Educating Rita

thing in anyone's life it can be very overwhelming but yet it can also be very rewarding in some cases as for young Rita I believe her efforts paid off in the end. In the beginning of this story Rita was struggling with people trying to understand why a woman of twenty-six wanted to go to college instead of the traditional married with a child at her age Rita wanted so much more out of her life the what everyone else wanted her to have. She wanted an education for herself…

Educating Rita – Exploring Transitions Good morning/afternoon Mr Hope, and class. Have you ever wondered what exploring transitions means? Well It basically refers to ways individuals experience the journey into new phases of life and a new social context. The transition from one way of life or social background into another can change the person who is moving as well as those they meet along the way. This is deeply portrayed in Willy Russel’s “Educating Rita” which depicts the characters…

relationships, and overall dynamics will forever touch them. Within the family tentacles, families are unique with their own systems, structures, hierarchies, bonds, alliances, and so forth. Throughout the films, On Golden Pond, Stepmom, and Educating Rita, the families present similar and contrasting functioning amongst the family members. The Spectrum: Differentiation of Self Ultimately, Murray Bowen defines the differentiation of self as an individual’s ability to separate emotions and…

Educating Rita is a play written by Willy Russel about a 26-year-old woman called Rita. Rita was no longer happy with the way she was living her life in the working-class lifestyle so she decided to change and better herself through education. Her unconformity with the working class caused her to become an outsider but she was not able to assimilate herself with the higher classes. Rita’s education ultimately transformed her as a person and she was no longer the same woman she once was, causing…

Demographic Information For this assignment I watched Still Alice (Glatzer, 2015). This movies main character is Alice who is a linguistic professor at Columbia University. At the begging of the move she is celebrating her 50th birthday. She is married to John and has three adult children Anna, Tom, and Lydia. After having some issues with her memory Alice decides to see a neurologist who tests her cognitive abilities and does scans of her brain. After the test are performed Alice is diagnosed…

Rita Dove, An African American Poet Rita Dove is a poet who is currently 64 years old. She grew up as an outstanding student, to later become even more successful, winning several awards to her name. She was, and still is, a very passionate poet who has said inspiring things to her audiences such as, “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful”. Dove still continues to inspire and encourage those who read her poetry to this day. Starting at the beginning, Rita Dove was born on…

Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” explores a mother’s complex emotions towards her newborn child after giving birth for the first time. Although motherhood is often regarded as a joyous event that gives a woman’s life purpose and meaning, “Morning Song” instead depicts motherhood as a complicated event fraught with uncertainty and fear, but also with love and affection. Rather than expressing overwhelming love and happiness, the mother in the poem feels distant from her child and gradually learns to…

This class was one of the more challenging classes I took this term. It took me out of my element. I have mostly taken classes in the psychology department and not neuroscience. With that being said I did enjoy the class. It opened my mind up to the different aspects of psychology. I was a little behind on some of the topics we discussed in class and found myself looking up words i did not know. This helped me understand the articles better because I was not questioning what important words or…

comes to creating a proactive, diverse culture within their team. This is something I would stress to Rita as she moves forward, not only in her evaluation process, but interactions with the team as a whole. I would suggest that Rita spend time with each of her employees, work side by side with them and most importantly, listen to them, just don’t “hear” them. By spending time with her employees, Rita can learn more about them on a personal level, helping her understand what makes them “tick”…

likely not the only person who identifies with those statements, but they will list them nonetheless. Generally the “I Am” statements that a person gives are the components of their identity that they cling to most strongly. In Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, Molly anchors her identity to the fact that she is strong and capable, her own hero. Ziggy, the main character of Try by Dennis Cooper, alternately places the fact that he is…