A Few Questions

“Waiguoren” and occasionally in a hush tone “Laowai,” from a few annoyed costumers, are two terms uttered every so often while interning at Hotwind, a widely-known fashion store in Shanghai. As the semester forges ahead, my classmates and I are grasping a greater understanding of how consumerism is shaping people’s lives in Shanghai today, through our first-hand perspective working in a Chinese retail outlet. We are fully immersing ourselves in an uncommon and unheard-of working environment for…

reading by first learning to read and later improve reading to learn. It’s critical that all students become strategic learners in the world. Students who recognize which strategies to use and when to use them to comprehend text are strategic learners. A few students use the strategies naturally while most students struggle to read the text with understanding. There is a desperate need for teachers to teach comprehension strategies to guide their students with learning to read and understand.…

informative text to clarify things that have been discussed. I try my hardest on every call to make sure that all their needs are met and that they are understanding everything that I am saying so there is no confusion or need to call back in. There are a few things that I do on the calls to make sure that there is effective communication and that the customer and I remain on the same page throughout our interaction. First, I use non-verbal communication by applying a happy and pleasant tone,…

surveyed is inconclusive. The study conducted was not thoroughly completed. The two students failed to follow the scientific method. There was no clear Hypothesis as to what the two students were studying. Simply having an opinion and asking a few questions to twenty-one random students will not give you sufficient amounts of data. Therefore, the first thing that raises suspicion is was the twenty-one students. Were students of the Psychology 101 class or previously attended? If the two…

reading we came across the topic of the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas. I got confused about the topic and had a question. After we finished the reading I raised my hand intending to ask a question. As I rose my hand I was excited to hear the answer and learn more about the…

Education and social class was something that just clicked in my head when I heard of the two concepts a few years ago. Now in college when I revisit these themes of life and read the articles about them in the book I can look at it in another way. In my first M1 essay I learned a lot of things about myself, mostly how I need to improve. In the first essay I learned that I need to improve my into paragraph a lot. It didn’t not even have a good hook, something to grab the reader’s attention.…

Background Every year, many studies are conducted to look at college readiness for high school graduates. These studies focus on the education basics; writing, reading, and math. But many other factors can lead to a student being college ready. In recent years, some studies have started to look at the skills, outside the academic arena, that students need to master to be college ready. One topic that has started to take a role in readiness is the ability to handle finances. Most high…

Making us all the fools! (Laughter) Mr. Clay: (Answer Question 5) From the point-of-view of my research and my own experience, I would say I do not agree with the rotten apple theory of human culture. Instead, it is my understanding that we all contribute to the culture within which we operate. It 's never a case of a few people who are doing something that ruins it for the rest of us, but rather a culture we have all built together will…

continuous, I mean 4, 5, 6 days a week. But the past few years I can’t sustain any long term exercise routine. I don’t seem to want to exercise for whatever reason. The skill of using open-ended questions is a strong point in my interview with Jeff. I found it easy to incorporate the questions throughout the interview. In fact, when I used an open-ended question, Jeff would elaborate and talk in depth about his issue. Asking Jeff the question, “Can you tell me what you have done in the past…

Perhaps my own discomfort highlighted some of the cringe worthy moments during the 60 minute interview, including asking about the first time he had intercourse. The anxiety made me question if I truly wanted to know the answer to the sample intake questions. After all, I can still hear my grandmother’s voice a few minutes before my wedding telling me, “lo que no fue en tu ano no es tu dano/ what was not in your time is not your harm,” meaning I must not to worry or ponder about my husband’s…