The Sound Of Silence Summary

For the music industry, Simon and Garfunkel, musical rock artists during this time, wrote “Sound of Silence” in 1966. This song displayed sequences of guitar, bass, and drums and quickly became a pop hit due to the increased tempo, in which Simon and Garfunkel only found out about after it was recorded.

“Silence is violence” is a common phrase used by people nowadays which references people who lack initiative when it comes to speaking out against oppression. The same phrase could be applied to the ideas within Shusaku Endo’s novel, Silence. Endo was clever to name his novel Silence, because the word is a very prominent symbol within the story. In fact, it plays a crucial role to the development of the main character. Although some readers may argue that the role of silence in the book is neutral, I claim that silence plays a negative role for the characters because it is what causes protagonist Rodrigues to renounce his faith. In the story, it represents the silence of God, which induces Rodrigues to question his religion through the torture of innocent Japanese Christians.

A 2014 study showed that most (95%) Ontario parents supported some form of sexual education, and approximately 82% of the same group of parents were supportive of a sexual education curriculum starting in elementary school. While this seems like a large percent of the population, the study did state that their research group were mostly well-educated middle to upper-middle class mothers. This positivity was echoed in a Globe and Mail article, which stated a senior student, Joel Louzado, “was moved that different sexual and gender identities would be introduced to students as early as grade 3, when they are taught that some kids have gay parents.” The article continued, stating that sexuality and same-sex relationships were not previously taught in school, and that most students learned about these topics through friends or online. A 2013 article reiterated these opinions; a two-spirited social studies teacher stated that “no mention of sexuality was ever made explicitly in any social studies unit.” These articles show that there are many different types of people who agree and promote the new sexual education curriculum in Ontario, and that the progressive teachings may, in fact, teach these young children to be accepting of other’s differences. Those who support the curriculum tend to see it as a way to help children deal with modern issues in a world where men and women are sexualized at younger ages than

The novel Deafening offers a perspective of a deaf person and the way they construct meaning of their environment. The initial chapter introduces a young girl, Grania. She lost her hearing due to scarlet fever. Since Grania, was born hearing, she maintains the memory of phonological awareness. More specifically, she understands what the reader understands; the reality of the auditory world. This allows the reader entrance into Grania’ current reality.

He starts his book off by explaining the school’s yearly play which has the topic of nerds becoming manly enough to steal back their girlfriends from the popular jock, but no mention of homosexuality relationships whatsoever. Even though it is assumed that the two male nerd actors could be gay for being in a play like that but not the actors that play the popular jocks. Since there is no mention of homosexuality relationships in a school theatrical production then I was not surprised to learn that the sexual health curriculum was the same exact way. Overall, the curriculum and the administrators who talk/teach students about it puts a large emphasis on abstinence, but when they do talk about safe sex it is no between a man and a man or a girl and a girl it's always between a man and a woman. I believe the reason for this is their religion, and simply the old conservative views that the administrators have been brought up in (sex is between a man and a woman) so they tend not to think that their students are (for the most part) open to the idea of homosexual relationships, and may even know someone or be someone who is evolved with someone of the same gender.

As professionals, we are not giving the importance to our career. As described in the book from Silence to Voice: "Nurses have the opportunity to explain their work when a patient expresses gratitude for excellent nursing care." (Buresh & Gordon, 2013), but instead we said things like it was nothing, is my job, we are here for it. We do not give importance of what we do, and the public think is not important anyway. If as nurses, we do not think that what we do is important, if we do not affirm what we do, if we do not demonstrate we are professionals, who is going to do it?. Being honest I was one of this nurses saying is ok, it is my job, but going through out this class, and in only two weeks I started changing my responses to patients.

Many people have no idea that a song can be a wonderful poetry which is called lyrical poetry, but all songs are not poems. In this amazing poetry “the sound of silence”, both the authors Paul Frederic Simon and Arthur Ira Garfunkel ironically implied their frustration on the modern world and how it’s changing. In 60’s this lyrical poetry has left an indelible mark on pop culture. This poem’s lyrics has a disturbing picture of a society which work with materialism and self-absorption. The poem uses the imagery of light and darkness to show how people's ignorance and enthusiasm to destroys their ability to communicate even on simple levels. Day by day people are becoming more secretive about their life and forgetting being social on some level. Moreover, the narrators strongly felt these changes and transformation could lead us to a robotic life. The Sound of Silence" contains numerous poetic elements, including figurative language devices, rhyme scheme and tone. Throughout this poem, narrator is addressing the dark site of the society, people and how its leading them in to a false dilemma.

