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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Mariah Kash Thanks for the Pain. You know some people are excited for their first day of High School. It’s a “New start”‚ a chance to grow up‚ maybe make some new friends‚ and leave all the other BS behind. That’s what I thought‚ until “she” came around. “She” ruined everything for me last year‚ and I’m not exaggerating when I mean EVERYTHING! It was only the second week of school‚ and I was in English. I was sitting there doing my work with Britney when “She” came up and started to taunt
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ESL Writing Ms. Layzo May 16‚ 2012 I am the master of my fate and the captain of my soul Beyond the night that covers me‚ Black as the Pit from pole to pole‚ I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have never regretted and I blinked. Subjected to the blows of fate‚ my head is bloody‚ but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the Horror of the shade‚ the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. No matter how
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into the past to find the noble during the evil. It is a story of utmost courage and honor. Oscar Schindler faced incredible odds when he gave himself the task of freeing the Jewish people. If he had been caught he would have been executed and I have no doubt that the Jews he was protecting would have been shot as well. To say that Oscar Schindler was anything less than a saint would be blasphemy in my opinion. I think one of the most interesting things about this story and this movie is the way
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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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faced with a range of consequences. The play Educating Rita by Willy Russell and Ian Mudie’s poem My father began as a god demonstrates that moving into the world could be from the character’s choices‚ transitions‚ social class which are shown through symbolism‚ metaphors and dialogue. Rita has been faced with many consequences with her fixated desire to seek new experiences; this is firstly shown through her name change from Susan to Rita‚ indicating the aspiration to change herself to a standard
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All My Sons The play ‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller is a very twisted play in which Miller makes our attitude towards the central character –Joe Keller- change several times. Set against the context of mid-west America in 1947‚ Arthur Millar’s ‘All My Sons’ tells the tale of Joe Keller a sixty one year old business man who supplied the army with plane parts. One lot of parts came out one day and Steve Deever‚ Joe’s business partner found out that the cylinder heads they were defaulted. Steve
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Schindlers List 1) I believe the author; Steven Spielberg‚ intended to send a message concerning the human rights all humans have‚ and attempt to further enhance our understanding of the justice system‚ and its importance. With the amount of discriminations going on in the past few hundred years‚ I believe the message was to better inform the population of today about the truth and to help them respect the value of difference and life. 2) Like I mentioned in the first question‚ I believe
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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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I read “Ode to My Socks” by Pablo Neruda and “Advice to My Son” by J. Peter Meinke. In the first reading “Ode to My Socks”‚ there is a boy who receives a gift of a pair of hand knitted wool socks from a woman named Maru Mori. He is amazed by these socks and describes them as‚ “Two socks as soft as rabbits”. As he slips his feet into these magical socks‚ “I slipped my feet into them as though into two cases knitted with threads of twilight and goat skin” He feels as if his feet are not good
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