question of how to raise a child successfully is seen in Amy Chua’s essay “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” Within her essay‚ Chua justifies her parenting by allowing others to see how she managed to raise her daughters. Thorough the use of the rhetorical triangle and personal anecdotes Chua seeks to explain how her strict parenting allowed her to raise two successful daughters‚ and how it could raise other successful children In the article about the superiority of Chinese mothers as opposed
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A Nation at Risk The Imperative for Educational Reform What are the main points made in the reading? A Nation at Risk created the present-day sense that American schools are failing‚ and generated many education reform efforts since the report was published in ‘83. A Nation at Risk assessed the quality of teaching and learning at the elementary‚ high school‚ and college levels and compared American schools with those of “advanced” nations. It reported that America’s educational system was
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Rhetorical Analysis Do you struggle to find equilibrium between excelling at work and spending productive‚ quality time with loved ones at home? With the technology that is available in the twenty first century‚ it is now possible for educated professionals to decide whether they would like to work from home and collaborate with family members to meet work demands. Alesia Montgomery is an African American Ethnographer who wrote “Kitchen Conferences and Garage Cubicles: The Merger of Home and Work
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It began with the curiosity of a young African American male‚ name Wes Moore. Whose name appeared in the Baltimore sun in December of 2000. An article was written announcing that he‚ a young “fatherless” son of yet another single mother‚ was receiving a Rhodes scholarship. Little‚ did he know that‚ not far from his “memorable” write up in the Baltimore Sun‚ would be a series of article that would change his life even more than his scholarship that he had earned. What was written‚ were articles
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Every day‚ thousands of teenage and college-aged girls flip through the pages of tabloids and fashion magazines‚ admiring the glossy images of models and celebrities. While this habit is seemingly casual and innocent‚ for many it becomes an obsession that is interlinked with a struggle to attain an ideal yet unrealistic body image. In their articles‚ Meredith Baker and Walter Vandereycken discuss the media’s influence on young women‚ agreeing that media exposure has a strong negative impact on young
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1 of 3 " Turning Rhetorical Melissa Felder an author with a hearing disability who attended Yale University explains her experience at Yale in her article‚ “How Yale Supports Students With Disabilities”; along with how other students with disabilities are treated as well. Although she does touch some on other students she focuses more on her hearing disability. Felder goes in to detail on her experience inside of the classroom along with outside they classroom. She compares how it was at
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Extrinsic motivation‚ intrinsic is being motivated by self-satisfaction and extrinsic is motivated by en external reward. In the memoir The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore‚ there are a series of events or incidents in the second half of the book that display that variety of motivation that exists. Having read the book one may argue that the author Wes Moore was motivated by more intrinsic drive whereas the other Wes was motivated more by extrinsic drive. Both of the Wes Moore’s had varying motivations
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In the book The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore‚ two people by the name of Wes Moore turned out to have different fates. One became a Rhodes Scholar while the other became a convicted murderer who’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison. How did one become more traditionally successful than the other? One can say that it’s because of how their mothers guided them and the environment they grew up around. Children don’t know any better‚ they depend on the guidance of a father‚ mother
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Dropout Nation In many ways I can relate to lawrence‚ Sparkle‚ Marcus and Marco. Everyday at school there are the same kind of problems that all of the students in dropout nation are having. For example how sparkle has a kid and left school‚ or how Marcus was always high and late for school‚ and how Lawrence had anger issues and went off on a lot of people even the ones that tried to help him. Students at my school come into school high and late for classes‚ most of them have anger issues and they
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Alexandria Corcoran Jaren Schroeder English W131 October 17‚ 2012 Cancer Research – A Super Fraud? Is cancer research a super fraud? Is the money being raised by the several cancer organizations being used for good‚ or bad? Does the research the government puts forth really cover what needs to be researched‚ or are they missing something? These are all questions that Mr. Robert Ryan believes he has the answers to. Whether one trusts him or not is one’s own decision. Having only a bachelor degree
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