When reflecting on this class, overall I really enjoyed it and I learned so much from it. The class my structure was really helpful and enabled us to experience a group as well as learn about it. There are many key factors to a group, the most important of these are the group stages. There are four group stages: initial, transition, working, and final. The initial stage is the first stage of the group and one of the most important. The initial stage is characterized by exploration and…
Have you ever been put in a situation that was frightening? In that situation did you have no choice but to persevere the situation and be brave? A point in my life was frightening and scary. When I was younger, before I reached high school, I faced many challenging obstacles to where I had no choice but to be strong. Between moving schools, cities, and to a new home, I had to be brave. It’s hard for children when they are younger to make friends at a new school. I was one of those kids who had…
Fear of not knowing where he was. Fearful is the only word to describe the scenario. My mind is racing faster than my heart, I couldn't stay focused on one thought. All though there was one thought that continued to haunt my mind, the thought of “what is going on.” It was a standard night for a huge rival football game. After the lose of 31-35. I hung out with friends, as if it was any other friday night then go hangout with friends afterwards and have a fun time like we usually do. Except…
Everyone has fear. Some more than others. I am one of those people who would go under the “more than others” category. To me, the word fearless never seems even remotely possible in my life. I've faced many fears before, but I am nowhere near fearless. From that first time I climbed up and jumped off the top of the high dive in second grade so I could meet the standards of my new friends, to killing huge spiders that I would see crawling across my ceiling while i'm trying to fall asleep.…
Whenever one is startled, or caught off-guard, the innate human response is to either flee or fight. Most human brains are wired to run from danger. This runs parallel to when humans are faced with a problem or a difficult situation. Many individuals would rather run away from problems than work at resolving them. The novel “Things That Fly” by Douglas Coupland conveys the themes of Escape as well as The Human Condition in his short story by utilizing the symbols of Superman, the narrator’s…
Given that the denotation of “bewitched” is “being controlled or affected by a magic spell,” Conrad includes this word to portray what is beginning to happen to the narrator psychologically. Moreover, the narrator begins to feel as if the “stillness of life” surrounding the Congo River is not peaceful. Joseph Conrad utilized certain details to describe the “stillness of life”…
change throughout a lifetime, most people do remain scared of something. Fear is one of the strongest human emotions and a great motivator. In “Lord of the Flies” there are two emotions that were dominant in the story, which was pride and fear. Fear is what motivates us to get an education, to get a job, and to get married. We fear not being able to get a job so we get an education, we fear dying alone so we have children who will love us until the day we part from this world. The text “Lord of…
Anxiety in today's world is not uncommon; it is more common that people are diagnosed with it now than ever before.Anxiety can make a person overthink every single thing, makes you leave the things you love behind, becoming freaked out over something for no reason, etc. Anxiety for me feels like I am locked away in a cell that won’t let me experience adventures that I might enjoy; that I know I will enjoy. Instead of enjoying though, I generate a continuous list of all the wrongs that could…
After hearing this short speech, I analyzed John Moore’s topic “Fluent Talk on Stuttering” and gained some knowledge to what he was trying to impact us with. He wants us to know that adult stutterers can minimize their stubborn talk with different methods to speak more fluently with others. I believe this is essential to know for a variety of reasons. Only one percent of the world’s adult population stutter, including him, and can damage those who do in many ways. This vital information can help…
If the government is going to take another foreign child away what makes her think they will not take her away. She watches from a far as all of this is going on. Then, in the end of the poem she goes to say, "Before the first foreigners owned any of this free country" (Alvarez 1193). In this statement, she points…