I am appealing the decision to not place Maggie Mae Burton in EGP. Maggie Mae is doing work beyond her grade level at home because she wants to do it. I feel she begs to do this extra work at home because she is not been challenged in the regular classroom. I know everyone feels he/her child is gifted; however, after raising four children, I know Maggie Mae’s intelligence is above the norm for her age. She is very creative and thinks outside the box. I don’t know what her test score was but I am assuming that was the reason she did not get into the program. I do know test do not always accurately pinpoint someone’s ability/intelligence. As a parent, I feel that I need to take a stand on this issue because I do not want Maggie Mae to continue
Dorothy Height had given leadership to the skirmish for fairness and human rights for all people. Dorothy was born March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated in the public schools in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small town where her and her family moved to when she was four years old. Her mother worked as a nurse for cancer patients, her father was a building contractor. Height was a straight-A student at Rankin High School, she also played center on a basketball team. She had graduated from Rankin High School at age 14, in 1926, she was younger than her classmates since the school had to advance her to grade levels. She went to college and she did further postgraduate work at Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. While she is working as a case worker for the welfare department in New York in 1937. Height participated in virtually all over the major civil and human rights events throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Heights childhood was really upright and once
Michael Panico was a boy with who was identified while in first grade as having a specific learning disability. He then qualified for special education and related transportation. Now in third grade Michael’s school, Memorial School in Burlington, Massachesetts only goes to the third grade then they go to another school. Because of this transition services had to be in place as well as an IEP. Michael had a learning disability but was above average or even at times considered superior intelligence. Memorial School recommended Michael be placed in a school in another town that would be very structured because the town/school believed Michael’s disability was emotional whereas his parents said it was neurological. His parents did not like the IEP presented or the recommended placement for Michael at Pine Glen School and Michael’s father wanted a review and he also rejected the new IEP. After reading the case I would have to agree with the father knowing my son would not be in the proper placement. The Massachusetts Department of Education Bureau of Special Education Appeals (BSEA) did the review. The hearing did not take place at this time but mediation did. However the mediation did not work but in the meantime Michael’s parents had him tested at Massachusetts General Hospital where they found him to have a severe learning disorder and emotional difficulties were considered secondary. Michael had perceptual difficulties and it was determined and they recommended a specialized
When evaluating Maggie’s situation, it is important to analyse social support networks in the matter of community connectedness as a protective factor of her health. Many epidemiologists corroborate that a healthy social network relates to positive health, such as reduced rates of depression. (Thompson, Teresa. 2014) Social support can be delivered by family, friends, teachers, social groups and many more. Social support aims to educate through advice, information and resources for a common goal to improve health.
Have you ever noticed how some people just stand out from the crowd? Like the clouds in the sky and blades of grass, people are all different. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker has a good example of an interesting, unique character. Maggie is a young girl who is not only physically but also mentally scarred. The way the burning house, her stuck-up sister, and society affects Maggie makes her different from everyone else.
The novel, Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets, by Stephen Crane, takes place in the slums of New York City during the 1890’s. It is about a girl, Maggie Johnson, who is forced to grow up in a tenement house. She had a brother, Jimmie, an abusive mother, Mary, and a father who died when Maggie was young. When Maggie grew up, she met her boyfriend, Pete. In Maggie’s eyes, Pete was a sophisticated young man who impressed Maggie because he treated her better than she had been treated to all of her life. Once Maggie’s mother and brother found out that Maggie was sleeping with this man, Mary threw Maggie out into the streets, condemning her to a life of evil. Eventually, Pete decided he no longer wished to see Maggie.
