Sunday, October 16, 2011

Prison Cruelty by Frank Tannunbaum

The prison system is created to keep bad men and women behind high concrete walls. Frank Tannunbaum, explains about the mental more cruel methods to keep them isolated inside by the warden's ideal system. The idea of punishment with a punishment is an unfair consequence, common and vigilant citizen, rather than finding this idea more plural to every single human being, the idea does not qualify criminals. The three elements of keep a criminal inside, i understand that with a lot of corrupted minds trapped inside, combining these thoughts can create chaos inside a solitary facility.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

From Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

This reading, coauthored by Postman and Weingartner, new vice-verse, and as both these authors noted "somewhat impractical" ideas or proposals of how teachers show perceive their way of teaching. Their proposals go against all the fundaments preestablised by generations of educational boards. To have a teacher teach out of their subject and have then step inside the shoes of a student is a small result. Teachers have already gone through the stage of learning. Postman and Weingartner, also share, to exploded teachers and their leveled abilities of how to teach. These ideas on how to reform the educational teaching experience may have some results, but having to submit to reform and give up all the educational traditional criteria, only seems to call for disorder.

From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Lorde, explains the harshness of her young educational experience and physical attributes that caused a challenges, obstacles, and meet unfriendly. Despite her disability of blindness, Lorde, obtains the ability to read at a young age with the help from a "mile-high woman" librarian. Mrs. Baker, the courteous, "quiet voiced", librarian that taught, Lorde, how to read and caused her to speak her first words, was the arm that pulled her away from the depths of feeling hopeless and with not significances. Lorde, speaks of Mrs. Baker, as the spring of life, what gave her strength and reason to move forward, to appreciate reading and writing. She was introduced to a new view of life. The discouragement and segregating practices of her shameless past teachers seem to have had no effect other positive results, she pushed forward. This reading introduces a display of various obstacles with overcoming results.