Priviledge by Shamus Khan

The context of this definition implies that people in American society today have aquired such a demonstrative way to define those who choose to apply themselves in and out of the classroom. The writer illustrates the statement that even at the prestigious institute Harvard University, the concept of being academically superior to others is not only frowned upon, but is hidden. With its notorious success and respect from all over, a feeling of shock is taken in a sense that students are known for their great attitude and drive for greatness. However, students at Harvard have adopedt the sense of being “ashamed” for their success and passion. Following the claim, the phrase “Nerds are ostracized while athletes are idolized” is expressed to provoke awareness from the reader of this harsh characterization of those who put academics first. Within the opening paragraphs, the writer values getting the concept across that people today have a problem of looking down upon those who are intelligent, resulting in these certain individuals being penitent in regard of their talents and aspirations, regardless of the school or academic

When you send your children off in the morning to go to school, no matter what grade they are in whither it be elementary, junior high, or senior high, you expect that they will receive the best education that they can get. They should be asked challenging questions, encouraged and called upon to participate in class, they should also be given as much help as they need to secede by the teacher. However, this is most commonly not the case. Parents and the children themselves are unaware of what is going on because gender bias is not a noisy problem. Most people are unaware of the secret sexist lessons that occur every day in classrooms across the country. In this essay I will use two essay's from the reader:

“The subject of the Education of Women of the higher classes is one which has undergone singular fluctuations in public opinions” (Cobbe 79). Women have overcome tremendous obstacles throughout their lifetime, why should higher education stand in their way? In Frances Power Cobbe’s essay “The Education of Women,” she describes how poor women, single women, and childless wives, deserve to share a part of the human happiness. Women are in grave need of further improvements in their given condition. Cobbe suggests that a way to progress these improvements manifests in higher education, and that this will help further steps in advance. Cobbe goes on to say that the happiest home, most grateful husband, and the most devoted children came from a woman, Mary Sommerville, who surpassed men in science, and is still studying the wonders of God’s creations. Cobbe has many examples within her paper that shows the progression of women as a good thing, and how women still fulfill their duties despite the fact that they are educated. The acceptance of women will be allowed at the University of New England because women should be able to embrace their abilities and further their education for the benefit of their household, their lives, and their country.

Throughout world history women have been treated abysmally. Societies with male-dominance have abused and used women and continue to do so today. Women have been made vulnerable to a man due to the spread of cultural values and beliefs in society that condemn them from power. In Khaled Hosseini's novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, the two main characters Mariam and Laila develop an unconditional bond in which they become each others protectors. The immense inner strength of women from adversity has been exemplified through the growth of Mariam and Laila's contrasting relationship, the pain they endure from Rasheed which strengthens their bond and the courage within them that ultimately resolves their conflict.

Women have infiltrated colleges at every level, as they are leading in the acceptance rates in these colleges as well. “For 35 years, women have outnumbered men in American colleges. Federal data show that female students have become the majority in 1979 and for the past decade have accounted for about 57 percent of enrollment at degree-granting institutions.” The Washington post concludes women and men are now about equal with enrollment rates in ivy-league universities. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald had portrayed the expensive wealth that dripped from these beings and the many flaws that came along with the mistreatment of women and immigrants. Fitzgerald had as well represented that many wealthy women spoke with a diverse dialect,

Inequality on the basis of race, class, sex/gender, and sexuality is maintained in a variety of ways and contexts in the education system. This institution functions through several strategies to contain these common imbalances in society. The leading issue for this division is on the basis of its individual structure within the system.

Furthermore, Ridley stresses the need for continual support of students while they are in college in order to ensure their mental well-being and ultimate success. When broken down into its basic components, Ridley’s argument seems to agree with some of the main themes presented in Plato’s Republic and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The current state of the poor and middle class in America, as detailed in the article, lines up with the Platonic ideal of a society in which everyone has a specialized role but does not allow for much individual expression or flexibility. In essence, the benefit of the whole may still be intact, but the triumph of the individual has been suppressed due to the relationship between money and success in today’s society. Additionally, ideas regarding equal access to education, as presented in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, seem to run parallel to Ridley’s argument that a college education should be an attainable option for

Privilege and entitlement is identified as “the accrual of benefits solely because of membership in a dominant group” ( (Lindsey, Robins, & Terrell, 2009) as identified by race, gender, language, social class and physical ability. The acknowledgement of power and entitlement is considered to be the first step in being able to bring about changes in equalizing the power struggle between the dominant and non-dominant members of an educational institution and further in society.

