differences between two plans

Differences between two learning styles

Behaviorism is a theory based on learned behavior or conditioned learning. The perfect example of this is the Pavlov salivation experiment, where Pavlov conditioned the dog to salivate at the sound of the dinner bell, sometimes the bell will not follow a treat and yet the dog reaction is still the same. Therefor a behaviorist classroom is not one of independent learning, rather it is an administrative and teacher driven classroom, where the children are being thought what the school wants them to learn and are not concerned at all about the students interests. This method does not motivate the students to stay in school or learn, because the curricula really has nothing of interest to them, these classroom are deemed boring by the students, at the conclusion of the school year the student will not be able to recall anything that was thought in the classroom, no information is retained at all. This method is more of the old way of teaching where students dreaded going to school. Constructivist plans is made up of six different and vital parts. Situation is the primary part to the constructivist lesson plan, because it is what the teacher will set up for the students to not only understand but to be able to explain in great details, second is grouping; this is when the teacher place students into groups mainly based on the students’ level of understanding and experience, and similar background. Bridge is when a teacher is adding to what the student already learned; usually through life experiences and prior knowledge which will hell expend the child’s mind. Questioning usually occur during teaching because a teacher would have to anticipate any question the students may have, this show’s understanding of what the lesson the teacher was explaining. Exhibit is when the students can act out or make displays their understanding of what they have learned. The final stage is Reflections, this is when the teacher finds out the students interpretation and how they feel about the lesson.

constructivist lesson plan

Constructivist Lesson Plan

A constructivist lesson plan is very important in order to build a student’s character. It is imperative for the students to take the lesson that they’ve received and able to use that information appropriately, this will show that the student truly understand what they’ve learned. Another way students can show this is by teaching other students not exactly teaching but sharing and interpreting what they have learned into their own words. This process help the student to not only preserve the information but also help them think for themselves and gain a true understanding of what they’ve learned. There are six main elements in a constructivist lesson plan. These six main elements are situation, grouping, bridge, questions, and exhibit and lastly reflections, all six of these elements are vital to a constructivist lesson plan. The teacher has to be very active in a constructivist lesson plan, without the teacher being there to guide the students they would not know exactly what to do. Each of these six elements plays important roles in this lesson plan.
Situation is what the teacher is going to arrange for the students to explain. This is when the teacher would bring a scenario to the classroom and challenge the class to understand and explain to the teacher in their own words what they’ve learned or understand from the situation presented to them.
Grouping is when the teacher would put students together based on several different factors, level of understanding, experiences, psychological, learning abilities, economical background and racial ethnicity. Grouping people with so much in common not only would they be able to work well together because of their similarities they would most likely interpret the situation the same or similar to one another view.
Bridge is when the student places their prior knowledge with new information.
Questions is the guiding questions the teacher will use to introduce the situation, to set up the bridge, in order to keep active learning going, this will prompt exhibits and encourage reflections.
Exhibit involves having students make an exhibit for others of what they were thinking as they were explained the situation. This exhibit could be verbal, visual or written, as long as they student shows the class their full understanding of the situation accurately.
Reflection is what the student thought about the lesson in their own words and personal views of the situation.

A Lesson Plan

A lesson plan

A lesson plan is an instructor’s detailed description of the current course, is also a way to guide the class instruction. In the lesson plan there has to be the requirements that the state and the school has mandated. A teacher does have free will with his or her lesson plans as long as they adhere to what the school board deemed necessary to be thought in the classroom. Now in most teachers’ lesson plans no matter what subject they happen to be teaching the state has more power especially in the state of Florida where the FCAT has taken precedence over most of the school’s curricula. The teachers are limited to teaching the requirements that will allow the student to pass this state mandated test. This test is crucial to the student being promoted to the next grade level.
There are many formats for writing a lesson plan, most of these lesson plans contains these items, in a well developed lesson the needs and interest of the students is the singular most important part. One of the first thing the teacher must look at prior to writing a lesson plan is what is the focus of the plan, next the teacher will create classroom activities that correspond with whatever it is the teacher is trying to teach the students, third and most important of all is the teacher has to decide if the plan on the same educational level as the students they are trying to reach; if the students are above the lesson than they will tend to be bored and lose focus, also if the lesson plan is above their levels the students will be lost and the end result will be the same.
To write a successful lesson plan these items must be included in this order: title of the lesson plan, the time required to complete, the materials needed, the objectives which can be behavioral or knowledge base, the set, independent practice; which will allow the student to extend their thinking, summary of the lesson plan; this is the part where questions are being asked, the analysis the uses to reflect on the lesson, reflection on the contents of the lesson plan. When all of these factors are in order, the teacher has to make sure the lesson plan correlate with the school’s text book.

