They ask the question, “Have we the right to demand, and to expect, that we be loved?” (282) All the girls wanted was to be socially accepted and to be treated fairly politically after the hard work they gave back to the nation. In the essay “By Any Other Name” by Rama Rau, is an excellent imagery from a child’s prospective of the affects of cultural adversity and discrimination. The essay leads us to a story of two little girls transitioning into a school that is culturally judgmental and accepting. When the first day of school arrives, the girls are offended when the teacher says, “Suppose we give you pretty English names. Wouldn’t that be much more jolly?” (2).
As I grew older, I began to question why my mother would give such bizarre advice. I did not think there was anything wrong with my Persian boyfriend, but my mother thought otherwise. It was from then on that I realized; when someone is prejudice against your race or culture, it can be extremely difficult to change his or her negative opinion about you. When Pat Sumi is retelling her childhood, she tells Ryan Yokota, “It was not a negative stereotype, but it was a stereotype nonetheless and it made me aware at a very early age how your looks and your background could be twisted by people who wanted to make assumptions” (Interview with Pat Sumi, Yokota p.17). In the past, I have never really considered stereotypes as being either positive or negative, it was always just negative to me.
Some of her arguments were to the effect that if we take away birth control, girls will end up with more diseases and it won’t stop them from having sexual intercourse. She also showed the opposite side with saying that if we take it away they will stop having sex, but she then over-rode that with stating that they won’t stop, and it will just entail cause more problems. * Were the speaker’s
Managing Failure in your Life In “Proficiency” essay by Shannon Nichols, the narrator explains how a failure in a test changed her motivation and enthusiasm about writing. She was always a great student, very smart, and confident about her ability to write and read, until she took this proficiency test, which is a test to decide whether or not students may receive a high school diploma. She could not believe it the first time; in fact, she knew writing was one of her strengths, so failing that part of the test was something highly unexpected. But, even harder to believe was the second time she did not pass the test. After that, she felt like a big failure; moreover, she quitted trying so hard and stopped taking English seriously, but her biggest worry was that she never knew why she didn’t pass that test.
She states that if we continue to participate we will be a “repressive society” which to me seems very one sided, she speaks to everyone in this essay, because she wants everyone to know that if you participate in the pc, we are not only being ridiculous but we are being a “repressive society.” This essay, or what seems to be an essay, is not an effective argument because of the way she argues, she does not see things from both sides, but she chooses to voice her side and why she thinks it is ridiculous! By just reading the essay once, made me believe that this is not a great essay or argumentative essay why? Because she just argues her point and not seeing it through how other people think of it, just her point of view. As I have stated in my introduction,
When Fowler could not offer marriage, she quickly jumped to Pyles side. He was young and promised a new beginning. When the two men couldn’t reach a decision, Phuong made a decision that gave her the most security. A jump that huge didn't seem to impact her in the slightest, this showing that the person she is around conflict isn't the “fragile, birdlike” creature that Phoung is usually. Another woman taking conflict into her own hands is Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani advocate for girls’ education.
Summer Reading 2013 “Stargirl” 7) During the novel after Stargirl returns to being “Susan” Leo says that she looked magnificently, wonderfully, gloriously ordinary. Just like every other girl Mica High School. When I read this part of the novel I felt that it was unfair to Stargirl. He changed her so that the people at school would start talking to him again. But, what he didn’t realize was maybe that wasn’t the person Stargirl wanted to be.
We were finally released for recess and I decided to see how Scout was doing. I snuck away from the safety zone of my fifth grade peers to where the first graders were huddled. I pulled Scout away from them and asked her how her day was coming along. She was very upset about how her new teacher had been teaching them. By the way she made her teacher out to be I would’ve assumed she was the devil if I didn’t know how mellow dramatic my sister could be.
“The truth was, she’d been able to leave Constance- apparently because she was considered a bad influence on the other girls. Jenny hadn’t thought she was being a bad influence at all- she was just trying to have fun, like every other girl at school.” Drama, lies, and gossip; these are all used in The it Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar as foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is the act of hinting toward something that will happen in the future. This always keeps you guessing and wondering what will happen next. The foreshadowing in this story, although blatant, will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The barriers that undocumented students face in their path to a higher education can be overcome with the help of the Federal Government. And these can be done by passing a bill that helps undocumented students with there financial and illegal difficulties. For many years the U.S. has made it hard for undocumented students to attend college, and all because of their illegal status. These are undocumented students whose illegal status didn’t matter as they attended elementary school. But all of that changes on the day that they reach senior year in high school at the process of filling out the college application and financial-aid forms.