No Child By Nilaja Sun

Ms. Sun is an optimistic public school teacher, who refuses to see anything in her precious students but unrecognized potential ‘’Really, well, in the past thirty-five minutes, I’ve met some pretty amazing young adults, thinkers, debaters, and thespians . . . ‘’ (1368). Ms. Sun is an artist and a deep thinker. She believes that everyone deserves the chance to shine, no matter what background that they were to come from. She always appears kind, even though in the beginning of the play she is reveled to have money problems ‘’But yes, I apologies for not getting you last month’s rent on time, but see the IRS put a levy on my bank account and I just can’t retrieve any money from it right now’’ (1365). She is a reminder of the way people should see each other, not as a color, gender, or background, but as a person ‘’On the flip side of the matter, having gone to Catholic school for thirteen tears, I didn’t even know I was black until college’’ (1365). Much to the chagrin of her unenthusiastic students, Ms. Sun decides to have her entire class perform a play, called ‘’Our Country’s Good’’

The theme of Orloff’s play focuses on examining these expectations of good playwriting with a surprise lesson being discovered in the end. The Teacher, who is supposedly showing how the scene should play out between the Jumper and Good Samaritan, learns a valuable lesson himself on the craft of writing a good play. The lesson being that in theater, just as in real life, nothing is set in stone and anything is possible.

The play “No Child”, written by Nilaja Sun showcases a teacher, Ms. Sun as a teaching artist who is under a grant to facilitate the production of a play, teaching and encouraging live theoretical performances in a dysfunctional environment.No Child is a reflection of Nilaja Sun’s experiences as a teaching artist in the public school system in New York. In the play Ms. Sun brings a senses of hope and inspiration not only to the students but to the teachers as well in one of the toughest classrooms of Malcolm X High School, in Bronx, New York. The narrator of the play is a observant Janitor of the Malcolm X High School. Since he has been performing his job related duties as a janitor he witnessed the struggles and obstacle faced by the school and students. No Child accurately illustrates students, teachers and communities imprisoned by a corrupted public school system.

There were many diverse aspects to this book. Most of this book is a recall from either the main character, or one of his students. This book is intended to open people’s eyes to see that in order to change the world we must first change ourselves. Being able to go through this story and see the mistakes, and the good decisions, teachers in Michie’s life have made, has taught me that the best way to teach is through love, justice, cultural empathy and imagination. Some of the points brought up in this book include the positive and negative sides of physical contact with a student, classification/stereotyping, race, gangs, police brutality/lack of justice, and children not being able to escape peer pressure.

This play allowed people to visually see the real-life effects of what it would be like to be sexually assaulted. The effects of what happens to the surrounding people within the community is also shown in the play. The play allows people to further understand the universal message of taking the proper steps to prevent sexual assaults from occurring. If proper preventative steps would have been taken, then Chloe would not be living as a sexual assault victim whose sexual assault was filmed and posted on social media for everyone to see. The play allowed people to see the horrible effects of phones and social media by showing how those two things ruined multiple peoples life. The play was worth doing, because if showed the effects of social media and the effects of sexual

about hate as it is about love and the morals of society. The play is

The novel Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro, is set in a capitalistic, dystopian society in which scientific advancements have greatly relieved society of their medical concerns, all the while, severely damaged their integrity. The exploitation of human clones for the sole purpose of implementing a sufficient number of organs for society has resulted in a change in their ethics, as well as their ego. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro uses characters to illuminate corruption in society, illustrating that greed in the pursuit of progress can negatively alter the mindset of society. By living in a capitalistic environment, one will develop a fatalist mentality in an attempt to come to terms with society and their

In “Invisible Child,” a New York Times article written by Andrea Elliot, we follow a day in the life of a young African American girl, Dasani, growing up in New York City. However, instead of living in an “Empire State of Mind,” Dasani lives in the slums, growing up homeless with her two drug addicted parents and seven siblings. Dasani often finds herself taking care of her siblings, making sure they have enough to eat, tying shoelaces, changing diapers, getting them to the bus stop in time, and the list goes on. An 11 year old girl, essentially taking care of a whole family, as well as taking care of herself by going to school, receiving an education, and partaking in extra-curricular activities. Elliot captures the life and struggles of a family well under the poverty line, giving us an unprecedented look into what Dasani must do each day not just to grow up in New York City, but to survive.

