Spike Lee visits and tells the students a cold-blooded truth: they are being used and the one way to protect themselves is to know it. "The only reason you are here is because you can make their schools win and they can make a lot of money," Mr. Lee says of the coaches. "This whole thing is about money." It is the kind of valuable advice boys like Arthur and William, from poor black neighborhoods, hear all too rarely. "Hoop Dreams" is a brilliantly revealing documentary that follows Arthur and William through high school to their first year of college.
In “I Shall Fear No Evil”, the relationship between Tad and Jim is warped to reach a deeper degree of pain. Tad’s comedic act tries to lull the victims into a false sense of security, slowly earning their trust. After, Big Malky comes in to deliver the real punishment to the victims. The duo’s partnership hurts the victims both emotionally and physically. The success of the act is shown in the victim named Jim.
In “The Wave” Mr. Ross told his students that they had the power to start something, and Geoffrey Canada from Fist Stick Knife Gun was influenced by the others around him to fight and be violent. “You can have power to start something great if you learn through discipline” (Rhue). Mr. Ross told his students that they could become strong through discipline and under his influence they started “The Wave”. Geoffrey Canada was around fighting and violence his whole life and he was influenced by the people around him how he acted toward his problems. In both stories kids were influenced by adults.
The novel "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is centered around Okonkwo, who sets out a quest of self-perfection and indeed succeeds in doing so. His hyperbolic interpretation of manliness leads him into climbing the ladder of success; admired and respected by his clan. And so he soon becomes too deep in his ideology of masculinity which later causes his own tragic demise. The focus of this essay is to discuss the contribution of the various settings in the development of Okonkwo and its relevance in today's society. This novel is partitioned into three main parts which deal with three remarkably different settings.
Men are superior athletes because they possess what’s “needed for power and success: muscles” (Brooks 410). Sebastion’s roommate, Duke, is a star athlete who constantly has his shirt off showing off how built he is. Women are sensitive and understanding and men are thought to be somewhat crude and thoughtless about relationships. While Viola is playing Sebastion, she tries to get the other guys to like her better. Her overly effeminate male friend decides that showing that Sebastion is good with the ladies will gain their approval.
They contrast each other making each more black or more white. In this paragraph Mr. Harvey and just how evil he is will be discussed. On page 26 we see that Mr. Harvey is so evil he has convinced himself he is innocent. “He wore his innocence like a comfortable old coat.” He has gotten away with murdering people so many times it has just become natural to him. Right from the very beginning it is apparent that Mr. Harvey is evil.
Holden’s personality has always had much distinction; his two life traumas are able to give the audience a small glimpse into Holden’s peculiar set of hidden emotions and characteristics. Alllie, Holden’s brother, makes Holden go into a transformation of his personality that makes him loose his innocence. Holden’s age targets readers in high school and effectively attains their attention due to the close relation with Holden’s lifestyle. His traits are hidden just like many of the great abilities of high school students struggling to find their place. Apart from having hidden characteristics, Holden has the typical desires that many high school students also pursuit: sex, alcohol, and money.
The human emotions often represented in the Romantic Era of literature are clearly displayed in the novel Frankenstein through the monster itself. The monsters emotions are what rule him. He displays every negative human quality that each of us wishes didn't exist, such as rage, jealousy, and hatred. Chapter 20 is a prime example of this, in which we can see how he demonstrates human emotion in a negative as well as a positive aspect. “"The wretch saw me destroy the creation whose future existence he depended on happiness and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew."
Dr. Herbert Kleber, Psychiartist, Ny State Psychiatric Institute, says that marijuana in an inhibitor of good feelings to the psychiatric mind. It creates a tingly and cloudy sensation. Kleber ends with most simple of remarks, “people smoke weed because it feels good.”(Taboo Television show, 05/03/2011) Also future side effects can be real sever sometimes, such as schizophrenia. Alcohol also alters the consumer, but in far different ways than marijuana. Alcohol when consumed is metabolized by the liver, when fully consumed and digested the users feels disorientated.
Jocks, “preps”, punks, and nerds are among the most common one would find in a high school. Dividing the student body into these categories can be a little confusing to some people and, in my opinion, unnecessary, but it’s just a fact of life that is to be handled like any other means of classification. Jocks are the athletic, popular students of a high school. They usually play every sport and excel in them. They are usually classified as the “cool kids” and are known by everyone in and close to their school.