Choices

Currently I try to live a life that is respectable. I go to school to make my future better. I made a choice to play volleyball and go to college. I think that many young students have difficulty making decisions in their lives that are going to better their future. I decided to play a sport in college because it helps me work harder in the classroom.
I plan on using my gifts in my future career. Over the years I have decided to be a determined hard worker. Sports have taught me those virtues. I have decided to become a nurse in the future and I think those attributes will help out a lot in my job area. I am dedicated to everything that I do in life and I think that will help me tremendously in my job.

The Emperor's Club

1.       Yes, this seems correct. We all grow old and most of us mature. We can also grow and become well educated. Drunks can become sober through treatment. Unfortunately, stupid people will stay that way because they are the people that refuse to be changed.

2.       Mr. Hundert is so shaken and altered by this experience because Sedgewick is rut to him and this is the first time that a student has disrespected Mr. Hundert. He is taken back by Sedgewick because Sedgewick has smart responses and tends to play tricks on Mr. Hundert. For the first time Mr. Hundert does not know how to discipline one of his students without stepping out of his boundaries.

3.       Sedgewick Bell is a big influence on his fellow classmates. He introduces them to porn, something none of those boys would even think of looking at. He also makes them break the rules by going to visit girls. They begin to follow Sedgewick’s lead and start to disrespect Mr. Hundert.

4.        Mr. Hundert grades each boys essay and after reading them he decided what grade each boy’s writing deserved. When he is doing grading them he notices that Blyth has earned the third spot in the Julius Caesar Contest. Sedgewick just missed the cut off to be in thecontest by getting the fourth best grade.   The problem Mr. Hundert faces is whether or not he should increase Sedgewick's grade to allow him to move to the third spot.  Mr. Hundert then decides to bump Sedgewick’s grade up to put him in the Julius Caesar Contest. By doing this it removed Blyth from the contest.  Blyth's main goal for the school year was to make it to the Julius Caesar Contest so he had the opportunity to live up to his father’s legacy.

5.       Mr. Hundert faced a different dilemma during the contest when he realized Sedgewick was cheating.  He told the Dean but he told Mr. Hundert to ignore the cheating. Mr. Hundert ends up not exposing Sedgewick but gives him a question that was not on his cue cards so Sedgewick ended up losing the contest.  When Mr. Hundert confronts Sedgewick after the contest he started acting like he did not care and continued to smile.

6.       He chooses to host the contest because he felt honored that his students wanted him to be the host. I believe that Mr. Hundert's conscience obviously got to him since he knew he had pretty much cheated as well by changing Blyth's grade to keep him from the contest.  By hosting the contest again, Sedgewick had the opportunity to win the contest which would prove to Mr. Hundert that the grade change some how transformed Sedgewick to be a better person which would help with his own conscience.  Mr. Hundert's hopes are squashed when he realizes that Sedgewick was once again cheating and he tells Sedgewick that he failed him as a teacher.  The students give Mr. Hundert a plaque, and this makes him realize how much they appreciate him.  He realized that even though he failed with one student, he succeeded with countless others.

7.         There was a huge tension at the end of the film between Mr. Hundert and Sedgewick.  Mr. Hundert felt everyone needs to live a life filled with virtue and principles but Sedgewick exclaimed that he would lie and cheat to accomplish his goals.  He would do whatever it took to be successful.  After saying this Sedgewick's son walked out of the bathroom stall and stared at his father as he walked out the door.  His son realized what type of man his father was and was very disappointed. 

8.       Mr. Hundert returns to teaching because he realizes that, that is where he belongs. He may not have changed Sedgewick for the better but he was a major influence in the other lives of almost all of his students. When he returns to teaching he is pleasantly surprised by one of his former students’ sons. He asks him to recite a plaque on the back wall and he does it without fault, meaning his father had taught him some of Mr. Hundert’s teachings.

9.       He taught his students the names of Kings and then made them recite them. This is just thing that he did. So he would tell his students the information then expect them to memorize it then test them over it just like the Banking Concept of Education.

10.   Mr. Hundert showed his students how to live with integrity and morals by many different men in history.    The men he taught about were individuals who, even after their death, are still being studied and thought of with great respect.  Other men he taught were men who may have done well during there lifetime, but history has forgotten about, because they only cared about themselves and did not contribute to the well being of others.  By showing these two different types of men they were able to choose if they wanted to live a life that would benefit and help others or a life that would only benefit themselves.  At the end of the movie it appears all the students chose the wise men of this world while Sedgewick chose to live like the barbarian which only helped himself.