Colorado School of Mines

Garcia.Session1.Journal Here I am, thirty years after graduating high school. As I grew older, I often wondered what happened to the young girl that was so full of dreams and intentions. I thought I could change the world. I did very well in my professional life at around 28 years old and was financially responsible. I was proud of myself and felt as if I accomplished alot at a very young age. I wondered if I needed to further my education afterall. Life was pretty good and if you 're…

Storytelling can teach people how to understand others. People get inspired by other life story because people don’t have same personality and life story. Life lesson is more than any education that we get from school. It is important to ask share others personal narratives because every person has their own life story that he/she pass through. Dave Isay is interview people about their life experience or what they feel about themselves. Its fundamental to ask others to understand better. Isay…

support it; this craze led the government to ignore various warnings from the leading medics and scientists of the era. As a result of this blatant disregard of these warnings, the Navajo peoples who volunteered to go to war and those who worked in mines and these people’s families have dealt with intense emotional distress and…

What- WHAT - Why did you plan this experience? How did you organize for this experience? What materials did you collect? What spaces did you utilize? What feedback did your co-teachers/mentors give you and how did you integrate their feedback? During the experience, what were your students doing? What were your students not doing? What were the students’ goals, strategies and theories? What were you and your co-teachers doing? What were you and your co-teachers not doing? What were the teachers’…

up in yours, mine, and our family. I was my mom’s, my step sister was my step dad’s and my brother was both of theirs. My mom was a stay at home mom until my brother was around eleven. My step dad didn’t want my mom to work at all. She eventually talked him into. She became a cook at high school. Only took her…

certain field that he was eager to pursue. Once my Father was done inquiring about my schooling and career goals, he began to reflect back on my musical performing days in high school, and how he wished I would have followed his dream of me being a professional cellist. Tan (1989) mentions a comparable situation to mine where her mother thought she “could be a Chinese Shirley Temple” (p. 371). As Tan trained to be just like Shirley Temple from the movies and took classes, she felt like she…

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a type of drilling that uses water, sand and chemicals, shot at high pressure, to release energy resources trapped inside rocks. This recently new technology for drilling allows areas that were previously inaccessible for drilling, like very concentrated rocky areas, to now be opened up through fracking to obtain natural gases and oil. The water solution used with this drilling technique produces almost the same amount of “sludge” as an after…

At the Disco. The next song I chose was Strawberry Swing by Coldplay. I chose this song to represent one of the best days of my life. The best day of my life was this summer on a road trip. My family and I were traveling up through Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. The views were great as we were driving and the city life was very exciting. We got to visit Beale Street in Memphis, Elvis’ house, and many interesting places in New Orleans. Strawberry Swing is a very mellow…

Hardly new in the United States, school shootings are perceived as devastating, frightening and incomprehensible acts, with long-lasting effects on society. Representing the work of America’s ten deadliest school shooters, statistics compiled, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured. Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life? Do school shooters aim with specific targets in their sights…

shared with anyone else, what good is it doing in the world. When one thinks of generosity there are a few individuals who automatically come to mind, including Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Andrew Carnegie. These men have given money so that schools can be built, aid can be…