Charbonneau, Joelle. The Testing. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Kane, Jenny. Student laughs with fellow classmates on graduation. Penn Live, PA Media Group, 6 June 2011, www.pennlive.com/. Accessed 30 Jan. 2017. Event 1: Malencia (Cia) Vale from the Five Lakes Colony of the United Commonwealth is about to graduate from high school. She enters graduation hoping to be chosen for The Testing, a series of tests in Tosu City where high school graduates go to in order to get into the University and later get a job. At the end of graduation, no government official for The Testing shows up. The next morning, a messenger informs her to meet the magistrates as soon as possible. When Cia arrives, she meets three other fellow …show more content…
The candidates then had to eat the ones they considered safe or “suffer the consequences”. Next, students are given a box and have to fix a broken pulse radio. While Malachi, one of the candidates from Five Lakes, was working on his radio a nail shot him in the eye. The candidates were instructed not to help and continue working. Cia began to resent the officials for their test but she could not do anything about it. The group continues doing their tests while facing the consequences of injury or death. Later that day, the candidates face the third test which is a group problem solving task. Event 6: The candidates learn about their fourth test which is a survival challenge. The candidates have to find their way back to Tosu City from a dead zone hundreds of miles away. Cia and Tomas promise each other to meet at the highest point that they can see. Cia meets Michal again where he instructs her to pick three items that she can add to the bag she brought with her. She chooses a water purification kit, a loaded handgun, and a first aid kit. Event 7: Over lunch, Michal confronts Cia on how he disagrees with The Testing and its deadly methods and how he and some others are trying to change it. Michal gives Cia some words of encouragement as she realizes that she was drugged. She wakes up in a cell with some food that she takes and begins her journey back to
In our society, people with different cultures, backgrounds, and religions were considered unequal. One of the many people that were treated unequally in Canadian History were the Aboriginals. Before the war began, Aboriginals were not treated fairly by the Canadian government. Aboriginals struggled to get a permanent job therefore clearly displaying Aboriginals struggling to get the resources they need in order to survive. Canada’s leader ignored this situation and continued to discriminate Aboriginals (Marshall 2). Several times, Aboriginals were being used by their own country to do their dirty jobs. The Canadian government did not want to risk “true Canadian” lives, so they used the Aboriginals. By the 1990’s, one would think that the government would come to their senses and realize that the Aboriginals are just like any other human being. However, this was not the case because the Canadian Government tried stealing and taking Aboriginal belongings for their own needs later on. Ultimately, the Aboriginal people were mainly treated unequally by the Government in the Great War, The Manhattan Project, and the Oka Crisis.
Cia sets off to the testing and watches loads of her friends die and even some of them turn on her. Near the start, Cia leaves her family to start the testing. This piece imagines the point of view from Cia’s father to whom she is close to. Imaginative response-point of view from Cia’s father
Hannah knew what was coming and tried to persuade them not to go but they didn’t listen. They went in the truck with them and got into the boxcars where many people could not survive. When they evacuated the cars, they were separated into men and women with kids. They were forced to go to the showers, have their heads shaved, put different clothes on, and get their arms tattooed with numbers. They had to work hard to avoid being chosen to get processed. They meet a girl named Rivka, who has lasted in the camp for a year and a half who gives them tips to avoid being chosen. One night, Gitli awakens Hannah and plans an escape from the camp. Sadly, some of them were caught, but Gitl and Hannah made it back to the barracks safely. The next day, the other men that were involved with the escape were caught, shot, and taken to the smoke stack. They see the men dragging them off to the stack, among them was Rivka’s brother, Wolfe. The people continued to work in the camp to avoid being chosen. One day when Hannah was thinking about the future, she started to tell her 3 other friends around and they started talking. A guard overheard them and said that he got to personally pick 3 out of the 4
As one of the wealthiest merchants in mid-19th-century Newfoundland, Bennett campaigned that the proposed federation as something that would bring great financial disadvantage. The anti-confederate opinion was that mainlanders would impose an increase in taxation and design a federal tariff for their own industries’ benefit; increasing the cost of doing business and interfering with their relations to the United States. Without any solid evidence that confederation would be of an advantage to their economy and their colony, he apprehended and publically announced that they (the residents of Newfoundland) will be more than doubly taxed on top of the present 20% taxation on imports from Britain, for the benefit of the “profligate Canadians”.
Less than two days into the experiment, one of the prisoners began to experience rage, emotional disturbance, uncontrollable crying, began acting crazy, and screaming. The experiment leaders realized he was really suffering and they had to release him. The next day was visiting day for the parents and friends of the prisoners. In order to stop parents from taking their children home, the experimenters cleaned the prison and the prisoners to make them seem pleasant. After the parents visited, there were rumors going around that the prisoners were going to attempt to escape. After the rumor was proved to be untrue, guards acted harshly towards the prisoners and added punishments. A priest who visited the prison, talked with prisoners and offered to contact some of their families for legal help. By day five, there were three types of guards; tough but fair guards, good guards, and hostile guards.
