Kurt Warner

• Leadership is the process of influencing people to act and/or think in a specific way by means of providing: direction, purpose, and motivation. • I chose to define leadership in such a way for several reason. First off, the definition states that leadership is a process because it requires the leader to take action. Therefore, I believe that a laissez faire style of leadership would not constitute as leadership, because the leader is not taking action. Next, the leader takes action by…

Ralph and Jack compete from the beginning with each different individual strategies that makes each of them good leaders. The best leader would have been Ralph. Ralph was a strong but smart leader when it came to making decisions for the group. Jack was strong but was showing signs of savagery and violence. From the beginning, Ralph and Jack were together. Ralph and Piggy both had the idea to use a conch to bring the children together that had fallen from the plane and made them become separated…

In the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. society has been modified into a supposed utopia by making everyone equal. In the story everyone who is deemed “above average” is brought down to average with the use of handicaps. While these handicaps work for most, some people try to challenge the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. One of these people is Harrison Bergeron, a fourteen year old boy imprisoned for trying to take down the government. In the story Harrison breaks…

Kurt Vonnegut a German short story writer and novelist, who endured a very hard and depressing young life, uses his background as motivation for many of his novels and short stories. “Deer in the Works” one of many short stories by Kurt Vonnnegut, was published in 1950. Vonnegut after his service in World War II had a job at G.E or General Electric. This where people theorize where he got inspiration for “Deer in the Works”. The setting in this book is the industrialized plant of Illium works,…

In this passage of his novel Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut describes the Tralfamadorian approach to writing a book and cleverly expresses his disapproval towards their mindset that accepts everything as unchangeable and avoids the problem. Tralfamadorians have the ability to view all periods time simultaneously, so they see all of time as already predetermined. Consequently, they write their books with episodic storytelling to make one holistic image of life as beautiful and deep. Since…

-The author highlighted the qualities of speed/ strength, beauty, and knowledge as a few things to describe some individuals who are more advanced than others. The U.S. Handicapper General made those who had more knowledge to wear an earpiece/ head set to send off harsh sounds whenever that individual was thinking to advanced. “George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he did not get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered…

In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut details the unconventional experiences of a man in World War II and his role as an unlikely survivor after the war. The poem Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and John Kerry’s testimony before the Senate also discuss lesser-known experiences of war, describing the dissonance between firsthand experiences and other accounts. These works show how people create a narrative of noble and patriotic conflict to garner support for war efforts, forming…

books and movies have a variety of things to say about grief, trauma, and their impacts on a person's life. These topics can cause people to feel, and do, many different things as a result of their trauma. In the classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, his main character Billy Pilgrim projects his trauma into believing that he was abducted by aliens. In the short story Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway, the protagonist Krebs refuses to confront his trauma, and instead decides to run…

In 1992, when their album, Nevermind, was number one on the charts, the bands’ second album, Incesticide, was released and Cobain married Courtney love in Hawaee, amid rumors of drug use by both Cobain and Love. There baby daughter, Frances, was born in Los Angeles in that same year while Cobain was undergoing detoxification in the same hospital. Children’s Services took custody of the child immediately and court action over this went on until 1993. In May 1993, Cobain was admitted to…

In my opinion, one of my major extraordinary skill is my leadership. I have had many outlets where I have showed it as well. When I was younger, my first leadership role I would say was when I was sworn in as the president for 4-H in third grade. When I entered middle school, I would tutor and guide kids to better grades. When I entered High school, my skill blossomed even more when I took so many opportunities and ran with them. I joined Project Discovery and joined youth group where I would…