Malcolm X, Franklin and Rose...My Favorite

These three essays were very different from one another. I didn't enjoy Benjamin Franklin's essay mainly because the it was very hard to understand. I enjoyed both Malcolm X's and Rose's essays, but I think my favorite was Rose's. I liked that it wasn't just a timeline of how he learned to do something, instead, it examined how Voc. Ed. effected him and the other students that were in it. Rose talked about how in order to overcome the negative labels that are put on the students in Voc. Ed., some of them just embrace the labels. They accept the fact that nobody expects them to do anything worth while and they should just be happy doing the jobs that designated for the less-educated people in society. He also mentions that some students have other ways of coping with the labels like, "If you're a kid like Ted Richard, you turn your back on all this and let your mind roam where it may." Rose's essay was a great reminder of some of the negative effects that some programs have that are supposed to help young people, not hinder them.