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So far during my 7 years of attending college, I have really only experienced one thing that have kept me from being able to strive high in my grades and college attendance. In 2009, I was diagnosed with lupus while still in the military. Lupus is an auto immune disease that can cause affect the skin, joints and organs of a person. It can cause joint pain, aches, skin rashes, damage internal organs and etc. Though I mostly only suffered from the occasional aches and pains, I tried not to let…

At the beginning of the 2013-2014 school years, A.C. Reynolds High School (ACR) had a total enrollment of 1,369 students with 52% of the population being male and 48% female. The ethnic make-up of the school was predominately Caucasian (80% of the student population), followed by 10% African American, 4% Multiracial, 4% Hispanic and less than 1% Asian or Native American. Students who attend ACR live in the suburban area around the city of Asheville including Fairview, Arden, Fletcher, and Haw…

College vs High School College and high school are really different. College can be really stressful. They should make college less stressful like high school. College students have to worry so much about how to pay for college, get books for classes. They even have to worry about getting a hold of the teacher to have them help them out with an assignment. College can be more fun and excited if we didn’t have to worry so much. In high school you don’t have for many things like you do in…

In school, I wasn’t the top student and I didn’t get all A’s. I didn’t wear the Top Ten cords at the graduation ceremony. On my final report card I was 17/117 in my class. Yet I enrolled as an Honor Student in college. In the 21st century, people no longer are harassed for being smart or are pariahs for studying more than others. Although I didn’t study as much as others for tests and exams, I paid attention in class and sought help from classmates or worked alone if I didn’t understand…

I shadowed a junior, who will be referred to as Sarah, through 6 class periods. The classes observed included Government, Informational Technology (IT), band, lunch, and a free period during which Sarah worked in the office. The high school in which I observed showed its age, there was a very warm feel to the building. The first classroom I was in grew almost unbearably warm, there was still a chalkboard in the room, and the room itself felt crowded. The feeling of being crowed carried through…

European Internship Reflection Paper My European Internship at Kaiserslautern High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany was an unforgettable experience. I say this with both the most positive and highest regard someone could use to define a once in a lifetime and life-changing opportunity. I was able to grow as a future special education educator, a Western Michigan University student, and as an individual. I was pushed out of my comfort zone in many ways inside and outside the classroom, and…

credit hours, and currently, in the Spring, I am also taking 12 credit hours. I feel that taking about 30 credit hours this academic year was something that I was capable of doing and something that allowed me to achieve more in a certain…

“May the bridges I burn light the way.” -Dylan McKay Introduction The year is 2016, and there continues to be racism, sexism, genderism, negativism, discrimination, bigotry, aparthied and unfairness. When will it end and will it be in this lifetime? Well we know how it began. So maybe its ' end is near. Those previous words, spoken from a person who sees the glass as half-full, and is considered an idealist; I am that person. Taking the Adult Learning and Development 600: Multicultural…

Gema Serna Professor E. Buchanan English 73X TH PM 19 September 2016 A Blast From The Past In Education Education can be challenging, but as for others it can be quite intriguing. Learning new materials every day for myself, made it hard for me to comprehend everything all at once. Carol S. Dweck, author of Brainology agrees when he states “Different beliefs, or mindsets, create different psychological worlds: one in which students are afraid of challenges and devastated by setbacks” (1). I…

A lot of evaluation has to be done and I have to learn to sieve through the facts before I can present it. I learned a lot from the diagram on my Week 6 Reflection. Referring to the diagram, the four main categories, defer in terms of factual, emotive appeal and interests. Subconsciously, we tend to question (5w and 1H) when reading. What stood out for me was this: What discipline is it from? Assessing the story intention, does it appear to be successful upon first reading? It…