What is Oleanna?
What is Oleanna ? Is it a perfect world, or is it a world… The play
Olenna by David Mamet gives us a real perspective on our modern
education system and society. John the white male college professor is the
victim in this play. And Carol the female student is the fascist. John is an
exceptional teacher that love to teach and refuse to let the fascist takeover
the academic freedom of our education.
Early in the play, both John and Carol are distracted by their personal
interests. John is buying a new house to go with his tenure announcement.
However, the house has not gone through, and the tenure committee has not
Signed. Therefore, John is rushed, and unable to
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The test
people encounter in school, and in life were designed by idiots for idiots.
" They are a test of your ability to retain and spout back misinformation. Of
course, you fail them. They're nonsense." John says. And Carol
responds: "…no…" In this case John is trying provoke Carol and to let her
know that we should question the orthodox, and the very things that we take
for granted. And how education has become a ritual, "something-other-than-
useful." That's because we believe we are all entitled to higher education.
Therefore, Carol does not know what is going on in her class. and what it
means to be in college.
Later on, Carol asks John about her grades. John realizes that the grade
was a distraction for her, and the most important thing is to awake her
interest. John wants Carol to stop copying notes, and just repeating it back to
him. He wants her to use her own words. He is telling her once she has interest in the subject she is studying; she'll have confidence, and eventually
starts succeeding. John gives an example of how he have work his way out
of the need to fail. He quotes " If I fail all the time, it must be that I think of
myself as a failure. If I do not want to think of myself as a failure,
perhaps I should begin by succeeding now and again."
In the second half of the play, Carol unconsciously learns from John.
And she
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In mid-April 1945 on my way to school, I see on the newsstand the French newspaper “Le Monde” announcing the arrival in Paris of 299 French women of deportation camps in Germany as a result of the negotiations the provisional government of France and the Swiss Red Cross in exchange for 500 German civilian prisoners. No further details or details of this information. A deportation camp what it’s? These people deported who were? And why? Grandfather Elijah and my mother It’s in one of those camps that had been? In the days following the April 15 French newspapers published news regarding, the liberation of the camps of Nazi deportation and extermination by the allied armies and little by little the newspaper disclosed the first evidence of deportation. however what it’s a death
said “You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed - you’re not gonna succeed all
about is his pessimistic outlook of life. “But starting now, in the world to which you go, failure
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The quote is pertaining to myself in the fact that overthinking is a very common occurance in my life. When training for the driving test to obtain my license a nagging feeling in the back of my head kept whispering that i would fail. Sleeping was not a preferable option, according to my brain, which kept on replaying scenarios of myself knocking over cones. Once rest came all i began to vision were nightmares of myself running through a railroad stop and getting crushed while my instructor wrote a giant ‘Fail’
Failure is a part of everyone's daily lives; however, depending on the person you are you
"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"(John Green). Failure was a result of my experiences as I first embarked upon the journey of four years that have helped define me as the person I am today with a profound apathetic philosophy about how I chose to spend my time in my classes as well as outside. My indolent efforts led to poor grades along with failure in my schoolwork and a portrayal of little regards to fixing it as a freshman. Along with this, I had chosen to put no effort into attending college the main priority of furthering my education. Alternatively, I would have preferably spent my time partying with so-called "friends" who looking back at the time, were not really the best influences
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Instead of taking notes on the class work Carol had taken notes of how John was interacting with her. She had claimed in her notes “The twelfth: “Have a good day, dear” and another instance she noted that John said “Now, don’t you look fetching”. These are quotes that Carol had twisted from John’s mouth, he wanted to make a connection with her so that it would help her understand the class subject but instead of absorbing the education she had decided to find ways to manipulate John and her interactions to show how he had more power than she did. She wanted to prove that it was not ok for him to have this power. She did this under no good reason also, she did this because her group told her too and they thought that male teachers had too much power. College students have the opportunities the recieve an education and live the american dream not to take power away from their superiors.