...has increased exponentially due to the rigorous course my teacher has designed for the students. Dual Enrollment English class taught me far more than just how to write a well written academic paper for my next four years in a college environment. Looking back on the second half of the semester, I can look back and appreciate all of the time spent preparing all of my essays, speeches, and notes for discussion. Throughout the semester, I definitely hit some speed bumps along the way; however, overcoming these dilemmas is what I will be able to carry with me throughout college. The class taught me how to be able to stand at the front of the classroom and speak about topics that I was less familiar with than familiar with, importance of priorities, how to write a well composed piece of literature in an academic format....
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...During my first year of college, I have learned various lessons that has elevated my ability to be a good student, but one lesson has surely helped me the most. Before coming to college, my parents would often stress to me the importance of watching who I befriend however, it took a couple of tries to get my group of friends right. Having friends that you can confide in is one of the most important lessons you can learn during your college career. Therefore, when I first came to Dillard, I immediately began trying to meet everyone and find some people who I just clicked with, and at first this task seemed impossible. Even though it was difficult, I still made the effort to engage with other students and I eventually found me a nice group of...
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...The Importance of God. The importance of God is something that I feel that many people overlook in their lives, and lack of knowledge is what I feel is the cause of this overlook. God has played a major role in my life since I was a little boy and without the faith of his teaching, I don’t know where I would be. The peace of mind I receive when I read the bible or go to church is one I wish I could let everyone feel. But I am doing my duty to spread as much of the teachings of Christ as possible. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that I know God has pulled me through. My grandmother has always given me the word and it has taught me how to deal with other situations that I would have leaned on my own understanding to solve. With God, all things are possible and I am thankful to have this opportunity to write to someone who may not know about him. At one point in time, I lost my job. My mother was not able to help me and all I was able to do was pray. One Sunday, I went to church and my pastor, without me telling him, asked if I was still working. Just like that out of the blue, I was shocked. I told him about my situation and he let me know one of his colleagues was looking for a part-time worker, the next day I interviewed and I got hired on the spot. Had I leaned on my own understanding and not went to church to pray and worship, I would not have the job that I’ve had for two years. God is always there when I need him, and he can be there for...
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...and we see how diseases can completely ruin this miraculous organ. In Gamel’s essay it is brought to our attention how the human being cherishes their eye sight; one would choose to tolerate pain in the hope that one may regain their eye sight; however, we are never shown why the human being cherishes sight so much. “(En) trance” by Chris Arthur shows the reader how this organ allows the mind to explore all different options. In this essay we see how the eyeball allows the human being to see things in a different perspective than their own and how others may perceive an image or a building based off of their own experiences and sight. We see the importance of the eyeball in regards to memory and we see its importance in the way that sight impacts people’s lives. Although “The Elegant Eyeball” by John Gamel explains the importance of the eyeball it is through “(En) trance” by Chris Arthur that we see the emotional and physical impact it has in one’s life. Throughout his essay Gamel explains how the eye works. He explains what a normal eye would possess opposed to an eye that acquired a disease, which would eventually obtain scaring. He explains the importance of the eye stating that, “Forty percent of the brain is devoted to vision, which provides us with more information than our other four senses combined” (Gamel, 39). The importance of the eye in regards to our other sense is great. In his essay “(En) trance,” Arthur explains to the reader how each person has their own viewpoint...
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...promote the sport and the benefits to the paraplegics, exploring the changes murderball has brought to the disabled. This essay will discuss the important aspects of the construction of the text along with an analysis of important aims, features, the societal values privileged and the positioning of the audience. I will also explain my personal experiences and how my views have been challenged. Rubin and Sharpia focuses on murderball being, ironically a safe haven for...
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...success from local, state, and federal administration directs the core of writing. I believe focusing on specific practices at this level of education will benefit the students’ success on demanding assessments. Clearly stated, “Quality writing is the victim of time and influence from external testing regimes.” (Ryan, 80). Controlling the assignment and focus on instruction is vital for a teacher. Middle school students need specific direction and continual guidance in order to produce a successful piece of writing. By giving the class a detailed expectation of each part of an essay, the students know what is needed to produce that. Defining length requirements, organization of thoughts, and conventions help students learn the specifics needed to write successfully. Student receptivity takes precedence over student activity. In accordance with controlling the assignment, production of an essay can be mastered by students. Students need to keep the rules in mind throughout the entire writing process. Brainstorming, drafting, revising and editing are necessary for students to learn and master the process. Often, when students do not have set rules and guidelines, their writing is off topic, ill organized, and sometimes incoherent. Stressing and continually reviewing existing conventions aide’s...
