Professor Sabir's Posse

Ewa Dobrzynska
English 201
March 12, 2008

In the essay “Maisha Moses, daughter of Bob Moses” I read a lot about her father. Maisha is thirty-two and she sounds uncannily like her father. Maisha worked with her father on the Algebra Project.
“[Robert Moses] has taken a busload of Algebra Project students to the civil rights museum. I immediately understood why people gravitate to him. A part of it is his humanity. When his class sits down to listen to speakers, Moses doesn’t sit in the front desk.”(page 41).
He always was present and he listened to people when they were talk to him. He treated everyone with the same respect and dignity. He was always calm and never gets frustrated. Moses was different from Martin Luther King. He never could accept the fact that people were going to die. The fact that some people died ate to him a lot. He felt guilty for those who get killed trying to register black votes in Mississippi.
In 1967 Moses decided to live to make family in Tanzania. In his opinion “it would have been hard to stay and do family.” He felt very bad when he was living, but he wanted all the best for his family. It was his responsibility to give protection to his family. “Tanzania helped recover [Moses] from the movement”. Moses was always very present person in everything. He was a leader in civil right movement and he was made very important role in his family.

In my opinion Robert Moses was a great person and he did what he had to do. There are so many choices in our lives that we have to make. Bob Moses had priority of his family and he absolutely should feel guilty for anything he did in his life because I, am a human being, would do exactly the same thing.
 

Chesi Brown
Englishe 201B
Maisha Moses



Maisha Moses is not a casualties of war. She witnesses know pain or distance from her father's past.

When Bob Moses move to tarzana because of a "brake Down". He left to enjoy life and make a difference in self not just the civil rights movement, and make a family. A family far away from the pain that begain to stress him out. he begain to focuse mainly on his family and their academic education. This was more important to him at the time.

When Maisha was ask about her fathers past, she explains " she more impressed by her father's as a parent then as an activist."

When becomming a father it is best to be apart of your childrens life academically and physically. this is the ideal structure way. Maisha suffer in know possible. There is know abscent in her life from. The are extremely close and well bonded. Her relationship seem to be very positive and happy. I see that their is know casuaties of war in her life
 

Chesi Brown
English 201B
Instructor Ms. Sabir
March 12, 2008



Marsha Moses


Maisha Moses is the daughter of Bob Moses. She is a college graduate from Harvard University. Who enjoy swimming, meditated, and yoga? In this chapter I observed her connection with her father. It seems that their unsepretable.

Bob Moses is constantly ask about his past. How can a man go from a Civil Right Activist to an Algebra teacher, this is a question that seem to be the highly of ever topic,” is why”. Bob says that it had to do with family. Being apart of the civil right movement make it impossible to be a full time father.
In 1964 Bob like many other was a well known leader. Trying to help black register to vote, some call his courage a suicide, but bob felt this is what is heart told him to do. Trying to make change almost cost him his life and it did for others. With Bob wonderful leadership skill came devastation. While trying to make change, lives were being taking a Bob couldn’t handle it any more. Know one would ever accept that the murders were breaking Bob down. A friend name Herbert Lee was murdered and this was the last straw for Bob. He skip town a went to Tanzania for 7-years he and his wife and made a family.

Bob became a full time dad and raise some very intelligent kids. Mishia happens to be one of them. Maisha and Bob form an Algebric Project. This came about when Maisha was little girl Bob and his wife notice a lack of math education. He felt that the children in school at the time were being cheated out of higher academic advantages. Soon he prepare is on. A started this program, this is something that Maisha and bob enjoy their job very much. This some how remind them of the movement.

When ask about her father’s past, Maisha says she is very proud and inspired. His role in the movement she said she respect a lot, and she also explain that she respect her father decision to leave the movement to become a better father, and it made her and him mainly closer then ever. Unlike other daughter of the parent in the movement.

Maisha is now just like her father serious, smart, and calm. They still until this day tried to do thing that give back advantage to their community. Their Algebraic project is now requirement in every college. Once again Bob make history. Recently the Algebraic Project went to on the bus to the civil rights movement museum to take about their experiences in Algebraic

Been the daughter of Bob Moses is in opportunity and an experience of a life time and Mishia wouldn’t change for nothing in the world.

8:32 AM
 

Ewa, your language is too close to the published document. Did you complete an essay plan first? What is your thesis? What are the major points you want to explore in this short essay? What citations best support what you are trying to prove? I like what you said about Martin King, the comparison you make to Bob Moses. You can let this be your thesis. You could compare Martin Luther King III's relationship with his dad to that Maisha has with her father, which we would agree is alot closer. Even when he was alive, MLK III's father was too busy to have a close relationship with his children, which is not to say they didn't have quality time together.

