“I had memorized the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Roosevelt in chronological as well as alphabetical order”this shows that she was pretty smart. “Our speaker tonight, who is also our friend came from Texarkana to deliver the commencement address,” who knew all graduators dreams were about to come crushing down like rain. “The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galileos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Gauguins, and our boys would try to be Jesse Owenses and Joe Louises.” The man showed no respect to black people, he basically told them that white people were smart and only thing black people were good at was sports. “The man’s dead words fell like bricks around the auditorium and too many settled in my belly…proud graduating class of 1940 had dropped their heads.” Imagine what graduates were going through, especially parents. Because for parents to watch a white men discriminate their children in front of them must have been crucial.
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self. In Alice Walker story, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self: She started the story with a very smug outlook on life where she knows she’s beautiful and being the pride of her family and others simply admired her. “Take me Daddy, I’m the prettiest!”, a young walker said with assurance, as she uses her beauty to seek for her father’s approval. At six, she already memorized an Easter speech. When Alice was eight years old, she wore boyish clothes and played with her older brothers who carried not "real" guns.
When Haskins tries to recruit the potential white players they reject his interest in team out of hand, and when he decides to recruit black players for Texas Western, one of his assistant coaches warns him, “Son, you cant win playing nagger ball. Sure, they can jump, but they cant lead…they don’t have the intelligence. “Haskins didn’t care about what he had to say he still went along and recruited black players. Lucas just stares at the assistant coach with a straight face like he just didn’t care what he had to say. In movie.ign.com movie review, Jeff Otto writes, “Lucas performance is the background that keeps glory road from becoming utter trite.” Derek Luke doses an outstanding job as Bobby Joe Hill in “glory road.”
After that, she felt like a big failure; moreover, she quitted trying so hard and stopped taking English seriously, but her biggest worry was that she never knew why she didn’t pass that test. The story of Shannon Nichols deeply amazed me and I really enjoyed it and loved it because of the simple and unique reason that I also experienced the same kind of feelings when I took a similar test six years ago and I was trying to get in one the best universities in my country, so I know how Shannon felt after failing the test that was very important for her. I need to mention that in Peru is a little bit different from America; students graduate from high school and after they prepare themselves, they have to take a test that decides whether or not one is ready for the university. The test is called “Admission Exam”, and every single student needs to pass it before getting cleared to attend classes at the university. It took me twice to pass that test and just like Shannon, I got completely disappointed after failing the first time because I was always a good student and I knew I had prepared myself well enough to pass the test in the first time, but that was not the case and I did not pass the test until my second attempt.
Summer Reading 2013 “Stargirl” 7) During the novel after Stargirl returns to being “Susan” Leo says that she looked magnificently, wonderfully, gloriously ordinary. Just like every other girl Mica High School. When I read this part of the novel I felt that it was unfair to Stargirl. He changed her so that the people at school would start talking to him again. But, what he didn’t realize was maybe that wasn’t the person Stargirl wanted to be.
The big event of graduating the eighth grade was meaningful to her and nothing was going to interrupt her broad moment. Until at graduation, Mr. Edward Donleavy the white guest speaker states that colored people seem to only succeed in sports, not academics. “The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galileos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Gauguins, and our boys (the girls weren’t even in on it) would try to be Jesse Owenses and Joe Louises “(pg. 179). The speaker spoke in front of a colored crowd, ensuring them a chance of them being successful is like a chance of getting rain in a desert that hasn’t seen rain in years, but maybe as a participant in sports more realistically.
One of the earliest examples of the separation of races in the book symbolizes the strict dichotomy of opportunity for black and white children. On the very second page, Maya explains how she wished that she would wake up in a white world, with blond hair, blue eyes, and she would shudder from the nightmare of being black. Later in the book she states, “I remember never believing that whites were really real,” which implies that she reveres whites because of her lack of real knowledge of them. Her only experience with whites so far in the novel is with the “powhitetrash” girls, who come to the store and treat her Momma disrespectfully. “And then if they were dirty, mean, and imprudent, why did Momma have to call them Miz?” she asked herself after seeing her Momma treat the young girls respectfully.
He learns that if you stand up for yourself, you can even break the barriers of racism. His girlfriend Penelope, teaches him that it’s ok to dream big. It is ok to want to do better, to be better than your family or your community. Junior experiences desire, motivation, perseverence and commitment. These things make him strong and capable of conquering the
I agree with author Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s thesis and essay, “Delusions of Grandeur.” (435) The blind pursuit of attainment in sports is having a devastating effect on African-Americans (Gates 436). There is a lack of role models directing young black athletes to pursue their education first and sports second. The public school system is failing the children by passing them without merit, for the good of the team. The youth are being encouraged by society’s desire to watch competition and making these competitors almost seem God-like. Most people, including African-Americans, are shocked when they hear the statistics on how many black athletes are being paid to perform a job.
This quote was beneficial during his coaching years to help discipline his players. The team had a reputation for winning so many games; but, he wanted to teach his players that building their character is more important than being seen as winners. It is merely what everyone else sees them as only. Mr. Wooden worries more about his students’ character than their reputation because character repeats champions not reputation.