"You can 't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can 't hate Africa and not hate yourself."(Malcolm X) I did not hear this from Malcolm X himself, rather I heard it from my mother attempting to teach me how to love and cherish myself. I found myself looking for myself. When persevering towards salvation you can get lost and lose faith , when being ashamed of who you are you tend to work twice as hard to become great, and you will never understand why people treat you differently based off of how you look. The meaning of salvation is being saved from harm, ruin, or loss. I feel I could never have salvation. Evil finds a way to break through my door. I cannot keep my friends and family from dying, I cannot keep my grandmother …show more content…
As a nation, we fail to accept people for who they are. We actually seem comfortable with feeling that way towards our own people. While attending Putnam City North High School, I noticed an inevitable scene of discrimination. In my Childhood and Development course and "white" girls, iPhone went missing. When the teacher called the security guards down, the security guards began to harass only the "black" students. They did not harass the students who sat near her, but the students who were "black". I could figure if it was because the guard was racist or was it just protocol. I determined it was protocol because of a person who was racist. At the end of searching everyone 's bags and patting everyone down, we found out that the "white" male student that sat next to her took her phone. " You 're making people nervous. You don 't fit the profile of the neighborhood" says the officer that stopped Mr. Alexie. (Alexie 78) Mr. Alexie was just riding around the city of Seattle blowing off steam from an argument he had with his girlfriend. He was simply stopped and harassed because the color of his skin. He has no control of how he looks, but he still gets harassed by law-enforcement, and he did not commit a crime or even break a traffic law or rule. The students in the PC North High School classroom were not near the phone, they have no control over the color of their skin and should not be judged based off of their skin color. …show more content…
When losing your faith, God finds a way to bring you back to him. Society will make you feel ashamed of yourself, and it will make assumptions of your life based off of what they see. Society even judges you for what other people you may not even know do. Society can be tyrannical. But God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers. You would not be able to handle society without your faith, and you cannot find salvation without true equality for all
Over the past year I have grown as both a person and a writer. My writing has improved
Ever since I started talking this class, English 1301, with Dr. Piercy, I have been able to expand my writing and thinking skills. Not only was I able to make more better essays but I also learned important topics such as how education creates an impact in the world. In this essay I will be talking about three writings and how they are related to this course semester. The three writings are “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt, “Why I Write Bad” by Milo Beckman,and “Statement of Teaching Philosophy” by Stephen Booth. How are these 3 writings related to this semester’s course work?
Racial profiling in America, as evidenced by recent events, has reached a critical breaking point. No longer can an African American, male or female, walk into a store, school, or any public place without fear of being stereotyped as a person of suspicion. Society constantly portrays the African American
Over the course of this class I feel like I have become a much better writer. When I go back and look at some of my Journal entries and assignments that I did at the beginning of the semester, I can’t help but tense up at some of the things I wrote. Sometimes the things I was writing didn’t flow well, or I might have even have missed glaring grammar mistakes.
Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood as a kid sanctioned me to perpetually become aware that I was different from my neighbors. Through some social interactions with my friends in elementary schools, I quickly descried that my appearances, such as my hair, eyes, and nose was different from my peers. For instance, my hair was a lot darker than most of my peers’ hair and the texture of my hair was different from most of them. “Grow out your hair” were phrases that lingered throughout my childhood days, where I had my hair at a very short length. Throughout my childhood, I longed to try to be a part of the dominant group in society such as the Caucasians, but I did not do anything to be a part of the bigger group in society. Instead,
As a second language learner I have never expected myself to be a perfect writer throughout the semester. Even If English was my first language still, I would not be a perfect writer. It is not about first or second language, it is about how well I understand the learning objectives. Then organizing and writing with my own ideas and putting them in my paper. I am going to be honest, I am not good at English subject and English subject is my strongest weakness than the other subjects. In this paper I will discuss and analyze my own writing, reflecting on the ways that my writing has improved throughout the semester.
In 1998, Judith Rich Harris became famous since she made a point on the cause of children’s behavior, that “in some key sense, parents don’t much matter—that what’s important is not what children learn inside home but what they learn outside the home (peer influence)” (Malcolm Gladwell, 1998). This point does make sense, because children always have a need to “fit-in”, to have friendships and to gain a sense of belonging from their peer groups. Apparently, learning from their peers can make the process much easier, since people who have common hobbies and share similar values tend to stay together, and that’s usually how a peer group is formed. Considering the generation gap between parents and children, copying the behaviors and thoughts of parents can do no benefit to fulfill the need of peer relationships.