High school beginning

High school beginning

Prior to 1827 anyone that could not afford to send their kids to higher education would have to send them to learn a trade or getting an apprenticeship with someone to learn a special skill. In 1920 Massachusetts started a movement to start a public secondary school system; this school system type would be thorouly on a voluntary basis only in the state of Boston. The established state board of education made it a law in massachussets for all children to have an education through high school level to ensure their child has a chance in becoming the best they are able to become.
The House of Representatives stated that each town or district in the commonwealth that has 50 families or more will be provided a teacher or several teachers, these teachers would have to be of high morals, meaning anyone they elect to be an educator must be in the church, married and does not use any alcohol because they would have to instruct the children in reading, writing, orthography, English grammar, geography, mathematics, and how to behave properly, they’ve also added to the curricula American history, bookkeeping by single entry, geometry, algebra, surveying. Each teacher prior to becoming a teacher must have an was called at least twenty-four months of master of good morals, in any town that has four-thousand or more people these masters should be well versed in order to teach, in addition to all the branches they also have to be able teach Latin; Latin was very important because these town were what we would consider to a bible belt, the reason for the establishments of these school systems were to make new preachers and clergymen because the bible was written in Latin, therefore Latin was very important part of the higher education curricula, the Greek language was also an important part of their curricula because this is how they learned their history and stories such as Greek mythology also rhetoric is also part of the curricula because it’s style of education that will teach a student how to debate their opinions and also logic.

Interviewing Ms. Moton

Interviewing Ms. Moton

The person I chose to interview for this assignment was Ms. Stephanie Moton, Ms. Moton is from the state of New Jersey came down to Miami to attend the university of Miami on a track and field scholarship, after graduating with honors from UM, Ms. Moton decided to stay in the sunshine state because she fell in love with the weather. I asked Ms. Moton why she decided to become a teacher, she said simply because she wanted to make a difference in a child’s life, she further explained when a teacher makes a difference in a child’s life the impact is immediate you can see how you as an educator can become a positive influence on that child’s life. What subjects do you teach at Miami Northwestern Senior High School? I teach math, to be more specific I teach honors algebra. Is it a challenge teaching such a hard subject? It is at times, you saw some of the papers you helped me grade, the grades were horrible, some students are actually making slight improvements, I also offer to tutor them afterschool if they want to stay, for the most part I see the same students coming to me for help and it’s the handful that actually want to learn that keeps me going. Looking at some of your colleagues is there anyone of those teachers that you see around the school that shows they don’t really care to teach? Yes I definitely have noticed that, but they are the older teachers that refuse to change with the time and continuing to teach in the same way they were teaching when they started, I guess my students can relate to me because I am not that much older than they are, that within itself is a motivating factor that I use to motivate them to let them know they too can become educators or any other career path they’ve chosen, but unfortunately being that they live in an area where the only heroes are those dope boys allot of the young men this is what they are aspiring to become, or professional athletes their parents are not pushing them academically and the other teachers are not either, it’s sad but I try to make my mark it’s the best I can do. I just want to say one thing, when I let you take over the classroom I expected you to fold and sweat (she laughed) but you held your own in there answering their academic questions and answering them in a professional manner, I can honestly say you will make a fine teacher, you just need to loosen up a little and you will get over your shyness. I reply thank you for that vote of confidence I hope to become as good a teacher as you.

Following the American School system

Following the American School System

The early American system of education was heavily influenced by the French and also had some influences by the Native Americans. The puritans schools were to educate future preachers and the text they used were mainly bible scriptures because their main objectives was to teach each villager how to read and to them knowing the word of god is a good way to save their souls, Religion played an important role in developing an educational system in the United States. The Cherokee Indians influence the American educational system because they were the first people to have written language. The Puritans, are strict fundamentalist Protestant sect who immigrated to the United States for religious freedom starting in 1609, believed that education was necessary in order to read the Bible to receive god’s blessings. This was in line with the beliefs of the reformed Protestants. Their schools made no distinction between religious and everyday life and were also used to inspire children to put up with the hardships of a life in the new land through religious devotion.
The settlers in certain areas were heavily influenced the development of schools and formal education in the American colonies. The puritans believe humans were very bad sinners and believed children were worst sinners due to the fact they do not know how to behave or use any of their instincts when it comes to the matters of right and wrong, therefore they must behave as an adult would, therefore they would have to learn how to read the scriptures.
The basis of hiring a teacher for these schools was an easy process because their only qualifications were that the teacher knew how to speak and write in Latin because the text they were reading out of was written in Latin, because the preachers had so much influences in the communities and also they were in a way training their own replacements in a way of apprenticeship, if the person that was to be hired for this position was not a clergymen they would have to be men of high moral standards and also know how to speak and write in Latin.

Double Standards

Double standards

Growing up in the U.S. especially in Miami I’ve noticed the bias against the Haitians, it’s clear to me that Haitians are like the unwanted people in Miami. I say this not only how they are treated by other people but also by the immigration system especially the wet foot dry foot rule, we have read or seen how majority if not all Cubans that enter the U.S. shores are given asylum and rarely do they get detained by the INS, more often than not they are released to their relatives and does not have to worry about anymore interference from the INS ever. The part this I don’t understand and still struggling with is if Cuba is under an embargo by the U.S, how come then they are given free entrance to the America? This question is one that I can never receive an answer to by anyone. Cuba is a communistic country which will not change their ways for several years, they don’t have any trade agreement with the United States therefore America has really no interest in Cuba.
Haitians are not really welcome here for the most part, I feel like even if a Haitian refugee is caught on dry land and a Cuban were caught together and were facing the same persecution back in their own homelands I truly believe they would still deport the Haitian refugee and give asylum to the Cuban , this is not fair at all, I believe both countries are going through some of the same financial strains it’s well documented that Haiti is one of the poorest if not the poorest country in the world. In Haiti it is so bad that you will find more uneducated people than educated ones, it is the total opposite in Cuba, Cubans have it better than the Haitians if there were ever any country that would be worthy of given a free pass to enter the U.S it would have to be the Haitians.
I may be bias in my opinion but the facts are there anyone can check the comparison between the two countries and I am sure they would arrive to the same conclusion I’ve come up with and if not one hundred percent agreement but I would say somewhere in the neighborhood of the high ninety percentile. The only thing I want to see is everyone given fair chance and not being judged for where an individual is from but for their situation on an individual basis.

Race and Bigotry

Race and Bigotry

Race is made up of many different things one is country of origin, the second is skin color, whether it be Caucasian or black. When it comes to blacks there are many different shades of this skin color, we have the dark skin, the mocha or brown skinned and high yellow. Racism is discriminating against a person because of their skin color or country of origin. America is the prime example of what we can call a melting pot. Imagine a country where there are multiple ethnic people mixed up together.
Because of this mixing of races and religions there will of course be a tremendous amount of turmoil, one race will always thought of their race as being the superior race and with the aid of a crowd of people who are fed this message they will start to abuse the other races. In America we have such groups as the Klu Klux Klan, which are a bunch of whites mostly southerners that banned together to kill blacks in the united states through violence and propaganda. With the aid of likeminded people they were cheering them on and others that did not share in that frame of thought but stood by and did not to prevent these acts of violence due to them not trying to look and called a race trader, even if they were to make any reports to the police or sheriff they would often than not be threatened because majority of the time the law enforcement were often part of the Klan. The second hate group share in the same beliefs as the Nazis, the go under different names such as skinheads, these groups unlike the KKK, not only target blacks they also target homosexuals, Jews and any other non-Caucasians, they are not as connected or organized as the KKK, they are made up of mainly young males from broken homes that are looking for somewhere to belong and these hate groups often than not provide these impressionable young adolescents a false sense of family. Racism is the worst form of prejudice around the world and no matter how much progress we’ve made over the years we still have a very long way to go.

