Diversity In The Film 'The Medley Of Life'

Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to the modern world, but history still affects the way people think today due to the close-minded nature of uninformed citizens. In Castro’s “On Becoming Educated,” she accepts the fact that ignorance is overwhelmingly prevalent in today’s society; however, she works to fill “the academy’s blind spots” (Castro 270) by pushing others to recognize all sides of an argument and be curious about historical events and changes that affect them. Throughout her many journeys with literature courses, Castro found the choice of books to be rather narrow-minded. In retrospect, she “[realizes] that these small incidents were negotiations of power” (Castro 268), and conserving socially accepted positions on issue was more important to certain professors than challenging those beliefs. Historically, the process of shying away from debating and acknowledging other’s opinions has always been a norm. Castro acknowledges this connection between present day life and the past by broadening her perspective through words and generally referring to the what has already occurred in history. Overtime and with teaching experience, Castro has “learned not to back down” (Castro 269) when presented with opposing opinions. In regards to welcoming students with different

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand is the story about one of the greatest racing horse in America. Seabiscuit was purchased by Charles Howard, a self made millionaire, and trained by Tom Smith. The two riders who rode Seabiscuit were John Pollard and George Wolf. Seabiscuits last race was at Santa Anita in 1940. This is a great book for any age to read. You will enjoy the book even if you don't like reading about horses. It will make you feel as if you were at the races.

He starts by stating arguments about how the education needed decades ago is not what we need now. The education many have today isn’t the necessary to succeed in this new technological era. In today’s world we need to learn more about financial and globally. He states that classes should now be more interactive and deal with real life lessons. Lessons that will encourage them to be more creative and interactive. Encourage the new way of thinking, critical thinking. Teach students to learn in different environments. A skill to learn is to be adaptable in any environment. At first this will scare your or be uncomfortable. The new way of teaching should make you come out of your comfort zone and adapt. As well as teaching them to question everything and find the truth. How to think for themselves and how to develop their own ideas. I will be using this article because it gives a different view point with facts about the new way of education. How adaptation is major key. As well as the education of real life situations. Why be all book smart but fail in real life because you don’t have the knowledge in other areas. Schools should teach how to think for yourself but guide you in a way where you learn and educate yourself. This is different from having vocational. This educates more on the situations that may occur in the real life and how to react to them the best way

David Brooks, a political and social writer, commentator, journalist and editor wrote an article to comment on “diversity” and the nature in which people organize themselves in America. The article was published in The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003. Brooks responds to the issue which he see as the obvious: how diversity is a great deal in the United States but yet, no one gives heed to it. Throughout his response, he brings to our attention the various reasons why he think the issue is present in America. He also presents ways in which people could fix this problem by giving examples of what they could do. With all of that being the center of his response, Brooks did bring up certain ideas which I perceive as either agreeable or disagreeable.

Grand Valley is a school that is really devoted to liberal education, but I wasn’t too sure what that meant until I read this article. “Liberal Education & Global Community” was probably my favorite article out of the four we were assigned to read. I really agreed with the themes it contained and the lessons it incorporated. To learn about other world views will allow you to put yourself in their shoes, which is necessary if we want to have a peaceful society.

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Patton believes we can find in their narrative lessons of restlessness and curiosity which should define learning today. More specifically, she believes that a liberal education should make one permanently restless and uncomfortable, yet curious. The restlessness should stem from a desire to always learn more. From a desire to keep expanding one's knowledge of one’s own expertise, a sort of vertical growth in one’s knowledge. The curiosity (and accompanying uncomfortableness) should stem from a desire to learn more outside of one’s expertise. Here Patton gave two stories about students who had been liberally

The Diversity of Life written by, Edward O. Wilson tells the reader his experience in the Amazon River Basin and the eruption of the Krakatau. Wilson decided to introduce his book with these events to show that nature recovers from natural disasters that may occur in an environment. Both of his experiences displays that although nature becomes violent, resilience is seen within organisms, not only animals, but plants and bacteria. These disasters create species that can adjust and adapt to the nature of the environment in the future. By writing about his personal experience, the reader is able to connect with Wilson because we can imagine what he has been through due to his graphic descriptions and images.

In eighth grade, I noticed a distinct pattern with every person I talked to about college. There was always excitement in their voices about having freedom and independence, but ironically, no one wanted to go very far to experience that freedom. Everyone I talked to seemed to want to stay close to home. Although many people told me that I would get homesick if I went to school far away, I always had my heart set on getting out of Massachusetts. This notion of escaping my “humdrum” state emerged very young, when I had just seen Beauty and the Beast. A character in the movie says, “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell.” I remember hearing that line, and thinking, “Yes! That’s exactly how I feel.” Immediately, I knew I too wanted

It seems to me that the world is changing. Technology is reaching new heights, culture had accelerated its pace, and most of all society itself is on the verge of something new. In what direction, this is all headed, I cannot say. What I do know is that it is not terrible as some might claim. What I do know is that that the world is getting more connected, opinions are traveling through space in less than a second, some good, some bad, some crazy and some painfully true. We live in a magnificent era, that is as breathtaking as it is polarizing. This new world I believe requires a new way of thinking, of learning, and that is what I have come to the Evergreen State College to attain.

The film Life is Beautiful takes place during the Holocaust in the 1930s. It is about a man named Guido Orefice who falls in love with a woman named Dora. During the first half of the movie, Guido does everything he can to make Dora fall in love with him. A short time elapses in the movie and we see Guido and Dora married and with a child named Giosuè. Guido and Giosuè are sent to a concentration camp where Giosuè's father does his best to turn the concentration camp situation into a game.

You’ll notice I prefer the term “diversity” compared to what everyone else uses “race”. Of course, there is a reason to that as I will hope you will see as I tell my vignettes from over the years. When I worked as a substitute for the City of St. Louis, I found it interesting that in middle school I was required to take a “black and white count”. The first time I was told this I repeated the words to the secretary who told me, “just count how many white kids and how many black kids.” Sounds simple enough but this school was in South St. Louis. So I entered the classroom took attendance and proceeded to do the “black and white count”. So this is essentially what happened: I stood in front of the class and said looks like there are 6 black kids, 4 white kids, 3 Vietnamese kids, 4 Mexican kids, oops I was corrected 3 Mexican kids, 1 Panamanian, 5 Bosnians, and 2 absent. This was what I saw in the classroom and this was as black and white as I could see. Now years later I was at an educator’s workshop and I mentioned my experience to the presenter of Educational Diversity. I was told that really all the kids were considered black except for the 4 white kids because this count was to determine school funding.

What had started as a plan to catch me up on political news for class, has expanded into a year-long metamorphosis. Month by month, my library gains a new voice, economics one month, the next supreme court history, another on overlooked stories. With each voice, I hear a new perspective, teaching me the interdependence of life and the complexities of being human. My daily regimen has shaped what it means to me to be a citizen of this world: to be informed on international affairs, critically think about those many-sided issues, practicing self-awareness and cultural empathy, and participating in each level of community for the betterment of mankind. Barrett’s unique learning environment is well designed to take

Education can be defined by how we as humans learn to interact with one another as well as obtaining the skills and perspectives needed to reach our full potential later in life. While education may seem straight forward, there are many ideas as to how it should be successfully presented. The authors, Pratt, Rodriguez, and Freire, all share my belief that educational freedom is vital to a positive classroom experience. Throughout this essay, I will be using their ideas to support why the system of education requires radical reformation.