Introduction When the status quo is saturated with discouragement and mediocrity and festers with inefficacy and putrid failure, accepting seems like the most comforting default reaction. Nevertheless, Mr. Joe Clarke in the 1989 film “Lean on Me” demonstrates that challenging the status quo can be...
Lean on Me is a movie based upon a true story, which begins in 1967 at an urban high school called East Side High in Paterson, New Jersey. All of the students were well behaved and the school itself was in remarkably good condition. It...
In the film ‘Lean on Me,’ the common social issues portrayed are resolved strangely. The new principal, Joe Clark, was advised to transform the entirety of the school; he did simply that, but in a way that would be prohibited in today’s society. Mr. Clark...
