Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Jonathan Kozol's The Shame of the Nation exposes the ways in which the school desegregation achieved by the civil rights movement has been dismantled since the late 1980's. Exploring Brown v. Board of Education and its impact, Kozol also examines the widespread successful efforts to dismantle that case's effects, the crippling results of school segregation and the sometimes harmful attempts to overcome segregation. Kozol also examines some ways in which desegregation can be achieved, chiefly through a civil rights movement that can also use state and federal legislatures and courts. Kozol's book reveals an alarming situation, though some of his conclusions seem extreme.

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Chapter 1 - Dishonoring the Dead (pp.13-38)

Chapter 1 discusses the Supreme Court 1954 decision, Brown v. The Board of Education.

Thurgood Marshall, who gave his opinion for that decision, said that separate-but-equal schools are not possible and that school…...

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Works Cited

Kozol, J. (2005). The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group.

Shame in Context Of Literacy
Reading in a Second Language: Theory and Pedagogical Implications

An overview of proficient reading and its instruction

"Reading is something many of us take for granted" (Grabe, 2009). eing a basic reader, says Dr. Grover Whitehurst, is someone who can read a basic text that is age appropriate. The reader is able to understand the sentences and comprehend the material to a point where they are able to answer basic questions about the material. Furthermore, individuals who are deemed basic readers have enough fluency to get through the material in an allotted amount of time and then answer questions (Whitehurst, 2003). Taking a reader from this basic level and deeming them proficient means that a reader has more skills when it comes to the material and are able to make inferences about the subject matter or characters; essentially, proficient readers can understand the material at a deeper level…...

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Bibliography

Armbruster, Bonnie B, Lehr, Fran, & Osborn, Jean. (n.d.). The research building blocks for teaching children to read: put reading first. Retrieved from  http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/upload/PRFbooklet.pdf 

Grabe, William. (2009). Reading in a second language: moving from theory to practice. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Koda, Kieko. (2004). Insights into second language . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Lyon, Reid G. . (2003, September 11). Instructional confusion. Retrieved from  http://www.childrenofthecode.org/library/refs/instructionalconfusion.htm#InstructionalCasualtiesLyon

Shame" is a novel that is bursting with anger. And yet to call it a novel is not quite true; it is a satire in the way that Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and Gulliver Twist's works were satires and in the way that Candide satirized his own society. ushdie satirizes large swathes of the Muslim world today -- largely the parts in the Middle East -- and his anger burn the pages.
ushdie, victim of a death threat in the past, tries to steer himself clear from future threat by describing his book as an "a sort of modern fairy tale," which nobody need take seriously and which, since it is set in "not quite Pakistan,' (3) need not provoke the authorities to censor it or have it burned. However, the correspondence to contemporary Pakistan, and Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, amongst other places is visible and real.

Omar Khayyam Shakil is born…...

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Reference

Rushdie, Salman. Shame. Vintage: London, 1995.

or, some work two jobs just to pay the bills. Furthermore, Newman's demographic and field research demonstrates that America's largest group of impoverished citizens is not the unemployed, but the working poor, who receive little political attention or credit for their struggles.
Both traditional liberals and conservatives will find a great deal to take issue with in Newman's book. Liberals who defend the current welfare system may be angry at Newman's assertion that this overlooked segment of the working poor population unambiguously states that it finds dignity in earning a paycheck rather than a welfare check, and is relieved and that even low-paying jobs give order to desperate lives in desperate circumstances. Conservatives may be angry however, when Newman shows that hard work is not enough to pull one's self up by one's bootstraps and survive. Instead, Newman believes that some government intervention is necessary, such as extending more Earned…...

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Works Cited

Newman, Katherine. No Shame in My Game. New York: Vintage, 2000.

The birth canal may be seen as a shameful place to come from because it is dirty and bloody. Here is a poem I wrote to relay the impact it left me.
"Birth"

Giving in to such idiocies and prophecies and as if some heresy was committed. Still you and I both know we are of Adam and Eve. Flesh beget flesh through suffering and toil-ing down the river into the gulf of blood and membrane.

You don't know what I've been through said the willowed, bastard child.

The tears encrusted into the visage of man and woman, both entwined and intermingled.

Can't believe my trip was so long, yet cut so short. Hero, hero, don't take that moment and slide past home. Crickets marching forth with their spicket of water, fresh water and rain. March down through the vestiges of bone and blood.

The last quote I just loved the languge and decided to…...

shame Emma
Emma oodhouse: Jane Austen's sublime mimic and dramatist

In the famous 'Box Hill' scene of Jane Austen's novel Emma, the protagonist Emma oodhouse shames the poor, garrulous spinster Miss Bates with a cruel jest and nearly loses the man she loves (but does not know she loves), Mr. Knightley. Emma was warned against such verbal displays earlier in the novel. "For shame, Emma! Do not mimic her [Miss Bates]. You divert me against my conscience. And, upon my word, I do not think Mr. Knightley would be much disturbed by Miss Bates. Little things do not irritate him," she is reproached by her old governess Mrs. eston (Chapter 26). Over the course of the novel, Emma oodhouse, "handsome, clever, and rich," as she is referred to early on, must be educated to be worthy of her genetic and financial inheritance (Chapter 1). A critical component of her education at…...

