Methodologies is one category within this great debate, such as standardized testing. ... The author portrays rather a lack of joy as well as a disconnect in levels of education. ... The author is showing a great error in the methodology of instruction that can be seen in varying levels of education and of all types. ... The text shows a great deal of material in a single frame. ... The author of the text is bringing light to this. ...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

That also begins to set the author's humorous tone of the essay and show his sympathy to the college students who are under great pressures. Some of us believe that the author writes the essay from college students' point of view. It can found that in many sentences the author uses "we" as the subjects referring to the students. ... We can tell that the author is showing his sympathy and hopes. ... That produces great pressure onto the parents and students who are from working class and rural families. ...

• Word Count: 850
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Clean Up or Pay Up Clean Up or Pay Up is a great story for college administrators, staff members and students to read. ... The author, Louis Barbash, explains to the reader how college athletes are made to have no social life when they are in school. ... After everything is all said and done the author states that it is time for schools to make a decision between real amateurism and real professionalism. ...

• Word Count: 316
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

There is a great deal of detailed reference to the text. ... For example in the first section the author is explaining the difficulty of reading by stating "one of the difficult things about reading is that the pages before you will begin to speak only when the authors are silent and you begin to speak in their place, sometimes for them-doing their work, continuing their projects, and sometimes for yourself, following your agenda" (pg. 1). ... As you read further into the introduction the more the author makes note of essays from the book. ... The essays are used to help further the ...

• Word Count: 713
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Mark Mathabane the author of an article called "Appearance are Destructive" has very strong views about clothing in today's society. ... Which he had great expectations. ... The author states some truths about the American education system as well as some falsies. ... That's what I feel the author does by comparing a South African Education to that of an American education. ... I do not totally agree with the views of Mark Mathabane on education, but I do agree with the overall idea that today's youth focus a great deal on appearance. ...

• Word Count: 654
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Through knowledge and skill, all individuals can achieve greatness. ... A prime example of how things used to be was stated by the author,W.E.B. ... Like the authors stated,People who acquire more diplomas get better jobs? ... Like the authors stated,The school trains children for responsible citizenship and socializes them for their future adult roles. ... Students spend a great amount of time in school, therefore it is essential that they learn to work and get along as well as respect one another. ...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In reading "Short Talks" by Anne Carson, I found it very challenging to interpret what the author was trying to say. ... Both authors elicit great emotion throughout their works. ... Both authors write on topics that are important to them and demonstrate strong critical thinking skills. ... These texts should be read more than once by readers to get a better understanding of what the author is trying to convey. ... However with reflection you may just enjoy the intriguing critical thinking concepts demonstrated by these authors....

• Word Count: 1015
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Source A is an excerpt from the author of "The Homework Myth". ... Source A has made many great points in the excerpt. ... The author of source C believes that homework is important. ... I do not agree with this author. ...

• Word Count: 637
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

An anonymous author wrote this book because this book is a real young girl's diary. ... This is a great book to learn from especially if you're in high school and you want to fit in but you don't know which crowd is the bad one and which is the good. ...

• Word Count: 383
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Both authors offer a convincing argument as to where a person's creativity stems from, although I tend to agree more with Walker's theory. ... Phillis Wheatley had no formal schooling or education and yet would turn out to be a great poet. ... Had she not been black, Wheatley perhaps would've been considered a great poet of her time. ... So again, an example of a great writer who showed great creativity without any formal education. ...

• Word Count: 782
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the essay "Achievement of Desire," author Richard Rodriguez, describes the difficulties balancing life in the academic world and the life of a working class family. ... Richard Hoggart, author of the book Working with the Past, states that a scholarship boy "is at the friction point of two cultures" (840). ... Parents have great amounts of wisdom and values that they can pass on to their children besides the facts and figures that children are taught in school. ... A scholarship boy does not comprehend his studies but is rather, "the great mimic; a collector of thoughts,...

• Word Count: 1139
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... James lowen author of lies my teacher told me shares some interesting facts that probably did not make it into your history classroom, for instance, by show of hands how many of you know the name martin Luther king? ... In this article author Shirley Engle explains that many college history professors know that history is full of controversy, yet they let it go only becoming trans...

