Monday February 18, 2013 Essay An Education Problem Author Mary Sherry In the Praise of the F Word The author Mary Sherry is a school teacher and mother who believes in flunking students that are not motivated to master the basic skills in reading, writing and math. She thinks many high school students are cheated by the educational system that graduates them, lacking these basic skills. Also, she feels students should have these basic academic skills before they enter into the real world of college or employment. The author states the lack of not having the basic skills can lead to many social, educational and financial problems later down the road. She understands that people come from different environments and everyone can learn; they just need to be motivated.
Lily is a 7 year old girl living in Hunan, China (very rural) during the 19th century. The first struggle the girls go through separately is the Chinese foot binding process. Lilly's feet were "perfect" and the match maker said she could find her a good family. After that is completed Lily was assigned Snow Flower as her lao tong. Lilly was worried about this because Snow Flower was from a higher class than her.
They seem to be psychologically stable but in reality unsatisfied with their occupations. Elisa is an artist living expressing herself through her flowers. Her house is neat and well organized and she looks happy. In reality she envies the tinker living as a free man on the road even if he has no education and sleeps in his wagon. Miss Brill reads the newspaper to an old man 4 times a week and teaches but all she tends to have interest in is to watch people’s life as a play.
She states multiple times that the children within the education system are being cheated every day because they are not being forced to read more difficult books. “Such benefits are denied to the young reader exposed only to books with banal, simple-minded moral equations as well as to the student encouraged to come up with reductive, wrong-headed readings of mulitlayered texts” (Prose 97). The reader can blatantly see that Prose thinks negatively of the high school curriculum that today's students face. It seems clear that Prose does not want to hide her personal view or feelings, so she starts her essay out in a way that we do not have to read between the lines to get a sense of how she feels about what she is writing. She uses more emotional language when she says, "The intense loyalty adults harbor for books first encountered in youth is one probable reason for the otherwise baffling longevity of vintage mediocre novels, books that teachers may themselves have read in adolescence"(Prose
When the story starts out, the daily routine of school sounds like a chore for Tommy, like it is for most kids. His teacher Mr. Hibler is a normal teacher who teaches without any emphasis and doesn’t really get the students motivated to learn. Instead, he takes forty five minute intervals for each lesson such as arithmetic, social studies, and spelling. While Mr. Hibler is teaching he begins to catch a cough, hacking loudly throughout the class. One student tries to make a bet with Tommy for a dime on whether or not their teacher would be sick the next day.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I. Discover Moses and the Bulrushers (pg 1) Huckleberry Finn is kept by a widow who provides for his schooling and life necessities but he hates being mannered and wants to runaway all the time. The widow’s sister – “a tolerable slim old maid” – teachers him the Bible and Huck soon finds it pointless to learn about “dead people” but would only stand all these miseries because he wants to join Tom Sawyer’s gang in the robbing business (2). II. Our Gang’s Dark Oath (pg 4) Tom Sawyer calls Huckleberry Finn out and they are almost caught by the slave Jim, who is famous “because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches” (6).
She is awestruck at how much her little sister had grown up. Words such as “needlepoint,” “little” scissors, and “fine” wires, display delicacy which relates to Maria Teresa and her womanhood. However, despite the fact that Maria Teresa had matured into a woman fighting for a movement, she is not yet fully independent and is restrained from gaining her independence. As a woman, even while fighting in a revolutionary movement, she is expected to do the household chores. Why is Maria Teresa immediately put to housework?
The governess is then convinced that the ghosts are seeking the children with the intention of corrupting them. She wants to protect the children and starts guarding them fiercely. When the governess first meets Miles and Flora, she is instantly struck by how innocent and unusually well-mannered they are. However, she soon becomes suspicious of them and believes that they want to deceive her. The governess constantly switches from doubting the children to loving them.
Housework was a very important task and women were supposed to take great joy in it. Upper and middle class girls were taught from a young age the skills they would need in order to keep a happy, healthy, peaceful home. While the outside world and working force were definitively male, the home was considered to be a feminine place. The outside world was evil and full of sin and wrongdoing, but the home was a moral haven (MacKethan). Husbands went to work in the corrupt world of industry, so they were meant to come home, decompress, and once again become attuned with their compassionate side.
In Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter, which is written by the author in a third person point of view, reveals the journey of self-maturing and self-enrichment of both the younger Jade character and older Jade Snow Wong narrator, it is like a biography. In this paper, I want to show how education, both formal and informal, plays a very important role in Jade’s life. Jade also struggles to maintain her unique idea of a good life, and with incredible determination she strongly resists many outside forces trying to keep her locked in a suffocating environment. Writing from a third person’s point of view allows me to see exactly what is happening in Jade Snow Wong’s life. Chinatowns were formed for many of the same reasons as other areas of large cities like the Irish areas in Boston and the little Italy section of North Beach.