Learning through diversity

Learning through diversity

The reason Sam needs the diversity course is simply because America has become a melting pot, we have students from different social, economical and race which will be attending the same school and will also be studying in the same classroom, furthermore diversity class will teach you the proper way of interacting and ways to reach these different races and cultures. When a student feels like you take their culture serious they will more than likely feel more comfortable to learning about the new culture they are now in. Because not all ethnics are the same, we tend to be very protective of our way of life and we are more often find it easy to be offended by others lack of sensitivity to our way of life.
Coming from Haiti and moving to the United States at an early age, I had to learn cultures, my Haitian culture and the American way of life. I often find myself getting offended when an American person make fun of a fellow countrymen because of their thick Creole accents and way of dressing, while the Americans were wearing jeans, sneakers and t-shirts, the Haitian kids were wearing more of a dressy type with slacks or docker style pants and button down shirts and their haircuts were not high top fades but regular haircuts more like an afro style. There were constant confrontations amongst the two groups because no one took the first step to try to better understand each other and their cultures.
Teachers were not thought anything about diversity in the school or the real world basically the students were winging on their own carrying and acting on their own prejudices and often times were not positive ones rather resentful of the next person that did not act like they did. Today’s society is so diverse that major company started implanting and making mandatory that each employee takes a diversity and or sensitivity class in order to avoid people saying the wrong things to embarrass the company, because the majority of businesses in America are dealing with international companies now more than ever we have to learn and be mindful and respectful to each other’s way of life.

inclusion teaching

Inclusion Teaching

This is the best form of teaching I found out of all the teaching forms, even with this great technique, we are still faced with many different ways of doing it, there are the good way and the wrong way of teaching through inclusion. In a classroom especially an elementary school where children often want to be heard and praised for their effort children would more than likely learn better when they are included in the classroom discussions they tend to be more proactive in their learning when they have someone listening and paying attention to them. I know this firsthand because when my daughter receives praise from her teachers I see the gleam in her eyes and she tries even harder to please us and her teachers.
There are two ways of including a child into a discussion one is volunteering the second is the worst one is calling on the student. When a teacher ask a question or post a problem on the board, and ask is there any volunteers to solve the problem there are some students that will volunteer, not because they know the answer to the problem or question asked, this is due to a high self-esteem, self esteem plays a major role in a child’s education, these kids would be more popular and excel in their studies, then there are the students that has to be called on, they tend to keep a low profile and are often easily embarrassed due to the lack of self esteem, they would be loners and likes to stay out of sight and live an invisible existence, they usually are very bright in their studies but socially they are outsiders or outcasts feel like they don’t belong anywhere. To allow a child to come out of his or her shell on her own without being pressured or place under the spotlight because they are not ready to be placed under that light at the moment.
Once I’ve become a teacher I would implement the volunteer system, to put my students at ease and make the classroom environment very friendly and not allow any student to pick on one another because I believe in building a child scholastically as well as their social behavior. When a child learns early on how important it is to belong they will make better choices about their lives outside of the school and will be more open to accepting others into their circle and become better students and citizens.

Unsderstanding Your sexuality

Understanding your sexuality

Some people believe homosexuality is a disease and it’s an extra X chromosomes when the child was born that makes them a homosexual, there’s been a lot of research done on the subject because as of late this taboo subject has been one that no one wanted to bring into the forefront of any discussion. Homosexuals were often harassed for merely being homosexuals; they would often be the victims of severe beatings and would be ostracized by members of their respective communities, therefore a lot of them would prefer to continue living in the preverbal closet.
I on the other don’t feel the same way about the findings of these studies, I believe it’s a conscious decision a person make to be homosexual. I only say this because I’ve met many people that were homosexuals yes, they are now heterosexual now, I mean if you were supposed to be born gay how can you now make the conscious decision to now become straight? The answer is simple you can’t, you can be one or the other I believe god did not make any mistakes at all, If we are to believe that god is perfect and does not make any mistakes and human being are there to reproduce and the only way to reproduce is for a man and a woman to come together to make that happen, if a man or a woman decides that they are going to lay with one of the same sex than you are making a conscious decision to defy god’s laws.
After reading these different passages on homosexuality my mind has not really been swayed from how I used to feel prior to reading this. I still believe in what I believe but I have gained a better understanding of what they are going through, regardless of how I may feel about the choices they’ve made no one is ever supposed to be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

