Although this novel should be taught to high school students there are people that oppose teaching the book because of its crudeness and inappropriateness. Students’ parents often object to their child reading this book but the parents and students need to realize that this book is reality. During the time period that this book was written nearly every white person owned slaves. Luckily, however, our society today has grown away from slavery and this book enforces the history of our country and the history of slavery and racism. Twain even shows Huck’s sensitive side toward African Americans when Huck says, “I wouldn’t done
I actually think that the white teenager wouldn’t be able to see why the colored boy was hurt, they would just brush it off and give an explanation like “oh the teacher didn’t mean it like that”. Secondly, I feel that because history has had such segregation, either by race, religion or by class, people feel as if they would be going against the norm and what society wants from them. History has taught us that the black people go here and the white people go there so that is what is ingrained in our minds. Also we are taught from a young age to marry our own kind and have the same colored children, for example, look at Barbie and ken dolls; they are the perfect white couple, and do you ever see a five year old white girl holding a black baby doll?. So because people are exposed to segregation at such a young age, when a intermarried
As a child, Tan is embarrassed by her mother’s difficulty in language and eventually she sees growing up the child of an Asian immigrant home as the reason she struggled in school to excel in reading and writing. She comes to see the language barrier between parent and child as the reason other children of Asian immigrants struggle with language academically and as the reason why those children are seen to excel in math and science. Eventually Tan is successful in becoming an accomplished author. Her mother has great pride in her work, despite the barriers between the English her mother speaks and the proper English used by an author. It is in this separation of language that Tan comes to realize that there may not be one proper English.
“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
Even her daughter as well as society later refers her mothers English as broken. And because of that in her younger years, Amy felt somewhat embarrassed by her mothers English. And felt that her view of her mother was legit because of instances as such in (3rd paragraph 507). “I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear
Asian pupils were found to also be the victims of racism in school, especially girls as Wright found (1992), saying that teachers leave Asian children out of classroom discussions and speak to them in childish language, isolating them from the other children and making them feel uncomfortable in school. The main way which racism causes difference in educational achievement between social classes is through things like streaming and exclusions. Black children were more often excluded than white children found Jenny Bourne (1994), this means they spend less time in school and therefore achieve lower on their exams than other groups. Evaluating the impact of racism in schools however, leads to research into student responses. Mac an Ghaill (1992) found that black and Asian students at a sixth form college did not always accept the label given to them by racist teachers.
In society today there are still problems of hate crimes towards people of different races and religions. We were taught in secondary school about the past and about Martin Lither King Jr. and the civil rights movement but we were taught that from an outside view. This book shows the reader how hard it really was and how difficult it is for Ruth and her family to live in the time period and have their view of it, instead of taking an educated guess on how they felt and how it affected them. In many cases it’s difficult for anyone especially Caucasians to understand how it feels to be discriminated against. The in the book there is a part where he talks about how he wants African American children to see how it was
Furthermore a lie is about simply being selfish. A person can be lying about his qualifications just to get to that stage where he is recognized by the others. He might be suffering later on, however. If a person is short of patience, he will use all sorts of reasons to lie and just to get away from others. This way he will not waste his time and not making a bad impression on other people as well.
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.
She couldn’t answer my question. Even my friends and classmates were confused.” After failing the English portion of the proficiency test twice, Nichols moves onto her senior year in high school. She “barely passed the twelfth-grade proficiency test, and was placed in developmental writing in college.” I can relate to this story because there were times in my life where I felt that my skill levels were very high, and some obscure calculated measurement contradicted my beliefs. In Nichols case, she was still bothered by this