But can any aspects of Gradgrind’s methods be incorporated into today’s educational system? Firstly, the girl in question, Celia Jupe, makes the mistake of referring to herself as Sissy, a nickname her father has given her. Gradgrind immediately corrects her on the proper way in which she should refer to herself and that such nicknames have no place in his classroom. In today’s society, this behavior would be so foreign to the western educational system, especially in dealing with children. One might argue that it has its place, perhaps utilized by a sadistic drill sergeant addressing a platoon of new recruits, but not in a classroom.
He lets the readers know that students are well aware of the difficulties they face concerning writing and that much of the time they blame themselves. He then begins his argument by stating that he believes the problem is caused by ineffective teachers. Everything up to this point sends the paper in a good direction. The introduction does everything it is supposed to do including giving credibility to the writer, identifying the audience as future teachers, and gives a purpose for the essay. As the essay takes off, Mills begins to talk about the issues
Negative Connotations Insecurity, misperception, the use of words in a certain context and the important connotations that these words evoke are issues deeply discussed in Emily Bernard’s essay “Teaching the N-Word” in the book The Best American Essays edited by Lauren Slater. The overall theme of Bernard’s essay seems to be the importance of the connotations that certain words evoke within people. The main character is a professor that feels the need to demonstrate her importance as a professor as well as a person because of one specific word. She assigns her students a reading that deals with this word, which is one of the most racially offensive words in the English language. This word is the “nigger” which was originally created to dehumanize African American people.
Lynley Price Professor Burke GSWS 201 March 7, 2014 Being White Privileged As Wayne Dyer, an American self-help writer and motivational speaker, once said, “judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances” (Racism Quotes and Sayings 1). I have never been a big fan of racism, putting down, or even judging others based on their ethnicity. Some of my best friends are of different ethnicities, so while writing this paper, as a white woman, I was thinking a lot about how I benefit from “white privilege”. “White privilege” refers to a set of societal privileges that white people benefit from beyond those commonly experienced by people of color in the same social, political, or economic spaces (White Privilege 1). A key element of white privilege is simply not having to think about race, not having to think about my color and how people are going to respond to me
Although I don’t connect personally with Harry’s character, the conflicts of discrimination he deals with in J.K. Rowling’s books are the same problems I observe in school. From this form of popular culture I have learned to realize the immorality of judging someone based on their beliefs or acting against a person due to their social status. The word discrimination always first reminds me of the past history of
My mother spoke in normal Trini dialogue, so I would constantly hear phrases such as “Do not cut you nose to patch you bottom” and “If you see you neighbor house catch fire wet yours”. To some of my friend my mother had no idea what she was talking about and should maybe work on her English, but to me she spoke clear and understandable English. I can relate to Tan in this way, because many people did not understand her mother and assumed her grasp on English was very weak, when it was actually the opposite. Over the years, I have noticed how my mother’s dialogue has rubbed off on me. I constantly find myself speaking in the island dialogue while at home, but the second someone calls or visits, I am able to switch into a more proper English dialogue with my American friends.
“Every time Aunty Ifeoma spoke to Papa, my heart stopped… It was the flippant tone; she did not seem to recognise that it was Papa,” (pg.77). This shows that she doesn’t treat him like he’s special and seems to have a normal brother/sister relationship. For Kambili and Jaja who have grown up with Papa being treated like a God for example, “the many hands that reached out to grasp his white tunic as if touching him would heal them of an illness,” (pg.91), seeing someone treat him normally helps them to realise that he is just like everyone else and that he isn’t special. “She knew. She knew what happened
This essay has a good discussion of Anzaldua defending the feelings and explaining how people like her feel when they are exposed to this because of the way she speaks the ‘American’. Anzaldua was required to take two speech classes at Pan American University just to get rid of her accent this is a example of linguistic prejudge she was exposed to. Therefore it was not just to get rid of her accent but also to get use to the American culture. I noticed this essays audience is Chicanos she wants to let them know we got to be who we are not what others want us to be like. Another audience can be to people who prejudge people like Anzaldua to make them feel guilty and keep them from prejudging others.
I think that the outcome of this confrontation was that she understood that it is wrong to hit the child in public places. 3- No one in my family or close to me had been referral for special needs as a child or older students. However; my sister’s neighbor was referred for special needs because the father and mother were having family problems, and I believe that these problems affected their children. The couple recently divorced and one of the girls had trouble learning and talking. So the social worker went to my sister house and asks her if she had seen any kind of child abuse?
And I now was going to middle school where things hadn’t quite changed , as bullies kept getting the best of me but during those times , my mother said something to me that I will always remember , “If you don’t know them personally , don’t take it personal.” , these words made me disregard all those harsh words. During these times , I used to come across people who never really gave us anything but always expected us to share with