Childish College Essays Samples For Students

In Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 comedy The Great Dictator, Chaplin’s first silent film, the renowned comedian and silent-film joymaker takes one of his biggest risks – making a film about Adolf Hitler, who at the time of the film’s release was one of the most hated and tyrannical figures alive. More than just the typical slapstick comedy, The Great Dictator sees Chaplin taking many different chances – unlike his previous film, Modern Times, this film would fully embrace the sound era, with nearly the entire film being filled with dialogue and fully-verbose characters. Even riskier than that, however, is the ...

In “A Doll’s House” written by Henrik Ibsen is a play about women’s roles in society in the 19th century.The book reflects the exploitation of the poor and the weak by the rich that is a mirror image of man, woman, the poor and the rich. It is therefore worth noting that the Ibsen’s believes have been narrate throughout the play. This play is the emancipation of women from the ancient regime in that society. A Doll House represents a woman who is struggling to be independent; however, she is unable because of the society culture, which recognizes men ...

In “A Doll House” written by Henrik Ibsen is a play about women’s roles in society in the 19th century. The book examines the exploitation of the poor and the weak by the rich. It is a mirror image of what Marxists wrote about the capitalistic class exploiting the poor. It is therefore worth noting that the Marxist’s believes have been spread throughout the play.
It is important to note that Nora’s thinking and her outlook is dominated completely by her material wealth and financial conditions. For instance, at the beginning of the play, we can see ...

