...Mr. Know All – Basic Understanding “Mr. Know All” by W. Somerset Maugham is a short story of simple facts, but with a deeper meaning below the surface. In fact, the story is a fantastic story about prejudice, racism and how what appears to be true, at times is just an illusion. Basic terms and concepts: Prejudice – unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group. Racism – the belief that some people are superior and others are inferior based on racial, religious or national group. Stereotype – a widely held, but fixed and oversimplified image or idea, of a particular type of person. (examples: Iranians are stingy; Moroccans have bad tempers) Setting and its significance: The story takes place after World War I on a boat traveling from San Francisco in the United States to Yokohama in Japan. The story takes place in “international waters.” This is significant for two reasons: • By taking place in international waters, and not in a given country, the writer is saying that prejudice is an international problem, and not a problem of any given place. • The writer is saying that prejudice and racism are human traits and not the traits of any given culture. • The ship becomes the symbol of the world with people who are prejudiced and even racists. Although the characters are far from their native societies, they still bring with them their racial and cultural...
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...MR. KNOW- ALL The story takes place just after the war on a liner that is on it's way from Sanfrancisko to Yokohama. From the very first lines of the story we can see that the narrator doesn't like the main hero of the story - Max Kelad that can be proved by the following quotation: When I was told the name of my companion my heart sank. It suggested closed portholes and the night air rigidly excluded. We can see that the narrator of the story likes Englishmen very much and that's way he says that he wouldn't be so unhappy about his fellow mate if his name would be Smith or Braun. By this we can understand that Maugham is a patriot - he likes only his countrymen. But the narrator makes a mistake thinking that Max Kelad is not an Englishman - indeed he is. As we get to know Mr. Max Kelad we find out that he is boastful because as soon as he met the storyteller and gave him a drink he told him that he can get everything. Max Kelad said : If you have any friends on board, you tell them you've got a pal who's got all the liquier in the world. Max Kelad is also very talkative and familiar that can be proved by the fact that he didn't say Mr. before the narrator's name. But Mr. Max Kelad didn't do it because he was impolite, but because he wanted the storyteller to fell comfortably. A question has probably come up to you why does the name of the story is Mr. Know-all?. This nick name contrived the men which were on the liner. It is because Mr. Max Kelad knew everything. He knew how...
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...her family came out to see all the damage that the tornado had brought. There were houses broken down the tornado swirled them from one side to the other side. The oak tree that Becky grew in her front yard crushed the new black Mercedes that Becky’s mom had just bought. Over 2,00 people were killed because of the tornado, many people lost their home’sthat day. Becky saw that her best friend Jessica house was really damaged and that her dog Lucky had dies and she lost her sister. She went over to confront her because Becky new exactly how Jessica was feeling. When Becky went over to Jessica to see if she was okay, Jessica’s house was really damaged and she had lost her dog Lucky and her sister Rebecca. She was devastated, I couldn’t think of what to do to make her feel better. The next day the family was planning a funeral for Rebecca, meanwhile me and Jessica were having a proper burial for Lucky. I said to her “ Im really sorry for your loss Jessica,” she said, “its okay I know that Lucky and Rebecca are both in a better place.” It’s so sad to see that one of your best friends is going through pain like this. I told her that “ I know what your going through right now” and she said, “How do you know what Im going through” I said “ I lost my brother when I was just a baby and I didn’t know him that well but I wonder sometimes what it would have been like to have him in my life.” She said, I am so sorry I didn’t know” I said, “None of my friends know you’re the only person that...
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...presents an often unheard of view of marriage. Mrs. Louise Mallard, Chopin's main character, experiences the exhilaration of freedom rather than the desolation of loneliness after she learns of her husband's death. Later, when Mrs. Mallard learns that her husband, Brently, still lives, she know that all hope of freedom is gone. The crushing disappointment kills Mrs. Mallard. Published in the late eighteen hundreds, the oppressive nature of marriage in "The Story of an Hour" may well be a reflection of, though not exclusive to, that era. Though Chopin relates Mrs. Mallard's story, she does not do so in first person. Chopin reveals the story through a narrator's voice. The narrator is not simply an observer, however. The narrator knows, for example, that Mrs. Mallard, for the most part, did not love her husband (paragraph 15). It is obvious that the narrator knows more than can be physically observed. Chopin, however, never tells the reader what Mrs. Mallard is feeling. Instead, the reader must look into Mrs. Mallard's actions and words in order to understand what Mrs. Mallard feels. Mrs. Mallard is held back in her marriage. The lines of her face "bespoke repression" (paragraph 8). When Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband's death, she knows that there will "be no powerful will bending her" (paragraph 14). There will be no husband who believes he has the "right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature" (paragraph 14). Mrs. Mallard acknowledges that her husband loved...
