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Teachers And Students Socratic Method
1,279 words
The term philosophy can be defined in many ways. I
like to define philosophy to mean truth. When
evaluating my philosophy of education, my views
are clear and concise. Education should be
provided to everyone, free of charge, and free of
discriminations. Education today is provided to
everyone publicly at no expense. Although free, it
does not come without distractions. For instance,
public schooling has turned into more of a daycare
type setting for teachers and students. With
emphasis based on...
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O J J T
960 words
The Teacher is like an oil lamp if its flame is
steady and bright a hundred lamps can be lit by
it, without in any way diminishing its brightness.
For ensuring the brightness of the lamp, it is
necessary that the wick be in good order and the
oil supply be sufficient. Certainly the role of
the teacher cannot be written in mere words.
However, this writer can highlight some of the key
responsibilities to which strategies, methods and
planning can be impinged upon. The following is a
list of sugge...
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Teddy As A Christ Figure
628 words
In "Teddy" by J. D. Salinger, Teddy is illustrated
as a Christ figure. Many aspects of his life are
similar to those of Jesus. Salinger created in
Teddy a mirror-image of the real Christ. From a
very young age, Teddy displays a profound
understanding of the universe and life itself,
exhibited by his deep conclusions about everyday
life. For example, when he is watching the
floating orange peels out of the ships porthole,
he says "Its interesting that I know about them
being there. If I hadnt see...
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Forrest Gump Good Movie
662 words
What a Good Movie has? A good movie could contain
an interesting plot, suspense climax, real acting,
and video effect. Some movie is not about
entertainment only, but giving us a lesson that
might happen in our life. It may be an early
warning of our future. Others allow the audience
to live vicariously and have an opportunity to see
theatre on a grader scale up on the screen. Good
movies might, interesting plot, exciting climax,
and also a story that One thing that triggers the
movie industry i...
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Boy Willie Piano Lesson
415 words
Berniece and Boy Willie's uncle is a railroad
cook, trying to keep the peace while testifying to
the past. A few short generations removed from the
African who carved the piano, he comes to
Pittsburgh from Mississippi on a mission to sell
his piano in order to buy a piece of the land
where his ancestors slaved. Boy WIllie's partner
watermelons is anxious to finish the business and
begin his new life in the north. Boy Willie's
sister, Doaker and the action of the play reside
in her house. She ref...
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Jing Mei Mother Joy Luck Club
1,269 words
The life of Jing-mei Woo was not of a Disney story
but a sad, difficult life. Her past are laced with
hard lessons. She is burdened with her mothers
past haunting her and her family. The life changed
when Canning asked Jing-mei to take Suyuan's place
in the Joy Luck Club. Ultimately discover a part
of family that she never knew existed and found
herself on a Journey to find them and be united
for the first time. Jing-mei's mother had
unattainable expectations of Jing-mei. Suyuan
expected her dau...
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Man Versus Open Boat
477 words
The Open Boat is a story of four men who drift
across a January sea in an open boat, since they
lost their ship some time after dawn. The main
conflict in this story is man versus nature, in
this case the raging sea. Stephen Crane gives a
description of two days spent on a ten-foot dinghy
by four men a cook, a correspondent, which is
Crane himself, the injured captain, and the oiler,
Billy Higgins. This story enforces that this is a
collective experience. The emotional support and
the knowledge ...
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War With Germany End Of The Play
865 words
An Inspector Calls has been described as a play of
Social Criticism. John Boynton Priestley was an
English novelist, playwright and journalist who
wrote many non-fiction books. An Inspector Calls,
written in 1945, is a satire on middle class-life.
The play is set in 1912, just two years before the
beginning of World War One. Priestley chose to use
the Birling household for his criticism. They are
a typical middle class family of that time, whose
peaceful domain is disrupted by the visit of an
in...
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Twelfth Night Great Deal
754 words
Shakespeare cleverly uses the art of disguise, in
both his tragedies and his comedies, in order to
employ a literary device known as dramatic irony,
where the audience members are aware of something
(in this case the true identity of characters)
that characters in the play are not. This, of
course, creates tension in a play and excites the
audience; actions take place on the stage, of
which the audience knows the import, but
characters on the stage do not. It also creates a
setting for a great d...
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Anti Social Behavior Period Of Time
1,496 words
It is the natural scheme of life. Human beings
produce children and thus are classified as
parents. It is and has always been the parent's
job to raise and nurture the child, to teach it
right from wrong, and to protect it from the
harshness of the surrounding environment. However,
when the child strays or behaves in a destructive
manner, what steps should a parent take to correct
such behavior? Some psychologists suggest that a
good old-fashioned spanking is just the ticket.
