Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Analysis

Throughout high school, students are prepped for college. Almost the entire curriculum revolves around getting into or being prepared for college. Many of these students are independent and intelligent individuals. College may be the perfect place for them. Linda Lee contemplates the fact that even though statistics show that college graduates make the most money, the statistics also point out that these students were “the brightest and hardest-working” students. There are also students that fall between the cracks of these statistics. Some students may be skilled in certain areas, but do not make the test scores to apply for a university. Others may be on the

Many middle to lower class families cannot afford to send their kids to school and with Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton giving out generous financial packages to their student, who mostly come from wealthy background. The poorer students are on the losing end because they are not given the opportunity for aid. As Terry Hartle, the senior vice president of the American Council of Education, says, "Smart poor kids go to college at the same rate as stupid rich kids." What this is saying is that the wealthy families have vastly more opportunity to succeed in the college system even though they have equal or lesser smarts. Well respected schools such as NYU are now admitting students based on the financial fit not by merit.

“Man is the cruelest animal.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche. Many americans have pets to keep them company, but some people take this concept to the extreme by keeping exotic animals as pets. Exotic animals should not be kept as pets for various reasons.

Whether we realize it or not, test scores play a vital role in many people’s self esteem. A person who frequently scores high will be confident that they are very intelligent and will expect others to see them that way. Asimov attested to this when he stated, “All my life I’ve been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I’m highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think that too.” (Asimov, 536). On the other hand, those who score low on tests often write themselves off to be unintelligent. Emphasis on the importance of the ACT or SAT test scores can lead an adolescent to conclude that he or she is not capable of succeeding in college and lead them to not pursue higher education. The tragedy is that we may pass on opportunities because we have labelled ourselves unintelligent based on a test score which is not a true refelection of our

When people hear the term “Ivy League school”, they oftentimes think of a prestigious, high ranked college where extremely intelligent, well-rounded individuals go to shape themselves into an efficient member of society. However, a piece published by William Deresiewicz called “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League” does exactly the opposite, as Deresiewicz, a former 8 year Yale professor, criticizes Ivy League schools for being too constricting and not allowing their students to be themselves and come out to be a well-rounded efficient member of society. Deresiewicz is an award winning essayist and critic, as well as a frequent college speaker, and the best selling author of the 2014 novel “Excellent Sheep,” which also criticizes the roles of major Ivy League schools relating to American society. The main theme of “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League” is to convey the message to parents that contrary to popular belief, Ivy League schools do not always create perfect, well rounded individuals, and Deresiewicz uses his years of experience at Yale and the years he attended Columbia to back up his claims that sending away your kids to the Ivy League is not always the best choice.

U.S. News ranks Harvard University as the number one college in the world. Harvard University is also a perfect example of discrimination based on race in that they are bound to a system of quotas. Before covering the racial disparities at Harvard, it must be noted that while the SAT is not a perfect evaluation of students’ abilities, it is still

Standardized testing has been around since the early 1900’s. Today, it determines a high school student’s future. Every year juniors in high school start to prepare months in advance for the SAT’s and ACT’s. Along with the test itself, comes stress that is not necessary. The debate of standardized tests defining a student’s academic ability or not has become a recent popular controversial topic. Many colleges and universities are starting to have test optional applications because they are realizing that a single test score does not demonstrate the knowledge of a student. There is more value in a student that should rule an acceptance or rejection. In the article, “SAT Scores Help Colleges Make Better Decisions” Capterton states, “The SAT has proven to be valid, fair, and a reliable data tool for college admission” (Capterton). Capterton, president of the College Board, believes that the SAT’s and ACT’s should be used to determine a student’s acceptance because it is an accurate measure. What Capterton and deans of admissions of colleges and universities don’t know is the abundant amount of resources upper class families have for preparation, the creative talents a student has outside of taking tests, and the amount of stress they put on a 17 year old.

David Leonhardt bases more of his articles on students similar test scores when starting in a university. In his article, he uses examples of two groups of students with generally the same score, but dividend on what college they attend because of a tiny difference. “Students who score 840 on the SAT, for example, or maintain a “C+” average in high school are admitted. Those who don’t clear the bar are generally rejected, and many don’t attend any four-year college” (Leonhardt). This

Einstein once said, “If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Likewise, if a poor test-taker is judged by their SAT score, they could be forced to attend an inadequate institute of higher education. For decades, the SAT has been “the test” that makes or breaks a student's chances of getting into their top college. Generally, the privileged populace do well, but minorities and women do not come out as strong and are therefore limited to college choice. The SAT has proven to be an unsuitable, biased method for predicting success of students in college.

