attempts to rise from the back seat, but the bumping speakers drown it out. I am in the driver’s seat of my car, floating on a thick cloud of music and smoke. My eyes close, my lungs fill, my head nods and becomes lost inside a hip-hop haze of bass, high hats, and trumpets. Just before Big Boi introduces his “Spottieottiedopaliscious Angel” a hand cuts through the smoke and whacks me in the back of the head. Leaving the music, I turn around, take a huge toke, give the middle finger (all in good fun)
the paint was about to hit him you could hear the gasp that went through the room as he turned around and the paint splatter all over the front of his face, I was pretty sure the entire school held their breath as he slowly wiped the paint off his face and stood up. That’s when I got a good look at him, this guy is huge he could easily be 6'5”, I would need three hands just to wrap them around one of his biceps. Its was like he was a high school version of Dwayne Johnson, so when he...
the course Dance 220, I have been able to notice the thing’s about my mind and body that would 've gone unnoticed before. While learning about my own subjective somatic inner experience’s, I came to an understanding that I do a lot of thing’s that I never really take account for. For example, my experience with thinking is probably one of the biggest concepts that I never actually thought about. While I sit in class and listen to my professor’s lecture or my peers present, I have a tendency to repeat
Wisconsin. I live with my brother, parents, and my two dogs and two cats. I am a Junior at Drums High School, and I can’t wait for my basketball season to begin. I hope this year everything goes well and no one gets hurt. It was almost a quarter of the way through the school year and basketball tryouts were at 3:45 p.m. that night after school. As I sat through my last class of the day, Tech. Ed., I began to get nervous and I was hoping my nervousness would stop before I had to try out. I was never
before I was born. Their decision time was cut short when I was born over two months early, leaving them completely unprepared. As a result, I was nameless for the first few days of my life. My parents finally settled on Erica because it was the only name they could agree on (even if my dad calls me my sister’s name more often than my own). Despite it seeming like a last minute choice, I feel that Erica is the perfect name for me. According to babynames.com, Erica means “Always Ruler”. Sadly, I am far
On Tuesday, November 10th I visited Mrs. Ewell at Hearne High School. The first class I observed was her second period Principles of Agriculture class. She has 9 students in this class including 1 new student that arrived today. In total there are 6 boys and 3 girls. The new student was obviously very nervous, but Mrs. Ewell was very accommodating and welcoming towards him. The class started by the students answering their daily challenge questions. What part of the flower attracts bees and other
is a practice I think is important not because every student has something valuable to say (this is not always so), but often students who do have meaningful comments to contribute are silent. In my classes, everyoneís voice is heard as students read paragraphs which may explore a particular issue.The do not have the opportunity to refuse to read paragraphs.When I hear their voices, I become more aware of information they may not know I can provide.Whether a class is large or small, I try to talk with
As I planed to take this class, I thought this course would be like all other general education courses. I believed that it would be of little use to me. However, after attending the first class, my view has changed completely. I applied each and every theory to my life. Amazingly all these ideas were exactly applicable. Perception checking is one of the things that I believe the most. As I looked back, I found tones of different times where I could have used perception checking to over come my
to be knowledgeable of it. And we talk a lot about it. In fact, our class was based on the topics of power and privilege. For many, the immediate connotation is simple. The white male that has his school paid for (by his parents) and has a job right out of college. So he is considered privileged. Many people categorize privilege by race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexual preference. I would like to categorize it differently. I believe privilege to be a way of life, either one is privileged or
somewhere? I have. I remember I was 10 years old, and I was going to fifth grade. Up to that point of my life the only language I knew was spanish.In school I had only taken “bilingual” classes in school, where the teacher spoke nothing but spanish. In a bilingual class I learned how to write and read in spanish. As you probably already guess that wasn 't the case my fifth grade year. My fifth grade year I was placed in an all english class, knowing nothing but how to say, “Hello”. I struggled so
I had the privilege of observing Mrs. Cahalin’s 6th and 7th grade class. Mrs. Cahalin’s strategies were very similar for both. For her sixth grade class I observed topics such as characterization, point of view and grammar lesson. In all three, Mrs. Cahalin strategically used graphic organizers that tied the individual lessons together. I truly enjoyed seeing how creative the graphic organizers were. Mrs. Cahalin’s 7th grade class focused on the book “Peter and the Starcatcher.” Students were responsible
the topics we have covered in class I think unit 3 have left the deepest impression. Stress is something everyone can relate to but probably understood on the minimum. Stress is a common experience for university students and without an exception I fall victim to it every time an exam or presentation comes up. Learning about this topic, what stress is, what it does to your body, how it affects your behavior has lead me to reflect upon past experiences in a way that I can learn to better cope with
Life’s Expected Punches Friday January 15, 2016 I walked into work and clocked in at 3pm. I did what I do every Friday, which is set up the Quinault Beach Resort and Casino’s land and sea buffet. With my usual buffet crew Jackie, Dale, Michael and Jeremiah. I had Michael gathering utensils for the food, Jeremiah filling our crab boats with ice to keep our seafood and salads fresh. Dale was setting up our carving station for the prime rib and seared ahi tuna. I asked Jackie to double check with the kitchen
others without expecting anything in return. I have some history with The Excel Center in Kokomo, I am a recent graduate from there and have spent time tutoring when I can, to help other students succeed. After leaving there, I considered a future career within the walls of the school, I have even been told on numerous occasions that I am more than welcomed back after I finish my degree. Once I knew I had to volunteer in a human service field, I knew I wanted to give The Excel Center a shot right
I have spent my eight week practicum at the Woodstock High School where I was an Educational Assistant (E.A.). I was expected to help students in various classes with various subjects. We (the students and I) worked on regular class assignments and projects. I also participated in some outings such as grocery shopping for culinary class, bowling for gym class and a special day of town beatification where we picked up garbage in an effort to help clean up the town. While working at the high school
been a lot of times where I felt like an outsider. I always had a group of friends, a family that loved me, and I like to think that my peers always thought of me as a pretty fun to be around person. However last year there was a time where I did feel as though rejection was prominent in my life.. My senior year of high school I was enrolled in a teleproductions class. Basically in this class I learned how to write, shoot , edit, and produce short films. In this class we also covered our schools
say you are into soccer and play on a school team. To start a game and get better it takes dedication. If you didn’t start a game, you don’t just give up and walk away. You persevere and work harder. That is called dedication. If you are in a math class
As I sit here in front of my laptop with just days left of my first semester of my 6 year journey to begin a career as an Audiologist; a career I have become very passionate about, I wanted to take the time and use Walker Percy’s essay, “The Loss of the Creature”, to analyze my experience thus far. Audiology is a field of study that is very specific to communication disorders and plain and simple, the ears. Not a single class I took this semester related to Audiology but they were requirements, mere
I always wanted to surround myself with knowledge and people that live and breathe event planning. My opportunity came at the 2010 Special Events conference in New Orleans, LA. The Special Event (2010) is the largest tradeshow and conference in the world for event professionals (2010, The Special Event). TSE allows attendees to make invaluable connections with thousands of key event industry notables and colleagues, experience education both inside and outside of the classroom environment, choose
I would like to start off with thanking you for having the time to review the work and effort that I have put into my English 101 Final Portfolio. In the time in class that I have had this quarter I have learned new techniques that I had not known before in writing, for example I have learned about how to build paragraphs in a correct formal way. In my work in the portfolio I hope to show how my skills as a writer have improved from the work I have done before. I plan to take the experience that