...Have you ever tried to be someone you're not? Well in the short story The Fight by Adam Bagdasarian, Will tried to be someone he’s not. Two reasons to show this is Will realized he couldn't fight Mike and Will is overconfident. This goes to show how will is trying to be someone different. First to begin with is Will is trying to be someone he’s not. Will told one of his “followers” that he could take Mike in a fight. Will then quoted “I know I can take him.” Will eventually realized he’s not as strong as Mike. Will is telling people he is stronger than he really is therefore he is trying to be someone he is not. This show’s how Will is trying to be someone he’s not because Will is not as strong as Mike. Second, To show how Will...
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...Character Comparison Between Ralph – Lord of The Flies And Mike – Kid’s Nation TV Program By Cameron Hale-Sanders The reason that I picked both these characters is that they both represent the theme of trying to maintain civilization and order. I will compare Ralph and Mike to show that as leaders, they are very different and very alike. I will start with Ralph to explain his qualities as a leader. Ralph is a character that believes that they will be rescued by the navy because his father will come looking for him when he notices that his son's plane has gone missing. Ralph knows that they will be not be rescued unless there is a signal fire to let rescuers know where they are. Ralph thinks of the fire as one of the only ways to be rescued. The fire means salvation. In the novel, Ralph starts out as a leader to the whole group of stranded kids. He is a good leader for many reasons. He seems to understand people and that the boys need rules to survive on the island. Ralph creates rules that the boys need to follow. He keeps the boys organized by giving them all jobs that will help everyone on the island. He gives Samneric the most important job of keeping the fire alive, Jack and the choir as the hunters, and piggy as a care-taker of the littluns. Ralph is trying to maintain order by giving all the boys different jobs that helps all of them. He takes a great deal of control and is the first to step up in a situation to help make sure everyone is safe on the island...
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...through some dysfunctional issues during the next week or two when Mike became upset that he felt excluded from the group. The group is starting to come together and function well together except for Mike. All members of the group are doing their share of the work and helping each other out but Mike is still not pulling his own weight and seems to be distant from the group. I think he feels resentment towards the group because they are close and working well together but he feels like they are excluding him so he isn’t pulling his own weight to get back at them. If Mike were more integrated into the group and working well with them, I would say the group is in the performing stage but this won’t happen until the group comes together to make Mike apart of the group and Mike contributes more to the group. If Christine understood the stages of team development, she could have led the group to become a high performance team. She had many opportunities to make this happen. The first opportunity was in the initial meeting when the group was determining the best times to meet. Mike told the group that his television show was more important than working on the project. Christine should have interjected and set the standard of acceptable behavior within the group rather than laugh it away. Had Mike and the group been told that they were all expected to attend meetings and equally contribute to the group, then Mike probably wouldn’t have missed most of the team meetings and worked...
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...who are trying to achieve the same common goal. With Christine the goal that she was trying to achieve was getting an A in this class. When Christine and her group first started, they were at the forming stage. This means that members come together and form initial impressions. As for right now they are in the storming stage. This stage is characterized as team members struggling to deal with expectations and status. This is reflected by conflicts over tasks and how the team works together. To support what I am saying, when Christine and her group first started, they all were willing to work together to get the group project done. Now because of one person (Mike), the group dynamic has suffered. With Mike making excuses for why he could not be there, this is hurting them as a group. By the final weeks of the group project, Mike was showing signs of not being a team player. First it started with him being a class clown, even though that is not a problem at all. There might be those who see that as someone who is not a serious team member. The next few weeks Mike started making excuses for why he could not be there for the group meetings. In her leadership role as “Team Coordinator”, an understanding of the stages of group development would have assisted her, by developing a perception before hand of when somebody within the group is not fulfilling their part. The primary problems facing the group are Mike and the group’s diverse personalities. With Mike as part...
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...experimenting with is planting cover crops on their row crops, and then grazing the cattle on the cover crops. This has worked so far, and they are looking to do more of this. Nathan thinks that grazing cover crops is a logical step for the best management of the farm. Doing this, Nathan believes it will be helpful for long term farming. Something that Nathan doesn’t like doing is spraying, therefore making it unsustainable. He is trying to figure out ways to reduce the amount of spraying and fertilizer that they use on his family farm. Mike operates an 858 acre bison farm. Mikes family started with beef cattle, and tried to manage them like bison, grazing them year around. This didn’t work, and they lost quite a few calves. Mike had an “Epiphany” and asked his parents if they could sell the cattle and buy a herd of bison. Since they’ve had the bison, they have been very successful. They have seeded prairie grass, attempting to make the most natural home for the bison. Mike believes that the more natural the environment for the bison is, the better they will adapt and enjoy their home. Something that they are trying,...
