As the novel can not exist without character, character can not exist without problems. This incontrovertible perspective leads to the analysing of every character which results in the unearthing of inevitable problems which the characters try to overcome. In Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone, characters like Ryan Oberoi, Hari Kumar, Alok Gupta, Prof. Veera and Neha Cherian play their part in order to find solution for the crises. Ryan oberoi, Hari kumar and Alok Gupta face many common academic challenges. Though their approaches to the problems seem to vary, they are combined to face with a common solution. Prof. Veera is sue generic for his genial approach among the professors who are known for their syllabus centred and teacher centred attitude. …show more content…
He along with his class mates- Ryan and Alok faces the problem of ragging at midnight in their hostel. He feels ragging as horrible. The senior students named Anurag and Baku make Hari’s life a total mess. Baku, ‘a lungi clad human toothpick’ growls, “You bloody freshers, dozing away eh? Rascals, who will give an introduction?” (p.3). Hari makes his head under pressure and seems to be obedient. Though ragging is illegal and culpable, Baku and other seniors make Hari and his friends nude. Ragging has been a burning issue for a few years. The special correspondent of The Hindu shares the negative impact of ragging and the efforts to prevent ragging in an article- Say ‘no’ to ragging of a supplement of The Hindu- Education plus on the 19th of July, 2010: The beginning of an academic year is the time to make new friends. But for many students it is also the time when the menace of ragging raises its ugly head in many institutions. Educational institutions, the government and NGOs have been working hard to make sure this bane goes away.
It is nine in the morning, Professor Chagnon informs me of the information and data we hope to collect today, the three main forms of violence that accrue in and out side of each village, “chest pounding, side slapping and club fights” (Chagnon, 118) Professor Chagnon instructs me to follow him with the camera and film equipment. The Professor stops as he watch’s two men pounding each others chests, I begin preparing my camera to talk a photo when a friend of Professor Chagnon come’s over to say hello Professor Chagnon greets his friend an introduces me, Professor Chagnon as his friends what ...
Everyone has the tendency to think or act immaturely when something does not happen the way they wanted it to. How people behave and develop in such situations can uncover hidden sides and the true inner self of their character. The changes that occur to them through conflict can depict how mature they really are. Nazneen Sadiq’s story “Shonar Arches” shows the impact on a character’s maturity as a result of the main conflict. The happy resolution of Amit’s conflict shows how through time, even a rude little boy can mature into becoming a gentleman.
However, the author also acknowledges and believes that the book can be useful to parents and academic advisers. The guide basically covers major chapters that provide useful information to general education in areas such as communication, citizenship and critical thinking. It also provides basic concepts for making better choices and explains the underlying issues that offer sense of purpose to students. In the past many students did not know the importance of classes they were doing. Today, these barriers have increasingly been broken by people through questioning their importance and contribution in general education i.e. anthropology, algebra among others. To enable value addition in making smart choices a great freedom and flexibility in taking courses and subjects is
Against the backdrop of a brand-new liberalized world, Kapur sketches out Shagun’s boredom, Raman’s hurt and the confusion of their children, Roohi and Arjun, who are batted back and forth between parents and across chapters. The two new partners in the equation, boss man Ashok and divorcee Ishita, struggle to woo their step kids while supporting
Structured, pertinent curriculum is the foundation of a good class. If students are not interested in the information presented, then the class has no value to the student but to merely satisfy a graduation requir...
