Unfathomable Inches Root causes of the culture gap between home and school for America’s poorest children Ako Onyango Coppin State University 2012 To open the movie 300 there was, glossed over, the revolting revelation of a barbaric practice of the culture being glorified there. It involved the inspection of all newborns by officials who would make immediate, unalterable, decisions about an infant’s fitness to join the society. The alternative, if found unfit, was a grizzly postpartum abortion. The idea that otherwise healthy children should be casually hurled from a cliff at the whim of an elitist society persists today, policy makers sit in judgment, and that cliff, the status quo they help maintain. In under privileged
Sarah jackson 12/13/2010 Ms. Heilman This essay "A Letter to America," by Margaret Atwood had a creative format in which it was written as a letter for the authorities. And ordinary citizens of America to demonstrate that at one point in our history we had ideals about a fair nation of peace and freedom. But somehow has lost its way, and become too involved in our military and engaged in much political and business fraud. In this sense Atwood describes she is embarrassed with what America has done especially because many people and countries have aspired to American ideals. This article also reminded me of Churchill's essay in which America has the tendency to "[...] grab stuff other people produce, at our gunboat-diplomacy prices[...]" (5) or "gutting the Constitution" (5),meaning underhandedly putting aside the private rights of citizens in order to so called keep the nation "safe".
In ther essay, Winn describes television as a “decline of family life in America” and “damaging to family relationships”. Although she obtains strong supporting evidence within her work, I find pleasure in contradicting her opinion as she misinterprets the influence of television upon American families. In her essay she states her opinion of television’s influence upon modern day families. Winn questions her readers as she uses the statements, ”When do they talk about what they did that day? When do they make plans, exchange, views, share jokes, tell about their triumphs or little disasters?
The reason why I chose them as the protagonist is they are the ones that want change, they want to push this story forward with cleaning up the world and have the older generations man up to their mistakes and do something about it. 3. The antagonist in this story is people who do not wish for change because they don’t want change to happen due to different reasons. She talks about how a poor child who doesn’t have anything would be willing to give away everything and asks the question “why are we who have everything so greedy?” She also reminds them that in kindergarten that they are taught to clean up our mess but haven’t they gone out and done the things that the younger generation is taught. 4.
By being different you were considered to be, “God’s mistake” and were victimized for your deformity and sent to live in the Fringes. In the novel, we recognize a similarity that parallels our modern society, yet in the realm of the novel, punishments and consequences are significantly more severe. These similarities and differences are demonstrated throughout the novel, by the actions of individuals; their moral values and beliefs dealing with religion, and the concept of love. Growing up in the twenty-first century, many are very accepting of the diverse and unique people there are. By being a different race, worshipping another religion, or by looking a different way, people are raised to be culturally accepting of others.
Joe Blommel Debating American Family Life Michael Hillary The American Family: Dynamically Adaptive or Consistently Declining? There has been much discussion concerning the contemporary American family and the ever-increasing complexity by which it is arranged. Some would argue that by simply drawing mainly on U.S. Census data, we could easily sketch the conclusion that there has been an extraordinarily steep declination associated with the American family since the 1960’s. Folks like David Popenoe are quick to identify the consequential attributes of this decline, characteristics, which he believes greatly contribute to many of the societal issues we face as a country today. Others, however, would argue that the American family
Considered by most to be the backbone of America, it is how we socially and culturally indoctrinate our offspring so they are able to become a functional member of society. A lack of a full family is often cited as the reason that children end up as criminals or delinquents. The notion of family being the birthplace of problems is not even something most people could find feasible, which is what makes Barbara Ehrenreicht's essay "Are Families Dangerous?" seem a bit out in left field to most readers. But upon closer inspection and reflection into ones own family life, and the lives of those around them, Ehrenreicht's essay begins to make a lot more sense.
Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Boese, E. (2011) Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students? In Reid, S. The Prentice Hall Essential Guide for College Writers (pp. 342-348) Englewood Cliffs. NJ: Prentice Hall. In his essay, “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students” Colorado State University student Eric Boese (2011) passionately expresses his assertions that standardized testing is degrading the quality of American education; he argues (specifically with the intent to persuade readers and in particular test policy setting politicians) that standardized tests are too difficult and fail to properly measure and motivate the qualitative performance of both teacher and student.
In sociology I learned that in different race, cultures, and Religion we talk about the issues that arises in today’s society and wish we can put a stop to the act Of war, racism, and segregation that is happening today. I learned that if you want to make it in this World we got to put a stop to all the fighting and make peace with each other, and stop the killing it Starts with the parents instead of teaching them how to be racism, teach them how to love one another. Because that’s the only way for this world to be more peaceful, our babies is to young and inexperience for this
The stingy, exclusive, and stigmatizing character of welfare in the United States is the product of successive and increasingly powerful waves of welfare cutbacks. In effort to overhaul government programs, many activists and politicians need to promote a second “New Deal”. Specifically to address the needs of poor single mothers who struggle to find work, make ends meet and take care of their children so they are not so isolated (Reese, 204). The goals of the ‘New Deal’ would be to increase access to jobs, education and training; to help workers make ends meet and balance their obligations to work and family (Reese,