... a successful teacher in the state of Washington requires that the individual have a firm understanding of what it means to teach a Native American student. It is estimated that in 1990 over half of the Native American population lived in Oklahoma, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, and Washington (Manning 54). With this in mind a teacher in this state must understand some important facts about the education of a young Native American. According to Manning Native American students function at equal levels to their counterparts up until the fourth grade. After that time many Native American students fall ...

... that would have been a complete waste if it weren't for Jon Krakauer's book entitled Into the Wild. A lot of people believe that McCandless was an idiot. He was "simply one more dreamy half-caulked greenhorn who went into the country expecting to find answers to all his problems and instead found only mosquitoes and a lonely death". Some people blamed Krakauer, in the magazine article that preceded the book, for glorifying "a foolish, pointless death". But the beauty of Krakauer's writing is that he doesn't glorify Chris McCandless' life or even try to hide his personal weaknesses. Instead, that which becomes evident ...

... of Arms. Billy shows this Christ figure in his innocence towards Claggart, by not knowing why Claggart treats the crew so bad, and to why there is a side to him that enjoys this cruel punishment. Billy talking to Claggart says "No man can take pleasure in cruelty". Billy shows his innocence by how he can not judge how anyone would thrive we they are loathed by so many others, like Claggart does. Billy also shows a resemblance towards a Christ figure, by his ignorance of what goes around him. He ponders why so many people abominate Claggart? Billy can’t understand the meaning behind Claggart, so Billy has no ...

... character who enters the play and reminds the audience of the legend of the Golden Fleece, and the love between Jason and , from beginning to the end. She also brings them to the present state is in, which is of complete despair and depression after Jason remarried. “And she hates her children now, and feels no joy at seeing them.� (Oates, 292). In Antigone, one of the purposes of the chorus is to provide history to the audience. Although, Sophocles did change the structure a little. The first to enter the play are Antigone and Ismene, who are engaging in conversation over defying the edict forbidding their ...

... State, he pointed out that there will be three orders in the State: the Rulers (legislative and deliberative), Auxillaries (executives) and Craftsmen (productive). The institution is based, not on birth or wealth, but on natural capacities and attainments, after years of primary education. These 3 chief social functions are kept distinct and rightly performed. Since Socrates believed that qualities of a community are those of the component individuals, we may expect to find these 3 corresponding elements in each individual soul. However, the structure of the society is based on the fact that they are developed to ...

... This journey, however, is not the only test in the poem. In fact, the characters in the poem can be defined by their individual tests. These tests determine levels of power either through physical strength or through other traits equally as important. For example, some men have higher levels of virtue and respect than others, and the same is true for the women in the poem. Penelope and Odysseus are two idealized characters that fit these descriptions. They are tested both on their individual sex role and their relationship with each other. Penelope is portrayed as a strong, smart, cunning, faithful, and virtu ...

... when Charlie states, "He put his arm around me, and I smelled my father the way my mother sniffs a rose. It was a rich compound of whiskey." what makes this statement so strong is that Charlie's father was on his lunch break, so apparently he was drinking at work. In additon, at all of the restaurants they went to, he would always demand, "If it isn't to much to ask of you- if it wouldn't be to much above and beyond the call of duty, we would like a couple of Beefeater Gibsons!" In today's societty, many people turn to alcohol to solve their problems. Charlie's father is the type of person that feeds off of th ...

... play unwinds, his actions and thoughts catch him and slowly turn him insane. Not to say that he was a crazed madman out of touch with reality as was Ophelia, but a man driven crazy by thought. Hamlet's behavior throughout the play, especially towards Ophelia is inconsistent. He jumps into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum" [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved her, when she returns his letters and gi ...

... a trader. He succeeded, but is faced by an opposition. Antigone opposed him because in her religious laws, all corpses had to have a proper burial. (Sophocles: lines 384-581) "That order did not come from God. Justice, That dwells with the gods bellow, knows no such law. I did not think your edict strong enough To overrule the unwritten unalterable laws of God and heaven, you only being a man". Antigone buries her brother and is sentenced to death. Her fiancee Heamon, and Creon's son, then opposes Creon but doesn't succeed either. In "A Few Good Men", Colonel Jessep also did what he believed even though h ...

... whether or not to let the strange knocker inside. Mark Jarman places the following quote by Karl Barth from Prayer at the beginning of his four sonnets: "Prayer exerts an influence upon God's action, even upon his existence. This is what the word 'answer' means." Sonnet 2 is the only of the four poems that does not explicitly mention prayer or God. Yet it is clear the poem deals with the same topic as the three sonnets with which it is grouped. The ambiguity of the poem lies in deciding which of the poem's two characters represents God and which represents the reader. Line one presents the all-important dilemm ...