Category: English 11

Dead Poets Society

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The movie Dead Poets Society is about being a free-thinking individual, and with a central message of seizing every moment of everyday and living life to its fullest. It heavily contrasts from the poem “Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow” as the poem is of Macbeth loathing that every morrow and every tomorrow would be the same as the one before it, a mundane life that in the end, will mean nothing; however Dead Poets Society is about seizing the day to achieve a life of enjoyment and meaning to live ones life to their fullest.

The movie gives a good representation of what the time was like. I enjoyed the movie, but I don’t have a specific reason.

2 reasons why the kids in The Lord of the Flies won’t live to 20yrs old

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I see… you’re telling me that some odd number of kids, with the oldest being about 13yrs old and the youngest at about 6yrs old are surviving on an island without any medical capabilities and only one having some general knowledge? As well as that they’ve been there for months at least? Well, something unnatural is afoot, they wouldn’t have lasted that long otherwise.

1.   Complete lack of medicinal knowledge or abilities

The fact that none of them have any idea of medicine would mean that a simple scratch or wound would easily be fatal, and the book mentions that people are defecating anywhere as well as only having a water bath for cleaning themselves.

 

 

2.   Only one person has general knowledge and awareness

 

Only one of the kids has some general intellect and understanding of how things work, as well as knowledge of what is needed to be done in order to survive. However, he is for the most part ignored because he doesn’t do any manual labor, even if he’s trying to make simple, yet helpful technology

 

 

 

 

 

What it means to be human Blk C

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Humans need to communicate

Humans want to be happy.

Humans want to connect

Humans need friends/companions

Humans like to help

Humans can be empathetic

Humans need hopes and dreams

Humans sometimes strive for knowledge and improvement

Humans are scared of each other

Humans abuse power

Humans are selfish

Humans are violent

Humans are inventive and innovative

Humans are resilient and with unity, may overcome adversity

Humans are diverse

Humans can be accepting

Humans are curious

The novel The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is about an eleven year-old girl named Parvana living in a town under Taliban control. Her father would read letters for the illiterate and sell what they didn’t need for money to feed his family but, eventually he is arrested for having a foreign education, leaving no one to work for the family. Parvana was the only person whom could resemble a boy in order to work for the money that her family needed and so she willingly cut her hair and assumed the appearance of a boy. afterwards, she began performing the job her father did and read letters for the illiterate, sacrificing her own wants and wishes in order to provide for her family. This showed and taught me the lengths that people can and will go to in order to support those closest to them and showing me an example of self-sacrifice.