Just before World War I started Bishop joined the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario in 1911. Bishop was not very successful in his first year, because he had poor grades, and also he never took interest in sports or the important things of college that will make him improve in his first year. When Bishop moved on to his second year he was very thriving because he paid attention to all his goals that he wanted to achieve, and sports, however at the end he passed with great marks. Although he finished his second year with terrific grades he still got caught cheating in his final year. Even though he was caught cheating, he still got enlisted in the Mississauga Horse of Toronto, because World War I.
D.B Caulfield is Holden’s older brother, Holden looks up to D.B but is disappointed about D.B decision to go Hollywood, as Holden thinks it is an act similar to prostitution. Holden goes to school in Pennsylvania, not far from New York. The school is called Pencey Prep, plus it’s a private school for boys so you wouldn’t of thought he flunked school. Holden had many problems a school. This novel has very significant features, from ducks and fishes to red hunting hats.
In the two essays, "I just wanna be average" by Mike Rose and "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X, both show personal experiences of how they educated themselves. Both of them are true believers that education is not just about getting a degree. It is rather the curiosity and motivation to learn more . The freedom that given a person in what these both authors strived for. Both MacFarland and Bimbi inspired the two author’s to actually want to read, to learn.
But it wasn’t just the Freedom Riders Shuttlesworth helped. Fred Shuttlesworth also had founded the SCLC[Southern Christian Leadership Conference] with the men Ralph D. Abernathy and more famously, Martin Luther King Jr. The man had even put his family at risk for civil rights by having his three children integrate into a previously all-white school. The main thing about this was the fact that his children were alone, they had no other colored people in their school except for each other. But the actions taken against him were more drastic than his
Simon ends up taken coops girlfriend from him. Then after Simon finds out secrects abouts his new friends, He uncovers a dangersous and burtal side that no one likes. Glass got so cought up into his new friends that he cheated for Coop on his ACT and changed his grades in the computer so that he could take a different class, with his father knowing. Althought Simon was a nerd, he was independently wealthy .Simon starts turn his new friends agaisnt each other. Simons smarts was going to take him far in life, but who know that his new friends was going to bring it to an end very fast.
Coach Stanfield from Simmons College believes that Jabarri has a lot of potential in basketball but the only problem are his grades and how Jabarri's not willing to work hard enough to earn the grades he needs to play ball. Coach Stanfield is offering Jabarri a good future because he's willing to help Jabarri with his grades in school and let him pursue his dreams for basketball. Stanfield is ranked 25th in the NCAA and believes that it will take a lot of hard work for Jabarri to excel in school and get drafted for the NBA at the same time. He will also suffer the consequences if he doesn't make those good grades in which he would not be able to play on the Simmons College team for a season or two. Stanfield has Jabarri's best interest because he's seen talented athletes but they crumble under the academic pressure or just quit school when they don't get drafted in the NBA.
When I was in the high school, my father and I did not get along with each other. What my father told me did not make sense to me, and what I say did not seem to make sense to my father. I thought his ideas were too obsolete. The time has changed; what was true when my father was young is no longer true. However, as I attend college and live by myself, I realized he was right to some extent, and his words came out because he also cared about my future as much as I do.
My UCOR 101 teacher scrutinized the first paper that I wrote and he could tell it was written the night before and even referred to it as a high school paper. My first attempt at a college paper resulted in a bad grade and I knew changes had to be made for my second paper.
He graduated from junior high at the top of his class. However, when a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger," Malcolm lost interest in school. With his teacher successfully putting an end to his dreams of a rightful career, Malcolm decided to forgo the continuance of education and began his criminal ways that ultimately resulted in his incarceration. If Malcolm X was alive today it would have been easier for him to teach himself to read and write with all the advancements in technology. TV and images from magazines and newspapers may be more inspiration to learn than just Bimbi’s ability to converse with a high level of intellect.
He is also a student in Ben Ross’s History class and is most optimistic about what the “Wave” could achieve in there football team. Robert Billings: Is known as the outsider in the History class of Ben Ross because he is shy and weak. He is also a senior student at Gordon High. Robert Billings would rather give up then live in the shadows of his older brother and is tormented by it. The “Wave” gives Robert confidence and a sense of belonging.