Robert Velardi

Everybody comes from different walks of life such as their ethnicity or religion.   Regarding whatever ethnicity you are you should never be discrimated based on your ancestors.   As everybody know the United States of America is called the melting pot for a reason.   The reason for this is because at one point or another, everybody’s ancestors immigrated to the United States of America.   Everybody’s ancestors are from all different countries, which makes the United States of America such a great place to live.   One thing that was apparent in the older years was when there were immigrants from another country, they all seem to congregate in the same place, such as in the reading when it says that New York had the most Italians, and Polish people than anywhere else. “In the 1920s, New York had more Italians than any city in the world except Rome, and Chicago, more Poles than any city except Warsaw” (146). It think it is awesome that every area wherever, im...

It does not really take a rocket scientist to see how much education and schools have changed throughout the past years.   For one, schools used to take place in a small hut on a prairie, now schools are in public buildings throughout the entire world.   Most of earlier years of persons life are spent in schools, so it is important that the learning atmosphere is suitable for all students.   One thing that my group really focused a lot on was the way education itself has changed in these schools. For one, the way of education people is constantly changing.   When my parents went to school there was no such thing as computers or any technology like we have currently.   If my parents had to research on a specific subject, instead of going on the computer or smart phone, they would have to go to library, and find a book on the subject that they were doing research on.   Another thing is, if they have do a report on the weather in a certain city, instead ...

To be completely honest I never was one of those people that loved to read or enjoyed reading.   I think part of the reason was because I would rather be outside with my friends in the neighborhood riding scooters, playing tag, or playing kickball. The earliest experience that I can think of, of me becoming literate is when I was in the 3 rd grade.   Every year in the Summer my school was always assigned a summer reading program.   This summer reading program would require us to read an assigned book or two, and do a project on them.   I distinctly remember my mother requiring me, and my brothers to read 30 minutes each and every day.   We would have to stop whatever we were doing, and do our reading for the day. It was a pain in the neck. I remember my brothers, and I would look up at the clock every second to see how much time has gone by, and how long we have till we can go back to what we were doing.   Even if I was in the middle of a paragraph in a ...