This kind of treatment makes me feel powerless. I had no control over my parents teaching me Spanish but I suffer the consequences. I have had people question me and expect an explanation. It angers me that society feels like I need to explain why I do not speak another language. Then at times, I feel ashamed.
Prose also says that the students are, "...handicapped not merely by how little literature they have read but by their utter inability to read it." The students loathe literature because they have never been taught how to read and comprehend it correctly. Finally, Prose also states that the books taught are, "... taught for reasons that have nothing to do with how well a book is written," and that, "every opportunity to instill adolescents with a lifelong affinity for narrative... is being squandered on regimens of
Rose’s teachers were a nightmare; from an abusive homeroom teacher “he would lose control and shake or smack us†to an English professor who had little training in the subject. In Angelou’s essay, the problem is with the injustice of the system, there was no support from the government, but they had support from the community, unlike Rose. Rose was a mediocre student at best “I developed further into a mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver, and that affected the subjects I did have the wherewithal to handle†he just did things to get by; there was no real connection with his studies. Angelou was an honors student, her “academic work was among the best of the year,†marked differences that only point to a system that does not recognize greatness, in Angelou because of the color of her skin, in Rose because of an administrative error; a confusion with another Rose; a placement test that categorized him as
Many believe that this book displays a negative and inappropriate view on racism that is too coarse for a high school environment. The main African American, Jim, is portrayed as dim-witted, slow, and overly superstitious which is one of many racist aspects of the book. Another controversy within the novel is the use of the “n-word” over two hundred times and it can make many of the students, teachers, and parents feel uncomfortable in a classroom and thus they think that the book be banned. Although some people do not want this novel taught in the classroom, Huckleberry Finn should be taught in a school setting under certain conditions because it teaches the valuable aspects of life such as the negative effects of racism, characteristics of religion and life in that time. Although this novel should be taught to high school students there are people that oppose teaching the book because of its crudeness and inappropriateness.
We see a variety of responses but it is the inability of the majority to understand the roots of the plague that prevents them from undergoing personal transformation. The religious dogma that is directed towards them leaves them ignorant and inflexible their own ideas about God and their place within society for themselves. This causes many to direct their devastation and fear to misunderstood characters that disagree with societal conventions. The crazed mob that accuses the Gowdies of witchcraft exemplifies the notion that faith blinds people to reality in ‘Year of Wonder’. Faith in God is easily converted into superstition amongst the ignorance of the uneducated.
2007 AP English Language and Composition Immigrants usually move in order to have a better life. Many come for economic and social reasons or just to get a fresh new beginning in life in a new place. Scott Russell Sanders author of Staying Put: Making a Home in a restless World responds to Salman Rushdie for the effects of mass migrations that changes human beings. Sanders writes how about immigrants moving to different places for their own benefit. Salman Rushdie left India for England because of the war that was going on between Pakistan and India being a Muslim he did not want to pick side in which he migrated to England.
The Puritan community in The Crucible was vulnerable in many ways and susceptible to irrational and panicky accusations of the Salem Witch Hunts because of their strict and constricting ways. The children in the community are treated very poorly and less than everyone else in the town. As the Salem Witch Hunts were essentially started by the children the fact that they were treated as lesser beings contributed to the communities demise. “He (Reverend Parris) regarded them as young adults, an until this strange crisis he, like the rest of Salem, never conceived that the children were anything but thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at their sides, and mouths shut until bidden to speak,” (Miller 3). Miller foreshadows the Witch Hunts to come.
There, I was constantly bothered by other students because I dressed differently. My parents couldn’t afford to buy me name brand shoes or clothes. I was ashamed to go to school at times. I cried a lot for the ridicule that other students had on me. Even though that was my past, Camden High School
The lack of family living skills can also be blamed on the fact that the schools taught the children to only speak in English, so when they went home they were unable to communicate with their family as they lost their native language. Easily one of the biggest failures of the Indian Residential Schools was the abuse that went on behind the school doors. Whether it be emotional, mental, physical, verbal, and even sexual abuse, it all happened, and it was all very wrong. The authority figures at the schools like the nuns, priests, and teachers all kept very strict rules for the children to follow. The rules were at a point that they were
To everyone I wasn’t following the norm of an Asian person so they look at me with a little hate. I felt like there was a little discrimination against me from the teacher. They didn’t say anything to me but it’s just one of those things where you can just see it in their eyes and in their action. When it came to other student they were more friendly and willing to help but when it came to me it was the cold shoulder. Now when I was out of school I was targeted by gang member and cops for the way I was dressing.