Maggie Vandermeer dwells in a contemporary society where proficiency in regards to social media is a rather dominant feature, especially in her search for a job and as an attempt to conform. As Maggie is not familiar with such social media’s, especially in comparison to the younger generation, this renders Maggie somewhat of a misfit and continues her path of solitude, as she has no friends or a job. Although Maggie routinely uses her cell phone to text or tweet, she has not yet integrated herself to this contemporary society, as the younger generation is remarkably adept with social media. Moreover, Maggie isn’t conversant with the proper norms that belong to social media. For example, at the beginning of the story, Maggie is woken up by her daughter, Lacey Vandermeer, who sends her a text at 1:27 AM. Next, she begins to Twitter stalk Lacey’s page until she discovers Lacey’s presumed lover named Dane Davis, and begins to stalk him as well. Maggie also seems to prefer face to face interactions, rather than communication with some sort of social media. This preference differentiates her from the younger generation, as they tend to prefer communicating through social media. For example, When Lacey suggests how she does not need to come over, Maggie insists on the value of face to face interaction. “The point was to have a visit with you,” Maggie says (Cullen, 36). When Maggie attends her job interviews, the interviewers, who are of that younger generation, stress the
Patty mills was born on the 11 of august 1981, in Canberra Australia. He is a professional aboriginal Australian basketballer. Before he started playing for the nba he played in the NBL for the Melbourne tigers then went to china and played for the xinjiang flying tigers, he played also college basketball for saint Marys collage in California. Patty mills then signed with the san Antonio spurs in 2012. 2 years later he was in the winning nba championship team. This year patty was named ACT young Australian of the year
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a novella written in 1893 by Stephen Crane, focuses on a poverty stricken family living in the Bowery district of New York City. This novella is regarded as one of the first works of naturalism in American literature and it helped shape the naturalistic principle that a character is set into a world where there is no escape from one’s biological heredity and the circumstances that the characters find themselves in will dominate their behavior and deprive them of individual responsibility. Throughout the story, the primary goal of the main characters is to escape the lives they lead and to find more comfortable lives away from their current problems, which differs from the romantic ideal that the main characters usually turn inwards to solve their problems.
Stephen Crane’s analysis of life is spawned from his point of view about the world. These opinions correlate alongside naturalistic train of understanding. He applied a legitimate law of the universe, “ one can either accept the laws determining the social order or become their victim,” which is applied to the novel Maggie: Girl of the streets. The book is an example of Naturalistic and a Realistic novel that offers an accurate and specific illustration of life and was portrayed based on people living in a poor society, and how they were affected emotionally, physically, psychologically, and mentally. The novella serves as a medium of drama that occurs,
Have you ever felt like you could disappear and no one would notice you were gone? That the people around you shined so bright that you get lost just by being around them? Alice Walker’s character Maggie from “Everyday Use” is a timid, nervous, and self-conscious girl that is meek and withdrawn, which stems from the burn scars that run the length of her body that were caused by a house fire when she was a child. On page 79 , Momma states that she “…can sometimes still hear the flames and feel Maggie’s arms sticking to her, with her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little black papery flakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflected in them…”
In the last half of the nineteenth century, work life and living conditions for the working poor were deplorable. Even though the United States became a global economic and industrial power, the workers saw very little of this “power”, and it was particularly worse for women and children. Crane uses Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, to show the miserable conditions the working poor lived and worked in, despite America prospering. Hines interviews different people and writes a letter that describes the horrible conditions workers and families faced. Families including children were forced to work together for over 12 hours, six days a week for very little pay, with a tiny one-room, crowded shack they had to call home.
Class and Society Sister Carrie is a story of an ordinary girl, Carrie Meeber, who is from a lower-middle class. Carrie leaves her parents and her small Midwestern town. She travels to Chicago to stay with her sister Minnie and her brother-in-law. She thinks that her miserable life will change by getting a new job in Chicago. The novel represents the distinction between social classes that characters from lower middle class face in their society.
People are doing something now that a family member did before. When seen them doing the same thing repeatedly. It became a habit for us to do. In the story Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane. Maggie was a good example of repeating what you see a family member do. She did not have a positive role model. Being scared and beat up was what she was use to seeing on a daily basses. if could be a good and terrible thing. Unhealthy habits are hard to break even if you think you can do it by yourself.
Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets opening scene features violence, which is a taboo subject during the time period he wrote the piece; “His coat had been torn to shreds in a scuffle, and his hat was gone. He had bruises on twenty parts of his body, and blood was dripping from a cut in his head”(946). The three children experience abuse, both physical and emotional, from the mother and the father in the early chapters of this work. Stephen Crane states, [ Youse allus fightn’, Jimmie, an’yeh knows it puts mudder out when yehs come home half dead, an’ it’s like we’ll all get a poundin’ (949).] Furthermore, this abuse is evidenced by the following quote from Stephen Crane [The mother’s massive shoulders heaved with anger. Grasping the urchin by the neck and shoulder she shook him until he rattled(949).] Violence is a
Margaret is a forty-year-old woman, whose husband left her for a younger woman. Margaret has experienced symptoms of shock, rage, and weeping spells. She has been isolating herself in bed because she doesn’t want to deal with anyone or anything. Along with her depressed mood, she has been consuming alcohol in a considerable amount. Margaret’s business has been suffering and she feels like a “total failure”. Family members concerned grew, which pushed Margaret to meet with a clinical psychologist (Butcher, Hooley, & Mineka, 2013). I will form an appropriate diagnosis, rule out disorders, address the potential risks for suicide and homicide, and form recommendations.