...Twelve Angry Men This play is about twelve jurors who are to decide the verdict of a 19 year old boy who is accused of killing his father. The jurors go into a room with the foreman to talk about the case and decide on a verdict. The vote has to be unanimous either guilty or not guilty for the case to end. To start the deciding, the jurors decide to take a preliminary vote to see where they stand. After counting the ballots the vote is 11 to 1, guilty. Juror number eight is the one who votes not guilty. The reason that juror eight voted not guilty was because he was not sure that the boy was guilty and he wanted to talk about it. One of the jurors decided to take a minute for each juror to tell their side of the story and what they personally think about the case. After a lot of main points were made such as there being two of the identical knives, the woman in her apartment saying she saw the murder take place through the window of the El train, and how the old man said that he heard the boy say that he was going to kill his father and then went to his door to see the boy run down the stairs. After all of this has taken place they decide to take another vote. The verdict is still 11 to 1 in the favor of guilty. Juror eight is now going over the time periods of when the woman said she saw the murder. Juror eight is also trying to explain how the man could not have seen the boy run down the stairs because the old man would not have had enough time to get out of bed. After juror...
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... William Golding writes about this in his novel, Lord of the Flies, a story of boys stranded on an island whom establish systems of organization to survive. A boy named Ralph is selected as chief, and immediately a power struggle begins between him and another boy named Jack. As time goes by, powerful connections to the culture of the old world that they came from...
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...1B The short story ”Sports Leader” by Jane Rogers is about a sixteen-year-old boy who cannot go to college to do his Sports Leadership, because he hasn’t passed his exams. Therefore, his foster mother, Eileen, finds him a job working for a window cleaner named Phil. Part of the boy’s job is to collect the money for the window cleaning by going from door to door. In one of the houses a boy from school, Martin, lives. When Martin finds out how much the boy collects by the end of the night, he decides one evening to pass the boy up and steal the bag with the money. The following day Phil and the boy go to Martin’s house, but he denies stealing the money, and his mother defends him as well. The next day Phil is advised to let the boy go, which he ends up doing. The story ends with the boy fantasizing about becoming a Sports Leader. 2B In the short story, the reader doesn’t know the boy’s real name - he just goes by “the boy”. This could indicate that the boy is a somewhat anonymous kind of person. He is someone who no one really notices, and who no one really cares about. We don’t know why he is in foster care, but he refers to his real parents home as something that “was”, so he might have lost his parents. The boy is presented as a person with very little intellect. He is not good at math, which makes people around him impatient. He doesn’t really understand why he can’t go to college, and he is surprised that the other kids are going. The fact that he is not able to attend...
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...In life, there is always a way to be good again because no matter what happens you can always redeem yourself. This statement is especially true for the novel “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. In the novel the main character is a Pashtun boy named Amir who is the son of a wealthy father and a Hazara boy named Hassan who is the son of a poor father. Hassan and his father Ali are the servents to Hassan and his father Baba located in Afghanastan. In a land where reputation is like a gun which is aimed at you at all times Amir is constantly reminded of how poorly Hazara’s are treated throughout the novel. Amir and Hassan are no exception to the problems in Afghan society and this is seen through Amir’s treatment and jeasolousy of Hassan. Throughout the entire novel all Amir wanted was his fathers love and attenetion but he realized that he had to constantly live up to his fathers expectations in order to gain it. Amir wants to be the only person in his fathers life but instead he has to share the spotlight with Hassan as well who Amir claims is just a “Hazara boy”. Amir feels guilty in many situations because Hassan always takes the blame for Amir’s actions and always shows love and dedication to Amir even in the face of danger. One such incident where Hassan was in the face of danger and even death was right after Amir and Hassan won the kite fighting championship. Hassan being Amirs servent decides to “run the kite” which means to get the kite that was cut and return it to Amir...
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...Stand By Me “Stand by Me” is a film about the journey of four boys from Castle Rock, Oregon, USA in search of a dead body. The film is directed by Rob Reiner, based on a book called “The Body” by Stephen King. I am going so concentrate on, and describe the main character of the story, Gordie LaChance who is played by Will Wheaton. I will show you how he is coming to terms with adulthood throughout the film. I will use camera techniques to show you this. The opening of the film enters with a long shot of ripened cornfields and a car placed at the side of the road. It is clearly autumn with winter on its way this matches Gordie's mood and time of life. The lighting in these first images suggest sunset and the day being over. The music is peaceful and full of emotion. The music straight away indicates loneliness. This environment tells us that the man in the car, Gordie LaChance is feeling lonely and sad. The emotions on his face and his body language tell us this also. A close up of a paper, which he is clutching in his hand, is the reason for this. The headline on the paper reads, “ Attorney Chris Chambers fatally stabbed in restaurant.” Chris was Gordie’s best friend when he was twelve years old. The directors have two boys cycle past the Landover and off into the distance in a point of view shot. This camera technique is excellent as it shows us boys cycling into the distance takes us to the past, as the structure of the film is a flashback. There is a zoom in from a medium...
