Times were very rough for the Native American Indians during the early 1900’s. Author Mary Crow Dog; a native American, tried to paint a vivid picture of some of the trials and tribulations that she underwent or heard about while she attended boarding school. Ms. Crow Dog tries to help readers better understand what she and many generations of Native Americans endured while attending St. Francis boarding school; which is located in South Dakota. She clearly stated that her mother and grandmother were not exempt from the harsh punishments given by the boarding school. Some of the same things that were going on at the school when Crow Dog was attending…
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The general argument made by Jessica Bennett in her article,”The Curse of Cursive”, published in Newsweek, addresses that cursive is unnecessary. Bennett argues that penmanship is irrelevant because the majority of the population don’t integrate cursive in their handwriting. She provides evidence that indicates most individuals don’t utilize penmanship from “in 2006, just 15 percent of SAT takers used cursive on the written test”(P.4). Through presenting that the minority of students employ cursive on the written test, she suggests that learning penmanship is not a significant skill to learn since the majority of student don’t utilize it. In conclusion, Bennet’s opinion is that being taught cursive is pointless.…
Cursive has been used over many times in history years. Maybe even used way before that! About the adventure of Christopher Columbus, he wrote in his journal in cursive! The famous document in the USA today, the Declaration of Independence, was written in outstanding cursive by Thomas Jefferson. By many times in the modern world, cursive today is replaced by technology. Instead of taking notes by cursive, or by normal handwriting, students in college has defined that technology would be faster and it would take less time, but think about it. Our minds or brains need to function more openly to the outside world, not locked up in a very tight screen that would make your eyesight go away. Technology has some nasty curse, but…
Handwritten or typed correspondence in a letter format is not traditional in modern society with the rise of technology that offers faster messaging services, however, it is still widely used in the medical field. Letters offer more security than an instant message or e-mail, meaning that personal or confidential information is less likely to end up in the wrong hands. They also convey formality and sensitivity, due to the fact that they take more time to prepare and send than the average electronic message would; this would be beneficial for informing a patient about their diagnosis, for example. The length of time it takes to prepare a letter also allows additional proofreading to occur, therefore ensuring that the intended message is considerate and thought out…
Lydia is 13 and ½ when she becomes fed up with her soulmate. Everyday she wakes up to to terrible handwriting on the palm on her right hand. It's always a list. She can sometimes make out phrases like “call scott” and “finish math homework”. Perhaps if his handwriting was nicer, she would be less angered. Lydia understands that not everyone took a calligraphy course like herself, but still.…
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I can see why some would want children to learn the ways of cursive writting, but the need for curisve is becoming less needed as the years progress. Take your signature for example. Most documents…
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Two men died every mile of track of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The majority of those workers were Chinese. The Chinese people, more specifically the Cantonese, left their motherland of China in the 1800’s to immigrate to Canada. Canada was a fairly new country at the time and boasted plenty of opportunities. The Cantonese still, to this very day, continue to immigrate to Canada.…
Cursive was a benificial skill to have in the passed. However, the continuing advancements in technology and the ability to type quickly has made cursive writing an unnecessary skill. Computers are our future and there for should be a higher focus of education than cursive…
I’ve always had the desire to write beautifully, from penmanship to placement and flow of the words. I remember getting birthday cards from my Granny with elegant cursive writing. Attracted to the way each word blended so smooth and soft, I would get a piece of paper and mimic the slants of each word connecting each letter, more like one lowercase “l” after another, to the next. One day I’d be able to spell the words in my mind, and until that day I’d practice my “cursive” one squiggly line at a time.…
In 2010, The Commom Core Standards for learning, removed the standards for cursive writing to be teached in the high school setting. Even tho many belived writing information out will held a student remember. In the medical field test have been done on the brain while a patient writin. the test showed that cursive writing strangthins the brain, while it comunicates between left and right side.…
There are many reasons why I believe cursive writing should still be taught today. For example, handwriting is 50% of literacy. First, cursive helps with your body. For example, your hands brain, etc. Next, for school purposes, students can read documents from the past. Moreover, what about life skills? Such as a simple signature, you need a signature for when you pay for something at the store with a credit or debit card. Those three little things requires cursive. First, cursive writing helps with your brain, secondly, cursive writing helps with the future of your life, and lastly, cursive helps with a lot of school work. In my opinion, cursive should still be taught in schools today.…
Now many people think we should keep cursive to improve handwriting. But is that really important? It's not important when we constantly use laptops for assignments like essays, like I'm doing right now. So why would it matter what your handwriting looks like if all you'll do is type for the rest of the years of school you have. I have heard teachers say myself that in the next couple of years there will be no more writing in notebooks everything will be on the computer.…