Observation At the 125th stop of the 1 subway train line, four young boys no older than 13 enter the car. It is Thursday, February 15th at 3:30pm and the boys seem to be coming from school, as they are all wearing backpacks. The group consists of two black boys, one white boy, and one perceived to be of mixed race. They are all dressed in similar clothing: pants, T-shirts, and jackets. Additionally, they all interact with their cell phones at least once during the observation. As the train continues its path uptown, one of the black boys shakes his head and says, “Yo man, these girls are crazy.” They all laugh and the mixed boy replies, “If you like her, you gotta like crazy.” They all laugh again and then fall silent as they all check their phones for about two minutes. At this time, they are minimally interacting with one another by directing others’ attention to the phones and occasionally laughing. …show more content…
The second black boy says “Got family stuff, ya know. Sorry.” His tone seems regretful, as if it was his own choice, he wouldn’t spend time with his family. The mixed boy looks up from his phone to say “Yeah, me too, man.” They return to their cell phones silently until more people enter the train and the boys are blocked from the observer.
The majority of students at Morris High were white or Asian, and the school had the latest computer technology, glorious landscaping, high teacher salaries, and offered students with a variety of foreign languages to study. The interactions that Kozol had with the students from East St. Louis were drastically different from those with the students of Morris High. The students from East St. Louis were poorly educated, as they had faulty grammar and vocabulary, struggled with the concept of time, and had inadequate social skills. These deficiencies are be observed through Kozol’s discussion with the children about the rape and murder of a young girl, who happened to be the sister of one of the children. The discussion Kozol had with the students from Morris High, on the other hand, was completely different.
Wilona (mom), Daniel (dad), Joetta, Byron, and Kenny Watson take a trip through one of the darkest moments in American history. And to one of the most deadliest place, Birmingham, Alabama. First of all, in the 1960’s, and today, racism is a big part in America. Since we were born, we were taught to call each other by these “labels”. Such as, “I am a girl, and you are a boy” or “I am white, and you are black.”
Many of the boys pretended that negative interactions and stereotyping did not affect them, but their bravo personas only masked the fear inside. Fear made the boys feel weaker and less masculine, so they would deviate from social norms to regain respect and dignity among their peers and for themselves. Routine patterns of punishment eventually lead the boys to develop an altered view of thoughts, beliefs, and ways of behaving in order to survive the tough life set them. Chapter two concentrates on the history of Oakland, incarceration rates, youth systems of control, and the boy’s resistance to punishment and brutalization. The Oakland ghetto consists of a multiracial community, predominantly African-American and Latino, that are equally targeted and brutalized by police
In “The Boys Are Not All Right” by Michael Ian Black, the author uses different powers of persuasion to convince the audience to succumb to his opinion that men today don’t know how to properly express their feelings because of cultural norms that expressing your feelings is associated with weakness and femininity. He starts the article by drawing on the fact that almost all mass shootings have been committed by men. He says that men tend to lash out in anger because they don’t know how to properly express their feelings. He attempts to persuade his reader to start a conversation on how to make it more acceptable in society for men to express their emotions in a way that doesn’t potentially hurt others.
Differentiation of race and segregation of societies in the inner suburb of Sydney. The political correctness of a dysfunctional community painted in black and white by the author, Scott Monk. Characters of the book Boyz “r” us: The Jarratt family: Alan: the boy’s father, his occupation
Not being able to know one’s identity during adolescence can lead to do drugs, commit theft, fail school, and be blind on what to do with their life. This is what James McBride had to go through during his adolescence. Growing up in a black community with a white mother can be very confusing and stressful. He employs rhetorical devices throughout his text in order to develop his epiphany regarding his mother’s life and by, extension, his own. Through the use of appeals and tone James McBride reveals the importance of education and religion, but above all else McBride mostly focuses on finding his identity, trying to understand race as he was growing up, and shows how his mother played an important role in his life
Clayton had to compromise his values to join the Beat Boys because he didn’t want to be a “cute kid”, but that experience helped him find his individual voice that was different from Cool Papa’s. The underground subway symbolizes Clayton’s passage from one phase of life to another. In contrast to the underground’s darkness, Clayton is able to emerge out of it with confidence and acceptance. The journey helped Clayton to be confident with his own self-identity and to accept his Cool Papa’s death. Clayton’s character development is inspiring and motivational for many children, as it shows how a child can overcome many real obstacles and be able to self-grow as an
People thought that since the kids were half white and half black that they won’t fit in with black or white. That is wrong because since they are half black and half white they will be able to fit into both white and black groups. Society has influenced people in the year 2015 by saying that all women should be model size and all men should have ABS. Everyday people look at magazines with women who are models often makes others feel self-conscious when they aren’t as small nor pretty as the girls in the photos. Society also makes teens drink, smoke, and do drugs to be classified as cool and popular.
The Outsiders Final 5 Paragraph Essay S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is a novel that follows a group of boys growing up in the 1960s who have to face prejudice and stereotypes on a daily basis. The author uses multiple examples of prejudice in the novel to demonstrate the destructive nature of prejudice on the characters in the story, such as fights between characters, friendships being torn apart, and people feeling ashamed of who they are and which social class they belong in. The first examples of prejudice shown in the novel are fights and hate between the two social classes. As a result of prejudice, many characters got into fights and there was a lot of hate between the two classes.
Over the past few months, the class has been discussing typical and atypical language development and the assessment and intervention of children with language delay or disorder. In line with this, the students were asked to observe children aged 0-12 years old with language problems for 2 hours. For this requirement, I went to a therapy center situated in Quezon City last November 16, from ten (10) A.M. to twelve (12) N.N. The center has multiple rooms that are used for speech therapy and occupational therapy. During my observation, two speech pathologists and two children with language disorder were sharing one speech therapy room.
Analysis:I think that this is important to the book because it shows the separation between the two groups. It also shows how his friends are like family and they will take care of eachother. It also gives the book a chance to show the roles people play in the group and how he is the youngest. It shows me that they greases and the socs don't get along and how it is dangerous for them to walk alone. Entry 2:
“I (Clint) never liked Marvin Pruitt. Never liked him. Never knew him, even though there were only three of us in the class. Three black kids. [In a] classroom of thirty-odd white kids.
From the reading, I understand that in today’s culture that there are still race relations. Even though both groups of boys came from the same educational background and the same impoverished living conditions. I believe his study and findings are still prevalent in today’s society. In this essay, I will be breaking down the parts and discussing social conditions, poverty, self-esteem and motivation between two “groups’’, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers.
When the teenage boy sees four yellow cars in a row it makes him feel depressed. Red cars on the contrary have the opposite effect and make him feel confident for the day. When the protagonist shows this most unusual behaviour to a relatively ordinary occurrence, students are most likely irritated. The readers encounter cultural differences in the novel mainly to the extend of Christopher’s unique character and abilities. However, his hobbies and interest in solving riddles and mysteries are not very different from the life of teenagers at school, apart from the fact that he has the Asberger syndrome.
Name: _______Aly Daniels_____________________ Classroom: __Inclusive_Preschool ________ Time and Date: ___3/20/18__9:00-11:00_______ Primary Focus for Activity (check one): ____ Physical ____ Social/emotional _X___ Cognitive ____ Language Purpose: The purposes of the lab experiences are: to identify and apply developing teaching skills by engaging a an individual child or group of children in a learning experience; to identify and apply knowledge of child development milestones and processed across all domains through observation, and to identify and apply High Scope key developmental indicators (or other professional standards) exhibited in specific experiences. 1. Name of the engaged experience and description: