John Taylor Gatto

5.0 Leadership style 5.1 Leadership style Leadership style was identified by Kurt Lewin, who was renowned social scientist in 1939 (Encyclopedia of Management, 6th edition, p.459). Leaders need to adjust their leadership style to fit for the certain groups or environmental settings. Based on his research, he found that leadership style can be classified into three categories, which is authoritarian leadership style, democratic leadership style and laissez-faire leadership style. Authoritarian…

Gothic romance in literature combine elements of horror, death, and gloom, but also incorporate components of love, nature, and individuality; these aspects all play an important role in turning a fictional work of literature into a gothic romance. Nature specifically plays a significant role in gothic romance because it temporarily takes death or horror away from the story and greatly changes a character’s mood or emotion. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, nature significantly changes both Victor…

INTRODUCTION- ‘Mirror’ is a lyrical confessional poem written by Sylvia Plath a year prior to her death. She had written in the year 1961 but it was first published in 1971 by a London firm named Faber and Faber, eight years after her death. It was published as a part of a collection entitled ‘Crossing the Water’. It expresses the feelings of Sylvia Plath by an animated and personified mirror. GENRE- The genre of confessional poetry came into being in the mid-twentieth century with the entry of…

Throughout time individuals have rebelled against corrupt policies within society in order to obtain their independence as well as their rights as an individual. The transcendental movement, which was a philosophical and social movement of the early nineteenth century that promoted intuitive and spiritual thinking instead of scientific thinking based on pure reason. Many poets during this era such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman significantly altered American…

simultaneously promotes the success of the industrialists. While Taylor, too, sees the fine division between the laborer and the employer, Taylor’s perspective derives the problem from the “soldiering” of the laborers, which he then explains is responsible for Marx’s theory because “soldiering involves a deliberate attempt to mislead and deceive his employer, and thus...the employer is soon looked upon as an antagonist, if not an enemy (Taylor, 23). Taylor’s accusation toward the worker’s…

disadvantages. People are participating in this economy for several different reasons, whether it benefit themselves, such as the workers and gang members who sell drugs to make a living, Pastor Wilkins, and Mrs. Bailey (building manager of the Robert Taylor homes) or to help the community such as the cops on J.T.s payroll (pg. 116), and even Mrs. Bailey to keep her building clean and residents content, as well as keeping the Chicago Housing Authority in check (pg. 122-124). People who…

The Renaissance was an important turning point in world history. The accomplishments that arose from that era lasted for a majority of the late 16th century and for part of the early 17th century. As a matter of fact, the events of the Renaissance took place around the same time period of when the world was experiencing its own dramatic changes. Through these rapid changes in lifestyle, society began to be fascinated with anything that seemed to be unconventional and unheard of, or just seemed…

Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry follows a black family called the Logans in Mississippi during The Great Depression. The Logans have four children who are quickly becoming exposed to the racism that surrounds them. The book is from the point of view of the only girl, Cassie. Cassie is stubborn and knows what’s right, so she has trouble ignoring the constant racist acts that she is exposed to. Cassie’s grandmother, Big Ma takes her and her eldest brother Stacey into Strawberry to…

There is a place‒ a place in which my heart lightens at the memory of. This is a place where everything seems too perfect, and where I learned of a concept called acatalepsy: the idea that it is truly impossible to understand anything. This secluded sanctimonious space known as Horse Shoe Lake on a hiking trail in Red River, New Mexico, heralds a feeling of pinning and existentialism for me. In my memory, the first thing my mind and heart are drawn to is that of the tantalizing lake. This lake…

Nature in its untouched form often produces powerful memories through its harsh beauty, never ending visual changes and power of persuasion. Upon witnessing this, people become emotionally attached to its elements and natural aspects. This is evident throughout the poems “End of the Road” by Brian Turner, “Takapuna Beach” and “Under Mangere Mountain” by David Eggleton, and “Place to be” by Ben Stokes. Each author's purpose is to share their emotional attachment with readers which allows them to…