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The movie, The Great Debaters, takes place in the 1930s and explores the struggles of three students from Wiley College’s debate team. The first character introduced is the youngest student from the team, 14 year old, James Farmer Jr. He is an ambitious young man who strives to live up to his father’s expectations. James struggles with fear throughout the movie. He is sheltered and does not understand the severity of the racial conflict of the time. This trait is evident in the film in two key scenes

It explains why so many plays turn, like the Frogs, on a formal debate. The situation of the play affects its internal constitution. As drama is analogous to politics, so the dramatic action is assimilated to political action. For the Athenian audience, the fully expressive mode is competitive debate. The Frogs contains the largest number of references to the poet's function as an adviser. The world of Aristophanes' comedies is mainly

IDS 101 Cornerstone Seminar has been a course that has made you think deeper in many areas. I have learned how as well as the importance of analyzing and evaluating books, and topics whether to take a position, use an analogy, discuss cause and correlation, summarize, paraphrase, quote, beginning an research paper, peer editing, developing an abstract, and using MLA or APA format just to name a few. This has been a process where I have used parts of brain that hasn’t been woken up in some time. To

This was incredibly important because, while I certainly did not agree with everyone in my group, those who disagreed with me did so by presenting their side of the debate in a respectful manner. An interesting conversation I engaged in as part of the weekly discussions that added to my understanding of the criminal justice system occurred in unit 7 between myself and Michael Sadowski. Michael and I both agreed that

Practical Considerations Examining the practicality of the group parameters is paramount to delivering the most effective treatment possible. 1. The counseling group is a closed group, as the formation of bonds, trust, and process of the shared experience is more vulnerable to being disrupted if the group was open. 2. In addition to the above, each week builds upon the information shared in the previous week in relation to disclosures and sharing of experiences as well as building upon problem-solving

1. Why are you interested in serving in the role of the office(s) sought? As a freshman, I know little about Xavier’s campus and I am getting aquatinted with the resources that Xavier provides to students. Becoming a student senator will teach me more about these resources and how to use them to better my academic and spiritual journey as a Xavier student. As I help myself become a better student, I will also be able to introduce Xavier students with the resources because most students don’t know

I could try to wash it away as much as I wanted, participating in online debates with complete strangers over the internet about whatever the flavor of the week it took the form of, from arguments about the lore of the deepest and most complex video games you’ll find to even the forbidden land of political topics, a territory

2:00-3:15 10/28/14 Evaluation Essay: Why the Flyers are better than the Sixers Growing up in the Philadelphia region I’ve heard more debates about sports than I have about politics. Most of these debates usually consist of “your team sucks” or “That team is from New York so that’s why they are awful!”. The problem with these debates is the people involved in the debates don’t offer any insight as to why their favorite team is the best. What makes a sports team successful is their success on the playing

After Filing for Divorce Chelsea Rathburn’s “After Filing for Divorce” compares the emotions that the speaker feels after filing for a divorce to the morning after a wild party and all the mess someone might find after waking up and realizing all the destruction that is left in the aftermath. Rathburn’s speaker recalls how she felt in the beginning of the marriage and now how she feels after filing for the divorce. She sees the wreckage that is her life, the dread of the cleanup, and how her happiness

Debate has existed in the world for hundreds of years, developing at the beginning of humanity but more publicly in the early eighteenth century. Humans love to argue their point of view with others in order to determine the “correct” viewpoint on various matters. Throughout the world, many approach a debate with opinions formulated from different outlooks on life. Perceptions of a situation establish themselves based on where and how a person was raised. When elaborating on historical events, more