Boxcar

While reading chapter 1 and 2 of the Educational Foundations textbook, I was able to reflect and come up with questions, concerns, and comments about the material being read. The first chapter was called Letters to a Young Teacher. This reading talked about how many young teachers who work in urban school districts are estimated to leave that school district after three years. They say that the main reason is young teachers are unable to relate to the children who are minorities. However this…

A mom in the text discussed her experience with her son. She talked about books such as the Boxcar Kids and how they showed gender stereotypes she hadn 't noticed before. She decided to explain to her child what sexism was and how girls are mistreated in society. She then went on to describe the Lion King and how they showed dark creatures as evil…

"The Chinese railway workers lived in camps, sleeping in tents or boxcars. They did their own cooking over open outdoor fires. They mainly ate a diet of rice and dried salmon, washed down with tea. With their low salaries they could not afford fresh fruit and vegetables, so many of the men suffered from scurvy (a painful…

and then others use these places for education reasons, to observe these exotic animals behavior or how they do certain actions since zoos are a more reachable source where you can view with your own eyes and opinions than taking someone’s word on these animals on T.V. or paying tons of money just to get their research, although zoos may be a good source to observe the conditions of these animals, these animals as well act much different due to being held in captivity, which Captive Animals…

wanted to get better in their life’s and get better educated they had to struggle. The government wanted the Indian Americans to struggle for their education. The Indian Americans learn the lessons because in line two it states, on page 293 that “Boxcars stumbling north in dreams don’t wait for us. We catch them on the run.” Meaning how the government get them educated but they have to struggle to get the education for a better of themselves. The government didn’t learn the lesson because he…

Sarah Lee Professor Lundberg English 122 12 April 2017 “Changes in Life” Life is a road of transitions. Part of transitioning is evolving as human beings for better or for worse. John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath tells the journey of the Joads family to California and the struggles that come their way. The story takes place during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma when many farm laborers like Joads family were forced to leave their home to travel to new places in search for new jobs, new homes and…

moment where he first experiences a time-traveling incident, where he sees, in a single moment, his life from past birth to coming death. Pilgrim is then transported to a prisoner-of-war encampment in Germany by means of a crowded, inhumane railway boxcar. Once he arrives, he and may other privates are invited to attend a feast put on…

Slaughterhouse­Five has been criticised by many sources on how the author wrote the book and the details that was presented. Here are what some critics have said “Wesley Scroggins, a Republic resident and professor at Missouri State University, saw the book differently, and urged the school board to ban Slaughterhouse Five.” "In a column for the Springfield News­Leader headlined "Filthy books demeaning to Republic education," he wrote: "This is a book that contains so much profane language, it…

II. Testimonials Peace is possible Elie Wiesel and Irene Miller have something in common: they both experienced the Holocaust hands on and survived. Their lives were dramatically transformed and they were deeply affected by the pain and suffering they had to endure not just physically and mentally, but emotionally as well. Elie Wiesel and Irene Miller share their experiences and feelings of the Holocaust in their testimony novels they composed. Elie Wiesel wrote Night and Irene Miller wrote…

Ulysses S. Grant once said, “Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.” In his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses the universality of the Bible to make the account of the migrant’s plight applicable and understandable to all readers. By using Biblical references, Steinbeck is able to put the major themes and motifs of his novel into a framework to which all…