sexual confusion

SEXUAL CONFUSIONS

Imagine being born with both male and female genitals that would be confusing for any adult now try to imagine that growing up as child not knowing your own role in society, I am sure this would not be easy for anyone dealing with this extremely sensitive life decision. As a parent you would have to determine how to choose the sex you will raise your child as and secondly if you decide to let the child grow and when they are old enough to make the choice of what sex they would be raised as.
This is what most hermaphrodites have to deal with; a lot of them do not know how to cope with these important life altering decisions. How would a person know which sex would they find themselves attracted to, I would say not such an easy choice, I would assume a lot of these people would seclude themselves and would not enter any sexual relationship due to the shame of having being different. Studies show that majority of hermaphrodites would choose to be female instead of male, even though they are not able to get pregnant because their reproductive systems are not fully developed and their male parts usually are not functioning at all this would add more confusion to this already crazy existence.
After reading this passage I gained a better understand and outlook into this world that knew almost nothing about, this reading really opened my eyes to this phenomenon especially with all the research and it shows these people are not freaks of nature and that they also deserve the love and understanding that all people deserve. They don’t need our sympathy just our understanding and respect for their choices. Our society has place stigma over anyone that does not look and acts like the rest of society’s norms.

Ethnic Cleansing

Ethnic cleansing

I really don’t see any real difference in the different types of genocides; they are all the same to me. The end result is all the same the murdering of women, children and men for looking or belonging to a different group or tribe.
Rwanda is a country that is almost the size of the state of Massachusetts which is not such a big geographical area yet this tiny little piece of land was the site of a huge genocide during the April and June of 1994. This bloodshed was the result of the death of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana who was a member of the Hutu tribe, president Habyarimana’s plane was shot down on the Kigali airport, a French judge which was a close friend of the president blamed the incident on the Tutsi tribe, which they vehemently denied and blame Hutu extremist for the rocket attack. This was enough to spark the war between the two ethnic groups, there has always been tension between them, there were some obvious characteristics differences between the two groups, the Tutsis are usually taller and more slender than the Hutus, during this genocide, some Hutu militia soldier would actually throw the dead bodies of the slain Tutsis into the rivers and would say they were sending them back to Ethiopia. During this war there were 800,000 to 1,000,000 deaths on both sides, the majority of the casualties were on the Hutu side. This genocide was both a revenge and jealousy.
I’ve learned that people are good and also are capable of evil deeds as well, reading about the Rwandan genocides was very hard and I went on an emotional rollercoaster to see how people would be able to kill another human being that looks and speaks the same language as themselves, I personally would not be able to partake in anything like this. I could understand a wa where the killings were strictly between the two opposing militias and exclude civilians, this so called war killed and raped women, young girls and also kill yound males and elderly people, this was crazy.

Why we hate what's different

Why we hate what’s different

This passage was about understanding the reason why and how people learn to be prejudice, which is better than focusing the victims or rather the after effects of prejudice. This study helps us to understand where we learn to be prejudice; mostly we learn to judge others by holding them to the same standards as our own. Some of these are blacks are lazy, Hispanics or Mexicans are gardeners, these prejudices only get worse as time goes on that is because people never got the opportunity to leave their own culture to learn anything about a new culture, their minds are closed to learning new cultures and beliefs therefore they deal with it with anger and disgust from anyone that is different from themselves. There are those who actually would step away from their own comfort zones and explore other cultures, because of their curiosities they become more open minded and learn that we are not so different at all, and bonds and friendships are established. Homophobia is a big problem now days, before homosexuals were the type of people that were thought of as perverts and people would not let their kids be around them, there are some countries especially countries in the Caribbean that would kill a homosexual if they were discovered, therefore to avoid death they kept to themselves and pretend to be heterosexual, some of them would even get married and have children, lead normal lives these men also lead a double life as gay men. Homosexuality was blamed for the occurrence of the a.i.d.s epidemic around the world, because it was a lifestyle that was not accepted in society everyone seems to agree. I don’t agree with the homosexual lifestyle, I don’t feel comfortable with homosexuals in my presence as sad as it may seem I grew up in a world where men were men and only lay with women.

