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Charlie Decker And Ted Jones
2,614 wordsStephen King is a well-known author of horror fiction. He maintains that he writes horror because: The horror writer always brings bad news: you " re going to die, he says; he's telling you to never mind Oral Roberts and his "something good is going to happen to you", because something bad is going to happen to you and it may be cancer and it may be a stroke, and it may be a car accident, but it's going to happen. (qt d. in Magistrale 24) The bad news is that there have been "nine deadly school ...
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Mr Keating
1,054 wordsValeria Sargsian " Dead Poets society " In the film "Dead Poets Society", dir. Peter Weir, we can see vivid pictures from the life at Welton, a very old and traditional boys school. The action is taking place in 1950's. It is predominantly viewed by the eyes of Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawk), newcomer, who is very shy and timid and is under the pressure because of his elder brother, who was successful and popular student of Welton. He and his classmates Knox, Max, Neil Perry and the others, came her...
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Young English Schoolmaster Mr Chipping
1,416 wordsJames Hilton's novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips is the story of an English schoolmaster who dedicated his entire adult life teaching young boys. He was a somewhat shy person. Nevertheless he was a competent school teacher, professional and attractive in many different ways. Although his first teaching experience was not successful, he was determined to become a good schoolmaster. After coming to Brookfield, he began to warm up to his students. But more important he brought discipline to his school which...
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Thackerays Students In Examples
7,061 wordsResearch Paper Identify and discuss professional issues in education evident in a film or a piece of young people's literature in which a teacher plays a fairly cental role. This essay will critically analyse the discourses, positions and relationships, as well as certain individuals habitus' (after Bourdieu and Wac quant, 1992, cited in Gale & Densmore, 2000), which influence the classroom of Mark Thackeray (Sidney Potier) in the film To Sir with Love (Clavell, 1966). Via this analysis, I argue...
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Children's Story By James Clavell
713 wordsBlind Obedience While sitting in church on Sunday going through the same motions of every Sunday, my son leans over to ask, "Why do we have to stand up for this prayer?" My response "because we are supposed to". Reading "The Children's Story" by James Clavell, made me think a little more about this question that I had no answer for. A person needs to be able to explain why he does what he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled up with...
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Their Poor Literacy Skills
3,444 wordsWhether we are experiencing a 'literacy crisis' depends on ones understanding of the term 'crisis'. It is obvious from our personal experiences that there are problems among groups on a broader scale and on a smaller, local individual scale but I do not believe that it is a 'crisis' but a concern that needs to be addressed. The media reports construct an image of 'this' massive danger to the individual, the State, the national and our standing in global networks because of the illiterate masses'...
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Effect Of The Committee
800 wordsAfter a dead serious consideration of the effects of this committee's work and of my relation to it, I find that for the following reasons I must refuse to cooperate with this body. In the first place, as a teacher, my first responsibility is to my students. To cooperate with this committee would be to set for them an example of accommodation to forces which can only have, as their end effect, the destruction of education itself. Such accommodation on my part would ruin my value as a teacher, an...
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Two Kids
384 wordsColumbine Cause and Effects Earlier this year, on one fine day, two teenagers walked onto the campus of Columbine high school and started shooting. They injured and killed a number of people and also destroyed a large amount of property with their home-made pipe bombs and grenades. When they realized they were surrounded by S.W.A.T. teams, the two psychos committed suicide in the school library. The results of their actions are still being felt. All across the country, teachers have become scare...
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Original Copies
842 wordsCanada's copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce. The reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due to technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken, it is very hard to track down violators. So although some form of a copyright law is needed, the one we have has, too many holes to be effective. There are three main ways in which the copyright law is broken in everyday life. They is audio / video tape copying, plagiarism, and software piracy. The firs...
