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    The movie‚ Dead Poets Society directed by Peter Weir is set in an American private school during a time of romanticism in the first half of the twentieth century. Dead Poet’s Society negotiates the transition of poetry and life as an unconventional English teacher encourages a group of private school boys to seize the day. The boys intimidate the teachers youth by reforming the dead poet’s society and getting in touch with romanticism and their true inner life. However a fathers controlling nature

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    Carpe Diem is a latin word that means ““seize the day”‚ used for saying that people should enjoy the present rather than worrying about the future.”(Carpe Diem- Cambridge Dictionary). According to Phrase Finder carpe translates to pluck‚ so pluck the day. Carpe Diem was first used in Odes Book 1. Odes Book 1 it says‚ “As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day‚ believing as little as possible in the morrow” (Horace‚ Odes (c.23 BC and 13 BC)‚ Book 1‚ ode xi‚ line 8).Over the years that saying

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    Welton begin when John Keating is hired to teach English. A school built on "discipline‚ tradition‚ honor‚ and excellence‚" Welton is not yet ready for Keating‚ an eccentric teacher with unique‚ if not over the top‚ teaching methods. The boys; Knox Overstreet‚ Todd Anderson‚ Charlie Dalton‚ and Neil Perry; are amused and flabbergasted when Keating orders them to rip out Dr. Pritchard’s introduction to the poetry book. They are even more amused when he tells them to stand on the desk or conduct a class

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    In the Dead Poet Society‚ Robin Williams is one of the main characters‚ he is the English teacher Mr. Keating. Mr. Keating attended the Welton academy boarding school as a teeneage‚ when the boys find this out after his first class he teaches they immediately go to find him in a yearbook from the past. In the yearbook they see that he was part of the Dead Poet Society. When the boys ask him what the Dead Poet Society is‚ he responds by saying it’s a group of guys who go to a cave and recite poems

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    When seeing the names "One who flew over the cuckoos nest" and "dead poets society" together‚ one would never think these two films would have such a close resemblance. The setting of the two movies are totally different from the outside‚ but searching deep it is evident that they are quite parallel with each other. Watching each movie only once limit’s the viewer to only catching a fraction of the things that are portrayed in each movie. In both movies there is almost a hero figure present

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    TRM 336 Organızatıonal Behavıor MOVIE ANALYSIS DEAD POETS SOCIETY Prepared for; Duygu Salman Öztürk Prepared by; Uğur Eskici 2007101225 The Plot Neil Perry‚ Todd Anderson‚ Knox Overstreet‚ Charlie Dalton‚ Richard Cameron‚ Steven Meeks‚ and Gerard Pitts are senior students of the Welton Academy which is a privileged private school in New England. The story takes place during the first school semester of the year 1956. The pillors of the Welton College are "tradition

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    * We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine‚ law‚ business‚ engineering‚ these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry‚ beauty‚ romance‚ love‚ these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman‚ "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these

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    and not what other people want; that’s true happiness. Mr. Keating exemplified Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau very well with his transcendental teachings. He teaches his English class‚ which includes Neil Perry‚ Todd Anderson‚ Knox Overstreet‚ Charlie Dalton‚ Richard Cameron‚ Steve Meeks‚ etc.‚ important lessons not for English class‚ but for life itself. One day‚ Mr. Keating brought the boys outside into the courtyard and made them walk in circles. This was to let the boys see who

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    the boys meet in a cave to read and write poems to express their emotions. Because of these meetings‚ the boys’ lives change. Charlie Dalton gives himself the new name “Nuwanda” as a prank against the school. Todd Anderson loses his shyness. Knox Overstreet and a girl fall in love by talking about poems. Neil Perry finds his passion in acting‚ and he even gets to be the main character in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”‚ which makes his father angry. The father therefore brings Neil home and wants him

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    English 11 ( A LIT) 7/11/2012 Non conformity changes lives Dead Poets Society is a movie set in the 1950 s But filmed in 1989 .Although it is set on the 50s the movie talks and is able to get through transcendentalist ideals to the viewer . The movie is set in a boy’s only private school called Walton that sends its graduates to Ivy league colleges. Where Mr. Keating is the new English teacher were he introduces non conformity and transcendentalism to his students. In the movie each boy

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