Michael Faraday And The Chemistry World

Mark at a young age challenges himself to accomplish many goals that a 'normal' teenage boy would never even consider. Mark has difficulties

“In the inner city it is not uncommon to find a twelve-year-old who cannot read. In some gang-infested neighborhoods in California, only one in twenty high school students can do grade-level math or english.” This quote is from the book If I Grow by Todd Strasser it is about a young boy named DeShawn that has to live in the ghettos of Chicago and he has many choices to make. The ghettos that he lives in are full of gangs, drug lords, alcoholics, and just bad people. DeShawn at first is one of the good people.

He got away from all his troubles when he went to school, but he didn’t escape his poverty. The school was

Throughout the memoir, Moore portrays the value of education and how small judgments can shape one's life forever. Moore wanted the reader to know the value of having an education and how the choices you make from your childhood stick with you forever. A great example that Moore mentioned

“The financial strain Valley Forge brought on my mother was lessened significantly after the first year, when the school gave me academic, and later athletic, scholarships.” He changed so much that stress relieved from his mom because she did not have to pay for school anymore. Education played a big role in the Other Wes Moore. The author shows the reader hoe education can influence a child to become a product of their environment. “How ya’ll like it up there in that white school?”

Poverty is an issue which influences the author, Wes Moore, of the memoir “The Other Wes Moore”. This social issue causes academic problems in Wes Moore’s life, leading Wes Moore not to realize what he is competent of, and staying in a state of deficiency. Wes lost concentration on education due to the fact that he was surrounded by distractions caused by poverty. On the other hand, Wes’ mother yearned for him to get out of a bad school environment, which is displayed through the quote, “The price tag to Valley Forge was even steeper than that of Riverdale [Private school].

Education plays a huge socioeconomic role and this story is an example of that. As we find out much later, their mothers’ views on school influence the mentors and people around the two Wes Moore’s.

Choosing schools over the streets is a big part of his innocence. It is probably what led him to the success and fortune. In the book, he

Education is something that is often taken for granted in this day and age. Kids these days rebel against going to school all together. In the essays “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass, we learn of two young men eager for knowledge. Both men being minors and growing up in a time many years apart, felt like taking how to read and write into their own hands, and did so with passion. On the road to a education, both Alexie and Douglass discover that education is not only pleasurable, but also painful. Alexie and Douglass both grew up in different times, in different environments, and in different worlds. They both faced different struggles and had different achievements, but they were not all that different. Even though they grew up in different times they both had the same views on how important of education was. They both saw education as freedom and as a way of self-worth even though they achieved their education in different ways. They both had a strong mind and a strong of sense of self-motivation.

David Goodman eked out a minimal living for his family by working for a tailor in a sweatshop. To help alleviate the family’s poverty, the children were urged to work as soon as they were old enough.

Susan’s school would not teach her long division because she was a girl so her father taught her at home. When she did school at home she became well taught and learned lots of things she couldn’t learn at school. Susan then learned to read and write by age 3 after a while her family hit financial problems so

In this case the island had little representation and extremely low school funding. For the whole island there was just one school for all grade levels. The school was split into two classes, one with the school principle Mrs. Scott and the second with Conroy. Conroy taught fifth to eighth grade. The funding that the school received appeared to be very minimal because the school had no proper resources to offer the student. Conroy’s class only had a chalkboard with a map and enough desks for the students to sit. They had a projector but it was only used a couple of times. The school it self was only one old building. The schools funding reflects on the student’s performance. A result of not giving children proper resources in school is that the students will not receive progressive academic achievement. In the island one of the reasons as to why these children were not receiving a proper education was because the school did not have the proper resources for the children to learn.

The next school to present was Floyd C. Fretz Middle School by their principles Mrs. Slaven and Mrs Signor. Overall, Fretz scored an 84.5%. Looking over the information they received from the state, they concluded that the math program was doing well. Mrs. Slaved credited the students for their hard work. In addition to crediting the students, the principle said that the teachers have implemented a new program called HERE. HERE is a program where a teacher “adopts” a student and mentors them whether it is to improve academically or socially. The staff at Fretz feels the program works well with students who are at risk but does not do much for the advanced students. In class we discussed that middle school is a challenging time period for adolescence. I think the program they have implemented will help to greatly ease the challenges students face. In class we

Farnsworth (T.V). The design, construction and manufacturing of useful devices and systems began with the implementation of Michael Faraday’s Law, one of the fundamental laws in electrical engineering, that states that the voltage in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change in the magnetic field through the circuit (www.livescience.com “What is Electrical Engineering?” by Jim Lucas)

As an example, I will talk briefly about my cousin, born into a broken home and forced to deal with illiteracy on a daily basis. Steven was brought up in a bad neighborhood and raised by the streets. His family simply didn’t care about anything other than how they would afford their next bottle of booze or pack of cigarettes. Growing up, he was never told he had to go to school; therefore, he only went on occasion. His lack of schooling in his younger years took its toll on him by the time he hit high school. Living in a bad neighborhood and brought up by gangs, Steven’s life was in a bad condition.