<p>In terms of my literacy development I was somewhat of a late developer – certainly more so than the average person – but in the course of my school experience I have acquired a love of reading and of books as a learning medium. Now I am an avid reader, and do my absolute best to keep myself informed as much as possible and find myself taking the opportunity to read wherever and whenever I can. In this essay, I shall describe the reasoning behind my current and former literary practices, and tie them in to how reading has developed throughout my life.<br /> <!--more-->I did not have a great deal of firsthand literacy experience during the years I was growing up in my home country of Korea. Although my parents were avid readers, their attempts to inspire me to read were not particularly well-received by me, since I was perhaps rather an immature child in my outlook at that time. I would prefer (probably like many other children of my age) to spend most of my time working or watching television, or going out to play with my friends at every opportunity – in short to do anything rather than to be persuaded to do what they wanted me to do – read.<br /> In the beginning, I found school very difficult, mainly because I seemed to have an instinctive aversion to reading. I would usually do some reading when my parents pressurized me to do so, but really hated having to do it. It felt merely like some sort of unpleasant but necessary chore for me, all the more so because my parents were always totally dedicated to having me read as much and as often as possible. Although they both read extensively and often, for some reason the idea didn’t “rub off” on me. I think I saw that activity as something adults did that had no connection with me whatsoever. It was a more a case of while they were reading, I could slip away to do something much more interesting and pleasurable like playing games with my friends.<br /> Despite gaining that “compulsory” reading experience (or perhaps because of it), I still did not like reading itself. It always seemed boring to me, and I would always much prefer to just hang out with my friends or do whatever else I wanted when I was by myself. I don’t recall that I ever actively chose to read for pleasure, and I tended to resent my teachers and/or my parents trying to teach me discipline, so I would do my level best to avoid doing what they said whenever it was possible for me to do so. I knew how to read, but reading for pleasure was simply out of the question for me – in my mind reading was for boring grownups. Looking back, I can see now that I simply lacked the needed self-discipline, and had a total lack of motivation.<br /> The turning point for my own interest in literacy came when I began attending Michigan State University in 2006. At that point, I can see now that I was still very immature and childish in my general behavior and attitude, thinking that I did not need to learn anything I did not feel was important or necessary for me. Because prior to then I did not really respect my parents or myself, my grades suffered as a consequence, due to my lack of literacy and self-discipline.<br /> Fortunately, I found that self-discipline after I returned home to Korea in 2008 to perform my mandatory two years of military service. I can see now that military life changed me considerably, and for the better. Partly due to the rigors of military discipline and by being forced into quick thinking and achieving better physical fitness, I learned a greater appreciation for life and my station within it. While serving in the army, I could see from my new “mature” standpoint that many of the new entry soldiers were acting just as I used to act: rude, immature, and childish. I believe it was observing their actions and behavior that actually helped me to realize how stupid and immature I had been, and also helped me to decide to start living my life from then on in a more meaningful way.<br /> On my return from those military duties, I gave a great deal of thought to the future – I decided to increase my level of literacy and put much more effort into my schoolwork. I also started to think actively about my longer term future – what I wanted to do after I graduated – giving my life new direction, that I am convinced I would not have had before I joined the military and found out those things about myself that made me realize how much I needed to change if I was to make a success of my life instead of just wasting it.<br /> That realization made me work much harder in life and in school once I returned to the United States. Once I was able to start checking out books from the library, I did so constantly. I started out slowly, reading mainly fiction. I think at that time my goal was just to practice and improve my English and to find and learn new words to increase my vocabulary.<br /> During my second year at university after returning from the army, I checked out the Webster’s Dictionary, and tried to make my way through it, starting at “A”. I just read it casually, not taking notes or using any other method to get it into my head. I got as far as the letter “C” before I gave up; there were far too many words to take into account, and I simply could not keep up that pace. To be honest, the sheer amount of the dictionary still remaining from “C” onwards was simply too daunting to contemplate. Eventually, I would get my own dictionary as a reference, but I would never again attempt to just work my way through every word in the English language!<br /> I also do my best to read works on a wide variety of topics, so as to not restrict my learning to just one topic or issue. I alternate between non-fiction, fiction, news, articles, biographies, science fiction, etc., or at least attempt to (as far as is relevant and/or practicable) with every new work. This, I believe, will afford me a wider range of general knowledge than if I were to just read everything I enjoyed. Sometimes these works can be difficult to get through, but in the end I feel as though I have been exposed to and learned from a new topic. Overall, I feel it must be better for my general education and enhanced literacy that I become more informed, rather than merely to read what I like.<br /> I have found that the work I have done on the course, particularly in this last semester when we explored various ideas in literacy, and different understandings and uses of literacy in a variety of cultures and disciplines, has not only helped improve my literacy, but has given me thought for the future, such as how I might benefit from a better understanding of literacy and hence be able to reflect that knowledge and use it in my future career. Without a doubt, I can say that compared with my standard of literacy before this course, the difference is enormous.<br /> In conclusion, I consider in retrospect that my somewhat stunted literacy in the earlier years of my life was overcome through hard work and a passion for the written word, that I think perhaps developed as much as anything due to a need to fit in with my peers. Also, it was the realization that came to me as a result of my experience with the military that I had to grow up and stop being immature and childish in my general outlook to life, education, and the world around me. After returning to the United States I wanted to catch up with everyone, and so I started to read as much as possible, a habit I continue to this day. It is something that I hope to keep doing – I never want to stop reading, hence also learning, and as a consequence being entertained as well as furthering my education.</p> ...

Italo Calvino’s novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders is essentially a coming of age story and the reader is presented with the life and times of various characters but most notably, the character of Pin. This is the novel’s central theme: the idea of a young boy struggling to find his place in the world – a scenario which is made all the more complicated by the backdrop of World War Two. Despite this, the novel has some fairy tale-like elements which bring it away from the increasingly popular at the time neo-realism style but helps to add the ...

English Literature

3 July 2011

David Baldacci’s novel, Wish You Well is, primarily, a novel that is concerned with coming of age. This is principally shown through the character of Lou who, in the beginning of the book is a young girl – Baldacci describes her as being, “Louisa Mae Cardinal, twelve years old, tall and rangy, her hair the color of sun-dappled straw and her eyes blue, was known simply as Lou.” (Baldacci 1). The events that unfold in the plot mean that Lou is forced to grow up more quickly than perhaps she might have liked: the death of her father, ...

