2006 I felt really disappointed when I accepted the fact that I wasn’t going anywhere outside my country after finishing High School. I had tried my best to score well on my SAT and on my grades‚ along with several extracurricular activities to build up a personal profile that would be good enough to enter an American University. But things did not work out back then. My family was struck by an inconvenient event‚ and I was forced to make a last minute decision to stay. I felt devastated. I did not
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learning more about American Literature this term was very informal. It helped me better recognize the significance of life history despite who a person is or where they came from. This course caused me to evaluate my past life lectures and practices. In every story or short story we were assigned to read there was a part I could relate to‚ or something significant that reminded me of a previous event I experienced throughout my life. I connected to the stories from similar earlier period experiences
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A Class Divided Reflection Diversity in Society Everyone is likely to experience some form of discrimination or prejudice; as is anyone capable of acting prejudiced towards others. On April 5th‚ 1968‚ a teacher in Riceville‚ Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an experiment with her third grade class that dealt with the concept of discrimination; and was documented in Peters’ 1985 ‘A Class Divided’. The exercise originally took place the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated. The documentary
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In “What I Learned in the Locker Room‚” Steve Almond discusses his own adventure within the male dominated world of sports and its unhealthy view of masculinity. Almond continues to discuss the fear of not being masculine enough in the male world. While Almond portrays masculine doubt as the main issue‚ he actually exposes the feminine subordination‚ male dominance‚ and the lack of humanity in contemporary culture. The paper begins with Almond talking about his internship with the sports department
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Dance Class Reflection Over the course of the semester‚ I have learned about different types of dances including hip hop‚ dance hall‚ and contemporary‚ Bhangra‚ street jazz‚ Latin‚ zumba and more. In the beginning‚ I believed that I danced well and dance was easy to do but once I figured out how much effort‚ practice‚ coordination‚ and preparation for a dance‚ I thought differently. Dance is all about expressing your emotions by using your body‚ having fun‚ gaining strength in my muscles and developing
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How did I learn to write? Well there are a few ways I learned‚ I first learned though my likeness of the color blue‚ my inability to write the letter z correctly‚ and through my love for reading Captain Underpants. Each of these ways impacted me in different ways and they all taught me something different about the type of writer I am. I began to write by first learning how to read. I remember when I was much younger I would be in class; the exact class escapes me at the moment. However‚ I remember
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practice in India. I have learned a lot about Hinduism by reading the story “The Bhagavad Gita” translation by Shri Purohit Swami. A poem called “the Woodcarver” that I also read had to do with Hinduism also. I learned four things from reading “The Woodcarver” and “The Bhagavad Gita.” The three things I have learned were that people have to let go of things that are in the way of them learning new things‚ another thing I learned was that you can do anything if you aren’t ignorant‚ I learned was to achieve
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A reflection on Class and Gender from a traditional / ethnic background by: Gender: I grew up surrounded by powerful women: Three older sisters who decided what I would wear and which games we would play. A mother and two aunties‚ who held positions of power as teachers. My dad was a passive person and therefore was ruled by the women in our household. So at my young age‚ “Gender” was protection for my dad! My first exposure to gender outside of my household was in the media‚ with the feminist
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CSI Class Reflection To begin‚ I just want to say that the overall idea of this class is just ridiculous. The fact that no other school in the entire county requires a class like this on top of the amount of stress that it puts students through is just deplorable. Not to mention that students who have other commitments besides school‚ such as a job‚ or even in my case college‚ have a hard time even finding the time to work on their project outside of school. Secondly‚ this class is just a hodge
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having the lawyer inform me that I would be released and that the case would be dismissed after seeing the mental specialist and being considered normal to now facing 6 months. One feels powerless at this time I mean if I had truly committed a crime and was originally informed that I was going to be sentenced to 6 months in jail then I would had already have known that I was committing a true crime and would have expected to possibly face that much time. Eventually this lead or resulted in some sort
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