Journal Entry: Summary Rick Dadier‚ a war veteran is hired to teach at North Manual High School. This is his first teaching assignment‚ so he can support himself and his pregnant wife. Dadier learns quickly that the school has a severe discipline problem‚ and the established teachers advise him how to deal with the students. Regardless‚ Dadier tries to discipline the class and this provokes a violent response in which Dadier is ambushed by a group of students. Dadier then goes to seek advice from
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Alienation In the book The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway‚ the three main characters deal with some form of alienation. The characters who are alienated would be Jake‚ Brett‚ and Robert and each of them are dealing with a different type. Jake would be going through powerlessness where he doesn’t have any control over his problem as well as cultural estrangement. Brett is also dealing with powerlessness but also socially isolated. Robert is battling social isolation‚ normlessness
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very informative lecture “Solo Cup Culture: Minimizing the Risks of an Alcohol-Soaked Campus Climate‚” Jake Byczkowski‚ addressed the tribulations of drinking alcohol. While many college students are under the impression that drinking excessively is considered “cool”‚ Jake Byczkowski informs Cortland students that drinking is indeed one of the most harmful things one can do to their body. Jake first addressed the crowd by asking the students at the lecture to shout out words that describe drinking
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The participant of this research study was a 3-year-old boy named Jake with a primary diagnosis of autism. Jake was enrolled at a private clinic that provided one-to-one educational services to individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. Instruction and treatment were guided by the principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA) and incorporated Skinner’s (1957) analysis of verbal behavior. The educational setting consisted of two classrooms and one activity room. Approximately nine
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the children for misbehaving. Even the language‚ she felt‚ itself was inferior to other languages such as English with a southern accent‚ or French. One of the reasons she hated Chinese was the way that her grandmother spoke it‚ like a vendor in Chinatown. “It was quick it was loud‚ it was unbeautiful. It was not like the lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South. Chinese sounded pedestrian. Public” (Wong 134). Wong also feared that one day she would be like her repugnant
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Discipline in the Classroom "You ’re nothing but a wuss. Your mama ain ’t here to help you now so why don ’t you stand and fight me like a man…. That ’s right‚ saying nothing is going to make the situation better. You gonna go cry to Mrs. Wilson about it now?" This type of harassment in the classroom distracts the students from their main objective-to learn. Disciplinary problems in the classroom interrupt the atmosphere of the classroom‚ a place where learning takes precedent above all else. A
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Jake‚ narrates this story. Throughout the novel‚ Jake is sarcastic and cynical; this makes him an unlikeable character‚ so much so that the reader has doubts he can overcome the troubles in his life. However‚ this is a key element of his character. What Hemingway did in this novel was‚ and still is‚ ingenious. Another theme that the novel portrayed was the focus on the process‚ not the outcome. Suffering from PTSD‚ Jake needed to overcome his stressful situation
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(5) Practical problem question Jake is the owner of a factory which is losing so much money that it is about to go out of business. Jake is in despair. He is a single parent who urgently needs to obtain funds for the medical treatment needed by his daughter Priya‚ who suffers from leukaemia. He decides that the only solution is to burn down the factory so as to obtain the insurance money and use it to pay for medical expenses. One Tuesday morning at 06h30‚ Jake enters the factory. The factory employees
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"Office of Capital Access About-us." Office of Capital Access About-us | SBA.gov. Small Business Administration‚ n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2012. . • "Tool: Performance Zoning." Puget Sound Regional Council. PSRC‚ n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2012. . • "Understanding Chinatown ’s Zoning." Chinatownworkinggroup.com. N.p.‚ 5 Jan. 2009. Web. 19 Dec. 2012. . • "Virtual Office." Definition. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 19 Dec. 2012. . • "Zoning Text." Nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning‚ n.d. Web. 19 Dec. 2012. .
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all struggle with finding their purpose in the world. Instead of searching far and wide for this purpose‚ they instead fill their days with repetitive drinking and travel‚ which are both empty activities without true principle. Throughout the story‚ Jake‚ the narrator and main character‚ describes the daily activities of his group of friends. Hemingway writes with description alone‚ allowing the reader to interpret the intricacies of the story. His emphasis
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