Results Interview 1: The 65 years male Doctor What is Motivation and how has your past experience play a role in what you are doing? He answered “Motivation is something that comes from within and pushes you to pursue things and achieve those things. I was born in a very poor neighborhood, both of my parents worked long hours so that my sisters and I can have clothes on our back and food on the table. They didn’t want us to lack anything. At a very young age, I knew I didn’t want to live like…
We need role models because we need someone to look up to, to help shape our lives into a better one like they have. There are all sorts of people who you can look up to in life. In life, not everything appears to be what is seems to be. Robin came all the way expecting that his prominent uncle will surely set him off on a good independent path, but at the end, he was in a whole mess on his own that he needed saving. Robin learns that the man that he had put all his faith in all, this time, was…
1. Which actions by the teacher seemed to support student engagement and understanding? When first getting the data table ready for the experiment Dr. Bradbury was asking students probing questions about why the data table had to be set up in a certain manner, this can be seen in minutes 6-8 of the video. Through this portion of the video Dr. Bradbury is making sure students have a full understanding of what a data table does and how the each data table is set up. While setting up the table…
I was twelve, and in the fifth grade; I loved talking to people and climbing trees and playing with bugs. I didn’t know how to make coffee, because I never drank it, and mum never wanted me to make it, lest I decided I suddenly wanted to drink coffee, because coffee was bad for you and turned you into a short old woman. At least, that’s what she told me; I had no reason not to believe her. My step-father was babysitting me because my mum had been called into work last minute, and she left in a…
One week. That was it. In exactly five days I would be in a different city, different state, eight hours from home. I had made a decision; I had signed papers and contracts, and had registered for classes, yet my parents were still trying to come up with excuses why I should go to a school that was close to home. “Que locos,” I thought, “Can’t they see there is no turning back now?” I could not wait. I was ready to get out of that hole I had called a home for the past eight years. There was…
When I told my dad he suggested that the phone lines were down because there was a snow storm on its way. I shrugged it off, allowing myself to believe him, even though I knew it was a lie. It was that thing, the creep, pissed that I tried to expose it. I quickly grew to hate my mirror. In the day, when I would dress for school, or try to do my makeup, I could see it. Sometimes it would be just a flash, like it was running past my door. Other times it would peer at me from the doorway, still…
My First Culinary Competition I never thought I would ever be good enough to do it alone... but I underestimated myself. I had gone through three years of culinary arts thinking I could never be good enough to compete in the competitions. Everyone supported me: my teachers, my friends, and most of all, my parents. It took three years of culinary arts, iron chef, and convincing from everyone around me for me to be confident enough to participate in a competition and realize I had a true talent.…
1. Cristian Bonilla from Honduras, immigrated at the age of 12: “Being an immigrant wherever I am, and therefore your experience will change, because your past experiences were so much different than anybody else’ here. If you were born outside the country your culture values, your family values everything else changes. And then once you are here, you have come face-to-face to the new culture that is in the United States, the American way… You are always in that constant battle of being like,…
Guy’s Don’t Have Emotion “Hey David, it 's me. Are you still coming over tonight to spend the night with me?” my friend Kevin asked. I glanced anxiously at my mother who had heard the call, and I reassured my answer with her. “Yes, I should be there around 7:00.” I ran upstairs to my room to finish packing for the night. Toothbrush, toothpaste, clean clothes for the next day, and I was all ready to go. I looked over at my Winnie the Pooh stuffed bear, and initially reached for it, but…
As time is progressing, abuse is becoming more common. People in society these days tend to think that domestic abuse is over exaggerated, not knowing how important it really is. Four years ago, in the middle of July it was going to be my first time going to the beach. I was so excited; I 've always dreamed about playing in the waves, and laying out in the hot summer sand. My boyfriend told me that he had the perfect beach day set up for me. Right before leaving for the beach a simple question…