If I Did It

Over the 10-day period, I noticed various strengths and weaknesses in my communication. From my own personal assessment I think that I have good body language, so that what I am saying verbally matches what I am expressing through my non-verbal cues. I also think that I have the ability to adapt my communication depending on the situation, such as when I spoke to someone about a serious topic, compared to having a light conversation with someone I just met. I feel like I could work on my…

5. I chose to watch the movie The Color Purple. I chose this movie because I felt like it would be the least graphic out of the libraries options. The Color Purple is set in the early 1900’s so they do not have as many technical devices as we have today and understand things in a different light. During the early 1900’s it was still acceptable to beat your wife that did not go out of style until really the late 1970’s. It was made illegal in all states by 1920, but people still felt that it…

next moment I realized that the toxic environment was present was the very next day. I overslept and was late to the March to Convocation, but I made it and was at the very end of the parade. I took responsibility for it, but I was told that the entire staff, except Nino, had to go do push-ups at the Clements Center. I was very uncomfortable with this punishment. I am very sensitive about my weight and get really bad anxiety when people watch me attempt to work out. However, because I wanted to…

off. I’m the kid in the back of the picture standing on my tippy-toes because I’m still self conscious about my height. Tonight is the night I’m going out to my first college party. I’ve avoided it, but I promised myself that I would try to go out with my friends. I don’t get drunk or do drugs, but I don’t look down on people who do. I’m awkwardly dressed in the best clothes my friends could find in my closet. The bus leaves Dutch Quad in fifteen minutes and we have to hurry to make it in time.…

To begin, I want to say I find this course insightful. Through the weeks, I have come to accept that everyone has unconscious bias, but also, that it is not something to be ashamed of, if anything, it is something to learn from. Before this class, I was not sure how to articulate my experiences on cultural differences. Also, I did not have a good grasp on culture and how it affects us all differently. I have learned to recognize that I have my own ethnocentrism, that it is okay to feel proud of…

or bad, and I did learned something after the stealing of my purse that I used to carry when I go to Cd. Juarez. I go to Cd. Juarez, Mexico every Sunday to visit my mother because she lives there, and she cannot cross to the United States. One Sunday, the day of the stealing, I was happy as every weekend to go visit my mom. I did not expected something like this happening to me even though Juarez has already fame from time ago as a dangerous city.…

theories, facts and activities. I think that everyone brought forward a creative presentation, making their PSA their very own. I truly enjoyed this class and think that it followed through with the amount of learning potential it offered. 1. What did this class mean to you? To me, this class meant opening my eyes to even more topics and subtopics included with trauma healing, and then being able to take that knowledge and apply it in…

whether if the person seem confident in the information being relayed. In the presentation, I looked like I knew what I was talking about and knowledgeable about the information I was giving because I did not need to read from the power point, nor did I make many vocal interferences to stop to think what to say. I also made a lot of eye contact with the audience. By making good eye contact with the audience, I was able to better connect with them and make it more personal. One can be more…

brother walks into my room and I realized, I was going down a path that I did not want to follow. The biggest question that I receive when I tell my peers where I came from is: why did you come to the academy? They see the groups, the people and the activities I did previous and wonder why I would give it up. They assumed and perceived my identity different than what it was now. Though at the time, they are slightly correct that was a previous identity of myself. Now, I have changed, and matched…

definitely an extreme setback for me, emotionally and physically. I went in for surgery July 17th,2014 a freshman now soon to be going into my sophomore year and i was on bed rest for the entire summer. As an athlete loving the sport I play and having so much passion it was unpleasant knowing that I was going to miss an entire season. For the entire summer, it was hard for me to walk again because I was still in pain. I can definitely say I was going through a distraught time in my life having…