Essays on Literacy

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…

Throughout the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the main characters Atticus, Jem, and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch show there was always good and evil in people. The characters displayed that the good in people always overlapped the bad. Evil comes in all…

Responding to Sponsors of Literacy I’ve always been a writer; since as early as elementary school, I’d love to create stories and put them down on paper. I would rarely stick to a single form of writing, however, and would eventually to go on to…

Literacy Rules the World Literacy plays a large role in life today. Whether we realize it or not, literacy is everywhere- from the text we just sent to our best friend to advertisements in magazines to what everyone dreads, essays. To some people, literacy means…

In scanning and skimming journal articles to use in regards to technology in literacy, I came across a journal that discussed assistive technology in conjunction with literacy. This sparked my interest due to my background in being a special education teacher. Literacy is significant for…

Multiculturalism and Hybridity are prominent topics in today’s society, as the world has become more metropolitan and diverse. Those identifications are represented in Ayub Khan Dins drama‚ ‘East is East’ published in 1995, as well. The culture clash between half Pakistani and half British families…

Citizens of Verona, I am standing here today to mourn of the loss of Romeo of house Montague and Juliet of house Capulet. Their untimely deaths were brought about by their families long standing feud. Our young residents of this city have “thrice disturbed the…

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is regarded as the hottest stories of love, the most tragic and depressing, among the heroine of the story; Heathcliffe and Catherine Ehrenshaw. Katherine is the daughter of the good man; Mr. Ehrenshaw, who one day decides to enter into his…