Holocaust

Holocaust
We’ve all read or seen the history of the holocaust in Germany during World War 2, rather you are Jewish or catholic, black or white, no matter what your religion or race may be these images would have a profound effect on you. I remember reading about the holocaust when I was in elementary school, I remember it being the saddest images I’ve ever seen and the stories of the scientific experiments that were conducted on children as well as grownups we stuff I’ve only seen in scary movies, this was not something I could imagine would ever happen in real life.
The holocaust was a ongoing development started by Adolf Hitler, who after taking over the presidency from the aged president Hindenburg, started slowly taking away the democratic human rights of the people, starting with freedom of the press, speech and the right to assemble. He also implemented his own private army around Germany that was loyal to only him and was willing to do anything he asked, called the Gestapo or storm troopers, these SS police would murder any of Hitler’s political oppositions, those oppositions submit all power to Hitler’s regime, which gave Hitler complete power of Germany.
During the 1930’s Hitler started practicing his racist ideologies, which was told that Germans were superior to all other races, he saw the Jews, gypsies and other races as inferior. With the German people sharing in his propaganda he then set his plan into action, he started blaming all of Germany’s economical problems on the Jews and gypsies, he then passed a law to force Jews to leave their civil service jobs and limit their citizenships which really limit their worth in German society, much like the way the Africans were treated in the united states, when you can view a person as less than human it becomes easier to mistreat them and not feel any remorse at all. Once the courts stripped Jews of their citizenships they were then started to be rounded to concentration camps and then executed and burned and buried in huge holes, nearly six millions Jews were reported killed in those concentration camps.
There are those people who would like to believe the holocaust was an actual event, even with the survivors of the concentration camps’ testimonies and the evidence of the tattoos they had to wear to mark them as Jewish and which concentration camps they belonged to. The diary of Ann Frank was a firsthand encounter of brutality of the times.

Key to a great nation

Key to a great nation

Every country around the world has this belief that education is the key. If a society does not have educated members residing there, they would like be a chaotic living environment. We come to notice non educated or endogenous people lack the knowledge and discipline to produce a healthy culture. Imagine living in a country where education was not the main source of knowledge, not saying that these individuals would not survive but their survival would be extremely difficult, because they would not be able to make good decisions or choices, passing on the same old traditions that were handed down from generation to generations as the homo erectus of the early ages.
Knowing how the world around us works determine how long the culture may flourish, certain subjects such as medicine, geography, history and mathematics are all necessary to the survival of a country, the only way we can achieve the knowledge is through education. Studying different types of diseases and knowing how to prevent them and how to treat these different diseases will definitely increase how long your culture will survive.
I agree with the notion to have a successful civilization it can only be achieve through education, having a good education will unlock your mind and allow you the to be able to make good choices. Especially when it comes to choosing a leader, the reason a politician campaign is to try to sway the citizens to chose them over their opposition, that is because they have to appeal to what we know now as common sense there are a lot of people in this world that are not book smart but have common knowledge on how the world works. Many different countries share the same ideas on education because, education has for centuries been the centerpiece of how a society is defined and remembered. Without education and schools we would still be in the cave, which means our minds would be locked and refuse any new information.

