The movie that I chose to evaluate is "Lean on Me" starring Morgan Freeman. ... I have watched this movie it seems like a million times and just this semester it dawned on me that my beloved movie had some serious problems in it. ... Clark's actions but it took the discussions from our Race, Gender and Media class to inspire me to take a real second look at my favorite movie. ... There was the minorities that were drug dealers and users, Latino's that had short tempers and white students that couldn't sing as good as the black students. ... From the "thuggish" black male to the ...

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Jobs like city maintenance or cleaning services, which has less income than that which is desirable are usually what you find most minorities migrating to. ... Just to give you an idea of exactly what blacks own, only 2% of all American businesses are owned by blacks, mainly because blacks our under represented. Also, the gross receipts of black owned corporations only equal to 1%. Purposively, blacks make up 13% of the population, and only 1% of the population spends their money on black owned corporations. ... It also surprises me that an Asian American or even those of Irish decent, tha...

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This entry absolutely shocked me. ... How was teaching get accomplished in an environment like that? ... This passage really got me thinking. ... A comment like this probably caused a stir among the white people in the assembly, considering that the school had enough problems with a division between some of the black and white teachers. ... It felt like I was really there. ...

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In those days blacks were divided due to their education. ... This makes school life some blacks unsatisfactory. ... She promised to stay true to her culture and beliefs so she taught courses like women studies and black women writing. ... On the other hand, I had a sociology class that truly interested me. ... I wish more teachers were more like my sociology professor. ...

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I always am able to answer myself when that thought arises and my answer is, "because although you don't fit in with them, you like how they are the nicest people you've ever met. ... The influence of the group not only affects me, but also the whole community.... This question did give me a nice perspective on how I conduct myself whenever I am in such diverse groups. ... The influence of the group not only affects me, but also the whole community.... This question did give me a nice perspective on how I conduct myself whenever I am in such diverse groups. ...

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Boy that made me happy! It allowed me enough time to do all my favourite things like going to the movies sometimes, promenade with my boyfriend or go to the mall where I never resisted the "call" from the many illuminated, wide shops windows that I starred like something so beautiful that seemed from outer world, or a child aiming for her pacifier with a will of crying-like-look, and most of the times I ended up going inside that beautiful "world" and purchase something. It was in one of these occasions, during spring, that I bought my favourite pair of dark green jeans capris, and favourite ...

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Everything in life happens for a reason and the things that happened in my life made me a better person. ... It was black districts that had not seen many dances or other kinds of art. ... In Chicago we not only traveled to schools but we got to travel Chicago and see what it's like for ourselves. ... This experience reminded me of what else is out there and how others live. ... It's something that made me grow stronger as a person....

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Wheatley was a frail little black girl who was captured and enslaved at the young age of seven. ... Had she not been black, Wheatley perhaps would've been considered a great poet of her time. ... We do not need to think or express ourselves on paper like we used to. ... Creativity comes to me only when I need it, e.g. writing this paper. ... However, I don't think our creativity is like a muscle, it doesn't need to be exercised to stay in shape. ...

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There are some days where the teacher will have me help her with stuff she wasn't able to get to like putting together packets, but I usually help with a group of students or a few individual kids. ... The first thing I noticed about the population I was working with was that most of the students were black whereas in my daily life and growing up I was mostly with white students. ... Watching how the girls and boys interact with each other is very cute and reminds me of my childhood. They usually sit separated; boys on one side and girls on the other, and the girls like to do more "girly ...

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When I was young I was a really crazy kid that liked danger and was always getting in trouble for trying new things that are not good. ... I was a quick learner and my dad decided to buy me a bike when I was four years old, the bike my dad got me was a mean glossy black bike with a horn that could be heard miles away. ... I was four years old so grounded was literally only for like three days and I guess my dad saw that I really wanted to learn so he convinced my mom and fixed my bent handlebars from the accident and bought me a helmet. ... I wasn't a considered a big kid so when I rode ...

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WC: 595 The movie Finding Forester was about a young black lad named Jamal Wallace that lived in an unfavorable area of New York, called the Bronx. ... They talked with him and his mother a bit about the school and what it offers for exceptional students like Jamal. ... No one believed that a young black kid form the Bronx would ever be able to amount to those in the preparatory school. ... This movie Reminded me of a quote that I had read in a poem; "they"ll see how beautif...

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They motivated me enough to try and weed them out and not have anymore like them around. ... Even Jean stated how important it is to have black teachers and male teachers to speak up. ... Like I stated before the reality is the education field won't change dramatically before your eyes but like everything else it takes time. ... She taught me so much by sharing her teaching experiences. ... Thanks for letting me reflect on what teaching really stands for within me....

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Being a black female myself, I believe that students should be accepted based on merit of their performance and not their sex or race. I am sure that minorities, like myself, would rather be accepted because of our own academic accomplishments. ... When racism was still predominating and it was next to impossible to get a job or attend colleges for blacks, Affirmative Action was needed. ... I would like to see some type of Affirmative Action but without the lower standards and special requirements. ... Don't get me wrong, I do realize that in higher education there are racist people ho...

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"The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara is a story that shows me how the cycle continues. ... The neighborhood looks like a slum, people are standing on the street corners and asking for a hand out, which is all they see and know. ... She noticed a group of kids who looked like they were up to no good or just looking for attention, so she befriended them and took them under her wings teaching them about life. ... I could only imagine the look on their face knowing they can go across eight (8) mile road to see how other people just like them are living. ... Education is the key and white folks ar...

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When I was in my senior year, I took an advanced placement biology course designed to prepare me for the test that if I passed would allow me to use that credit towards college. ... He taught me what critical thinking was all about and why I would need it to get far in life. ... All of the awards he got, the positive reinforcement gave him a taste of what it is like to triumph. ... Extremes like that could convincingly produce students that were nonchalant about their lives. ... Why do the white know more than the black? ...

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Christopher Columbus was a great man; he discovered America the other story to this according to James lowen in lies my teacher told me is he killed many people in the process to claim this new world for England. ... The first settlers in America were black, from Africa, becoming enslaved when Europeans came and took over. ... I am sure that these facts are new to most of you, they were to me. ... Just like the publishers they fear causing trouble in the classroom. ... It is not for me to say. ...

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High School Drop Outs First of all I would like to present myself. ... Let me tall you a short story about my high school experience. I was only in the tenth grade when high school started to fall off with me. Going to a poor, dominantly black school with teachers who don't care about the students is not my idea of a good education. ... Through all of this chaos you end up going through this phase I like to call steady falling determination. ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for th...

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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various ...

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At the same time, we should do the correspondent practice to consolidate the memory. 2.2.2.Do More Reading Skill Practice and Overcome the bad habit We can find that though many students know some reading skills, like skimming and scanning. ...

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