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A Good Man is Hard to Find is an unexpectedly violent short story written by Flannery O’Connor in 1953. It is about a family who are going on vacation in Florida but The Grandmother insists that they visit Tennessee instead. On the way there it is seen that The Grandmother has hidden her cat away in the car, even though her son disapproves of the cat tagging along. As they are driving The Grandmother tells her grandchildren stories and reminisces on how good she remembers the past being. She…

Don't try it over again.”’ In fact, throughout the whole passage, right until he took his final breaths, you could immediately tell that John Oakhurst was a good man. While his slow-moving party of exiles were trapped in the snow, he could have easily left them such as Uncle Billy had to face the worst and fend for themselves alone. But instead of doing that, he stayed behind, adopting the unofficial role of leader among his comrades, knowing it was his duty to protect them to the best of his…

Standardized Tests The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has a negative effect on many students. Schools with low testing scores have to be shut down or be watch according to the policy. There should be a new guideline that will evaluate the school and the student’s. Many student’s learns at their own pace under different teaching styles. The policy cannot force the student’s to achieve higher when the student cannot reach that goal. The institution of standardized tests are leaving bad feelings…

ATTENTION GETTER: I just learned today, that our beloved cat, Mary-Joseph-Smith Leonardo the third, has died. But you should not worry, not because I’m sure you have already realized at this point your lives that cats are stupid, malignant, disgusting, hideous creatures, but because there are too many things that happen in our daily lives that cause us to worry about things we cannot control. My topic for this oratory revolves around the idea that we need to stop worrying about things we cannot…

The No Child Left Behind Act has been one of the most controversial, daily-life changing events for children and teachers all across the United States. The No Child Left Behind Act (also known as NCLB) was passed by congress with the hopes of implementing a “one for all” fit into education. The main goal was to enhance the performance in minority, poor, special education, and english-second learner students. This all went wrong, though, when things like standardized testing and the goal to make…

The exiles of both men lead them to separate from Christ. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” the Misfit cannot reconcile a world that would remove him so thoroughly and without remorse with one in which Christ’s teachings are true, and has thus removed himself from both. When speaking with the Grandmother, he says, “Jesus shown everything off balance. It was the same with him as with me except He hadn’t committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one because they had the papers on me”…

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is an update to the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965, which created a clear role for the government’s involvement in K-12 policy (Klein, 2015). In 2002, President Bush signed the act into law. The purpose of the act is to ensure schools are kept on track and making adequate progress throughout the year. It holds schools accountable for the students’ performance and requires annual testing. The act was created to help level the playing field between rich…

geography in the public education system (Gale, 2015). In the 1900’s the United States started the college entrance board exam (Gale, 2015). In 1983 the United States was called a “Nation at Risk” based on SAT scores (Gale, 2015). In 2002 The No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush (Gale, 2015). This law requires are public school students to take yearly exams (Gale, 2015). Under this law the school needs to show consistent improvement year after year (Gale,…

more importance than someone dying in her community. In the middle of a heated argument with Montag, Mildred did not know “Who was mad at whom? Mildred didn’t quite know. What were they going to do?” . Mildred is so detached from reality that it is hard for her to react to things happening right in front of her. While discussing her hobbies Mildred states that she “always like to drive fast when I feel that way. You get it up around ninety five and you feel wonderful. Sometimes I drive all night…

The characters in the story “a good man is hard to find,” by Flannery O’Connor have similar characteristics but the one characteristic that stand out the most is being morally superior. The Grandmother acts as a morally superior figure, justifying her actions by god. An example of her superiority is when the grandmother tells John Wesley to respect his native state. She states, “In my time… children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else. People did…