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    being. The works entitled "Dead PoetsSociety" and "The Catcher in the Rye" hold a variety of stances on life. However‚ the novel‚ "The Catcher in the Rye" mainly paints the mind-set of idealism because it is about an adolescent named Holden Caulfield who is highly idealistic. The novel goes on to tell about how Holden cognizes that the reality of life is not as idealistic as he perceives. Therefore‚ he pretends to be cynical. Meanwhile‚ the movie‚ "Dead PoetsSociety" presents an assortment of

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    and Aristotle. But they were seen as insane fools in their times. So why do we want to be individuals anyway? However‚ many people nowadays conform without realizing it. An example of this is shown in the novel‚ "The Wave" and the movie‚ "The Dead Poets Society" through various techniques. ’The Wave’ is a story of a schoolgirl experiencing her classmates change from ’normal’ teenagers into chanting‚ saluting fanatics‚ when a classroom experiment goes horribly wrong. Laurie is opposed to ’The Wave’

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    The Dead Poet Society The Dead Poet Society explains that we may not appreciate poetry by reading a book. Poetry has a lot of meaning that can be change by our experiences. Poetry is like our life‚ living to pursue our dreams and that’s poetry all about-our life that needs love‚ beauty and romance. Life doesn’t stop for anything or anybody‚ like poetry‚ open for expression. It allows the realizations of our ability. Verbalize what we think‚ what we know and what we feel. Poetry is alive‚ not merely

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    Maddy Ball Mrs. Restivo English Honors 9A 3/7/16 Is Mr. Keating from‚ Dead Poet Society‚ a Good Teacher? “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity‚ knowledge‚ and wisdom in the pupils‚” (Ever Garrison). This is especially true of Mr. Keating‚ a high school english teacher in‚ Dead Poet Society. Although‚ Mr. Keating had an unusual way of teaching he changed his students lives for the best and taught them to express themselves. Keating brought his students out of their

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    Dead Poets Society “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I believe that this means that people live a life that they do not want to live. They want to do something else with their time but they find themselves stuck because of peer pressure and/or parents. Take Neal Perry for example. His father wanted him to be a doctor and he planned his whole life out for him. And all Neal really wanted to do was act but his dad was totally against it and he found himself torn between doing what makes

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    How did the movie The Legend of 1900 impacted you? The movie Dead Poet Society had a great impact on me. I felt that I was so involved with the young students that I honestly couldn’t sleep that night. I was putting lots of assumptions in my head to try to figure what is the best way to help the young and adolescents to reach their goals and have a healthy and successful personality in this world. The movie tackles the concept of individualism in great depth. Fundamental principals of existentialism

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    Supporting Transcendentalism In the movie Dead Poet Society the high school students at Welton Academy have a teacher named Mr. Keating. Mr. Keating teaches the boys in his class how to live a life with transcendental values. By doing this‚ he teaches the boys how to be self-reliant on themselves and how to show individuality. He doesn’t teach his class like other teachers. He doesn’t go straight from the book like every other teacher‚ instead he actively teaches them how to write poetry and be

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    Dead Poets Society “O CAPTAIN! Me captain! Our fearful trip is done;...”- Walt Whitman. The Dead Poets Society took place at a fictional conservative boarding school by the name of Welton Academy. The school is in Vermont in 1959. The school emphasizes tradition‚ honor‚ discipline and excellence. Some students reincarnate the Dead Poets Society. This leads to the questions was Mr.Keating‚ the english teacher‚ at fault? Mr.Keating was not at fault because the school administration was prejudiced

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    in this case bring kids to school. The Dead Poets Society directed by Peter Weir has the abilities to teach great lessons and allow them to learn about the past. The Dead Poets Society can teach every student that watches the film a great lesson. One of many lessons they can teach

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    movie Dead Poets Society‚ the literary philosophy of Transcendentalism is portrayed through the teachings of Mr. Keating‚ a transcendentalist‚ at Welton‚ a private school grounded on conformity and institution. The movie does not look at the school as a whole‚ but one can recognize the engagement concerning the transcendentalists and conformists in the movie when observing the fluctuations and activities taken by the group of boys who call themselves the Dead Poets Society. The Dead Poets Society

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