Christopher Nolan is a very smart and creative director. In the hit series batman the film “The Dark Knight Rises” grabbed the audiences attention, and for good reason. In his opening seen of the movie Nolan already creates the readers to get a feel of what the theme of the movie is going to entail.…
In the documentary “Undefeated”, a team member named Chavis was given a second chance after he got in a fight with Money, another player on the team. Before this, he was given chance after chance, yet he kept getting into trouble. After the fight, he gets a suspension from football. He is allowed back on the team after the suspension is over.…
Erika Christakis, in “The War on Public Schools” (Atlantic 2017), argues that the public school system in the U.S has been denigrated. Christakis supports her arguments by telling how most of the Americans have lost faith in the public school system, demonstrating how even the secretary of education Betsy DeVos see the public school system as a dead end, explaining how articles and documentaries as “Waiting for Superman” had led to false conclusions about the teachers unions, and finally, describing how the public school achievements have been minimized. Christakis’s purpose is to inform readers about the conditions of the public education system in the U.S in order to create interest about the current system of education. Christakis uses a…
As you respond to these questions, reference the research and data you collected from your assignments and explain what you learned from the research in relation to the topics discussed in the course.…
The article Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie tell us the meaning of the reading. Explain how an Indian child developed his reading skills at young age. The article says "My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well" (1). We can infer that he wanted to be as his father. They were fan of reading.…
learns the struggles America has to find good teachers who are willing to motivate students and give them the push and motivation that they need to excel and succeed in primary school.…
“Waiting for Superman” isn’t about a hero coming to the rescue and saving everybody. Throughout this documentary, made by Davis Guggenheim, there were interviews with little kids that would soon capture your own hearts. Dropout factories cover the whole entire country, but are Charter Schools the way to go? Public Education is incapable of meeting the challenge to educate everybody.…
From the movie, Waiting for Superman, it doesn’t mean they are waiting for Superman as we watch on television, but just like Geoffrey Canada said, they are waiting for someone with enough power to save them. This movie basically shows how bad is the public school in United State and even though the tuition fee is getting higher, there’s no change of academic performance from 1971 to 2008. From those statements, I can make an assumption that not only parent, but school and teacher also play role in how children will turn out. It doesn’t mean they will make a decision and they can force the children, but parent, school and teacher help children to learn more and show them the way to be a successful person.…
Have you ever wondered if you received the best education growing up? Can you recall a bad teacher that made you hate the class they were teaching? For some of us, having good teachers meant getting good marks in school. In "Waiting for Superman", Davis Guggenheim, demonstrates throughout his documentary on the importance of good teachers and schools, and how they have a tremendous impact on students and their education. We can make our students futures brighter, if schools get more involved in the education of their students. Rather than making decisions that are not in the best interest for our children's education, schools need to focus on providing better education for children. To stop so many schools from being failure factories.…
The year 1978 was an excellent year for film. Some notable movie titles that are still popular today are; the peppy musical Grease, The first Halloween movie, which has had numerous remakes and sequels the most recent having been released in 2009. Along with these classics there were two that stand out, Superman: The Movie and The Dawn of the Dead. Both these movies have survived into the twenty first century, becoming icons of the 1970's in both cultural significance and as a demonstration of the technological advances of the time.…
The documentary “waiting for Superman” deals with children with different backgrounds desperately trying with all their strength to become accepted into a charter school because the public school system is failing. The parents of the children are doing the best that they can to save them from the potential failure they could face in public schools. This reminded me of my parents, because they did all they could to get me into the charter school that I now attend, and I admit that before I did not want to enter it at all, but after I realized the chance I had and I loved it.…
3. Go through Perspectives and Resources Section (The answers to the following assessment section will be contained in the section).…
In the United States there are over 2,000 dropout factories. These are high schools with a very high number of dropouts. Making sure all students receive the best education and excel in school has been a problem for a long time. Presidents after presidents have promised change in the education system and have signed documents in hopes it would make a difference, but there has been very minimal change. In the documentary “Waiting for Superman,” David Guggenheim stresses the importance of improvement of the current education system. He presents the issue by using the three appeals, the organization of the film, and cinematic techniques. With all of this, Guggenheim was able to create a strong argument on this issue with the education system of America. After watching this film, it was very clear that there needs to be change. It will take a very long time to fix the damage that has been done, but it will not only take time, but money, research, and most importantly the motivation and willpower to make the change.…
1. How would you describe the quality of your high school's educational resources (such as teachers, counselors, assistance with course selection and college admission planning, books, facilities, size and location)?…
2.3. How do you justify educational goals and methods/pedagogies? Give reasons with a reference to what is good for an individual’s happiness and fulfillment as well as for the society to which you contribute as a…