Others say that suc...
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Made Mathematical Calculations Mathematical Calculations Banneker
844 words
Benjamin Banneker was an astronomer, scientist,
mathematician, surveyor, clock-maker, author, and
social critic. Most notable about his
accomplishments was that despite racial
constraints and little formal education, he was a
self-taught man. By the end of his life, his
achievements were well-known around the world.
Unlike many blacks of his time, Banneker was not
born into slavery. The maternal side of his family
determined this fate. His grandmother Mary Walsh
was a white Englishwoman who was ...
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Moral Lesson Christian Belief
890 words
# 8216; The Red Shoes' is an imaginary and unreal
story related by Hans Christian Anderson. Anderson
makes effective use of fantasy to teach a moral
lesson. He builds up the story in such a way that
the reader does not care for the validity of the
incidents. The moral lesson is that the proud and
the disobedient must suffer. Disobedience is a
sin, and according to the Christian belief it is
what started the demise in the heavens above, so
anybody who commits it must suffer. Whatever sins
man com...
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Tells His Father King Of Thebes
830 words
Creon does not learn a lesson from Oedipus'
accusatory behavior. Instead he adapts this bad
personality trait. Throughout Antigone, he accuses
everyone who tries to give him advice of betraying
him. Whereas, in Oedipus, he is falsely accused by
Oedipus of trying to take over the throne. This
paper will compare and contrast his behavior and
evaluate if he learned anything from one play to
the next. Creon was seen in a different context in
Oedipus compared to his character in Antigone. In
Oedipus,...
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Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein Monster
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Most Americans have some idea of who Frankenstein
is, as a result of many Frankenstein movies and
popularity of monster. However, most peoples ideas
are incorrect about Mary Shelleys novel,
Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not
monster, and the monster himself is not the
inarticulate, rage-driven criminal that Robert de
niro shows in the 1994 film version of the novel.
Shelleys original Frankenstein was misrepresented
by this Kenneth branagh film, most likely to send
a different message...
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Gender Roles And Macbeth
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... there is questioning of gender attributes and
roles, there is often a level of violence that
follows soon after. When Macduff receives word
that his wife and young son have been slain, he
begins to grieve openly. Malcolm, who had recently
made an alliance with Macduff, offhandedly
comments that Macduff should handle the situation
in a manly way. This is a cynical attack on his
character, and questions of his masculinity.
Macduff explains to Malcolm that he feels deep
sorrow for the death of ...
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Started To Threaten Started To Dress Wave
632 words
The wave is about a history teacher whose name is
Ben Ross. His class was starting to study the time
that Hitler began making all the Jewish people
stay in camps. Ben Ross could not find a way to
get his class interested into this time period, so
he decided to try to make a group, He would play
like a Hitler type scenario and his class would be
the Jewish people. He would make this group open
to the whole school. Ben Ross told his idea to his
class. He announced the group, and he had a pretty
go...
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Booker T Washington From Slavery
1,330 words
The autobiography of Booker T. Washing titled Up
From Slavery is a rich narrative of the man's life
from slavery to one of the founders of the
Tuskegee Institute. The book takes us through one
of the most dynamic periods in this country's
history, especially African Americans. I am very
interested in the period following the Civil War
and especially in the transformation of African
Americans from slaves to freemen. Up From Slavery
provides a great deal of information on this time
period and help...
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Oedipus Rex Classic Tragic Hero
909 words
In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Oedipus is a
classic tragic hero. According to Aristotle's
definition, Oedipus is a tragic hero because he is
a king whose life falls apart when he finds out
his life story. There are a number of
characteristics described by Aristotle that
identify a tragic hero. For example, a tragic hero
must cause his own downfall; his fate is not
deserved, and his punishment exceeds the crime; he
also must be of noble stature and have greatness.
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Nuclear Weapon States Weapons Of Mass Destruction
1,304 words
One of my first memories is a beautiful warm
summer night, sitting in the garden with my
grandfather, looking up to the stars. Then my
grandfather started to talk about two powerful men
in the world, who have all the capability just by
pushing two buttons to destroy the entire planet.
The bombs would come with great light and
unbearable heat and there would be nowhere to
hide. Everybody and everything would be destroyed.
I remember the shock I felt, I could not
understand why would somebody want...
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Marry A Man Logan Killicks
798 words
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Have
Hurston a former slave named Nanny's ideal
marriage is if the relationship provides both
protection and security. Although people always
have their own perspectives and standpoints of
problems that are different from others, Nanny's
own view of marriage is influenced by slavery and
her ill-fated life experience. As a former slave,
Nanny's idea of marriage is influenced by her
social status. Back to the years of slavery,
African-American couldn't get t...
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