She challenged her students to show their intelligence. She believed that they were victims of circumstance. Mike Rose found this inspiring. He goes on to say, “ If you get closer to their failure, you'll find knowledge that the assignment didn't tap, ineffective rules and strategies that have a logic of their own; you'll find clues, as well, to the complex ties between literacy an culture, to the tremendous difficulties our children face as they attempt to find their places in the American educational system.” When reading over this, I find that it is true, that if teachers took the time to find out why a student is failing, instead of just deeming them hopeless or incoherent, that they may find out that these students have much more potential than they originally thought. Not all students learn the same way, therefore, teachers need to try different ways to to teach the material.
We should mirror their lifestyle in this aspect. Heroism is also a vital theme of the book. Through Sundiata we learn to be strong and confident, to have faith when no one else does, show kindness, and to be patient. When he was cripple, as a child people doubted him even though the prophecy was foretold about what and
Inside the society of Salem, you either abide by theocracy, God’s word and The Ten Commandments or you get excommunicated from the society. Maintaining a good reputation is therefore essential in belonging in the community. Trying to sustain a good reputation is seen mostly with Abigail Williams. Due to her deceitful and manipulative ways, it is essential for her to cover up any trace of wrong doing she has done to carry on a healthy reputation. It is evident she cares for her reputation as she constantly says things like “...There be no blush about my name.”(pg.20) and “...
If the teachers didn’t care about their education, how would you expect students to stay in school when the teachers don’t care whether they attend or not. However, Sam was lucky to have Carla, the counselor at Seton Hall, who did more things than she should have to motivate the doctors to succeed in college. “She feared that if one of us dropped out of the program, she risked losing all three of us. She vowed not to allow that to happen, and she became our angel, guiding, protecting, and pushing us as we traveled
They often question the validity of the practices of the society. By this means each author is able to explain why they have created, at least in a novel, what they consider to be a utopian society, and why they believe it will work. Of course much of what they write is based on ideals, otherwise it would not be utopian. However, it also appears to be based on the belief that mankind is basically good, and only needs an environment that will continuously and consistently bring out the good in man. In this ideal situation much of what we consider essential to a good and growing society is felt to be a waste of time, if not simply disruptive, to these utopian societies.
Most people have a basic understanding of obedience; however, many may fail to see the application and the impact of it in their own lives and in our society. Submission into conformity discourages the type of independence that is valued in our supposedly free-thinking world. Censorship is one of the major themes in Fahrenheit 451, and its impact is illustrated through submission in appearance, behavior and thought. This invites us to draw clear relationships between Ray Bradbury‘s novel and our current society. The association between appearance and social acceptance is already apparent in our lives.
T.S. Elliot once wrote “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time” (Infinity Web Development, LLC, 2002-2010). The Americans should bring back the perception that “there is nothing we can’t be" stems from our ancestral heritage. Since the majority of the early settlers could not read or write, they worked hard to make sure the kids of the future all had a chance to learn. They believed they had a responsibility to improve themselves, to be the best they could be, to improve their abilities, and to help thy neighbors.
In Huxley’s’ Brave New World, the world’s motto states community, Identity, and Stability (Huxley 3), in contrast to 1984’s, War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, and Freedom is Slavery motto (Orwell 4). The novel Brave New World shows that in order for a dystopian society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoing of mother nature must occur. Successfully engineering these conditions produces a world where people are finally living "happily ever after," but at a great cost. The main element of what makes a person unique are the emotions that inhabit their minds, which they can control to some degree, "Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery" (Huxley 150). However, in Brave New World, the government uses the drug soma to suppress humans from having negative emotions.
They throw all their morals out the window, people trust the ones who are in charge because we were brainwash to believe that leaders can be trusted and they have our best interest in head. When you are a child and you are in grade school, you tend to gravitate to someone with a take charge attitude, even if those people’s motives are evil. In the short story Brownies, there is a character named Snot, she was her own individual but somehow still followed along with the ways of Arnetta, when the girls were going to have a secret meeting to discuss what they were going to do about the white girls, Snot was pressured into going along with the group, Arnetta said “Snot, you’re not going to be a bitch and tell Mrs. Margolin, are you?” Snot tries to speak against it by saying, “Hey, maybe you didn’t hear them right –I mean-“ but then Arnetta, the authority figure interrupted saying “Are you gonna tell on us or not?” Snot eventually caved in and went with the majority group. (Packer 507) Also with the Milgram’s experiment the subjects tried to speak up against the authority but failed when the authority figure told them to shack the person again. “In each case, the actors sitting on the chair kept protesting, screaming, exhibiting excruciating pain.
This is the real test of love for most couples. This is when you should really take notice of what kind of problems you had before. Don't expect your partner to feel guilty. If the marriage was meant to work it will work. If you have MS your children have probably already figured out that something is wrong before you tell them.