In our current society girls are sent mixed messages: that they are capable of achieving the highest educational and professional

“The meaning of life is to not simply exist, to survive but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”said by Arnold S. in the absolutely true diary of a part time indian sherman alexie explores the meaning of life through never ending friendships, facing your biggest fears and learning not everyone is against you.

Prompt 1: On page 19 in the book, Paul Kalanithi tells us about his uncle asking about his future: “My uncle, a doctor, like many of my relatives, had asked me earlier that day what I planned on doing for a career, now that I was heading off to college, and the question barely registered.” I can really connect to this part in the book, because nearing the end of my senior year had no clue what I wanted to study in college. I was always more focused on the sports aspect of it all, then school and trying to get a scholarship first, and then I would figure it out later. I was always told what degree to pursue by friends, family, and people I just meet. They would always tell me to just get a business degree, it’s a safe job and you can get almost

For many years women in America have experienced many different situations in the education arena. Situations that women experienced were very different than the experiences males experienced in the same classroom and women expectations were also different than that of their male counterparts. Renzetti and Curran wrote in their Fifth Edition of Women, Men and Society that women were expected to not only attend to their studies but also attend to the males’ laundry, cleaning their rooms and meal service. (Page 101.) Women were expected to keep silent and were only allowed to major in degrees like Home Economics and Teaching degrees. Was this treatment of women the same for women in other cultures? This paper will show that women in

Protagonist 1: Mariam; first a young girl, a harami, who lives in a tiny kolba on the edges of the city of Herat. After her mother commits suicide, Mariam is married off by her father to Rasheed because her illegitimacy shames his family name. She then is abused through several years of marriage and several failed pregnancies.

She makes an important point when trying to go beyond the female (otherness), by paying careful attention to differences among women themselves, and by putting emphasize on the multiple realties that women faces, and by that trying to uncover universalist interpretations (Parpart and Marchand 1995:6). She reveals the inadequacy of binary categories by showing us how power is defined in binary terms, between the people who have (men) and the people who do not (women). This is a consequence of seeing women as a homogenous group, and contributes to the reinforcement of the binary division between men and women (Mohanty 1991:64). By assuming that women are a already constituted group with the same experiences and interests, gender is looked upon as something that can be applied cross cultures (Mohanty 1991:54), and it also produces an assumption about the “average third world woman” as poor and uneducated, in contrast to the educated, modern Western women (Mohanty 1991:56). Implicit in the binary analytic lies the assumption that the third world woman only can be liberated through western rationality. Mohanty is making an important point when emphasising the need to challenge these objectifications (Udayagiri 1995:163).

Mark Figueroa, the problem that men currently face is related to the history of male privilege that fosters gender inequalities and results in negative outcomes for men and women, boys and girls. In step with Barry Chevannes men are under- represented and under- participating within the instructional system for rational economic and social reasons. However, he showed, with spectacular data, that men, who bear the entire system, are performing as well as women though subject performance is powerfully gender- coded. Research has shown that boys have coldly calculated that CXC success provides no employment advantage. “In a scenario where a whole section of a population is deviant, our focus should be directed to processes that form the foundations of behavior” (Henry, 1999). Chevannes, conjointly rejects the hypothesis of marginalisation of the black or any other male and points to the continued dominance of men in positions of power and authority throughout most establishments. This conclusion by Chevannes is supported by Marlene Hamilton who concludes in her study of women's access to the University of the West Indies as academic and administrative staff, that in the educational year 1998/1999, there have been no female deans. She conjointly expressed that within the fifty (50) year history of the University, of the sixty eight (68) heads of department, seven are women, and of the one hundred and fifteen (115) professors, twelve (12) were women. Responding to the favored