Character education

Effective and exemplary political leaders are those who can achieve the greatest good for the general population, serve as an example to the people they represent, and resist the temptations of power. In The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon describes Cyrus as the embodiment of these traits, but Book 8 shows the Persian empire immediately disintegrating after his demise. It would seem that altruism and success as a leader are inadequate, and that Cyrus’ hopes of leaving a legacy disbanded along with…

Written Assignment 2: Challenging Student Beliefs Discussing Values I currently work with high school students and topics regarding personal values come up quite frequently. My students like to know about college, of course, but sometimes questions of politics or other related, touchy subjects arise. Generally, if students ask my opinion on something that could be considered a disagreeable topic, I will tell them how I feel. With that being said, however, I always make sure to let my students…

The Middle School Career Technology Education course incorporates character education throughout the semester. The purpose of this course is to prepare students for more specific career courses in high school. Fort Worth Independent School District’s goal is to prepare students for college, career, and community. In addition to teaching students the career skills and academia it takes to pursue their adult purpose, the district incorporated soft skills into the curriculum that many employers…

Character Education in Up Disney-Pixar is the undisputed king of the animation film industry. Each of their productions is synonymous with “Top Grossing” and commandes raving fanatics and 5 stars ratings. “Up” is no exception. As the title suggests, “Up” is a movie that with each viewing seems only to bring the enjoyment and fantastical pleasure gleaned from this movie up. One of innumerous Disney films that are regarded as instant classics, Up was created in 2009 and to the surprise of no one…

The novel The Education of Little Tree concentrates on the points that tells of a little boy’s life as a Native American. Little Tree’s parents passed away, so he moved with his grandparents in the mountains. During his stay, they informed him about his heritage. They thought if he didn’t know about the past, he wouldn’t have a future. Grandma and Grandpa said ‘If ye don’t know where ye people have been, then ye won’t know where your people are going.”(40) As he grew older he realized what was…

The Thief In Megan Turner’s The Thief, The author develops the main character, “Gen” by using indirect characterization (STEAL). In the first half of the book “The Thief”, the main character, “Gen” is shown to be a dirty and lazy person. One example of this is when Gen is sitting in a chair owned by the magus, who is another character in the book and is told to stand up, he stays there and doesn’t move due to fatigue, which makes sense, but the the magus says “Never mind. Stay there. The chair…

needed to change her life, but in the movie this is not exactly the case. One main difference seen is in the beginning of the play it is raining and everyone is huddled under a canopy as they are trying to leave a play. The play then introduces a character…

vast majority of characters that feel isolated due to their past. It is apparent that in Japanese society, during the Meiji period, that people were going through sudden changes. These changes provoked many people within this era and later in the novel, Sensei hints at his mysterious past which put him into the isolation that he is in now. When exploring feelings of isolation in Japanese society through these characters, there is a discrepancy between the isolation that these characters felt and…

expectations but produces these cultural messages of “normal” and “abnormal.” This paper examines the portrayal of disabled characters that have been riddled with stereotypes and used to elicit sympathy from other characters or the readers. This will be done by exploring disabled characters with a range of physical disabilities and cultures associated with those characters. (Albrecht, 724) The ideal of the nuclear’ family unit was widespread during the 1950’s in the United States.…

and Maggie see her is not in a very pleasant way. In fact, they are scared to tell her no when it comes to anything. From Mama’s perspective Dee seems like this rude, stuck up, spoiled child because she had the opportunity to go out and expand her education, while Mama and Maggie continued to live their lives on the farm. On the other hand, if the point of view was switched to Dee, the way the reader views her, has a possibility of changing. Throughout the story, the speaker, which is Mama, is…