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Work Cited

Austen, Jane. Emma. Full e-text available at:

 http://www.pemberley.com/etext/Emma/index.html

85 an hour? ith gasoline prices hovering around $4.00 a gallon, and rents increasing, along with the rising cost of food in America, it is fair to suggest that more people will be slipping down below the lower middle class into the world of poverty.
It is very easy to see why the minimum wage did not increase for more than ten years; the Republican Party was in control of Congress from 1994 through 2007 (January). Republicans generally support business and not social programs, so it wasn't until the Democrats became the majority in Congress in 2007 that the minimum wage was bumped up. It will rise to $6.55 an hour in July 2008, then to $7.25 an hour in July 2009. But by 2009, what will $7.25 be worth? ith inflation, it might not be worth much more than it is right now, and the working poor will continue to…...

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Works Cited

Armour, Stephanie. "Minimum wage increase kicks in today." USA Today. 24 July 2007.

Retrieved April 14, 2008, at  http://www.usatoday.com .

Brentin, Mock. "The Greatest challenges to African-Americans in 2008." Essence 38.8 (2007):

Dreier, Peter. "Poverty in the Suburbs." The Nation. 20 September 2004. Retrieved April 15, 2008 at  http://www.thenation.com .

John radshaw: Healing the Shame That inds You
John radshaw's Healing the Shame that inds You is a book that teaches lessons on how to deal with shame as well as the emotional and psychological problems it causes. The book is a discussion of common psychological behaviors of people who encounters events, which cause negative feelings, and soon lead to behavioral deficiencies. The book in its entirety is essentially a guide to eliminate shame.

radshaw covers almost all emotional effects, rooted from shame, of diverse problems. Several of his examples circle around the shame-based problems of family alcoholism, dysfunctional home, child abuse, and drug dependence. In Healing the Shame that inds You, radshaw provides insights of psychological theories that look on the impact of problems to the identity of a victim, most especially on the intrusive consequences of shame-based problems in the behavioral, psychological, and emotional factors of victims.

In the book, radshaw…...

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Bibliography

Bradshaw, J. (1988). Healing the Shame that Binds You.

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The fundamental motivation driving Shannon's search for family is the feeling of loneliness and the search for a more complete self. This is the same motivation, of course, which drives the search for love. It is the notion that a woman will be become complete through romantic union with a partner.
Roberts' target audience, which is basically the audience of romance novels in general, demands a heroine that finds love in the way that Shannon does. That is, the heroine cannot be desperately and selfishly seeking love. Such a pursuit would take much of the heroism out of the character, making her more pathetic than admirable. The heroine must be doing something other than looking for a lover. Here, it was a more universal need, the need for family, that guided Shannon to meet the love of her life. It is Robert's skill as a novelist that allows her to…...

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This represents the first stirrings of change for the meaning of the scarlet letter from adultery to "able"; able to overcome tragedy with one's head held high; just as Hester Prynne had done. As Hester continues to contribute to the community through her seamstress and charity work, she becomes increasingly admired, once again changing the meaning of the scarlet letter. It has now surpassed mere ability to encompass admiration for a woman who was actually a victim of Puritanical small mindedness rather than a sinner worthy of a public haranguing. If anyone was truly sinful here, it was her husband oger Chillingsworth, who chose to spend his life hell bent on revenge rather than forgiveness.

The Historical Critical Perspective

The Scarlet Letter is set in Boston in the 17th century during the Puritan era. According to Portersfield (2001) "people argued over the strong American tendency to define religion in terms of…...

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References

Elbert, M.M. (2003) "A" as Hester's Autonomy in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter. In J. Fisher and E.S. Silber Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 256-258

Hawthorne, N. (1850/1991). The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Bedford Books.

MacLean, H.N. (1955, March) Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter: The dark problem of this life. American Literature; 27, 12-24

Stubbs, J.C. (1979) the pursuit of form: A study of Hawthorne and the romance, University of Illinois Press.

.....female agency in Wang Anyi's "Granny" and Eileen Chang's "Shame Amah"
The objective of this study is to compare and contrast the work of Eileen Chang's with reference to her theme "Shame Amah" and the work of Wang Anyi focusing on her theme "Granny". The study uses their works of the two writers to analyze their differences and similarities in the writing styles focusing on the themes Shame of Amah and Granny. Remarkably, Zhang was in her early twenties when she had been identified as a discriminating and precious writer. She benefited from both classical Western and Chinese literature making her being one of the most renown Chinese writers in the literary world.

Similarly, Eileen Chang is one of the most talented Chinese writers born in 1921 and has published several collections of English stories as well publishing two English novels. Eileen Chang was born in Shanghai and attended the University of…...

