...To Sir with Love “ To Sir With Love” In the film, “To Sir With Love,” various human characteristics are brought to light, of these, the idea or notion that humans are able to adapt and change their way of thinking, seems to be portrayed well throughout the movie. The movie highlights the experiences of an African teacher working in a London school. The lead actor, Mack Thackeray, struggles to win the respect and affection of his rebellious working class senior students in a run down east side London School. The film depicts the challenges seen by both the teacher and his students that ultimately result in their collaboration to change their ways of thinking about each other and establish that cordial relationship between a leader and his students. To start off, Mark Thackeray also known as “Sir” does not really want to be a teacher; he sees the job as a temporary placement that puts food on the his table and clothes on his back, while he searches for a more lucrative position within the Engineering field for which he has been trained. The film emphasis not only some of the challenges Thackeray faces as a black man in a racist environment, but some of the obstacles that he has to overcome at North Quay Secondary. While teaching at North Quay Secondary…IT is seen only at the end of the film he finally is offered a job in an Engineering company located outside of London. Having put forth all of his time and energy into getting an education, he begins teaching at North...
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...To Sir with Love To Sir with Love written by Rick Braithwaite is an interesting and adventurous novel which follows the writer himself, a fully qualified teacher in the hunt for a successful job in London. Throughout his life he has been faced with racism because of his skin colour and because of this he has no luck in finding a job. He is then accepted into a teaching job in the East of London which consists of a class of adolescents from a low-income community and is then hit with a crisis within the school that includes the students which erupts into a turning point. With this being Mr Braithwaite’s first job since the navy he was very eager and positive so start his first day there but his first encounter with the students gave him a straight perception of them. Walking through the forecourt he encounters bad language being spoken from one of the students: “Move out the bloody way”. He is shocked to hear such bad language come from the students within the school grounds. Later on that day he is again struck by shock when he enters the classroom and no one paid attention to his entrance. This gives us a sense of the children’s social background as they clearly haven’t been taught manners or even respect from their own parents. Further on in the novel, Mr Braithwaite tries his best to interact with the students but basically there not up for it. On the plus side they do listen to him but show no enthusiasm towards the work. With the tension building up between Rick...
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...Dr. Edward Ricardo Braithwaite's story, " To Sir , with love " is a story about a teacher who begins teaching at a reform school in London. The author bases the main plot of the story on his own life when he was a teacher in a rough section of London. The plot and characters are believable throughout the story, their actions show them as normal students who rebel for different reasons, much like students do in the United States today. Braithwaite kept the story believable and interesting. The students at the reform school had been kicked out of their other schools due to behavior. Most of the students were from broken homes. They either only had one parent or none at all. The narration here is rather simple and going from the point of view of the teacher, the text is rather easy to understand and feel. The text can be logically divided into a two parts. The key in the first part of the text is rather dry and unemotional. From the very beginning of the extract we see the description of the Friday morning, the “pre-recess” period. The author gives the headmaster a nickname – Old man. To describe the principal’s program our narrator uses such metaphor as “pet scheme”. From his next words we see the description of this “scheme” as a program in which “Each child would review the events of his school week in his own words, in his own way; he was free to comment, to criticise, to agree or disagree, with any person, subject or method”. From his next words can be seen a little irony...
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...Здравствуйте, Вашему вниманию представлены Ключи к упражнениям из учебника Практический курс английского языка: 3 курс, Под. ред. В.Д.Аракина. Основные и необходимые задания, такие как работа над лексикой и частично работа над текстом приведены в виде ключей, то есть в готовом для ответа виде. Преимущественно творческие задания не выполнены главным образом по причине отсутствия стандарта при их выполнении, то есть каждое творческое задание не должно быть повторено. Автор не претендует на 100% правильность выполнения задания – для этого существуют официально изданные издательством ВЛАДОС ключи к упражнениям. Автор оформил упражнения и работу над текстом в виде удобном Автору, так как Автор является студентом заочного отделения одного из крупнейших Российских ВУЗов. Все выполненные задания Автор выполнил, используя материалы учебника и словарей ABBYY Lingvo 8.0 и AlphaLex 5.0 English, и частично, при работе над текстом и лексикой, материала из документа неизвестного автора, скаченного из интернета. Данный материал в виде домашнего задания был проверен впоследствии при классной работе. В ключах к упражнениям, выполненных Автором, ЕСТЬ неисправленные немногочисленные ошибки и неточности. Автор стремился максимально точно выполнять задания и надеется, что результат не слишком отличается от уровня требований, задуманного авторами учебника. Ключи к упражнениям выполнены Svetlana Sfarzo, Bugulma, Tatarstan, Russia Unit I Text one (p.9) Three men in a boat By Jerome K.Jerome Jerome...
