The struggle would be with Gus because in the Greek culture, the father/husband is always the head of the house and makes all the decisions. All of Toula’s other family members were happy for her. Although Gus has a hard time in accepting that his daughter will be marrying a non-Greek man, he decides to accept Ian, the fiancé, into the family and is open-minded to the fact that Toula is happy and in love with him. This movie displays that an important cultural belief is that Greeks only marry other Greeks to reproduce more Greek babies. The Greek culture is shown to be
What I found alarming is that Michael did not know anything about the partying and club scene, much less anything about drugs. It just took that one chance to be drawn in the club and partying scene, to destruct and destroy his life for good. Michael was just a simple victim of the negative outcomes that partying in the wrong type of clubs and with the mistaken crowd of people can possibly lead to. This is a common occurrence in present day, when constantly parents unfold stories of how their straight A child started associating with the wrong crowd, and got introduced to drugs and now they are faced with the addiction that needs the attention of urgent medical care before it can possibly lead to something worse. This is what happened to Michael, he like many, was not associated with the club scene, but just like everything in life, he was intrigued to be a part of it since he had no friends.
Emmett Shumaker Mrs. Kenyan Psychology 5/21/12 Cool Hand Luke Some people in this world simply refuse to change, refuse to conform to the rules beset upon them. The story of Cool Hand Look gives one a great example of such a person. In Cool Hand Luke, Luke Jackson, the main character, is arrested for cutting off the heads of the town's parking meters while drunk. When asked why he cut the heads off the parking meters, Luke answers, "You could say I was settling an old score." This is perhaps a sentiment to his mistrust of authority.
Looking at that, one of my friend realized that drinking is the coolest thing to do. Whenever he went to the clubs, he decided to drink. He looked at the people around him and thought about the advertisement and accepted that only drinking beer with others will make him feel popular. His mind set was that by drinking beer he can make more friends and could fit in with the people in the clubs. These advertisements encouraged that drinking alcohol relieves all the pain and many people do it so we should do it too.
Persuasive Paper Colleges strictly ban any type of hazing affiliated with school fraternities because they say it is dangerous, unlawful, and cruel; but are there meaningful lessons behind them or is it just a bunch of students thinking they are a hierarchy. The dictionary states hazing as: To persecute or harass with meaningless, difficult, or humiliating tasks; with that definition all we picture in our minds is physical punishment, alcohol abuse, and daunting task created for amusement. Although the choice of joining a fraternity has obligations with hazing, what they consider traditions, an individual has a right to refuse any affiliation towards those activities. Often those tasks are not just for amusement of upper classmen within the fraternity; however; they are traditions that are passed on. These obstacles often test young men for their loyalty to the fraternity.
Mrs. Mooney was previously involved in a dysfunctional marriage to a “shabby stooped little drunkard” (61). Similar to her own marriage, Mrs. Mooney indirectly forces Polly to marry for money. Mrs. Mooney is a ruthless character as a result of her previous troubles. Consequently, Mrs. Mooney’s maternal connection with Polly is non-existent, turning their relationship into a business. When Mrs. Mooney is observing Polly’s interactions with young men, she becomes frustrated that “none of [the men] meant business” and considers sending Polly back to her previous job (63).
For example he says, "People are always ruining things for you" (Salinger, 87). At the club, he didn't want to sit with Lillian Simmons and her boyfriend complaining he would be bored so he left blaming them. Holden holds a pessimistic view on life. Holden thinks, "Game, my ass. Some game.
Kenneth Hoagland a principal, at Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale, has canceled the senior proms because he wants the students and the parents consider how they spend their money on preparation for the prom. Mr. Hoagland feels that it goes against the school and their Christians values to flaunt and waste all that money on a prom. I totally agree with what he is saying in today’s society prom goes against plenty of morals, values, and religion. Nonetheless there should be another social event for the student’s that is less flashy, expensive, and more conservative. If the prom is cancelled this year because it goes against the school and what it stands for then prom as a whole should be banned from the school.
The University claimed that the photo is inappropriate for a teacher teaching under-age students which would be considered as promoting drinking. In old days if a person wants to start a new life, because he wants to forget his past terrible life mistake, he just had to move to another city or country where he can start from zero. There, no one knows him and his mistake would be forgotten. But today, due to social network sites like Google, Face book and Twitter, your past mistakes and life cannot be forgotten wherever you go. The Right to be forgotten is one of the controversial issues in our digital age.
Depicting women as unnatural entities, voiceless and agent less, to their male counterparts destroys any shot of redemption for the fairer sex, so Conrad aligns all the women in the narrative with unreality to evolve the importance of separate realms. By holding ignorant ideas, such as Marlow's aunt, or exotic appearances, such as Kurtz's mistress, the women are discounted as impractical, or if they hold some merit, they are viewed as eerie. Either way, they are made of none of the material found in the world of men, and so disaster befalls the men that dare breach the boundary between the worlds. The first women that Conrad's main character, Marlow, recounts are the two knitters at the Company office in Brussels. The younger one greets the men who come in for examinations before they leave for the "unknown," African wilderness, creating the illusion of a comfortable environment in what is otherwise an unsettling experience (Conrad 8).