fantastic song "I Wanna Be Sedated" that most moms of teens can relate to. Twenty‚ twenty‚ twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated. Nothing to do‚ no where to go I wanna be sedated You would think just by the idea of traveling with a 15 year old‚ I would be screaming "I wanna be sedated" from the mountain tops but lucky for us‚ the kiddo and I had a fantastic trip to Memphis that was specifically customized for teen travel. Memphis is about a five hour drive from Shreveport up I-49 N to I-30 E through
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Mike Rose is a critically acclaimed writer and professor in the School of Education at UCLA and has won many awards for his work. In this selection called “I Just Wanna Be Average” taken from his book Lives on the Boundary‚ Rose offers his experience trudging through the standardized vocational education track. Through his own account‚ the author points out that society and even faculty within these schools label the students as “slow” leaving the students with an objective of
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EDUCATION IN AMERICA I have chosen Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average” to discuss as I have felt this way many times over the years whether it was in school or in the work force. In "I Just Wanna Be Average" Mike Rose explains how he was placed in the "vocational education" program while he was in high school by error. He and his parents tried to even fix the situation‚ but it did not work. While in this program he began to learn some dead-end skills from his teachers that were often unprepared
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In the song “Billionaire‚” Travie McCoy uses hip-hop and R&B style to target teenage listeners. Understanding the audiences’ interests‚ needs and expectations allows him to choose the appropriate style and tone to express his message. According to the youtube demographics statistics‚ the music video is most popular among teenagers and young adults in the range of thirteen to twenty-four years old. Besides the primary audience‚ the song is also listened to by many hip-hop fans. Travie McCoy
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“I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose is an excerpt from his book Lives on the Boundary about his time in Our Lady Mercy High School’s education system. He went into Vocational education because of a mix-up in his tests with another student. With this mix-up and teachers who would not put in the effort to help him succeed occurring‚ Rose lost all motivation in studying in his classes. Rose finally found a teacher who cared about his success in school and helped Rose get back into regular college-prep
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A critique of “What Should a Billionaire Give---- and What Should You?” Singer begins his essay with a simple question‚ “What is a human life worth?” (578). “Singer suggests that most people would be unwilling to a value on the life another human”. Singer continues the topic by writing about some of the charitable beliefs of Bill Gates and how it was that Gates developed some of those values over time‚ which was in part due to hearing about a viral infection that kills around five hundred million
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care. There’s a disconnect in the world today between the moderately literate‚ the most literate‚ and those that are just left behind. America’s educational system is deeply flawed and a perfect example is a very eye opening short story called “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose(1989). Mike Rose explains his short stint in the Vocational track ‚ where kids go who can’t quite make it in America’s public schools.The only reason why Rose ended up going to this school because his test scores were
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Summary: In the story "I Just Want to be Average" by Mike Rose‚ Rose‚ talks about his his past schooling experience and how his experience at Mercy nearly ruined him as a student. He narrates his story of his peers in the vocational learning classes and how his teachers responded or failed to respond to their needs as students. The various situations Mike experienced all centered around one main thing and that was a lack of effort‚ by the students and teachers both. Response: This story is a really
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case letters. This poem has no deep meaning but only one of deep desire for some-one. It is quite a childish poem as it uses only very simple words‚ is ungrammatical and uses childish rhymes. It also does not use grammatically correct words such as "wanna". It is very informal‚ like what someone would say in a serenade to a person. This poem has a very strong central message with very little deep meaning. The central message is desire and about the amount of will people can have to love one and another
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The Maverick Billionaires are the lead characters of the Maverick Billionaires contemporary romance series of novels by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Bella Andre. The first novel of the series was the 2015 published title Breathless in Love that instantly become a bestseller. The Maverick Billionaires are five self-made‚ gorgeous‚ and sexy men who grew up from the poorer side of town. They came through hell together and now they are wealthy beyond measure with their helicopters
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