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    A love for music brought together some “average folks trying to write some good music and spread that music to a lot of people” in the form of Tap Dead Sinner. Dale Lilley, Matt Hopper, Arika Lilley, and Barry Eakin, Jr make up this four person band making their very own contribution to the world of rock. Although it is only the second year for the current lineup, Tap Dead Sinner has been around since 2009. “Me and Matt have known each other for 20 plus years and we’ve all been in bands. Coming

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    Dead Poets Society

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    Throughout the film Dead Poets Society, the character Mr. Keating displays many attributes of an exemplary leader, according to the five practices of exemplary leadership. Firstly, throughout the beginning of the school year, Mr. Keating builds commitment through small acts in his class room, and builds credibility amongst his students. For example, Mr. Keating teaches lessons on poems about ceasing the day, conformity, and perspective. The group of boys take these lessons, and apply them to their

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    “In my class you will learn to think for yourself again” (Dead Poets Society). Mr.Keating tells the boys this in the film “Dead Poets Society” on their first day in his class. “Dead Poets Society” is a movie that is about a teacher (Mr.Keating) that teaches a class and it inspires them to seize the day and follow their own path but it's not as easy as it sounds, not many teachers agree with Mr.Keating’s teachings and nor do all the boys and it shows a small group of boys come out of there shells

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    “Most men live lives of quiet desperation” describes the boys at the start of the movie “Death Poets Society.” However, Mr. Keating’s saying, “Carpe Diem,” influenced the path the boys took throughout the movie. Most of the boys took this advice to heart, leading them to change, while others decided to ignore the teachings. Throughout the movie, Todd gather courage which helped him change from a shy antisocial boy to an open and expressive one. This is evident through the fact that Todd revealed

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    Everybody has been in a moment when they realize their life will never be the same. It could be the first day of school, meeting somebody, or a hardship. In the movie, The Dead Poets Society, Mr. Keating changes his students lives by teaching them something profound. Mr. Keating teaches his students to be free thinkers and the boy who personifies this message the most is Todd, as by the end of the movie, he stands up for his beliefs when his friends had given up. Mr. Keating’s first lesson is

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    The movie Dead Poets Society is about a group of boys that go to Welton Academy, a boys-only private school. A new English teacher, Mr. Keating, starts teaching them about poetry, and how to think for themselves. The boys aren’t sure what to think of Mr. Keating and look him up only to find out he was a part of the Dead Poets Society. Neil Perry asked Mr. Keating what it was about and the boys restarted the club. Neil realizes that he doesn’t want to be a doctor like his father wants, so he auditions

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    self-trust/confidence, and nonconformity. The movie Dead Poets Society is about a teacher who teaches his group of students how to live transcendental. The movie shows great acts of transcendentalism through each of the characters using the different tenets. Mr. Keating and Knox Overstreet in dead poets society shows that living transcentally is worth the consequences. Mr. Keating's actions of nonconformity in the movie Dead Poets Society benefitted his character in many ways. Mr.Keating

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    Learn To Be Modest Essay

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    Learn to Be modest As is a saying goes: modesty helps one to go forward, but pride helps one to go backward. Modesty is an attitude to our life, it plays an important part in our study, communication and dealing with affairs. In a word, learn to be modest, and you will succeed. In the story called that The Hare and the Tortoise, the hare and the tortoise raced running, by all accounts, the hare is swift as the wind, but the tortoise is so slow, so the winner must be the hare. But that was not

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    Carpe Diem Quotes

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    Seize the day, A Dead Poets Honor And a Lesson for Today “Two roads diverged in a wood, and i took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” (Robert Frost, 18-20) In the movie Dead poets society, Welton high believes in tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence for the young male students that attend the school. Mr. Keating an english teacher at the school comes and changes everything. He teaches his young students that conformity is not everything, with this a few of his

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    In Tom Schulman's movie “Dead Poets Society,” Mr. Keating asks a question the kids a question “what will your verse be?” What Mr. Keating is saying is what do you want to be known for in the future? In the movie, one of the students, Neil wanted to be known for is an actor, but his dad didn't want him to, because it's not the verse his dad wants him to have. If it’s not the verse Neil’s dad want then, his dad doesn’t care about what Neil wants or how he feels about the verse

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