Boat Boy
Some people are exciting, shy, boring, sassy, or several other qualities that make them who they are.
Over the course of six days I discovered that some people are just plain boring. It is better to watch paint dry to live alongside them for a day. Well while they are in school at least.
While intently observing my subject, I discovered some interesting things about him. For example when the teacher begins to lecture his face turns into a blank stare, showing no emotion at all. The boy with the blank face probably was just practicing keeping a straight face for when he would break up with his girlfriend later.
Throughout class boat boy continued to check his phone. Most likely checking to see how many retweets his shirtless picture with five filters applied to it. Almost everytime I look at him his phone was in his hands seventy percent of the time. His phone is what is most important to him, or whats on his phone thats most important to him. Subject likes to have things he
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He often taps and shakes his feet, ready to pressed his feet to the gas petal and leave school. He likes to turn his watch, maybe trying to make the time go faster, because he likes to have control of things.
Beige, beige, beige. I think he found interest in the TED talk about the color beige or he happened to walk into the store when they were having a sale. Boat boy wore the same jacket and same khakis. Maybe he was preparing for his future job in his cubicle because he payed too much attention to his phone and not in class.
When subject is in his natural habitat (in the group with his friends) he tends to lose the signal to his phone and begins to interact. When something interesting happens he comes up from below deck. He and his friends have quite a few inside jokes. He keeps everything in the inside because he doesn’t trust others or maybe he is use to stuff being taken from
Phillip Kmetz LA365 General Psychology May 8, 2016 Module 11 Case Study 1. “Kevin is a cheerful nine-year-old third grader who is brought to the outpatient clinic after the teacher at the private school he attends repeatedly called his mother about his worsening classroom behavior. His teacher described him as a likable and friendly youngster who always obeyed when spoken to but also repeatedly disrupted the class by his antics and could no longer be tolerated in the classroom. The teacher reported that he hummed and make noises under his breath, blurted out answers without raising his hand, and always tried to be first when the teacher asked a question, even though he often did not have the answer when called upon.
Micaiah will engage in off-task non-disruptive behavior to include quietly blending in while doing nothing, doodling, and/or appearing to be working; spend exceedingly amounts of time looking through things/his desk, trips to the rest room; day-dream, often staring around the room; play/fidgets with things on his desk which often times results in him not getting the information needed in order to complete his
For example, he likes all of his teachers, students, but listen
First, fishing is his favorite pass time. The whole summer, if he wasn’t watching Sheila, he was fishing. When he gets ready for their date, he puts his fishing supplies in the boat without even thinking about it. He also took a lot of time to learn about fish, like he
The character I had wrote about is Andy Mott. He has gone through a lot in his life. I had put a piece of a prosthetic leg because he has lost his leg. His teammates found out after he told them. The story he had said was horrible.
Joe Rantz’s character arc helps him develop over the course of The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. Towards the beginning of the book, Joe is very independent and goal oriented. After being abandoned by his dad for the second time 15 year old Joe knew that to be able to feed himself he would need to take every opportunity he could to stay ahead of The Great Depression. “In all all this Joe grew continually stronger and ever more self reliant. Through it all he stayed in school and earned good grades” (Brown 62).
The Boat shows the audience the burdensome process of the protagonist choosing whether defers to carry on the family's tradition of fishery or follows his own heart and get an education. The plot of the story develops through the internal conflict of the protagonist with his own maturity. In the protagonist's youth, he views life in a state of innocence without consideration of his duty as the only son. As he grows up, he gets to know that his father’s desire to attend university was thwarted out of his responsibilities to support the whole family as the protagonist says:''... I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.''
Rowing is one of the most physically demanding, precise and aggressive sports there is. A very underrated sport that most people do not think of off the top of their heads, rowing is not only physical, but also psychological and spiritual. As shown in the Daniel James Brown book, Boys In the Boat, a single person may be important, but the team’s spirit is the utmost significant aspect of rowing; without it, the task will not be completed and the entire team will fail. With eight rowers in the boat at one time, it is obviously extremely difficult to pull off the feat of perfect synchronicity. For example, while rowing there are “no spoken words; there is only trust that travels from person to person” (Chestnutt).
Daniel James Brown, the author of The Boys in the Boat, uses Joe Rantz’ story to symbolize the way America was able to find hope in a time of hopelessness and despair in the world-the Great Depression, and Nazi Germany. Joe Rantz was kicked out of his home at a very young age, even though he hadn’t done anything wrong. Joe’s mom, “Thula exploded in the face of what she saw a lax discipline... she would not live under the same roof as Joe...went back upstairs and told [Harry’s] only son he would have to move out of the house. Joe was ten” (Brown 36).
Regret is a powerful emotion that has the ability to scar someone for the rest of their life. Moments of regret can come from relationships, self-made decisions and life changing events. The idea of regret also applies to “A Marker on the Side of the Boat” by Bao Ninh and “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien. Although these two literary pieces are very different in many ways, both authors describe the experience of the Vietnam War as a time of regretful decisions that negatively impacted people of both the American side and the Vietnamese side. Both authors tell a story about a character that recalls of flashbacks of the war, where they grieve over the past decisions that have affected them for the rest of their life.
Carr brings up the question of how our minds can be negatively affected by this when he asks, “So what happens to our minds when we allow a single tool such dominion over our own perception and cognition?” While Carr is aware that the smartphone serves a countless number of useful purposes and tasks, he believes we should think deeper about the lesser known effects of our smartphones which people so easily allow to take over their lives. Carr begins his article with statistics, stating that the typical smartphone owner checks on their phone over 80 times a day, which translates to almost 30,000 times a year. He calls smartphones our constant companions, comparing them to teachers, secretaries, confessors, and gurus. In fact, Carr includes a 2015 Gallup survey which found that “more than half of iPhone
The Boat by Alistair MacLeod is about a boy who grew up in a fishing town and wanted to escape it retelling his story. The unmanned narrator starts the story by telling the readers of his first boat ride. We learn from the story that his father is a fisherman and his mother has always known this life of fishing. So the narrators entire life was spend on a boat; from reading thee we will learn that the boat is a reoccurring theme and it is kind of personified. The we learn that the narrator’s father is an avid reader and is always reading.
Rubinkam’s Texting in Class is Rampant explains how most highschool and college students use their phones during class and lectures. Rubinkam reports that , “The anonymous survey of 269 Wilkes students found that nine in 10 admit to sending text messages during class-and nearly half say it's easy to do so undetected. Even more troubling, 10 percent say that they have sent or received texts during exams and 3 percent admit to using their phones to cheat.” Rubinkam uses logos to show how many students use their phones during class. The amount of students that do is frightening to most teachers because most teachers do not even notice it.
Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats is about the Gary Paulsen’s life on the sea. In this book he talks about his main voyage. Mr. Paulsen just got out of the army and had nothing to do and nowhere to be. For some reason he wanted to go see the beach so bad that he felt like he was going to die.
“Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.”(Zig Ziglar). In the novel, The Boys and the Boat, Joe Rantz, the main character, got knocked down in life more times than he could count, but he always got up and moved forward. At a young age, Joe Rantz’s mother passed away and his family abandoned him. He learned to fend and work to make money to provide for himself, making enough money to go to college, where he made the rowing team, despite the many challenges.