Social Media Argument Analysis: The American Spirit Is Alive In Texas

Amy Tan, in her text, Mother Tongue, also acknowledges how names can hold people back, as well as analyzing how the stereotypes created from these names can affect opportunities. She describes the challenges she faces being of Chinese descent, and the stereotypes she has to overcome that stand in her way. She wonders why so many Asian students go into math and science career fields, and speculates if others steer them in that direction because they assume those are careers Asians are naturally good at. Tan questions, “Why are there few Asian Americans enrolled in creative writing programs? Why do so many Chinese students go into engineering?” These students are being pushed in this direction based off of stereotypes about their race and language.

It is not enough to have policies in place which make statements about anti-discriminatory practice or just to pay lip service to it. Schools must demonstrate anti-discriminatory practice.

Schools systematically subjugate minority and black students when a school’s enrollment contains a huge racial majority. If students have no exposure to persons of different ethnicities, cultures, races, and religions, then these students will experience culture shock when they confront “other” people. Even in our class, we talk about black and minority students as another group, one that differs from “us.” We think about the inequalities in school systems as problems we need to fix, not as problems that have influenced our thinking and affect us as prospective teachers. For example, a white graduate student with

Amy Tan’s ,“Mother Tongue” and Maxine Kingston’s essay, “No Name Woman” represent a balance in cultures when obtaining an identity in American culture.  As first generation Chinese-Americans both Tan and Kingston faced many obstacles. Obstacles in language and appearance while balancing two cultures. Overcoming these obstacles that were faced and preserving heritage both women gained an identity as a successful American.

In this essay, I attempted to lay bare the issues of being an Asian-American and being labeled as an ethnic “other” in modern America. This label of “other” causes them to become marginalized and lose their sense of identity, belonging neither to Western culture nor Eastern culture. In order help stop this loss of identity in Asian-Americans, we must tear down the social construct of the “other” and integrate the different cultures into the melting pot of popular culture. Once we have stopped alienating different cultures, we can then have a moral society that upholds diversity and identity.

Circumstances within this case reflect levels of complexity in many aspects. It was a challenging situation for all parties involved. I’m sure a decision of this magnitude is very difficult, but I question the thoroughness in the execution of the action plan. Often times we miss the meaning of being culturally proficient. The Lindsey book, Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders considers ways to foster policies and practices that provide the opportunity for effective interactions with the school members, staff and students alike and the surrounding community members (Lindsey, 2009, p.4). The book presents its historical context to tell of the effectiveness of addressing issues that emerge from cross-cultural contact. Some of the efforts derived from the desire to promote healthy interactions. Among those efforts have been desegregation, integration, race relations, cultural competence, and multicultural transformation (Lindsey, 2009, p.7). Cultural proficiency comes with an understanding of respecting the differences among all things living and all circumstances and departments in life. To begin the smooth transition of the school consolidation between SMS and RNS, communication and a culture should have been built starting with the associated area superintendent and Principal Jones.

evacuation, making emergency repairs to the levees, and providing food and law and order in an unprepared shelter). These measures, born of necessity, may be quite different from or exceed in scale anything responders have done before. They must be creative and extremely adaptable to execute improvised tactics. Equipping organizations to recognize the novelty in a crisis and improvise skillfully is thus a far different (and far more difficult) matter from preparing mainly to implement preset emergency plans. Scalability and Surge Capacity In many disasters, as Katrina well illustrated, responders must cope with far greater numbers of endangered people or more extensive damage than usual. To scale up operations to handle this surge of demand, emergency agencies require access to resources in larger quantities than normal and frequently to specialized equipment or

Affirmative action policies are passionately debated by everyone from educators and politicians to ordinary citizens, all who hold differing opinions on both the necessity and validity of the policies. There is no doubt affirmative action is an emotional topic and deals with the

Known in every corner of the world, the United States is retained with admiration in everyone's eyes, recognized for its courtesy, orderliness, continuous prosperity, and viewed as a culture sanctuary. From an outsider’s point of view, the U.S. represents perfection; however, those in its confinement are aware of the cruel reality, perfection is but a myth, and south, located at the border, is Brownsville,Tx, the city that has the capability to shatter the world’s impeccable image of the U.S.

Texas has been a one-party state for nearly a century. Despite substantial changes in many areas throughout history, Texas’ political culture is one area that has remained rather steady. Looking back as far as the post-civil war, until the late 1970’s Texas was considered a majority Democratic state. After a century of post-reconstruction, the Democratic Party were the victors of electoral dominance in all levels of state government and in Texas’ representation in the national government as well (Edsall). Texas’ social and economic make up was primarily rural and agricultural, which influenced the political agenda. Through immigration attracted by the promise of a stable future in the oil and natural gas industries,

Step 6: The larger issue stems at the school administration. They need to make new policies about implementing lessons into the classroom about diversity in families. They should also make a parent meeting once a year about the different families at the school and how everyone can be more understanding and compassionate for diversity in the schools.

For our project, we are created to make a 15 - 30 minute documentary of the ethnic enclave of Chinatown, DC. Our report itself gives the history of the area to elaborate on how the area was created, to tell where most of the Asians Americans came from, and to estimate how old the area is. We will also illustrate the layout and demographics of the area. In the actual video, we travel to Washington DC to interview people that live inside and outside of the Chinatown area to get a better understanding of what Asian America is in DC. We will ask people outside of the enclave some various questions. The point of asking people outside of the enclave is to see the stereotypes of the Chinatown. Finally, by comparing

The analysis of policy in regards to impacts on students, families and community, leads to a discussion of problems within our society and their influence on the very policies created to respond to these circumstances. Within the educational sphere, all polices contribute to the lives and educational experiences of every student and as a result, their families and the community. This case study looks at the Department of Education and Training [DET] Diversity and Equity policy and outlines a school-based scenario that analyses diversity and equity within the classroom. The case study analyses the policy and scenario to formulate discussion about how students, families and communities can be impacted by diversity and equity and

In March of 2011, UCLA student Alexandra Wallace uploaded a video to YouTube in which she rants about how certain Asians act inside the library and in the campus dorms. The 3 minute video titled “Asians in the Library” would go on to become viral, with millions of views, and making its way around news agencies. The video also opened the gate to countless “video response” and parodies, with some being more atrocious compared to the Wallace video. In the video, Wallace describes “the hordes of Asians” at UCLA who in her view lack basic American manners. Wallace goes on to describe her annoyance with the families of Asian students who come to the dorms on weekends to help clean and cook for them, saying “these Asian students never learned to fend for themselves.” About a week after

Hurricane Harvey began on Thursday, August 24th and carved a path of destruction through Texas. Water is covering houses and families are losing members. People are trapped and have no way to receive help. Everyone's keepsakes are gone, and all the citizens can do is pray they make it out alive. All emergency personnel are trying their hardest to keep everyone safe,