For many centuries, women have been fighting for equality. While there has been much progress all over the world, we are far from reaching a truly equal society. Through the simplest acts such as speaking out or getting an education, women are still being reprimanded for their actions. Canada prides itself in being a progressive country, yet events of violence against women are still occurring. An example of this is the Montreal Massacre.
"Read, Kids, Read" Response First and foremost, Frank Bruni's perspective on reading is not wrong, we do need to read more since it is super beneficial. Bruni makes great arguments about why we should read more, an example is that, ‘people are more adapt to reading people’. Which means that if we read more fiction, we learn to analyze or read people better. Another argument the author makes is that if we read more we become more focused and less moody. Reading helps in many ways, the author is not one of those people trying to make us read more like our teachers, but a person trying to enlighten us to the worlds that reading opens up to our minds.
Throughout the true story “One Child” by Torey L. Hayden, I have learned much about the behaviors of the students and been able to relate some of my own experiences to the book. I read the 1980 copy of the story. Torey Hayden teaches a self-contained special education classroom of 9 children, with one full time aide, Anton, and a student helper, Whitney. Anton, prior to this job has never worked with children before, let alone children with emotional and behavioral disorders. Over time they become a great team, despite the numerous challenges with the students.
Growing up is a difficult and varied time for us all. People’s formative years are very influential to what kind of adults they become. However, for some there are more tribulations than others. In the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls, the author, was most influenced by her second time in Phoenix, as indicated by how she describes her family interactions and gains independence. Jeannette’s view on her father has drastically changed over the course of their time in Phoenix.
Rough draft: As a child and adolescent growing up your family is your backbone. They are the people that help you grow and help you handle issues, they are also the people that stick by your side through thick and thin. Family relationships are a very important part of a person’s emotional, social, and physical growth; however, through the tragedy of Melinda rape her family is absent and clueless. Which leads to Melinda being sad and depressed because she does not know where to turn for help. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda’s family was absent and reluctant to the fact that she was becoming a recluse.
The movie Tombstone is based on the legendary historical event that made Wyatt Earp famous, the shooting at the O.K. Corral. But what if the movies got it wrong, history has just been altered to fit the big screen, that’s the real question. Tombstone is a small town in Arizona. People believed the only thing you would find there was your own grave.
As time goes on, a person over time starts to understand the reality known as life, she should mature and leave behind a time that once used to be known as childhood. In this essay the author and her family will be traveling to different places which will show how her mom’s foolishness had an affect on the lives of her and her siblings. First, they go to the desert where things get out of control and Jeannette gets injured, then they go to Welch where Rose Mary tells her kids to do something that is not matured and adult like and at last they go to New York, where Rose Mary was still homeless by making decisions that had a bad impact on her and the others around her. The first place that they go to is The Desert.
One stormy night the Ravenel Family were sitting at the dining table. Kelly, my mom, Jordan my sister, Dave my dad, and me of course. All you could hear the tree 's branches hitting the window, the wind howling to the beat of the rain. There with all that music my parents were whispering very nervously. Then suddenly, the light started flickering, the room darkened nothing was heard but the trees, the wind, and rain.
The life and education of poor children in Alex Kotlowitz's book is mostly different from what I have experienced. However, that is not to say that I do not see similarities between Pharaoh and Lafayette's experience with education and my own. I attended school for about eight years in Nepal. Although my parents are not extremely wealthy, they could afford to send me to a school where English was taught side by side with Nepali while many others attended public schools which did not teach English until the fourth grade. To add onto my privilege, my mother's uncle owned the school.
Unequal Childhoods is an ethnography outlining the study done by Annette Lareau which researched how socioeconomic classes impact parenting among both white and African American families. She used both participant observation and interviewing. 12 families participated in this study where she came to conclusions on whether they displayed parenting styles of concerted cultivation or natural growth based of their socioeconomic status. Concerted cultivation is a parenting style where the parent(s) are fully invested in creating as much opportunity for their child as possible, but results in a child with a sense of entitlement. An example of this would be a parent who places their children in a wide array of extracurricular activities and/or actively speaks to educators about the accommodations their child needs to effectively learn.
Growing up by Russell Baker, is a Memoir that depicts the life of the author and how he obtained success despite facing numerous hardships. It was ultimately through the guidance and teachings of those around him, which perpetuated Russell’s choices in life. The most influential person in Russell’s life has to be his mother Lucy, who has sacrificed so much of her life to allow her son to live a better one. His mother played such an important role in his life that when she becomes senile forgetting everything, Russell must feel as though the past is somehow disappearing. By putting down in words the struggles that he and his mother have faced, Russell allows countless people to learn and experience what his mother is forgetting.
The poems Childhood, by Margaret Walker, Father, by Edgar Albert Guest, and History Lesson,by Natasha Trethewey, all contain a similar aspect, which is that the narrators are looking back on parts of their childhood and remembering how their lives were never perfect. Childhood’s narrator looks back on a past where everyone around them was poor and generally had to mine to survive. We know this because of the first 6 lines, talking about the red miners. We also know that it was a rural area, given the 7th and 8th lines. Such a past seems pretty bleak for everyone who lived there.
In the book, “A Child Called It”, David Pelzer shares his story of the abuse he received from his family and the children at school. David’s book did change me emotionally, and also changed me in general. After reading the book, I was left in shock for many reasons. The thought of how David might be to this day kept me thinking and I strongly believe that his mother left him scarred for the rest of his life.
The Coming of Age in America stories is very appealing to read. Some of the stories had brought back my memories when growing up. It’s commiserating with me on my unfortunate circumstances. The authors tell stories everyone will go through the stage as we grow. We encounter much small or large crisis and unexpected throughout our lives.
In her essay “In defence of the iGeneration,” Renee Wilson argues that today’s technology has benefitted not only the students, but also the generation as a whole. The advancement in technology allows for change, innovation and creativity that result in one of the best generations yet. Although Wilson generalizes today’s iGeneration, she succeeds in providing a compelling argument. Much of her argument is supported by scientific evidence and personal experiences that demonstrate the ability of the iGeneration to accept change and provide self-actualization. Wilson’s use of generalizations reveals a degree of disconnect between the current iGeneration and previous generations.
