Kristin Huizinga a mother, a wife, a legend, is a parapro who works at La Conner High School. She grew up in La Conner and graduated at La Conner high school in 1997. She went to college at Western Washington University and she has been working with the Swinomish tribe as a parapro for five years. I’ve known her for a little over two years now and she was in all my english and history classes my sophomore and junior year of high school.
I know that she was hesitant about doing the interview since she said she “doesn’t follow politics”. After her telling me she didn’t want to do the interview, I wanted her to do it even more because I thought it was interesting for a person who is a parapro in World History and U.S. History to not be interested
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Her saying that her family votes on which movie they watch, lets me see how democratic she is because even though she’s the mom and she can do whatever she wants because she’s the boss, she let the majority vote win the movie choice. Secondly, I asked her about Donald Trump being our president and if she thinks our democracy is at stake with him in office, I’ve never heard her opinion on our controversial president so I thought I should take advantage of this moment and ask her. Which she answered with, “Him as our president can make it better because people will want to revolt and we can get mad enough to make a change.” I never thought about it this way and I love how optimistic she was with this question. Whereas I saw him as the worst decision ever made, she saw it as an opportunity for change. I ended the interview with asking her if the American democracy has changed since she was younger. She said it seems a lot faster with the internet/ social media and there are a lot more opinions. I knew she was going to bring up social media considering the fact that social media has taken over society since she was
Shoemaker, Nancy. “ Native-American Women in History.” OAH Magazine of History , Vol. 9, No. 4, Native Americans (Summer, 1995), pp. 10-14. 17 Nov. 2013
Although primarily known as a poet, Harjo conceives of herself as a visual artist. She left Oklahoma at age 16 to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, originally studying painting. After attending a reading by poet Simon Ortiz, she changed her major to poetry. At 17, she returned to Oklahoma to give birth to her son, Phil Dayn, walking four blocks while in labor to the Indian hospital in Talequah. Her daughter, Rainy Dawn, was born four years later in Albuquerque. For years, Harjo supported herself and her children with a variety of jobs: waitress, service-station attendant, hospital janitor, nurse’s assistant, dance teacher. She then went on to earn a B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico in 1976 and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa’s famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 1978. She then went on to an impressive list of teaching positions beginning with the Institute of American Indian Arts and ending with her current position with the American Indian Studies Program at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Since her story was the most inspirational I would probably choose to meet with her, if given the opportunity. I would love to ask her questions that had to do with mindsets such as how she coped when she was diagnosed. How her and her husband get through the difficult times, and how he copes with things. I would even ask her what her biggest fear is, since in the essay she mentions how death is not one for her. The questions I would really like an answer for is how she deals with her depression, when she gets depressed. I would ask these things because I have a lot of trouble coping with things. I have been diagnosed with major depression and anxiety. I have no heath disability except for mentally. It would be inspirational to know how she deals with her depression, because if she can do it, then I know I could
To summarize this analysis, Hillary Clinton shows us how as we unite, the stronger our bond is. She uses clever ways to show this action. Though she did not win this presidential election, she is still loved by many. She helped herself because of the way she wrote and persuaded people to join her. Using rhetorical appeals
Her slow yet concise way of speaking, coupled with easy to follow transitions allowed for a speech that was enjoyable to listen to. Her use of examples from her personal life allowed her audience to get a picture of who she was if they did not know, and allowed her to better relate to them by provided examples of how she is related to the college they are graduating from. Her reference to many modern political problems allowed her to bring up her important role as an activist and facilitated further understanding from the audience. While some areas of her speech were weak, such as the longer than needed pauses and her lack of consistent eye contact, to a few points where she didn’t speak clearly enough, the overall picture that was her speech was fairly strong. Looking at this speech, I hope to incorporate some aspects that I failed to include in my previous speeches. Some of these include her use of hand gestures to emphasize and exaggerate certain phrases and topics, and her combined use of appeals. While my initial thoughts going in were “This is boring” and “This is too slow”, it evolved into me wanting to hear more, and overall my defeat in the beginning turned into a victory at the
One moment in the discussion in which my opinions were challenged was when Karin was describing how the ideas that American's have been holding have been changing since the day they first arrived. I then asked her: "So do you think then that this American revolution has being going on since people first settled here?" to which she responded, "Yes." While I definitely defined the American Revolution as a revolution, I never had thought that it had been going on for that long, but after she said that I could not have agreed more. Since their first steps in the new land, Americans have been changing their ideals of what a nation should be like socially, economically, and even politically. Their beliefs as to what it means to be a human have changed
Then, when asking her the questions I had gotten words like; let me think, or I do not recall, and wait I can’t remember. All in part of being older citizen or her memory just wasn’t on cue at the point in time; which I did take into consideration prior to interviewing her that she may be a little slower at answering the questions that were asked due to memory loss or just forgetting.
The goal of Hillary’s speech is to persuade her audience that her ideas are valid, by using ethos, pathos, and logos. Hillary is the First Lady and Senator, she shows credibility as an influential activist for woman rights. “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my country and around the world” (Clinton 2).
For that, I interviewed my boss, Karen. I see her almost every work day but there were still many things I wanted to ask her about. I knew that she had been married to a man before she met her wife, and that she still had his last name even after separating and remarrying. I also knew that her father was a Methodist minister and performed her marriage ceremony back when he could’ve gotten in a lot of hot water for doing so. I knew that she was adopted, too. But the rest of her life, the in-between moments, were still a mystery to me. So, I really enjoyed that interview. As you can tell from the transcription, we laughed a lot and got along well. I think she felt comfortable and she told me later that she had enjoyed talking with me. I also came more prepared and with more questions. It was hard to do my initial research on my student interviewee because there wasn’t a lot of prior information that I could find about her. With Karen, I not only had my own prior information, but she is also easily found on the internet. A lot of that has to do with her age and the businesses she has been involved
In yet another blatant display of bias from the liberal media, I share the interview questions from Thursday with U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill on Morning Joe.
When the class was first given this assignment, I was very confused on why it was given or how this would help any. After giving my interview, to mother, I found out that some of our views are the same while others are extremely different. This interview made me appreciate where I come from and how I got to where I am today.
Many americans have differing variations of political views and affiliations. My interview consisted of two separate people of two varying generations. My grandma, (60’s) Baby Boomer Generation, and my sister, (29) Millennial Generation, were both interviewed to see the varying opinions, if any, that existed.
Though, that has not stopped her from being involved in agriculture. Not only does she serve as a 4-H leader, she also is a sheep farmer, where she is responsible for the rise in the sheep population here in Volusia County, where she raises them for sale and her 4-H youth to show. She is also responsible for numerous 4-H clubs here as well, as two of her former members and several parents of others now serve as leaders. Additionally, she serves in other leadership roles in 4-H and in the community within agriculture, all detailed on the vitae I have provided within this
My interview with Beverly Smith really helped me to stay open to the many possibilities life holds for me. It helped me to realize that I should follow my passions in order to be happy and how much the decisions I make now affect my future. I hope that someday I can achieve at least half as much as she has in her life. I admire her independence, charisma, and perseverance.
Clinton opened her speech by acknowledging Donald Trump as the president-elect of the United States of America. “Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans.” These lines are crucial as they establish her character as a righteous candidate who respects democracy. Later on, she added: