The feeling of being burdened and the annoyance that comes with it is brought up in other parts of the poem, in lines such as, "and I was embarrassed/by old men standing up to shake my hand/and tell me they were "sorry for my trouble."" These lines suggest that the narrator is embarrassed by his position of eldest in the family and feels a sense of patronization from the older men rather than condolence. ... At one point in the poem, the father finds a nest of tiny mice and shows them to his son, "my father stopped at one point/to show me an overturned furrow/the plowshare had unearthed/the bu...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some of the books that have been the most frequently banned in 1990's are: Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blubber, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Little Red Riding Hood, James and the Giant Peach, The Grapes of Wrath, Black Beauty, and Lord of the Flies. ...

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MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION VS. CLASSICAL EDUCATION How important is education? Where should we get our resources that are children are being taught? There are two of them; one is the classical education and the multicultural education. What is the difference? The multicultural education is presented...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There might even be mice in that filthy thing. ... In the factory, they don't check the men as carefully as they do the girls. The women have to open their purses for inspection before they are allowed to go out of the building while the men are able to walk right out without anyone stopping them. Furthermore, the men are not suspected at all and are still paid more than the women. ... Several men ran out to help me, but I scrambled to my feet and pulled away their hands. ...

• Word Count: 2291
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

So many things happen throughout the Holocaust that many believe that it's not true or just don't even know what had happened. So many contradicting issues arose after the Holocaust concerning certain events that happened but were not documented, certain writers had different ideas to present, and ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School