Reading Analysis "An Indian Father's Plea"

In "An Indian Father's Plea" Wind Wolf, a slow learner has absolutely no confidence at all after being bullied by other kindergarten students about his culture and race. He has lots of trouble making friends and if he does make friends other children' s parents do not give their kids permission to play with him. On top of that, Wind Wolf is a slow learner and has trouble speaking fluently along with writing his name. His whole family ranging from aunts, uncles, parents, grandparents, other family members, and relatives have all put in lots of time and effort with him trying to develop his mind by attempting to teach him math and colors. He is in a tough position because he does not know what to believe from his religion to his own cultures due to the fact that everybody bullies him. After being bullied he refuses to take part in his own religion because he is so confused. Do people understand how much trouble the poor child is in? This is that serious of a situation. Why not try to help him rather than criticize him at this early stage? This is definitely the most important time of Wind Wolf's life. If he can not succeed now how will he be able to succeed later?

Media Analysis #1

The ad that I chose to critically analyze was the new 2009 Acura RL. Acura, is known as a luxury, high performance, and intelligent vehicle (live traffic on navigation screen along with restauraunt ratings and phone numbers all connected to a hands free blue tooth system). In my opinion I find this image to be very flashy with the way the light shines down on the highly sophisticated Acura (made by Honda). Another way this ad is presented would be through the colors all black surrounding the red which make the finish seem rather glossy and shiny. The car looks rather zoomy in its current position, possibly ready to take off. In addition, the image only shows about 1/2 of the car, so they are probably trying to emphasize on how streamline and swoopy the design is.
Overall this ad was well structured and specifically designed catch the viewer's eyes. This car would probably appeal to mainly the younger and middle generations and or those with lots of money looking for a unique style.

Why Does Socail Class Influence Parent Involvemet

From my point of view, it seems like parents do not stress education enough today. Most of the reason is how they were brought up themselves. I think that explanation #1 values plays the most important role today. The majority of parents do not seem to understand how important their child's education is. It is a much different story for the most part from when they were in school twenty-thirty years ago. The result today will be education failures; therefore, more students will have to be held back because they just can not stay on or above par with the other students. Another reason why parents do not take education seriously enough is that some parents were able to work around education (years back) and have not put much thought into their children' s future probably thinking the same for them too. However, today an extremely small amount of people are able to succeed without education. It is like the key to success, a must have in today's society. There is no substitution for education.

Why are droves of unqualified

How can one get into Harvard with out being a pure genius? I am completely against this idea of just above average students being allowed to attend an Ivy league school just because their parents attended. Meanwhile, the valedictorians, who have been dreaming their whole lives of attending Harvard can not get in. This does not make any sense. Only the brightest students should be admitted to the Ivy league schools. Do not get me wrong an above average students deserves a good college, but not an Ivy league school. The reason that I disagree with this is that one just can not decide towards the last minute that they want an Ivy league school. An Ivy league school is where the most brilliant minds in the world are, not just above average students. Where does this leave the valedictorians to attend? Just an average college? Above average students should be smart enough to plan ahead accordingly where they want to go and if they are a great athlete, really into community service, volunteering, honor societies, etc. then that is fine to allow them into an Ivy league, as long as they are not cutting off the world's brightest students from having a chance to experience America's most prestige schools.

Ronnie's blog

The story "Two Women" could be classified as tragic with a bunch of mood swings involved. When the President of Chile turned the wealthy people into normal residents this made so much sense. It solved many problems from people dying of starvation and children not getting the proper nutrition. Now everybody would have the opportunity to live a healthy life. In addition to that, the peasants morale would also be significantly boosted. The wealthy should not complain about eating rice or only having beans. They should have been proud that they were saving lives and helping out their country. The wealthy need to look at everything besides the basics as privileges. Taking trips or vacations example: study abroad are great, but they are not a necessity ("Oppressed and Oppressor"112). Water, food, and medicine are what is necessary for the poor peasants to survive. Unfortunately, everything took a turn for the worst when the President was thrown overboard for trying to make everyone equal. This is when disaster struck and the two sides split again. Why could they not have kept this solution the wealth helping out the poor? What is wrong with that? I understand 50/50 is not possible, but saving lives is what is most important!