Blackboard Jungle

“Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear, but finding a way through it.” Mongoose are animals who are trained from birth to kill and eat snakes. If mongoose eat a lot of food, it makes them slower. When mongoose become angry, their eyes turn blood red. To kill snakes, mongoose must be able to bite them directly on the back of the head. The story and the movie, Rikki-tikki-tavi has much to compare and contrast. There are many similarities and differences in the…

If you placed a child in the jungle all alone, what would become of him? Would the child be consumed, or would the animals raise him as one of their own? Jon Favreau showed that in the movie The Jungle Book. This movie is about Mowgli’s experience in the jungle after his parents had died while protecting him from a tiger. Abandoned by his father, Mowgli had been raised wolves and had become one himself, but was not completely accepted by the animals inhabiting the jungle. Shere Khan, the tiger…

In the late 1940’s, a new genre of music was starting to take shape. Music artists were starting to combine different elements of country, western, and rhythm and blues (R&B) to create what would eventually evolve into rock and roll. Of these earliest artists, Bill Haley and His Comets would rise to popularity and become known as (if not, one of) the Father(s) of rock and roll. Haley was not the creator of rock and roll, but he was the one that changed rock and roll from a “ ‘virtually an…

The white tiger is an extremely rare animal. In terms of totem’s meaning the white tiger is a significant animal. It is a mystical and spiritual creature with its rare appearance caused by its white fur. “The Chinese divided the celestial sphere into four quarters” (Green 39). The Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise ruled the South and North, the White Tiger ruled the West that “corresponds to autumn and snowy mountains” (Chia 144) and the Azure Dragon ruled the East. All totems symbolize…

he showed up in Cry, the Beloved Country, a dramatization set in South Africa amid the season of politically-sanctioned racial segregation. Thrown primarily in supporting parts, Poitier had a profession leap forward with the well known film Blackboard Jungle (1955), in which he depicted an understudy at an inward city school. His prosperity as an on-screen character achieved new statures when he scored his first Academy Award selection, for the 1958 wrongdoing show The Defiant Ones, with Tony…

Parents however, were weary about this new style of music. For them, it drew too heavily from the influence of blues music, a style created by Afircan-Americans expressing their struggles as a minority in America. Viewing blacks as less than whites was nearly the social norm of the 1950’s, where segregation was in abundance and parents didn’t want the “colored music” seeping into their homes. Record companies however, saw the interest and potential in this blues/pop hybrid and set out to sell.…

about a Presley concert, "A girlfriend and I skipped a class at university and that was a no-no in my house." This was the influence Presley had which parents were against. Teenagers watched movies in the theatres. Some popular movies were "Asphalt Jungle" and "All About Eve" which both had Marilyn Monroe in them. Monroe was a popular actress in the 50 's. In 1953 she was launched as a sex superstar symbol and caused teens to think it was okay to watch these movies, which then caused them to…

I applied to the counseling program and got accepted. I had the attitude that I am going to start and if it is something I find too difficult, I will stop. After all, getting a Master’s degree was something on my bucket list that I had pulled out. I was retired and didn’t need a degree for a career. When I started in the program, spring semester in 2013 I didn’t know exactly what to expect. As a senior citizen, I knew that I would have to compete with students my children age and younger. I…

flashbacks range from freshman to senior year. The author speaks of his freshman year, “My freshman year came and went, as freshman years tend to do, like a nightmare whose chief horror was endless, brain-rotting boredom rather than the expected Blackboard Jungle scenes in which brutal, leather-jacketed seniors would smash me against my locker and terrorize me”(Thomas 12). The author also wrote, “But I couldn’t finish. He had to pick up the Zapruder diploma, the last one on the table”(Thomas…

My definition of a discourse community is basically any group of people who share similar interests and knowledge about a topic, have some common background or experiences, and share some way of communicating with each other. The student body here at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is my discourse community. I am a part of this group because I know how difficult it can be the first few days of college to navigate around campus and find the simple things like where to find the library,…