As a teacher of 30 years‚ John Gatto had a first hand experience with the cruelty of standardized testing and the curriculum derived around it. What Gatto found was that teachers and students agreed on being bored‚ but blamed one another for the boredom. Students claimed the teachers were not interested in the subject nor knew much about the subject. Teachers claimed the students to be rude and uninterested. Both sides are a products of the 12 year school program’s conditioning creating an endless
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written by Arthur Miller‚ individuals display an ugly side of human nature and are motivated by less than noble goals. Throughout the story‚ justice is often replaced by the desire for personal gain. Perhaps the three best reasons are greed‚ selfishness and betrayal. Greed is a motivating factor among many individuals in the play. At many times‚ John Proctor talks with Hale about Parris’s need to become rich‚ by gathering valuable golden candlesticks. He says‚ “He preach nothin’ but golden candlesticks
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Andrew Stanton’s science fiction animation Wall-E (2008) tells the story of a robotic creature named Wall-E‚ who‚ along with other robots had been charged with cleaning up Earth after the human’s consumerism and greed destroyed the natural balance of the planet‚ turning it into an uninhabitable mess of garbage and waste. In this dystopian future humans have abandoned earth to live on a spaceship (The Axiom). The fact that the humans have abandoned Earth is very apparent in the setting of it‚ which
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own sons who stripped him of hope. The most obvious flaw in society is greed. This is the desire to get ahead of the next guy. It is the philosophy of businesses that compromise the dreams of many men. Though sometimes this can drive a man to great things‚ sometimes it can drive a man to ruin. Willy Loman was a simple man driven to ruin by greed. However‚ this was not by his own greed‚ but by that of others. The developers’ greed took away the sun and left him with only shadows. Willy’s boss reduced
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In Beowulf‚ the dragon represents uncontrollable and sinful greed and anger. Angry that a man had stolen just one goblet from his vast treasure hoard‚ the dragon leaves his cave to burn and destroy the homes and property of innocent humans (Beowulf 2293–2325). While the dragon is obviously more powerful than the
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Claudius is driven by his own greed to commit murder. Polonius is always looking out for himself. Hamlet thinks of vengeance from the moment he finds out about Claudius killing his father. Human nature has been all of these things‚ but it has also changed through the ages. We can be cruel‚ but we can also show great compassion and kindness. Claudius kills his own brother so that he can claim the crown and the Gertrude. He gets rid of a good king to satisfy his greed. He kills his own brother‚
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THE PEARL ESSAY Summary: In The Pearl‚ Steinbeck tries to say that human nature tendency toward greed‚ deception and evil‚ which can cause something good and beautiful to become something bad and evil in both physical and mental ways. In The Pearl‚ the author‚ John Steinbeck‚ uses the pearl to express what human nature is. At the beginning of the novel‚ the pearl that Kino finds is described as large as being incandescent and as "perfect as the moon"; by the end of the novel‚ Kino looks at
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that Warner uses is greed. Greed ties into social downfall from arrogance because in “The Phoenix” the character‚ Mr. Poldero‚ who was a symbol for the negative in society. Was so consumed with greed that he did tortured the phoenix. The people didn’t want bird that was boring so that led Mr. Poldero to torture the phoenix. In throughout the story we see that he was treating the phoenix bad because it always went back to the money he got. At the end‚ him being consumed with greed killed him and everyone
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decline of family values in society today. Slide 2: Before I start I will show you the outline of my presentation. For the introduction‚ i will say in general about the decline of family values. After that I will show main points and explain the greed and other reasons which led to family values decrese. Lastly‚ I will sum up my presentation with summary‚ prediction and recommendation. Slide 3: Due to globalisation with the growth of materialism‚ people have high standard of living‚ the decline
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ many people are accused wrongly of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Whether it may be fear‚ anxiety‚ or even greed‚ these characters lie and accuse others of witchcraft. The characters: Tituba‚ Abigail‚ and Goody Putnam display each of those motives when accusing others of witchery. Characters are motivated differently to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft Tituba accuses a few women of witchery because of the fear from being executed. Her fear
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