The bus was crowded that morning. Thanksgiving was just a few days away, and it seemed as though the whole world was coming or going, planning and preparing. I took the first available seat I could find, an aisle seat, four rows back behind the driver. Slouching down, I watched the rest of the passengers jostle to find their places. I really wasn’t up for this trip.
The groups of peers from both pieces choose not to conform in different ways, but have similar impacts and effects. In the Production Dead Poets Society the students are met with a testing challenge after the decision to pursue their own desires and in due course, confronted. The students decision to study poetry and form a party of poets called the dead poet society. This exploit troubles the teachers and provokes them to take action against them. The character Finny from the novel A Separate Peace is similar in this aspect due to his natural rebelling individuality against the teachers of Devon school New Hampshire.
At any point before the tragedy did you felt that something was going wrong? Do you feel that Dukenfield owes the victim an answer? We were then told to write a monologue for one of the characters and I chose the victim. Here’s my monologue below: I felt terrible and very upset that I lost a part of me, my son at the disaster. How could they be so ignorant?
You weren’t suppose to call students up later at night, but I had it all figured out. I was going to tell whoever answered the phone that I was her uncle. I had a accident and I had to speak to her immediately. It would’ve worked too. The only reason I didn’t do it was because I wasn’t in the mood.
Paul felt the need to lie compulsively. During his meeting in the principal’s office he was asked to state why he was there, his response was that he wanted to come back to school, “This was a lie, but Paul was quite accustomed to lying; found it, indeed, indispensable for overcoming friction”, (Cather, 245). Thus, Paul used his lies to make him feel more comfortable in situations that were vexing. Paul’s speech and his mannerisms were not appreciated by his classmates, and his teachers; his teachers expressed this by “falling upon him without mercy”, during his meeting in the principal’s office. The students showed this by becoming “listless” during his stories.
I am exactly how he has created me, and if he hadn’t hurt me the way he did by abandoning me, maybe I would be “normal”. If this isn’t what he wanted, what is? He toyed with my emotions, and played with my mind. Society treated me like a monster without knowing even who I was, how old my mind was and how much I knew about people’s environment. Instead they immediately treated me as if I was an outsider, someone who would
When he heard the insults against Joyce, he only said “let’s get quiet and make the best of it” it is unacceptable heard a teacher said that. Maybe in the past don’t exited the NAEYC Code of ethical, and maybe no body remember Mr. Moore one of a value most important for a teacher according to the NAEYC “Respect diversity in children, families, and colleagues”, It is very sad see how those kind of event affected persons and even generation through the
For students who chose to keep their car at home, they may be unable to shuttle siblings to and from school in the mornings, and throw off their weekly schedule. Students who choose to park off campus face a long walk to school and must budget more time in the mornings and find an acceptable spot to park on 9th street. Many people continue to park on campus, because the supervisors will often not notice. But, those who continue to park on campus face the daily anxiety that they will be suspended from the campus for even longer because of violating their ban from the lot. Often they are not caught, because the enforcers of the bans do not mind cars unless they are breaking rules or don’t have their tag.
More questions that lead to more debate. Since the available information on Marjorie Agosin was limited, we started arguing in more general terms. One of my students who is racially mixed talked about being called upon in high school to speak for the non-white culture that is supposedly "his," a culture he felt no connection to at that point in time. For him, awareness of a cultural identity is something he acquired, something outside his immediate sense of self that he started to become more curious about and wanted to have a connection to. Is cultural identity a matter of choice,
In Greg’s story, his teacher skips him in turn for the community chest. Greg was extremely hurt by this, so he decided to act. By doing this however, he may have just darkened his own life. The teacher comments on how Gregory doesn’t have a dad right after he tries to put some of the money in the chest and say it was from his father. Gregory may have actually thought that he was going to buy a dad.