Essays on Literacy

Abstract This Advanced Project will study the effectiveness of financial literacy programs that target under-served youth. Financial literacy and cognitive capabilities are convincingly linked to the quality of financial decision-making. Yet, there is little evidence that education intended to improve financial decision-making is successful (Cole,…

How do we define a word so cosmic, that is, at the same time, limited to finite such applications? The extent of what it means to be educated is difficult to define, in his article What Does It Mean To Be Educated? Steve Denning attempts…

  People may not know what it means to be educated, nor do they know what it means to become. Education can be defined in many ways based upon how someone was raised. Some people may have been to public school, homeschool. In these cases, many…

To Be Kind Throughout my years of going to school, teachers always give the advice of being kind and helping others. Even my parents tell me to do acts of kindness and help others. I always try my best in helping and people should too….

Narrative Skills Narrative skills are considered one of the most interesting and adequate way for measurements of communication efficiency in both children with normal hearing and others with hearing loss. Botting. These narrative skills develop gradually over time and are considered worthy of oral language…

Political Literacy One of the most important human advancements throughout our history was the foundation of a governing body. The presence of this governing body brought about the rule of law, but was largely controlled and maintained by a select few. The recent presence of…

Money, Finance, and Gold with Shakespeare, Tagore, and Marx Who does not want to be both spenny-wise and money-wise? But whenever our great authors and philosophers speak of money and finance, they fall into aversion, dislike and often make a moral lecture in the end….

One experience I had in relation to literacy was in my junior year of high school when I read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The book was about a black adolescent girl’s struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty and her consequent descent into…

It was a family dinner in Detroit when I realized my family didn’t talk about health. My uncle was babbling out loud but no one seemed to pay attention. When I asked why, my aunt nonchalantly mentioned, “He’s sick, he has breast cancer.” I’m a…

I am a victim of a crime. And today, in front of all of you I will confess…I haven’t read a full book since Garde 10. I’m not going to lie, the last book I think I’ve ever read word to word, front to back…