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Dead Poets Society by Lipatova, group 505

Dead Poets Society is a great film about a perfect teacher with unusual methods of teaching to a strict conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959, where he once studied, and it is not difficult to guess, that it was he who created that very society at the time of his youth. The other characters are the boys, Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Knox Overstreet, Charlie Dalton, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, and Gerard Pitts , who study in the college- one of the most prestigious secondary schools of America, which graduates are guaranteed to become the Ivy League university students, that is, the oldest and the most famous universities of the United States. Let the characters, by and large, are stereotyped, but this company has been established perfectly! A diligent student from not a wealthy family, a desperate daredevil, a demure with inferiority complex, a smooth nerd, a silent careerist, a lover of Sciences ... Take their extraordinariness: the school slogan in Welton academy is Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence, but the boys welcome Todd and mock the four pillars of excellence with a hushed chant of Travesty, Horror, Decadence, Excrement. Remarkable personalities, aren't they?
О Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But О heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

О Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen

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