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 (Due 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: Desire leads to education
ReplyDeleteReason:There wasn’t enough time in one day to satisfy the thirst for knowledge.
Evidence 1.1: “My mother would find me reading when I was supposed to be asleep...” (Rodriguez 5)
Evidence 1.2: In jail, lights out means you are to stop what you are doing, get in bed, or be punished. But instead, “Each time I heard the approaching footsteps, I jumped into bed and feigned sleep.” (Malcolm X 18)
Analysis: Malcom X and Rodriguez were willing to break rules and sacrafice sleep in order to find more time to read.
Thesis: Education leads to desire
ReplyDeleteReason: Educational experience caused a struggle for balance
Evidence 1.1:"A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student" (Rodriguez 7)
Evidence 1.2: "When I wrote for school, I worried that my Bourgeois sensibilities would betray me" (Min-Zhan Lu 21)
Analysis: Lu and Rodriguez struggle with the world they were exposed to during their education conflicted with their home roots and they had to find out who they really where
The evidence for Lu isn't the best choice to defend the reason. Maybe try using a quote more specific to her being lost when writing her essay. She was conflicted between writing it as a bourgeois like she wanted to or as a working class like the school wanted her to.
DeleteThesis: Desire leads to education.
ReplyDeleteReason: Even with the desire to learn, it takes some real effort and means to be afforded an education.
Evidence 1.1: " To learn some words...and improve my penmanship...moved me to request a dictionary along with tablets and pencils." (Malcolm 5)
Evidence 1.2: "Stanford University was a good school for a smart girl. Without their permission, I decided I would go." (hooks 3)
Analysis: Both, hooks and Malcolm, could not learn as they did if they had not made the extra effort and asked for the means to do so.
Thesis: Desire leads to education.
ReplyDeleteReason: Most people have some quality in life that they wish they could better through education which gives them their desire.
Evidence 1.1: "I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-based broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying." (Malcolm X 11)
Evidence 1.2: "We were required to memorize the definitions of the words along with quotations. Every time I memorized a definition, I felt I had learned a new word..." (Lu 13)
Analysis: For Malcolm X, he wanted to better his understanding of words so he may comprehend and as for Lu, she wanted a better understanding of the meaning of the words used in her classes definitions.
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