"Umm… I'll stay in Journalism, thanks."
"Ok, you're all set up. Your class is 9A, straight ahead, turn left, second room on the right. Have a great first day."
When I entered the classroom, I was welcomed by five rows of confused students staring at me blankly as if I was a test where they had all flunked. As they glanced at each other, I began to realize fitting in would be my toughest challenge.
"Attention class! I would like to introduce you to Alice Garcia, the new student. She has just transferred from Northland High School and will be joining our class today. Remember that you have all been new, so try to include her and most importantly, be kind," the economy teacher reminded them, emphasizing on the word kind, as if this were an extremely
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No, this can't be serious. Afterall there must be fifty Alices enrolled at Oakland Academy. It's impossible that, out of all these choices, I'm the one who's chosen. Wait, I'm the only Alice Garcia. In fact I'm the only one of them whose last name begins with G.
As I began making my way towards the office, groups of students glared at me, gossiping as they giggled. Most of them had no clue of who I was, but those who were in my previous classes began screaming random things such as: "Good luck surviving hell, you'll need it." or "Get ready to enter a nightmare." When I approached the door, my palms began to sweat and my cheeks were bright red. Every muscle in my body ached with anxiety, though I was aware that nothing in the near future would be pleasant.
"Ms. Garcia, please take a seat near Ms. Ryan. Now, can any of you tell me why I've called you here? Please, only open your mouth if you're actually informing us of something worth our time." The principal questioned, his coal eyes staring straight at me, as if they could see through my soul.
"Umm.. I don't know. Maybe because this is all a ginormous mistake?" I replied, praying for all the odds to be in my
Alice Cogswell was an incredible little girl from the 1800s who helped to change the course of history for deaf people everywhere. Alice was one of the first and most prominent figures in the creation of ASL as well as an education system for American deaf people. She became this brave pioneer at only 9 years old.
O’Connor himself wasn’t partially physically intimidating. This fact became abundantly clear once he stepped off his chair and approached me. While not necessarily short in stature, his seat gave him an extra few inches compared to his natural stance.
Imagine. You are a student once again and you are struggling to feel like you fit in. Everyone in your class seems to be smarter, faster, and better than you. You feel like you do not belong and are a loser. Now switch gears. You are the teacher and you see that one student struggling with those emotions; ask yourself, how can you help? As an educator, you can help a student feel included by accommodating their needs and making sure they know they are important, asking them their views on class issues, and by not underestimating their abilities as a growing, working brain.
I froze. I felt my smile fading away and my tendency to overthink going into action immediately. What do I do? What if I say something wrong? What if I don’t do enough? Other underclassmen often asked me about my experience in certain classes
Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia on February 9,1944, she is the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker and Willie Lee Walker. He parents worked as sharecroppers. Not only did she grow up poor but in a violent and racist environment, this left a permanent impression on her writing.
Only two months ago, I moved into room 426 of Trinity Hall and began my journey at Azusa Pacific University. I still remember how nervous and excited I felt when I arrived. Everyone was incredibly kind and overjoyed to have the freshmen move in. Beneath all the exhilaration, I had three big fears that felt like heavy weight on my chest. Because I did not grow up from a Christian family, I feared that I would not fit in with everyone else. I was also intimidated by how extroverted everyone was. I was introverted, so it required extra effort for me to make new friends. Another one of my fears was nursing school since the nursing program is known for its heavy load of work and commitment. Through experimentation, communication, and hard work,
My sixteen week class in English 111. I was really nervous about this class. Because English has never been my strong point. This class has hard, but fun all at the same time. I learn a lot from this class. Meanwhile,the first day of class you handed a paper with a question on it. “The first thing I want to say to you who are students is that you must not think of being here to receive an education; instead, you will do much better to think of being here to claim one.” Even though putting my all in what I have learned, claiming my education with hard work because using the skills of the meal plan, as we write to different audiences and learning to be a Critically thinker as I start becoming a critically-Literate Citizenship.
• Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She was born into a poor sharecropper family, and the last of eight children.
Before the Civil Rights Movement, which took place from 1955-1968, African-Americans had a difficult time establishing an identity and their rights. However, for many African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement developed a purpose for one’s life and progressed African-Americans’ status and rights in society. Although some people may argue that the Civil Rights Movement was not productive and only caused conflict and havoc, due to the majority of African-Americans still employed in low-level jobs and many towns affected by the Civil Rights Movement being torn apart and degraded, those effects were only temporary and tangible to others. The Movement had a much more profound effect of giving one a purpose or “spark” in life, which later led to African-Americans demanding more rights and equal status in society.
Alice Walker's Literature “Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence” -Alice Walker (Lewis n.pag) Walker is considered to be an African American novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Most of her literature is mostly from her personal experiences and is moral to a number of African Americans all over the world. Walker defines herself as a “womanist” which means “the prophetic voice concerned about the well-being of the entire African American community, male and female, adults and children.
Alice Walker, the author of the short story, “Everyday Use”, grew up in a family of sharecroppers who raised cotton (Kirzner and Mendel 463). So she has a very firm idea of what it 's like to be at the bottom of the America’s capitalist economic system. This is reflected in “Everyday Use” through the conditions in which she places the characters. The story centers around a single mother and her two daughters who have inherited a life of hard-work and destitution from their ancestors. Through analysis of Mrs. Johnson, the mother, using the Marxist school of literary criticism, it can be determined that she demonstrates how difficult it can be to raise a family that is discriminatory of people of low wealth and education, while at the same
Alice Walker is an American author, novelist, short story writer, poet and political activist. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia on February 9, 1944, the youngest child of eight. Her parents, a sharecropper and a maid, had little money. At the age of eight, her right eye was scarred and caused her partial blindness because her parents were unable to take her to the doctor for a week. The blindness left her to become teased and bullied by classmates; she became withdrawn and began writing to escape daily ridicule. At age fourteen, the scar tissue was removed, but she continued to feel like an outcast regardless of her accomplishments. She became valedictorian of her high school and went on to attend Spelman College on a full scholarship. She later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College, graduating in 1965. While at Spelman, she became involved in the civil rights movement. Walker continued with the movement, registering black voters in rural Georgia and Mississippi. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence, she married Melvyn Leventhal in 1967, a white Jewish civil rights attorney. The couple’s daughter was born in 1969. They moved to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming the first legally married inter-racial couple in the state. Together they faced racism and many threats from the Ku Klux Klan and other whites. She finished her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, in 1969 and it was published in 1970. When her marriage ended in 1977, Alice and her daughter moved to northern California. She still resides in northern California and continues to write today.
I walked in and my stomach made a flip-flop like riding “The Scream” at Six Flags. Everyone was staring at me! With their curios eyes and anxious to know who I was. I froze like ice and felt the heat rise through my face. My parents talked to my teacher, Ms.Piansky. Then my mom whispered “It’s ti...
removed her overthrow as she was too hot. She had to find a job. She
A voice comes in many forms--art, music, dance, and others. However, its most common form is words. Certain people can use words to do things other people cannot; they can fight wars, they can build up or tear down, and it all comes down to how you use them. One woman had such a talent and used it to beat down the invisible walls confining women and other minorities to stereotypes or roles society had placed upon them. In her poem “Women,” Alice walker writes a three simple words, “They battered down doors.”