Dear Amma, How’s everyone doing? I’m having a lot of fun at school. My hardest class right now is probably my organic chemistry class. You remember the organic chemistry class that I took in high school? It’s a little like that, but definitely harder and more focused on real-world applications. The course actually includes a weekly three-hour lab with its own one-hour lecture. I think it’s a pretty great course because we learn techniques that are used in actual labs. Last week’s experiment…
It has been a little over two months since I began my out of the classroom experience in the Shustova Chemistry lab. With many extractions, separations, Schlenk line setups, and NMR spectroscopies, I am feeling much more confortable preforming higher-level chemistry techniques all while upholding national safety standards. This sense of comfortableness did not come quickly. This is where the most challenging aspect of the Capstone Project comes into play. The challenge that I face when I go into…
Apart from the fact that, Johnson is an excellent, top notch business school with a long history of impact the truth is that there is a silly reason that led me to apply to this school. Let me expand on the silly reason first, why I am applying to Johnson. The Office, one of my all-time favorite TV show and the character Andy Bernard, who went to Cornell. It is hard to explain, but I will give it a try. The character Andy Bernard is portrayed in the show as someone who does not get the social…
seen to be a rebellion against the working-class youth's limited options in a capitalist driven society, as punks rejected the traditional values set out by the self-interested middle-class. Punk style aimed to shock and repulse with participants using their clothing as a means of breaking away from what was considered normal or acceptable, utilising their physical appearance to exert power over the society that used its own power to overlook the working class.(Hebdige 7) The punk's use of style…
audience. Paul Krugman, a The New York Times writer and a 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Economics writes an article titled “Confronting Inequality.” He writes about the inequality in income and the problems within social classes, mainly in the middle class. Krugman tries to persuade and inform his intended audience about these injustices. Krugman has many different techniques to…
and former President Barack Obama established for a federal minimum of $10.10. Most of the statements from economists saying that reduction in wage costs of labor it increases employment. As it taught in ECON 101. Furthermore, supply-and-demand diagram can’t show the whole picture for minimum wage, because it has limited predictive value comparing with the real world. For instance, the highest federal minimum was from 1967 to 1969, when at the same time unemployment rate was below 4 percent- a…
One early critique education’s class bias is Dr. Jean Anyon. Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” research from 1980 is dated and no longer relevant, because the style of teaching has changed in the last 35 years. Jean Anyon visited five different schools. The schools she picked…
issue in our society. Whether you are rich or poor, born here or immigrant, high class or middle class, inequality will find its own way to you some how. Here we should stop and ask ourselves why should we care about high and rising inequality? The answer to this question is in these three articles, “Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs “by Shayan Zadeh, “Confronting Inequality” by Paul Krugman, and “RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013” by Edward McClelland. These three articles have discussed the…
As each of us hear the word slum or read anywhere, a picture comes to our mind which is usually dilapidated, dirty, congested having narrow lanes etc. Scholars have extensively defined the concept of slum. Let us look at a few of them. Charles J Stokes in his article “A theory of slums” (1962) writes that in a slum, the housing and also the social activities or arrangements develop differently from that of the city. From this definition it can be said that slums are a part of a city yet it is…
I applied to the counseling program and got accepted. I had the attitude that I am going to start and if it is something I find too difficult, I will stop. After all, getting a Master’s degree was something on my bucket list that I had pulled out. I was retired and didn’t need a degree for a career. When I started in the program, spring semester in 2013 I didn’t know exactly what to expect. As a senior citizen, I knew that I would have to compete with students my children age and younger. I…