacles of being an immigrant and trying to become successful through Sara’s life.…
Reb Smolinsky the father of the house hold spent his entire life studying the Holy Torah. While his daughter’s and wives main focus was to make money and pay bills, his was focused on the promise of heaven. In the Holy Torah, men are good and kind; they value the most importance over women.…
In Anzia Yezierska 's novel entitled Bread Givers, there is an apparent conflict between Reb Smolinsky, a devout Orthodox rabbi of the Old World, and his daughter Sara who yearns to associate and belong to the New World. Throughout the story, one learns about the hardships of living in poverty, the unjust treatment of women, and the growth of a very strong willed and determined young womanSara Smolinsky.…
What is the American Dream, and who are the people most likely to pursue its…
Haiti has a population of nearly 9,801,664, while the total median age is at 21.6 years old. After the 2010 earthquake the preliminary 2011 numbers differ significantly from those of 2010 due to the demographic effect. Birth rate is 23.87 births/1,000 populations which is fairly low due to the lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex. The death rate is 8.1/1,000 population and was strongly influenced by the earthquake that took a heavily toll on the country. While the urban population is at 52 percent and the rate of urbanization is 3.9 percent, including the capital of Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, has 2.143 million people for the population and population below the poverty line is above 80 percent. Roughly around 2.98 children born in total fertility rate and HIV/AIDS – adult prevalence rate is 1.9 percent (2009 EST.), also with 120,000 people living with HIV/AIDS. Major infectious diseases include food or waterborne diseases with a high degree of risk. Not to mention more than two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs leaving the unemployment rate at 40.6 percent. (Stated be Indexmundi.com)…
Also, the education civil on how to communicate with others. Parents, will have an occupation to do during the day to keep them busy while others would develop new skills. Having electricity in Haiti could open to a lot of opportunity, and a lot of things could functions. Such as, more business would be to operate at a later time, local market could open, people who visit Haiti could go grab something to eat and experience the city at a later time, and see what it have to offer. With a better clean environments such as roads, water, places where people buy their local foods, it will prevent less viruses being spread, and less people being sick have more trash car to clean up the streets on daily bases also around the capital where people can…
The literary work that most captured my attention was The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. I have chosen to do a Reader-Response approach to this paper.…
The world can sometimes be a selfish place. Increasingly, business students are taught that in order to “survive” in business they must be a go-getter. Most young professionals inherit the belief that a business operates only to earn a profit and that they must do what is necessary to be profitable. Unfortunately, many professionals live their entire lives believing these assumptions without considering that maybe the business world and the people who thrive in it are not as cruel and shallow as many presume.…
Seventh grader Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) has every reason to believe that life is harsh and painful. His parents are alcoholics and his father is either absent or abusive. He walks into school every day through a metal detector. Outside his classroom window is an endless expanse of desert. And his mom works two jobs in a city filled with despair, Las Vegas. But then his teacher Eugene (Kevin Spacey) encourages his students to "backflip" the world into something better. He does not expect much -- maybe a clean-up of some graffiti. But Trevor decides to do three important favors for people who need them. Then, instead of allowing them to pay it back, he will ask each of them to "pay it forward," doing three favors for other people, and asking them to do the same. One of Trevor's favors is to bring his mom Arlene and Eugene together, though it turns out that it is not just to make them happier. Arlene and Eugene put all of their effort into making sure they do not get hurt again until they learn that it is risking hurt that makes us alive.…
Pay It Forward is a 2000 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It was directed byMimi Leder and written by Leslie Dixon. It stars Haley Joel Osment as a boy who launches a good-will movement, Helen Hunt as his single mother, and Kevin Spacey as his social-studies teacher.…