Getting Away Without Going Away By Mary Sherry Summary

Can you predict if it was the last day of your childhood and freedom? Lucia and her family couldn 't. Lucy Lipiner’s haunting memoir “Long Journey Home” documents when Nazis invade their homeland and forced them to flee away and find shelter. With limited options on where to go, their family stays together throughout the strenuous journey to find safety throughout Europe to America. This memoir tells in detail the mental and physical struggle to get to safety and freedom. Even when tumultuous events occur, you still have a chance to become resilient no matter what circumstances. To illustrate this theme, Lucy Lipiner uses extensive imagery.

Lynda Barry's writing demonstrates to the reader that schools are more than just institutions that provide learning spaces. Ideally, every kid in a classroom should be living a happy life outside of school. But in reality, this is seldom the case, and some kids are living a rough time at home. Family values are fundamental to a kids' development, yet every day it seems families get disoriented with disputes life troughs in their paths. Forgetting of what truly is important. The school is like a second home to some kids. Barry's essay demonstrates this by explaining the effect school had on her. As a result, she sees the janitor in which she is delighted to see and quickly sparks a smile on her face. Another example is when she sees her teacher Mrs.LeSane and goes up to her and cries. Finally, the last case is the therapeutic value of art Mrs.Lesane believed on.

Within college classes, the teachers and students have the ability to talk more about controversial topics that are not allowed within the high school classes. Parents understand that when their children go to college, they will be exposed to more topics that they have yet to hear about. Parents do not expect the same from a high school classroom. Lake Braddock English departments officials sent a letter to Murphy stating that “society must address troubles the world faces” (The Washington Post - Shapiro). The letter also mentioned that, “ reading and studying books that expose us, imaginatively and safely, to that trouble steels our souls to pull us through our own hard times and leads us to a greater empathy for the plight of our fellow human beings” (The Washington Post - Shapiro).

In May 23, 1999, Anna Quindlen, an extraordinary American writer gave a commencement speech at Mount Holyoke College to a group of students, that were graduating. The speech revolved around on perfection, and making individuals choices around communities . Quindlen believed in constant improvement for the class for their benefit. She stresses the importance of being themselves and quit the dreams of being perfect. Her rhetorical language left the meaning of true life on the college students which allowed it to be precedent for their future lives. Through all her emotional anecdotes, allusions, imagery, and tropes she inspired the graduating class to stop striving to fit society’s standards. Through her appeals Quindlen believes in making individual decisions for themselves before they forget who they really are.

Each year thousands of students start college, though not all of them make it. Some students will go to college anywhere from a year all the way up to eight plus, as where others may only last a semester or two at the most. College is something that all students need to have in order to attain multiple opportunities The students who end up failing his or her college courses have multiple reasons as to why he or she may not have lasted as long as intended. Though most of them end up being rather foolish excuses. For instance, students not showing up to class on time, never doing his or her homework, not taking notes, refusing to give up relaxation time along with any type of social gathering, or it could just be as simple as him or her not understanding

In Everyday Use Historical Criticisms explores the disconnection that people can sometimes have depending on their education. Alice Walker successfully shows the disconnection by comparing two ends of the spectrum of generation. Taking the historical context it plays a major role in the way this short story is viewed. It was a time where people of color had a different and difficult experience getting an education. When the narrator was talking about having an education it was important because she wanted to be on a television show her success and how far she went. However Dee see’s her mother and Maggie differently as if they don’t know how to appreciate heritage as an art. For example when she wanted the quilts that were suppose to go

The next morning, we all gather our belongings, pack them in the truck or van and gather in between the two vehicles."Noah was at a camp, just outside of Richmond." Rick says, leaning against the van's side. "It was secure, it had walls, twenty people. Beth wanted to go with him, wanted to get him there." He looks at the ground, putting his hands in his pocket. "It is a long trip but if it works out, it's the last long trip we have to make." He had hope in his voice, desperation to finally find a safe place. "And if it's no longer there?" I ask what no one wants to, but is thinking. "We keep going." Rick nods. "Then we find a new place." Michonne chimes on. No one says anything more. "Okay, let's get moving." Rick breaks the silence. We relocate to our sitting arrangements of the previous night. Carl, Noah and I try our best to get in the most comfortable positions we can discover while moving around. A few minutes later we, as well as nothing to do. I resort to

To illustrate this point, Avramovich, (2014) notes that an English teacher no longer teaches literacy and appreciation of knowledge utilizing a wide assortment of classical texts, some of which contain religious references or cultural components that may potentially be offensive. Instead, the English teacher must focus on the development of skills related to the reading of nonfiction texts (2014), which are a major component of the national tests. These classic texts, Schultz (2016) offers, guide learning towards a deeper understanding of the “truths of the human condition.” Consequently, for Christian teachers of private, public or home-schooled environments, fear the standards will force them to follow these Common Core baselines so that students may go on to the next grade level (Theriot, 2014), thus stifling any flexibility or freedom.

