HW6: Hirsch summary In the reading “Creating a Curriculum for the American People” by E.D Hirsch, Jr. emphases on his belief that America’s biggest educational problems can be separated in to three categories. First is our low academic achievement relative to other nations; second is our lack of equality of educational opportunity; third our failure to perpetuate a strong sense of loyalty to the national community and its civic institutions. In the excerpt, he lays out his case that a shared base of common knowledge is essential not just reading and comprehension but the functioning of democracy itself. Hirsch describes how the anti-curriculum movement, the dominant school of thought in education became “tragically and unintentionally” an anti-equality movement. A lack of knowledge, both civic and wide-ranging, is the most significant deficit in most American students’ education.
The teachers blamed the students but they were trapped in the same strict structures of the compulsory school program as the students. He then suggests that maybe that there is not a "problem" with the schools. That they were right when they designed the school to do just what they are doing. Designed not to teach us but to keep us from ever really “growing up.” With that thought the author asks, "Do we need school?" Gatto gives us examples of well-known people who have accomplished great things in their lifetime and were not educated through the school system.
Summary of a Single Text, The Myth of Co-Parenting In the writing The Myth of Co-Parenting:How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was the author Hope Edelman discusses all the issues and obstacles in her marriage. She talked about all the miscommunications that occurred in her marriage. It also focused around shared responsibility between the couple. Hope talked about the resentment that accumulated in the relationship over time.
Her estranged father Peter Walker was a West Indian man of color from Saint Croix. Shortly after her father left the family, her mother remarried a Scandinavian man named Peter Larsen. Like many parents of interracial children during this time, her mother was unable to deal with the issues of raising an interracial child and begin to alienate herself from her young daughter. Feeling rejected from her step father and also her biological mother she begins to exhibit the symptoms of an identity crisis. One wonderful thing her parents did for her was to send her to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
I am pro-choice but I have to say, abortion is a wide topic and it surprises me how women use abortion. I have heard of cases of women that use abortion as a birth control or just because having a less than a perfect child or just because a new baby doesn’t fit in their family. I always thought that abortion was an option because the life of a child would be miserable, for example, a teenager that was raped and she is unable to properly take care of her child; or a fetus diagnosed with a disease that would make the child suffering and the chances of survival are
However, when information is removed from textbooks, part of history is distorted. Due to this alteration of facts, the agony and despair felt by the victims of unimaginable and devastating acts would be forgotten. For example: “Leilani Muir was 10 when her mother committed her to Alberta’s Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives. On the Basis of a single IQ test, she was labeled a ‘moron’. Four years later, she was admitted to the school clinic, supposedly to have her appendix removed.
“I never loved you”… after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house just as if it were five years ago (Fitzgerald 125) Gatsby didn’t know when to move on. For the matter of fact, he didn’t want to move. In the end he didn’t get daisy because daisy left him for Gatsby. Gatsby obsession led to his tragedy when he took the blame for killing myrtle for the sake of daisy. His obsession killed him, and it’s a corruption the American
The worst case is that the woman cannot give birth or even death at all. Many women are regretting around the world because what they do. Therefore why we choose abort when it takes away an unborn life and a woman take a high risk between sickness and death. Is it worth to risking your life? I had read a narrative story in Abortion: A Collective Story Book.
After being caught and having been forced to wear a scarlet “A” representing her act of adultery, Hester tries to continue on with life along with her daughter, while being shunned by the townspeople of Boston, Massachusetts. During this time, Pearl had a big impact on Hester. Pearl was used as a physical representation and reminder of Hester’s sin, while also being a metaphorical mirror to the sins, but ultimately being the source of Hester’s strength. One of the main reasons for Pearl’s use in the novel was for Hester and the readers to remember Hester’s sin when looking at Pearl. In the story, the narrator expressed during the time that Hester and Pearl were walking to Governor Bellingham, that the red and gold colored clothing that Pearl was wearing, which Hester had made, was undoubtedly a significant reminder of Hester’s scarlet letter.
Although they both have many similarities, surprisingly there are many differences between these two stories. However, Poe and Chopin use various facts to illustrate the ideas and represent the similarities and differences between Mrs. Mallard and the narrator, ultimately indicating that the two characters want to get freedom from their lives. The first comparison is that both of the stories narrators change their lives for a certain while because of confidence. Mrs. Mallard, from “Story”, makes a plan for her future after her husband dies because she is not a dramatic woman who is weeping and getting depressed after her husband’s incident. She has confidence that “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself” (Chopin 235).