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What Wasn’t Attained as a Child Our first eighteen years are the years that mostly shape who we are as an individual for the rest of our life. If we do not get something that we truly wanted or truly thought would greatly benefit our lives, we have some regret later on in life. Researchers set out to do interviews on several people to find out what those things they wanted were, and how not getting it affected their lives. Researchers also went a step further to find out what impact they think…

Critical review - PL1D100 Overview The purpose of the study was to test if the memory of an event can be reconstructed by the questions asked subsequently. Two experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, forty-five participants watched videos of traffic accidents, ranging from five to thirty seconds long. After watching each video, the subjects were asked questions about the accident, with the crucial question being “About how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?”, but…

‘A breath of fresh air’, ‘love is like a rose’, and ‘slept like a baby’, are all phrases that are immediately recognized as problematic clichés. Many words and phrases in the english language have either lost their original meaning, or have been replaced with something new and, at times, inappropriate. A classic example that will be looked at during the next four hundred and fifty words is one of Aristotle’s thirteen fallacies; “begging the question.” Begging the question is a fallacy in…

In class, we conducted an exercise that required us to speak to another human and to ask them the following questions 1. What do you do for fun? 2. What do you like to eat? 3. And what do you drive? However, you may remember that there were additional questions, that I did not include since I ran out of time. The compelling reason, which I realized at the end, was that I was not just a participant but I was asking follow-up questions that sparked a conversation. For example, I learned that Dara…

Halo-Halo Taking off my shoes before going inside my home is as if I am leaving the American and westernized aspects of my life outside and walking barefoot into a pure Filipino household. “Take off your shoes before you come inside!” means “It is alright to not be American here, embrace your Filipino culture because you could not embrace it out there.” The only place where I can be a proud Filipino is in my house because once I leave that house and put on those shoes, I walk on the…

In 1986 Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. This act established a mandatory sentence of five years for 500 grams of powder cocaine versus five grams of crack cocaine (Vagins, McCurdy). Why the same sentence for basically the same drug but vastly different quantities? The answer lies deep in a racial argument. Cocaine is more expensive and therefore sought by higher-class white individuals, while crack cocaine is cheap and utilized by the poorer class, mainly African Americans. Compile…

In retrospect, Jami inviting me into the staff meeting my first day, and introducing me to this specific group of agendas was a wise move of supervision. Not only did she allow me the opportunity to introduce myself on my terms, disclosing how much or little as I desired, but she also discreetly introduced me to a wide-variety of issues that are relevant to the field and specific to this agency. Additionally, in this meeting I began to see Jami’s supervision style to be relaxed, yet firm. She…

Overall Impression I feel that I did a good job seeing that it was my first time with this. I believe that I asked appropriate questions as well as responding to Mrs. D’s responses properly. I think that she enjoyed being able to explain what she went through to someone who was actively listening the entire time. Strengths I believe that I was good at reading Mrs. D’s non-verbal communication. Whether she was showing she was happy, frustrated or upset, I feel that I was able to read it well.…

In the article “Teaching ‘Taco Bell’s Canon,’” James Courter argues that college students´ writing reveals that they do not read enough. Courterś diction, examples, and topic sentences create a humorous piece that criticizes the lack of reading among college students. Courter purposely imitates his students’ mistakes throughout the piece, and he incorporates several plays on words to further his point that students are unaware of their mistakes. The numerous imitations introduced at the…

Mandatory Minimum Sentences are over exaggerated and harsh sentences criminals have to follow while they are in jail. This all started to prevent and stop crime for possession of any and all drug possession. Many victims are the cause of Mandatory Minimum Sentences sadly, which causes many problems dealing with family abandonment, budget expenses, or prison overcrowding. The amount of individuals that go to jail are more than any other prison because half of them are filled with people who…