I would like to introduce myself; I am William Lloyd Garrison‚ born in Newburyport‚ Massachusetts on December 10‚ 1805. I was raised in a single parent home with my mother‚ who worked incredibly hard to support three children‚ as well as being a very spiritual woman (William Lloyd Garrison‚ 2004) (Garrison‚ 2004). Growing up as a child‚ I set certain ambition and goals for myself to accomplish in life. With hard work and tenacity‚ I was able to become a journalist‚ an editor of Liberator‚ which
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The character we chose to discuss is Jo March. We were mostly drawn to this young woman‚ since she has a passionate‚ stubborn‚ impulsive‚ and vivid personality. Jo has little patience and likes to see things go her own way. An example for that we can see when Amy asked her older sisters to join them and Laurie to the theater. As appose to her older sister Meg‚ who tried to decline her request very nicely‚ Jo answered impatiently to her sister‚ "’don’t be a baby and whine about it"’ (Alcott‚ 2004
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and the third is "Garnering." [edit]Book I: Sowing Mr. Gradgrind‚ whose voice is "dictatorial"‚ opens the novel by stating "Now‚ what I want is facts" at his school in Coketown. He is a man of "facts and calculations." He interrogates one of his pupils‚ Sissy‚ whose father is involved with the circus‚ the members of which are "Fancy" in comparison to Gradgrind’s espousal of "Fact." Since her father rides and tends to horses‚ Gradgrind offers Sissy the definition of horse. She is rebuffed for not
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Short Summary Mr. Gradgrind is a man of "facts and calculations." He identifies a student‚ called Girl number twenty‚ who replies that her name is Sissy Jupe. Gradgrind corrects her that her name is Cecilia regardless of what her father calls her. Jupe’s father is involved in a horse-riding circus and this is not respectable‹in Gradgrind’s opinion. He advises Cecilia to refer to her father as a "farrier" (the person who shoes a horse) or perhaps‚ a "veterinary surgeon." Sissy Jupe is a slow learner
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the uneducated daughter of a circus master‚ and the positive influence she has on the Gradgrind family. Thomas Gradgrind has a strong rationalist philosophy and believes that fact‚ and fact alone is the one thing needful but through the satirical way Thomas Gradgrind is described‚ Dickens makes his own comments regarding his conflicting views of this philosophy. Dickens introduces Mr Gradgrind as Thomas Gradgrind‚ sir. A man of realities. A man of fact and calculationswith a rule and a pair of scales
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on imagination. Dickens provides three vivid examples of this utilitarian logic in Hard Times through the characters of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind‚ Mr. Bounderby‚ and Mr. Gradgrind. Mr. Gradgrind educates his daughter‚ Louisa‚ with facts and facts alone. He raises her to disregard emotions and see everything in terms of statistics. He forces this type of education upon Louisa much like the marriage with Bounderby that ends up being nothing but a loveless marriage without any hope for improvement. Written
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teacher is Mr. Gradgrind. He says‚ ‘Girl number 20’ In Victorian Times teachers would not care about individual teaching but teach the class by ‘parrot teaching’. This is where the teacher states a fact and the children repeat. Some readers think this quote shows the reader that Mr. Gradgrind is not interested in the children individually‚ he is only interested in the fact that there are ‘vessels’ who need to be filled with facts. Although other readers believe that Mr. Gradgrind would prefer not
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first character within the novel‚ Mr Gradgrind the speaker in the extract and the patron of the school. The novels opening lines are spoken by Mr Gradgrind‚ ‘Now what I want is Facts.’ ‘Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.’ The word ‘Fact’ is being graphologically deviant due the capital ‘F’ this allows the reader to focus on the message the speaker is trying to put across. ‘Facts’ are what are important and facts are what are important to Mr Gradgrind. The sentences are short and simple
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Ritsie Armington Mrs. Thompson AP English Lit 11/6/12 In the novel‚ “Hard Times‚” Charles Dickens uses Mr. Gradgrind‚ Louisa Gradgrind and Sissy Jupe to express his view on Utilitarianism. Utilitarians believe “our moral faculty‚ according to all those of its interpreters who are entitled to the name of thinkers‚ supplies us only with the general principles of moral judgments; it is a branch of our reason‚ not of our sensitive faculty; and must be looked to for the abstract doctrines of morality
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portrays both sides of the argument in their most extreme forms. One might argue that much of Hard Times is about extremes. The first character to be introduced‚ Mr. Thomas Gradgrind‚ enforces a very rigid approach to education‚ while everything contrary to his approach is depicted through Sleary’s Circus. In his school‚ Mr. Gradgrind uses techniques that have the effect of “mechanizing” the children‚ aiming to fill their minds with rationales and deplete any fancy. However‚ he will learn that not all
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