Classmates

Diversity is the perfect word to describe my worl. My parents are Vietnamese immigrants. Their goal coming here was to find a better life and start a family where their kids can thrive. Growing up in my household, my parents and other family members imposed Vietnamese traditions and teachings onto me, many of which I’ve grown accustomed to. One of the things that I still carry with me is respect. I show respect to all of the new people I meet, no matter the age, ethnicity, or status in society.…

Four years ago, my family migrated to America with views of America as a land of opportunity and Americans as an intellectual society with a high regard for formality and knowledge. Based on four years of living in America, I now think extremely different as opposed to my pre-migration beliefs. For example people, specifically children and teenagers, live their lives daily without regard for the use of profanity or colloquial language. Although Americans do possess positive qualities, negative…

to practice ahimsa in class and in my asanas. With certain asanas, I know when to give my classmates enough room. For example, when we do the shoulder stand, I know that my classmates and I need enough room in between ourselves to do the asana. I wouldn’t say that I’ve made friends in class, but I greet my classmates and start conversations with them to catch up about the week. I am respectful to my classmates when they aren’t able to do certain asanas by not laughing or making fun of them. I…

learned how to develop shared meaning through respectful inquiry in a group setting. When I initially signed up for this class, I did not understand the type of communication that is dialogue. I knew the premise of the class was that each week a classmate would come to class with a specific topic that we would be expected to think about, create our own statement or position on, and then use the class time to debate. I have learned, however, that dialogue is so much more! As Socrates used…

Feeling involuntary urges to blink rapidly, jerk my head, and form facial grimaces, I was not your “typical” child. My classmates would often look at me in a peculiar way, laughing at each of my spasms. I was confused, but more than ever, I felt vulnerable to the idea of being a social outcast and thought that a solitary career was my only path in life. I was soon diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome. My diagnosis proceeded to affect all those around me, including my parents and siblings, who…

depicts how war was actually experienced. With 126,000 casualties of the United States alone, All Quiet on the Western Front replaces that romantic and heroism of these other novels with the brutal reality of death and violence. With all of Paul’s classmates being dead, and then Paul’s death in the end it emphasizes what the devastating effects of war have on the young men who were convinced by their elders, such as teacher Kantorek to be loyal to Germany. They felt as though they were trapped…

character and is consumed with inconsistency and contradictions. At twenty-four, he lived an isolated life and found himself envisioning instances in which he had been insulted and revenged. At a dinner party, he humiliated himself in front of old classmates and found pleasure in his own utter…

I end up being set up by the minor and possibly someone else. There are many different scenarios that could have happened but I am glad that I learned my lesson before entering the halls and have corrected them as well. I will do my part for my classmates and future coworkers by making sure they have someone who is watching their backs at all times. It is the only way we will be successful in this field and the only way we will be able to stay alive doing this…

Alex He Mrs.Sheller LA IV Honors September 29, 2016 Transforming My Identity In 7th grade, a classmate sitting with the cool kids told the table that all East Asians were either really hot or really ugly. It won a few agreements, chuckles, but I sat wondering. "What am I?" I demanded. His face scrunched up a little. At the time, my 12-year-old self looked and acted plain, forgettable even. He, however, had summed up people who share my basic facial features as either the supermodels he saw in…

They must be able to trust in their own classmates. “Students expectations about the integrity of their classmates can determine whether the college culture reinforces honesty.’ (Source C). When everyone is able to trust the people beside them in a classroom, cheating will take a decline, because the individual will want to do…