In “The Poncho Bearer”, the author, John Schwartz, uses narration to relate experiences that his son went through high school by being a unique individual. Schwartz reflects this story on how his own experience was through the years of high school. The author informs the reader about why the main character, Sam in the story acted and how his actions and his maturity define ourselves as unique human beings. Told by Schwartz; “As we all know, high school for most teenagers is a time of intense pressure to conform” (p 212). Both Kusz and Schwartz gave the reader a sense of how these main characters conform to our society and when is it right to deviate between the norm and unique.
They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built. Some tenements didn’t even have windows or fire escapes. As a result many immigrants were caught and killed in fires (OK). Some groups tried to change the living conditions for the better. Immigrants worked in sweatshops that were dangerous.
Ungifted by Gordon Korman is a story about how all kids face pressure academically and socially, but can ultimately change themselves. One example of this is when Noah who is the smartest kid at the Academy is exposed to YouTube. Noah uses it relate to the Hardcastle students. Noah even looked at a clip on YouTube on how to fail math because he wanted to be like the kids at Hardcastle. Noah says “I found a clip on YouTube called “Failing Math.” But when I watched it, it was completely unhelpful.
Even people who smoke do not like to walk past a cloud of smoke (Berg). Over the past two decades, medical research has shown that non-smokers suffer many of the diseases of active smoking when they breathe secondhand smoke. (“Secondhand Smoking Facts”). Secondhand smoke is obviously worse than even smoking and students and staff should not have to be exposed to such harmful chemicals while at school. Smoking should not be allowed on school properties or campuses.
Two Million Minutes Essay In the movie entitled Two Million Minutes, six students show the world how they struggle through their last year at high school. Two students are from India, two are from China, and two are from America. All those students share one common goal; they want to succeed. Although they come from different backgrounds and cultures, their soul intention is to achieve their goals. However, some of them have it easier than the others.
Simply stated, he is the man voted most likely to do anything in his senior yearbook. That anything turned out to be an English teacher, or better a life teacher, to a group of young men who were naive about the world they lived in and everything outside of their small boarding institution. Meet John Keating, the teacher played by Robin Williams in the influential movie Dead Poets Society. The teacher who used all aspects of the word ethos to motivate and transform his students’ lives. Ethos can be described as the nature, character, or unique values peculiar to a particular human being.
Kirjan ENG-2D3 Cregan, N 11/13/2014 The film Dead Poets Society set in the year 1959 focuses on the painfully shy Todd Anderson who is newly enrolled in to Welton Academy, and his roommate Neil Perry who is exceedingly bright and popular, while under the thumb of his over-bearing father. The two, along with their other classmates, meet Professor John Keating, their new English teacher who tells them of the Dead Poet Society; the boys reach over their dream’s and in their own way each of their lives have changed. The element of sound brings a burst of excitement, a hold of suspense, and a grudge of terror as it assembles the very scene we are awaiting. Peter Weir the director of Dead Poets Society has used this element to maximum perfection in this film; he was able to adorn each astonishing scene with an impeccable tune. When Neil Perry is up late at night, just after his dad harshly instructs him to take part in military school and medical school, we don’t know what is going to take effect.
MoMA presents Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (A Domestic Scene), the first work of his “Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction” series, in which he takes high school yearbook or news photographs from the ’60s and ’70s and re-envisions and expands their context, incorporating somberly comical dialogue and music to create narratives of abuse whether domestic, social or sexual. Through these works, Kelley persistantly attempts to reconsider what is acceptable. This particular work is a half-hour film inspired by a black and white photograph of a school play found in a high school yearbook, showing two young boys standing on a stage, an unmade bed and an open oven divulging a sloppy and messy domestic scenery. This still image brings about Kelley's themes of memory deterioration and supressed memories of school experiences. Through Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1, Kelley examines the psychologically agitated relationship between two men, set in a room centered around a gas stove playing out a dynamic and paranoid relationship of sympathy and torture, guilt and suicide in order to construct a narrative to fill in the blanks.
CRN:23166 Going to high school is an experience, because walking into any high school for most teenagers is like walking into another world. In one’s opinion high school could be considered a metaphor for the real world because school is a subculture in itself. The text book attests that, “While in school, young people acquire identities and learn patterns of behavior…exposed to a hierarchical, bureaucratic environment...[and schools] emphasize conformity to societal needs...” (Margaret L. Anderson, 2008). Choosing The Breakfast Club to analyze social inequality seemed like a perfect example to write about. The movie explores the relationship amongst high school students who are socially separated, are forced together and find that they had more in common than they initially thought.
A Better Nation through the Dream Act My cousin is an illegal immigrant. He was smuggled into the Untied States at the age of seven, started in public schools that same year, and ten years later graduated from North High School in Downers Grove Illinois. Up until recently his hopes for continuing his education after high school were on hold, now, thanks to the Dream Act he has been granted the possibility to pursue his dreams. The Dream Act is a piece of legislation that provides a pathway to citizenship to illegal immigrants through education, and allows them in state fees when entering colleges of residency. I recall speaking to him when he was a sophomore in high school, about the schools he was considering and his other plans.