Andrew Simmons

Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility” author Andrew Simmons discusses how teachers motivate students to work hard in school by stressing that college is the best path to take in order to have a stable economic life. Furthermore, Simmons also discusses whether or not it is correct to “sale” College as a path to economic stability versus a path of intellectual awakening. In doing this Simmons distinguishes between lower income students and privileged students. The first point that Simmons makes is that, “….teachers repeat again and again that a college degree will alleviate economic hardship. Yet by focusing on this one potential benefit, educators risk distracting them from the others, emphasizing the value of the fruits of their academic labor itself.”(Simmons 3) I am a student myself and, time after time we are told the key to economic stability is to go to college. We are hearing this so often that we forget the true meaning of attending college to find our true passion. Yes, going to college provides us with economic stability but, we must never forget the purpose of going to school. If our only purpose of going to…

The article "The Danger of Telling Poor Kids that College Is the Key to Social Mobility" by Andrew Simmons brings up a great idea of what the teachers and counselors are telling the underprivileged students the wrong thing. As Simmons brings up students should not be told that college is the only way to reduce economic hardship and that’s the only point to try attend college. He expresses that students should see a college education as a stepping stone to a great career and be able to give back…

carefree online environment is, unfortunately, leading students to an unconcerned style of writing. For instance, students are forgetting about punctuation rules, capitalization, and even spelling. In accordance with the author, it has been noticed that those teens are having a hard time while switching from a colloquial context to Standard English. I personally understand that this can happen; being that young, students are likely to adapt themselves with the ambiance they are. Nevertheless, I…

Six year olds. Teenagers. Adults. Seniors. All of these age groups would come watch Kiss perform. After the show everyone would tell Kiss how much fun they had. Kiss went through all of these troubles and still ended up becoming one of the biggest bands ever. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley formed Kiss who as a group, created a legacy because of their costumes and behaviour. They had a hard time finding other members, an amazing legacy, and a member going away. The band Kiss was all in separate…

Russell Simmons coming from a black community and have been exposed to ganger and drug dealing. Who would have expected that he will be a successful innovator like Ted Turner, who was brought up from a wealthy and educated family, to become a Broadway producer. Simmons does not have an invention mindset to begin with, but he was from an entrepreneurship and with his ability to create opportunity that leads him to innovate on hip hop. Simmons idea was able to bring a change to the racism and…

Legendary hip hop group De La Soul performed at Carmelo Anthony's FAST A/W15 showcase. The showcase was launched in an effort to merge fashion, sports, and technology. The event was presented in MADE Fashion Week's venue in New York, in order to infuse the world of fashion with sports, technology, and business. "Through our relationship with Accenture, MADE Fashion Week continues to explore the frontier of technology and fashion," Jenne Lombardo, co-founder of MADE Fashion Week, said in a…

Simmons. The case of Roper v. Simmons began in 1993, when a minor named Christopher Simmons, who purposed to commit burglary and murder by breaking and entering. Christopher entered the home of a female victim named Shirley Cook. Christopher robbed and murdered the female victim. Christopher was imprisoned by the state of Missouri after he was found guilty of armed robbery and murder in 1993. He was sentenced to death in 1993, when he was only 17. Christopher challenged his remaining death…

In one of the biggest landmark cases of American history, Roper v. Simmons was a case that upended the death penalty for minors, three years after the unfortunate death of Napoleon Beazley. This was monumental for both the American justice system and the general public, because it showed that public sentiment toward the death penalty had shifted massively enough in order to cause change in the legal system. With newly found revelations that the American public was now not okay with the execution…

Children who were accused of terrible crimes, for instance murder, were tried as adults in the 1907s. Until recently in 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons that the death penalty cannot be applied to individuals who were under the age of 18 at the time that the crime was committed (Adelman, 2005). The mentally ill and insane are also exempt from the death penalty. In the Ford v. Wainwright case of 1986, the Supreme Court banned the execution of insane persons.…

without parole is a controversial sentencing, before lastly ending on where we stand now with LWOP and what can be done to make it better. Literature Review When regarding life without parole, it’s essential to examine the history of it and how life without parole became so controversial. Currently, the United States is the only country that sentences juveniles to life without parole (Rovner, 2016). This causes severe skepticism from other countries around the world. Within the last twenty…