Jackie Rose's FNED 346

"There are children in the poorest, most abandoned place who, despite the miseries and poisons that the world has pumped into their lives, seem, when you first meet them, to be cheerful anyway." This quote struck me because kids are so cheerful throughout all circumstances. These children were put in this situation without choice and they don't get down about it but look for the good in it. Obviously, the children are probably hurting more than they let on but they keep a smile on their face. I find it inspiring to know that these children keep a smile on their face when it would be easier to get down about it and be sad. "'If poor people behaved rationally,' says Lawrence Mead, a professor of political science at New York University, 'they would seldom be poor for long in the first place.' Many social scientists today appear to hold this point of view and argue that the largest portion of the suffering poor people undergo has to be blamed upon th...

Kristof talks about how the class and success of a child is based on their parents' class and success. I think that this is mostly true. Some of the poor class of people struggles more to succeed because some of their parents probably didn't teach them how to. Most of their parents were focused on making money and putting food on the table for their kids and probably didn't spend a lot of time teaching their kids to read, write, or math. Children aren't always placed in the best situations when they are from poorer families. Not knowing how to be successful or anyone teaching you how to be successful leads to lost opportunities. The upper-middle class and the rich tend to have more success. Some of these people have more success because parents can help their children learn or higher tutors to teach children. Children of these parents also have more opportunity and resources to get to where they want to go. Some children don't have to work a day in their life and...

I liked this video because many people don't think of street language as it's own language but it is. I have especially noticed that it is it's own language when I moved to Rhode Island. I came from a middle-class town in Massachusetts. No one in Uxbridge, Massachusetts uses street language. I then moved to North Providence, Rhode Island in June. I have come into contact with people who use terms I have never heard of. The towns aren't very far away from each other but have different ways of saying things. This video got me thinking about how language is part of a culture. Even though we all live in America, each part of America has its own culture. Street language is English but a different form of English. I like when Jamila Lyiscott mentions how the British think we sound foolish. We tend to judge others based on the way they speak English. We tend to judge how intelligent a person is based on the way they speak when it's just the way they learned to speak. T...

A few of my wonderful nieces, nephews, and me at my graduation Kids from my Capstone Project and me painting the popsicle stick houses we built Half of my siblings, my parents, and me at a birthday dinner Three-quarters of our family at a Red Sox My boyfriend and I at Christmas