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“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas when it comes to textbooks,” said Dan Quinn, who worked as an editor of social studies textbooks before joining the Texas Freedom Network, which was founded by Governor Ann Richards’s daughter, Cecile, to counter the religious right.

The short story, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight, is about an African American boy, Clint, who is attending a school that is majority filled of white people. In his class there are only 2 other African Americans, Ah-so and Marvin, while the rest of the class is white. Clint hates Marvin, because he gives the negative stereotypes of an African American. Clint hates the fact that the whites stereotype them and wants to prove himself that he can be anything but that. His teacher Mrs. Wickham, disapproves of Clint getting answers correct. She doesn’t hide the fact that she is racist, but states that she’s not. The other kids in the class room aren’t aware the fact they are racist. McKnight sets up very specific details in the story to give Clint a realization in the end of what he has become.

Quinden worked at The New York Times. She became a reporter for the New York Post after college before returning to the Times in 1977. “Sex Ed” by Anna Quindlen in the Wake Tech Reader is an article that distinguished her as being a feminist. Even though “Sex Ed” was written long ago, it is as relevant today as then because teens today are not much different from then. In Anna Quindlen’s essay, ‘Sex Ed,” she expresses that parents and teachers need to come together and talk to teenagers about sex.

At 1:00 p.m. I entered into Evoline C. West Elementary school on Thursday, July 12 2012 for an interview with Mrs. Yolanda Lawrence. As I entered the classroom, I was greeted by Mrs. Lawrence, the head teacher in this classroom. Mrs. Lawrence has no assistant at this present because of it being in the summer. After I entered into the classroom, the entire class welcomed me with “hello Ms. Flournoy”. It made my day to see all of those smiley faces greeting me. This was a 2nd grade classroom which consisted of 17 students of which 8 were girls and 9 were boys. This interview and observation was a total of 2

The day I met Marienel was the day after I had just started my second year of high school. During that time I had just been accepted into the Upward Bound Migrant program. UBM is an educational program used in order to help students be prepared for college. The students in it were expected to meet with their new counselor, which is part of the UB program and hold meetings on how the student could become more efficient in their studies in order for them to attend the university of their choice. At that time I wasn’t too excited about

Most curriculums being taught to students withhold a mass amount of history. Some may do this because they feel some events do not have the same importance as other topics being taught. Such topics for example would be the rape and sexual exploitation of thousands of African American females during the time periods where racism and segregation was the norm. It is important for people to be educated about the horrific events that these women went through without justice. It is also essential because it shows the amazing activism Rosa Parks took part in. Most people are often just taught about Parks’ actions on the bus. At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire shows how Rosa Parks and many other dedicated their lives to receive equality not only for themselves, but for all African Americans in the south. Danielle L. McGuire’s work is an amazing way for people to not only learn more of Rosa Parks story, but to get a better understanding of what all African American woman had to deal with during this time period. The realism of sexual violence and its dominant impact on the African American women was one of the many events that helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. McGuire wrote At the Dark End of the Street in order to resolve the negligence of this reality.

Clint from “The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas”, by Reginald Mcknight, heavily scrutinizes everyone in his class; the white black and kids. He feels like he is better than his fellow black student. For example, he describes Marvin as vicious and dark skinned. On the other hand, he holds more respect towards Ah-so describing her as grand and iconic and later on soft and gentle. He says “There was something unshakable about her, some core so impenetrably solid, you got the feeling that if you stood too close to her she could eat your thoughts like a black star eats light”(387).

The article, “Teens Who Fought Hitler,” by Lauren Tarshis describes many hardships Ben,a teenage Jew who with his family, faced, just like thousands of other Jews who were forced to move into the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis. The Jews were terribly treated everywhere in the ghetto. Each person was allotted only one tenth of food a day that they should be eating. Many diseases including typhus spread. Before the Warsaw Ghetto, no Jew could be at libraries or public parks and were not allowed out of their house after five o'clock.

Amazing! Then when we continue to exchange pictures and video chat too, I realized that Irene was the

When you or somebody listen to the word Texas their is 100% you or the fellow will say the Alamo or Cowboys, every person is more likely to remember the Alamo fight or the, civil war, but if you go way back what was Texas before, what started Texas, And how did it end to where is at in my concern Texas did not start one day and the next day was strong and one the most important state of the U.S, every person forgets that Texas stander up by their agriculture and also with their cattle ranch and Texas still remains as one of the states that has a strong agriculture.

The fiction novel “The Detention Club”, is written by the distinguished author David Yoo. The story takes after sixth-grader Peter Lee, and his best friend Drew as they attempt to regain their popularity they once had in elementary school. After only several weeks at Fenwick Middle School, both friends realize that being great collectors of Mica doesn’t make them popular anymore. Peter Lee, in a desperate attempt to regain the popularity, discovers that serving detention can win him important friends. Designing Peter’s room, several specific details can be seen. One example is a bag full of Mica. Peter and Drew were the best mica collectors in their school. After starting their first year in Middle school, they started dropping hints about the “Mica Collecting” contest

Before the event started and we all were being seated, I was wondering how exactly this was going to work. ‘Is this a conference?’ and ‘Am I going to be extremely bored?’ were the first questions to come to mind. I came to the conclusion that any mandatory event has a strong possibility of being boring—and this event probably wasn’t any different. I had already decided to dwell upon my existence when the first woman, Emily Mitchell, took the stage. Once she began to read from her novel, I was a little surprised. Being a freshmen in college, it’s hard for me to be entertained by people reading to me, but this felt different. I listen to Mitchell’s words and, for some reason, felt emotional. She describe a situation, in which her sister had gotten hit by her boyfriend and she decided not to tell anyone. Her sister gave numerous excuses, such as being in the same friend group with the guy and not wanting to be a social outcast. On top of that, she also didn’t want her parents to stop her from seeing him. While she was reading, I became slightly

This picture is very special to Marie because it is her only memory of her mother before she died. This picture shows her and her sister playing while her mother is doing chores. It was taken in 1912 by her brother. This picture was taken two years before her father left to fight the great war.

Suddenly, there was a hush in the room. The teacher had asked someone a question! I tried to seem casual as I glanced up to see if I was the unlucky person who had been called upon. My heart jumped and then I realized that the teacher was looking at the person to my right, waiting expectantly for an answer. I stared at the girl also, as if I was truly interested in whatever ramblings might come out of her mouth about the dead general and his battle. I felt my face grow warm with a slight blush as I became embarrassed for her and her inability to answer the question. She must have been paying as much attention to the lecture as I had been. Finally, she was able to formulate a less than mediocre answer that satisfied the monotone voice at the front of the room and the lecture resumed. Another glance back at the girl and I saw the cell phone palmed in her left hand down by her side. She had been text-messaging someone instead of paying attention!

In the beginning of November one of my best friends Cheyann turned 18, she was super excited about her birthday because she was going to have all her friends around her including her younger sister, her two other girl best friend and myself. She made plans for her birthday to be downtown as more of a “girls night out” fancy dinner celebration. She asked me to drive us downtown to the mall, so after grabbing a parking ticket we drove around and around the cold, concrete parking garage to about the 3rd or 4th level. As I got out of the car I noticed that there were only a few cars around us in the dim lit garage, it was around 6pm so it was already dark and freezing cold outside. All us girls started walking towards the doors that led to the elevators laughing and talking loudly in our heels and short, fancy dresses when Cheyann stopped dead in her tracks and froze up.