Reeves, a residing professor at The University of Georgia, teaches and serves as co-founder of the learning and performance lab in the Department of Industrial Technology at the university. His main teaching areas include program evaluation, instructional design, and research courses. A former Fulbright Lecturer as well as former editor of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Thomas Reeves has focused much of his time on writing biographies such as: Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism, Foundation Under Fire (ed.), McCarthyism (ed.), Gentle Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography, and John F. Kennedy: The Man, The Politician, The President (ed.). However, his well-known book called A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy gained much attention from the public because of Reeves accurate reviews of John F. Kennedy's lifestyle. Reeves had always been fascinated with the Kennedy's and wanted to examine the true facts behind our once famous and well-respected president. .
Through years of frustrating and informative study on Kennedy's image and history, Reeves finally created his book, A Question of Character, in 1991. Thomas Reeves uses it as a means to analyze John F. Kennedy in all aspects of his career such as: his family background, experiences as a young politician, his relationship/marriage to Jackie, as well as his important role as president of the United States. .
In A Question of Character John F. Kennedy's two lives are examined "personal and private. Reeves theme throughout his book is pointed towards his audience in how we should perceive John F. Kennedy in his entirety. We, the readers, should see JFK as who he truthfully was, in reference to claims on his moral values. He wanted Kennedy to be judged by aspects of his personal character as well as his national leadership.
Question 1. What is your impression of Achilles? Response I feel as if Achilles is very loyal to all the people associated in his life, especially his best friend Patroclus. Achilles' loyalty to his best friend shows how much he actually cared about him once he was deceased due to his great sorrow ...
The one question that lingers would have to deal with the abuse and which person in the children's lives was causing it. ... His mother was inclined to see a connection between the boy's changed character and the English woman's influence, and assumed that he had been provoked by her treatment of him. ... The Wolfman is still a question to whether he had been involved with sexual abuse physically or just "aware" of it through his sister. ...
A device commonly used in literary works is the dynamic character. A dynamic character is a character who's views and opinions change due to certain events that take place in the piece of writing. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a play about the odd series of events surrounding the Salem Witch Trials, several dynamic characters become apparent. The main character and one of the most obvious dynamic characters is John Proctor. ... When Proctor refuses to present the information in court, Elizabeth questions his faithfulness to her. ...
Lockwood uses a highly pointless educated vocabulary marked by detailed description and, at times perceptive, and at others obvious, observation and comment, both on situation and character. ... Another aspect of Lockwood's style is his use of words of Latin origin, e.g. prudential, laconic, auxiliary yet again to almost prove he is, intelligence wise, above other characters and even the reader. ... That being he has introduced the main characters in some shape or form. ... Well, the narrative of the chapters in question center soully on Lockwood so the question should be more like '...
Like many other philosophers, Huxley has presented the world with the question: What is more important, truth? ... When we first meet Bernard Marx we find that he could be, possibly, the perfect character to cause a revolution. ... The one error in Johns character may be his decision to replace his ideal world with the old one. ... Although he does not appear often in the novel, I would consider him the most important character. ... This makes him the most round, and full character of them all. ...
The film delves into gender issues, questions of identity, and the ethics of interpersonal relationships. ... The film dramatizes these issues so that even if we do not get complete answers to our questions, we do believe that the characters were also tormented by these questions and acted from deep-seated fears, obsessions, desires, and anger. ... The central character is Teena Brandon, who dresses as a male and uses the name Brandon Teena. ... The character John, for instance, becomes quite friendly with Brandon, calling him "little buddy" and treating him in a way that raises questions o...
Sheldon has his characters deal with too big dilemmas and not any everyday ones. ... By introducing this great question Charles Sheldon started a fad and a great self awakening. ... And after asking that question, each one will follow Jesus as exactly as he knows how, no matter what the result may be. ... Charles Sheldon is a genius and asks his readers a very important question: What would Jesus do? ... Sheldon does present too big of questions, but they help in getting his point across. ...
Hamlet's sanity has been questioned since there has been a Hamlet. ... Is he sane the whole way through the play, but acting insane to only some of the other characters? ... Hamlet is a character that goes through a lot and is put under much duress. ... Hamlet does many things within the play that may make readers question his sanity. ... Though there are many questions that may be left unanswered, the text of Hamlet make it inferable that Hamlet's madness is methodical, and therefore not madness after all....
However, this "traditional- role is often questioned. ... The reader is supposed to struggle with the question of "who is the most noble?... All characters are extremely admirable and therefore, no ultimate conclusion can be drawn from the Franklin's question. However, it is not the answer to the question that Chaucer intended to be the central moral of the story. ... The question must be asked that if a woman must use a man to gain power, how can a woman be truly independent? ...
