Initial Post (November 20th): To practice for your final paper, pick one of the theses (how desire leads to education or how education leads to desire), and list ONE reason, at least two pieces of evidence (quote or paraphrase) from different sources, and your analysis of how the two relate to your thesis.
Example:
Thesis: Desire leads to education
Reason: In an effort to succeed in school, often times students will sacrifice personal relationships for their education.
Evidence 1.1: Hooks separated herself from the seemingly frivilous desires of her white roommates at her first college and, instead, "lived in the world of books" (1).
Evidence 1.2: "I devoted myself entirely to my studies. I became bookish, puzzling to all my family. Ambition set me apart" (Rodriguez 17).
Analysis: Hooks and Rodriguez both distanced themselves from interpersonal bonds in favor of their book world, which helped focus their desire for education.
Reply to classmate (Due November 22nd): give your classmate a quote that might help them to further prove their Reason or to fulfill their analysis.
Example:
What about using, "[Stanford] was the place for me to go--a place where intellect was valued over foolish fun and games and dress up" (hooks 2) as one piece of evidence to support your final analysis?
DO NOT just tell your classmate s/he did a good job with his/her post.
In order to succeed in your Education, you should be willing to do what ever it takes to excel in your studies to accomplish your goal.
ReplyDeleteEvidence 1.1 Rodriguez made a commitment at an early age to seek help from his teachers, nuns at school to help him with his studies.
Evidence 1.2 Malcolm x succeeded to read and write by referring to a dictionary while in prison, which helped him to articulate his communication skills while communicating with his mentors from outside the prison system, Gradually he became an activist and intellectual person.
I don't see your thesis here. Is it Education leads to desire? This might be a good quote to use: "But withheld from my mother and father was any mention of what most mattered to me: the extraordinary experience of first-learning." (Rodriquez 20)
DeleteI agree with joy I did not know what your thesis was so I would say that was your down fall. I thought your evedince was very good. So I would just say make sure ur thesis is clear
DeleteThesis: Education leads to desire
ReplyDeleteReason: In an struggle to find ourselves in life, often times pursuing an education can lead to a desire to know ourselves and what are our realities.
Evidence 1.1: "Uncertain about whether I had managed to make it through without giving up the best of myself, the best of the values I had been raised to believe in--hard work, honesty, and respect for everyone no matter their class--I finished my education with my allegiance to the working class intact. Even so, I had planted my feet on the path leading in the direction of class privilege. There would always be contradictions to face. There would always be confrontations around the issue of class. I would always have to reexamine where I stand." Bell Hooks "Learning in the Shadow of Race and Class" (paragraph 32)
Evidence 1.2: "A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student." Richard Rodriguez "Scholarship Boy"
Analysis: Hooks and Rodriguez both found their realities and themselves later in their lives that they desired, and they had the experience of education to understand and create their true desires in multiple periods of time.
"I kept so much, so often, to myself. Sad. Enthusiastic. Troubled by the excitement of coming upon new ideas. Eager. Fascinated by the promising texture of a brand-new book. I hoarded the pleasures of learning." Richard Rodriguez "Scholarship Boy" Paragraph 21 (end)
Delete"Poor students would be welcome at the best institutions of higher learning only if they were willing to surrender memory, to forget the past and claim the assimilated present as the only worthwhile and meaningful reality." (Hooks paragraph 30) You could paraphrase this quote to help explain how she lost her identity then end with your quote showing she found her identity afterwards to future support your reason.
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ReplyDeleteThesis: Learning leads to the desire
ReplyDeleteReason: When a person gets ahold of new information, they often crave more information to broaden their minds.
Evidence 1.1: Malcolm X was so astounded by the amount of words he learned, understood, and remembered from the dictionary that he read the whole book, to learn more. "I was so fascinated I went on to the B's, I started coping what eventually became the entire dictionary" (1002)
Evidence 1.2 "I hoarded the pleasures of learning, Eagar, Fascinated by the promising texture of a brand-new book...coming upon new ideas." (Rodriguez 21)
Analysis: Malcolm X and Rodriguez both broaden their minds through the use of more books, as a tool, to help them with their desire to learn more information.
I was going to use this also. You could had of also used the quote " Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn't have gotten me out of a book with a wedge." This was powerful to me because through this intense reading while locked up in prison, he actually was felt the most "free in his life." That was deep to me.
DeleteThesis: Desire leads to education
ReplyDeleteReason: to want acceptance; you see other excel and strive for goals and it makes you want the same and to be accepted into that group of peers.
Evidence 1.1: “(My earliest teachers, the nuns, made my success their ambition) And my brother and both my sisters were very good students.(They often brought home the shiny school trophies I came to want) and my mother and father always encouraged me. “ Richard Rodriguez “scholarship Boy” paragraph 3
Evidence 1.2: “There was a sizeable number of well-read inmates, especially the popular debaters. Some were said by many to be practically walking encyclopedias. They were almost celebrities.” Malcom X “Learning to Read” Paragraph 14
Analysis: Both Malcom X and Rodriguez used books as way to better themselves even if it meant changing who they were and who they had been their whole life. They both saw education as an escape to the places they wanted to be.
Though it's true and it's in Hook and Rodriguez's stories, you don't state anywhere in your evidence or even thesis that you've written that they used books as a way to better themselves, and yet you state in the analysis that they do use books to better themselves. Only in the evidence from Malcom X is there a reference to books.
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ReplyDeleteHow Education leads to desires.
ReplyDeleteEducation can introduce to a person someone or something can lead them to further their desires in life.
Evidence 1: Hooks had experienced a rather horrifying time during her first year at the white women’s college, however through all the negative encountering and experiences, came a professor whom suggested the one idea that would soon change Hook’s life forever. Her desires to move forward from the white girls college was even more stronger than going to an unknown land of “sin” as how her parents would put it. A professor had suggested that she should go to Stanford University. After this suggestion it was clear that Hooks had no desire to stay at the white women college. “ Not knowing made me afraid, but my fear of staying in place was greater.”(17)
Evidence 2: Education might of separated Rodriquez from his family but a modern educational theorists author by the name of Richard Hoggart shows him that there are other students just like him. “For the first time, I realized there were other students like me, and so I was able to frame my meaning of my academic success, its consequent price-the loss.”(8)
Analysis: Both authors reveals a person or a book that help them alone the way and led them to desire a better life than what their families had.
Thesis: Education leads to desire
ReplyDeleteReason: Once you have discovered a world outside your own you will never be able to fit in again.
Evidence 1.1: “…I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.” (Rodriquez 17).
Evidence 1.2: “Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened…I never had been so truly free in my life.” (Malcom X 1002).
Analysis: Rodriquez and Malcom X realized that as their world widened they were changing and leaving their old life behind.
The way you tie in two different people both discovering a world outside the one they are in at this time makes sense in that they wanted more.
DeleteThesis: Desire leads to education
ReplyDeleteReason: Two unequal circumstances both can be conquered through determination.
Evidence 1.1: “For the first time I realized that there were other students like me, and so I was able to frame the meaning of my academic success, its consequent price – the loss.” (Rodriguez8)
Evidence 1.2: Malcolm X states, “Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. (Malcolm X 11)
Analysis: Malcolm X and Rodriguez both had different circumstances, but from a passion of learning more makes them both very determined, for academic knowledge.