The Good Guy Was Harder

Clark refused and made enemies with Leona Barrett, a woman whose son was one of the 300 expelled from the high school. Many parents accused him of going against their people, and were outraged by his actions. Soon afterwards the next day, Thomas Sams one of the students Clark expelled, begs Clark to let him back into the school. In tears, Sams explains he doesn’t want to be a part of the crime gangs on the street anymore. At first Clark was skeptical, Sams was in trouble multiple of times for smoking crack, but after a dramatic lecture about the harm crack can do to a person he allows Sams back into the school. Under Clark’s heavy hand the school begins to undergo a transformation, the school walls were repainted and behavior of the students at the school were better. Only problem is when Clark made the students take a practice minimum basic skills exam, only 33% passed, the school needed 75% of their students to pass the test to not have the school be put in receivership.

There was a dance at the highschool and Scott decided to go with Lee. When Mouth decided that he wanted to go to the dance he figured that he would have to have a date. So he started to ask girls and they sadly had all declined him. He asked out every single girl in the grade. He kept track just to make sure that he asked everyone. After all of the girls that he has asked none of them said yes. “Mouth was there, too. He got turned down by at least seven girls in the brief time I was watching. I had to give him credit for being resilient. Nothing seemed to bother him. If I asked a girl to dance and she said no, I’d want to crawl into a hole and die”(Lubar 184). The day after the dance had occured Mouth went over to Scott’s house so he would return Scott’s money that he had given to him. “But he didn't ask to come in. “Here,” he said, holding out a couple of dollars. I figured he would spend another fifteen minutes describing the whole event, but he just said “Thanks” and left”(Lubar 195). Scott did not think anything of it. Scott’s thoughts was just that he was going to give him his money and he did not think about all that much the way he was acting. Scott, if anything, was thankful that Mouth came here and left with no complications. Mouth changed the most because if Mouth had have given that money back, and was

Flannery O’Connor shows her readers a realistic look at their own mortality in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The story is about a family of five, a father, mother, grandmother, and two children, starting out on a vacation to Florida from Georgia. The family, on their way to a routine vacation, takes a detour that will change their lives forever. Through the use of literary elements like symbolism and characterization, O’Connor creates a theme of good vs. evil, which can be felt throughout the story by tapping into the audience’s emotions.

This didn't make the female student very happy because she was trying to get more involved in the class but the teacher wasn't allowing her too. She was the type of student that would just sit back and listen and not participate in any class activities. She realized that she wasn't getting anything out of the class and she wasn't learning very much, so she decided that she would try and get more involved so that she would actually start learning something in the class. This wasn't the only time that she tried to get involved in the class and was turned aside for a male student.

Would you be brave enough to stand up to your teacher and could get hurt (emotionally and/or physically) Cassie stood up to the teacher for little man so he would not get in trouble Little man, a boy who was in class and reading a book then found something went up to the teacher and asked for a new one because of all the racism in it so he was getting in trouble then out of the blue cassie (his older sister) stood up and told the teacher that they did not get why and she got in trouble cause of it.

Philip went to MIss Narwin to ask her for some extra work so he could be on the track team. When he got there and asked her she told him that he isn't in her class anymore. Then Philip asked again if he could get some extra work. She said get out of my room! He did. He went and talked to his coach and told him that MIss Narwin wouldn't give him any extra work. He explained to him that he really did something to MIss Narwin that wasnt nice. Miss Narwin goes to the principal and he tells her that she can now take the course that she wanted to take. She doesn't want to take the course. (Pages

Good people do bad things. Doing a bad thing does not make someone a monster. For example, if a young boy was raised in the ghetto where he and his family never had enough to eat he might have to steal to get for his family. Even though he has done something illegal and immoral that does not make him a bad person. He was just doing what he had to do to get his family food to eat. Even if he kills someone in the process of sealing the food it does not make him a monster. This kid just made a bad choice in an awful situation but he made the choice for the right reason, to feed his family. Victor Frankenstein’s creation, the “monster”, was not all bad. The made some bad choices because of how he was created and how he was treated by Victor after he was created.

