Fremont High School by Jonathan Kozol In Jonathan Kozol’s report titled “Fremont High School” he discusses many things he observed when visiting the school in Los Angeles, California. He starts off by giving basic information about the school such as “...enrolls almost 5,000 students on a three-track schedule, with about 83,300 in attendance at any given time.” but as he continues he discusses the many problems the school faces. In his text he discusses a variety of things that are wrong about the school such as the number of students that drop out rate, how crowded the classrooms are, how difficult simple things such as lunch and using the restroom are at the school and etc.…
odriguez Alex Rodriguez grew up playing the game of baseball at age 4.He played his dad one on one his dad beat him but it inspired him to do better. Years passed for Alex Rodriguez, in high-school he was a gifted football player but on the baseball field he was a bigger star. In his Junior year, he hit .477 batting average and stole 42 bases in just 35 games. He led his High-School baseball team to the State Championship.…
Malcom X, Sherman Alexie, and Richard Rodriguez had multiple sponsors helping them in literacy. The largest sponsor they all had in common was themselves. They all pushed themselves to go further than what was expected of them. In Malcom X’s case, he was in prison and became frustrated with inability to express himself in his letters. The stereotype around prisoners is that they are illiterate, just lift weights in the prison yard all day, and then leave prison only to end up back in the prison system a few weeks to months later.…
Chester Rodriguez was born in Memphis,TN. His childhood wasn’t like any other kids childhood. His family did a lot of traveling and never gave their child a good education. At the age of 15, Chester moved back to Memphis,TN. Chester went to school, graduated from high school, and got a career to become a doctor.…
Through this scene the rawness of Victors emotions are displayed. Victor collapses on the bridge into a fetal position regressing to something umbilical. This was Victor’s ceremony that all Native Americans are supposed to have at least once in their lifetime. Victor had a sense of being reborn after he lets go of all the anger and forgives his father. Victor had finally come to peace within himself and his…
The television series Summer Heights High follows the journey of a young boy names Jonah. Jonah is in year 8 at Summer Heights High and has previously been expelled three times because of disruptive and dangerous behaviour. He is known in the school to have anger and attention deficit problems. Jonah struggles socially as he treats his teachers and classmates with disrespect. Jonah’s also struggles academically.…
Ricardo Rodriguez was born in Ojuelos, Guanajuato. In his late thirties , Ricardo had moved to Laredo in 1883 and later migrated to San Antonio,Texas that same year. While living in San Antonio he worked for the city, cleaning the streets and the river. He was known for having little to no education, Rodriguez was unable to read or write nor English or Spanish. He was able to speak his native language, he was described with dark eyes,straight black hair and some high cheekbones.…
In Quindlen’s essay, “Between the Sexes, a Great Divide,” the purpose of her essay is to demonstrate the vast differences between the two sexes. She exhibits the purpose successfully by using anecdotes throughout the essays, in many places throughout, all holding relevance to the differing mindsets of the sexes. She also utilizes syntax and diction to further emphasize her point. The thesis that is purported is, despite the differences that are astoundingly immense that separates the sexes, they will continue to attempt to mingle about, with these differing roles and standards serving as obstacles.…
How I Used Public-School While reading the essay “I Just Want to be Average,” by Mike Rose, I noticed how his schooling experience was opposite of mine, there were similarities that lied within our home life, as well as coming from poverty and then making it in the end. During my time in high school, I had my own battles to fight every day, I was homeless, had a hard time finding the courage to make it through class and was stealing the bare necessities to make it week to week. I overcame this with sports, finding my own courage and believing in a school official who didn’t let me down. Eventually, I found my place in high school, despite how unpromising it looked for me in the beginning.…
Bang. Dead. Another shot in the city. The short story “All about Suicide” by, Luisa Valenzuela, translated by, Helen Lane is about a man named Ismael that only could escape his past one way, which he thought was through murder. The story shares moments in Ismael’s life that had built up anger and remorse inside of him throughout the years.…
As the story had progressed, the monster became an enemy to him. The monster had committed atrocities that affected Victor and his life. The monster killed people in Victor’s life who he cared about and he had no one to blame but himself. “I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, ad endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of…
We learn that Victor was embarrassed and mad at himself that he didn’t even dare to glance at Teresa. On page 4 it says, “Victor was too weak from failure to join the class”, then later the text states on page 5, “Victor couldn’t stand to look at Teresa. He was sweaty with shame.” The first text shows that Victor was embarrassed too much to even continue with class. He was humble because he was too ashamed to join the class.…
Due to that, he started thinking about why he just didn’t say, “Hi, Teresa” or “How was your summer?” or something else that is nice. In the story, it also said, The teacher asked Victor to give…
Concerned about Victor after the death of his brother William, Henry hurries to Victor to comfort him. Afterwards, Victor…
Keynote speaker, Clint Smith speaks on the “Dangers of Silence” through the reflection of his own failures to tell the basic, everyday truth. When we hear the word danger, we typically think straight of the actions committed by others that are grave and deadly. Mr. Smith, a writer, and teacher brought an entirely new meaning to the meaning of silence. Clint states that the pure act of silence being recognized as serene causes more danger than any good. He teaches the audience that when we are dealing with controversial issues that demand action from the public, we divert ourselves to keep hushed and automatically become muted in order to avoid the issue at hand.…