• Word Count: 1184
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

While some texts can cause uproar and protests because parents or the government deem them "inappropriate," other authors mean to cause arguments and debates through their writing. ... A gifted child, Angelou often would refrain from skipping around with the other girls her age and instead read great authors like W.E.B. ... The author includes specific acts of violence that characters perpetuate on each other to advance the plot or explore character traits. The author does not intend to influence readers to carry out such violence themselves. ... Sometimes, authors just write books...

• Word Count: 2168
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Aravind Adiga, the author of the white tiger, depicts India as a vast and dark jungle where hierarchy and corruption are the rulers of the nation. ... "See this country, in its days of greatness, when it was the richest nation was like a zoo. ... ...

• Word Count: 501
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

." - Stephen Chbosky Author of the Perks of Being a Wallflower In America, we live our lives according to the main ten amendments, for most American's they live mainly by the 1st amendment. ... Not only is this considered as unconstitutional, it's also unfair to the author's audience. ... In conclusion, the Perks of Being a Wallflower, shouldn't be banned or even consider as a banned or challenged book because, it has great morals that can be learned. As well as great themes that happen to relate to everyday life such as; Love, Passivity and Sadness this book could be cons...

• Word Count: 1376
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In most cases, literacy is achieved through many years of schooling, but in some of the stories we read in class, the authors had to give themselves and education instead of being taught by parents and teachers. ... He gave himself an education, made himself literate, and that is what gave him the ambition to become a great English writer; and he did. Without the ambition, Benjamin Franklin likely would not have continued on with his writing and become so great, and without being literate and educated, he likely would not have had the ambition. ... I may not end up as known or as great as B...

• Word Count: 1248
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Themes and Twain's view of society also add to the great appraisal that I give this book for high school students. The one part of the book I don't agree with is the authors view of American society. ...

• Word Count: 670
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

All four the authors pretty much agree that education produces a citizen. ... Hart say, "Citizen should know the great themes of his civilization its important area of thought, it's philosophical and religious controversies, the outline of its history and it's major works. ...

• Word Count: 651
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

According to one author, employees that worked as students show more dedication to their jobs and are less likely to be unemployed (Schroeder 73). ... According to one author, teenagers comprise a $150 billion market of clothing and entertainment. ... The author states, "Based on the research cited above, a good rule of thumb would be that full-time students ideally should work no more than fifteen hours per week" (King). ...

• Word Count: 2027
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

According to Peter Miller, author of "Behavioral Treatment of Alcoholism", "Social interactions may also direct influence on alcohol consumption via group pressure and social modeling" (15). ... According to Don Cahalan, author of "Problem Drinkers", "a drink is helpful when depressed or nervous; an important reason for drinking is to forget everything, to help forget one's worries" (29). ... In contrast form the first reason; some people drink because they think that the feeling that alcohol produces is great. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

More importantly, with enhanced logical thinking, students could potentially have the ability to do better in other core subjects, such as math and science, which take a great deal of logical reasoning. ... There is something to be said for anyone who strives to write at a higher level similar to the examples set by the great authors of past centuries. ...

• Word Count: 984
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Net communication has revolutionized the rate at which information can be exchanged and are great assets to a child's education. ... Students are taught how literature reflects the heritage, traditions, attitudes, and beliefs of authors. ... The building is of no use to him at the present time and by donating the land he would be benefiting our community a great deal. ...

• Word Count: 1451
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Ron Suskind, the author of "A Hope in the Unseen", received a Pulitzer Price for his work on this true story. ... I believe both sides of the tracking idea, but in this case being in the inner city where previous educations of these kids could be horrible therefore separating them just might be a great idea. ... Cedric's life at home is great because of his mother, Barbara Jennings. ...

• Word Count: 966
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Jim Haskins, the author of Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, did just that. ... If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness "justice-(King, 1967)....

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

However only in conjunction with the character of a person can this intelligence aspire to greatness. Stealing from a child this unforeseen experience of learning and knowledge is stealing from a child intelligence and character and eventual greatness. ... In a world were greatness was only achieved through aspiring to be "the first one engaged" Brittain too, like Morgan wanted to achieve something that was ridiculed by her peers. ... From this reading it seems Brittain had both the intelligence through thought, experience and learning, and also the character...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School