Overall, this text was about the understanding of connections with society and other life forms. Armstrong explains how humans interact with an environment, telling how we interact with our physical self, emotional self, intellectual self, and the spiritual self. She also enclosed the fact that a person or thing is born into a community and that you are automatically part of something bigger than yourself. Another detail she expresses is that land has language and evolution has taught her people that lifeforms can adapt and change to events happening to a specific area. Emotional ties and spiritual awareness were also key points to the text and they were explained thoroughly to the reader that everything is intertwined together to make up the world we live in.

Armstrong, Jeanette. “Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community,” in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club Books.

This article was mainly about the evolution of the “Native American” name or persona in today’s society. It explains the cases of indigenous peoples living in a society that is accustomed to white culture, which is an identity crisis for anyone who is indigenous. There has been a significant cultural shift since the 1950s and the only way to make a living is by working with white people and against white privilege. Colonization is one of the main benefactors to this and this is why oppression has caused a culture shock for many of the tribes in America.

Horse, Perry G. “ Native American Identity,” in Serving Native American Students. 2005.

This article's main purpose was to look into the lives of students in higher institutionalized academic areas.The focus was based upon the stress, anxiety, and pressure levels that students face in different academic environments. The students personal characteristics and achievement goals were studied and analyzed to get an accurate representation of how competitiveness can cause things like stress and anxiety. This article concluded that more and more students are prone to failure because they are afraid to try because they think they will fail their goals.

Giel, Lissene I.S. “Fear of Failure: a Polynomial Regression Analysis of the Joint Impact of the Perceived Learning Environment and Personal Achievement Goal Orientation.” Taylor & Francis, 24 Nov. 2019.

This article was mainly about the educational system failing students who are POC (people of color) and minority students because they do not have access to the same institutionalized opportunities as white or higher income students who pay for a private education. The focus emphasized on the fact that POC are less likely to pursue opportunities in a higher level of education because they have to jump through obstacles in high school in order to be at the same level of education as other students.

Guillcatanda, Ana. “Our Educational System Is Setting Up Students Of Color For Failure.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 5 May 2017.

This article was about the effects the education system had on Native American/Alaskan Natives and how one program increased rates of more Native students in certain occupational fields. Students were given the opportunity to attend a local college that offered classes in health career fields that could be pursued in just 4 years or more. This lead to more job openings for the people within the community/reservation. It also gave a chance for locals to work with locals so they would feel comfortable with each other.

Campbell, Anne. E. (2007). Retaining American Indian/Alaskan Native Students in Higher Education: A Case Study of One Partnership between the Tohono O’odham Nation and Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ. Journal of American Indian Education, 46(2), pp. 9-41.

In this article you will find the values in teaching career education before the government repealed this act in 1981 as a result of a budget cut. Many students seemed to be flourishing in this type of program with the upcoming job opportunities the leading new technology had to offer. This was a type of education reform that took over the classroom in the seventies, it made life easier for the high school students because they knew what to expect in adulthood because they were being taught what career developments were going to be offered. This tempted the students to be engaged more than ever in a school environment. This implemented skills and productiveness back into the classroom as well as student leadership into their own lives.

Hoyt, Kenneth B. “Career Education and Education Reform: Time for a Rebirth.” Phi Delta Kappan, Sage Publications, Inc., Dec. 2001.

This article was a look at the pressure the Singapore education system is putting it’s students through. Many students found themselves overwhelmed and stressed at the age of fifteen when they had to take the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), that runs the PISA test measured 2019’s class overall mental status and opinions and 78% of them agreed that “When I am failing, this makes me doubt my plans for the future”, and 72% of the Singapore students said they are afraid of failing because of the harsh judgements that is to come with failure.

Ting, Wong Pei. “3 in 4 Singapore students fear failure, higher than the global average: OECD study.” TodayOnline.Com, Dec. 2019.

This article was about the effects female students in the UK were archiving from competing to be at the top of their class. Many of the females began to feel anxiety and depression because they were not used to the fact of learning from failure, instead they avoided failure by putting pressure on themselves. Research discussed in the article from other countries like Australia and Norway gave insight into new approaches that revealed why other educational institutions should implement failure reaching to success methods. The studies showed how students felt inner acceptance when they saw that failure is a learning tool.

Izzard, Sophie. “Fear of Failure in Students.” Smarten Blog UK, March 2020.