When we look at education today‚ we see more than just reading‚ writing and solving numerous calculations‚ sometimes providing more than one answer for a question. Your opinions and views actually count for something and are appreciated. We have so many resources‚ culture and trips bought into education; that children can actually look forward to coming to school‚ each teacher having various ways of teaching‚ each pupil having a different way of comprehending and learning. The novel ’Hard Times’
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A patriarchal society is the one in which the father is the head of the family. In such a social system‚ men have authority over women and children‚ and descent‚ kinship‚ and title are traced through the male line. The idea of utilitarianism suggests that human beings act in a way that highlights their own self-interest. It is based on pure factuality‚ leaves out on imagination. Dickens provides three vivid examples of this utilitarian logic in Hard Times through the characters of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind
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Journal Entry #1- Chapter 1-10: Poverty: Poverty is defined as the deprivation of food‚ shelter‚ money and clothing that occurs when people cannot satisfy their basic needs. It means insecurity‚ powerlessness and exclusion of individuals‚ households and communities. It means vulnerability to violence‚ and it often implies living in fragile environments‚ without access to clean water or sanitation. In short poverty is simply a lack of money‚ a barrier to everyday life. One third of deaths in the
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living. Hard Times Hard Times is the title of the book and a theme. Every character in the novel faces hard times at some point. We can examine some of the major characters in the story. Gradgrind faces hardship when his philosophy falls apart; Sissy Jupe loses her father‚ but never gives up on him; James Harthouse is restless‚ and bored‚ and when he finally falls for Louisa and expresses his love to her‚ she runs from him. Mr. Bounderby loses his wife and is exposed as an outright liar etc etc
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reluctant at first to participate but eventually starts crying when he realizes he is around men who have been emasculated. He participates only because he feels safe around other men who feel less masculine like him. The belief that men should not cry is a prominent example of how social construction has affected the perception of
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Being a man starts very early in a boys life‚ there is also a boys code that all little boys need to follow so their guy friends can accept them. The pressure of being a boy/man comes at a very early age. Boys are told not to cry and to not be a sissy. Boys are taught to not cry and not show any
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portrayal in movies through the "sissy" character. These characters were never revealed to be gay‚ instead they were hilariously effeminate and just subliminally accepted by the audience to be homosexual. This is currently a controversial representation but to some‚ such as Harvey Firestein‚ a modern-day gay screen writer and actor it is okay. "I like the sissy‚" he says. "Is it used in negative ways? Yeah but I’d rather have negative than nothing and I’m a sissy." Despite the general stereotypes
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Gradgrind struggles to reconcile the fact-driven self-interest of her upbringing with the warmth of feeling that she witnesses both in Sissy Jupe and developing within herself. As this attitude changes‚ Louisa is caught between allegiances to her family and loveless marriage and her desire to transcend the emotional and personal detachment of her past. rising action: Sissy joins the Gradgrind household‚ and Louisa marries Mr. Bounderby unwillingly‚ only to satisfy her father’s sense of what
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bad about her. Sissy‚ the household caretaker is the only one who befriends the little girl. She lives there for two years before Tata takes her back to see Ma‚ who has turned her life around and no longer is dependent on alcohol. She has found herself a new love‚ Uncle Oscar‚ and has gotten over Tata. Pumpkin returns to her father’s farm they experience a bombing and when Pumpkin lets out long overdue tears she lies to Sissy saying Uncle Oscar did grown up things with her. Sissy and Tata are outraged
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to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they are filled to the brim" (Dickens 12). Gradgrind’s methods of education are employed to show Dickens’ view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "vessels" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas‚ serving Dickens for allegorical purposes. Bitzer‚ the model student of Gradgrind’s school of "facts‚ facts‚ facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying
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