My Room Essay

place on my father’s thick oak desk was the Pamela Anderson edition of Playboy. Next to an overgrown stack of tax returns and a leather-cased smartphone, Pamela posed in a strapless, black satin dress that accentuated the curve between her waist and breasts. A fantasy for almost any pubescent twelve year-old. “You want it, Michael?” my father asked, turning his chair towards me. His knowing grin reminded me of when he and I would dress Barbies in matching wedding gowns my mother had sewn. My…

The other preschool classroom I observed was the Desert Vista High School Early Learning Center. The indoor environment of their classroom is smaller than my dream classroom but there is many different places for the children and students to play with toys, games and sing silly songs. Their indoor environment is very energetic because of the places and things that the children can play and do in the classroom with their classmates and teachers which is important because they want the children to…

likes to make sure that the individuals eating and the servers have plenty of room to work. There is a double door that directly off the line for the servers to use when bringing out the food. When serving the food, the servers will walk the main pathways as they are most efficient ways to move around the lodge. They do not have any problems serving food this way because the pathways are large and leave plenty of room for individuals. The lodge also likes to make sure each individual is…

My initial reaction when I first walked into Mrs. Martha’s classroom was just filled with amazement. Before all the children started arriving, Mrs. Martha willingly gave me a quick tour of her classroom. She explained all of her centers and how she had set up her routine for her students. I was mainly shocked at the amount of materials provided for the children. Examples of this include how students are able to paint a picture of their choice during center and work time without a teacher…

The setting is house that from the audience's perspective has three separate rooms. The room on the far stage left is a kitchen. The room in the middle is blank but has pictures that you would expect to be in family room. The room on the far right has is an entrance hallway. Each room is accessed by walking around the front walls as if there is a hallway. Joe stands in the room on the far left. Joe is physically very strong but he has not left the house in days. He trying to wash dishes but he…

with his eyes closed while resting his head on the shower wall. I asked Butera if he was the only inmate in the shower area and he replied yes sir. Butera exited the last shower stall on the left wrapped in his towel and proceeded to his assigned room. As I entered the shower area, I observed…

It was the end of third grade and all of my friends and I were talking about who we wanted as a teacher the next year. Everyone wanted Mrs. Graham or Mrs. Friend because they were considered the “nicer” teachers. I didn’t really care who I had as long as they didn’t yell very much because it always scared me when they did that. I was the kid who always got upset when I saw that the teachers were yelling or mad at someone. My mom had told me that she didn’t request any certain teacher for me to…

On November 19th, 2017 I was dispatched to 37 Falcon Drive regarding physical disturbance still in progress. I arrived a minute after Sgt. Marler. Upon my arrival I entered the house and could hear Sgt. Marler giving commands at the end of the hall. I went down the hall and advised Alex Lister, who was against the wall with his hands above his head, and on the wall, to put his left hand behind his back, which he did and I placed the first handcuff on him. Then I order him to put his right hand…

strainer I was scrubbing, I managed to talk to him about the lecture he had given the night before in the library of the Boston retreat house a reading of Flannery O’Connor’s short story, The Enduring Chill. His comments about O’Connor’s work had spun my thoughts the way Flannery O’Connor found it her mission to make scenes, character flaws, and dialects larger than lives to making her message louder and “shout” to…

The Book Dorm Room Dealings written by A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik Fritsvold delivering a unique perspective into the world of college dorm drug dealing. Their research consists of extensive fieldwork and analysis within the thriving Southern California drug-distribution network. Dorm Room Dealings challenges the dominant narrative that the drug epidemic in the United States is conducted within lower income neighborhoods. Rather, the book reveals that these dealings are conducted by predominantly…