She was the first African-American female secretary of state, and the first woman to serve the position as national security advisor during president Bush’s first term. The sender in this speech is Condoleezza Rice herself, due to the purpose that she is the spokesperson. The receivers in this speech are the graduates who in this case are the listeners. The commencement speech by Condoleezza Rice took place on May 12 2012, and is entirely referring to the graduates of Southern Methodist University. The speech contains different elements such as: passion, love, future and other important features that will help the graduates to build a new life after their graduation.
It was sensitive of the teacher to consider any language barrier by having translators present at this speech. By staying after school until 8pm the teacher is giving an opportunity to all of her students and parents to have a chance to come by personally after work to have a meeting. If the teacher cannot make herself available to her students parents she is less likely to be affective. By giving out handouts it can act as an icebreaker for some parents, as well as, more importantly continue to help parents feel more directly involved with their childs education. I believe the affect a translator has on parents is obvious, for parents of students who are learning English themselves it is paramount to any real communication.
Myung-Ok Lee’s opinion is expressed as a prior public school student, as an author, and as a writing teacher at Brown University (2011). Myung-Ok Lee’s reminisces her experience as a shy Asian student in high school in northern Minnesota around thirty years ago. Myung-Ok Lee benevolently recalls her American Literature teacher who deviated from her typical lesson plan to give Myung-Ok Lee a special assignment, separate from what the other students were receiving. That assignment gave Myung-Ok Lee the confidence and encouragement to continue writing. It’s apparent in Myung-Ok Lee’s article of her subjectivity towards the topic as she writes, “If we want to understand how much teachers are worth, we should remember how much we were formed by our own schooldays.”(2011).
One negative aspect of stereotypes is that they can be judgmental and limiting of persons as individuals. Persons can be judged by stereotypes and not allowed to just be who they are. There are negative things like racial profiling, and hate groups that develop around stereotypes. People can sometimes also begin to embrace and become the stereotypes in which they fall, given too much pressure or implication. Part III Define stereotypes and prejudice.
Angelou writes about the excitement that she felt as she prepared to graduate from her school in Stamps, Georgia. The excitement was not felt by Angelou alone, it was buzzing among the entire graduating class as well as the members of the community. Angelou discusses the hard work that had gone into preparing for the graduation. Her mother went to great lengths to embellish her graduation dress with a “braided pattern” on the sleeve, and the pastor preached on about the graduation the Sunday before. Her brother even saved his money and bought her a gift to honor her very special day.
Victoria Guillermo Period 5 1/11/13 English 10P Book Review on Speak by Laurie Anderson In Speak by Laurie Anderson, Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year at Merryweather High School. The summer before her freshman year, a traumatizing event happened to her at a party her friends took her to, which caused Melinda to become the social reject of her town. Melinda constantly isolates herself from the cruel, harsh world. Speak gives you inspiration to those who need to speak up for themselves, those who need courage for any situation and for those who just need to know they’re not alone in what they’re going through in this judgmental society we live in today. The author, Laurie Anderson did an amazing job on capturing the true aura and essences of high school life for the untypical teenager.
Fall 2012 College Composition I: ENG101 Argumentative Essay Two Assignment Specifications: 550-700 word essay, titled, double-spaced, MLA format Topic: Using our focus essays from “A Casebook on Bullying” (p 473-483) and Mean Girls, compose an argumentative essay answering one of the following questions: 1. Cady, the movie’s main character, navigates her way through high school, while encountering many different classifications of students and teachers. Her story begins with outsider status, but soon she is the Queen Bee of the “The Plastics.” Based on our class discussions, the readings, and the movie, is Cady truly a “mean girl?” Or does that title fall onto someone else? Use specific examples, quotes, or film scenes to answer
When Angelou was 12 years old an educated black woman from Stamps by the name of Bertha Flowers helped her to break this silence. Angelou graduated at the top of her Morrison 2 eighth grade class in Stamps, Arkansas. Because of the racial issues in Stamps, their grandmother thought it was in the best interest of the children to move them to California. Angelou attended George Washington High School where she studied dance, music and drama. At the age of seventeen Angelou graduated from high school and gave birth to a son Guy Bailey Johnson.
Ronna Fisher Dr. Pam Bracken CCS 1313 18 September 2010 Unconscious Plagiarism? Picture this: It is 1930; Nell Larsen, at the top of her game in the Harlem renaissance writing community, publishes a short story titled “Sanctuary” about the Southern social, economic and racial struggles in the Magazine Forum. Three months later the editors are contacted by readers about the similarity between Larsen’s story and another story, “Mrs. Adis” by Sheila Kaye-Smith that was published in Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in 1922 (Hoeller 82-101; Larson 421-435). Would Nell Larsen truly jeopardize her up-and-coming career to plagiarize a story that shared the same readers or did she just unconsciously mimic the plotline?
Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships, graduating in 1965. Alice Walker volunteered in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia, and went to work after college in the Welfare Department in New York City. Alice Walker married in 1967 (and divorced in 1976). Her first book of poems came out in 1968 and her first novel just after her daughter's birth in 1970.