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...United Way and the Boy Scout of America 1. The circumstances involving the Boy Scouts of America situation affects everyone that is a part of them and the United Way program. Larry Norvell is the local head of the United Way of Columbia-Willamette and he represents the larger company. He has to make decisions that affect all of United Way and the Boy Scouts of America. He operates a business and needs to handle this situation as a business decision and focus on the bottom line. Sometimes as a business owner you have to look at the pros and cons in any situation. Also, there will be a sacrifice made on either decision he makes. He consulted many people, but ultimately he has to decide what’s best for his organization. United Way is an organization made up of volunteers, contributors, and local charities to help people in their own communities. Larry Norvell is part of an organization that creates a work experience that is fair for all employees. The bottom line is looking beyond the immediate situation and the consequences that his decision will make on everyone. If Larry agrees with the BSA, then United Way will lose contributions from companies. If Larry disagrees with the BSA, then Boy Scouts of America will lose funding. Larry has to make a stance, if he doesn’t then this situation will come back and affect his organization. Society is changing; Larry needs to change policies in order to overcome this bad situation that has arisen. Discrimination has been a...
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...different situations they are in or put in. People’s behavior is shaped by interactions with the environment. In Lord Of Flies the boys realize they need to come together to survive on the island and also to find a way to be rescued. Ralph becomes the leader and decides he’ll be the one to keep the boys on the right track about being rescued. He just wants the boys to take the situation they are in serious. Ralph shows nurture because he still realizes just because they are no adults they must be rules and must be followed. He’s looking at it as what is they was adults around, him and the other boys would have to listen and he...
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...the paper you will read how the journey that the group goes on further develops each member as well as the group as a whole. Particularly you will see how the plot, other groups, and each significant moment along the way further develop the group and each member. As the story goes on you will read about the different stages that the group will undergo and how the group shifts its motives. The paper will contain an analysis of each group member so that the reader has enough information to understand the rest of the paper. “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve” The movie begins with an older man who narrarates the movie, we soon find out that this is Gordie telling his story about the time him and his best friends went to see a dead body. The movie is about four young boys who are growing up in a small town who have little chance of being real successful. The boys go off on an adventure to see a dead body in hopes to become famous. Throughout the paper I will be giving background information on each character and describe how that information develops their group, describing the type of group they are, and describing the development of the group throughout the movie based on external factors. Right away, however, I will give you a summary of the movie. In the beginning in the movie we are introduced to the group when they are playing cards in a tree house. There are four boys in this group: Gordie, Chris, Vern, and Teddy. These boys are a social...
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...juveniles growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the 1960’s. Lorenzo Carcatarra claims it is a true story, but New York denies anything and everything. The four boys are good friends with their Catholic priest named Father Bobby, who is played by Robert DeNeiro. Father Bobby is a good priest who likes to have fun and play basketball, smoke, and drink, but he really cares about the boys. One time one of the boys was hit by his mother’s boyfriend and he had a talk with him and basically told him if you hit the by again ill kill you. One day the boys are hanging out on a rooftop and they decide to steel some hotdogs from a portable hotdog vendor, they’ve done it before so it was nothing new, but this time as the decoy boy orders a hotdog and don’t pay for it, and is chased by the hot dog vendor the three other kids start to push the cart, and as the other kid returns they move it over a subway stairway and as the vendor appears the boys cannot hold on any longer, so the cart goes down the steps and smashes a guy into the wall, h does not die but is hospitalized. The four juveniles go to court and three of them are sentenced to at least 1 year and not more than 18 months, and the other one is sentenced to at least 6 months and not more than one year. They are required to serve their term at the Wilkinson home for boys, it has 5 units and holds 780 juveniles. While serving there sentence a guard Shawn Nokes played by Kevin Bacon beats them and sexually abuses them with the help and...
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...How would you feel if you knew that one decision you make could decide someone’s fate? How would you make sure you make the right, just decision? How could you decide knowing you could end the life of an innocent victim or let a murderer go free? In the motion picture drama, 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, twelve men are given this responsibility of deciding a court case as the jury. The fate of the accused is in their hands. The twelve jurors who hold this power show their contradicting opinions and personalities early on, and are influential to the decision. In the beginning, the jury seems to have agreed that the boy is guilty, but Juror #8 stands alone in the 11 to 1 vote. He digs deeper into the evidence, bringing up points that prove possible innocence. This forces the jury to spend more time on...