The vast pace and majority of changes that are happening in the modern world regarding gender norms and sexuality change the role of a teacher; it becomes more difficult and complex, but it also makes the role of the teacher something more rewarding to become involved in (Malaguzzi, 1994, p. 2). In an educational setting, a teacher needs to remain value neutral. She cannot let her own opinions and beliefs about sexuality and gender norms influence her pedagogy, instead, a teacher needs to perceive the world through the eyes of a child and create a quality, impartial and inclusive environment where students can practice a state of emotional wellbeing and find their identity in a safe space (Robson, 2004, p. 214; Siraj-Blatchford & Clarke, 2004, p. 25).

In this article Surtees, N. highlights the initial findings from a qualitative research study regarding exploring the discursive production of children’s sexuality in early childhood education. The article draws attention to instructor public lecture about and around sexuality. Drawing from heteronormative, developmentalist and biological treatment and discourses of children as asexual and innocent, this article show that such talk acts to patternize or minimize children. Teacher resistivity towards and silencing of sexuality, the functions the silences serve and the ways in which silences mark the borders of ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ are uncovered. The article suggests that the marking of borders jeopardizes teacher acknowledgment and solemnization of difference and diversity.

This is a scholarly journal by Elizabeth Marshall, a professor in the Department of Education. Marshall introduces a primary objective of modifying teacher certification programs by implementing LGBTQ awareness into them. She also notes that teachers should embrace sexual diversity in their classrooms by incorporating LGBTQ issues into their curriculum. I will be using this source to defend my argument on how critical is it to address other sexualities in school, especially in health courses for adolescents.

In “A Silence that Kills” Lyndon Haviland expresses the idea that the public must confront the social inequities of tobacco use. Haviland believes the communities must communitcate a sence of urgency and engage all Americans in the battle against tobacco use. The author expresses her ideas thoroughly by concentrating on certain fact of tobacco use or second hand smoke affect, the epidemic in out current communities, the silence of the government, and the concern for public health. With the constant repetition of unity and a well-organized, concentrated article, the author easily captures the attention of the reader and the intended American audience. However, the author lacks information on

In The Silenced Dialogue, Delpit examines the hushed dialogue, which she sees as a steady and troublesome issue in the American educational system. Delpit relates how nonwhite teachers have enthusiastically stood up about being let well enough alone for the discussion concerning how to best instruct offspring of shading. Delpit looks at the issues that make these complete correspondence obstructs through the viewpoint of her subject, the way of life of force. The creator recommends that in spite of the fact that she accepts that a society of force exists in this nation, she doesn't advocate for latent mass consistence, yet rather a differing qualities of style and that each social gathering ought to be permitted to keep up its own dialect style.

All sound dies when my 8 month old daughter, Lisa, stops crying and sleeps. We sit in silence for a while, watching as the streetlights turn on past us. My wife, Mika is sitting to my right. She’s just begging someone, anyone to spark a conversation. The driver is probably exhausted from yuppie businessmen who insist on a better route and have the indecency to yell their business lingo into their phones. I know that feeling. My publisher is giving me grief for not having any good ideas. I’ve created a town, but not much else.

The book Silence, by Shusako Endo follows a theme of a silent God who accompanies a believer in adversity. The main character of the book is Sebastian Rodrigues. It tells of Sebastian Rodrigues’ arduous journey halfway around the world to Japan in the 1630s, in order to track down a rumor that his mentor Father Ferreira had abandoned his faith, at a time where the Japanese leaders were extremely hostile to foreigners and Christianity and also suspicious of their intentions. He travels with two other missionaries but one of them falls sick whilst travelling and is deemed unfit to carry on to accompany him. The book is not fast paced, but immensely character driven. For example, we see the growth of Sebastian Rodrigues as a priest. At one point he labels Kichijiro a coward. “Was it possible that he was of our faith – this wretch.” Here we see him being judgmental. However, later in the novel we see him for the first time-sharing a proper

Thinking about sex education brings up those awkward moments we had as teenagers sitting in a classroom and listening to our health teachers talk about sex that we joked about with friends but never wanted to discuss with an adult. However, a lot has change over the years. Now, there is a lot of LGBT students coming out in high school and we live in a society where we are surrounded by images that encourages conversations about sex.