“I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose is an excerpt from his book Lives on the Boundary about his time in Our Lady Mercy High School’s education system. He went into Vocational education because of a mix-up in his tests with another student. With this mix-up and teachers who would not put in the effort to help him succeed occurring‚ Rose lost all motivation in studying in his classes. Rose finally found a teacher who cared about his success in school and helped Rose get back into regular college-prep
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The day we met The day we met Tisha Smith Eng 121 My day started like any other day at work. I was dreading coming in as it was a beautiful spring day. I was running late as usual so I came in the back door. As soon as I clocked it my friend and coworker said there is someone I want you to meet. I reluctantly went out to the front porch of my facility‚ and there he was. I didn’t know it then‚ but I met the man that would change my life forever. I remember it like it was yesterday. It
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a spectator‚ I do believe that both cultures are privileged in different parts of the books‚ and the influences on both generation of acculturation and assimilation in this book also need dialectic discussion. But the author ‚as I think‚ cares more about Hindu culture and tends to foreground it. The life for the first-generation immigrants is very hard. They should not only get used to the new environment‚ but also bear loneliness. This book reminds me another story that I have read before
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UCLA and has won many awards for his work. In this selection called “I Just Wanna Be Average” taken from his book Lives on the Boundary‚ Rose offers his experience trudging through the standardized vocational education track. Through his own account‚ the author points out that society and even faculty within these schools label the students as “slow” leaving the students with an objective of wanting to become just average in order to make up for their presumed sense of inadequacy
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One of the most important quotes Judith Butler uses in her writing is seen in‚ Imitation and Gender Subordination. Judith Butler explores the ideas that gender is about a performance one must do and how gender has become an imitation of what others deem as acceptable behavior. She also explores that idea of why gender is important for a society and states‚ “Drag constitutes the mundane way in which genders are appropriated‚ theatricalized‚ worn‚ and done; it implies that all gendering is a kind of
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I wonder who lived here the year before me‚ I hear the sky calling me‚ I see the footsteps below‚ I want to walk and be free‚ I am just a leaf‚ hanging high in the tree‚ I pretend that I am something that lives on the ground‚ I feel a touch of branches throughout‚ I touch a flower that grows close to me‚ I worry about me growing fast‚ I cry when I see the stars falling from the sky‚ I am just a leaf‚ hanging high in the tree‚ I understand moments in time‚ I say tomorrow is another day‚ I dream about
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The Abyss Written by Maria Milisavljevic Directed by Richard Rose German award-winning playwright Maria Milisavljevic thriller ‘ The Abyss’ is a dark‚ poetic‚ lyrical thriller‚ concerns the vanishing of a 24 year old girl named Karla and three friends who set off looking for her. This is a very complex story‚ which is told in small amount of time with quick switching of dialogue and narration. The theatre was completely packed with the gathering of people which made it very clear that this play
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that Judith is cold and distant‚ that she stands back and observes people like insects in some Biology experiment. But even through she’s uncomfortable stepping out from that safe observational position‚ she still does. She is engage by those around her. She is complex‚ not just a stereotype. She is not English spinster‚ or a bohemian. She is Judith and she seems to be doing just fine. The story shows how that the balance between self and society can me made. It could be argued that Judith is cold
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Elements Using Scanning Electron Microscope Hirokazu KIMURA‚ Hisayuki HIGUCHI. Michiyoshi MAKI and Hifumi TAMURA Central Research Laboratory‚ HITACHI Ltd. Kokubunji. Tokyo. Japan [Reprinted from Journal of Electron Microscopy Vol. 15‚ No. I‚ 1966] 21 ( 21 ) Vol. 15‚ No.1‚ 21-25‚ 1966 JOURNAL OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPY Observation of Semiconductor Elements Using Scanning Electron Microscope Hirokazu KIMURA‚ Hisayuki HIGUCHI‚ Michiyoshi MAKI and Hifumi TAMURA Central
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Antigone through the lens of Judith Butler’s “Survivability‚ Vulnerability‚ and Affect” Introduction Antigone is tied by two key sentances to the message in Judith Bulter’s “Survivability‚ Vulnerability‚ and Affect”‚ “It has been since at least the time of Antigone‚ when she chose openly to mourn the death of one of her brothers even though it went against the sovereign law to do so. Why is it that governments so often seek to regulate and control who will be publicly grieved and two will not
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