Revise this essay and resubmit. Look at the Hacker references and do the exercises in each section.
 

Erik Del Nero
3/12/08
English 201 B
Maisha Moses

Bob Moses was a civil rights movement leader who loved breaking all the rules to get his point across. Due to the color of Bob Moses skin color anyone who dared to work beside him were beaten or killed. If you were black and lived in Mississippi and tried to vote people said you are walking into a suicide mission. By 1966 Bob was struggling from all the stress and caused him to have an emotional breakdown. After that he left the south and changed his name to Tanzania. This is the place where Bob Moses started his family.
Bob Moses returned to the states in 1976. In 1982 Bob and his daughter Maisha were the creators of algebra. By the end of 1982 more than 10,000 students were doing algebra in ten states. Moses was an export in mathematics. He was outraged when he heard that the school was not teaching algebra. He feels like if you don’t take algebra you will not have any success. “Kids are being told that algebra is not for them just like sharecroppers were told that voting was not for them”, Moses says. (pg. 39)
“He was obsessed with the burden of leadership and the trail of sacrifice behind him, that when people did what he told [them to do], some lost their lives. People thought he was a great lead else they would not have followed him. (pg. 43) I personal view Moses as a hero, because he did a lot for his community. He was very successful throughout his life. When Maisha was growing up she watching her father do all these great things and she never lost any respect for him.
In conclusion I think he lived his life the best way he knew how. I believe he has no regrets.
 

Raymond Cade
Ms. Sabir

This si a a story about Maisha Moses the daughter of Bob Moses who is a SNCC leader Maisha is thrity two , with a lot of intelligence. Casulties to me means like losing a loved one, or death. Maisha Moses by no means is a casualty of war. Maisha was not asked to do her fathers job, and pressure was never put on her to be a SNCC member.

Maisha says she never felt like she took backs to her father’s position. Maisha seems to understand what happened to her father and his passion for the movement, even thought she cant understand what realy happen. She respects everything that her father went through

I don’t think that anyone can be a casualty of war, or anything for that matter, unless you let it.
 

Sophia Andrews

Initial Planning Sheet

1. What is the subject of your paper?
Maisha Moses
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
To argue that no Maisha Moses was not a casulty of war.
3. What audience will you write for?
Those who may wish to argue against my opinion, that Maisha Moses was not a casulty of war.
4. What question do you want your paper to answer?
Was Maisha Moses a casulty of war?
5. What is the main writing stragety you think you will use?
I will be using argument


Maisha Moses grew up with more then enough attention from father , without ever being pressured, or asked to to take action with her father’s postion in the movement, Masiha willing accepted her fathe for his realation to the movement, and infact gained an incredible amount of knowledge from him. As a parent Maisha was amazed by him by far, rather then him being an activist.

Maisha luckily received the chance to have Bob Moese who was her father, as her father, and not the leader of SNCC, unlike most children whom had parents involved with the movement and received wounds passed on to them, and never getting the chance to see the parents, uncut, as their parents and not as an activist leader of some sort.

Many Movement veterans have never been able to find another cause
In there second half of life. And many have not been able to build close
Relationships wth their children. They lead lives that are adrift, barely
Connecting with anyine, or anything. Bob Moses broke that pattern. (COM,pg.39)
Maisha Moses was blessed to get to build not only a relationship with her father, but become partner with him in the Algebra Project.

Maisha was paid most attention to by her father which can only conclude in her not being a casualty of war. After all “ The project was inspired by Maisha” (pg 39) Bob Moses was so upset that his daughters school did not offer Algerbra that he brought it up with her teacher, and the next thing you know he was also teaching other student algebra, one thing led to another, and the algebra movement was inspire. If Bob Moses was so atached to his work as an activist during this time them the observation of algebra not being taught to his child, would not have been made, as well as acted on
Maisha got the chance to work, learn, amd grow with her father as his ways of being an activist as well as being an active parental figure in her life. “ I have so much love and respect for him as a person, not just for the work he’s done” (pg45) she was never intimitated by who he was to the people outside looking in and never really wondered wy either she just accepted it, she says : “ he’s always been very present in all our lives. Being a father was always most important thing to him” (pg 45)
 

Theresa Smith
March 18, 2008
English 201A

What is my purpose?
My purpose is to analyze this essay. Learn from my history and move on with the healthy information.
What do you want your essay to answer?
My essay will answer the question is Misha Moses a casualty of war?
What is the civil rights movement?
The civil rights movement is to stop desegregation from continuing to happen in the South.
What are the writing strategies cause and effects?
The strategies were to stop violence in south, because it was causing so many people their lives, families were lost because of the segregation. It affected Misha she was not able to build a relationship with her father as a result Misha joined the Algebra Project.