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...English Essay Task Characters often play a crucial role in constructing meaning in plays; How have characters been developed in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night? Shakespeare is world-renowned for his aptitude in writing plays, for a wide range of audiences, and one of these plays is Twelfth Night. In this play, Shakespeare takes particular care in the development of his characters in order to construct the meanings and messages embedded in Twelfth Night. Through the development of some key, central characters within the play, namely Olivia and Malvolio, Shakespeare showcases the chaos and hardship instigated by their pride, and is then able to reinforce the importance of order and adhering to the set, established, hierarchy of Elizabethan times. Shakespeare first portrays the character of Olivia as vain, superficially judgemental, and indulging in her own self-pity, neglecting her duties as the lady of the house. A secondary character, Malvolio, is depicted by Shakespeare to be overambitious and full of his own self-importance – attempting to overstep his position. Shakespeare manifests different forms of pride in different characters in order to show that whatever the facet of pride the character might possess, in the end, their fatal flaw will still result in chaos and misfortune, thereby emphasising the need of adhering to and attending to the duties of their positions so that order can be maintained. Through Olivia’s language and interactions with other characters, Shakespeare...
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...even reminiscing all of those if they were used effectively or unconsciously hurt someone’s feelings. ---- “WORDS!” Every word that comes from our mouth is part of our personal and social responsibility as a human. So, with this great accountability we must consider ourselves to be an instrument in studying the meaning of words that we are exploiting every second. Should I say, we must give importance to SEMANTICS which focuses on the relations between signifiers such as words, phrases, signs and symbols and what they stand for or their denotation. The word semantics itself denotes a range of ideas, from the popular to the highly technical. It is often used in ordinary language to denote a problem of understanding that comes down to word selection or connotation. When I was in high school, I had a hard time in choosing the appropriate word for my sentence from a couple of somewhat synonymous words. For me, this is not just an ordinary problem because I am chosen as the editor-in-chief of our school paper and often selected to be the representative of our school during essay contests. So, being a writer, correct usage of words in my composition really matters. Then, when the time comes that our topic in our English subject was semantics, we learned that not all words that are synonymous can be used in the same situation. For instance, it is not enough for us to use words we just thought or we conclude for ourselves that we knew...
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...even more difficult to decide for the type of degree you want to go for, some students prefer to go for careers that will give them the most money over following their real passion, only because they feel they have better chances of having more success and financial stability, but there’s one thing that a lot of people can agree on, that getting a college education can increase your chances at success and you’re more likely to achieve excellence and grow at any type of job. But what is success or how do we define it ? Sucesss can have various different meanings according to people, to some it may mean going to the college of their dreams and eventually getting that “perfect” job that they’ve always wanted, driving a fancy car and being able to go on vacation every year, and not having to worry about paying bills because you make enough money to cover those expenses. While for other people, success just means maybe getting married and having your own house, waking up every morning to children screaming, making breakfast for them, taking care of your family and just having a decent job, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that either, its all a matter of choosing what is going to work for you the best. Choosing is one of the key words here, when it comes to getting a college education picking the right major can be very challenging, its one of the...
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...English. English 1301 is the first semester of freshman English and is designed to promote critical thinking, reading, and writing. The concept of appeals is important when it comes to writing, the following appeals are observant in our everyday lives; pathos, logos, and ethos. In this essay, I will demonstrate the time I successfully joined a college readiness program at UTA; known as Upward Bound. Upward Bound is a federally funded organization sponsored by The University of Texas at Arlington. The club was created fifty years ago, and has expanded immensely over the years. Upward Bound was founded in 1965 by the U.S Department of Education. This program equips students all around the country with the necessarily tools to succeed during and after high school. Upward Bound allows ages 14-18 take advantage of their...
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...portrays feminism and feminist beliefs giving female empowerment and a sense of female identity. The long queen is the first poem in the collection, which is quite significant because it can be considered as the most important poem due to it being the first one of the collection but also because the title itself. The queen is the most powerful female around and so by having this as the first poem gives credit to the queen as she was one of the most successful monarchs of time. The first line immediately catches the attention of the reader with its first line. “The long queen couldn’t die”. The use of the word “couldn’t” plants the question in the reader’s mind as to why the queen couldn’t die and if she is even portrayed human or not in the poem. It also shows that maybe it isn’t a choice for her and that she has to go on and be a success. This shows her importance as it suggests that the queen couldn’t die because we don’t know where we would be without her. Also that even if she did die physically, she would still be on our minds and her soul will go on because she is an icon for many especially women who went through a lot of struggles during the era. The fact that she made a lot of changes to women’s lives and they will forever be thankful to her that she couldn’t die shows how much they relied on her. Alternatively this could be looked at in a different way. During the time people would be punished if they mentioned the queen dying because it suggested Gods power would stop...
