Andrew “Ender” Wiggin‚ a third born child in a prejudiced‚ futuristic world‚ as he is recruited to train at battle school to fight the “buggers”‚ an alien species that previously tried to wipe out the human race. Little does he know that Colonel Graff‚ the commander of battle school‚ is the puppet master of a scheme to brutally train Ender to lead the human armies to wipe out the buggers; which he unknowingly does. To avoid political repercussions and the greedy hands of his older brother‚ Peter
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teacher who believes in them to have success. Colonel Graff is one of those teacher who develops ender and is necessary for Enders success. Valentine is Enders older sister and is one of
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Graff clarifies to Ender why he is on Earth alluding to the idea that he wants him to remember what he is fighting for‚ the lives of his loved ones‚ which he knows Ender will hate him for since he used Valentine and the Earth yet again for influential purposes. While awaiting launch Ender briefly thinks that there is a chance that Graff may actually care for him‚ but he comes up with the resulting idea that nearly everything is calculation with Graff. On the voyage to Eros
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the planet‚ the planet starts to disintegrate until all that’s left is lava and burned land. That is when the simulation ends. The committee is starts to talk to each other and then Cornel Graff and Mazar Rakhem come down to Ender to thank them for winning the war. When Ender heard that‚ he was confused. Graff and Mazar say that the Ender and his team actually were controlling the ships and they actually eliminated the Formic’s. After this Ender was emotional that he destroyed a whole species. Ender
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sufficient though? Gerald Graff argues in his article‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ that if school systems would incorporate more youth culture into the lessons‚
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are fictional and discuss the dawn of time‚ and the literacy narratives are nonfiction and discuss human race‚ slavery‚ and learning how to read and write. There are also differences between the Fredrick Douglass literacy narrative and the Gerald Graff literacy narrative. The similarities between the myths and the literacy narratives are human race‚ and ethnicity. The Hopi and Potawatomi myths both mention the creation of humans of different colors such as yellow‚ red‚ white and black. “She made
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“hidden intellectualism” by Gerald Graff: In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff offers a critique of the education system for overlooking the intellectual potential of those who possess unconventional “street smarts”. We as a society assume that only the inherently weighty academic subjects grant us “true” knowledge‚ and that knowledge in subjects such as fashion‚ sports or even dating holds no intellectual tenor. The problem with this assumption‚ Graff insists‚ is that the educational
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actions would cause on his friends and family around him. Which persuaded Colonel Graff that if he couldn’t make Ender fear himself and what he could become if unhinged ‚ and transform in to peter or worse . The next method used in Enders
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they are knowledgeable about are not traditional. In his essay called “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff insists that schools and colleges are missing an opportunity to translate street smarts into academic work. Schools tend to believe that only certain topics are appropriate for an academic environment. While other topics may not be traditional‚ that does not mean they are without merit. Graff agrees‚ when he writes‚ “We assume that it’s possible to wax intellectual about Plato‚ Shakespeare‚
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Thiel Dillon F 26 October 2012 Article 92 Essay 760th ORD CO (EOD) While at his NTC rotation PFC Thiel was tasked by SFC Graff with being at the trucks at 0630 to begin the duty day. PFC Thiel along with a few others were late to the trucks. As a result everyone in the company lost the privilege of going to the shoppete to get supplies by punishment of SFC Graff. While on guard duty the night before going to the field PFC Thiel was unable to clean his weapon because he did not have a weapons
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