generations. As the years went by and I was able to really have conversations with my parents regarding race‚ I realized there was so much I wish they had share with me and my siblings. The best way to facilitate the learning and support of those who have experience racism is being open to communicating about difficult issues regarding
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My experience in teaching has mainly been in the role of teaching assistant for various courses at McGill University. I believe that academic teaching and mentoring is a challenging endeavor. To be effective as a teacher and as an advisor‚ I will encourage the following skills that I have learned and applied at McGill as a teaching assistant. During my senior graduate years‚ I took a leadership role in the Expert Systems in Electrical Design (ECSE 549) course‚ which included the opportunity to
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My experience with failure came with athletics. For my whole life I have always been involved in sports like soccer‚ tennis‚ basketball. When I was in the fourth grade I joined a swim team and that was the first and really only sport that I stuck with; swimming came naturally to me‚ and it was something that I could do year round and I loved every minute of it. However‚ once I was in high school I stopped swimming and joined my high school’s cross country team. My dad was a runner all throughout
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At my age‚ few people can genuinely claim that they have had a life-changing experience. And after a morning jog one Saturday morning‚ I became one of these fortunate people. Spending countless weekends in the park down near my house‚ I’ve always enjoyed jogging around the river the most. It’s probably because the river runs through the edge of the park‚ where the old trees act like guards‚ muffling the sounds of the city around them. Or is it because of the woman? The one who always sits at the
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People always say that in a near death experience‚ your life always flashes before your eyes. I waited for that moment to happen‚ but all I saw was the series of decisions that led me to the situation I was in. I remember this morning clearly‚ the day I had been waiting for‚ When I received my SAT scores. I had never been a super bad student‚ just never really a good one‚ grades have never been important to me‚ it was always about friends. The spots for athlete and genius in my seemingly perfect
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I am thankful for my opportunity to work with Ralph over this past semester and the amount of information I have gained from this experience is substantial. Ralph is a fourth grade students who enjoys school and his teachers‚ when I first met with ralph I thought he was going to be a shy‚ timid student. I was pleasantly surprised by how much he would warmed up throughout our first session. My biggest take away from our first session was that Ralph defiantly does not enjoy reading‚ he would much
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It’s always a lesson well taught when you learn on your own. Doing something new is always a great experience especially when it came to me. Being that it was my first year at Strafford High School I decided to play basketball and I remember it like it was yesterday. It wasn’t my first time playing basketball but my first time playing on a team. When basketball season came along‚ I decided to get in shape and get fit playing a sport. Although I was chunky I did well. I tried out for freshman girls’
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I started learning the basics skills and rules of the game. I started playing Belle-Clair when I was four or five years old‚ after I saw my sister playing‚ I wanted to get started as quickly as possible. I played with girls that I went to school with. Every practice and game was so entertaining. Being able to play with my friends outside of schools and getting snacks after every game was the best part. Just being able to have fun as a kid was enjoyable as well. After a little while being on Belle-Clair
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People from all over the world have seen poverty in their life. Poverty means lack in the position of money in the individual or the society which prevents them to have the basic needs of living like food‚ water‚ and shelter. Every country in the world has a percentage of poverty that shows how the country’s economy is affecting the people’s life. For example‚ my home country Yemen‚ has a high percentage of poverty that reaches 85% of the population. I have seen poverty in my neighborhood in daily
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Imagine sitting in a class‚ surrounded by all of your fellow first grade friends‚ al sitting quietly at our desks enjoying some reading time. As you begin to look around the room at all of your friends and notice that they are already a few pages into their chapter books‚ when you look down and are still struggling to finish the first page. You begin to panic because you are so far behind everyone else in the class and for some reason you cannot understand what a few of the words are on that page
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