Obstacles In Anne John's Short Stories

She has carved a pathway where other young, old, married, or single black women have a direction where they can follow her lead to unimaginable distances.

Gladwell’s essay about KIPP schools, tells us that it is in a poor neighborhood in New York City and the students that attend there are mostly from financially disadvantaged families and are what is considered, minorities. Although, KIPP is a low-income school it has gone against the negative expectation and is one of the most desirable middle schools. Gladwell is an English-born Canadian author and is a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996, most of his books and articles often deal with implications of research in the social sciences. The essay, “Marita’s Bargain”, was written to inform families

It has a summer vacation problem, and that's the problem the KIPP schools set out to solve. They decided to bring the lessons of the rice paddy to the American inner city ”. One can clearly notice all the statistical evidences that he represented in the selection and understand that summer vacation has created an achievement gap between disadvantaged kids and privileged kids.

KIPP is a public middle school that strives for amazing academic conduct and success by holding its students to an unimaginable lofty standard. It becomes pretty much the most enticing school in New York City, in a massive piece because of how much achievement KIPP has pursued triumph from it low-income students who end up going to college in massive numbers. Gladwell then begins talking about history of education in the Unites States and says that in simple contradiction to the artistic tradition of rice agriculture in Asian countries, education reformers from previous times said that children not to get to much schooling. Furthermore, the recent is a Western estate focused on the type of agriculture there. So, while rice paddies can be planted a number of times a year, wheat and corn fields go through a schedule of harvesting and

Martia is a 12 year old that's on the poor side of the story. Marita got a Opportunity to go to a KIPP school a school that turns losers into winners, so she took it. Marita begins telling her story: “ I wake up at five-forty-a.m to get a headstart… I leave school at five p.m…Start my homework.And if it's not a lot of homework that day, it will take me two to three hours” (264). She does that every day, Marita has got an opportunity and is making the best out of it working her hardest. “Her community does not give her what she needs. So what does she have to do? Give up her evenings and weekends and friends.” (266). Gladwell says referring to Marita. Marita has really committed herself to the KIPP school and to her work. You see with one chance and opportunity that usually wealthy kids get, the poor girl, Marita made something out of it. If poor and wealthy kids get the same amount of opportunities and wouldn't be such a gap in test scores between the

The fact that Elinor and Anna came to help her with a task she can not complete, but is necessary for her to live, is completely life changing. The child feels companionship and like she is cared for by the villagers. This child is reliant on compassion from the villagers to survive. She may be an orphan but she has the support of others around her.

Anne left Centreville the summer after she completed her freshman year in high school, to find work elsewhere. In addition to earned income, she gains life experience that would ultimately make her life harder when she returned home.

Marita and her mother live in a tiny apartment, and her mother never really had a chance to get an education for a better life. This all will change when her mother has Marita attend KIPP, where the goal of this program is to help kids out of poverty. Marita talks about her daily routine that starts from five-forty-five a.m. and that can end around eleven p.m. Gladwell says, “She spoke in the matter-of fact we're children who have no way of knowing how unusual your situation is.

Kozol doesn’t focus too much on the lifestyle or issues that take place in New York City because he claims that people have a general idea of what New York City consists of. Instead, he immediately discusses issues with the public school system in this city. Kozol visits a Public School 261, which is located next to a funeral home. This school is overpopulated, with the capacity being 900 students and their actual population of students being 1,300. The building itself has no windows, which Kozol claims makes the atmosphere uncomfortable and isolated. There are many issues with the building itself, such as the heating and cooling system. However, there are also issues with faculty being understaffed and students being over-populated. Kozol states that each student only gets 10 minutes a year with the one guidance counselor at this school. This limits student’s opportunities when it comes to furthering their education, finding a career, or even caring about their school. Students aren’t going to care about going to school if they know their school won’t notice if they are

Unfortunately, Anaheim High School really isn't anything like KIPP. A Lot of these kids at Anaheim come from bad neighborhoods, poor families, and poverty just like KIPP students, but KIPP has their students start school at seven and end school at five, that pretty much says what kind of school KIPP is compared to school’s like Anaheim that starts at eight, and ends at two thirty. KIPP shows their students that their school is a privilege to attend, and students at Anaheim take their free education for granted instead of grasping it and doing something with it that is bigger than themselves. Most of the students at KIPP are guaranteed to go to college and half of the kids that attend Anaheim don't even graduate on time or at all. In order to

Anne Moody has gone through such an exceptionally eventful life that she was able to transform it into a powerful book, "A Coming of Age in Mississippi." All of Anne's childhood not only prepared her for her involvement in the movement during the 1960's, but also kept her inspired and motivated. Anne Moody sees a lot of ups and downs, which causes her to have depressing set backs from time to time. As told through out the book, describing her first twenty-four-years, her uncertainty is justified, yet overall the book does tell a story of success, found not only in Anne's personal life but also in the country. By understanding that in order for the movement to be a success and for there to be hope in the future some drastic changes must

Despite her youth, her extraordinary life to date is reason enough for her to have documented her experiences. But Little Daughter is more than just the experiences of a young woman who has succeeded against all

Gladwell focuses on public middle school in the South Bronx located in New York City called KIPP Academy. Children enrolled in KIPP schools live in very poor neighborhoods in New York and are randomly chosen by lottery. Their goal is for students to achieve higher academic scores. The reason behind the success of the Academy is they have gone beyond the cultural legacy on which most public school systems are based on. Early American educational individual's claim that too much education is not good for average people. Long hours at school result in "over-stimulating the mind" which is bad for overall health. Long hours at school may lead to serious health problems.

A quote from the Washington Post Book World states “Education was the miracle that saved Murray’s life...Her story is inspirational, and her description of [her high school] and its role in her life, should be read by everyone concerned about education.” Liz Murray endured several hardships throughout her life. She knew how to properly mainline drugs before she could walk. She became a mother to her own mother. At the age of 16 she was living on the streets with one credit on her transcript. After taking a good look at her life and realizing that this was not how she wanted to live Liz applied to any high school she could think of until someone accepted her and began to turn her life around. In the memoir Breaking Night, the author, Liz Murray paints a picture of how education can drastically improve somebody’s life by explaining how an alternative high school and its community helped her transition from sleeping on the couches of friends in secret to living four years in an Ivy League dorm.

Anne’s accomplishments in the movement are very indirect. Throughout the entire story Anne shows us a great deal of personal growth. Anne overcame some very tough challenges in the book Coming of Age in Mississippi leading her to become a very strong and independent activist. Although Anne’s efforts did not greatly impact the movement directly, they did have a great impact on her personal growth. Anne dedicated her life after college to being an activist, this helped her grow in many different ways. This essay will talk about how Anne’s efforts affected both the movement and Anne personally.