The Pillow Book

chance to observe a fourth grade English teacher. Her room was arranged in a very different way than what I am used to in classrooms. She had different level seating ranging from bar stools, medium tables with yoga balls, short tables with giant pillows, and a long church pew bench. Some of the seating proved to be a distraction for some students because the children loved to roll around on the yoga

The ticking of the clock sounds disturbingly clear tonight, and my blanket does not warm me, washed cold by the moonlight shed through the curtains. Lying in my own bed, instead of the bleached sheets of the hospital, does little to drive away the dreadful thoughts haunting me. So I turn on my nightlight and pull Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' from the bookshelf. I need to feel close to someone right now, and as incredible as it sounds, Frankenstein's painful narrative strikes a responsive chord in

She tells the girls, "I saw Indians smash my dear parents' head on the pillow next to mine (Act I, page 19).” From this small detail, it is revealed where Abigail’s ruthlessness comes from. Because was exposed to such cruelty at a young age, it is reasonable to conclude that Abigail might be vicious herself one day. Anger is

The Grauballe Man “Grauballe Man,” is a bog body that has been preserved for more than two thousand years. It is one of Seamus Heaney’s North collection poems. The Grauballe Man is considered to be one of the most well-preserved body of all time, it was discovered in the peat bogs in Jutland, Denmark. The body showed no signs of violence indicating that the man was murdered rather than dying of natural causes. The poem indicates Heaney’s preoccupation with the body because it evokes him of the

Introduction Early childhood providers do many difficult tasks. The hardest task is to provide the children with multicultural and diverse experiences. Since the beginning of time, the extended families, clans, and the communities raised the young children. Even today, many early childhood programs and family child care institutions tend to be similar and homogeneous to the children’s home backgrounds. The common criteria parents use to choose the early childhood programs, and the child care facilities

trials by falsely accusing others. At the start of the story Abigail starts accusing the women in town to draw attention to herself. While the attention was on Tituba to turn the attention back on herself, Abigail exclaims, “… I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand; I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the devil!” (45). This was the staring point of where all the girls started accusing the innocent women in town. By

Japanese culture, and gives knowledge into the realities of Heian period life. Firstly, we are shown that the many rituals of the court were mostly adapted, and sometimes copied, from Chinese Buddhism. For instance, the very first ritual we see in the book, the ritual of the five mystic kings, is a Buddhist ritual (page 92).1 The diary perfectly illustrates the many Buddhist-inspired rituals of the court. From exorcisms and priests to dancers, singers and poetry competitions; it is clear that rituals

Guy Montag is a fireman who takes pride in burning books. He experiences pleasure when handling fire and tends to think of himself as being greater than others. In the text, it states, “With the brass nozzle in his fists…his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal of ruins history” (Bradbury 1). This illustrates that Montag enjoys burning books and using his hands to control fire. This is because fire

The French film, Amour, depicts the uncomfortable and sobering reality that a family faces in the aftermath of stroke. The film follows an elderly couple, George and Anne, who are retired music teachers in their eighties that live in Paris, and their daughter, Eva, who lives abroad. In the beginning, the couple is seen happily returning home from a concert and settling in for the night. The following morning during breakfast Anne suddenly goes into a catatonic state and is unresponsive to George

I never realized when I played Peek-A-Boo with different infants in my family, that I was teaching them one of the most valuable lessons in their life. I just thought it was a game that infants liked to play and it made them laugh. I didn 't know that this was so funny to them because they were fascinated with the fact that for one moment I wasn 't there and a moment later I popped back up. Little did I know I was teaching them one of their most important accomplishments. Adults and older children