The United States (British Colonies) needed to separate from Britain because of growing unrest. The colonies attracted more and more immigrants and had steady growth in their 150 years. Most of the growth was in urban areas like Boston and Philadelphian. These big cities had large populations of free people and slaves who had contrasting views, but were living in the same condensed areas. The immigrants had no loyalty to the British monarchy, so attitudes towards the crown greatly shifted. This shift started when Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763, saying the colonists could not settle in Indian country. With cities overflowing and land available in the west, immigrants with no loyalty disobeyed the crown and went west.
As the sun light glistens in the distant sky, my family and I decide to pray before the selection begins, but right as my father begins the starting words of the prayer, there is a loud commotion. Thunderous screaming came from Franz and the guards. The selection is beginning earlier then we had expected. We jump into our formation as quickly as possible. I keep Lore close to me, thinking it would help our chances. Mom is being pushed toward the adult women line, and dad is directed over with the men. I feel my heart ripping at the seams. Suddenly, I could feel Lore trembling in my arms,
‘Australians at War’ a documentary made by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra designed to teach individuals on the involvement of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) in World War 1. It follows why the notion of sending Australian troops to help the allied effort in war was widely supported and follows the ordeals of ANZAC troops through training in Egypt, being sent to Gallipoli as part of a horrendous tactical failure, the evacuation of ANZAC troops and the relocation of them to the Western Front. The episode used many primary sources such as first hand accounts of the soldiers who were present in Gallipoli, as well memories from those who were in Australia that faced the reality of the ‘home’ front.
On the eve of Confederation the population of what would become Canada went beyond 3,000,000. Of these, nearly 80 percent lived in Ontario and Quebec. Although cities were growing in the old centres of Halifax and St. John on the Atlantic, Quebec City and Montreal along the St. Lawrence, and a strip from Kingston to Toronto along the north shore of Lake Ontario, more than 80 percent of Canada's people lived an (away from cities) life. They travelled on dirt trails and corduroy roads, (shook and rolled around really fast) their own butter, sewed their clothing by the dim light of coal oil lamps and helped grow their farms with (stick with a long, curved knife at the end) and oxen. The politicians of the day, like John A. Macdonald, George Brown and George-Ãtienne Cartier,
In 1984, after the trial of World War 2 criminal Adolph Eichmann, Stanley Milgram created an experiment where his starting hypothesis was to see if Germans had a character flaw which made them more obedient which correlated to the holocaust. He put an advertisement in the newspaper for volunteers for an educational experiment who would be paid on hour for $4.50. The experiment itself wasn’t real, but the participants didn’t know that it going in. The experiment was once they got into the “laboratory”, they picked from a hat and one would get “teacher” and the other “learner” but it is rigged so the participants will always get “teacher”. Jack William who is the experimenter takes the “learner” into a room to strap them into the shock machine while the “teacher” watches and at this time, the “teacher” is informed of the “learners” heart condition and Jack Williams pushes
This novel asks a very simple question. What if, at first contact between native Australians and the British colonisers, things were different? What if the two groups worked together with mutual benefit, rather than be a story of domination and destruction? What if true friendship could be formed between the two groups, and by extension what lessons could we possibly take from this example
News of them killing Congressman Ryan reaches the community, so Jim holds a meeting and encourages everyone from infants, children and adults to drink the poisonous drink he is providing. He urges that the United State will attack them for what they have done and feels they should take matters into their own
The Social Work professional would benefit from completing SCS130 because they would gain insight into the impact of British colonialism on Indigenous Australians and how the laws of control and protection forced them to become dependent, this, enables an understanding in terms of the present situation of disadvantage. Hollinsworth (2008) maintains that the historical impact of colonisation by Europeans on Indigenous Australians, is the basis for contemporary racism in Australia (pp. 35,67,77,79-80,83-84,97). This is supported by, The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1991) report, which, highlights the impact of European settlement on the dispossession and institutional racism of Indigenous peoples. This racist ideology is based on the belief of superiority of the dominant group, in Australia this was enforced by racist legislation (Hollinsworth 2008, p. 47,77,79-80,97). Australia does have a racist history and as a consequence, these racist ideologies still exist today. This has resulted in Indigenous Australians experiencing racism through the oppressive effects of marginalisation in political, economic and social structures (Hollinsworth 2008, p.9,14,20,38,83-84,100). Therefore, it is imperative to the Social Work profession to complete a course such as SCS130 to enable comprehension of the present disadvantage experienced by Indigenous Australians in the context of the impact of European settlement.
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Leadership has become the main factor of organizational success. Leadership does not only make reference to the domain of a few members of top management; it also can be found among all group members in the organization. Leadership involves influencing others to achieve objectives important to them and the organization (DuBrin, 2016). In order to inspire confidence, people require a positive, genuine, transparent, ethical form of leadership, broadly termed authentic leadership (AL) (Avolio, B. J., & Gardner, W. L., 2005). Authentic leadership will promote trust, optimism, and work engagement in the organization, creating a positive work environment.