colonial education

Colonial Education

The colonial education was geared more towards teaching people the bible, as a way of saving people’s souls, unfortunately it was not made to actually teach students trades or general knowledge. Because of this students were only thought the importance of learning and adhering to the scriptures from the bible. The second purpose of the Latin grammar schools were to teach the Latin language, because the colleges of the time were thought mainly in Latin, therefore the students that were being prepared to attend colleges had to be fluent in Latin. School were heavy into religion because the purpose of the people migrating from England to the new land was to be able to practice their religious beliefs, the men and women that came here came to escape persecution from practicing their faith.
In todays educational system is very different from colonial times because we are focused more on technology and learning than religion. Religion is no longer allowed in the school system because of the many different faiths practiced by the students, to prevent forcing a Jewish child to pray to a Christian god would be disrespectful to his or her faith. I do believe it was a wise move to remove religion from the school, while I agree with this decision, it really bring down morals colonial children were more respectful of each other because they had the fear of god. There is no such thing as love of one another and respect in the schools in today’s society, which is because we are not thought morals in schools anymore.
Teachers are more qualified today than they were back in the colonial days because in the colonial days there main focus was the studying of the bible, where as today we are geared toward training people for the future. With the advancements we’ve made, we are constantly searching to discover newer and better technologies.
The one thing constant in today’s and as well as colonial times has to be discrimination, in colonial times people were discriminated against not by race but by gender, only boys were given the opportunity to attend school and get an education, women were not allowed to receive an education beyond basic reading and writing. Today we face discrimination in many different criteria, the most noticeable one has to be color, and many non Anglo-Saxons were not permitted to learn. Even after the ban was lifted, teachers refused to teach African American children, the school houses were run down and not suitable for living, the books were several years old.

understand new costums

After reading this passage, i found myself looking back to the different times where i've traveled outstide of the United States, and i've encountered people who have dislikes of Americans and they would treat me with sort of hate. I found myself telling them that i am not American and their attitude would change slightly but not drastically, I than came to realize Americans are not well received around the world as we may think. Even within my own culture and other non-American cultures, they dispise the American way of doing things. This is the reason when we travel to different countries the reception is not often warm.

Self Actualization

Self Actualization

Is a complex theory about understanding our own self, there were many studies done on the subject because people are really curious to understand themselves, such as why they do some of the things they do, like certain things and also attracted to a type of person? There many different names to the studies done on this subject one such study I am really interested in are self-esteem. Self esteem has two different levels of self-esteem, there’s low self-esteem and high self-esteem. As you can already tell by their names low self-esteem is when a person does not have high regards for themselves, these individuals are often loners, they always have a sense that they do not belong anywhere and no one likes them or want them around, they are often refrain from showing emotions and not well kept physically, often these people suffer from severe depression and often suicidal. Low self esteem individuals usually can’t find any good qualities in themselves. Usually due to a bad childhood and child abuse, usually the end result.
Having a high self esteem means that person thinks highly of themselves and usually perform higher in school and in society, these individuals are usually are happier than most because they are always on a natural high about themselves, it’s usually hard to bring that individual down, because of the self love they have for themselves, their physical appearance is usually well groomed and physically fit. Their upbringings are usually happy ones.
Self actualization grows by four characteristics are auditory, physical sensations, body image, and personal memories. A person view themselves in these four cues, because we look at the celebrities and each of these people on television and print magazines are a constant reminder to regular people how much we are not measuring up, we strive to look like the people we see on the television and magazines all the time, we buy the products they endorsed and sometimes we even change our religious beliefs because our favorite star believe their religion is better. We need to be able to look within ourselves and learn what’s right for ourselves and not let others influence our choices.

Rhetoric

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is a form of education I could compare to a debate, the people who practice that type of education believe that nothing is real, that is the most absurd statement ever, and how could nothing in existence not be real? These so called educators believe more about making the argument rather than proving the point, it’s all about show not substance. The practitioners of this form of education were called sophists; sophists were paid professional teachers in Greece classical education, that teach student orally, basically their job was to teach what we not call speech or public speaking to the children of politicians and other members’ government. As we can already tell the sophists were criticized by real scholars, such as Socrates and Plato, for not producing any real facts but only care about appearances, this did not hold well with these early scholars.
Rethors were good salesmen, because they had the power of words and were unable to back anything they said, they were like professional liars, they are able to talk about anything and make it sound like they had knowledge about the subjects. The powers of words are very overwhelming these orators were able to manipulate the good to seem bad and good can also be manipulated to seem bad, this was a very powerful weapon for politicians, one of Socrates’ accusers Lycon was an orator, which Socrates held in such low regards, because they sold their loyalty to the highest bidder, their motive were only monetary and not about making any real contributions to the educational society.
The Roman educational system was not too different from the rhetics because they are both sticking to the idea of truth was nonexistent, the roman only teach the basic reading and writing. The main difference between the two different styles is that one teaches on paper such as reading and writing which would be considered traditional style and the other uses grammar and does not use text to get their point across.