How Does Tom Make The Right Decision?

In the article “I’m a pedophile but not a monster” by Todd Nickerson. He tells the story about when he was a little boy he sees a younger girl, and he was attracted to her. He explains what happened to him to cause him to think the way he does. He argues that although he identifies himself as a pedophile. He is in fact a not a monster. Nickerson argues that there is a difference between what he identifies himself as and what others think of him. Nickerson uses a strong pathos appeal to convince the readers.

Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom's arrogant and domineering nature can be seen in nearly every interaction he has from the moment he is introduced to the last time he is seen by the story's narrator, Nick Caraway. Despite being a flat and static character, Tom is an oppressive, manipulative, and powerful force that plays an important role in The Great Gatsby.

The novel describes the journey of the protagonist Tom Brennan as he struggles to overcome a car accident caused by his brother, Daniel. Which left his cousin Fin quadriplegic, killed two friends and caused Tom's family to move from Mumbilli to Coghill. Tom’s view towards certain topics are challenged as he aims to move on from the past. This mainly includes issues about his family and hobbies. Burke uses 1st person and repetition in “maybe after Daniel had done his time we could go back: maybe not “to show how such a move has affected Tom. This also shows him questioning his optimistic personality before the accident and how the change has challenged his belief that his family will be

In one particular instance, a bill was passed in Tennessee stating that teachers cannot encourage “gateway sexual activity” (Nazaryan). This bill resulted in Sumner County officials banning Looking for Alaska from the curriculums of all schools due to the book’s single, brief oral sex scene. The Tennessean covered the news of the ban in their newspaper and quoted parents who agreed with the ban, stating that the school board was right in banning the book from the young and impressionable minds of children, who could possibly be so influenced by this blip of a scene in a book, that they might go and immediately engage in the same, or worse, sexual behavior. The newspaper, did however point out that there were alternate ways to address concerns regarding the book, such as offering alternate books to students whose parents were against it. John Green’s YouTube channel, “vlogbrothers”, features a video, “I Am Not A Pornographer”. In it, Green, referring to the ban, states that “there is one frank sex scene. It is awkward, unfun, and wholly unerotic.” (Green). Green goes on to say that the only reason for the existence of that scene is show a contrast between a very physical scene that contains no emotional intimacy and a very non-physical scene that is full of emotion. In another video, “On the Banning of Looking for Alaska”, Green says “text is meaningless without context” (Green) . Green is speaking to his opinion that books are banned most of the time because a parent decides to show a school principal or administrator a single excerpt or page of a book. Without proper context, that excerpt or page can appear to represent a very inappropriate book. Alternatively, if a reader were to assess a book in its entirety, while keeping an opening mind, they could glean important and valuable lessons from

In chapter one of the novel The Great Gatsby, the central couple presented are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. These two partners, although different, have similar personalities but also have contrasting differences. Throughout chapter 1, these two portray that wealth is better than everything else, and they both revolve and base their lives on it. Also in this chapter it shows the hardships and difficulties they have in their marriage. They are both never satisfied with what they have, and are always longing for more. During chapter 1 it was apparent that Tom and Daisy had an unstable relationship.

Which is almost equivalent to a 75 year old dating a 9 year old, and in any time era is considered disgusting, sad, and most importantly a crime. The writer feels no type of sympathy when saying all of this, and is clearly looking at the situation from a “real life” prospective. It almost seems like he is getting a bit of a joy when writing by just looking at the vocabulary he uses. As well as the metaphors and constant over exaggeration that he uses. Not only that, the writer uses pictures to make that particular part of the scene seem more

Capote uses ethos and visual imagery to present Dick Hickock as a man of corrupt values. Dick’s nefarious ideals contradicts with the readers’ ethos as he tried to seduce the little girl on the beach. Dick, when stating his attitude towards seducing minors, says that “other people might not think it ‘normal.’ [Although] that, to be sure, was something, he was certain he was - ‘a normal’.” The fact that Dick has no guilt for raping minors for eight or nine times shows how Dick’s values are rotten. He even states that “real men had the same desire he had” to justify his sinful, secret passion for pedophilia. In fact, Dick is well aware that pedophilia is a crime that the society frowns upon; yet, he chooses to ignore the standards of society in pursuit of his own pleasure and desire. By justifying himself with a broad claim that all men are passionate for pedophilia, he disproves the audience, to whom pedophilia is interpreted as an

