Incidents in a story can provoke a character’s decisions which reveal the person they truly are. In the book, The Glory Field, by Walter Dean Myers, there are several different stories on separate people from the Lewis family. Each story of the each relative’s life has a point in their time where they have to make decisions that shows what kind of person they are. In the book, there are at least 3 relatives from the Lewis family that have faced incidents in their life that give you a hint on who they are and their personalities. Even though a character is encountered with a hard decision, they have to take a risk and go with their gut.…
The book I read, “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, tells an inspiring story about two young Jewish boys who live in Brooklyn, NY amidst the end of World War II. During this difficult time, a friendly softball league between the Jewish schools is created as an effort to lift the spirits of the school children. The narrator, Reuven Malter, begins the book by telling the story of when his Orthodox Jewish team played a Hasidic Jewish team from five blocks over. This game changed Reuven’s life forever because on this day, through fate, he met his best friend Danny Saunders. Reuven and Danny, although both Jewish, have very different religious practices.…
The conflict with family and faith is big and important. Having conflict with your family can really ruin a family and break it apart. Having conflict with faith leaves you confused and lost. In two of Chaim Potok’s novels, The Chosen and The Promise we see both conflict in family and in faith In The Chosen by Chaim Potok there is a lot of conflict with family and faith.…
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Will Gluck’s Easy A, they share several similarities and differences. The Scarlet Letter is based during the 17th century when the Puritans came over from Europe seeking out religious freedom. Easy A is set out in a California setting in high school in the 21st century. When comparing the two, one major thing stuck out, a big and red letter A. Hawthorne’s…
In the portrayal of “Twelve angry Men” written by Reginald Rose, the spectator is presented to a jury made up of twelve men. The jurors are being forced to come to an agreement of whether or not a nineteen-year-old boy, who grew up in the slums, is guilty of stabbing his father in the chest with a switchblade knife. Throughout the play an onlooker can see juror nine change from being quiet and reserved into a bold speaker that is key in the outcome of the verdict. It is obvious that juror nine is quiet and reserved because he only speaks three times in the first act. Another point can be seen from the first few of his lines, where he states his wise opinions.…
1. Explain what “proctoring” means and why the UoPeople requires proctored exams: Proctoring in UoPeople means taking exams under supervision of an individual that is unbiased. The proctor's role is to make sure that the individual that is taking the exam is in fact the student that participated in the course and no one else. It is also the proctor's responsibility to make sure that the student takes the exam in a legitimate manner, without any outside help other than the material that was allowed during the specific exam. UoPeople requires proctored exam to make sure that the students are not cheating, using outsource help or even letting someone else take the exam for them. 2.…
Henry Fonda Henry Fonda is playing the role of Davis (8th juror) and is the leading actor in the movie. By profession he is an architect but appears as the first dissenter in the jury who was of the view that the accused is not guilty of the murder and there exists a reasonable doubt in the matter. Basically, he is being presented as a protagonist in the movie. Lee J. Cobb Lee J. Cobb (3rd juror) is an antagonist in the movie. He is a businessman and a distraught father opinionated and stubborn on the view that the accused is guilty of the murder.…
Annually, numerous educators express despair and frustration when attempting to prepare students to take standardized scholastic examinations. Educators are constantly pressured by school administrators to ensure their students excel when these tests are administered; however, in the African-American community, the stress, frustration and pressure felt by educators is heightened three-fold. Many educators strongly believe these standardized tests are racially biased against minority and lower income students (i.e. African-American, Hispanic).These educators are correct; numerous studies indicate that, although minorities tend to produce lower scores during standardized testing, the results of these standardized tests do not accurately depict…
In his old age he is able to maintain quiet and observant disposition throughout the play which allows him to catch minor details which others may have overlooked. His observation of the old man witness demonstrates his own experience as an old man who has never been recognised until he was called to participate in a jury. This is affirmed when he says: “I think I know him better than anyone here. This is a quiet old man…newspapers. ”(Act…
His identity changes from adolescence as he incorporates his race back into his life, not embarrassed about his white mother or black father, but proud of them. He incorporates the Lutheran face into his life that held him strong through the death of his father, brother, and other tragedies. The race and religion he lost in adolescence, but he finds them again in adulthood while keeping the independence he learned as a teenager. His experiences with race and religion middled his identity through childhood and adolescence, but that muddling only made his identity as an adult stronger as he continues to stay true to himself and comfortable in his own skin instead of worrying about what people will think of his mother. His identity as an adult as mixed race, lutheran, writer and musician, goes through challenges when he again asks Ruth about her past and she reveals her Jewish faith as a child.…
It means that I have persevered through the difficult challenges that first gen students face. We have overcome the college process without any help from our family and are very fortunate to attend college. My family has valued education and put me in the mindset to keep up my education. I am the first in my family that is given a higher education opportunity allowing me to seek better jobs in the service sector. As a first-generation student, I am able to relate less than the mass majority of students at colleges.…
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do” (Voltaire). Dunstan Ramsay from Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business life revolves around his inner guilt by impacting his decisions, actions and his relations to others. Dunstan lives his whole with the guilt of the destruction of an innocent family. Ever since he decided to be smart and dodge the snowball that was meant for the back of his head but instead hitting an innocent pregnant lady Mrs.Dempster, he was linked to that family for life from that moment. From the shock of the snowball Mrs.Dempster is forced to give an early birth to her premature son Paul.…
The justice system of America is constantly criticized for being unfair. The establishment of an unfair justice system is due to bias and bigotry. The play Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose shows the prejudices of the system as twelve different men, from different past, must concur and make a verdict on a murder case. The author indicates that the justice system is unfair through biases portrayed in the juror’s dialogue, past history, and attitude in making a verdict.…
The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison emphasizes the need for community in order for a society to evolve and move forward from a difficult history. It is impossible for the community to evolve, sustain, and survive without its members working continuously in a structured formation in which the members support each other. In the novel, the absence of support from their community poses a significant challenge for the characters to progress from the haunting memories of slavery. This absence results in the lack of self-affirmation, isolation, and makes it impossible for the characters to develop their own independent identity. The cohesion of the African American community of Cincinnati functions as a foundation for the characters to develop a true…
Besides being a gripping, triumphant story told in a unique way 12 Angry Men is in many ways a tale of a Devil’s Advocate and how his leadership allows the jury of which he is a member to open themselves to new information, perspectives, and possibilities. Juror 8 is subtly implied to be the “good guy” by his dress; the only pure white suit among a dozen modes of dress, and initial script blocking; going straight to the window, the only initial source of light in the room and almost wistfully gazing out at the sky to the point of distraction. From the outset, he is portrayed almost as an Angel’s Advocate among devils. He then proceeds to voice the only dissenting opinion and to explore it rigorously enough to allow all the other jurors to…