Reshma Saujani's Girls Who Code

In reading “Ordinary Girls” by Jaquira Diaz I liked how they yanked me right in at the beginning. Diaz writes, “We starred talking about dying long before the first women jumped” (40). Here I was shocked and was concerned. As an opening sentence, that’s like getting a good bounce off the board. I thought that there's nothing there under her, but air when she jumps, but I was steered in the wrong direction because she works magic on the way down. The opening sentences also show that the essay are going to have tragic situations throughout the essay. I was puzzled at first in the middle of the essay, but after reading I analogue how it went into consideration on a lot of spots. For example, The ordinary girls wanted to die extraordinary deaths.

Sikes met many girls whom she could not believe what had persuaded them to live like they did. Most of the girls wanted to just fit in with something, to have power or be safe. Sikes recognized that all these girls

Black Girls Code is all about giving girls that chance to change the world. And since there aren’t many programs out there like this, many girls of all different backgrounds joined

Lena and Ying-Ying from Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club both face injustice in their patriarchal relationships, just as Mariam and Laila from A Thousand Splendid Suns, however on very different terms. Lena, like Amir and Laila, struggles with confrontation and complete deference of others. However, under the influence of her mother, Lena realizes the problematic recurrences in relationship with her husband. Ying-Ying, aware of her daughters submissiveness, must lead Lena to intervention to confront herself and reconnect with her Chinese heritage in order to save her struggling relationships. While Ying-Ying sees the imbalance in Lena and Harold’s relationship as an embodiment of the flaws in her own marriage she reflects on her past and thinks to herself, “So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. The pain that cut my spirit loose. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughters tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose” (Tan, 153). She has sacrificed so much for her daughter, Lena, and accepts her American ways despite the fact that broadens the cultural gap between her Chinese heritage. Ying-Ying already experienced her loss of identity and self through her own marriage because she was unable to be assertive towards her husband. Here, just like Mariam and Hassan in Hosseni’s novels, Ying-Ying gives up her freedom in order for Lena to live a better life than she had. Although Ying-Ying doesn’t give up

The article Are you raising an Internet bully? Here’s how to end that behavior by Monica Leftwich written in The Washington Post, is a discussion on how parental behavior can affect kid’s social behavior and attitude towards others.

Jennifer Rush was born in Ludington, Michigan. Despite the fact that she planed to move away as soon as she got the chance, she still lives there today. Originally she wanted to be an Egyptologist, until she realized she hated the desert and decided she wanted to be an author. She is a mother of two, and a wife to her husband Joe. When Jennifer isn’t consumed in her writing, she is using Photoshop or reading. Along with being an author Jennifer is also a part time Photographer.

is a course taken at school. The whole goal and objective of the course are to influence girls from all over the world that they can do what they want as long as you are strong, smart and bold about it. They have taught me to be strong, how so? Well, I am a woman and Latina. I am part of a minority group, therefore, we don’t get as much attention has others would but Girls Inc shows me that doesn’t mean you have to give up. It means now you try even harder to show otherwise. Strong in the sense of you can’t that things to heart, like you need to stand up for what you believe in, in a respectable, educated matter. Smart, this doesn’t mean you need to be the top student in your class, but that you keep in mind that these actions affect you. If you have a problem you have to be smart about the way you handle it, therefore smart in the sense that you know right from wrong. Bold, taking all the chances you can get. I can’t say I don’t like something without trying it out. Girls Inc has taught me how to be confident and courageous, and yet be willing to take safe

Her observations provide several different explanations and reasons as to why these girls behave so differently from mainstream society as the inner city is wholly dissimilar from what American society is used to. These girls operate from different rules and codes that they must abide by or they may end up getting victimized or worse, killed. Because of these reasons, the girls adapt an

Chris Abani’s latest novel, The Virgin of The Flames, appears to explore a plethora of quintessentially American themes such as race, religion, sexuality, gender, urban environment, and self discovery. Like many of the previous works of American literature read in this course that act as a window into American life at the time of their publication, The Virgin of The Flames is a bay window to the state of the American psyche as a product of the nation’s history, leading up to Black, a muralist in East Los Angeles. While the novel reads a little strange and can try to grab at too many big ideas at once, the two pillars of conflict in Black’s character effortlessly parallel core conflicts of American life.

This paragraph is examining Jess’s 4th letter by using Katherine Bomer’s method of “hidden gems”. A gem in Jess’s letter would be “When I’m a teacher I want to be the nicest teacher in the world.” Jess started and ended this sentence with the correct punctuation. I feel like I can sense Jess’s passion about teaching. She writes that she wants to be the nicest teacher and I think that this captivating. Another gem would be “When I’m a grown-up I want to live in a manchine and be a millianare.” I think this sentence is humorous. Children say what they are thinking, and Jess is telling me how she wants to be rich and live in a big house when she gets older. I just think this is a funny sentence.

Alissa Nutting's short story "Model's Assistant" is about a woman who finds herself traveling from party to party only to wind up at a party where she meets a model called Garla. Garla is the stereotypical model figure, she has every one eating from the palms of her hands. The character of the story is so in awe of the model she doesn't even tell the reader of the story her name, setting a tone that the story is never really about her as a person but how this woman, Garla, has essentially changed her into whomever she needs that day. The character is there for Garla's every beckoning call and though she goes to extremes to be around this woman she never really stops herself to say that maybe she has went to far. In "Model's Assistant" the readers

In 1911 social class determined what you could and could not do. In The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz, Joan Skaggs, also known as Janet Lovelace, was defined by her social class because she was a hired girl. Hired girls had very strict rules of what they could do. One of the main, and in my opinion, the most important rule is that a hired girl can not interfere with their masters personal lives. In this book Joan interferes with Simon Rosenbach’s love life. For interfering in her master's sons love life she should have been punished or even fired, but instead she was given a second chance by Mr. Rosenbach. Since Joan worked for the Rosenbach’s,who were a Jewish family, she also had to follow the laws of Judaism when cooking or cleaning.

The main point to Elizabeth Wong's The Struggle to be an All-American Girl was for Emily to describe what her life was like while being forced to go to a Chinese school while she was a young girl. Elizabeth shows through her writing that she is not fond of the Chinese language or the fact that she knows how to speak it. In the story she shows much disdain in the fact that the language sounds awful and describes it as such on page 25, " it was loud, it was unbeautiful. It was not like the quiet,lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South". The essay that Elizabeth wrote also showed that she also showed some dislike of people in China Town and how they proceeded through it.

Michelle Obama’s white house initiative “Let Girls Learn” program is truly amazing. Her primary motive is to give girls’ education. In the video, “Donald Trump Is Ending Michelle Obama’s ‘Let Girls Learn’ Program” tapped by Valentina Zarya, Michelle Obama said, “Government does not have enough assets and answer to help” . She additionally makes emphasis on how we as a whole can help financially, with any sorts of products, innovations, or anything at all from any groups or organizations. She particularly said that, “a number of associations like girls scouts are advocating girls about

Jessica Taft is an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She spends most of her time researching and writing articles on youth activism, childhood, and youth studies, social movements, and girl’s studies. All of which she finds and interest in. Interestingly enough the first book she wrote was about rebel girls. She has also published several articles on the girl power rhetoric, in addition to “Girl power politics: Pop-culture barriers and organizational resistance.