We read the article, “We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think” last week. The author Kie Ho uses his own experiences about his son’s thought and many examples to prove his point. He thinks that public education certainly is not perfect in America, but it is a great deal better than any other country. Children should be more liberal thinking, writing and imagining, rather than comply with the rules or follow the prescribed order of their parents and the execution of what adults say. Children’s creativity brings inspiration to adults, improves the act of education and makes the change to the world.
For example, when writing about obedience he writes, “Obey your parents, when they are present,” because they “think they know better than you,” implying the parents don’t know better. His discussion on lying is very interesting. He states we should not lie until we’ve grown and learned enough to be “perfect” liars, with “confidence, elegance, and precision.” He also tells the youth start “early” and learn “this gracious and beautiful art.” Twain seems to want to point out the errors of adult cynicism to help bring a new view toward making society more honest and rational. While opening the eyes to both the young and the elderly, Twain magically sends these two audiences different messages with the same words. The unexperienced youth are the ones who get the obvious message.
Another example of morality occurs when Atticus reveals he would rather do right by him, then to keep others happy. Atticus states, “ before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” (114) Atticus demonstrates an understanding of right and wrong and a self conscience to do what is right no matter the consequence. One more example of morality is when Scout sees Boo for the first time. Scout states, “Boo was our neighbor.
The main purpose of her essay is to inform others how she learned about time management and responsibility. I think she wrote this essay more towards people who have a hard time managing their time. She is telling us that it is possible to work and be involved in activities, but how you manage your time and becoming responsible is key. This can be proved in the last paragraph when she tells us “And every day people notice that I am different from the rest of my peers. At school, teachers and organization leaders are impressed by my time management skills and the amount of responsibility I take on.” Jessica shows her feelings in this essay when her father tells her that her that she does not have to work on the farm anymore, and can be like other kids and take part in school activities.
“[We live] in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones iPods and minds like empty rooms” by far this quote really does describe our society because we get everything we want yet we cannot grasp how to use proper literacy. Though 75 years ago children would read for fun because it was the only thing they could do like an example: would be African-American children they had to share one book with three other kids but could not complain and young children would always have some that would read to them. Lee is trying to yield out to the generations of the next ones saying your knowledge may be wrong if you get it on the internet, Lukudu 2 but if you read a book you could obtain more information and you can open up to more concepts. I absolutely
Atticus uses this approach not only with his children, but with all of Maycomb, and yet, for all of his mature treatment of Jem and Scout, he patiently recognizes that they are children and that they will make childish mistakes and assumptions. Ironically, Atticus’s one insecurity seems to be in the child-rearing department, and he often defends his ideas about raising children to those more experienced and more traditional. Atticus Finch isn’t just an ordinary father. He teaches his children things no parent of that time period, or even our time period would even think of doing. Atticus tries to show his children how the world works from other people’s point of view.
This is because Transcendentalists believe the only way to find peace is by being self- reliant. This opinion is repeated in Thoreau’s, “Civil Disobedience Part 1”: “All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil… I say, let us not have such a machine any longer” (4). The “friction” Thoreau talks of represents the lack of self-manning that becomes present in society when machines are brought in. This would be an important issue to Transcendentalists as self-manning is key to living life. When the author voices his
The values of the main characters Mr. and Mrs. Odone were evident in the movie as love, hardworking and perseverance. These are the values the movie wishes us to see. The parents completely disregarded what there own child would want. It was what they felt he wanted. The boy may have wanted an end to his suffering.
But Mr. Fitweiler finds it hard to believe because everyone knows that Mr. Martin is a very efficient worker, never smokes, and never drink anything stronger than ginger ale. Mr. Martin tells Mr. Fitweiler that Miss Borrows suffers a psychological stress. Although she is telling the truth, nobody can believe her because they have known Mr. Martin for a long time and know his life style. Mr. Martin makes an incredibly wise plan to get Miss Barrows fired using imagination. He creates a scenario which relies on the aspect of the status his colleagues have put him into in order to solve his problem and achieve his desired
It just shows the carelessness that people have instilled in their minds. In my opinion their is no excuse to be late, and their sure as hell is no excuse to slack as a United States Sailor. I really hope that sailors today can realize how great of a opportunity they have been given to serve our great country, and once our shipmates realize this they will understand how important every little detail that has to be payed attention to. The phrase "Attention to Detail" is by far one of the greats and most important phrase in the military. Attention to detail is by far the most important thing