Title: Grapes of Wrath: Questions and Answers What are the chief reasons for the mass migration to California? I believe that the primary reasons for the mass migration to California were poverty and the desire for a better life. The people in Oklahoma were struggling to make ends meet and barely had enough to survive. They worked long hours on farms and received little compensation for their hard work. This made them frustrated and unhappy. Additionally, the Joad family, who were proud and wanted
Futile Search for Answers in Slaughterhouse Five The book, Slaughter House-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, is based on the main character named Billy Pilgrim who is a little "lost" in the head. Billy is always traveling to different parts of his life and rarely in the present state. Throughout the book Billy mainly travels back and forth to three big times in his life. In each different time period of Billy's life he is in a different place; his present state is in a town called Illium and
How to Answer Any Interview Question Don't be rattled by your next job interview. It's possible to answer any question that comes your way. How? By preparing and knowing how to direct the conversation to the topics you want to cover. To start, take a tip from consultants who coach executives and politicians on how to handle media interviews. These trainers say you can deliver the message you want to an employer, regardless of the question you're asked. "Most people don't realize that their purpose
A View From The Bridge: Questions and Answers “Eddie has rather strict old-world notions of decorum”. Find some evidence to support this. How does traditional cultural values come into conflict with modern values in the play? In the play, Miller explores both written and unwritten laws. Make 2 lists under these headings to see how many you can come up with. The conditions/difficulties faced by migrants are explored in this play. What are they? In what ways are physical, emotional/personal
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Question : On giving Jem and Scout air rifles, Atticus tells them that to kill a mockingbird is a sin. Miss Maudie explains that mockingbirds only do one thing, and that is to sing their hearts out for us. Who are the mockingbirds in the story, and how have they been ‘killed’ by the society around them? Ideas : The two main mockingbirds are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, but there are others within the storyline. Boo Radley has been shut away from the world by
Prayer in Public Schools - More Questions than Answers Censorship is a very broad topic. Is it good or bad? Often, we ask ourselves if such things need to exist because of the First Amendment right. It states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." (Amendments
Many Questions and Few Answers in The Grapes of Wrath The book The Grapes of Wrath focuses on a particular section of America called the "Dust Bowl" during the early nineteen thirties. During this time, when tenant farming was a way of life for so many Oklahomans, there came a drought which drastically cut down production of crops and forced the bank to evict the tenants in order to cut losses. The problem may seem straightforward at first, and maybe it is, but the cause of the problem should not
Abortion - No Right or Wrong Answer I chose abortion as the topic of my research paper because it is a very important and controversial subject, and although I have always leaned heavily toward pro-choice, I really hadn’t done much reading about it and wanted to support my position. The definition of abortion is “expulsion of the fetus from the uterus, due to any cause, before the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy.” Abortions are broken down into the following six categories: (1) Habitual abortion
obtain certain answers to questions, which is known as gumption. The satisfaction of this “gumption” in certain cases, becomes the basic factor of life needed to function. Hence, people often search for explanations to these uncertainties. This endless search will only lead to losing the truth. Gumption is the attempt to have answers to for everything in order to be able to function. In other words, it is an innate need to answer things; curiosity. People try to get all these answers in vain because
The Importance of Philosophy The question is Philosophy. Why is it important? What makes it important? To answer theses questions you first have to know what philosophy is. Philosophy is defined as: the pursuit of wisdom; a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means. This is the written definition of philosophy, but I think philosophy can’t be defined to just words. It’s more then words. Philosophy to me is an attempt to understand
of time for the interviewer and the respondent since it is easier and much quicker for the respondent to answer (Royce 182). For example, using certain types of closed questions such as bi-polar questions (questions that require a yes/no or agree/disagree answer) can save a lot of time since it does not prompt too much information (Stanton
skit by Abbott and Costello. The premise of the skit is, that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team for Costello. Yet, their names or nicknames can be interpreted as non-responsive answers from Abbott by Costello. For example, when Costello asked the question who’s on first. Abbott answers him with the name of the first baseman ‘Who’. Since the ball players have funny names such as Who, Costello becomes frustrated, angry and louder. What makes this skit confusing and yet very funny
not to the point of what they could be which makes it more harder for the answers. His response to the question 'How dark?' 'Are you light or very dark?' is to get her back and deliberately embarrass her by putting in words of what she meant when she asked that question. When he answers the question this time he gives her a sarcastic answer that he just made up to be awkward. She then becomes stuck and wants an immediate answer as you can see by the tone of her voice. The poem also has a number of amusing
In this paper I will ask three people four different questions about their views on the death penalty. The first question I asked was “Why do you feel the death penalty is wrong?” Question number two, “Does the death penalty help protect the public and discourage crime?” Question number three, “Do you consider the death penalty cruel and unusual?” The final question, “Is the death penalty economically justifiable and cost effective?” My first interview was with Irven Box, a 76-year-old attorney
for a select amount of students. When textbooks were the only option in classrooms, teachers reviewed the new material by asking questions to the class, allowing only one student to answer the question. This only helped the students who previously knew the concepts, since they were the only students who would answer the questions. In this scenario, individuals who may not understand the material will continue to be uneducated because the teacher would then continue on with the lessons in
In my mock interview with the principal he asked many questions that I thought, “Wow yes I do need to think about my answers more.” When I went in the first thing he asked was what my personal philosophy and I thought, “well it’s typed on my computer.” I was able to remember most of the general philosophy that I had. The hardest question I had was, what was the worst lesson you have even taught? I talked about a lesson I taught while my cooperating teacher was out for the day and I had a substitute
there, suggests that the wording of the question can have influence on the answer of the eye-witnesses. So the chance of an incorrect answer increases if a misleading question is asked. Another experiment has also been conducted by Loftus and Palmer in 1974, where participants were shown a video of a car accident and were asked to judge the speed of the cars. The wording of the question again had an effect on the answer of the participants. The questions were different in the type of verb that
that they understood and that would set them up for success. One questioning strategy that I used was to prevent students from calling out the answer. Instead, the student had to be called on in order
These are some of the common consequences of what happens when people, who do not study for an exam have to deal with. Though some people who don’t study may have a good reason as to why they did not study for the exam. For example, depending on the level of difficulty of the exam or they might excel in that specific course. But overall there are great benefits to studying before taking an exam as well as negative benefits to not studying before an exam. The effects of not studying for an exam are
closed-ended and open-ended questions, noting that the former generally has explicitly right and wrong answers which can be useful when checking whether or not the students are able to recall information from the material. The latter, however, is highly beneficial in supporting student expression and enhancing their skills in communication; open-ended questions do not have set correct answers for students to answer with, engaging their thoughts