Ashton Foster Informal Writing Assignment #1 afoster03@bellarmine.edu September 10‚ 2012 How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚ by Zora Hurston In the article How It feels to Be Colored Me‚ Zora Hurston describes her experiences being colored. She lived in a prominently colored town in Florida up until she was thirteen and she lived a great life. Everyone knew her; she was “their” Zora. Then‚ her mother passed away and Hurston was shipped off to boarding school. This‚ she said was the first time
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1. What makes a good parent according to Dr. Tanya Byron? According to Dr. Tanya Byron‚ a good parent is a person that doesn’t worry too much about being the perfect parent. The best kind of parenting comes from the heart according to Dr. Byron. It shouldn’t be done mechanically because that’s when the problems start. 2. What are some of the common problems that children might have? Some of the common problems that children might have varies among age group. For example younger children‚ some common
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American society and a hot-discussed topic in modern literature. What we are doing today is to show you the racial relationship between the Whites and Blacks reflected from three famous black authors’ works we’ve learned this semester: < Selection from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave> by Frederick Douglass‚ <The Negro Speaks of Rivers> by Langston Hughes‚ and <How It Feels to Be Colored Me> by Zora Neal Hurston. Then we will carry on a comparison between
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Robert Waldihger’s "What makes a good life?" TED talk discusses the everyday question people ask‚ what brings happiness to life? Waldinger begins by mentioning a Harvard study that has been in progress for over 75 years. They study the lives of different groups of men and try to find the "key" to their happiness. They document every single detail from their medical records to what a simple 24hour day consists of for them. He wanted his audience to question themselves and to give them an "answer"
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What makes a good teacher? First of all‚ a good teacher must know the necessary knowledge to teach his subject. A good teacher should have a sense of humor. It´s is important for a good teacher to be good at communicator. A good teacher can be defined as someone who always pushes students to want to do their best while at the same time trying to make learning interesting as well as creative. Teachers have the responsibility to educate and fill students with knowledge the best way. A good teacher
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD BOSS? No one feels to have trouble listing characteristics of bad boss‚ but what makes a good boss‚ as it is a boss who is the face of an organization. In today’s competitive environment‚ a growing number of companies are coming to realize that a good boss is the one who can identify and build on talents of the staff. And he or she knows to retain top performing employee in face of heavy competition for skills and experience in a tight job market. Skills in communication and
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“How it Feels to Be Colored Me” is an inciteful look at the sense of self that Zora Hurston feels. Hurstons experiences can be explained by Allport’s in-group theory. Due to the nature of the times that Hurston lived in‚ people normally kept within their own race group. Most neighborhoods at the time were either predominantly black or white. Hurston seems to not be bothered by this but rather‚ is astonished by the fact that people allow this to happen. She goes on to say “Sometimes‚ I feel discriminated
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When listening to covers of songs on instruments you don’t want to hear a instrumentalist play a song really bad‚ you rather listen to a good instrumentalist. Which is why being able to pick out the nitty gritty imperfections. Solo and Ensemble is a mere 2 weeks away‚ and practicing the correct skills to fix and critique songs seems appropriate. I listened to two young men playing the same song‚ “Carl Stamitz Clarinet Concerto NO. 3 - 1. Mov.”‚ both are high school students yet both played the song
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In the essay‚ How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚ Hurston reference to “the Great Stuffer of Bags” is not meant to be a serious engagement with religion but it can be taken as an engagement to religion. In addition‚ it can also be taken metaphorically which can taken that every bag has a different color but everything that’s in a bag has the same thing as what the other ones have. Furthermore‚ the conception of race has been tied to larger system of belief such as religion. This can be shown because there
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What Makes a Good Foreign Language Teacher? Most of us have had at least one really great teacher and one really bad one. We know what we like in a teacher and judge them based on that. I have had teachers over the years whom others did not like. There were also other teachers I thought did a horrible job but other students thought were the best they ever had. Opinions differ. Most of what people perceive as a good or bad teacher is usually based on things like personalities and preferred
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