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...for the most part, they are physically ready to do anything to keep their power or to gain even more power, even if it includes being violent to another human being. The littluns have no power over the biguns. The elder boys make all the decisions and also decide where and when they want to apply them. In the first place, when Simon was hurt and dragging himself to go meet the boys, Jack immediately starts beating him. The biguns and also the littluns are all chanting and following Jack considering he gives all the orders. “ The littluns screamed and blundered about, . . . one of them broke the ring of biguns in his terror. (-- removed HTML --) > “ (Golding 152)....
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...thoroughly” J.W.Evans These notes should be used as pointers to the directions that your thoughts might take. They are not meant to replace your reading of the novel, you must still do that yourself.. CHARACTERISATION Never forget that we are talking about a group of boys whose maximum age is twelve. RALPH Does he represent all that is good in people? Tall, fair-skinned, blond hair, very athletic, natural leader although not that good a leader as many of his decisions are questionable, which ones?. He is middle-class, father a naval officer. Elected leader but not forceful enough to maintain position. Eventually he loses support and is reduced to the status of an outcast who must flee for his life. Ralph is an idealist and a dreamer. He needs Piggy to think for him. He finds the Conch but Piggy tells him how to use it. At the end of the book, he is a disillusioned realist who now sees his world and its inhabitants for what they are. JACK MERRIDEW Does he represent the worst in people? He is thin, tall, with red hair, light blue eyes and freckles. Leader of the choir, he becomes the leader of the hunters. Increasingly in conflict with Ralph and more particularly, Piggy, he breaks away, forms his own tribe and splits the group. He manages to get the support to do this by offering the boys the attraction of the hunting life and then by terrorising them. In the end he is the tyrannical leader of the community. Jack is a spontaneous, unthinking person who...
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...explored through Homers father getting in multiple fights with his son. John called Homer many hurtful words for example a minis and a thief. John never wanted to go watch Homers rocket launch, he never agreed with anything that Homer wanted to do. Homer’s father wanted him to work in a coal mine not build rockets. Homer’s father is thrilled when Homer decides to go work in the coal mine after John gets hurt at work. Homer decides to quit school, quits making rockets and go into the coal mine. After John is out of the hospital and is able to go back to work, Homers mother want him to go back to school. Homer tells him mom that he’s not going back to school and John agrees with Homer. Although John is thrilled that Homer quit building rockets, the family is finally happy and everything is good, Homer decides to go back to school to build rockets and win what his goal was the entire movie, The Science Fair. Homer and his friends win the Science Fair and get to go onto the National Science Fair but the only problem is, only one person can go. Homer’s friends choose him. John is not to proud of his son and he tells his son, “if you don’t want to be here, go, just go” Homer replies with “fine I’ll go...
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...Boys Will Be Boys Scenario Scenario/Summary This scenario takes place at a college campus among a group of student employees. We take a look at the interaction among a few employees and the proper approach to take when the behavior of some employees is deemed inappropriate by another employee. Your Assignment You are a student employee who overhears conversations among your coworkers. While on break, two of your male coworkers usually go off by themselves and smoke a cigarette. These recently hired coworkers are in their first semester and have just graduated from high school. Sometimes you overhear bits and pieces of their conversations. You are concerned that they regularly have conversations that are inappropriate for the workplace. You have overheard these coworkers making crude sexual references about other employees, telling sexist jokes, and sharing images and graphics of a sexist nature on their cell phones. You seek advice on how to handle the situation from others at your workplace. Activity KEY PLAYERS Back to Top You need to decide if you want to file a formal complaint. If you do, the matter will be investigated. If what you say can be substantiated then the young men will be reprimanded. That usually results in their employment being terminated and their student loans/financial aid may be in put in jeopardy. Shirley Wright Manager of Student Employees I don’t care what your boss says; this is inappropriate behavior for the workplace, even if they...
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...Wes Moore delivers two tales of kids who have roamed the streets of Baltimore and where they are now. In The Other Wes Moore, two boys by the name of Wes are faced with tough decisions at a very young age. The boys are challenged by drugs, teen pregnancy, violence, and economic issues throughout the story. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explores the idea of decisions to develop the theme that the decisions one makes each day can benefit or interfere with one's future plans. The other Wes becomes a part of the drug dealing business very early in life. Wes realizes that the drug business is an easy way to make a significant amount of money, and therefore feels as though it is the only option in order to become the person Wes desires to be. Wes continues with the drug business from this point on. Wes's respect for people such as Tony, Wes's older half-brother, and admiration of these persons' lifestyles is a big motivator to seek out wealth. One day,...
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