Due to the effects of higher enrolment, teaching methods are now directed towards suiting the masses, thus everything has become less personal, as well as, less educationally in depth. Teaching techniques consist of multiple choice tests, rather than written answer questions which require critical analysis, as Jacobs states “So many papers to mark, relative to numbers and qualities of mentors to mark them, changed the nature of test papers. Some came to consist of “True or False?” and “Which of the following is correct?” types of questions” (Jacobs 49). While teachers also no longer engage in one on one conversations with students, but merely in a lecture hall among masses and everyone is seen as just a student number. Jacobs states a complaint from a student “who claimed they were shortchanged in education. They had expected more personal rapport with teachers” (Jacobs 47). Universities are too much focused on the cost benefit analysis, of the problem of increased enrolment, with the mind set of “quantity trumps quality” (Jacobs 49). The benefit of student education and learning is not being put first, but rather the expansion of the university to benefit financial issues. Taylor states “individualism and the expansion of instrumental reason, have often been accounted for as by-products
Students are more willing to learn if the relationships between the students and the teachers are on the same level. This type of teaching helps the students learn how to be respectful, understanding and being able to compromise outside of the college campus. It also teaches students self-motivation and time management. When teacher are extremely aggressive on their class requirement students tend to confine and hold back and do just what they were required to. Students don’t go fair and beyond what they are able to achieve. According to author, Mano Singham, in his essay “Moving Away From the Authoritarian Classroom” he states “I could not make students care about the work, be creative and original, be considerate of others, or write and speak well. All I could do was force them to do was very specific things” (450), Singham is referring to the strict and legalistic syllabus he used to provide his students. This type of authoritarian teaching is extremely difficult on students. It restrains the student’s possibilities and outcomes. When teaches share responsibilities and authorities with the students it prepares the students to be part of a community and a work
The next month after this training seminar were spent studying the comprehensive exam which consisted of the classes of Adult Learner, Research Methods, Administration of Adult and Higher Education, and Critical Literature in Adult and Higher Education. The day of the comprehensive exam arrived and even though I was a bit nervous it seemed to go very well. When I read the questions, I felt confident in my abilities. Each student only had to answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly because Adult Learner and the Critical Literature question w...
The topic of bullies is one that has concerned parents and schools for almost as long as schools have been around, but the real question is who should dispense with this serious dilemma of our children getting harassed the school or the parents? It is time for schools to step up to the bat and dispense of this serious problem of our children getting tormented in and out of class by other pupil. It is time for schools to step up to the bat and dispense of this serious problem of our children getting tormented in and out of class by other pupil. Learning institutes should be cutting the problem of bullying down from the roots instead of deserting it and letting this mess appear into the bullied child’s personal live at home. Not letting the problem develop will prevent many mishaps from occurring in the future.
The novel also talks about rules (big things) and transgression (by small things), laws and love, decisions and destructions. The novel clearly expresses that the world of decision-making is not a plain world where results tally with one’s assumptions. The result is an outcome of a number of inter-related factors and is always influenced by the meta-narrative of the society. The main characters of the novel, i.e. Ammu, Velutha, Estha, Rahel, Chacko, Margaret Kochamma, Baby Kochamma, Pappachi, Mammachi and Sophie Mol are left in the novel (a miniature of the world) to create an identity of their own by accepting or denying the big things of life. “Neither are they chosen from the common rung of the society, nor are their problems related to food, clothing and shelter.
...at previously, sometimes in the midst of a discussion, people forget that there are two sides of a story and not everyone has to agree to yours. What we learn from our books or our studies is not what is necessarily important. What we learn from our peers and our professors is what’s important. Learning is more than absorbing fact, it is acquiring understanding, and it is being passionate about the material you are given. Each piece that we have read in class, and each comment that we make impacts a person no matter how little it seems. The education systems focuses too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. However, this course felt like we were learning something instead trying to finish the curriculum. As Albert Einstein once said, “education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”.
The students who act as the bully are the ones who instigate the bullying. The henchman simply means these children are encouraging the bullying; however they do not normally start the...
A category of strategies to prevent bullying in schools is identifying the causes of bullying. One factor that may cause bullying is the students’s family life. The lack of love or approval and involvement from the parents or overly permissive parenting where there is a lack of supervision or no rules may initiate bullying as the child may feel insecure. Another factor that may cause bullying is peer pressure. Friends who are aggressive and hav...
Education institutions were eager to adapt to pedagogical approach; it was is teacher-centered. The teacher determined what will be taught, when will it be taught, how it will be taught, and if it was learned the way he/she taught the lesson. (Ozuah) As I reflect back at the time I started teaching, this is how I taught. I was the only resource that my students had. I am happy to say that I have changed. I’m not the only resource at my students’ fingertips anymore. However, I do have to teach them the correct ways to use resources via the
There are some negative phenomena start getting regular among high schools students nowadays. For example: throwing and burning books at the ends of semesters, and doing that openly in streets. Anot...