Essays on Literacy

The colonial history of American Indian education begins 138 years ago with the creation of boarding schools. With colonization, many communities were first intentionally displaced to reservations. Children were taken from their families put into federally-funded schools. These first “Indian Schools” were meant to start…

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…

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…