Abstract

This paper explores two major psychological theories, which attempt to explain why people use drugs as a solution to their various problems. The main goal of this research is to explain how these theories explain the drug usage and describe whether these theories support a strong relation between drugs and crime. The method of research includes finding two articles about crimes, committed under the influence of drugs and reasoning the connection between the usage of drugs and crimes. This paper examines a possible connection between the two selected theories and two crimes, described in the articles. According to the ...

Coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street composed by Sandra Cisneros represents a mosaic of various events that shaped life of Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero. Due to the writing style and vignette form this novel presents reader with vivid but at the same time incomplete pieces of memories that are aimed at conveying particular emotion rather than facts. It should be mentioned that inspiration for writing this novel was Cisneros`s life along with stories from people she knew or met. With this in mind one may observe mixture of semi-real and semi-fictional stories that reveal reality of ...

Several weeks ago I had an experience to visit the Chicago's Adler Planetarium which is located in Chicago, Illinois, the US. The planetarium was built in 1930 by the architect Ernest Grunsfeld in the style of Art Deco. This visiting was a bright experience, because I had the possibility to get acquainted with one of the best planetariums of the United States, so those memories will never be forgotten. The first thing that has attracted my attention is the outward of the very Planetarium, because it looks like a big dome which resembles a planet. It is not a ...

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 ...

Just about anywhere you go you can probably here someone gossiping about their friends, relatives, famous actors or singers. Gossip is everywhere and everyone gossips. There is no age limit, no set gender or race – everyone loves to chit chat. The little children in the sand box, teenagers in the mall, old ladies on the bus and grandpas on the benches – we all are guilty of gossiping every now and then or maybe even every day. You may hear your parent gossip about the neighbors or other family members. You most likely have heard you grandma gossip about the ...

A good number of people would like to think that babies are born as blank slates in terms of how moral they are. They would be right for a few months, at least until the average baby becomes aware of their surroundings. This is when society’s influence begins to tinge the reactions and overall temperament of a child. Babies are the perfect example of how the most basic emotions drive us to become who we are.
Babies know what is right and wrong on a very simplistic level, as they will gravitate towards what they feel is right ...

Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American film that revolves around the life and times of two childhood friends, Gustafson and Goldman, in their old age. The cast is made up of Jack Lemmon (acting as John Gustafson), Walter Matthau (acting as Max Goldman), Ann Margaret (acting as Ariel Truax Gustafson), Burgess Meredith (acting as John Sr.), Darryl Hannah (acting as Melanie), Kevin Pollak (acting as Jacob), Ossie Davis (acting as Chuck) and Buck Henry (acting as Elliott Snyder). As the title suggests, the film misrepresents the elderly as people who are always grumpy, easily irritated and stubborn. In addition, ...

Nowadays education sources as much scarce as they used to be 20 years ago. Sex education is not an exception as well. Sex and all the matters related to it have stopped to be a taboo in a public discussion. It is being discussed in the most popular magazines and TV shows without even mentioning the Internet, where in order to learn what sex is you do not have to go further than Google. Although, my gay years of childhood were not marked with such a great freedom, and getting sex educated was not so easy.
Early childhood years marked my ...

Inquiry 1

Growing up in a traditional Chinese family, I am the single child who is living with my parents. In conventional Chinese culture, parents are supposed to take care of their children to such age until the children get married. In some cases, children are receiving family economic support even having their own babies. On one hand, Chinese children are exposed to less social stress with the help of their parents. On the other hand, the parenting style brews a mindset that children should conform to their parents’ requests unconditionally. My family is from one of these traditional families. My parents are ...

Everybody Loves Raymond is one of the American television sitcoms starring Patricia Heaton, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, as well as Peter Boyle. For many years, the TV series was among the most watched television shows. The marriage between Debra Barone and Ray Romano portray various behaviors, characters and roles of husbands and wives in the family. It is worth noting that American viewers have various expectations of spouses, especially in relation to the TV series Everybody Loves Raymond (“Everybody Loves Raymond (TV Series 1996–2005)). The television series is constituted of a nuclear family, whereby the entire family is centered ...