Paul J. Meyer once said, "Productivity is never an accident." In other words, it is the answer to success, which has been defined and dependent upon one's perseverance and ambition, something that students of today have ignored. In the article, "Blame the Student," Patrick Welsh takes a look through the eyes of the unmotivated student. As of the last couple years, I myself have seen students who decided that hard work is not a, "key factor in academic success." In fact, some students place the blame on the teachers, making their parents convinced that it is, "the teacher or the system that is the problem." Welsh has observed this through his own classroom where he states, "When I have given C's or D's to bright middle-class kids who have done

Many parents, and to some extent educators, prey on emotional fears, more specifically the fear of failure to motivate students to do well in school. The old adage “if you don’t do well in school you won’t get a good job.” Getting a “good education” and making “good grades” no longer ensures success anymore. Today’s society is built upon the concept of making as much money as one can and as fast as one can. Therefore, given the financial cost and immediate pressure faced by many students upon college graduation to pay back student loans, one’s choice of college and subject of study will become an increasingly important skill and will ultimately determine the economic returns for going to college. Therefore, how does the choices one makes

Hector Alvarez DeWalt 1301-Y004 October 1, 2014 Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft “School Is Bad For Children” John Holt’s “School Is Bad For Children” first published in 1969, shows how Holt wants to convince his readers to children are in the wrong for going to school. “Dull and ugly place, where nobody ever says anything very truthful”(72) and “give them a chance to learn about the world at first hand”(72). Understandable anecdotes, contrast, and comparison are techniques Holt skillfully uses to create a strong, convincing essay.

Mary Sherry makes a valid argument in “ In Praise of the F Word”. As a staff writer for Newsweek and a teacher of adult literacy programs, she claims the problem lies, not in the environmental factors affecting children while in school, but in the educational system and its impeding falsehoods when aiding students that have now come back to haunt graduates. According to Sherry, the meritocracy that had once reigned supreme in the classroom, has now shifted to a form of passive learning. Sherry suggests that everyone in society “excuses” poor behavior in school by saying “kids can’t learn if they come from a terrible environment”.

All that I was starting to root myself in crumbled like dry, barren soil. Where could I find identity in this Oklahoma school? Why was differentiation from everyone else so important to me? I became infatuated with people’s intentions; I wanted to know why people I admired were not talking about the important effect of personal motivation. There had to be a life where every day meant progress, and I found it in raw Christianity. Here was a prepared way to have

People today, myself included, have accepted this criterion and consequently, from the start of their child’s high school career, parents will continuously stress the importance of achieving high grades in their classes so that they will be ‘accepted into a good university.’ In high schools, I always heard my fellow classmates talking about their hopes of attending law school or med school in the future. In reality, it is likely that those may not be their actual hopes and dreams, but what they really want is a job with a good pay. In one paragraph, Jacobs recalls how her father was employed as a doctor and because of this, during the Great Depression, he was still able to get by despite the mass unemployment (54). Children are pressured to do well and earn promising credentials to ensure they are hired in admirable, steady positions in the future and have a decent income salary, such as Jacob’s father. It has become more and more frequent for students in high school to take a challenging course in a private institution, like many of my friends did, so they can obtain a higher grade to meet requirements for a university programs that they, in truth, have no desire to study in. Thus, some programs, such as business, have a great deal of applicants each year and many of those who are accepted and studying in their chosen field are not

In contract, flunking does not always mean motivation because flunking can also have unfortunate consequences for the students’ the process of learning. Sometime students may see failure as a threat, as result, they are just try to pass their courses without understanding the content. But it only makes students reach the grade they need to complete the course. Sara Sparks states in the article, California School Draws Lessons From Failure. “ Undergirding all of these efforts is the belief that combining meaningful instructional improvements with focused attention on the crucial non-academic factors that influence learning is the only approach that will fully prepare our students for the future” ( 19). They are not interested in passing the