able to fully understand their message, and where they are trying to go with it. As humans we spend more than half our time listening to others, it’s a very important social skill and one that is much needed in the working world. I consider myself a selective listener. It’s definitely not by choice it simply happens. I remember back in high school I always had a hard time listening to my teachers, especially if the topic wasn’t “interesting enough”. In fact it still happens to me at work during
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Words Sitting alone on a West Midlands train, I buried my face in my hands wondering what on earth I should do. “I can’t do this,” I told myself. I’d just spent the day calling international schools in Europe trying to sell them an education package for a friend’s business. I think telesales is one of the most soul sucking activities in the entire business world! “I can’t make money for other people for the rest of my life,” I said. “I won’t.” It was the summer of 2005, and it was my seventh
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down without using the formal names of the movements. Initially I was confused because I wasn’t used to having homework for a dance class but also the assignment seemed so difficult. My body and brain have been trained to process these movements and think of it in a straightforward way and the assignment seemed to derail that train of thought. So I went home and sat with a piece of paper and pen in my hand. I picked my favorite barre exercise and began going through the motions of the combinations
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While in the initial session with Gladys I did not think that I was doing that great of a job. I felt as if I was having trouble making the conversation flow. I relied more heavily on the guide with the questions and while I was about to get a lot of information, it did mess my flow up some. I did not expand on things when I wanted to because I knew that it was going to come up later in questions that I would ask. After the session ended I did feel relieved that we got through it and I felt
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PA Statement by Darya Kovtun I did not think about the aphorism, “it is always calm before a storm,” until I have experienced it for myself. I remember my grandmother telling me that she was feeling abdominal discomfort on an empty stomach, and would only feel better when eating food. When she was diagnosed with Stage IV Gastric Cancer, my family and I were in shock that a woman we hold so dearly could be diagnosed with such a disease. Undergoing a new pharmaceutical drug research trial that promised
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An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks is definitely unlike any book I have ever read before. The books that interest me are usually fiction/fantasy or romantic. I like to think of myself as quite skilled in the subject of English and Literature, so I figured I could just grin and bear it and get through this reading easily using my same old strategies. I immediately found out that this was not going to be the case. Sacks is clearly a well-educated and experienced man, and it shows in his writing
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never met him before. Sonia only told me once that she has a brother, so I did not know what he looked like. I really wanted to meet him. Where is your brother? I don’t wanna talk about him right now. We’ll talk about him some other day. After hearing that, I was very confused. Her brother was like a mystery to me now because Sonia never talked about him, I have never seen him, and he was nowhere to be seen at the party. I was very anxious to know Dhaval and meet him after this incident. After
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used to preach. I never wanted to be anything less of that expectation. As time went by, I was realized I was hiding a grave secret. I was gay in a world where such a thing was considered a disease, a cancer, a psychological disability. I grew up hearing stories of men who were either outcast or rebuked for such a sin. I even was told of God turning such men into a reprobated mind, in reference to those whom
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Given that I am a 9th grader, this will be my first year of high school and consequently, I have set some goals for myself through these next few years. These are both goals looking more at my future, but also goals I have set after reflecting on my middle school education. In my last two years of middle school, I took two Spanish classes to gain one high school credit. This was the first step in my goal to become fluent and understand a second language along with attaining knowledge and understanding
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experiences of every individual are unique, and though many are quick to make assumptions and judgments about others’ lives, no one knows what anyone else is going through. I feel that many people I know have certain preconceptions about my life, and so think of me differently because of these beliefs. I find this unfair, as they assume that I have it easy and do not realize all the difficulties I have faced. Thus, my theme attempts to combat such assumptions by bringing forth these difficulties. My theme
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