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...that | | |called her away--it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dickson County. But what | | |her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted | | |and half unsifted. | | |She hated to see things half done; but she had been at that when the team from town stopped to get Mr. Hale, and then | | |the sheriff came running in to say his wife wished Mrs. Hale would come too--adding, with a grin, that he guessed she | | |was getting scary and wanted another woman along. So she had dropped everything right where it was. | | |"Martha!" now came her husband's impatient voice. "Don't keep folks waiting out here in the cold." | | |She again opened the storm-door, and this time joined the three men and the one woman waiting for her in the big | | |two-seated buggy. | | |After she had the robes tucked around her she took another look at the woman who sat beside her on the back seat. She | | |had met Mrs. Peters the year before at the county fair, and the thing she remembered about her was that she didn't seem | | |like a...
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...the best idea. All in all, this book illustrates why one should not judge others before walking in their shoes through the characters of Mrs. Dubose, Mr. Raymond, and Mr. Boo Radley. Near the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout judge their impertinent, elderly neighbor, Mrs. Dubose, very harshly until they get to know her and realize that their judgment is very wrong.. The kids walk by Mrs. Dubose’s...
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...The Nature and Importance of Leadership 1. Why is leadership important in your (organization, community, team, etc.)? Mrs. Linton believes leadership is important because “young children need guidance and a good example to follow so they don’t fall to the wrong paths.” 2. Why do you think it is important for students such as myself to learn to lead? She believes that it is important for students to learn how to lead because it will open up doors for our futures. She also says “you have to become the leader that you want your children to look up to.” 3. One of the things we study is the many roles that leaders play in their organizations, communities, teams, etc. Could you give me an example of when you have been a: a. Figurehead She says, “When I got accepted to college I think I was a role model for the children and to let them know that someone just like them could get to where I am going.” Coming from our home town and seeing people go to college and be successful is a big inspiration. b. Spokesperson She had to speak before the church board many times to get things approved that the youth committee wanted to do. c. Negotiator Mrs. Linton acts as a negotiator when she has issues between children in the individual groups. She has to help them work things out and get along. d. Coach and motivator Mrs. Linton feels like a coach and motivator at her church’s annual event called the...
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...eliminate a manager to do so. Mr. Martin and Mr. Franklin are the current managers, and both are very different in their leadership role. Mr. Martin has more of a mechanistic organization while Mr. Franklin has more of an organic organization. Pacemaker, Inc. is a company that makes pacemakers. One tiny flaw in the item could endanger a customer’s life. The kind of management that this company needs is, someone who is strong and won’t let the employees slack and make mistakes. They also need to be approachable in case the employees need help. Mr. Martin seems to be the better fit for this position. Although both managers seem to do their jobs very well, the employees seem to trust Mr. Martin’s judgments more and many employees think that with Mr. Franklin as manager there is a lot more room for mistakes to be made. Mr. Martin believes in centralization he likes making all the decisions and whatever he decides is the right way, Mr. Franklin believes more in decentralization and likes to have his employees come up with their own ideas. Jon Johnson, the president of Pacemaker, Inc., did a 360 review of both Mr. Martin and Mr. Franklin. Johnson found that Mr. Martin is strict, organized, courteous, and a formal leader, and that Mr. Franklin is easy-going, helpful and informal. The 360 review also showed that the older workers favored Mr. Martin while the younger workers favored Mr. Franklin. From a consumer standpoint, more consumers would prefer Mr. Martin because he is detail...
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...conclusions about the characters that lure them into the plot so they will further enjoy the story. Mrs. Grose seems to be a simple character, but is essential to the novel; she possesses a degree of ambiguity that adds to the complexity of her character and of the novel. Mrs. Grose is a simple woman, a foil to the governess, and an insight to critical information, however each one of these defines her complex nature. Mrs. Grose’s ambiguity exposes her complex identity that is hidden by her simple nature. When...
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...encounter with Mr. Antolini. Because of this, he cherishes, and wants to protect innocence in others. This is really a reflection of his desire to be innocent himself. Allie is a paragon of innocence to Holden. I know he’s dead! Don’t you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can’t I? Just because somebody’s dead, you don’t just stop liking them, for God’s sake–especially if they were a thousand times nicer than the people you know that’re alive and all (171). Innocence is lost in adulthood. Since Allie never becomes an adult, he is for Holden the epitome of innocence, consequently, Holden’s love for him is very deep. Holden’s memories of Allie will always be of an innocent Allie. Holden says that he will not stop liking Allie just because he is dead. The other people he talks about are the adults that Holden sees around him. He does not like any of them because they are phony, and have lost their innocence. Mr. Spencer is one person in the book who definitely has lost his innocence, but Holden does not dislike him. Although Holden says he likes Mr. Spencer, he does imply that Mr. Spencer is a phony. There are other things about Mr. Spencer that Holden criticizes. “Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it” (9). Holden makes many other disparaging remarks about Mr. Spencer and the things he said during their conversation which appears early in the book. Holden seems to have two minds about Mr. Spencer: at...
