Focusing

Drosdick English, Per 2 10/7/15 Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker is a poet, an author, and she has written multiple short stories focusing on the point of views of women and their 'obsessive' needs. The two short stories, "The Waltz" and "A Telephone Call", both written by Dorothy Parker, do very good jobs outlining her usual style of writing. "The Telephone Call" is focusing on a woman who is overly obsessed with a man who promised to phone her at around 5 o'clock. When he never phones, this girl…

turn elicits eroticism (Smith 213). The act of “appearance-as-disappearance,” varies from cinema to literature, but either way they coerce sexual desire. In other words, “appearance-as-disappearance” means to make women an object of sexual desire by focusing on certain aspects of their body or clothing, which in turn prompts eroticism. In The Seven Year Itch, Marilyn Monroe’s character is downgraded form human to object of sexual desire for Richard Sherman, because she doesn’t have a name…

Throughout the book, The New Jim Crow, the statement of the Jim Crow laws are referenced several times by the author. The reason for their inclusion, and their carrying of substantial meaning throughout the readings, has to do with what the statement represents. During the late 1800’s and mid 1900’s a set of laws, named the Jim Crow Laws, were created in order to uphold segregation between those of white descent and those of African American descent. These laws were seen as a permanent solution…

the idea of Harriet Tubman's face on the new $20 bill. Although I have no qualms about Harriet Tubman being the one to grace the $20 bill, I don’t believe there is any need to change the current money. Instead of focusing on which face goes on which bill, the government should be focusing on more important topics such as our national debt. I find it ironic that although The United Stated is "currently plunged into a $19-trillion debt", the people in charge still contunue to find new ways to…

often faced with many tasks to complete, thus, using a counseling theory that is successful in a short amount of counseling sessions would be beneficial for school counselors as well as students. In addition, because of the goal oriented approach and focusing on the students’ strengths, counselors can help students move towards goals in a positive way (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). For me personally,…

After watching the video, I found that I use about almost half of the strategies listed. For instance, I use inhibit information, detox distractions, and motivation. I will admit though that the strategies that I do use, I do not use it one hundred percent precisely. Specifically, I do have some trouble with motivation on certain levels. I have times where I can motivate myself but my brain tells me a better option which will not benefit me in the future. While, inhibit information and detox…

I agree that the students should be focusing on the complicated, yet important details of gaining a college education, rather than the broad reasons that the colleges pitch to families. But I wonder if Hrabowski is focusing too hard on the “how” students should go to college and not enough on the “why”, or “who” part of the discussion. There are hundreds of reasons as to why furthering…

The general argument made by Annie Murphy Paul in her work, Smart Strategies That Help Students Learn How to Learn, is that students and teachers should merely focusing on teaching more cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies instead of focusing on content. More specifically, Paul argues that teachers should focus on teaching students how to learn. She writes,” Teaching students how to learn is important as teaching them content.”(P4). In this article, Paul is suggesting that teaching…

The readings in this chapter focused on the theme of beauty and how this ever-changing idea of beauty is affecting women and men in society. These standards of beauty have never been one finite idea but yet it is detrimental to people’s esteem and in some cases, their health. The gender binary is trying to create a definition on what it means to be a man and what it means to be a women. We see two extremes of the gender binary. Beautiful women should have large breasts and a small waist and…

by Donnie McClurkin, “Climb ‘Til Your Dreams Come True” by Helen Steiner Rice, and The Secret Life of an American Teenager. All four of these pieces of art share the common theme that when you focus on possibilities, new opportunities will arise. Focusing on possibilities creates new opportunities, and the previously mentioned art pieces are similar as they all share the same idea, or theme. Wassily Kandinsky was…