Educating Rita Educating Rita tells a story of a 26-year-old married hairdresser‚ Rita‚ who decided to get education by taking a course in English literature from the Open University. Through the development of the relationship between Rita and her alcoholic and cynical tutor‚ Frank‚ this story brings up many concepts in adult development and education. After watching the movie‚ I have a further understanding of the concepts of changes‚ motivation to learn‚ freedom‚ and stability. Rita is a woman
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Topic:Joe Louis I. Introduction A.Background - Joe Louis Barrow‚ the seventh child of Monroe and Lily Barrow‚ was born May 13‚ 1914 in a cabin in the cotton fields of Lexington‚ Alabama. While Joe was still a young boy‚ his father suffered a mental breakdown and later died.His mother later married Pat Brooks‚ a widower with many children of his own‚ and the combined family moved to Detroit when Joe was ten. B.Thesis Statement- Joe Louis was a professional boxer during the great
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The problem that I currently encounter is that I lost my job in a not-profit organization because‚ I was registered for 7 weeks training and I didn’t pass my license exam. During those for seven weeks I couldn’t concentrate because I was passing through a very stress situation. One the training was very intensive and I started school again the same time of the training. Two was looking for houses because my lease was going to be ending at the end of the training too‚ and school‚ the owner of the
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Joe Gargery In the novel Great Expectations there is one character that stands out from the rest and he is not a main character. The character’s name is Joe Gargery‚ a blacksmith. The most of the novel he was married to Pip’s older sister‚ Mrs. Joe Gargery. Taking care of Pip made his sister rude and unhappy ever since their parents passing. At the end of the novel‚ a man named Orlick is a part of her death and Joe soon marries again to a young woman named Biddy. Biddy and Pip have always remained
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Prompt #2: Within Rita Dove’s poem “Daystar‚” there is a mother who feels helpless to the limitations of motherhood. In the poem‚ the mother is the poet‚ who describes her experiences of being a stay at home mother. Rita feels as if she has no privacy and her responsibilities as a mother are never ending “she wanted a little room for thinking: but she saw diapers steaming on the line.” Because of this‚ Rita feels as if she is unable to progress in her life “where she was nothing‚ pure nothing‚ in
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Belonging implies change‚ and change rarely comes without consequence. The progression to belong into a now culture or place may be physical‚ emotional or mental. Rita‚ driven by feeling inadequate is the main character in Willy Russell’s play‚ Educating Rita. She achieves a successful move into her new world. However‚ she must overcome change which will come at a personal cost. Throughout the play Willy Russell depicts many themes; these include relationships‚ choice and consequence‚ social class
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Joe Salatino Joe Salatino is the president of Great Northern American (GNA)‚ a telemarketing company based out of Dallas‚ Texas which has been around over 30 years. According to Joe‚ the success of his company is due to the amount of money he pays to his employees. He believes that spending money on commissions and bonusess is a means to keep his sales force of 30 people motivated. (Hellriegel & Slocum‚ 2011) This paper will address the following topics: • How Joe could address the
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imitation of inferior people’’. How far do you think that this applies to the character of Rita in the play ‘Educating Rita’? Educating Rita is a play that uses the colloquialism of the main protagonist‚ Rita‚ to create the comedy element for the audience when she is being tutored by Frank‚ an untypical university lecturer who works in the setting of 1980’s northern England. In interpreting the characteristics of Rita‚ it can be identified that comedy is indeed an imitation of inferior people as highlighted
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Laquatha Joe English 92 Essay 1 Draft 3 Pressure can affect people in positive and negative ways. Individuals can be pressured to do better‚ to broaden their horizons‚ and to generally make more informed decisions. Positive pressure can be seen as having a support system‚ and though it may be rigorous and even sometimes seen as nagging‚ is very helpful to those who otherwise would need a nudge in the right direction. More often than not‚ pressure causes people to do things they don’t want to do
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Jimmy! he said with all his might but there was no resposne. But out of the nearness of time a light came into sight‚ anf joe walked towards it. It was Jimmy it had to be who else could have been out at this time of night. As I got closer the light came closer to me. I was not sure if it was still or weather it was moving closer. Evetually i reached it and it was old frank. I asked Him what he was doing at this time of night‚ out in the wood‚ he said that little frank had not come home and that he
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