Unit 1 - Drama Exploration of the theme ‘Peer Pressure’ - Documentary Response To present the theme of Peer Pressure, I’ve used the stimuli of the 1953’s Case of Derek Bentley. He was a 19-year-old with a mentality of a 11-year-old, due to the bad injury he experienced during the Blitz in WWII. This lack of mentality gives him the innocence of a child with the physical features of a man. He was unable to think as an adult and often gets aid from his sister to go through his daily life. Due to his parent’s very strong will for him to go out and explore the outside world, Derek often kept himself in and sat around in his room, smoke and read comics, isolating himself from the outside world because he was afraid of it, showing the amount of stress he receives from his parents and peer pressure in such ways.
When Richard’s father leaves the family, Richard and his brother are sent to live in an orphanage while Richard’s mother looks for a job. The orphanage is poorly run, and Richard is always hungry there and feels trapped. One day, he runs away. When night comes, Richard gets scared and says to himself, “Ought I go back? No; hunger [is] back there, and fear.”(31) The police find Richard and take him back, but soon afterwards his mother takes Richard and his brother to her sister’s house.
Most of his teachers believed he was unteachable, except his science teacher, Mrs. Boswell. Later, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, parents of another Wingate student, took him in and provided him with a loving home, hired a tutor to help him improve his grades, and went all out to help him be successful at football. With the help of the tutor Michael
Theodore Robert Cowell was born on November 24, 1946 to Louise Cowell. Ted’s biological father, who was in the Air Force, was unknown to him throughout his life. He grew up thinking that his grandparent where his real parents ad his biological mother was his older sister once him and his mother moved back to Philadelphia with them. At age four Ted and his mother moved to Washington to live with some relatives, his mother would never had imagine what was about to happen with her son as he will start to grow. As a youth Ted was terribly shy to the public and in school, he was often teased by his fellow student in his junior high school.
Adam has finally has his father and son moment with one of his children that he is grateful to express himself to his son Cal. By saying he trusts Cal he has gain even more love and forgiveness for not being with his children for many years. Plus, Adam is able to not be like his father but instead be the opposite with just one of his children. Cal – “He though sardonically of telling him about his mother, to see how he would handle I, but he withdrew the though quickly. He didn’t think Aron could handle it at all,” (Steinbeck 586).
But no matter how well I performed at home with friends, during school recess the stigma of “short kid” stuck with me while choosing teams. Still concerned as senior year rolled along, I visited a growth specialist. Pacing the exam room in a shaky, elliptical orbit worried, “What if I’ve stopped growing? Will my social status forever be marked by my shortness?” In a grade school dream, I imagined Chris “ESPN” Berman’s voice as he analyzed the fantastic catch
The kids are bounced from home to home and never find a permanent place to stay. The older kids are offered education and resources to prepare for a transition on living on their own. Children in foster homes face many struggles. They usually blame themselves for being in foster care and sometimes wish to return to the parents, even if the parents abused them or the kid was neglected. Taquann felt helpless and abandoned by his mom.
It was during that time he was given the nickname “Teddy” by his parents, and he hated it (Biography.com). Theodore was weak as a child, but did not let it stop him, in fact; it encouraged him to work on ways to strengthen his muscles to become stronger. Theodore and his family traveled to Europe and the Middle East when he was ten and again when he was fourteen (Biography.Com). When he overcame his illness, he enrolled in college at Harvard, and his father died during his second year. He did not allow the loss of his father to hinder his growth,
There is a man who was an assistant in Cleveland Public Schools who grew up in the projects; saw gangs and drugs; was raised by a single mother with five or six siblings. He knew that that life was not for him. Through the military, he attended college, earned a masters degree in psychology, got married and is quite successful. These stories are out there to find and inspire these children to know that
These adversities caused Pelzer to feel alone as a teen. He was placed into foster care and moved around to different families until he settled down with one family in a place Duinsmoore Way. There he met the Brazell family which he spent most of his time with them and met his two best friends David Howard and Paul Brazell. Life was better for Pelzer but still very stressful as he reached the dreaded age of 18. When he turned 18, Pelzer was cut loose from foster care and was to go alone in the world.