They’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught By Susan Brady Konig In "They’ve Got to be Carefully Taught" by Susan Brady Konig‚ she writes about educating young children‚ as young as pre-school age about their ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Educators are teaching the children what country their ancestors came from and how that makes them all different‚ their hair color‚ their skin color‚ how they celebrate special occasions‚ the different foods they may eat. I agree with Susan’s take on her daughter’s
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Walking down cracked cement streets strewn with used syringes‚ students‚ ages four to ten‚ are captured by the surprising 1993 documentary I am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School. Taking place in a troubled inner-city neighborhood of northern Philadelphia‚ the Academy Award winning film explores the dynamics and challenges of a Chapter One School‚ which is a federally funded school to help disadvantaged poor children who test below the national norms. Stanton is composed of all
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be in an unfortunate incident accidentally. In the article‚ “ How History Got the Rosa Parks Story Wrong”‚ Theoharis uses documentary evidence to show how Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist‚ a rebel and an outspoken person to challenge the belief Rosa Parks was a quiet woman. Theoharis proves Rosa Parks was a long-life activist using her childhood‚ her involvement with the NAACP and emotional appeal. Theoharis
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Mercedes Canada Smart Car Building on its success in the European market over the past few years‚ Mercedes-Benz Canada has launched the Smart Car in Canada! Following a few modifications to meet Canadian safety and emission standards‚ Mercedes-Benz is currently selling the Smart in Ontario as a trial before a full North American launch the following year. The Smart is unique - almost revolutionary in the auto market. The people at Mercedes believe that the market for the Smart is untapped with
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Archetype and Stereotype Journal 9/16 Toni Heo Entry #1 : (Commercial 1) Got Milk? TV Commercial In this commercial‚ the Dwayne Johnson‚ the main character‚ could be labeled as a hero. This man is showing us an image of an archetype because in this 30seconds commercial‚ while he was trying to catch the milk truck to drink some milk‚ one little kid asked him to put down her kitty out of the tall tree. When bank rubbers faced with this man‚ they were panic and ran away. Other old lady
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I‚ Rigoberta Menchu can be used by historians in order to see the events and treatments of the low class Guatemalans and how this negatively impacted the lives of these people. Given this‚ the book is seen as a testimonio instead of an autobiography‚ with this the story loses historical reliability. Considering that the book is based off of personal reactions‚ it can not be relied on for historical fact. Instead it can show us examples of treatment and examples of experiences that one side of the
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What’s Love Got to Do with it? In this article Anjula Razdan compares arranged marriage to her own ideal of what she thinks love and marriage means to her. She compares it to being under the spell of Western romantic love. She does this by comparing her own personal thoughts and experiences to those of various experts. Razdan also states that she was a product of an arranged marriage‚ even though she’s still not convinced to do it herself. Sure it worked for her parents‚ yet both of
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– ‘You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me’ It was a Monday morning like any other‚ cold‚ and the little light that was present squeezing its way through the sky’s grey veil. It was on these bitter twilight mornings that I apprehensively pulled my half-asleep body out from my overwhelmingly warm and comfortable bed. Leaving the house‚ late as per usual‚ I took the normal route through the park on my now daily routine journey to college. The 15-minute walk turned out to be a 10-minute walk as I was able to
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Even though there is still a lack of diversity in the STEM field and nerd culture‚ there have been efforts to diversify them. For example‚ in the article “Revenge of the Nerds: How Barbie Got Her Geek On” Ann Zimmerman discusses how women in the STEM field tried and succeed to get representation through Barbie. Mattel Inc.‚ opened a poll to let the people vote on what Barbie’s next career was. The options were: “architect‚ anchorwoman‚ computer engineer‚ environmentalist and surgeon.” Zimmerman writes
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This section of I‚ Rigoberta Menchu emphasized all the struggles indigenous people had to go through in their fight to preserve their culture and land. Menchu developed her consciousness and was willing to sacrifice her personal life just like her mother did‚ all for the well being of the community. Something that really intrigue me about this particular situation was that Menchu was willing to go against many of her culture values in order to stop being mistreated. From my understanding of her culture
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