West Point 's Character Development Essay

Having an older sibling is rough already, but having a brother that you have to worry about him breaking in and stealing valuables of your own, that's tough and the main character Gordie Jessup has to deal with the betrayal of his older brother, Chase Jessup everyday throughout Katherine Holubitskys’s novel “Tweaked”. Gordie’s efforts trying to fix his family are overwhelmed by Chase’s drug addiction and money debts he has with his dealers. There are many themes throughout the book.

“ His Expression remained the same- cynical, defiant, painful” (Gaines 84). Miss Emma did not think that Jefferson knew he was going to be put in the chair, which kind of furthers this whole idea that everyone has that’s he’s incompetent. Even his own aunt without realizing has degraded him. I think that maybe Jefferson can’t read or write but he’s a human who understands laws. At the beginning of the book I was feeding into the notion that he was mentally challenged, but I think now that he just grew up in the uneducated black stigma put on him by white people not letting black school have the same education. And so he knows he is going to die, he doesn’t fight he doesn’t resist he faces the unjust punishment with grace and is going o let

The two main characters in the novel “Three Day Road” by Joseph Boyden; Xavier Bird and Elijah Weesageechack, have many key differences that are illustrated throughout the novel. Xavier is reserved and visceral, while Elijah is self-assured and talkative. Xavier was raised by his Aunt Niska for the Majority of his childhood, opposed to how Elijah was raised in Moose Factory by nuns at a residential school. These factors hold an important responsibility on their personalities and the way that they think and make decisions. The three key differences between them that are paramount to the story and the themes of the novel are; firstly their respect for their Oji-Cree culture, secondly their respect and love for human life, and lastly their

The Breakfast Club was a movie about five very different characters, Claire, Andrew, Brian, Allison, and John Bender. Claire was a popular girl, Andrew was a wrestler (jock), Brian was intellectually gifted, Allison was a basket case, and John Bender was a rebel. On the outside they seem like very different people, in fact they were all socially opposite, but they also shared so much.

Grant Wiggins is very conflicted and confused about many aspects of his life when he comes back to his home town. Despite his reluctance, he is eventually forced to overcome his defeatist attitude and accept the sense of responsibility that Tante Lou and Miss Emma are trying to instill in him. Grant is also haunted by his past having grown up in a very racist small town which he could never find a way to deal with.

Throughout my high school career, a common theme of why we are there is to prepare for success in college. West Point High School has done an amazing job achieving this task. I know many people who have graduated from West Point and were very successful in college. At West Point High School, we are taught to strive for excellence and not accept any other alternative. We are taught to treat everyone fairly and to avoid judgment. These are all great building blocks for both academic success and success in life. While I have gone to West point High School, I have been a part of many clubs, teams, and activities. I am the secretary of the Student Council Association, which doesn’t sound like much of a job, but It has taught me how to communicate

As many of us are aware, the rank of Eagle Scout is one of the rarest and highest ranks to achieve within the Boy Scouts of America. A young man does not become an Eagle Scout within a few months; it takes years. Scoutmaster Proctor’s youngest son is slowly moving his way up the ladder to earn the second highest rank Life Scout. There’s no doubt in my mind that Mr. Proctor’s son will eventually achieve the rank of Eagle Scout due to the fact his father is very “on the ball” and desires for all of his children to succeed. This thought prompted me to ask, “What would it mean to you as a leader to see your son as an Eagle Scout?” Mr. Proctor replied, “I have great confidence my son will earn the highest rank in scouting. He will have a lifetime

     A notion that still holds strong today, Fredrick Jackson Turner’s idea of American character was one based on trials and experiences. Unlike Crevecour, Turner believed that American character was not simply a product of English character transported to America, but rather another idea altogether (Faragher 63). He expressed this opinion the best when he said, “In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics” (Faragher 64). How exactly did American character form and what defines

This book was published in 1813, in an era that Europe was transforming under the influence of Napoleon. Pride and Justice is a novel which shows a young wealthy man, Charles Bingley, who purchases property in a village. This action results in the community being emotional shocked but for a lady, Mrs Bennet, this is the golden opportunity to marry one of her daughters. We can see that already the plot is affected from what was occurring at the time as Jane Austen used Napoleon's changes in his novel.

While the West Point leader development program may not be perfect, I believe that only minor adjustments need to be made in order to make it better. I believe that the core tenants of the program accomplish West Point’s goal of developing leaders, however the system is missing a few things.

There has not been one profound moment in my life where I can sit back and think “this is what changed me” or “where would I be if this didn’t happen.” Character development doesn’t simply happen overnight, but rather multiple situations in life to see who you really are. Looking back upon statements made and qualities I possessed when I was younger, it makes me want to puke. My ignorance, intolerance, and overall bad character from my adolescence is something that I am ashamed of. Discovering that a homophobe is actually a homosexual is something that really, really changes everything; when I finally accepted that I am gay, my whole perspective of the world changed. My character has developed significantly in these past few years since acknowledging

My favorite character from “Facing the Giants” is David. He enrolled in a new school, having just moved to the town with his father. He played soccer, but since the school did not have a soccer team, he tried out for the football team as a second-string kicker. He is conscious of his small size and football skills, and is not confident that he will even kick the ball straight. This affects him greatly when, at the state championship, David had to kick a fifty-one yard field goal in two seconds to win the game after the main kicker is injured. The farthest he had kicked was thirty-nine yard field goal, and he argued with Coach Taylor about his idea. The coach encourages him, telling him to do his best. Larry, who had MS, stands up for his son, holding up his arms in the shape of a goalpost. Everyone at the game doubted that

Let this sink in for a second… knowing that you have a an enemy with a gun in their hand trying to kill you. Now multiply that one enemy by ten thousand. That’s how many enemies you and your team have coming to kill you. Walking for hundreds of miles to

The movie Crash is an interesting look at a variety of perspectives regarding the interaction and socialization of several different groups of people and how sometimes their intentions can be misconstrued. In the movie, Officer Hansen proves to be a specially interesting character. Hansen is a white male who seems to have grown up in a fairly typical environment and doesn't stand out from the normative views of an individual coming from his social grouping. Unlike his partner Officer Ryan, Officer Hansen tries his best to set aside his differences with out groups and choose to treat everyone equally from the beginning and one of the main opening conflicts in the film is geared towards Officer Hansen feeling that his partner is taking

Our first subject of study, Stella Adler, was one of the students of Stanislavskiz and was the only American actress to study under him. Although, I didn’t identify with all of Stella Adler’s technique’s as a whole as it doesn’t seem to take as in depth of an approach as some of the other acting methods, some of her techniques such as “acting is doing” I found very helpful. When Adler says acting is doing she is referring to how every actor must have a purpose for an action. I found this to be important for me to remember as often I found myself in my scenes doing way more than I needed to. I always had to remind myself of what Meisner said, “less is more!” Also, Stella Adler’s approach to training the imagination so that you saw in