“Boyhood” is a Richard Linklater directed super hit drama. Linklater has skills of converting a simple story into an exceptional movie. Boyhood is not a biopic, but appear to be a documentary due to its story and presentations. I came to know that “Boyhood” movie was filmed spasmodically for eleven years in order to portray the natural growth of a young child and his sister. Linklater portrays growth of kids in a natural way and particularizes how they grow. This paper intends to discuss the movie, “Boyhood” along with presenting a succinct analysis of the movie.
A pretty young boy appears staring towards the sky ...

The Grandmother

In this story, this character considers herself morally superior than the rest of the people basically because she is a lady. This character makes frequent judgments on others. She claims that her conscience is the main driving force in her life and she considers herself perfect in the way she does her activities. She claims that she could not afford to allow her children to walk in the same direction like Misfit did so that her conscience is not compromised. This character also criticized the mother of the children by claiming that she never allowed the children to travel in ...

An experience worth cherishing

An experience worth cherishing
There are some relationships which need some effort and patience for becoming strong. I am basically a very friendly person, not over-friendly though. So, I find it easy to get along with most of the people in my circle. But, there is a cousin of mine who could never be a good friend to me due to some misunderstandings in childhood. It was some childish fight which had made us dislike each other. We should have let the misunderstanding go and behave like mature but instead, we could never come to talking terms. But I followed the ...

Scott Pilgrim’s in Precious Little Life (2004) describes how he fears to grow up. Scott pilgrim is not comfortable when he is becoming an adult because of many responsibilities and high expectations that people have towards him. Scott perceived the existence in the world in a childish manner and by this it can be said that he is refusing to grow up. In another angle, it can be said that Scott looks at the existence in the universe as a child and says that this type of nature is very fragile. The series that Scott has written describes his shaky ...

Classic English Literature

Shirley Hardie Jackson, a remarkable and popular American author of the 20th century, was born on December 14th, 1916. Shirley Jackson was the daughter of two professionals Leslie Hardie Jackson and Geraldine Bugbee Jackson. From a very young age she had interest in writing and wrote poems and journals, where her journal writing mostly revealed her interest in superstitions and the supernatural. A statement written in a journal in the 1933 New Year’s resolution stated, “seek out the good in others rather than explore for the evil” exposes her interests. At the age of fourteen, she and her family moved to ...

When Lewis Carroll composed his poem entitled Jabberwocky, he did so with the intention of writing a nonsensical piece which used such invented words as “manxome” and “uffish.” These fantastical words are used with two intentions in mind: the first is to enhance the reader’s child-like state of mind in order to encourage a full comprehension of the poem’s symbolism, whilst secondly it is used to mask the poem’s true meaning, for reasons that are only clear to the poet himself. Symbolism, however, plays a key role in the poem and it does, in part, tell the story of a ...

Every time I see or hear of the word ‘holocaust;’ death, suffering and human rights come immediately to mind. The term ‘holocaust’ means, “sacrifice by fire” and it frequently refers to the Nazi’s persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. Approximately eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust and six million of them were Jews. Night is the story of a boy, named Eliezer, who remains alive during the Holocaust whilst living in the concentration camps. This memoir also traces Eliezer’s emotional journey from being a practicing Orthodox Jewish boy to a profoundly disenchanted young man who questions ...

Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy”, expresses her powerful emotions regarding her father’s life and death, and also her relationship with her husband, Ted Hughes. Plath is a confessional poet and, true to form, the speaker in this poem seems to be herself. D.C. Phelps brings forward the interesting notion that Plath refers not only to her father and husband, but also to her mother. It seems that Plath wrote “Daddy” not to make peace with her domineering father, but to accept the multitude of emotions that her relationship with him has caused throughout her life.
Plath lost her ...

When I was young, I was not the most socially active child one could come across. Being an only child, I mostly kept to myself, and was very shy. I was incredibly reticent to talk to my other classmates, and did not invest much in making friends with my peers, especially during my formative years. As time went by, I was able to make a few friends, but lacking transportation and living slightly further out of town than everyone else, I did not have the means to socialize as often as the rest of my classmates outside of school. Cooped ...