Courtney Craig October 25th 2009 SLS Reid M/T/W 8:00 My Community College Experience So far my community college experience has been the best I’ve ever had. I have enjoyed the freedom‚ my coursework‚ and all the new friends I’ve made. When I first started college‚ I wasn’t excited at all. I just knew that the work wasn’t going to be as difficult as a university and I basically saw the whole idea as a joke. After just a couple of short months at Florida State College of Jacksonville‚ I
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Freak. Fag. Lesbo. Queer. Tranny. Eath insult is more hateful than the last. Every since I began to present and identify as male and experiment with my gender expression‚ I have experience a wide variety of reactions. Some could be simply be chalked up as not understanding or a result of close mindedness. But many reactions have a specific reason behind them. Transphobia. Transphobia is when someone treats a transgender person negatively because of their gender identity and/or expression. It can
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My tutoring session came at the near the end of my writing process‚ but it could be helpful at any point. In particular‚ I was in the Editing stage‚ as presented by James D. Williams in Preparing to Teach Writing. The other stages are Invention‚ Planning‚ Drafting or scribing
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My Experience as a Kiva Fellow Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva combines the poverty alleviating power of microfinance with the mass participation of the internet. It lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Since 2005‚ nearly 570‚000 people have used Kiva.org to fund +$200M in microloans through MFIs to more than 526‚000 working poor entrepreneurs around the world. Source: Kiva
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My Experiences with Living in the United States I was born and raised here in the United States. Therefore‚ I have been part of a generation that has experienced both the good and the bad. When I was younger‚ I always thought America was the greatest country in the world. I was so proud to be born and raised in the United States. I remember learning about 9/11 every year‚ watching Barack Obama become our first African-American President‚ and learning about the many tragedies our nation has faced
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My experience of Problem Posing Paulo Freire demonstrates two types of educational concepts in “The Banking Concept of Education”‚ which are banking concept and problem posing. My personal experience with education illustrates Freire’s “problem posing” concept mostly. The reason might be I went to high school in the U.S and most of the American teachers from high school are relaxed when they teach‚ because the education system is not that serious as in China. In my point of view‚ problem posing
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My First Military Experience The date was September 23rd 2003. I was leaving my home for the first time; I had been dreading the unknown of entering basic military training for months. I knew difficult challenges would lie ahead‚ but little did I know what changes were about to become of me in my first military experience. The trainees were stuffed into the bus like sardines; I was shoved to the very back on the floor by exit sign. The smell of fear and the odor of a gym locker room filled the
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I have tried improving it through many different methods‚ but to no avail. Looking back‚ there are many factors then led me to how I feel about writing today. However‚ one of the crucial factor would be that my country‚ Malaysia‚ has many different races‚ each with their own languages. Being raised in a multiracial country‚ I was required to learn three different languages to communicate well‚ namely Malay‚ Chinese‚ and English. In Malaysia‚ there is a notable distinction between each race which
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My experiences of playing a sport Two years ago‚ I went to visit my relatives in Nha Trang and I tried playing scuba-diving. It was my wonderful experiences. First day‚ my cousin – a diving instructor of VietNam Dive Center (VinaDive) – invited me to take part in a scuba-diving tour. I thought it was a great idea and I was very interested. This was a chance of overcoming my fear of water. Next day‚ my cousin taught me about dive equipment‚ how to breathe and move underwater‚ basic skills and safe
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My memorable experience It was the summer of 2017‚ where I was in the plane travelling to Israel for two weeks with my boyfriend at the time. It was going to be a tough tournament as I was competing against women who have any age‚ when I was only sixteen. My goal of the tournament was to achieve a world ranking. I had to start from qualification‚ which I succeeded in by beating three girls. The final round to make the main draw of the tournament‚ I was up against a local Israeli girl‚ in which there
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