'Achievement Of Desire' By Richard Rodriguez

Rodriguez stated in the first portion of his essay, “Proudly I announced that a teacher had said I was losing all trace of my Spanish accent.” He wanted to be more like his teachers and less like his parents. People started to tell him, “Your parents must be so proud!”, and all he could do was smile awkwardly. This is one of the first moments in the essay where you get the sense of Rodriguez’s conflicted feelings. He knew that his parents didn’t really understand all of his awards and they didn’t understand his obsession with knowledge and authority that he’s teachers possessed.

Rags to Riches In the story “Grades and Money”. Steven Vogel, a college professor teaching philosophy at a small private college in the Midwest talks about students worrying about getting better grades, rather than learning the material. He discusses how back when he was in school students never talked about what their grade was in a class, and now that’s all kids talk about. He gives many examples of students being open about their grades. In the story he states “ openness about grades is probably healthier than the kind of highfalutin’ squeamishness we exhibited-but rather to explain the difficulty I feel in really understanding grades, in grasping what exactly they are and what they are for”.

Through the experience to maintain identity, their thoughts were changed, and both of them become optimistic. At the end of the story of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden allows to go to the new school and decides to apply the school. Before he spends time in New York and goes back to his home, he did not think he wants to go to school because he considered all people around him as “phonies,” and he was not so interested in studying. That is also one of the reasons that he was kicked out from the school four times. In addition, when Mr. Antolini who was his English teacher teaches Holden the importance of getting academic experience by going to the school, Holden did not pay so much attention to what Mr. Antolini says.

As the student struggles with financial problems, his friend is well off with finances from his business. But why does a person engage in the learning process even though it is tiresome? Why also does a person opt not to engage in small businesses but got to school? (Joseph, 2007) advises that a majority of people are told that education is important on a number of fronts while growing up so that they grow valuing education to a particular degree so that even if they face challenges while studying they persevere. The notion of the value of education did not just happen but was created by people who had experienced it and shared with their friends, relatives or even neighbors’.

On the other hand, sometimes William needed help to find the resolve to keep going. Near the end of the book William is trying to learn more of the English language, but the L’s and the R’s get him every time. He was discharged by the fact that some of the little children at his school could speak the language better than he could. His teacher eventually told him, “Don’t be discouraged and give up just because it’s hard. Whatever you want to do, if you do it with heart, it will happen” (272-273).

I feel I gave up the passion of dancing because I’m trying to make another person happy rather than myself. While being pressured from my family to continue my education, I forget there is more to life than just school. I spend more time completing my assignments rather than spend time with my family. Having no social interaction with friends and family can lead to being depressed while isolating oneself to homework “As I mentioned, some people’s depression seems to be a direct result of their social struggles. They were fine before but have become sad and hopeless in the face of their isolation, rejection, and loneliness” (Ruiz 2).

A Boy Who Wants What 's Best For Him In, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie, is about a boy called Junior who’s struggling his way to fit in the Indian world and the white world. Both Junior and I survived through all the pain even though we had little support to keep us moving and chasing our goals and never giving up. Junior has a goal and he thinks leaving the Rez will help Junior be more successful in life so he switches school to a white school called Wellpinit and leaves his old school Reardan High School and now the Rez treat Junior as a outcast or a part time Indian on the Rez. Junior’s teacher Mr. P advises Junior to leave the Rez and tells Junior he deserves better and not to give up. "You have

In The Good Earth, Wang Lung’s children are raised in an atmosphere of privilege, leading them away from their family’s traditional values. In their childhood, Lung taught his sons to demonstrate filial piety. Lung instructed them to respect their elders, to not talk poorly of them, and to provide for them first. However, it is clear by the end of the book that the sons do not follow this tradition. Lung’s first son speaks poorly of his teacher, a “wise elder” of the town.

“Wonder" is a story about August Pullman, a boy with severe facial deformities, riding on the journey to how he settles into the school environment; making new friends, despite the harsh atmosphere and his endurance throughout the typical middle school dramas. Not only does it show his struggles, the self-doubting process but also illustrates the malicious and superficiality of people who vainly judge others based on his physical appearance. Despite the brusque and insensitive comments, he remains full of life. Correspondingly, it teaches the value of kindness, to love everyone, and be inclusive. Connecting to Looking Glass Self, August experienced embarrassment when he overheard his best friend, Jack, talking negatively about his looks, that August should be ashamed to look like this and questioned if he can get used to seeing his face.

That is where education comes in place to determine the balance in a society. What if someone is really smart and he is failing his classes in college because he is going through some hard time at work. That same person cannot get a job because he couldn’t complete his degree and his GPA is all messed up because at the time he was going through some hard time. He didn’t choose this route. It is just destiny but we can control our destiny.

The reason he wanted to come to TEC was to have a better opportunity and because he didn’t want to go to his local school, Bowsher. Luckily, some students from TEC came to his school to talk about the many benefits this school provides. Already, this school has had an impact on his life due to the Summer Reading (7 Habits), he says that it has changed the way he deals with situations.HE hopes to be challenged but be abe to handle his work, he finds being a freshman interesting. Attending TEC is difficult and being accepted here is a great achievement, this sets a good image for Nick, and will help him reach his