Misha Moses
Misha Moses is a casualty of war survivor. Because her father was trapped in the movement called the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee which kept him from raising her family and being apart of her life. “Many movement veterans have never been able to find another cause in the second half of life. And many have not been able to build close relatonship with their children. They lived lives that are adrift, rarely connecting with anyone or anything.” Misha Moses was affected by the movement she was not able to spend quality time with her father and it sadden Misha.
Misha Moses and her family moved to Tanzania because her father had a nervous breakdown, Bob Moses changed his name and moved to Tanzania to start his life all over. The move affected Misha she had to start all over by getting to know new friends getting used to a different environment and a new country. [39] That move may have been hard on Misha at a young age she had to adapt all over again which is hard to do for some people.
At times Misha Moses would be confused because she wanted to joke around with her father play fight with him crack jocks, watch television. Bob found it hard to smile and cracks jokes due to his past experience with life. He had to deal with a lot of brutality which he had to humble himself so that he could protect himself and his family. Bob never yelled spoke over a whisper he was a gentle smart young man never laughed or played games.
By Robert Moses
“He was obsessed with the burden of leadership and the trail of sacrifice behind him, that when people did what he told [them to do], some lost their lives. I think that ate at him a lot. I think that was part of his breakdown. He wasn’t like Martin Luther King, who was a tough minded general. Martin Luther King knew that there were going to be people who died. [43]

Bob Moses was a dedicated person and he loved his family dearly all Bob wanted to do was make a change for the future. Bob believed in unity among everybody, he did not want to be apart of the killing or the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee because it caused blacks their lives. Bob was not as strong as Martin Luther King who knew that there was more to come. As a result he left the movement to start another cause and it had no killing involved it was the Algebra Project and that is where he built his relationship with his daughter. And that is why Bob Moses is different.
 

Responce to Chesi Brown I wanted to comment on your paper and let you know that you made a lot of good point and you also left out a lot of good stuff. Can you give me more details because I know you have a good story to tell. Thankyou Therea Smith
March 18,2008
 

Eng 201 1-3pm

Maisha Moses is a daughter of Bob Moses who was SNCC leader during the early 1960s trying to register black voters in Mississippi:
In 1966 the tension caught up with Bob Moses. He suffered what some describe as an emotional breakdown. He left the South and abandoned his civil rights colleagues, changed his name, and fled to Tanzania in 1969. There he started a family. He didn’t return to the United States until 1976(38-39).
Bob Moses spent full seven years with his family in Tanzania. He was like house wife he cooked many of the meals and changed diapers for kids while his wife attended medical school. He was just a dad to his kids when his kids need him during they were young age not a civil rights leader. So my opinion is Maisha Moses is not a casualty of war. Also those seven years needed to Bob Moses. Because when three men died he had guilt feeling for responsibility. So he needed time to get over with it.

In 1982 “Algebra Project” created by Bob Moses with his daughter Maisha. Algebra is required for college. So this project’s main idea is to make student’s success on algebraic competence. Their slogan is that, ‘No algebra, no college, no success.’ This project was inspired by his daughter Maisha. When she was eighth grade, her school didn’t teach algebra so he asked her teacher to teach algebra to Maisha at her school. Maisha’s teacher asked to him to teach more students than his daughter. That incident made him to created “Algebra Project.”

Maisha Moses graduated Harvard University who loves swimming and yoga. She works at Lanier High School with her father. She said, “I just have so mach love and respect for him as a person, not just for the work he’s done. Being a father to us was always the most important thing to him”(45). She works with her dad like natural progression to her. Also Bob Moses, he wanted to be a father with responsibility to his family rather than civil right activist. Author said. “He was one of the few civil right leaders who could match Dr. King’s spiritual and intellectual depths”(42). But Bob Moses chose his family not civil right leader left his mystique behind his life.
 

Ammnah Babikir
Eng.201b

Maisha Moses

Maisha Moses, daughter of bob Moses, is a thirty-two ear old teacher. She graduated from Harvard University. She spent her time swimming, meditating, and yoga. In this chapter I learned about her new found relationship to her father. Her hunger to learn about her father brought them closer together and made them ultimately unseprable.