College Scholar Academy Background My educational business is a college access consulting service practice. The market area for my business is students and parents who live in Michigan and surrounding Midwest areas. I will target homeschool, virtual school, suburban area, Upper Peninsula Michigan, and international students. The academy will help students with their educational goals but it will also help parents too. The academy will help parents who: Feel overwhelmed with the college…
Challenging the Inclusion of Intersectionality in the Academy Introduction With this paper, I will explore the inclusion of intersectionality in the academy. To do so, I will provide a genealogical analysis of the ways in which intersectionality has been taken up and implemented by the neo-liberal academy and feminist scholars. The purpose of this paper, then, is to trace the history of intersectionality in relation to the academy in order to consider a future that is beyond inclusion. My…
Behaviour Policy (2015) and my own reflections on my experience of Academy A. Though the latest Ofsted report (2014) does not explicitly refer to positivity when evaluating Academy A’s behaviour management, there is a sense of positivity reflected in the report. They describe it as a “rapidly improving academy” (Ofsted, 2014) where the Headteacher has “drive, determination and high expectations”. I agree that, from my experience, Academy A has an air of positivity towards its continual…
My project is about attending a worship service different from my own religious tradition, which is Catholic. I chose this project because I want to learn about other religions, other traditions, how they worship and what is involve in their ways of doing things. Experiencing a religion other than mine, will expand my knowledge. I believe that we always learn something new everyday and that we have to be open to receive what life offers by being here in this world that God created. What…
Responsibilities Matter According to statistics, African American high school student’s graduation rate is at 69 percent. ( Education Statistics P1) This statistic is impacting since it is relatable to The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore Both Wes Moores’ lives significantly took different turns, what the outside expectations wanted was for them to fail. Outside expectations contributed to the other Wes because he became part of the stereotype of the average African American male, while Wes proved…
Gender and racial inequality is the disease that keeps a stronghold on society’s attempt to move towards equal rights. This problem is strongly demonstrated in American Cinema. Christina Hoag (2016) states in her article, Diversity in Hollywood, “White males still dominate virtually all aspects of [the film industry].” Recent events have led to the discovery of unfair wages between male and female actors to racism in today’s award shows. In years prior, laws had to be placed in order for women…
Back in 2010 The Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkey, was awarded the Randolph Caldecott Award by the ALSC for being the most distinguished picture book of the year. When the ALSC decides what book will be the receiver of the Caldecott Award there are quite a few factors that go into their decision making process. Their website shows all of these factors, but the main ones to be focused on are that the publisher/artist must be an American citizen and that their illustrations be original. As far…
My favorite movie would have to be Silver Linings Playbook, written by Matthew Quick and Directed by David O. Russell. This movie identifies a variety of different genres: comedy and romance-drama are just two of these. This movie can relate to a range of different people; the themes are easily identifiable. Silver Linings Playbook is about a struggling man, Pat Solitano Jr., portrayed by Bradley Cooper. The movie begins with Pat leaving a mental institution with his mother, the movie then…
Tom cruise set to receive CinemaCon 2018 award Legendary actor Tom Cruise will be the first actor to receive of the 2018 CinemaCon Pioneer of the Year award. The award has been previously bagged by non actors like Dick Cook, Cecil B. DeMille and Alan Horn. Others are Donna Langley, Tom Sherak, Jack Valenti, and Jack Warner. For Cruise, this adds another feather on his hat. He is famous for stunts in Hollywood movies, as well as his successful acting career that has seen him star in hundreds…
Twenty years later, and the past two Academy Awards have had all white actresses and actors nominated as best roles. Why is this? As of 2015, Henriksen, a published reporter from the AltPress database, stated “The majority of the Oscar voters are nearly 94 percent Caucasian and 77 percent male” (Henriksen). There is a need for a more diverse Academy. I interviewed Michael Green, a professor at Arizona State University that focuses on racism…