Changes In Willy Russell's Educating Rita

Comment on my choice of content and what it shows about frank and how he changes over the play

Throughout Topadhewin: The Gladys Cooks Story, Gladys talks about her residential school experience and how it changed her entire life. I previously knew a lot about the topic on the residential school system in Canada, and how it impacted many people. I realized that actually hearing someone telling their story on this issue makes it much more horrifying than the information found on the internet. From my understanding, this movie is to educate and acknowledge the survivors of residential schools. Many people make many negative stereotypes towards Indigenous peoples which is not always true. To understand Indigenous peoples of Canada you must understand the horrifying events that the government put them through and their reasons for doing it.

Toni Cade Bambara’s "The Lesson" revolves around a young black girl’s struggle to come to terms with the role that economic injustice, and the larger social injustice that it constitutes, plays in her life. Sylvia, the story’s protagonist, initially is reluctant to acknowledge that she is a victim of poverty. Far from being oblivious of the disparity between the rich and the poor, however, one might say that on some subconscious level, she is in fact aware of the inequity that permeates society and which contributes to her inexorably disadvantaged economic situation. That she relates poverty to shame—"But I feel funny, shame. But what I got to be

In Tomi Cade’s, “The Lesson”, Miss Moore is an old and Wise Woman. She reminds me of my grandmothers because she spends her time giving younger people advice. Throughout the story, Cade uses very vivid imagery and language to create an image of the inner city in the mid 90’s. Miss Moore spends most of her time trying to help Silvia and her friends become better by teaching them lessons life lessons, stressing the importance of education, and showing them new scenery.

“The History Boys” and “Educating Rita” have common themes running through the spine of each text, regarding formal education and learning for self-satisfaction. The History boys tells the story of 8 academic working and middle class boys from a grammar school in Sheffield whom are applying for Oxford and Cambridge university in the 1980’s and are studying intensely to succeed. Their teachers, Hector and Irwin have a conflicting approach to education. Irwin teaches the boys specifically how to pass their exams but contrarily Hector teaching style encourages learning for the purpose of obtaining knowledge. Bennett comments on these differing types of education via the characters of Hector and Irwin. Educating Rita, set also in the 1980’s and located in Northern England is about a woman who enters the world of formal university education as a mature student on an Open University course. She has never had a strict and authentic education as she comes from a working class background, so she wants to prove to herself that she can triumph and live a better life. Both scripts imply that formal education can be obtained, however at the compromise of individual intellectual flare and distinctiveness. Initially in the text, Rita and the group of boys both are unrefined, raw and sincere with their way of viewing and analysing scholarly stimulus. However they both lose this quality as the plays progress due to the education system moulding them to pass exams and not to obtain wisdom.

I chose to do my research on a local ceramics artist named Heather Dahl. After interviewing Heather, I have learned a lot about her past and in addition, I believe that I've learned some helpful knowledge for myself going into the future. Heather Dahl grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Yarrow when she was 14 years old. Later on in life she moved to Vancouver and now has a studio here which was funded in 2007 called dahlhaus art. Heather believes that the environment she grew up in had an impact on herself as an artist, but personal experience, aesthetic and many more aspects also play a role in her story as well. She knew that she wanted to have a career in the arts by grade 9, but in the beginning she had always thought that she would become

For a heroine who is supposed to be totally badass and the most feared shaman of all, Eugenie Markham finds herself in some incredibly hairy situations where she is powerless to save herself. What drew me to this book was not only because it was a title by Richelle Mead, but because the back cover of the story read to be incredibly enthralling, you've got a shaman with magical powers and a Glock, fairy kings, a shapeshifter, what's not to like?

Everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them. You might have seen Daisy around campus, at the tattoo shop in town or on social media, but do you actually know her story?

Going in for a Laryngitis checkup on average only takes about an hour, but not for Patricia Winegard. Not only did it take more than an hour, but it ended with her in the Emergency room.

The unraveling of Rita Goodall's entire existence was more or less a good thing. Her absolute life built upon school and grades turned out to be a complete sham, yet it wasn't until the last entangled thread laid out did she notice. By then, she already had dug her grave and was waiting for the funeral.

It seems to me that everyone knows Ida Keller. They seem to all know me from school, church, my mom or dad, my brother, or some other reason. If they are telling a story about me they and a person didn’t know me they would describe me as: blue eyes, brown hair, Caucasian, fat, and tall. How would I describe myself? Smart, loving, kindhearted, wanted, a jokester, bold, cheerful, corny, faithful, spirited, and uniquely myself.

In the 1920s, world growing really fast, a lot of people become more famous, like sports man, Beninese man, musicians, artists, and authors.

Educating Rita is the tale of one working class women 's struggle to find an escape to a boring, repetitive life and to find new things to conquer. To acheive this she begins university on a literature course despite the discouragement from family and baby-obsessed husband Denny. The play features only two characters, Rita and Frank. Frank- a middle class, well-educated, eloquent professor and Rita, an abrupt, crude excuse for a lady with no regard for or more precise, no knowing of social nouce. Throughout the play Rita 's character must reach two social extremities before she can learn to be true to herself. Arriving in Frank 's office loud and sarcastic

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.

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