Boiling point

I found Give and Take by Adam Grant to be a fascinating read. Although I’m sure we’ve all grouped our co-workers into similar categories, this book explores what it specifically means to be the “selfish” worker, or the “relentless giver” and who ends up ultimately succeeding in the end. Our previous notions of creating success with individual motivation, ability, and hard work has now been reconfigured into success that greatly depends on how we communicate and interact with other people.…

My eyes felt like they were glued shut like I couldn’t open them no matter how hard I tried. I was in a different place, it wasn’t home and I felt my heart start to beat fast, I was getting scared these surroundings weren’t familiar to me and all I wanted to do was go home. I heard a scream, it sounded like a girl and it was getting closer and closer, my hands started to shake and my stomach dropped. I couldn’t think straight, all I could think about is the girl, the sound of how fast my heart…

The Positivity in Determination: An analysis of House of Stone Introduction This essay will first provide historical context about Lebanon. This essay will provide a brief summary of House of Stone by Anthony Shadid. Finally this essay will analyze determination and focus in House of Stone in order to support the idea that one’s character can be strong enough so that they are able to avoid conflict and trouble. For example Anthony Shadid’s determination to rebuild his grandparent’s house…

utilized videos and images to display the main topics. Instead of having lots of words on our slides, wording was limited. This helped to remove the possibility of the visual aids causing a distraction. However, if more analysis were used to relate our points to the visual aids, it would have significantly improved the interactive aspect of the visual aids. Making a direct effort to show the correlations would solve this issue of merely having images in the background. Instead, our group should…

1. What did you think of the experience and point of the video? On the Main Point: The main purpose of the exercise Jane Elliot conducted in the Blue Eye/Brown Eye video was to demonstrate the impacts and nature of racial discrimination. I believe that this is a very important concept to learn for individuals that have never experienced or do not believe such blatant acts of prejudice exist. At the same time, I do not believe that this point alone has any form of long lasting value,…

credentials (along with his colleges), and his experiences that shaped his personality. Unknowingly, it was a clever way to introduce the points he makes later in the speech. There was no thesis directly stated, however the entire speech was about techniques he used when working at the school in Pakistan and everyday interactions. Dr. Laker had three main points which he explains then shares examples of. Since the speech is about personal spirituality, it tended to be subjective. The concepts…

still have today. “‘We will do what others expect of us,’ Wes said. ‘If they expect us to graduate, we will graduate. If they expect us to get a job, we will get a job. If they expect us to go to jail, then that’s where we will end up too. At some point you lose control’” (126). In my opinion, I thought that this quote itself embodied what the author was trying to get the reader to understand through his book. My traditional, stable parents expected me to eventually graduate college and to…

This picture of a “like emoticon” from Facebook has a quote stating “Your likes can hurt someone’s feelings, Use your likes wisely” This is automatically targeting people who are bullied on Facebook. As social media becomes more and more a part of our generation, new ways of bullying occur as well. The ad uses all logos and how they use it, is by saying a like on Facebook is one of the causes of cyberbullying and that liking a certain post can hurt someone’s feelings. My goal is to shed a deeper…

pretends to be your friend while secretly things to harm you” (Thefreedictionary.com). At one point or another in life, we lose a friend, it might be due to loss of communication, death, or it might be because they turn out to be as fraudulent as snakes are made to be in the previous analogy. Losing a friend can be emotionally taxing even if we find out they are spurious people. It can seem to be the lowest point of our life in that particular moment and moments following the event. After…

explains how inspiring it was seeing the frontier of possible be pushed, and how it encouraged him to pursue a masters in chemistry and have a career in aviation (Grillo, 2011). This is an effect NASA has that is not able to be measured in graphs or data points, but in lives changed and career paths altered. Having students look up…