Teju Cole’s phenomenally written original novel majorly takes place in New York City. Cole character was easy to relate to because of his Nigerian American decent being that I am a Ghanaian American. Cole is a Nigerian American. He was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992 at the age of seventeen. Cole is also well educated and is a graduate student at Columbia University. I found it insightful how in the novel Cole met several various types of people, including other immigrants. He met and shared stories with a Haitian shoe shiner, at work in Penn Station; a Liberian, imprisoned for over two years in a dentition center in Queens; and a Moroccan student working at an Internet café. I enjoyed the fact that the narrator was well stocked minded. He touched on the topics of art, music, and interesting books. He had a very eclectic set of interest.

creates a play that illustrates not only the struggle of growing up in a prejudiced world but also

Black single mothers have overall negative stereotypes linked to them, their children, and their financial situation. Single black mothers are getting labeled as Gold diggers, lazy, con-artist, non-supportive, emotionally unstable, and uneducated. To make their reputation even worse most of the songs in the Hip Hop community make hypocritical songs that generalize all single black mothers based on their particular experience. Hip Hop narratives such as “Faith” by Kendrick lamar and “Baby Mama” by Fantaisa, challenges the race stereotypes about co-parenting. Not all Hip Hop songs reinforce the negative stereotypes about single black mothers. Songs like “Faith” by Kendrick Lamar is a great song that represents the struggle single mothers go through.

How do you classify rather someone is human or not? A tricky question has many different possible answers, but only a few that could be justified as being human. Kazuo Ishiguro has addressed this topic in his book Never Let Me Go. A reoccurring question throughout the novel is rather or not these clones are considered a human being or just another science project. Suspicious individuals of the surrounding communities in the novel, believed that the students were not human, because they could not reproduce, they did not have any parents, and for the slight fact that what the students were going through was morally unacceptable. In my opinion, Ishiguro shows that the clones are indeed human, because of their artwork, which proves that

The poem “Mothers and Daughters” is written by Pat Mora. Pat Mora is a contemporary award winning writer, who writes for children, youngsters and adults. She was born in El Paso, TX in the year 1942. She attains a title of a Hispanic writer; however, the most of her poems are in English. In her literary work, one can observe the different aspects of the immigrants’ lives such as language issues, family relationships, immigrants’ experiences and cultural differences (1187).

Never let me go is a fictional book written by a Japanese-British born writer, Kazuo Ishiguro. The book is a narration by the key character Kathy where she narrates her life right from her childhood to her adulthood. The main theme is good life out of cloning technology. Kathy and her two other friends are clones who are taken into a pure clone school where they are being taught about art only. Their main purpose of clones in the school is to become donors but Kathy becomes a care. Throughout the narration, the book unfolds more about the cloning technology and its purpose in the society. The main theme of the book is developed by the life of Kathy and her two partners who are presented as true clones and donors. There are many issues related to the main theme where some of them are the morality behind the cloning technology, how cloning lead to good life, difference between humans and clones and the ethical issues behind cloning technology. The above issues can only be understood through application of different theories and that is why the paper will apply different types of theories in the book Never let me go. Some of the theories that will be applied in the paper are; moral theories, consequentialism, virtue ethics theory, right based theory, natural raw theory, Kantian moral theory and many other theories that are applicable in the book. Generally, the objective of the paper is to apply different theories in the book Never let me go in order to examine the main theme

Think Back to high school, when you were in class with 30 other students. You do all the work, make all the good grades and someone else gets all the credit. In my high school days, we called these people “teachers pets”. These people made it seem like everything was about them. They wanted to control everything and most of the students wanted to tell this student off but couldn’t because the teacher would always take their side. Now, in this play we have a mother named Amanda and like the teacher’s pet, Amanda wants to control every aspect of her children’s life. May I add, that the children that she tried to control are well above the legal adult age. The children, like the other students in the classroom, wanted to tell her off but it wouldn’t be of any value because they had no backing. Amanda is truly the glue that makes this play what it is today. Amanda is the most important character in this play because she wants to live her life through her kids, everything that went wrong was because of her, and because of her nagging ways.