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...Biblical Worldview Essay The apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans addresses many topics including the natural world, our human identity, human relationships, as well as cultural references. Paul understood the need to clarify our purpose on this earth and the realities of sin as well as the grace afforded to us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Paul’s letter addresses a question that has been on the hearts of almost everyone at some point in time, why do people suffer? His words reflect the benefit of having a relationship with Jesus the Christ when living under the curse of sin from a fallen humanity. “Suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope (Romans 5:3-4).” In the natural world we face the realities of sin on a daily basis and the consequences of that sin, whether it is our own sin or the sin of another. Paul reinforces the fact it only took one sin or trespass to condemn all of mankind. However, to the glory of God, it only took one act of righteousness through Christ Jesus to bring life to all men (5:18). Because God knew that man would need a litmus test or a guide to measure right from wrong, He gave us the Law. Our natural tendencies consist of obeying the flesh and our sinful desires, but the grace of God is sufficient to cover all of our sin. We can’t escape the fact that death on this earth is certain, apart from the catching away of the saints at the sounding of the trumpet call. This natural death, due to the fall of mankind...
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...Research Term Paper Vladimir Duverger Tues, Thurs (11:15-12:30) November 6th, 2014 To begin, Haitian culture is a very diverse and was engrained into me as I grew up, being that I had a Haitian mother. One of the most diverse things about the culture and one thing that many people can agree with, is the food. As for me, that's one of my favorite things about being Haitian-Dominican decent as I get to eat the amazing food. But another culture who's food is a big part of their being, are Asians and their style of cooking and what they eat and what they make, and etc. So I thought, why not visit or get in depth with another culture whose food is a huge part of their being. And for this paper, I've decided to get into Asian food and how it differs from my culture as well as the importance it plays in their culture. To continue, as I began to think of where I can go to try real Asian food to really speak on for this essay, I remembered about my neighbor. My neighbor whom is of Chinese descent owns restaurant called 'Asia Town'. When I approached him about wanting to learn about different Asian foods and taste them, he invited me for a free meal at his restaurant to try some of his popular dishes. He even explained to me that a lot of his food is cooked by himself and though he gets help from his mother, he makes sure to keep the 'Asian style' in his food. A lot of popular buffets make their food 'mainstream' according to him and he mentioned to me...
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...Stress Management Strategies Final Essay HRDV 3301 Texas Tech University Megan Bradford INTRODUCTION At some point in time during a person’s professional career, we all have days or weeks that make us feel like we are drowning or failing at our job. The feeling of stress overload makes it very difficult to complete daily work related tasks, and productivity take a hard decline. As a human resources manager, it is their job to notice when an employee is experiencing a stress overload and help assist in relieving the stress. If an employee endures too much stress, this may lead to the employee leaving the company suddenly. BACKGROUND TO THE PROBLEM Workplace stress can occur for a number of reasons. First, an employee who never goes on vacation can fall victim to an overload of stress due to feeling like they never have any downtime, especially if they are in a very fast paced field of work. The department of psychology at Saint Louis University published an article called To Be or Not to Be (Stressed): The Critical Role of a Psychologically Healthy Workplace in Effective Stress Management which gave great insight regarding workplace stress. According to Matthew J. Grawitch, the author of the published article states, “…five specific types of workplace practices that contribute to employee well-being and organizational functioning: employee involvement (i.e. autonomy and involvement in decision...
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...It was a cold winter’s day. We had gotten a really good snow storm that year which was pretty abnormal for our area. I can still remember are car slipping and sliding all the way to the hospital. The doctor had informed my husband that he would have his team ready for us and prep me for surgery as soon as I arrived. As we approached the hospital, I remember being very weak and having hospital staff rush me out of my car. As I was lifted to a gurney, I had seen all the blood around me. At that point I believe I passed out, but it was like I was under a state of hypnosis. It was like I could hear everything going on around me, but I was unresponsive. It felt like I was paralyzed. They would shake me, asking silly questions but it was so hard to say the simplest things. I could still feel them poking me with IV’s and whatever else they had going on at that moment. Next thing I recall was my doctor shaking me trying to wake me up. I felt so weak and disoriented, it felt so hard to open my eyes. My mouth felt like it was full of cotton balls. When I finally opened my eyes I looked around and realized...
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