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...Curriculum & Scheme of Examination APPLIED MATHEMATICS - I Course Code: BTC 101 Credit Units: 04 Course Objective: The knowledge of Mathematics is necessary for a better understanding of almost all the Engineering and Science subjects. Here our intention is to make the students acquainted with the concept of basic topics from Mathematics, which they need to pursue their Engineering degree in different disciplines. Course Contents: Module I: Differential Calculus Successive differentiation, Leibnitz’s theorem (without proof), Mean value theorem, Taylor’s theorem (proof), Remainder terms, Asymptote & Curvature, Partial derivatives, Chain rule, Differentiation of Implicit functions, Exact differentials, Tangents and Normals, Maxima, Approximations, Differentiation under integral sign, Jacobians and transformations of coordinates. Module II: Integral Calculus Fundamental theorems, Reduction formulae, Properties of definite integrals, Applications to length, area, volume, surface of revolution, improper integrals, Multiple Integrals-Double integrals, Applications to areas, volumes. Module III: Ordinary Differential Equations Formation of ODEs, Definition of order, degree & solutions, ODE of first order : Method of separation of variables, homogeneous and non homogeneous equations, Exactness & integrating factors, Linear equations & Bernoulli equations, General linear ODE of nth order, Solution of homogeneous equations, Operator method, Method...
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...Дія роману відбувається в 1915-1918 рр.. на італо-австрійському фронті. Американець Фредерік Генрі - лейтенант санітарних військ італійської армії (італійської - тому що США ще не вступили у війну, а Генрі пішов добровольцем). Перед наступом у містечку на плавнях, де стоять санітарні частини, - затишшя. Офіцери проводять час хто як вміє - п'ють, грають у більярд, ходять в публічний будинок і вганяють у фарбу полкового священика, обговорюючи при ньому різні інтимні речі. У розташований по сусідству англійська госпіталь приїжджає молода медсестра Кетрін Барклі, у якої у Франції загинув наречений. Вона шкодує, що не вийшла за нього заміж раніше, не подарувала йому хоч трохи щастя. За військам проноситься слух, що треба чекати швидкого настання. Треба терміново розбити перев'язувальний пункт для поранених. Австрійські частини знаходяться близько від італійців - на іншій стороні річки. Генрі скрашує напруга очікування залицянням за Кетрін, хоча його бентежать деякі дивацтва її поведінки. Спочатку після спроби її поцілувати він отримує ляпаса, потім дівчина сама цілує його, схвильовано питаючи, чи завжди він буде добрий до неї. Генрі не виключає, що вона злегка божевільна, але дівчина дуже гарна, і зустрічатися з нею краще, ніж проводити вечори в офіцерському публічному домі. На чергове побачення Генрі приходить грунтовно п'яним і до того ж сильно спізнюється - втім, побачення не відбудеться: Кетрін не зовсім здорова. Несподівано лейтенант відчуває себе незвично самотнім, на душі...
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...In this factsheet: The Facts on Tuberculosis Causes of Tuberculosis Symptoms and Complications of Tuberculosis Diagnosing Tuberculosis Treating and Preventing Tuberculosis The Facts on Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common infections in the world. About 2 billion people are infected with TB and nearly 3 million people are killed by it each year. In Canada, there are about 1,600 new cases of TB every year. The bacterium that causes TB is called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Someone can become infected and yet not have any symptoms of the active disease - this is called inactive TB. For someone with a healthy immune system, there's only a 10% lifetime chance of the TB bacteria reactivating and causing the active symptoms of TB. If the immune system has been weakened because of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) or other illnesses, the risk of moving from an inactive infection to an active symptomatic disease increases to 10% per year. Babies, preschool children, and seniors are also at greater risk due to weaker immune systems Causes of Tuberculosis Only people who have active TB infections can spread the TB bacteria. Coughing, sneezing, even talking can release the bacteria into the surrounding air, and people breathing this air can then become infected. This is more likely to happen if you're living in close quarters with someone who has TB or if a room isn't well ventilated. Once a person is infected, the bacteria will settle in the...
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...Lecture 6 DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR Verbal Parts Outline: I. Indo-European verb-system II.. OE Verb: 1) grammatical categories: a) Person & Number; b) Mood; c) Tense; d) Aspect; e) Voice; 2) morphological classification of OE Verbs: a) strong verbs; b) weak verbs; c) preterite-present; d) irregular; III. Verb in Middle and Early New English: 1) strong verbs 2) weak verbs 3) other classes 4) development of analytical constructions 5) categories IV. Adverb. Degrees of comparison. I. Indo-European verb-system. The verb in IE is one of the oldest parts of speech. Therefore the development of the verb in any IE languages can be understood only if the old IE verb-system and its peculiarities are taken into account. The IE verb-stem had the following structure: consonant-vowel-consonant. The sounding of the vowel in the root was dependent on the conditions of the stress falling upon it. This vowel-variation, termed Ablaut, was primarily a phonetic process in IE. In Germanic languages it was widely employed as a grammatical means. The root-vowel could either change its quality (qualitative Ablaut), or its quantity/length (quantitative Ablaut). Indo-European Ablaut: possible changes of sounding Qualitative gradation: Quantitative gradation: o – fully stressed vowel (full grade) ō – prolonged...
