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This helps build of trust in her by revealing that she has also experienced how it feels being a parental figure to someone who was passed through school. It makes the older audience that have kids trust Sherry more as they relate to her, making her more credible to them. Sherry also uses other examples to make herself more
The second half of The Strength in What Remains, constitutes a returning of what has previously been mentioned in the book. The author, Tracy Kidder, uses material from his own experience to add to what has previously been mentioned in the beginning of the book. The second part of the story feels more personal; it is filled with unguarded moments that exemplify Deo’s strength, but also his trauma. Chapter thirteen consists of numerous statistics and facts (Kidder, 189-204). I liked the way Kidder placed these important facts intermittently to avoid making the story read like a history textbook.
Edna’s father, a former Colonel in the Confederate army, raised her daughter in a strict, military way. She was never allowed any freedom, very much similar to her relationship with her husband, and felt restrained. This key concept is stated in Dr. Firestone’s article published on pschologytoday.com entitled “7 Ways Your Childhood Affects How You'll Parent... and how you can break the cycle.” Here, Firestone addresses how challenges we faced growing up can determine what kind of parents we become. For example, in Edna’s case, she was denied her independence throughout her childhood.
This book is relevant today becuase it has important messages about bravery and putting things into action and exploring. I think these messages are important in current events today in many ways. One ways is that we always need to be brave in everything we do. Also we need to explore and see new thigs I the world to get a better understanding of different places in the world. That is how i think the messages in the book are relavent today.
The article, “Read, Kids, Read,” by Frank Bruni claims that reading is something everyone should do because it does things to your brain and helps raise your intelligence which are things that technology cannot do. This article relates to Mildred and Montag in Fahrenheit 451 and the fact that Mildred is obsessed with technology, meanwhile Montag is trying to figure out the meaning of books and trying to figure out how to read one. Bruni states that “...reading does things - to the brain, heart and spirit - that movies, television, video games and the rest cannot.” Mildred is so attached to technology and the televisions which she considers her “family”, that she is constantly traumatized by the tv shows and takes a lot sleeping
I had an ah!ha! moment when reading the introduction to How Children Succeed by Paul Tough. There was a lot of information in regards to the GED program and how it began. The purpose of the program made sense; however, I always wondered why those students who passed the test are less likely to go to college. The reasoning according to Heckman is, that they lacked important traits learned in high school for instance, “…an inclination to persist at a boring and often unrewarding task: the ability to delay gratification; tendency to follow through on a plan—also turned out to be valuable in college, in the workplace, an in life generally” (2012, pg. xix). Therefore, getting out of school sooner does not seem to work well because students are less likely to stick to the long years college may bring.
Montessori hopes this will connect with the readers more sensitive or humane sides in hopes that the reader will agree with her philosophy that is pushed all throughout the text In reference to how children should be raised. “What we all desire for yourself.. not to be disturbed..find hindrances.. this is what we need for happy companionship” Marias claims that children are due respect just as us adults. Finally, Maria and Colin may have opposing views when it comes to teaching kids, but they can still be connected with the others
Before going into depth of the children’s relationship with
An assignment is given and the children are not being honored for their similarities this time. Instead, ‘’’We honor your differences. They have determined your futures’ ... She mentioned how there was one who had singular skills at caretaking, another who loved new children, one with unusual
In today's society, bad things are constantly happening. It seems like society is constantly failing many people, specifically women: Brock Turner only gets 3 months in prison for raping an unconscious woman; the wage gap still exists; products marketed towards women are statistically more expensive than products marketed towards men; and a whole bunch of other things are stacked against women in today's society. Yes, the United States has more freedom than countries like Saudi Arabia in terms of treatment of women, but women in the United States still experience sexism. In Tina Fey's book, Bossypants, she explores the dark corners of sexism and society failing woman in relation to puberty and sexual health.
George Orwell says that he writes because he has a “Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.” In the book, How Children Succeed, Tough tries to push society into realizing that they have an effect on a child’s future. Tough accomplishes this goal by using setting, and studies and statistics as rhetorical strategies to provide his argument that the environment surrounding a child and how they’re raised can affect how successful they will be in adulthood. Each chapter of the book is broken down into mini chapters to help the reader better understand how to succeed.
Early literacy development is a central issue in current research and in the educational agenda. Although the bulk of research efforts has been devoted to early reading acquisition and the diverse consequences of reading failure, increasing attention is being paid to beginning writing as this is a crucial component of linguistic literacy (Myhill & Fisher, 2010; Ravid & Tolchinsky, 2002; Ritchtey, 2008). We focus on two components of writing: spelling and separation between words. Spelling relates to intra-word rules while separation between words relates to the rules defining the boundaries of the inter-word domain. The participants were tested in kindergarten and in first grade in both monolingual and bilingual communities in Spain.
By far chapter three, four and five have been my favorite. I was able to learn and understand more in depth the definition of what judgment of learning and the feeling of knowing really means. On chapter three I was able to learn about how people’s memory work while monitoring themselves. I find it interesting that we can monitor and measure what we have learned ourselves, to make sure that we are learning the correct information that we need to be learning, and if we are not, we can continue to study trying to remember the material that we need to master. While reading chapter four, the feeling of knowing and tip-of-the-tongue states, I learned how it is that people experience the feeling of knowing something, and it is just at the tip of
She also explained that children go through puberty they start going through different things in their life and they start questioning who they
I peeked out from behind Mom’s shorts and saw three ladies smiling down at me; Ms. Lucy, Ms. Brenda, and Ms. Linda. The first day of school had finally knocked on my door, and I was standing motionless on the other side, not quite ready to open it. I was terrified, because my supply of Mom’s hugs, kisses were running out. Her voice was already fading away. I was on my own now, facing the great unknowns of preschool.