When I scheduled the class Persuasive Communications, I had no particular interest in the subject matter; I just needed to finish the general education requirement for a second writing course. It fit my schedule and sounded reasonably interesting, but I did not think I would gain much from it. It was a general education class after all, and would not be very high on my priority list. Now that the semester is almost over and the class work is complete (albeit after this paper), I feel as if I gained a lot from this class. The class’s main objective was to expand our skills as writers, but it served in teaching us many other things that hold value in our education and future careers.
In the beginning of my junior year of high school, one of my close friends told me she was getting confirmed at church next Sunday, completely clueless I only nodded in agreement and said that was great! When we arrived home I asked my mom what confirmation was, and she explained to me that it was the next step, or Sacrament, in a Catholic’s life where you confirm the relationship you have and want with God.
This semester, I worked for an attorney office and saw exactly how the House Bill 274 affected the law firm. I worked for a personal injury law firm which was called the Law Office of Branch & Dhillon. I worked for Attorney Dhillon, Attorney Woron and Attorney Barber. My to go person, a really helpful supervisor and paralegal, was a lovely lady named Judy. Judy let me explore all aspects to working at the law firm and even let me have my own office, key to the firm, and my own special “attorney” coffee jug- all which made me feel like I belonged there.
In his book, Learning and Behavior, Paul Chance and Mark A. Krause (2008) states that positive reinforcement, according with Skinner, occur whether the emergence of or the increment in the intensity of a stimulus, follow a behavior. This stimulus is known as positive reinforce and its main function is strengthen the behavior that come before it. Positive reinforcement is also known as rewarding learning because reinforces often tend to be rewards, but Skinner did not like this way to called it. Skinner argued that even though people are rewarded through this process, it is important to keep in mind that the behavior is reinforced. So, when we called it rewarding learning, it makes more emphasize in the reward instead of the behavior which is strengthened. In positive reinforcement not everything that we considered as reward are so, as something which are considered as aversion, are reward. In the same line, Pierce and his colleague (2004) states that although positive reinforcement often include consequence such as food, praise and money, it cannot be considered as reinforces until...
Essay #3 1) I come from a Muslim family. To ensure a greater understanding of my religion, my parents enrolled me in a private religious elementary and middle school. When people talk about what period of school they learned the most from, some may say high school, others might say college, but personally, I have found that people rarely ever say middle school. Those were the years that shaped me the most.
Pascal’s wager states “even under the assumption that God’s existence is unlikely, the potential benefits of believing are so vast as to make betting on theism rational” (Saka). This was the most influential philosophy to me throughout the course. When the subject of theology was brought up in class, I was nervous but also intrigued. I was born into an uncommon kind of household with two atheist parents. My family celebrated Christmas and Easter but we never made any holiday directly about God. For the majority of my adolescence I identified as an atheist without any knowledge of any religious beliefs except the most prominent basics of Christianity and Judaism. My parents did, however, express to me why they thought religion was bad. I was told it was just an excuse for fighting, ignorance, control, and that it was all fantasy. They always allowed me to make my own decision on this
Throughout this fall semester in college, I have had one of the biggest learning experiences of my life. College not only gives me an education, but real world experience as well. It will teach you many things and I know I am not done learning yet. When I first started Montgomery College, I took with the AELP English classes before I started college English now. I felt moderately unprepared taking EN 101A because it is college English. Since English is my second language, I was afraid that I was not going to get through this course. However, thanks to Prof. Vilceus and friends who helped me to get through it. Taking ENG 101 A helped me to achieve many objectives such as to learn the steps of the writing process, to improve my grammar skills and to cite an outside source.
Throughout all the time I have been in school from pre-school to my senior year in high school. I have never really thought about how my education has come to shape me because I would only question it at the very end of the school year; what have I really learned this year?, but now that I am in college and my English professor is making everything eye opening it has made me aware that school has shaped me in some form. Most of my teachers follow a curriculum where it is not beneficial to me at all. The way I was taught this whole time affected me in a way I did not see because I adjusted to the environment. The reality is education has shaped me to have fear of deception, to accept, and to not question anything at all.