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...Учителю, с любовью Эдвард Рикардо Брейтуэйт Гвианский дипломат Юстас Брейтуэйт родился в 1912 г. в Британской Гвиане. В военные годы он был в Вооруженных силах Великобритании. После войны темный оттенок кожи мешает получить ему заниматься научной деятельностью, что была ему близка С 1950 по 1957 работает школьным учителем. В 60-е он стал Постоянным Представителем Гвинеи в ООН. В 1959 году Брейтуэйт выиграл литературную премию Ainsfield Wolff за книгу «Учителю, с любовью», в которой он пишет о своих годах преподавания в Лондонской школе Ист-Енда. Есть другие книги, вышедшие из-под его пера, такие как «Возвращение»(1961), «Слуга за монету» (1962), «Какую соломинку выбрать?» (1965) «Нежелательные соседи» (1972). Каждое утро пятницы на уроке перед большой переменой все ученики писали «Еженедельный обзор событий». Это была одна из излюбленных программ Старичка[1]: та часть, в которой он не потерпел бы каких-либо возражений. Каждый ребенок должен был описывать события прошедшей недели в школе своими словами; он мог свободно комментировать, критиковать, соглашаться или не соглашаться с любым человеком, предметом или методом преподавания, до тех пор, пока это каким-либо образом было связанно со школой. Никто и ничто не было под запретом, включая самого директора, более того, детям не грозило никакого наказания. «Посмотрите на это с такой стороны, - говорил мистер Флориан, - Это выгодно как детям, так и учителям. Если ребёнок хочет написать о чём-то, что имеет...
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...Analysis of the text “To Sir, with love” By Eustace Braithwaite The text I’m going to comment on is entitled “To Sir, with love”, written by Eustace Braithwaite, a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination. The passage under study is an excerpt from hid well-known novel “To Sir, with love”, that is an excellent autobiographical work, as it is based on his personal experience of teaching at a school in London’s East End. First, I would like to speak about the title of the text, because very often it can give you a hint about the content of the text. In this very case the first thought that came to my mind was that in the text may be a sir that receives a letter from somebody who loves him. After the first lecture of the text, I realized I wasn’t quite right, just partially right. Speaking about the structure of the title, I can say that it is expressed in a syntagm consisting of elements from human reality (sir) and from the spiritual one (love). The title has an expressive function, for it is realized by means of intention and emotionality. Also, it has a positive emotional status. The text tells the story of a teacher who came in a school in which every Friday morning the pupils were writing a Weekly Review – the headmaster’s pet scheme. The children were free to comment and criticize anything, as long as it was somehow linked with the school. The headmaster found advantages in that...
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...Text – presentation To sir, with love The text under consideration is in titled in word command «To sir, with love»; the author of the text is E. R. Braithwaite. We have deal with only a chapter of the text. But I can notice that the genre of the full composition is novel. The functional style of the text is the fiction or belles-lettres. The text tells us about the attempts of new teacher to get through his class. The theme of the text is that the career can be such a fear in our life. The message of the text is that, in spite of the color of your skin you can be a good specialist. This story is about the young black teacher who tried to get through with his class. The story begins from the description of the school life. Each Friday pupils must write a little composition where they could comment events, occurred in school, criticized their teachers, headmaster; they could express their dissatisfaction about any subject and other. The headmaster considered it as an advantage, because in such way teachers had to know what want the pupils and they could to know each other better. Also pupils could improve their knowledge of spelling and written English. The narrator was the young teacher who tried to make friends with pupils. In the compositions pupils almost didn’t pay attention on him and teacher decided to get though with the class. He tried to be a good, successful teacher for them, he read many books, made different interesting...
