Junior school

story is the search for personal and cultural identity that Junior goes through. Figuring out one’s own identity is hard enough as it is, and even more so for a boy who suddenly finds himself in a situation where he has to walk among two “tribes” simultaneously. Junior knows he will be facing several challenges when he decides to switch schools, and one of the first ones he experiences is the sudden lack of a proper identity. Is he Junior from the reservation or Arnold from Reardan, and who is…

Indian, author Sherman Alexie introduces the reader to Junior, a poor Native American teenager who leaves his reservation to attend nearby white school. Throughout his journey, Junior learns many lessons about life such having hope, accepting others, and friendships. The lessons Junior learns throughout the story changes from having low self - esteem to being more confident about himself and his surroundings. The first life lessons that Junior learns through his experiences is learning to…

assertion that Junior must leave the reservation forever in order to become a success. Though I agree that Junior needed to leave the reservation to find success in traditional education, Junior can find a different kind of personal growth and success through the people and culture on the reservation. Junior’s academic success was definitely contingent upon him leaving the reservation and going to an outside school, however, education is not the only way to measure success, and junior is able to…

Sherman Alexie, this is exactly what Junior is experiencing. Junior is bullied a lot in the book because of his identity, specifically his looks and his race. He decides to leave the reservation, his hometown, to go to Reardan which is an all-white school. Junior decides to leave for Reardan, but he struggles with his identity while dealing with bullying and loss of family and friends, which shows how hardship shapes the decisions people make in life. First off, Junior struggles with his…

should have an equal education, however, the school system doesn’t follow this, leading to a gap between the students, in fact the true Emersonian definition of education is closing this gap by providing programs that helps these students, benefitting society. The education system wants people to believe that their children are all receiving the same education between each other regardless of their background. However, this is not true. The public school system has a large gap between students…

American and Japanese Schooling Japan and America, over 6,000 miles apart have quite a few differences in their public school systems. Each country’s cultural values are represented in the classroom every day, and students are so used to it they might not even be aware. Comparing the two school systems, it’s clear that the schools are designed to create a specific kind of citizen after their education. Japan seeks to create respectful youth, that will later work hard for their country. The…

My junior year of high school, with the same program, I was able to help organize and run a job fair/workshop for people in the community who were interested in learning how to appropriately dress for an interview, how to write a resume, and how to present themselves during an interview process. During the summer between my junior year of high school and throughout my senior year of high school, I was a volunteer for Cannon Beach Fire and Rescue where…

and toughest class. She is an excellent professor, yet a stressful class to handle. It all started back when I was a junior from United High School, our classroom teacher warned us that we might have a regular professor or a Doctor. “Please, don’t let it be the Doctor.” I wanted to have a regular professor, hoping that he/she will have fewer expectations since we are just high school students. A week passed by, It was a Tuesday and we ended up taking the class with a regular professor. It was a…

composing was excessively upsetting, making it impossible to try and consider. My english instructor knew about how well I did in other subject and she couldn 't exactly make sense of why I did as such awful in english. Every other Wednesday in my school we had an educational modules movement where diverse classes would rival one another in test, debates, dramatization, social exercises and so forth, I took an interest in this educational modules exercises when it needed to do…

change. The school I attended was small, my grade had around 50 students each year. This was normal to me, I had never heard of schools with 300 students per grade until I was much older. When I began school, in kindergarten, everything, from my classmates, to having a specific schedule to follow, was new to me. I was enrolled in an every other day kindergarten program, this gradual introduction to school set the stage for what was to come in the years to come at Menahga Public School. As I…