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...named Anne Moody but everybody ells than her teacher Mrs. Rice and her family calls her Essie. Essie lives in Mississippi with her mom and her siblings, they live a humble life, and Essie works for an old lady named Mrs. Burke in her spare time to make a little more money. Essie hears about this fourteen year old black boy from Chicago named Emmet Till who were killed and found in the river, because he had whistled at a white woman. Essie is very scared by this situation but she is very curious too, and she wants to know a whole lot more about situation of the blacks and their rights. Characterization Essie is a very frightened but also curious young girl, she knows that there is something about the white people there is dangerous, but she actually doesn’t know what it is, and it hunts her. She knows that black and white people aren’t treated equally but she doesn’t know why they aren’t treated equally, and she wants to find out why. Essie is scared when she is at Mrs. Burke’s place, because Mrs. Burke’s confronts her with the Emmet Till accident and tells Essie her point of view, that just puts more questions in Essie’s head, and more fear of what could happen to her. After talking to Mrs. Burke about Emmet Essie says that she has experienced a new fear. Before she had only feared hunger, hell and the Devil, but all of a sudden she also fears death now. Essie’s curiousness frightens the mother, Essie wants to know why the rights isn’t equal for everybody, she asks her...
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...A lot of people think that they know someone really well, so well that they could trust them. In the short stories The Storm by McKnight Malmar and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson proves that this statement isn’t always accurate. In McKnight Malmar’s The Storm, a woman named Janet came home from a trip she had been on earlier, when she got home she was in the middle of a big storm, and noticed that her husband Ben wasn’t home. Throughout the story she noticed and experienced some pretty crazy experiences, she reacts to this scary situations in a shocking, unexpected way. In Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, all the villagers gathering in the town square for the annual lottery, as if it were just another day. During the town’s lottery names are...
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...integration, the school had changed greatly. This film portrays teachers in two ways, one way is the set in their way teacher and the other is willing to do whatever they can to make students succeed. In the beginning of the movie Mrs. Gruwell said “God by the time you’re defending a kid in a court room the battle is already lost, I think the real fighting should happen here in the class rooms.” In her statement she is foreshadowing two things, one is the real fights that happen in her class, and the other is what she does to help these students succeed. She later said “I know I have a lot to learn as a teacher but I’m a really good student….and I really want to be here!” This is a great statement by her and proves she could be an excellent teacher. Threw out the movie she did learn a lot, and applied what she learned. Mrs. Gruwell had a rough start. The kids wouldn’t respect her, they were fighting in the room, and there were gang problems brought into her class. At one point in the beginning of the movie she was talking to her husband and said “It’s not exactly like I pictured it” as she was crying. This is a true statement many first year teachers probably make. People can tell you what it’s like, but until you experience it you won’t really know the truth. Mrs. Gruwell had problems, in the beginning, with getting support to get the proper supplies for...
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...Legal Issues in Public Education Grand Canyon University EDA 555 February 25, 2015 Response to Concern of Teacher Misconduct To: Mr. Joe Black, Lead Custodian From: The Principal Date: February 24 Subject: Letter of Concern Mr. Black, Thank you for sharing with me the information about an educational professional in our building. I appreciate that you felt confident enough to bring this to my attention. The safety of the students and staff are very important to me and I will take the allegations seriously and investigate it with great detail. I have professional protocol to follow to start the investigation. I will need you to come in and make a formal statement about what you witnessed from the girls communicated to each other. Our school reputation in our community is very important to me so I would like for you to come in as soon as possible so we can get the investigation started. Thank you for your concerns. Principal PLAN OF ACTION It needs to be determined if the allegation is recent or past conduct and if it is a risk the behavior may be repeated. If it is determined that there is a chance that the allegation may be repeated than affirmative action must be taken to keep the students and staff safe, that can be done by temporarily suspending with pay or reassignment. It is important to understanding the collective bargaining and superintendent responsibility before taking these steps. There also has to be a determination if the allegation...
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...began to tell King School his almighty plan in a booming voice. “Hello King School, I know you are all startled but do not fear me. I am simply here to discuss a problem. I have noticed that not all of you are working as hard as you should and aren’t getting educated, so I have a plan to make sure that all of you are properly educated. There is a catch to this, though, as in order to do that I am going to bring the hardest test ever created to this school and if 74% of you or lower pass, then I will have to destroy this place. But keep in mind that if 75% or higher of you pass, you are all free. I will give all of you two days to prepare before I arrive again. I wish you good luck,” explained Zeus. Everyone was terrified as to them Zeus was a ball of light instead of god to them. But then Zeus decided it was time to go and began to leave before a shout was heard from the school. Zeus looked down to see the principle, Mr. Brown, yelling at him. “Who are you!” screamed Mr. Brown so Zeus can hear. Zeus thought about how to explain it before saying, “I think you should find that in a social studies textbook on the chapter of greek”. Then Zeus truly left King...
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