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...In the dining hall, Mr. Braithwaite observes the students having dinner. It is a very organized affair, with the students seated in groups of eight. Two students are assigned to be the servers for the day, and perform their duties quickly and efficiently. When the meal is over, the students are allowed to use the hall for an informal mid-day dance session, and Mr. Braithwaite, who passes through the dancers with Miss Blanchard on his way to meet with the headmaster, is impressed with their skill and a little discomfitted with the earthy suggestiveness in their movements. Mr. Florian wastes no time in getting to the point when Mr. Braithwaite comes into his office. In answer to the headmaster's query about if he would like the job, Mr. Braithwaite responds, "I'll have a shot at it." Pleased, Mr. Florian outlines his policy for the school. He says that the majority of the students have had problems with authority in the past and might be classified as "difficult," but he believes that authority based on fear is bound to fail. Mr. Florian points out that the students, for the most part, come from an environment of poverty, and thus do not show much interest in abstract learning. The goal of the school is to establish an atmosphere of disciplined freedom in which the students will learn to speak up for themselves and become prepared to take their places in the working world. Mr. Braithwaite is at first irritated that Mr. Florian is making such a big issue of the students' difficulties...
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...Учителю, с любовью Эдвард Рикардо Брейтуэйт Гвианский дипломат Юстас Брейтуэйт родился в 1912 г. в Британской Гвиане. В военные годы он был в Вооруженных силах Великобритании. После войны темный оттенок кожи мешает получить ему заниматься научной деятельностью, что была ему близка С 1950 по 1957 работает школьным учителем. В 60-е он стал Постоянным Представителем Гвинеи в ООН. В 1959 году Брейтуэйт выиграл литературную премию Ainsfield Wolff за книгу «Учителю, с любовью», в которой он пишет о своих годах преподавания в Лондонской школе Ист-Енда. Есть другие книги, вышедшие из-под его пера, такие как «Возвращение»(1961), «Слуга за монету» (1962), «Какую соломинку выбрать?» (1965) «Нежелательные соседи» (1972). Каждое утро пятницы на уроке перед большой переменой все ученики писали «Еженедельный обзор событий». Это была одна из излюбленных программ Старичка[1]: та часть, в которой он не потерпел бы каких-либо возражений. Каждый ребенок должен был описывать события прошедшей недели в школе своими словами; он мог свободно комментировать, критиковать, соглашаться или не соглашаться с любым человеком, предметом или методом преподавания, до тех пор, пока это каким-либо образом было связанно со школой. Никто и ничто не было под запретом, включая самого директора, более того, детям не грозило никакого наказания. «Посмотрите на это с такой стороны, - говорил мистер Флориан, - Это выгодно как детям, так и учителям. Если ребёнок хочет написать о чём-то,...
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...The Chivalrous Ideal and Courtly love in Medieval England Dobrea Andrada-Cristina Anul III Engleză-Japoneză As contoured by the pages of time and history, each and every Era of our evolutionary process has offered the next one the privilege of witnessing a fascinating world, jewelled in magnificent ideals and a specific behaviour, beautiful even in its flaws. Among these, a haunting and mesmerizing Era captures the thought of literary critics – the Medieval Period. A period marked by powerful beliefs, conflict and self-knowledge, and inhabited by a spirit torn between Christianity and paganism, between virtue and sin, between light and utter darkness. An Era portraying a country trying to adapt to drastic changes brought on by the Norman Conquest of 1066, a country fighting to establish its own history in order to gain independence. A Period of knights and ladies, of valour and good faith, which gives life to some of the highest ideals mankind has ever known. It has introduced us to concepts such as chivalry and courtly love, pure expressions of spiritual essence. Of these ideals poets and authors wrote with lively passion, embroidering them in poems such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or The Wife of Bath. Although its poet remains unknown, the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight remains instilled in our minds as one of the prime examples of chivalry, Gawain representing the chivalrous ideal of the period. His story begins at New Year, in a court filled...
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...Forbidden Love In reading classic British literature a theme has come across of forbidden love and the perils it holds. Forbidden love harms those who wield it and sometimes it even harms those the love is aimed at. Forbidden love, also known as “fals amor,” is shown in pieces like “Morte Darthur” or “The Franklin’s Tale,” from “The Canterbury Tales.” The forbidden love shown in these tales is always were one person is married and the other is not. “The Franklin’s Tale,” “Morte Darthur,” and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” all reveal how forbidden love will end tragically. Each of these works has a married woman who is either loved by another or is in love with another. However, no matter the case the one with the forbidden love is aggrieved in the end because they love cannot become mutual or accepted by others. “The Franklin’s Tale” tells of a woman, Dorigen, and a knight, Arveragus, who marry for love. Arveragus must go to battle for a few years and a nobleman, Arelius, comes to light that loves Dorigen. Arelius and Dorigen make a bet where if Arelius wins Dorigen must become his bride. She agrees confidant in his ability to fail in this task. Arelius succeeds, though, with the help of a sorcerer after two years of despondency. When Arveragus arrives home he finds Dorigen distraught, upon hearing the bet he decides that she must keep her side of the bet, though it pains them both greatly. Upon hearing of Arveragus and Dorigen’s pain Arelius resends the bet. Arelius’s love for...
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