I can honestly say that I feel like I use my strengths every day. Before I started college at Bethel, though, that was not the case. I loved writing in high school and my first years of college. I enjoyed research, reading, and writing papers that presented an argument and moved the reader. At my current position, the only writing I get to do every day is in the form of short emails. I utilize strengths other than writing while at work, such as planning, prioritizing, teaching and developing
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Learning Style Activity Chemistry is the most challenging class that I have ever take in college. General Chemistry covers a lot of material very quickly, plus it was my first experience with a lab notebook and the scientific method. The combination of lecture plus lab was so intimidating. It is like if chemistry has its own language. There is more to chemistry than learning the concept. I had to take general chemistry twice and both times I had to drop the class. First time, the teacher was not
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“Primary sources are documents, objects, and other sources that provide us with a first-hand account of what life was like in the past” (Walbert). Both Christopher Columbus’s journal and Bartolomé de las Casas's “Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies,” were examples of primary sources. They both are a first-hand account as to what happened during their voyages in the late 1400s to the early 1500s. Columbus’ journal was more of a log, where he kept records of each day. Bartolome’s writings
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Many Chicanx/Latinx students, including myself, never really learned our history in U.S. high schools. Growing up, I never really cared that my people were excluded from textbooks, maybe it was because I was always conditioned to think of U.S. history as the same thing we’ve always been told in every single textbook we looked at. For me, it was good enough to think that Cesar Chavez was included in a small section of my textbooks. It wasn’t until I started college and took my first Ethnic Studies
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CRAMS Essay In the essays, “Living Under Circe’s Spell” by Matthew Soyster and “On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs the authors describe what it is like to have Multiple Sclerosis or MS. Multiple Sclerosis is a nervous system disease that is incurable. Although they are discussing the same subject the authors display different attitudes towards it. Soyster seems to with an attitude of longing for the past while Mairs approaches the subject with a more positive attitude about her disability. Both
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because it flows in his veins. From these examples it can be surmised that credibility must be earned, and that this is not a task rapidly achieved. In the essays Serving
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In this article, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” it is talking about the time in David Sedaris's life when he went back to school in Paris to learn the language of French. Sedaris uses fear in this piece. He fears his first day of class as he anticipates his turn to answer the teacher’s questions. This shows that just answering a few simple questions such as your own name in a new environment can cause a great deal of stress. He also recognized he was not alone, many students felt the same as he did. He
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Dweck, C.S. (2006). Mindset. New York. Ballantine Books Chapter 1 of this book discusses the concept of mindsets and begins to define the two different types of mindsets. The first is the fixed mindset where these people believe that your “qualities are carved in stone which creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over again” (pg.6). The other is the growth mindset is “based on the belief that your basic qualities are things that you can cultivate through your efforts” (pg. 7). The author
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rhetorical analysis essay, work with researched and visual arguments, effectively
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In the beginning of the semester I had many questions that I wanted to answer to my inquiry question, now I have all the answers. I learned so much about bilingual students that I would have nerve thought I would have learned. I learned that the teachers often are supporting students as young writers with read aloud in classrooms, side by side work with doing written activity and share time. In my inquiry project I did a lot of reading aloud and activities that included writing. I notice that I
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