Scout is the main character of the story who lives in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. She lives with Jem, her brother, and Atticus, her father. It took place during The Great Depression, many people were affected and a lot lost their jobs but the Finch family weren’t affected that much because Atticus was a lawyer. Dill who came to Maycomb for the summer hangs with Jem and Scout and they make games up about Boo Radley and talk about him. Jem leaves when school starts and comes back next summer, they try to go inside of Boo Radley’s house but get scared when someone shoots and they run away. After that was over the case of Tom Robinson starts. Tom Robinson was a colored person that was accused of hurting a white women and Atticus

Similarly, the significance of Tom’s occupation and success as a black proprietor in this tale substantiates the presence of material determinism, as his service provisions as a barber tie in with how the needs of the white elite controls and regulates his livelihood: “Many an envious eye had been cast upon [his shop]. The lease had only a year to run. Strong pressure, he knew, had been exerted by a white rival to secure the reversion” (Chesnutt 251). Although Tom maintains a sense of pride in his achievements, it is an irrefutable fact that his success depended upon the white elite. Whether as customers or as part of his competitive rivals, Tom’s success was in jeopardy regardless of which party he succumbed to. Should he have chosen to

The description that the author Stephen Chbosky gives are too inappropriate for a young reader because they might not be that that mature for this kind of content. For example, it gives vivid descriptions when Charlie’s sister and her boyfriend were having sex“Watching sister and boyfriend having sex, graphic step by step instructions on how to masturbate, graphic pornographic conversation (gale) “Do you know what masturbation is?...Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm” (Chbosky 21).

Tom Wolfe has a strange to almost creepy approach to the piece, although he does a fantastic job of explaining the culture shift that occurred between the 18th-20th centaury. When identifying the way America’s have changed their opinions of the sexual acts of “hooking up”, from the once hatred act of sleeping in the same bed before marriage to the friendly way of explaining which act was performed using a baseball diamond. Eventually it transformed to we “hooked up” but didn’t even have sex. Wolfe tries to present his research in a modern, young kind of fashion, but comes off more of menacing and egotistic.

While preparing a document about the admissability of evidence that had been requested by the sherif’s office, Tom accidentaly forgot to convert the document so that it was 508 compliant. 508 compliant means that the document has been reformatted in order to make it more accessable to people that are disabled, and failing to convert the document could effect whether it would be understood by everyone.”

Many theories have come about to try to help explain pedophilia. There is a four factor theory that was created by Finkelhor and Araji. The four factors they contribute to why individuals are attracted to children and do what they do are emotional congruence, sexual arousal to children, blockage, and disinhibition. Emotional congruence helps to explain the “idea of a fit between the adult’s emotional needs and the child’s characteristics” (Finkelhor & Araji, 1986, p. 148). The theories that fall under this category each explain or add to the definition. Hammer and Glueck (1957) and Groth and Burgess (1979) believed pedophiles experience themselves as children and have childish needs (as cited in Finkelhor & Araji, 1986, p. 148). This theory

I have chosen to look at and analyse a television text. It is a TV drama aimed at a teenage audience called Skins. I chose this particular text as it focuses upon many different characters and scenarios in regards to sexuality and this forms a basis for analysis and evaluation. Skins also focuses upon Teenage sexuality, specifically, which I believe is a broad and interesting subject to analyse with many opportunities to elaborate.

Why do you continue this relationship with Tom? He is not worthy. He is a man that does not care about anything else but himself. You can tell by his actions he does not treat you the way you deserve to be treated. He has a mistress and she disrespectfully calls your home. Tom does not care to explain to you who it was. He is buying your happiness, taking you to places where you want to go. Leave him and come with me. I have loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. When we got separated, I did not once give up hope that we would one day be reunited. I made something of myself, for you. I am now a wealthy business man, who can give you everything Tom does and more. We will go anywhere you want, and I will love you every single