Chapter 8 In Unequal Childhoods By Annette Lareau

Chapter 3 "Critical Thinking and Argument" of Andrea A. Lunsford's book Easy Writer, covers how to critically understand and make an educated argument. Lunsford first explains how to critically read and analyze the meaning or purpose of a text. Lunsford gives the reader a method to do this which includes previewing the text, taking notes, writing a summary of the text and the making an analysis of the work. Next Lunsford explains how to identify different types of appeals in a texts argument. These appeals include emotional, ethical and logical appeals. Emotional appeals center around personal values and human emotions. Ethical appeals deal with personal morals and the goodwill of humans. Logical appeals are based solely on facts and research.

62 percent of students can’t go to college because they don’t have enough money to go. But if they got paid at school they would have a better chance of going to college. They would have a better chance at getting a better job. You never know there job someday could help solve some kind of crisis that’s going on in the world. Also if they went to college they could have a chance a making

To help fifth graders understand the importance of challenging the accepted mindset of drug addiction, we should simplify the situation down to its basics. It is most likely that 10 year olds have not experienced the reality of witnessing a person who is addicted to drugs, and probably have heard a lot of stigmatization behind it. I would explain it by using chocolate instead of heroin and an apple instead of methadone. The article would be simplified, as so: Sally has been told that chocolate is bad for her, but she has been told about how amazing chocolate is. She decides to try some and instantly, falls in love with it. As she eats more, she realizes

The first determinant of one’s fate is their family’s background. Almost none of the children from low-income families made it through college. With the expenses of college today, I’m actually not surprised by that statistic. Of the children from low-income families, only 4 percent had a college degree at age 28, compared to 45 percent of the children from higher-income backgrounds. "That 's a shocking tenfold

“One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education” said United States Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen. Hollen is one of the members on the committee for education funding where he proposed the bill “Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers”. Hollens idea of education is to leave no child behind no matter if the child has disabilities, less money , or more money; every child will get an reasonable education that will someday help America. Hollens objective is utilized in Malcolm Gladwell's non-fiction book Outliers where he highlights the success of young children who are classified as wealthy and poor. In chapter nine “Marita's Bargains” Gladwell appeals to the audience through reliable

In their article “The Upside of Income Inequality” authors Gary Becker and Kevin M. Murphy argue that the solution to income inequality is to have more and more students attend and graduate from colleges. Becker and Murphy imply that students from “broken households” earn lower grades and test scores, therefore reducing their chances at entering and staying enrolled in colleges due to subpar cognitive skills. Throughout the article, charts are shown to show promising statistics of students of all ethnicities being successful in colleges. However they later state:

This reading is significant because it shows us the dire need to rethink, revolutionize, and create changes that will give students a color an opportunity to progress to higher education. We know that the only way that poor people of color will find some sort of social remobility is through higher education, but they cannot achieve that if things

As the writing advances, the argument shifts to people capable of hands on jobs out of high school considering whether going to college should really be advocated as much as it is today. Along with this, he says that eventually attending vocational schools will become scarce due technology and the fact that many things accomplished at these schools can be done online. He also claims that income statistics of high end jobs today are skewed considering the fact that when you look at average incomes of a profession, many of us will end up in the lower percentiles. For many people, he says, the best option is to pursue a service or hands on job that doesn’t require a four year education. He ends the essay by claiming that “College isn’t all it’s cracked up to be” as well as depreciating the value of the normal B.A. that little college pursuers end up achieving. Murray writes: “the misalignment is in the optimistic direction, as adolescents aspire to be attorneys or physicians without understanding the educational hurdles they must surmount to achieve their goals”.

The things that the author of " Young Americans get the Shaft" states that the young people under 35 should be worried about is the fact that we may not be able to find a job in their desired field after graduation. He also sates that the cost of college will places students in debt seeing that the cost of higher education has increased from 12 percent of the average family income to 23 percent. A final note made by the author that should worry those under the age of 35 is that the current state of the economy has taken away our generational right to make large economic advancements. Looking at the article and my current status as a college student the rise of the price of higher education is something that worries me more than I ever thought

RE: ¨Teen Depression and Anxiety: Why the Kids Are Not Alright” commentary Oct 26, 2016. Susanna Schrobsdorff makes a very valid point right off the bat that depression and anxiety in teens is so much more prevalent now because we have no way of escaping the world. Because of most of teens today growing up in a socially run world, we have no way of distinguishing between our online lives and our real lives. I see where she is right in this and I think she is right in saying that it is a different environment than what our parents grew up in, but there are always two sides of the story.

In Robert D. Putnam’s “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” he mentions “..poor kids now are in much worse shape than their counterparts then.” (p. 29) Despite the advances we’ve achieved in the technology and medical fields, I believe that our educational system is still deeply flawed. Instead of actually providing equal opportunities for every students from various economic and family backgrounds, the system instead provides limitations and discouragements for these students. Even during one of my best quarters in university, after achieving decent grades in my classes, stress and worries still plagues my mind. The reason behind these stress and worries originates from the financial difficulties. The longer I stay in school, the higher

Dr. Huber took a unique, captivating approach to substance education. He was direct which allowed me to dive deeper into learning more about a topic that is generally dull. Dr. Huber explained the specific facts on how drugs and alcohol affects the body, especially the brain. One point he repeatedly mentioned was how the frontal lobe does not fully develop until around age 25. This means a person’s planning, organizing, and judgement is not completely matured until that age. He also ensured that we knew how important education on substances are important for two reasons: you will always have to deal with a child or adult suffering from substance abuse and the fact that drugs have the extreme potential

Within this quarter I could broaden up my own knowledge about racism, prejudice and discrimination against others more. While reading the different, interesting parts of this book, I could create in some topics a whole new viewpoint about races, gender, sexes, etc. From a social standpoint to a biological standpoint, the book touches on so many different aspects and issues we have in the U.S., which was really eye opening and interesting to me. Every week I could learn more about what is going on in our country and society. Following statement from Matthew Rothschild’s essay matches perfectly into this discussion. Personally the costs to get a higher education in attending college are enormous and they are raising the fees constantly. Across

The article “Motivating Firs-Generation Students For Academic Success and College Completion” by Tanjula Petty describes the additional challenges first generation students have to overcome while attending college. A well-heeled diversity and world of opportunities are a few of the positive outcomes of attending college. According to Tanjula Petty (2014), “Yet, the most cited and widely used definition for first- generation students is someone whose parents has not completed a college degree”. Students whose parents did not acquire a college degree, have a lack of support at home. Their family members are not equipped to provide information required for college difficulties students may have. They lack knowledge and resources that students that students with college-educated parents have. The article states that these students are less psychologically prepared for college. Many low-income families do not understand the benefits of graduating from college. First generation students spend more time working and less time studying unlike their classmates. (Petty 2014) Coming from low-income families, many of these students have to divide their time between college and working. Leading students to prioritize money before school. Many work full time while going to school. Working more hours than studying can potentially harm students ' success.

It is difficult to choose which drugs to be cover in my classroom. If I can do more than one, then I would focus on different type of drugs for one month. However, I can only choose one and the one that I choose to cover in my classroom would be alcohol. Alcohol is a substance that is easily get a hold of no matter their age. For me, I feel that people think that alcohol is harmless but I feel that it is one of the most dangerous drug. It is the thought that people have that alcohol is harmless that can cause them to drink more when it is harmful. This is the reason I choose alcohol. The age group that it is important to cover with would be freshman year in high school. According to the reading, it stated that by age fifteen, about 50 percent