There is any number of issues you may respond to with Rodriguez’s essay “The Achievement of Desire,” but I’ll throw out two for your consideration:
1) What is your response to Rodriguez’s sense of his parents as he’s growing up “a scholarship boy”? He frequently expresses a mix of emotions, from pride to shame, admiration to embarrassment. Do you find yourself forgiving him, or do you find yourself holding him to account, or somewhere in between? Remember, of course, that he’s reflecting as an adult on his memory of being a child.
2) Rodriguez writes
…education is a long, unglamorous, even demeaning process–a nurturing never natural to the person one was before one entered a classroom. At once different from most other students, the scholarship boy is also the archetypal “good student.” He exaggerates the difficulty of being a student, but his exaggeration reveals a general predicament. Others are changed by their schooling as much as he. They too must re-form themselves” (352-53).
What does Rodriguez mean by this? How is education demeaning and “unnatural”? And why and how must we re-form ourselves in schools? What is it about education that puts us in this position?
Use Correct APA Format.
Your paper should include an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Also, support your answers with the course’s readings and at least two scholarly journal articles. The article’s purpose is to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. Sources ProQuest and EBSCOhost are great sites to find resources. Also, write in a concise and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. Additionally, the quality of your writing dictates grading criteria. On the other hand, if you use direct quotes from books or articles, place the words you copied (use parenthesis) and cite them in-line. Also, only use sources within the five-year range. Additional Guidelines The quotes should be complete sentences (no more, less) and should be incorporated in your essay to illustrate your ideas. Please, cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end. Also, do not copy without providing proper attribution (quotation marks and in-line citations). Also, write an essay format, not in bullet form, numbering, or another list format. It would be best if you use your own words. Lastly, proofread your work and run it through Grammarly for thorough confirmation.
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