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 (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.
Thesis: Education leads to desire.
ReplyDeleteReason: People may not know they have a desire for something until they are educated on it and they realize it is something they too want.
Evidence 1.1: Rodriguez as oblivious to his parents lack of education until he started learning classroom English and was able to see and hear their mistakes, he "was the one who came home and corrected he "simple" grammatical mistakes of our parents." (1)
Evidence 1.2: "I began to see my parents' choice of a family language as an anti-revolutionary act and I was alarmed that I had participated in such an act." (Lu 992)
Analysis: Rodriguez and Lu were both pushed into education by their parents, and that education lead them so see the difference in their culture and language and question which to follow.
Thesis: Desire leads to education
ReplyDeleteReason: A person's desire to better themselves can lead to them wanting to pursue an education
Evidence 1.1: Malcom X stated that he wanted to be able to better communicate with his idol, Elijah Muhammed, so he began to "read the dictionary" which led him to read many other books and become a well educated man, able to suffieciently express his feelings.
Evidence 1.2: Hooks constantly strived to better herself, which led to her constant pursuit of further educaiton, despite any setbacks that her class may have caused her.
Evidence 1.3: Rodriguez's first desire were the "shiny school tropies I came to want. (Rodreiguez 3)" which caused him to try and become as educated as his siblings.
What about using, "In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college." (Malcolm X 44) to help support your analysis?
DeleteIt shows that prison was what Malcolm X needed to inspire his intense desire to learn.
Thesis: Education leads to desire.
ReplyDeleteReason: Education is the process of acquiring knowledge, often when a person starts evolving as a student they become very proud and eager to learn.
Evidence: 1.1: With practice Malcolm X started understanding the literature he read and was motivated to continue his quest for knowledge “in every free moment I had , if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk” (Malcolm X 11).
Evidence: 1.2:” having my teacher speak English to me in class made English an official language of the classroom. I began to take pride in my ability to speak it”.
Analysis: Both Malcolm X and Lu realized that education was something to proud of and ultimately led them to succeed as a student.
Good reasons and evidence! How about using, "It mattered that education was changing me. I never ceased to matter." (Rodriguez 6) as another piece of evidence for your analysis?
DeleteThesis: Education leads to desire
ReplyDeleteReason: With help from already attending school and getting educated, students may want more out of it causing the desire for achieving more.
Evidence 1.1: “Being the eager student, I adopted this view of language as a tool for survival.” (Lu 9)
From being the good student she was, Lu changed her view of a language as a tool to better herself in her life and help her succeed.
Evidence 1.2: “The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum.” (Rodriguez 2)
From his rough childhood experience he endured from school, Rodriguez was pushed to achieve more by continuing his education and finishing twenty years later.
Analysis: Both Lu and Rodriguez were motivated by their own schooling to pursue a better life and succeed in education.
Thesis: Education leads to desire.
ReplyDeleteReason: As some individuals strive to learn more and more, they become more aware of the problems around them and desire to make a change.
Evidence 1.1: Lu began to realize that her education at school conflicted with what she learned at home. “Constantly having to switch back and forth between the discourse of home and that of school made me sensitive and self-conscious about the struggle I experienced every time tried to read, write, or think in either discourse.” (2)
Evidence 1.2: “Books like the one by Frederick Olmstead opened my eyes to the horrors suffered when the slave was landed in the United States.” (Malcolm X 26)
Analysis: Lu and Malcolm X both used education as an escape which in turn made them aware of much bigger problems occurring around them.
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DeleteI Like your writing, You have a smooth flow with your words and format. Another quote that would help support your thesis would be " You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man" (X Learning to Read).
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ReplyDeleteThesis: Education leads to desire.
ReplyDeleteReason: Education often opens a door to a new world and shows the student new things to desire that they wouldn’t have, had they not been educated.
Evidence 1.1: “Yesterday I spoke in London, and both way on the plane across the Atlantic I was studying a document about how the United Nations proposes to insure the human rights of the oppressed minorities of the world” (Malcom X, 1007).
Evidence 1.2: “I am almost grateful for the overwhelming complexity of the circumstances in which I grew up. It was the complexity that kept me from losing sight…of the choice” (Lu, 1000).
Analysis: Malcom X and Min-Zahn Lu both had hardships, but despite their hardships, their educations lead them to a new desire that they would have otherwise not found. They both chose to use their knowledge and share it with the rest of the world when they became mentors. (X as an activist and Lu as a teacher.)