Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The Blacker the Berry.
Being a darkskin person is suppose to be a beautiful thing, a blessing but instead most treat it as a curse. Because of the fact that we grow up in such a self-conscious world, young black men and women feel as if they are not beautiful. I believe that it should be taught that the amount of melanie in our skin should not outweigh what is in our hearts and if people do mistreat us because of our beautiful skin then we should not let that take away who we are and lose sleep. Alot of people feel like they have to "deal" with their skin and they let people who make fun of them control how they feel about themselves. I feel the only key to getting over those traumatic experiences is to love yourself and get down to who you are. In Wallace Thurman's The Blacker The Berry he opened my mind and showed me just how bad judging someone and setting certain standards can mold who they grow up to be. It is important for people to realize their self-worth and like Emma at the end of the novel, remove anything or body to finally become the person you should have been.
Kaplan... Is it everything it says to be ?
In 2012, the junior class of Sheffield High School experienced a change no one saw coming; they moved us out of major classes we need to graduate to help us prepare of the upcoming ACT test. Many felt this change was needed and the majority refuted the whole situation. The majority was correct. This change took students out of important classes and put us in rooms with no teachers.They let the computer teach us and this is against everything a workshop is suppose to be. Kaplan is undoubtedly the wrong choice to choose when looking for ACT tutoring.
To begin with our Kaplan instructors interrupted us in the second semester of our school year, knowing many of us would miss out on our full-year classes. Not only did Kaplan interrupt us but they only visit during the morning classes. This means that the majority of us didn't get the chance to learn these "Kaplan Methods" that they are so very certain will take our score to the next level.
Furthermore, Kaplan offers online classes that allows the computer to teach us. This is wrong because we don't have the interaction that we need. We need to have the personal connection with our teachers so we can ask questions and actually learn things the right way.
In addition Kaplan is not sponsored by the ACT meaning that they actually have to ties with ACT. This means that Kaplan teaches us what they think is going to be on the ACT versus what is going to be on the ACT. In addition, Kaplan uses Wikipedia as sources to teach us and it is well known that Wikipedia is not a reliable resource seeing as anyone can change.
All in all Kaplan is not the right choice and it was wrong for our board of educators to all these Kaplan people into our enviroment.
To begin with our Kaplan instructors interrupted us in the second semester of our school year, knowing many of us would miss out on our full-year classes. Not only did Kaplan interrupt us but they only visit during the morning classes. This means that the majority of us didn't get the chance to learn these "Kaplan Methods" that they are so very certain will take our score to the next level.
Furthermore, Kaplan offers online classes that allows the computer to teach us. This is wrong because we don't have the interaction that we need. We need to have the personal connection with our teachers so we can ask questions and actually learn things the right way.
In addition Kaplan is not sponsored by the ACT meaning that they actually have to ties with ACT. This means that Kaplan teaches us what they think is going to be on the ACT versus what is going to be on the ACT. In addition, Kaplan uses Wikipedia as sources to teach us and it is well known that Wikipedia is not a reliable resource seeing as anyone can change.
All in all Kaplan is not the right choice and it was wrong for our board of educators to all these Kaplan people into our enviroment.
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