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Challenges associated with peer pressure
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In the novel The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, the salad bar prank was mean spirited and an embarrassing to the Alabaster. The salad bar prank was a prank planned by Frankie, but executed by the Basset Hounds, a secret all male society on campus. However, the Basset Hounds are under the impression their leader, Alpha, is planning the pranks, when in reality Frankie is. Before the salad bar prank, she was the mastermind behind the library lady prank, doggies in the window prank, and night of a thousand dogs prank. The salad bar prank consisted of convincing all of the students to support a healthy eating day, to raise awareness of their gross salad bar. ** The prank was mean spirited because in the process, they embarrassed an …show more content…
The salad bar prank is therefore embarrassing to the school because the principal did not have control over the culprits of the rebellion. The prank is also mean spirited because there were other respectful ways of accomplishing the same goal. The goal of this rebellion was to improve the salad bar at Alabaster. They accomplished this goal by protesting against the current salad bar, and ordering a giant assortment of vegetables in a shape of a basset hound. The principal then later presents a speech in response to the prank, “ Richmond gave a tedious speech at the next week’s Chapel meeting, explaining that there were appropriate and inappropriate ways to express a desire for change in one’s community… neither one should involve the mockery of invited guest lecturers, or the delivery of perishable foods to public spaces at inopportune times” (274). In the quote, the principal is attempting to show the students there were less disruptive tactics to accomplish their goal, and he is frowning upon their disrespectful actions. He says this because he does not want these actions to take place at Alabaster
Joseph Louis Barrow was born May 13, 1914. Being the son of a sharecropper, Joseph was brought up in a cotton-field near Lafayette, Alabama. Growing up as the eighth child in a small household, inevitably financial struggle is bound to happen. An example of this was that the kids had to sleep three to a bed. Joseph received little schooling and after his mom, Lillie Barrow, remarried (learning that her husband, Munroe Barrow, and Joseph’s father died in the Searcy state hospital for the Colored Insane) the family moved to Detroit, Michigan. Since moving to Detroit was the first major change in Joseph’s life, Joseph was unprepared for school. He was often mistaken for being dumb because of his social awkwardness as in being shy and quiet. In order to “change” this, his mother paid for violin lessons.
In the Story “The Rise of Silas Lapham,” written by William Dean Howells, Silas’s desire to conform to the standards of society is the root of his company’s downfall but the rise of his understanding and morals. The society Silas is trying to feel accepted by is very judgmental and vain and do not care about others therefore making it very tough for the Laphams to be accepted or even feel somewhat normal where they are living. Persis is a significant character in the novel because in the end she is why Silas does the things he does because she bestowed good morals in him. The last attempts to fit in with the community is the building and destruction of the house. These are all very significant events to the story leading up to Silas last decisions.
In John Updike's short story, "A & P," the main character, Sammy, is a cashier at a small grocery store. He is seen by many to be a sexist pig, describing in detail how he sees the three girls that walk in to the store. Sammy is in fact a sexist pig by what he says about them. With evidence and quotes from the story, Sammy can be determined to be a sexist pig. He describes the first girl he sees walking in the store as "a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it..." (421). Although the comment was kept to himself, in mind it is a sexist comment. Though the girl was in a bathing suit and there was no beach around, she probably wasn't trying to get the attention of young guys. She was just there to "pick up a jar of herring snacks" (423). Describing the girl's "can" (421), meaning her backside, gives Sammy some credit of being a sexist pig. Sammy slowly begins to see the other two girls follow the first. He notices not only what they're wearing, but what the little clothing that they have on covers up. "This clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light" (421). With this quote, he is describing how the bathing suit was slipping off the girl, but in a more demeaning manner. "With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and top of her head except just her..." (421). Sammy describes that he just sees the girl, a one-nighter type. He doesn't see that she's a human, but just a plaything. One other quote/thought that Sammy has while these girls (whom remain nameless throughout the story), is when the one he calls Queeny takes her money from "the hollow at the center of her nubbled pink top" (423). He begins to get excited as he uncreases the bill as "it just having come from between the two smoothest scoops of vanilla [he] had ever known there were" (424). Sammy seems to be more of a sexist pig, as the reader proceeds through the story.
