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Melba shows a great amount of courage in her memoir. The first time she shows courage is when she signs her name on a special paper. "When my teacher asked if anyone lived within the Central High School district wanted to attend school with white people, I raised my hand. As I signed my name on the paper they passed around, I thought about all those times I 'd gone past Central High," (Beals 19). This quote demonstrates true courage because she knows how attending Central High may be a downfall for her and her family since she will have to confront the racial slurs of the caucasian population, costing them agony and energy.

In the essay “A Balance Between Nature and Nurture,” Gloria Steinem gives the audience an insight into her beliefs on this controversial topic. Gloria has a belief that both nature and nurture impact us throughout our lives. In her article she writes about how her parents thought that traveling was just as “enlightening as sitting in a classroom.” Beside her parents, Gloria saw the world through a different perspective compared to other kids her age. However, once she got to school things changed- she was exposed to gender obsessions, race and class complexities, and the idea that war and male leadership were part of human nature. Gloria eventually became like everyone else hoping to be accepted in the crowd.

The author’s major thesis is racial identity so why are someone people are colored blind. Tatum uses her personal experiences and her being a professor. As her children was growing up they had to go through it with her own kids herself having to talked to them about race and how people may not agree on racism and she also use different things to use when she taught as a professor. Having to explain to your kids about racism is very hard because they want to be friends with someone of the different race. From pass experience I have talked to my son about not being prejudice and treat everyone the same.

Lucero is well educated women whose dreams were shaped because she was discouraged when she realized that she was not going to be able to do well in Law school. I also found that Zuleth changed her mentality about going to law school and instead she decided to do something that in the future will help her community. This also made me realize that Zuleth is very passionate about

In “The Sanctuary of School” Lynda applies her personal life to the fact that some people think cutting down budgets for public schools will benefit when times get tough. Also that art, music and the creative ideas will be the first to go when budgets are cut. Lynda had a rough childhood where her parents had money issues and family members that needed temporarily to stay at her home (Barry, 721). The lack of attention from her parents made her look for attention elsewhere in this case the school. Lynda saw her teacher Mrs. LeSane as a mother figure.

The reason she dedicated her life to bettering the social work student was that she felt that students needed a wide range of field experience. She was once a student and recognized a lack of experience. She dedicated her life to change that and give future students a better opportunity and more field experience. At Smith College, she was head of the department for casework teaching and organizing field work. According to Annette Garrett’s book, Interviewing; It’s Principles and Methods, after its publication in 1942, there were many requests for more information on how to conduct an interview.

After I was studying secondary school, I tried different ways to improve my English. In addition, my mother was hiring a teacher for me to enhance my English skill. However, it did not help me, and it contributed me to hate English even more. On the other hand, I knew that after I finished my secondary school, I needed to go to American to study university. It meant that I had to improve my English.

They both worked hard to make each other happy during this stressful event, and that is beautiful. Liesel struggled with school. Liesel could not read, and was told “You Dummkopf - you idiot.” (78). She was bullied for not knowing how to read, and that was going to stop. However, Liesel wrote that “it was not so much school who helped me to read.

His mother wanting him to use all the Vietnamese traditions he decided to go out on a limb and create something for both worlds. Lam did well in school and studied hard however, his mother was not happy about him having to study so hard, making her feel the American education was making him distance himself from his own culture. Since this story is written from the non-fiction stand point it creates a more realistic atmosphere. Non-fiction stories are based on something that has happened to the author or something that actually happened and he decided that this story was best to write about. In Vietnam people participate in the traditional rituals of their culture and that is how other people are able to define the identity of the Vietnam people.

Harper Lee, an author, wrote her book “How to Kill a Mockingbird” in a black segregated time. She wrote the book because she wanted to show people how life was life for everyone during that era of her life and others. In her book, three of the literary elements she used was the conflict of others’ needs above our own, the motif of not judging a person by what it seems and sound like, and the symbol of blacks and whites being able to exist together. First, Jem is now going to school, and there is a new teacher, Miss Caroline, that is not from Maycomb. Once class starts Miss Caroline teaches the class, but Jem knows everything Miss Caroline is trying to teach the children.