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...family and his own desire to do what is right and stop spending money like there is no tomorrow? A desire emerging from not only being disgusted by the greedy consumerism but also from being laid off his job which forces him to take care of the family’s financial situation. This short story, The Decline of the West written in 2010 by the English writer Hanif Kureishi, deals with this theme and engages the reader in a brilliantly written story about a man who experiences the difficulties of the economic decline. Mike, a 45-year old man working in corporate finance, has been “stalked by good fortune [his] whole life” (l. 40) – at least that is what his father claims – but his luck turns when he is forced to dismiss his department of forty people and then get lost himself. Not ever having to worry about money before, his previous peace of mind is suddenly shattered to pieces. The short story starts in the middle of Mike getting ready to tell his wife the news but he is hindered in doing so when she does not even take the time to say hello to him when he gets inside the house: “Imogen passed him in the hall carrying a gin and tonic, saying she was going upstairs to have a bath” (ll. 6-7). This indicates that the relationship between them is not as warm and loving as one might expect. There are a lot of other indications of this, e.g. when Imogen accuses Mike of being a bad parent when he was actually just trying to get...
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...their own problems or issues. They also believe that people are special, and can find the answers to problems or issues that they are experiencing. In the video, “Escape from Bickering,” Dr. White interviews a family that has multiple issues with their son and daughter. Mike, the oldest, is the identified patient, as he has been locked up for a while in various group homes for setting fires since he was about 12 years old. His sister, Debbie, has been in a psychiatric hospital and group homes for suicidal tendencies. Mike and Debbie have not always gotten along or seen eye to eye as they fail to understand each other or their feelings. Dr. White continues to allow each to discuss how they feel, and to express their frustration to the other. Mike doesn’t understand why Debbie is always argumentative, and Debbie doesn’t understand why Mike likes to set fires. As Dr. White asks each member what they would like to address within this session, all but Mike wants to know about Mike’s fire setting. As Dr. White reflects this, he focuses more on Mike and Debbie’s relationship. He asks each one what they have noticed about the other over the years. Debbie said that she noticed more of Mike’s loyalty, and Mike was noticing more of Debbie’s organizational skills. The parents were as well noticing Mike’s loyalty as he was discussing how he wanted to protest how he was being treated in the group homes. Mom, Vicki, was also quite annoyed with how men were more focusing on Mike’s destructiveness...
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...Never Went To Church The loss of a family member can be a hard thing to deal with, and some people get despaired by whether they should start to believe in something - a religion, to help them get through the rough times. This is what Mike Skinner does in the song “Never Went to Church” from 2006, which is dedicated to his late father. Skinner finds help in his father - even though he is not with him anymore. The loss of his father makes him consider the thought of going to church, and at least he decides to take his advice. He is going to hedge his bets by visiting a priest, a rabbi and a protestant clergyman - he is trying to find something to believe in. Skinners loss makes him go through a thousand thoughts about what he has left to remind him of his father. He is afraid that he has lost him ‘for good’ - that he does not have anything at all left. At first he cannot find anything to remind him, but the more he thinks about it, the closer he comes to the conclusion that he actually does have something; himself: “I guess then you did leave me something to remind me of you, every time I interrupt someone like you used to do, if I do something like you, you’ll be on my mind all through because I forgot, you left me behind to remind me of you” (p. 2 ll. 13 - 14). Skinner realizes that he has himself to remind him of his father, because they have some of the same traits and habits. The whole song trough, Skinner sings about how his father was and what he is supposed to...
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...views on love. You might think that you already know what there is to know about love but if you’re still young you can still learn a lot. This is the phase of life Mike is facing in the American short story “The Visit”. This short story takes place in America in 1965. The situation is about Mike who is going to visit his grandmother at Lawncrest Residents where she lives – even though he doesn’t want to. Mike’s grandmother thinks that he is her dead husband because they are very similar in their looks and also because they have the same name. The story is told in the first person from Mike’s point of view and it’s written in the pastence. The story starts in medias res. It makes the story much more interesting and it makes you want to keep reading. The story is written like a diary. You can see it’s written like a diary because it looks like he is talking to himself. Line 22 “Let me tell you what the visit to Lawncrest was all about.” This quotation clearly shows that it looks like Mike is talking to himself. There are also a lot of flashbacks in the story especially when Mike’s grandmother talks about her past memories with Mike’s grandfather. It’s also written in a youth language. Line 55 “She was propped up in bed, pillows puffed behind her.” This quotation shows that the story is written in a youth language. Mike is the story’s main character. He is a 17-year old boy who is in a relationship with his girlfriend, Cindy. He is in puberty and he is growing a moustache as an...
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...norming stage because this is where the members really start to come together as a unit. In this case they have never really completed this task to begin with. Mike seemed that he didn’t really take the team seriously from the beginning and was not really following what the team leader wanted for the team to make sure things were done. With that problem they really could not get past this stage. If Christine would have understood the stages more then she would have realized that she was going to have a problem when she was in the forming stage. In the forming stage the team members must ask themselves “What can this group offer me?” and “Can my needs be meet?” among other questions. They should be asking these questions when they were getting to know each other in this stage. If these needs were not going to be meet it should have been addressed here before moving forward with the stages. The primary problem that Christine has is that the project is due in a week and has not received Mike’s portion of his work. If they do not get Mike’s completed portion of the project they will all have to suffer with a lower grade then they should get. Just because one person from the group has not done their own part the others should not have to suffer. The secondary problem is that there is really not good communication with Mike. If there was the second he refused to met with the team before class would have been addressed and...
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...The author has made use of third person limited narrator and knows what the main character Mike thinks and feels. Its mikes views we have presented and it’s his emotions and thoughts are passed. Therefore, is the narrator limited, in that sense that he doesn’t know what his wife and children’s thoughts and feelings are. As a reader, we get a personal perspective by Mike’s point of view, since we see everything from his side. Therefore, are we also more likely to have sympathy with him, as we see how his kids treat him as an ungrateful father, rather it’s also because we don’t know their side of the story. From Mike’s point of view, the family seems unreasonable and greedy with the comments and requirements the family express them with, in relation to the guitar. “You promised Billy a guitar (…), so now you have to deliver”. Mike sees himself as the "delivery man" or the “money-maker”, because he feels that he gives and gives but gets nothing in return. He feels the world is evil and unjust. He feels that he is the victim in the house now, as the family is using him. He expresses himself by saying - “Just call me the delivery man”! The protagonist in the main character is mike. He is 45 years old father with two children and a wife. They live in a big house outside the bustling city of London. Mike works in the financial world, which means that he barely sees his family often. Mike works very much and rarely less than 12 hours a day, which means that he is rarely home. He...
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...tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better success in creating a solid group paper if she would have focused more on the forming stage at the beginning of their relationship. The forming stage happens “in the initial entry into the group,” during this stage individuals ask a number of questions as they begin to identify with other group members and with the team itself” (John & Wiley pg 166). Group member Mike was the black sheep of the group. He did not complete his assigned tasks and missed group meetings because of work and personal issues. Christine became frusterated because of his absences and his incomplete work. In the beginning meetings of the group, Christine and other groups members could have asked the questions during the forming stage like “What are the potential barriers that will keep us from finishing our individual tasks?” or “How are we going to hold each other accountable?” These questions might have allowed Mike to let the group know ahead of time that he also had a job where he might have to work the same hours as the group was planning to meet. If Christine had known ahead of time either to try and schedule around his work schedule or it would...
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...Mike got the ball and controlled it carefully in his feet. He made a move past the defender and raced toward the goal, with the ball at his feet. He struck the ball with force at the net just as the the whistle blew signalling the end of recess. It was a Tuesday afternoon in Decatur, IL, the sun was shining and the sky was a mix of blue and white. The sound of talking and screaming kids echoed around the playground, bouncing off the forest trees in the back of the recess baseball field. The Decatur Middle School had very nice athletic fields for organized sports, but the recess sporting grounds were beat up, and not nearly as nice, but Mike didn’t care. Everyone raced toward the back door of the building and rushed inside. Mike wandered along...
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...By the time Mike had gotten out of the guidance counselor’s office, it was time to go home. Mike still couldn’t get over how crazy the day was, he needed to get home to his mother. He hopped onto Bus 98 and it pulled out of the campus, past the varsity baseball field, and turned left on Richardson Rd/Rt. 34. The Decatur Campus was one of two Campuses in the Decatur School District and this one contained a Middle School and a High School, a baseball field, and a football field. As the bus passed the campus Mike sat up straight and looked out the window. Then, a thought popped into his mind, turning the whole situation upside down. If Ryan was severely injured, would that mean Mike will play in the game Friday? On Thursday night, Mike got a...
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...second phase of the group development. There are five phases in group development; the first one is Forming. This stage is when the group starts coming together and begins by introducing themselves. According to the case study Christine is the leader of the group and the other group members are Diane, Janet, Steve and Mike. The second phase is Storming. In this stage the group is coming together showing their own personalities and different opinions during brainstorming. Some of the group has pulled together and have done their portion of the assignment. The group is still not cohesive because of Mike. Mike has missed out on most of the meetings and has not done is fair share of the assignment. The third phase is Norming. In this phase the group should be relating to each other and should be working together on the assignment. Four of the members are getting along and working well together, Mike is feeling left out as he doesn’t attend most of the meetings and is not giving any input. The fourth phase is Performing. In this phase everyone is turning in their part of the assignment so that the leader can compile all the information. Everyone has done their portion even Mike although it is rough handwritten notes. The fifth phase is Adjourning. In this phase it indicates that the group has completed their assignment and will disband after peer evaluations. According to the case the final group assignment is completed and now they are waiting on peer review. I believe if Christine had...
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