High voltage

I am very thankful for taking this course as I feel I have vastly improved in multiple areas of my communication. I had never taken a course that involved writing a paper and then presenting a speech on it to the class. It was either one or the other, not both. That is what intrigued me to take this course before the semester started. For myself great strides were made in my ability to convince readers through the toulmin model, learned in this course. Help was received along the way…

four years. I would say that my transition to college was a big life changer. In high school I would wait until the last moment to do any kind of work. I always passed, but when I came into college I learned that I could not procrastinate and expect the best grade for waiting until the last minute to do anything. For me it was hard and I did not think that I was not meant for college. Transitioning straight out of high school to college was one of the most hardest things for me to…

A Lesson Learned My senior year was a complete disaster. I never took anything serious, and I always waited till the last minute to do everything. All throughout my senior year teachers told me I needed to push myself to achieve a higher grade although my stubborn self never listened. I can remember I always was a student who fell under the c to a d range in my grades with homework and tests, and my teachers always told me I could do better. It was not till one day that was towards the last…

an A throughout the rest of the semester, because my grades are based on participation in activities and assignments. In both of my Biology class and General Chemistry I have maintained a low B. For University 100 and Philosophy 112 I have kept a high A. For my Biology 160 class I have not worked on assignments, like homework. I usually work on that’s class homework last so by the time I start I am already tired. For the rest of this…

I took a shot. The ball made beautiful arch and went into the basket. I yelled “Yeah! I made it.” Shugo and Takumi came to me, and we high-fived. It was just an ordinary shot, however I was so happy that I made the shot. This was the moment that I determined to play basketball. I immediately joined the basketball team in my school. In the team, I was the worst player, and I knew that…

His class color was orange, and since they cycle around, that was to be mine. Perfect, I thought, I can keep being him. I was just as smart as Avery. He made good grades his whole life, so I of course had to. My brother went out for tennis in high school, so when I became a freshman, I tried out. I made the team and the comparisons to Avery followed soon after. How we setup to hit the same, how we served the same, and even how we ran the same. My coach, Stockwell, started saying I was better…

the Rolling Stones were on a world tour, and perhaps most important of all, the Vietnam War was being heavily protested throughout the country. These protests were not limited to just crowds however; it slithered all the way down to a small group of high school students. These students had unknowingly started a case that would end up making a huge impact on how the public school system may limit a student’s freedom of expression. Starting at the beginning, students John Tinker and Christopher…

The state that I was born in has established a process to determine the level of knowledge gained during a school year. The Oklahoma Board of Education has a requirement that every student take standardized tests at the end of each school year. These sets of tests are commonly called “EOI.” EOI stands for End of Instruction test that are supposed to determine the level of knowledge gain on the corresponding academic level on a yearly basis. Also the test is a means for the state to…

In a survey, conducted by the sophomore class on October 19, 2015, students were asked if they felt teachers spoke with them often about their plans after high school. A majority of the students felt like very few teachers ever asked about their futures plans either it was college or a job. I think it is important that teacher discuss this with students also trying to help them figure out what they want to…

American Public Education VS Public Education of Finland When asked who has the best education programs around the world, who is the first thought? At one time the United States was easily always said to be the top of everything. Today however, the United States does not even make the top ten in the education standings. In fact according to a chart from Pearson website during “[2012 and 2014 the United States ranked 17 and 14]”. When the US is compared to Finland who in the Pearson chart…