In the book The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, the protagonist, Byron Watson, a teenager who thinks he is to handsome to be born by his parents, learns to not take everything for granted. Byron was in his hometown, Flint, Michigan, causing lots of trouble; killing a bird with a cookie, lighting fires and the last straw, getting his hair chemically straightened. This caused the whole Watson family to travel to Birmingham, Alabama because they thought their Grandma Sands could straighten Byron out. In Birmingham, he was exposed to the real world of racism whereas in Flint, everyone was the same race. There was violence because they didn't accept different types of people.
In, "The Boys Who Fought The Nazis" by Kristin Lewis, Information was a powerful tool, to both the Nazis and the boys. To the Nazis, controlling information given to the public was key to keeping power. For the boys, gathering and spreading information was the only way they could rebel against the Nazi power. The Nazis needed to keep information hidden and controlled to keep their power. Hitler came to power by using blame and hate against groups to gather support from Germans, and kept power by controlling what the public was told.
The veterans of the Bonus March, 1932 were awarded with “bonuses” for their bravery in the war by the government to be paid at a later date. Many of these soldiers were unable to support themselves and their families because of the depression and requested the American government to pre-pone their bonus. Their hopes were shattered when the senate did not pass the bill and in turn their retaliated and assaulted the police with brutality. The author is trying to explain how a politically influenced approach can sometimes have consequences but lead to a positive outcome. Through her reading the author Barbara shows her readers that taking a stand and fighting for the greater good is not an easy task.
Everyone has depression, but did you know on October 29, 1929 the whole US went into depression. People lost their jobs, people lost their homes and lot’s of other things. Every bits and piece was super valuable at that time. Some effects the Great Depression had on people at that time was people lost their money. In an article called Digging In by Robert Hastings a girl explains how importants every minute of light is.
Elijah Anderson, a Yale professor, developed the concept or theory entitled the “code of the street” which explains the reasoning for high rates of street violence among African-American juveniles in a Philadelphia community. The “code of the street” is the way of life for many living in poverty-stricken communities which attempt to regulate behaviors. Anderson observed that juveniles in inner-city neighborhoods who are exposed to racial discrimination, economic disadvantages and alienation from mainstream society may lead violent behavior. The strain, social learning, and labeling theories are all directly related to Anderson’s work.
Persuasion: “The act of causing people to do or believe something: the act or activity of persuading people: a particular type of belief or way of thinking” (Merriam-Webster). This concept was used by Orman, Ericsson and Gladwell in each of their writings. Ericsson’s usage of the rhetorical triangle to achieve persuasion evolved through her use of pathos and logos. These two aspects allowed Ericsson to capture her point that everyone lies, and that those lies can take on different forms. When an author appeals to the audiences’ emotions and their imaginative sympathies, they are alluring to the appeal of pathos.
Everyone dreams of being the perfect student by being extremely smart, and having the ability of wanting to complete assignments, read some interesting books, and studying to pass every test. In the “Scholarship Boy” this boy illustrates that being too book smart can affect one’s personal life. Rodriguez describes himself as a good student, but a troubled son.
I read the realistic fiction book Diary of a Wimpy kid Old School by Jeff Kinney. It has 230 pages in it. According a review on goodreads.com “it was a fun book.” I recommend this book to anybody who likes this type i also think this is for any age groups. The protagonist in the book is a boy named Greg.
Girls typically are assigned the role of caretaker and nurse for the younger children. The girls are trained to take care of the infants, which allows for the children’s mother to go out and gather. Boys are not typically given the role of caretaker for the younger siblings. This chore delegation forces girls to stay closer to the camp while the boys can venture farther off. In addition, this chore shapes passivity and a nurturing side in young girls, creating small gender roles at a young age.
The Boy at the Window written by Sue Smethurst is about a little boy who lived horrible ways and had died in a weird way. When I read this text I felt horrified for this little boy named Sam and his older brother named Andrew I felt this because these two little boys were kept away from the world by their mother, their birth was never registered, they never went to kindergarten or saw a doctor or was immunized. An example of this was how they were kept from society and did not go to school, their mother had written out fake school certificates and had made up homework sheets. They were only young but they still couldn’t say the alphabet. I felt that this was very different to what I have seen in my life because the people I know and meet would
The three modes of persuasion are ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos, pathos, and logos are used by individuals who desire to persuade an audience with a particular argument or claim. Persuasion techniques are often used by political figures, sales people, entrepreneurs, and just about anyone trying to persuade a target audience through emotions, character, and logic. The ad, I Am One, shows how these vehicles of persuasion are presented and used; rhetorical strategies like tone, attitude, and non-rhetorical strategies related, patriotism and history references.
Persuading by appealing to readers emotions. It depends on the language choice of affect to the audience's emotional response. Pathos can make the argument very strong. Many world class athletes have strength, focused on one goal and love is very common in sports today. Nike adds fuel to these emotions by adding ," just do it".
In this short story the Brownie troops at the summer camp appear either all black or all white, no mixed troop is present. This displays the constant segregation occurring and the influence it has on young children who are vulnerable to a racially segregated environment causing them to portray themselves a certain way. The black girls have little knowledge of people different than them, “When you lived in the south suburbs of Atlanta, it was easy to forget about whites. Whites were like those baby pigeons: real and existing, but rarely seen or thought about” (pg. 5), because of these girls have little contact with one another and the black girls are extremely conscious of the differences they posses. The feeling of differences comes from the world around them, what they hear and see affect their opinions tremendously.
These two examples show the conflicts caused by gender stereotypes, and how Scout goes against
Even though many students absolutely hate them, state assessments are a big part of the American education system. Everyone has taken a standardized test at some point in their life, and almost everyone has done poorly on one. They are primarily used as a measurement of how well students learn, but are they truly accurate? There are strong arguments on both sides, which has started a heated conflict about the productiveness of these tests. Standardized testing has been around for many years, starting in Imperial China where it was intended to determine a person’s aptitude for a government position (“Do Standardized Tests Show an Accurate View of Students’ Abilities?”).