People are aware of the impact that major stressful events can have on a person's life. In general, society is solicitous of people undergoing major stressors like major illness, divorce, or a death in the family. However, it is interesting to note that, for the individual, small stressors can actually be more significant than major stressors. For example, a friend of mine was fired from her job the day before 9-11. The day of 9-11, when everyone else was so stressed out about the idea of a terrorist attack, she was far more worried about the source of her next paycheck. While she realized, intellectually, that the national impact of 9-11 was certainly greater than the national impact of her being fired, in her life she experienced the loss of her job as a more stressful event. In fact, the most stressful part of 9-11 was that, with its resultant…...

Brown TED Talk
Brene Brown's Ted Talk on listening to shame provided some important anecdotes for many of the willing listeners who understood what she was talking about. The purpose of this essay is to incorporate the lessons presented in that talk and infuse that information on how it can benefit me in my internship. This essay will first describe the talk before relating those ideas to my internship in The Second Step Organization which attempts to foster the safety of domestic violence survivors.

Browns' TED talk contained some useful information to help people better understand their emotions. Brown's focused on the more negative aspects of emotion when she discussed the ideas of shame and guilt. In here talk shame is a useful emotion that can guide and lead and individual to a more healthy path, where guilt is presented as a demeaning and lessening emotion that is dangerous if overused.

Brown also…...

shame in teenage sextual relations," Nina Funnell outlines a conceptual criticism of the approach taken by the Commonwealth on matters relating to the laws governing various sex crimes. According to Funnel (2011), there are fundamental problems with the enforcement of certain sex crime laws against minors because they were obviously drafted and enacted mainly to protect minors and not to punish their sexual behaviour. In that regard, Funnell (2011) focuses especially on the issue of the prosecution of teenagers who transmit sexualised photographs of themselves to others as violators of child pornography laws even though those crimes are, essentially, victimless crimes. The author points out that in addition to the nonsensical application of those laws to the class of persons they were originally intended to protect rather than punish, the Commonwealth has exhibited a simultaneous lackadaisical approach to prosecuting sex crimes involving bona fide victims and adult perpetrators, such…...

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References

Funnel, N. (2011) There's No Shame in Teenage Sextual Relations, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September.

Gerrig, R. And P. Zimbardo. (2008). Psychology and Life. Princeton, NJ: Pearson.

Hinds, L. And K. Daly (2001) The War on Sex Offenders: Community Notification in Perspective, ANZ Journal of Criminology, 34(3), 256-276. DOI: 10.1177/000486580103400304

McLoughlin, C. And J. Burgess (2010) Texting, Sexting and Social Networking Among Australian Youth and the Need for Cyber Safety Education, paper available through Australian Catholic University at  http://www.aare.edu.au

Shame in My Game: The Economic Sociology of Poverty
Poverty in America is such a politicized topic that it can be difficult for even the most neutral people to discuss. Part of the reason that poverty is so political is that most Americans have a romanticized notion of the free-market system and believe that the American dream is easily achieved if one applies sufficient hard work. However, the reality is that while America may be a free-market economy, it is also an economy where the wealthy have much greater access to politicians than the average individual, and where much of the socio-economic political structure has been developed to preserve wealth for the upper-class. Another reason that poverty is such a political issue is because poverty is so linked to race in America. Many people reject the notion that the fact that so many minorities are trapped in lives of poverty…...

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Works Cited

Newman, Katherine. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. New York:

Knopf and Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Ebrary. Web. 5 Apr. 2010.

One of the more shameful moments in American history was the establishment of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.  Ostensibly started because the United States was at war with Japan, it is interesting to note that there were no similar internment camps for people of Italian or German descent, despite the fact that Italy and Germany were also part of the Axis powers that fought against the Allies in World War II. 

Prior to World War II, Japanese began immigrating to America for work opportunities.  They initially immigrated to Hawaii, which was annexed by the United....

Child sexual abuse is one of the more pervasive social issues of our time. Child sexual abuse has a profound impact on the families it impacts and a lingering impact on adult survivors of child sexual abuse. RAINN is a great general resource for information and can provide you with some links to research as well as helpful links for adult survivors who are seeking help. If you are looking for primary sources, then you can look for two different types of sources: first-hand accounts by survivors or direct evidence, which can....

While people often lump the American colonies together, there were significant differences between the New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies. These differences were not only geographical, but also based in who had the grants for the colonies, their favor in the British government, and who eventually settled in the lands. These differences initially impacted how successful the American colonies were and how prosperous they would become. They eventually impacted industrialization and, in many ways, could be cited as one of the root causes of the eventual American Civil War and even some of....

AIDS Ethics: Navigating Moral Dilemmas in the Time of a Pandemic

Introduction

The advent of AIDS in the 1980s not only unleashed a devastating pandemic but also ignited a storm of ethical quandaries. The disease, marked by its insidious nature and social stigma, laid bare the inadequacies of existing healthcare systems and highlighted the urgent need for ethical frameworks to guide decision-making. This essay delves into the intricate web of AIDS ethics, exploring various topics that have challenged our moral sensibilities and continue to shape our response to the pandemic.

1. The Right to Privacy vs. the Duty to Disclose

One of the most....