R/s two students reported to a teacher that James’s father, Ronnie is back in town and he physically abused James on yesterday. R/s the students were upset because James is not at school today and stated that Ronnie is very scary. R/s Ronnie made a comment to the student that she should tase James’s dog. R/s James told his dad that he would hurt him if he tase his dog. R/s Ronnie started hitting James and then got on top on him was hitting him some more. R/s James got mad and started to cry, so Ronnie dragged James back outside from inside of the home and kept beating him. R/s later Ronnie put James in a choke hold until he

The problem with the students who chose the better school is that they do not realize is they will be among other students who were valedictorians and 4.0 scholars, immediately making her a little fish in this big sea. By choosing this, Caroline becomes an average student, which was a completely new concept for her. In the end, the decision she made ended up causing her to drop her intended major

When the door reopens the coach, principal, and what looks like a high school student enters the room. The principal says, “This is Selmy and she’s a new student and I expect all of you to show her how good of a school we have.” After that the principal leaves, coach shows the new girl where she’ll be sitting, and what she’ll need for this class. Now to myself I think: “She don’t needa waste her money cuz we dont do nothing in here anyway.” As the class comes to an end I notice that the girl never said anything to anyone and she never made eye-contact, she just looked down at her desk the entire time. It was time for us to change classes, so I tapped her on her shoulder and said, “We have math

In the chapter trouble of Drums Girls and dangerous Pie, steven gets call down to the guidance counselor to talk about what's going on. As he go the the grievance counselor, she ask steven what was going on but he didn't tell, she started to give the silent treatment and just stare. Soon mrs. and steve went to meet with the other major subject teachers while everyone was in gym. Mr. came in and he said if there is no improvement then steven will get kicked out of the city- . soon steven told and the teachers were quite for a little while but then became to get packet of homework steven can do to improve his grades. As steven was leaving mrs. palma told him that a girls was worried about him and told her what was going on. First stevn thought

English’s classroom was right beside the stairs and she was extremely strict in every way, but especially about being quiet as we traveled the stairways and hallways of the school building. My friends and I were about halfway up the stairs when two boys burst through the top doors and pounded down the stairs as they talked loudly to each other. We stopped, our mouths gaped open, watching them descend the stairs and exit the bottom doors to the outside. Just at that moment Mrs. English entered the stairwell. She was extremely upset about the noise and disruption to her class. She saw us girls making our way upstairs and pointed at us saying, “You there, into my classroom at once!”. You see, Mrs. English’s punishment for making noise in the stairwell was to sit on the floor in the back of her classroom through the entire recess period. I was devastated. My friends and I were not the guilty party. Couldn’t she we were innocent? Didn’t she know my friends and I weren’t rule-breakers? In fact, we were all 3 hall monitors and, when on duty, helped to keep the rowdier kids from being noisy and running in the halls. She didn’t even ask if we were being noisy, or if any other kids had come through the stairwell. She was just angry at being disrupted and looking for someone to blame. We were her victims, the ones made to pay for misbehavior of two boys who seemed to be oblivious to any rules or to Mrs. English consequences for

Unfortunately for Worthington, her courageous deed was harshly criticized by her supervisor as being reckless. She acknowledges the situation could have turned out worse, but she states it was her maternal instincts caused her to act in that manner. Worthington tells the supervisor she will be less reckless next time.

The short stories “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O 'Connor and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne both include characters who are greatly affected by the battle between good and evil. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” tells the story of a family 's seemingly normal car trip turning in a tragedy of blood shed after they come face to face with evil himself in the form of The Misfit, a violent killer who has escaped from prison. “Young Goodman Brown” tells us about a young man who has to face evil in himself and those close to him after he travels down an evil path while traveling through the forest. Both stories show how personal choices and chance encounters put people in the path of evil and can be life-changing and in some situations even life-ending.

Everyone has heard the saying; “nice guys always finish last,” at least once in their lifetime. Although it is commonly said, it doesn’t mean it’s correct; just because a person happens to be nice and a good moral person doesn’t mean they can’t lead a successful life. A general misconception is that it takes greed and selfishness in order to become wealthy, but that just isn’t so. It can be seen throughout society quite easily that one can be a first-class citizen without having to dive into the dark side, so easy that all one has to do is to drive through my cul-de-sac and meet my neighbors to see how wealth and a moral life are not mutually exclusive. One person that practically everyone in the world knows, has been keeping up with his