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In critical writing classrooms, students and teachers are changed positionally. Rather than creating a hierarchical system, the emphasis is instead on using the tools of critical literacy, such as awareness, change, and discussion, to examine the same situations as they would in a standard classroom. This results in a classroom where students and teachers alike are participants and learn in a more democratic sense, free of the one way pathway of learning where teachers teach students and students receive those teachings. This idea of a democratic, mutual classroom where all members are able to redevelop is the core ideal behind Shor’s idea of critical teaching. In doing this, students are able to build an environment of self questioning. They become more democratic and gain authority and self confidence, and in doing so gain the ability to develop their own ideas. When they eventually graduate and begin to enter larger groups and older cultural spaces they can change the functions, beliefs, and core values by examining them as individuals rather than as members inside a group unable to self examine. Essentially by being able to view themselves as able to think and question their surroundings, they individualize themselves and create a diversity of thought within their group. Using the skills of critical literacy they are able to then change their community through opposition and discussion. Ira Shor describes this process as the creation of active citizenry, that by enabling people to critically explore their situations, they are able to become active and interact with their societies as citizens.

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Historically, only certain jobs had permitted women to work in which, in the modern day, has left an imprint. Starting from a young age, gender roles are mirrored through the toys we give little girls, baby dolls, faux cooking sets and doll houses. Based on stereotypes, women's jobs tended to be centered around childcare, caregiving or organizational positions. These declared feminine career paths exclude many fields of science and math. The effects originating from cultural perception of gender roles is still evident from the moment you step foot into a computer science lecture

Shor discusses two prominent figures in US education, Horace Mann and John Dewey, both sought to address societal inequalities through schooling. Mann advocated for public education as a means to combat class divisions, while Dewey critiqued the class-based curriculum divide, advocating for students to learn through experience and philosophy. In the contemporary context, critical literacy emerges as a pedagogical approach aimed at challenging inequality by questioning received knowledge and fostering activist citize

iscouraged and looked down upon. Shor recalls other elements of his younger life describing times when teachers and authority figures would criticize students for parental job status, accents, and other cultural practices with no way to voice any thoughts with the censorship of Shors student newspaper. Shor highlights the non-partisan reality of the educational system that leads to censoring of groups of students with underlying bias control what may be encouraged vs covered up. The 60 years has witnessed a conservative restoration against the democratic gains of the 1960s, marked by efforts to roll back egalitarian advancements through policies such as career education, standardized testing, and attacks on affirmative action, welfare, labor unions, abortion rights, school equity, and gay right

telling personal stories describing different realities for an individual impacted by their environment, race, class, and social and cultural implications. Shor discusses his position being part of a Jewish working-class family in the Bronx, surrounded by European immigrants and casual racism. Just across the Bronx River Parkway there was a black community that was riddled with gang violence. These two communities went to the same high school and Shor found that students community membership was often correlated to their membership into an advanced program available at the school.

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Critical literacy emphasizes the role of language in shaping individuals and society, and it encourages individuals to critically analyze texts, engage in dialogue, and take action to challenge inequality and advocate for change.

Ira Shor defines critical literacy as a form of literacy that involves "learning to read and write as part of the process of becoming conscious of one's experience as historically constructed within specific power relations" (Anderson and Irvine 282).

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e of critical literacy in challenging the power dynamics between the students and their teachers, and hopes for an approach to education that appeals to the student.

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Housing problems have existed since the 1970s and continue to linger into the 2020s, with more issues arising each year. Our campus has lost its' scope on the little problems, hopefully those don't lead to bigger one

head on and describes the problems on campus and on other campuses without blurring details, while not blaming the students for their participation, but blaming the United States for their involvement. He also demonstrates the idea to prioritize inclusivity in order to challenge the past’s power structures and create something new and for the sake of the future students of American colleges and

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Students have many necessary payments to make. Examples include financial aid, rent, groceries, books, tuition, etc. Some of the pay periods can also weirdly line up. For example, one pay period is a week after winter break. The paycheck would be sent out closer to four weeks into the semester. This makes it hard for students to

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According to Freire, “implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is living merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is a spectator, not re-creator” ( Freire, page 3). Paulo Freire describes the issue with ‘banking teaching’ when the professor knows everything and is teaching their knowledge. The issue is that the students feel they are less than the professor and are to follow society's rules.

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Overall change and the lack of it can both be good and bad. This is due to a multitude of reasons from bad outside influences such as school rules, to personal experiences. And these changes can be minor things, to major things such as the teaching system which affects all of the younger generations which can cause devastating effects on the future

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The maintenance and housekeeping staff are a pivotal role on this campus as they are essential staff who ensure the students are living in safe and clean residence halls. These staff members are overwhelmed with tasks due to the deteriorating conditions of these buildings. The first-year students at Case Western Reserve University are making one of the biggest and most important transitions of their life

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self-responsibility discussed by AdrienneRich, where individuals are advised to refuse letting outside opinions impact the way they think,speak and act. In this scenario, our country acts as the “individual” that cares too much aboutexternal events that overshadow internal difficulties.

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s Kelvin Smith Library is dedicated to serving its students, in 2015, three teams of students made proposals to redesign the library as part of a competition (“A space for students”). The first-place winners surveyed 119 students and found that students wanted more access to whiteboards and ergonomic chairs (“A space for students”). Arnold Hirshon, university librarian stated, “It’s remarkable that from the first day of classes—before the first day of classes—this building is already highly, highly occupied every hour” (“A space for students”). Hirshon also recalled that five years ago [2010], KSL was underused (“A space for students”)

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  Modern problems require modern solutions, and nothing else reveals that fact than in the post-digital age, where many consider the old solutions wasteful and unnecessary. Post-1998 pretty much all media began adapting to the new information superhighway that is the world wide web, which is able to bring more content to more people at an even lower entry cost.

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Unfortunately as technology is becoming a larger and larger portion of our lives, and as social media drains away at people’s attention spans, Case Western Reserve has attempted to fill the gap with their own digital media. What it has failed to realize is that in the digital age, things become far more dependent on the person going out and pursuing the content rather than just running into it on a day to day basis.

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We require a certain amount of funding for event participations within the campus, and for participating in competitions, including travel expenses. We need support, both in substance and kind, to further our interests, to encourage more students to practice this art form, and to bring glories to the university by winning awards in various national level competitions. 

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“If you look at notes from food service comities for ten years, you will find that the people and food services change, but many of the complaints remain the same”(P. Kilpatrick). 

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