The Girl He Left Behind

His is a man with bulky body but he thinks himself a looser. The story starts with the new admitted patients named with Randle McMurphy. McMurphy is full of life. He is smart, intelligent and believes that live is short so enjoy as more as you can. He comes in the asylum like a wind that stirs the life of all the patients there. He is rebellious, and caring at the same time. Other patients are scared. They are weak mentally. Protagonists McMurphy will not follow any rules made my nurse Ratchet. Nurse Ratchet is long time employee, all the men working, other nurses; even the doctors are into her control. She is tough and strict about the rules and regulations. McMurphy thinks as they are already in asylum, and they are going through a lot already they should not suffer anymore. They should try to find the way to stay happy, they play cards, gamble, play basketball, and even with permission he invites his friends to have party inside the ward. Bibit is another patients in that asylum, He stammers and he once tired to kill him after getting denial from the girl he loved. He is very scared of his mother but wanted to be truly loved by someone. McMurphy invited his girl friends to the ward party. When seen together with girl Billy get scared with nurse Rachet warning to inform his mother he blames to Mc. Murphy. Billy feels guilty and cut…

his first day of middle school and he saw all his old friends and made some new friends. Just like all of us he was nervous to start a new chapter of his life. The first couple of weeks were really fun and mellow. He would bring allot of snacks and money to school, and he would share with everyone. If anyone in his class ever needed anything he would be there to help them. That was the person his parents had raised him to be. He had allot of friends and allot of people liked him.…

females to cope with trauma, and how human’s desire for permanence manifests in these traumatic moments. The girls in these stories symbolize peaceful, happier times as a mechanism for the men…

Nijala Sun is a teacher at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in New York City. After teaching for several years she wrote the play titled “No Child…” The play is based on Sun 's 15 years of experience as a New York City public school teacher (Gutman). In "No Child" Sun provides social commentary on the “No Child Left Behind Act”. According to the U.S. Department of Education 's the federal NCLB Act was created to help aid disadvantaged students. NCLB Act supports standards-based education…

education. Having the equal opportunity is basically the American Dream which is being fulfilled over time. To support this whole area of Public Education an Act was adopted in 2002, No Child Left Behind. (Darden, 2015) This essentially places a load of emphasis on the fact that every child should be educated. The Federal Government is shaping this whole event with the help of money, research and words of encouragement in the field of Public Education. (Darden, 2015) At the current date, people…

include norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. Philip Harris, Bruce Smith, and Joan Harris, retired educators of various school levels in Indiana, define norm-referenced tests, or, in a way, ranking tests, as tests that give students a percentile based off of others taking the same test at that time. Criterion-referenced tests score students, usually on a scale, based on how many questions they answer correctly (Harris, et al). According to Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, an Associate…

The Truth about Standardized Testing “In the course of their careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop a skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.” – Howard Gardner 1991 The NCLB (No Child Left Behind) act was implemented in the year 2001 by President Bush as a way to improve our education system in America. A way that has caused for…

She states that standardized testing resulted from the No child left behind bill enacted by congress that aimed at ensuring that all children in America would attain free elementary education. Although the author was at the forefront of advocating for this system, she is now opposed to it. The testing system according to the author has been used as a means to close down schools and judge both performance of students and teachers without taking into account other factors. Ravitch states that this…

For decades Diane Ravitch was a tremendous supporter and proponent of school reform, advocating for government and privatized educational reforms such as America 2000, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), accountability, and charter schools. The ideas of reconstructing and reorganizing the public school system seemed like it was too good to be true; and Ravitch realized that this vision was in fact just that. Through Ravitch’s experiences, she has been exposed to the truth of the reforms that took…

in U.S., when compared the world average, are low. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, when the Programme for International Student Assessment administered a world-wide test through the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2012, the U.S. fell below average for two out of three tests. In mathematics, the OECD average was 494, and the U.S. scored 481. In science, the average was 501, and the U.S. scored 497. However, in reading, the average was 496, and…