Abbys Lament Reaction Paper Every day, society is changing by setting new laws, political structures and upgrading everything around us. Who’s really in control of this power? After reading Abby’s Lament: Does Literacy Matter by Robert P. Yagelski, it seems correct that at a young age kids are all “irrelevant” after all, what’s the purpose of learning to read and write if it has little power in the life outside of school. I agree with Yagelski even though Abby feels irrelevant in the “political and institutional society” there is no reason for her to stop her education “Literacy does constitute power.” (pg. 4) I remember in elementary teachers would tell me “You can be anything you want to even the President of the United States.” I know I’m sure not the President now, but that did not stop me from pursuing a higher education and moving forward.
Kendra Professor Ball English 101 18 Sept. 2012 Kindergarten to Cashier: No One Told Me I Had Other Options Education is not about limiting people by their race, class or beliefs. Education is meant to expand children’s minds, excite them about the world, and to help them to find their strengths and passions in life. Are our urban schools standardizing our children and predetermining their career choices based on local business demand (Kozol 335)? Analysis of both Mike Rose’s “Blue-Collar Brilliance” and Jonathan Kozol’s “Preparing Minds for Markets”, reveals that groups of people are being limited by social, professional, racial, as well as cultural prejudices. In Rose’s essay, he argues that much of the skills acquired in blue-collar work are learned on the job.
“A Minnesota teacher of seventh and ninth grades says that she has to spend extra time in class editing papers and must 'explicitly' remind her students that is is not acceptable to use text slang and abbreviations in writing” (Cullington 89). Also, “many complain that because texting does not stress the importance of punctuation, students are neglecting it in their formal writing” (Cullington 89). These points are valid, but the evidence is limited because it is based on a few personal experiences, rather then a large study with much more research.
This inflates questions about the ethics of children’s marketing and its impact on the health and well being of kids. The documentary Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood focuses directly on the huge impact this is making. You are what you buy; you are what you own, if you don’t have it you are seen as less fortunate than others. What you buy is who you are. Education and consumerism blindly targets you and is easily mistaken for happiness and satisfaction.
* This theory is very accurate to everyday life in the nursery. The children are playing and exploring in a room which is set up with the according to the curriculum , they are free to play how they like at their own pace. Teachers should not tell the child how to play. for example, the teacher should not force the child to push a toy car to follow the road pattern. But if the child is using the toy in the wrong way like throwing it, then the teacher can correct him.
So i can say that in this class, ideology impacted me to an extent, but in certain areas, its still undefined for me. Though my education and how i can ideologically apply it to literature is still undefined, I can easily say that i really enjoyed this class. I walked out knowing more than i did when i came in, and it also altered the way i view things such as friends, family, work, religion and so on. I could never study ideology itself and truly be interested but i am very glad that i was given an opportunity to learn that there are other ways of viewing everyday
English 2 07 May 2013 False Impressions In the autobiography Hunger Of Memory, written by Richard Rodriguez the book recounts his personal experience of his education starting in childhood all the way to adulthood. Although Rodriguez has had much success as a student and as a writer, he always felt misplaced among is peers. Rodriguez argues to be successful students in the classroom that they need to sever their familial and cultural ties, especially if their home lives are very different from what they experience at school. Additionally, Rodriguez claims that our standards of beauty often determine our sense of worth in society. In reading the book I found fallacies that Rodriguez had in his writings, which included
Positive ads such as “friends don’t let friends drive drunk” and the NAACP slogan “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” will help raise the conscience level of young people and make them think more about how their actions affect other people. Making advertisements such as this government promoted and allowing them to air during the peak viewing hours of television will expose them to a large group of the target population. Since the emergence of facebook, youtube, blogging, vloging etc children have been exposed to more than they have ever been in the past. The big powerhouse sites such as
In my class and staying in the ESL class only became harder and harder for me to bear. I knew I could speak, but being called out every day for the ESL class reminded me of my struggle. Without question, I always read, I listened to everything in English and I also joined an after school-tutoring
We sat down and worked out a solution we ordered a new computer, we only hope this helps us get more college work done and in a timely manner leaving us with less stress. Loosing days at work to go to school has put a huge struggle on me even though I know school is important. But having less money come in is a huge stressor that I have not found a way to deal with except telling myself that after I get an education I will get a better job. After sitting down and thinking very hard about this I have developed my action plan. One big thing that seems to help people deal with stress is going to the gym.