In the article “I Just Wanna Be Average”, Mike Rose describes about the changes that occurred in his life by undertaking challenges in achieving an education. Mike Rose was a smart kid who was accidentally placed in lower division classes due to mixing of placement test results between two students with similar names. Instead of complaining about it, he deals with whatever he was offered with. Mike Rose describes his school as a "a place for those who are just not making it, a dumping ground for the disaffected. " There were times when he had to drop his level down just to be on the same level as other kids were.
Mason White Ms. Edoff Writing February 13, 2017 This short story is called “7th Grade” by Gary Soto. This is a short story about a boy, Victor, who is going through seventh grade. He likes a girl, Teresa, and is trying to impress her. He tries to impress her by acting tough and pretending to know french in French class.
When everyone gets first place, does anyone truly win? “A’s for Everyone!” by Alicia Shepard is a persuasive essay discussing how grade inflation affects professors at a collegiate level. Shepard’s credentials are satisfactory: she is a journalism professor who’s experienced demanding students first-hand. These students believe they are entitled to receive A grades, regardless of their exam scores.
In “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Mike Rose explains the experience being part of a school system that had no prior knowledge to have educators to teach students. Rose supports his claims by describing the different situations he had to encounter with the lack of the school system, the hopelessness of the teachers and his peers, that lead those students with no support to lead them in a direction of success. Rose purpose is to point out that; all that it was needed was a teacher that cared enough to teach and to influence those students to succeed and to never hinder the student’s learning experience because anything is possible with an little of an encouragement. In the 8th paragraph in “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Rose describes what it felt like
How could the school and parents of the teen-agers help their children to stop doing the high risk things? Elizabeth Kolbert did describe how the teenagers do dangerous things and cite lots of authority people’s words to prove that points in the article “Terrible Teens”. We are still on the way to stop the teenagers doing the things what will endanger themselves. Using appeal to authority, repetition and personification devices to show the teenagers are really dangerous without adult stay with them and make the reader feel the same with the author. Elizabeth Kolbert did use personification,repetition devices and appeal to authority in his story to make the article more clearly and through to our life.
Additionally, Miller discusses the dangers of parties and social gatherings, where the prevalent culture often trivializes consent and exposes girls to sexual violence. The girls respond by staying close to trusted friends or avoiding these events altogether, strategies that decrease harm and limit their social and recreational interactions. Societal norms and peer dynamics also heavily influence teenage girls' dating experiences. They encounter various individuals, from peers to romantic partners, navigating between the "cool pose" and the "splay role" expectations. The "cool pose" reflects toughness or stoicism, while the "splay role" embodies submission to traditional gender roles.
Lorena Garcia wrote “She is Old School Like That,” this piece is about sex talks between mothers and daughters in the Latin American community. She examines the way which these talks are given and at what point in the life of the daughters they are given. Garcia points to the different methodology the Latina mothers used when talking to their daughters, and their reactions when they found out their daughters were engaging in sexual activity. Garcia claims that there is a certain pattern in which the Latina mothers behave. These women are the operation with a new definition of sexuality influenced and shaped by the heteronormative and patriarchal society.
“A’s for Everyone” by Alicia Shepard explains how students challenge their professors to receive no less than an A. These students crave and demand to sustain the top grades, despite their efforts not matching the award. Shepard expresses distress and shock through her experiences as a rookie professor. In the beginning of the article, Shepard is first introduced the reality of students pressuring to get an A in a disrespectful manner. She encounters the college undergraduates to boost their letter grade and will not settle for less.
The short story “So What Are You Anyway” By Lawrence Hill is about a young girl named carol who boards a plane and is seated next to a couple that is a little too comfortable when talking to a child. The couple Mr. and Mrs. Norton Make very crude comments that carole senses are dirty questions. Carole handles this as best she can by telling them to stop and screaming “leave me alone.” The stewardess then asks her if she wanted to move and she gladly accepts and moves her seat next to the stewardess. There are numerous examples of social issues in this story and the first one has to do with race.
In the op-ed “The Joy of Communal Girlhood, the Anguish of Teen Girls” by Jessica Bennett (New York Times 12/22/2023) she claims that girlhood masks the reality of being a girl yet, over the course of the article, explores the idea of girl trends having a positive impact. Bennett saw girlhood as a fantasy and used a study showing girls were facing double the sadness and hopelessness as boys. Social media seems to have a huge impact on girls' mental health because of the anxiety associated with it. However, she reveals that in the 90s prior to social media, there was a false sense of self and that today's society is a manifestation of that. After analyzing her protest against glorifying girlhood, Bennett questions herself and sees that these
Nishka Maheshwary Jackie Reitzes Writing the Essay Section 50 28 April 2015 Exercise 5 Dear Adya, Recently, I have been reading a collection of essays by Ellen Willis that I have found to be quite intriguing. No More Nice Girls explores sex, gender, and feminism over a variety of essays, and displays a strong tension between how most feminists/activists believe action should be taken and what the author herself believes should be done regarding the issue. In each essay Willis confronts liberal and cultural feminism, and critiques the progress that has been made over time through her diction and witty questions, thus allowing the reader to see her true intentions of the argument. Willis strongly opposes the idea of cultural feminism,
Gender Issues Poetry Analysis There has always been discrimination against one group or another. Some of the most prevalent issues are gender based - society places body standards for men and women alike. Katie Makkai’s poem, “Pretty,” paints a vivid picture about such standards through the perspective of a young women. The narrator in the poem is a girl who grows older as the poem progresses who has a mother that is obsessed with body image and it wore off on her daughter. When she was just a young girl, her mother criticized her looks and wanted to have her “imperfections” fixed.
The documentary, Merchants of cool, describes an evolving relationship between the vast teenage population and corporate America. The film provides an in-depth look at the marketing strategies and communication between these groups. Adolescents are shown as learners and adapters of the fast-paced world; they’re constantly exposed to fashions and trends. These young adults have a lot of disposable income and are willing to spend it, in order to gain social popularity. In other words, they are chasing ‘cool’.
Introduction The film, Mean Girls, a 2004 American teen comedy, focuses on female high school social “cliques” and their effects. In doing so, the movie brings up various topics of sociological relevance, with connections to two of the main topics discussed in the first semester of this course. This film’s characters and world tie into modern socialization and gender issues, giving sociologists a satirical in-depth view of the social hierarchy present in today’s youth—particularly concentrated in young female teenagers. The movie addresses gender stereotypes, socialization and assimilation into a complex high school environment, self-fulfilling prophecy, and various other concepts important to the development of a social self for teens in the
People act and behave in ways that allow them to fit or blend in, not stand out. This behavior, being part of my culture, is not exclusive to me. In fact, it’s not exclusive to anyone at all. Everytime I ache to be myself, and behave in a way that is natural to me, society hands me an antidote.
