Neighborhood of Make-Believe

everything we have learned over the semester, the thing that has always stuck out to me is the students. There are so many factors that will affect how a student’s education may be successful or not. Believe it or not, society has a big impact on how the school education system will be. Even the neighborhood your child grows up in could determine how a child progresses in school. The family a child grows up in can impact a child dramatically. They may get everything they want, but if the parents…

conclusion that this term is used in reference to an inner city location with minorities. Through my studies I have come to realize that we live in a society where two schools can be located in the same neighborhood, but labeled urban only if a majority of the population is Black or Latino. This makes me question, what this means in regards to urban education and teachers who teach in an urban setting. In What Do You Mean When You Say Urban By: Dyan Watson, she looked at the relationship…

Da'Shaun is a 17 year old African American male who is currently residing with his biological father Rodney L. Powell, stepmother Maylene Powell and stepbrother Saiquan Powell. Da'Shaun's biological mother is Natoria McClain, and she currently resides in Suffolk, Virginia. Da’Shaun sometimes obeys his parents and is usually subjected to appropriate consequences for bad behavior and usually receives appropriate rewards for good behavior. Dashaun reported when he gets into trouble, he is placed…

April 6, 2016 Paper #1 Simmel’s reading, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”, is about the way the big city affects people and people’s psyche. Simmel has a negative view on how the city changes people and it is a horrible place to live in. The city makes people unconsciously change their way of thinking and their perspective on each other. City dwellers become more reserved as in they are not open to relationships as small town folk are. So city people do not build any emotions or sentimental…

I believe the Younger family did choose the right way to come up and upgrade with the money. The Younger family had been through so many trials and hard times that the decision of what to do with the money was the right one. Mama had bought a new house in a predominately white neighborhood. She felt the family needed a new start. Mama, who is the mother of Walter Lee and Beneatha, received an insurance check because of the death of her husband. She split the rest of the money between her son and…

It is estimated that 6.1 million Latino children live in poverty in the U.S. which makes 37% of poor children nationally. Unfortunately, poverty can place on children at a young age. Parents living in poverty typically are unable to offer the resources that children need to succeed in school, such as school supplies, computers, and insufficient…

“We have to clean up our neighborhood, too much trouble prevail. You can hear foul language, you can hear people yell. We have to clean up our neighborhood, violence is all around. So many are fighting being knocked to the ground.” These are words from a poet by Sandra Juanita Nailing entitled “Cleaning up the Neighborhood”. She gives a detailed describtion about her neighborhood, and how it is full of violence and there needs to be a change. Which is true, the changes she includes is…

victimization. I believe offenders like a sense of familiarity, why not rob a place you are familiar with, you know the layout…

Outhit Sanaphol-Hodges Professor Kateema Lee English 101 13 December 2015 People Like Us Several qualities that classifies diversity includes the different elements that make up one's individual identity, social upbringing and cultural background. Diversity includes race, gender, cultural differences, religious or political affiliation, personality and so on. In his essay, “People Like Us”, David Brooks defends his claim that the United States is not composed of those seeking a culturally…

I chose to discuss a perhaps less widely discussed form of media: music. There are two genres of music that tend to discuss crime specifically, rap and hip hop. Writers and performers of these types of songs typically come from disadvantaged neighborhoods, and grew up with limited resources to develop successful careers and lifestyles. When one thinks of crime in entertainment, the first thoughts that comes to mind are most likely scripted television shows like CSI or Law and Order. The song I…