As a high school senior, the pressure to pick the school that will provide me with both a good social and academic experience is on. For someone like me, I would be content with going to a good state school to save money. But for other students, Ivy League is the only option. These same students and their parents strongly believe that an Ivy League education is the principal to the finest opportunities in life. William Deresiewicz claims they do not give a remarkable social experience nor do they allow room for students to think themselves. In his article, “ Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy Leagues”, he uses his status and personal anecdotes to persuade the reader of just that.

One of the biggest fallacies in my high school was that the people in the top ten rank were the smartest people there. That because we were considered to be the best school in the city(another issue in and of itself), they were the ones that were going to be accepted into the high ranking universities and selective honors programs. But what most of my classmates, and myself at first, failed to see that the truth was actually very different. When one takes a step back and actually looks at the credentials and scores of the people in the top ten rank when compared to the rest of the class, it becomes exceedingly obvious that the numbers don’t support the notion that they are the “elite” scholars of the school. Many of those in the top ten rank were there for one reason only, they knew how to play the system and they picked the easiest teachers for each subject. Now of course there was a couple of students that were indeed hard workers and very intelligent, our valedictorian is a great example of that. But the majority were anything but. Most of their test scores (AP, SAT, ACT, etc.), awards, and community service/extracurricular activities were noticeably less than the students who were deemed less “successful” than them. Now when I first started there I thought that maybe if I tried to do what they did I would have a higher chance of getting into a great university, but I started to notice several little things about the previous classes and their top ten’s experience in

Students in lower income families or from lower income towns have access to lower quality technology. It is reasonable as well to believe that students in situations such as these may also have access to a lesser quality of formal education. John Fraire, vice president/or student affairs and enrollment at Washington State University, states his point of view of the SAT and how they negatively affect the potential of future college students. “The College Board and Coleman do not seem to understand that the SATs have become a tool for exclusion and unfairness. College rankings and other prestigious designations rely heavily on the test'sprofile of an entering class despite the fact that scores have little validity for a large portion of this country's changing student population.”(A44) The truth that the SAT hasn’t changed enough to meet the diverse range of the new college applicants can be distressing. It can discourage students from not only applying to certain schools, but scholarships that could potentially help them reach their secondary school goals. Changes in the growing student population applying to secondary school are rapidly accruing, the SAT will soon decrease in its ability to represent the mass majority of college

As the price of college continues to rise and employers demand more education from their workers, many American parents are trying to give their children an edge by demanding that they shoot for perfection in their pursuit of excellence. Amy Chua’s controversial book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, outlines her efforts to raise her daughters in a way that emphasizes excellence, work ethic, and skills, according to the Amazon.com blurb. The book sparked a fair amount of controversy, some parents saying that Chua was cruel and others saying her children would thank her later. Filmmaker Karen Lin looks at the pursuit of perfection in her film of the same name (2004) and explores the toxic effects of that pursuit that many women feel.

Students from higher income and parental education backgrounds tend to complete core coursework and both report and achieve “A”-level GPAs in greater number. As a result, they perform better on the SAT. For example, students in the class of 2011 who completed a core curriculum achieved an average of 48 points better per section. However, the relationship between test scores and factors such as educational background, gender, parental education, and household income are complex and interdependent. Non-school demographic and socioeconomic factors do not directly affect test performance, but they are associated with educational experiences as reflected on tests such as the SAT and other measures such as high school graduation rates. Such a

Composers utilize various techniques to create distinctively visual texts which enable the responders to clearly imagine, form meaning and understand a composer 's unique perspective. In the wuxia film, ‘Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,’ (Crouching Tiger..) (2000) composed by Ang Lee distinctively visuals are presented though the ravishing romance and martial arts miracles which sweep the audience into adventures beyond imagining. The photograph of Ibtihaj Muhammad in the Time Magazine (2016) by Keith Ellison also enables the audience to gain a greater appreciation of the composer 's use of visual elements to offer a multitude of viewpoints on society. Ultimately, the distinctively visual within both texts are conveyed through;