The Caning of Charles Sumner involved Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner and it affected the North, South, and Washington, D.C. The Caning of Charles Sumner was the barbarous beating of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks after he denounced the South in his ardent speech called “The Crime Against Kansas”. The attack was bewildering to Northerners; Charles Sumner was a senator from Massachusetts, which fueled tension from the North. Northerners believed that Brooks should have been sent to prison after the gruesome beating Sumner received. Yet, he was only charged a fine, which furthered the North’s denouncing of the South. Similarly to the North, the beating was quite a baffling offence to Southerners. Yet, it was rightful accepted since Sumner
Howard Zinn’s main point in chapter one of A People’s History of the United States is that history is more accurate through the eyes of the oppressed. Zinn states that choosing to ignore the oppressed in history is “...more than technical, it is ideological” (Zinn 5). This is because in not paying attention to the subdued, one also chooses to ignore the majority of history. If the champion is the only one who gets to tell the story it is more often than not missing key details and glorified in favor of the oppressor. An example of this is Columbus’ descriptions of the Arawak people. He describes them as ignorant, naive, and even compares them to animals. In reality the Arawaks were a developed people with advanced laws and traditions. Also
The table because known as the Russia table because all the Russians sat at the same table every day and every year was passed to the underclassmen to take over for the next year. If any non-Russian student sat at the table they would get dirty looks and even food was thrown at them in some cases. To avoid the harassment, the other students let the Russian students have their table. However, one year a group of students decides to pull a prank and take over the Russian table. The prank got out of hand, as a group of 30 students surrounded the tables. Once the Russian students got to their usual table they were taken back and stood there in shock as the other students at their table. Eventually, the Russians students got security and the principal involved. The principal did not know had to address the situation because the dispute was over a table and no rules were technically broken. The Russian students eventually got their table back and the other students were escorted out. The Russian students reported being bullied by the other students when their tables were taken over. It was because before no one had thought about going near the Russian table. This illustrates what Jensen was talking about in this book regarding how we did to be open to diversity. The Russian students should not have taken the prank as a bully because they have done their share of harassing other students. Also, the incident was over a table, which there are no rules against where students can sit. The students who were involved in the prank were is a sense challenging the politics of the social standing at
In many cases, sin becomes guilt in a matter of seconds, though the repercussions of that sin may never end. In the short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the devil haunts one man with his startling words, and those words leave the young man unable to be himself for the rest of his life. Goodman Brown portrays as the average Puritan with an unknown want to speak with the devil. It is because of the simple walk he takes into the woods with a new companion that enlightens him of the problems in his community. The problem being that he is not the only one to travel with the companion, and that means that nothing is just as he thought. Goodman Brown proves that it is through his own sin and guilt that he is able to see the sin within his community, past and present.
amazed how when giving power and superiority to a certain set of students caused them to turn
The teacher then called the principle which resulted in the police being called. When the police got there he asked student to get up and when he didn’t get what he wanted he flipped her out the chair and dragged her across the room. Even though bad behavior is not excepted in schools there could have been different ways the situation could have been handled other than aggressive force.
Along with his his abounding number of rules, he has a classroom full of angsty teens that don't appreciate his strict persona and are fed up with all of Mr. Griffin’s rules.
He was mad at tv shows and movies that showed things not appropriate for school, that kids started doing. I totally agree with the stop of twerking and nastiness. The thing that I disagree is canceling the homecoming dance. I would say you could cancel any dance but the homecoming dance because that is one of the kids memorable times. I’m pretty sure that most of the kids would be really mad at the principal.
The short story of “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Conan Doyle relates to the BBC crime drama series Sherlock episode “A Scandal in Belgravia”. BBC crime drama was filmed based on the short story that Conan Doyle wrote. The film and the text is based on a similar concept, but contains different details of information. There are three comparisons that is easily identified such as theme, characters and setting. These differences make the text and the film different.
Everybody was in the cafeteria having a good time when all of a sudden everybody heard a scream. It was a very short and faint scream from way on the other side of the cafeteria. This was a scream somebody would give when they see a murder and give it all they have right before they were stabbed. This is of course just a metaphor, but that’s the only way I can describe this dreadful story to why Cheez-Its aren’t allowed in the cafeteria.
Ewell had to get on to 1 of the boys for continuously making racist comments. She made him settle down by making him her assistant for today’s lecture over flower dissection. It seems as though Mrs. Ewell has not really found a classroom management strategy that works for this class. The students were not out of control, but if they were a little less rowdy, more could have been accomplished. She did not put much force into making the students participate. Although this is frustrating, I think it is a good decision because some days that may not be a battle worth fighting. I admire that Mrs. Ewell took the time today to do a hands-on lab with the students. I know she can get irritated with their behavior at times, but I could definitely tell they enjoyed today’s flower dissection. It gave them a chance to relate the vocabulary words they have been using to live flowers. The only thing I would do differently with the flower dissection is make sure to mention the safety precautions necessary when dealing with the sharp
In this army-like hierarchal system, obedience is the kohai's most important value. When students enter the university, many different kinds of "senpai" wait for them: in the clubs, in the dormitories, and in the departments of the university to which they belong. April is the month when school begins, the cherry blossoms come into full bloom, and welcome parties for the new students are seen under those cherry trees in the park. Each club, dorm, and department has its own welcome party, called "a cherry blossom viewing party." Actually, these parties aim not to appreciate the beauty of nature but to make the new students drink as much alcohol as possible. At the party, the poor freshmen have to drink all the cups of beer and "sake," Japanese rice wine, given to them by their seniors. During cherry blossom viewing parties, ambulances come to parks and pick up the drunk students. They are forced to do whatever the seniors say, no matter how unreasonable or stupid it may sound.