Essays on Headmaster

The book My Name is Aram is a semi-fictional autobiography of William Saroyan. This creative book presents recollections of his character from his early days in Fresno, California. Being a first generation Armenian, Aram presents his adventures from his youth, all in good humor, while at the same time addresses serious topics such as the challenges of immigrants in new environments, discrimination, amongst others, in a subtle sense. In order to understand the themes that emerge from this text, it is important to consider the background from which Aram’s character originated from as well as the prevailing issues ...

Sofna College is a school that was started to educate the young men in the country primarily. It was mainly to educate the children of the diplomats and respected businesspeople in the society. The school was founded in early 1923. Samuel Stark, Dr Eleye Fearnly and Hilda Berents are among the core founders of the school. The school started in 1923 with a minuscule number of students. Sofna School had just 36 students during its commencement in1923. The school has been developing steadily and by the year 1950, the school had already registered 280 students. This growth has been ...

Rowling’s classics “The Harry Potter Series,” looks at the ways in which power corrupts the minds of individuals in the society. Similarly, the series looks at the ways in which individuals use power for good and shows that power does not corrupt everyone but also has a positive impact on the way individuals behave in different spheres. Lord Voldemort is the antagonist in the story and he shows that the desire for powers destroys good intentions. The need for power in “The Half-Blood Prince” and “The Deathly Hallows” leads to a number of deaths of innocent individuals. Harry Potter, the ...

Motivation Case Overview

My chosen profession was largely directed by the profession of my father who is a school headmaster in China. So this was a dominant factor that shaped my being of a teacher. Being a good student, it was infused in me that I will be able to become a good teacher. However, the case is not always the same. During my teaching career, I suffered from a series of events that was associated with my motivational aspects. Self-efficacy, self-determination and the prevalent family and societal culture are some of the factors that I suffered from and are also the reasons from my weak motivation. ...

Introduction

The four articles in question seek to give insight into the perspective of a how the society thinks and views issues. They are highlighted in the most common aspects in society such as acceptance, status and morality. In addition, the politics, educational and economic issues have their place in how humans think. The essays, in addition, seek to clarify the basis on which the thoughts we encounter daily are premised. At the same time, certain similaritieshave been incorporated in the issues presented. The writers were all acclaimed scholars in the study of the mind, issues in society and the representation ...

Education

In the case of American School in Honduras, the changes in the appointment of the General Director’s position or Headmaster for the past three years will significantly affect the school’s operations. The removal of Mrs. Kitten who taught for 15 years and later on resigned the directorship after several years due to unannounced problems with the School Board is alarming. The fact that the General Director position was vacant for one year and occupied by Mrs. Just as an interim General Director while maintaining her teaching duties, and was transferred to Dr. Tomorrow for 2 and a half ...

Golding’s article “Thinking as a hobby” focuses on the idea of the complexity and development of thought. According Golding the art of thinking evolves from mere imagination, to reflection and then to understanding. Golding refers to these thinking patterns as grade three, grade two, and grade one thinking respectively. The author begins by talking about the life of a young boy in his early stages of schooling. The boy did not have much understanding of the world around him. The boy is at grade three thinking according to thinking levels created by Golding. His mentality focuses on seeing and imagining ...

The plaintiff, Mrs. Drake is a trained and qualified teacher of American English. She is a Black American citizen. The first defendant is the Headmaster of Governors Dummer Academy and the second Defendant is the Board Governors of Governor Dummer Academy. The facts were that on the tenth of October 2011, the first Defendant summoned the plaintiff in his office and instructed the plaintiff to explain her reasons for her absence at the work place without permission for three consecutive days starting the 4th of October to the 6th of October of 2011. The plaintiff reported to the headmaster that her ...

Introduction

Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe is a story of a young and modern headmaster, Michael Obi who has been recently promoted as the headmaster of a small village school in Africa. He has excelled in the education in colonialism and is hence entrusted to rescue a backward school. The story deals with culture clash that is vividly represented in the contrast thought process of the main protagonist, Obi and the villagers. The story is set in the year 1949 in Nigeria and depicts the clash between traditional values and rituals and world views. This is especially true as Nigeria was a British ...

Modernisation versus traditional heritage

‘Dead Men’s Path’ by Chinua Achebe is a short story about Obi, a bright and ambitious headmaster, the protagonist in the story, who finds that he can bring on the worst of fates because of his ignorance over the ancestry of the people. The story is woven around his modernistic approach in a society marked by traditions and the valuable lesson he learns at a heavy price to his career. Therefore, the main theme of the story revolves around traditional norms and cultural practices, as the being of the ancient path is revealed and the responses from Obi and the villagers express ...

Introduction

This paper’s aim is to describe and explore the representation of a school principle as portrayed in the film ‘Toy soldiers’. It will explain, in depth, what the film is all about and critically analyze the principle/ headmaster of the Regis high school in this film. We will explore his leadership styles in heading a school full of renegade teenagers who have been rejected by other learning institutions. We shall also analyze his crisis management skills when the school is taken hostage by hostile terrorist. This film is an action drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, Jr. It was released ...

RE: Interfamilial wiretapping

Question Presented Whether the wife of the man who recorded calls between his wife and their son, who is at boarding school, and between his wife and the school headmaster has sufficient claim against the husband

Brief Answer

No, the woman do not have sufficient claim against the husband as Title III has some exemptions that can be used to clear a man involved in intercepting calls designated to his wife or any member of his family. Even though Article III is not clear about the exceptions related to familial affiliations, most courts have been able to demonstrate that such exceptions ...

I have used “The Answer is No” and “One of These Days” in this paper to develop the thesis that Good ethical people of the society refrain from being associated with bad and unethical people and they are not scared of worst outcomes of such decisions”.

The Answer is No - The girl who is main character of the story and the protagonist, has been ruined by his teacher, the antagonist in the story. The central plot of the story is that the girl in young age was tutored by a man equal to her father’s age, almost 25 ...

Written by the American author Robert Cormier, the Chocolate War is a novel set in the Trinity High and is an account of the protagonist Jerry Renault as he takes on the revered schools cruel mob rule by the vigil notorious for giving assignments that range from the ridiculous to the absurd. This secret society uses intimidation as a way of enforcing its cultural norms on the school. The novel also gives a sizeable attention to sexuality, one of the major characteristics of young adults’ fiction following the protagonist’s sexual desires. The novel adopts a third person point of view constantly ...