It's about Ben Ross, an intelligent history teacher that decides to perform an experiment on his class called “The Wave”, which at first started out so simple and small, until The Wave became unstoppable and spread around the school in such a short period of time, affecting many people. This essay will express how high modality language, descriptive language, symbolism, dialogue, emotive language, persuasive language and rhetorical questions are used to teach us about conformity, power and manipulation. Through the prevalence of conformity in The Wave, Morton Rhue is able to shape our knowledge of the real world. Conformity is evident when members of a society act defiantly to the norm and set a standard for others to follow. Naturally as humans we either follow or lead, as one takes the podium others bask in their glory and direction.
Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.” This idea of carpe dium is central to the message of the movie and a key part of romanticism. One of the first things Mr. Keating tells the students is to call him “Oh Captain, my Captain,” which comes as a shock to the students who are told by strict orders by all other teachers to refer to them formally. He teaches the boys to think for themselves, a lesson looked down upon at the elite academy directed towards developing their minds through learning out of textbooks. Mr. Keating then has the boys stand on their desks to teach them how they can see the world in a different way.
He made it seem like everyone was participating in the class and ostracized those who weren't, just as Hitler used this situation to make more loyal followers. He made a student design a logo for the people, just like Hitler created the swastika. The students all helped out to make a MySpace page and make logos or websites like the Hitler youth was eager to help in many activities. The students also created a wave hand signal, which parallels the hand salute from
The first kind is the stereotypical, negative peer pressure that is based on intimidation. This type of peer pressure appears when Brad tries to make Laurie salute to enter the football game, and when David and Laurie avoid Robert at lunch even though they think it's wrong for other students to pick on him. However, Strasser also acknowledges that peer pressure can be used for good. For example, the articles in the school newspaper encourage other students to speak out about The Wave, and The Wave inspires students to be nice to Robert when they otherwise
Each and every poem has a message that is delivered to the reader through an intricate tangled web of words. Most poems have a main character or theme which allows the author to speak through them in order to get their message across. In the poems First Practice by Gary Gildner and The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill by Judy Page Heitzman, the author speaks to the reader through Coach Clifford Hill and schoolteacher Mrs. Lawrence. At first glance, the poem First Practice seems very short, simple, and straight to the point. The poem has a boot camp feel which leads one to believe Coach Hill is preparing fearless young men for war.
The teacher was told that the object of the experiment was to study the effects of punishment on learning. They are also told that their role in the experiment was to read word lists to the learner and the learner must remember the second word from a list of word pairs they had read earlier. If the learner got the answer wrong, then the teacher was told to administer shocks, for each answer that the learner got wrong, and the shocks had to increase in intensity. The teacher is unaware of the fact that the learner is actually an actor, and receives no shock. The experiments, involving the Undergrad students from Yale, resulted in 60
He also taught them a salute that said "Strength through discipline, Strength through community, Strength through action!" The students just think it's an activity, they don't know that Mr. Ross is brainwashing them. The Characters in "The Lottery," Tessie Hutching son which is one of the main characters, and is the scapegoat to. Other characters are Bill, Old Man Warner, the kids and Mr. Summer. When the names were being drawn from the box, Tessie was the one who got the card with the black dot on
Mr. Ross’ class made The Wave more powerful because everyone joined it and people thought it was the “right” thing to do. Both stories share a theme topic but have different messages. Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada and “The Wave” by Morton Rhue both share the theme topic of influence. Teenagers can easily be persuaded into thinking something by the peers around them. “He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow” (Elbert Hubbard).
ETHICAL CASE STUDIES Case study 1: Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority In a series of famous - and notorious - experiments, Stanley Milgram (1974) studies the factors involved in obedience to authority. Milgram recruited volunteers through a newspaper advert, which described a study of "learning and memory". Upon arriving at the laboratory the volunteers were met by the 'experimenter' and by another 'subject', who was actually a confederate of the research team. The experimenter explained that the study dealt with the effects of punishment on learning, and that one of the subjects would be the teacher and one the learner. Lots were apparently drawn, but it was arranged that in each case the volunteer would be the teacher.
The school’s football team had not won a game in two years, so this statement held even more importance and grabbed the class’s attention. With this attention, Mr Ross then continued to lecture the class on the importance of discipline in the classroom. This was achieved by stating that “Discipline begins with posture”, and instructed Andrea to demonstrate to the class an example of good posture. During this time, Robert Billings began to take notice and sit up straight in his chair. Mr Ross noticed this and praised Robert for very good posture.