Kat's English Blog

Society's views on women have been very harsh for the longest period of time and unfortunately the stereotypical expectations to women applies up to this day. Women now are still expected to be stay at home moms and take care of their children, do homework with them and raise them. They are also expected to be good house wives and do everything to satisfy their husbands, constantly clean and cook for the family to be well fed and happy. From the very beginning of their lives girls are taught to be loving, caring, tender, nice, sweet, etc. Of course, they are bought little dolls to play with and toy kitchen sets, by doing so the parents are already teaching the young girls this stereotype and showing them that this is right and that this is something they absolutely have to be doing. They're taught that there's no other way, a girl shouldn't want to play with cars or be interested in sports, they should wear cute pink dresses and always look presentable when out in publi...

In my opinion education has changed and definitely improved for the better over the years. Even though the educational board has kept the school system pretty much the same there have been major improvements in the educational program itself. The students used to be taught in small classrooms with teachers who would come to their classrooms and teach them a subject regardless if they needed to learn about it or not . There really wasn't much of a choice when it came to these matters and the students weren't able to choose the classes they wanted, but instead they had to be taught all of the mandatory classes to "succeed" in life. Over the years that has changed and now the students are able to choose the classes they're passionate about and actually want to learn more about, yes there are still required classes, but there is also a lot of freedom for the children with their education and their will to participate and want to take the classes. The schools have defi...

Schools is a place where a kid should feel safe and comfortable in, it should be a welcoming environment for everyone and a stress-free "zone". Instead schools, at least nowadays, have been a major factor of stress and anxiety for many students to the extent that many of them dread coming to school solely based on that purpose, in an idealistic school I believe that there should be a less strict approach to students and more of a comfortable and warming setting. The food in schools also should have a little more flavor added to them due to the very stale and bad taste that causes many to even throw away their lunch and are left hungry for the rest of the day. The grades shouldn't be the only factor that affects a students so called "knowledge". There needs to be more of a variety of what classes a student can take and there shouldn't be a set requirement due to different interest people have. There should be a better curriculum in meaning that a students isn...

Reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" could be hard for some people based on the way that they interpret certain things and their point of view on the story. Some people often get offended reading that book and want to report it for "inappropriate" language and context. Many tend to confuse those terms with offensive language rather than realizing that the book is written in a realism style, which is a form of a very realistic and blunt writing exactly portraying the circumstance of life when the book was written. A lot of people tend to "attack" Twain and accuse him of offending African Americans back then by using the terms "slave" and "nigger", Twain, however; had no intentions of offending any race, he simply wanted to write a story about how the people were treated back then, even if that meant including strong language and content that could be uncomfortable for most people. Realism can be a very tricky writing style for th...