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    Welton Acadamy

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    teach them to act for themselves, self trust and individuality. Therefore, I would defend Mr. Keating. Welton is made to turn young boys into businessmen, doctors, lawyers and other good professions and it does not let them become actors, poets or creative people. Mr. Keating is an exception. By just mentioning the Dead Poet's Society that he once led, he showed his motivation for the boys to find their inner self and trust it. He wanted the boys to discover themselves

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    John Cena said, “No matter how hard you try, you can never please everyone. Follow your heart, make the most of every day, and be proud of who you are.”(Cena) In Dead Poet’s Society, Neil Perry followed these words. He went against his father's rules and paid for his actions. Neil Perry’s dad thought that Neil should be a doctor, but Neil wanted to be an actor. Mr. Keating’s lessons were out there and very controversial and were thought to cause the problems in Neil Perry’s life but in fact it was

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    Dead Poets Society The movie Dead Poets Society is set in the 1950’s. Robin Williams plays the character, Mr. Keating, an inspiring English teacher that taught students to think for themselves and not be constrained by the conformity of the prestigious private school Welton Prep, where they attend. The school’s motto is “tradition, honor, discipline, and success”. Welton Academy expects adherence to this principles in order to achieve success. These ideals are shaken as Mr. Keating begins to

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    Neil Perry Vs Todd

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    “Dead Poets Society”, an inspiring movie film directed by Peter Weir, tells a story of a poetry teacher, Mr.Keating teaching the students to live their lives to the fullest. Mr.Keating also wants to restart the Dead Poets Society through his teaching of poetry to his students; however, only five students participate in restoring the club. Two of them are the roommates; Neil Perry and Todd Anderson who are the main and dynamic characters in the movie. Even though these two are both in the club of

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    Rebellion is a prevalent theme in Dead Poets Society (1989), written by Tom Schulman and directed by Peter Weir. The film follows a group of boys attending a prestigious all-boy American school in 1959. It explores the effect a radical teacher has on their ability to think freely which initiates their rebellion against conformity. Weir uses the following techniques of motifs, camera angles and music techniques to explore this rebellion. In Dead Poets Society, a recurring motif is used to explore

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    Why Language Die

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    Language is the heart of the world we needed to survive. Languages human creation without language would not be able to communicate at all. Verbal communication is life's natural occurring communication system communication is essential for human beings. The most perfect to a human communication is language. To establish a meeting from the contact we can use words. Through words people sharp their identities. People can express their feelings and expressions to each other through words. We are giving

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    Coming from a small town in the Appalachia Mountains of the Pennsylvania coal region, the only escape from the white homogeneity was my language classes. When I came to Bucknell University, I was immediately intrigued with the multitude of foreign languages taught. Coming from a blue collar family and being a first generation college student I felt an obligation to my parents, though, to choose a major that would offer financial ease and stability. However, during my second semester I took classes

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    In the book called How to tame a wild tongue” written by Gloria Anzaldua. She talks about using many different voices not just one but many. For instance, her poets voice, woman’s voice, Indian voice, and etc. The reader can see that in each section she discusses each one of her voices. She had struggled with identity which could be because of her childhood. Each oe of her voices are a layer that covers her true self. This due because of the cultures and barriers she has had to go through. At the

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    Literacy is defined as being literate, that is, being able to read and write in a language. My personal experience with literacy began at an early age, at the age of 4 when I began to sit and read words and letters in the back of my mother’s car. Soon enough, she would bring me a magazine called “Majed” which, in the 90’s, was a popular magazine. With this, I began even more interested in reading and writing and reviewed every word in the magazine associated with each of the short pictured stories

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    TWO ASPECTS OF LITERARY STUDY. Such a study of Literature as that for which the present book is designed includes two purposes, contributing to a common end. In the first place (I), the student must gain some general knowledge of the conditions out of which English literature has come into being, as a whole and during its successive periods, that is of the external facts of one sort or another without which it cannot be understood. This means chiefly (1) tracing in a general way, from period to period

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