In Harm's Way

New Years’ of 2014 It all started on December 31, 2013. I had decided to bring in the year with a few friends, who at the time I thought were my true friends. Just to find out later on that they weren’t. I thought that this was going to be a great way to bring in the New Year; I was wrong. On the night of the 31st I was getting ready for the New Year’s Eve party that we have at my church every year. I’m always a part of the program, so naturally I was practicing. While I was practicing, I…

ion L – Look back. Play back every detail of the experience in your head like a video. I found this week to be quite interesting. I got complete orientation from our clinical instructor regarding the 5B MEDICAL UNIT where we posted. This unit contains mainly patients with medical problems including isolated patients. I got to know more about the co-workers, clients, and the settings of Cambridge memorial hospital. I was working under the supervision of my mentor. She was supportive and took me…

Think Before You Eat Chocolate “At 6 a.m., 10-year-old Emmanuel wakes and readies himself for a day of labor in the cocoa fields. Along the way, he watches as other kids walk in the opposite direction - toward school. He reaches the fields at sunrise and uses his machete to slice ripe cocoa pods from the tree. Later, he carries the cocoa pods he’s harvested from the field, hacks them open and gathers the beans, which will later be used to make chocolate.” Kids in Ghana have to wake up every day…

It’s hard to imagine that this time last year I was attending high school with my best friends, seeing my family every night, and wishing graduation would come faster. Now I am living 5 hours away from that familiar area, taking care of myself, and studying for finals. This first semester of freshman year has been incredible, eye opening, and a lot shorter than I could have ever imagined. One thing I’ve learned through this semester that it is actually okay to eat meals by yourself and walk to…

The Contender Grit makes us push forward or crumble without it. People think that grit is just working hard, but it is not, It is mainly perseverance. In the novel The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, a young African American boy is struggling to find a passion in life despite the discrimination he faces during this time period. When Albert does find his passion, people are constantly trying to bring him down or stop him from succeeding. The main point of this essay is to prove how we choose to…

Paul Bloom, in the article “The Baby In The Well: The Case Against Empathy,” argues that the human emotion, empathy, causes our world more harm than it does good and that humans should use reason in place of it. Bloom supports his claims by contrasting between a counter argument and examples that back up his view on empathy. The author’s purpose is to inform people about how empathy can blow situations out of proportion in order to try and make them believe that reason is much more useful in…

decision on coming to this place was taking this big of a risk worth it. The only option I have left is to crawl into one of the vents. I make my way out of the vents into the 2nd story of the building the Lobby is downstairs it’s abandoned there’s blood all around. All the computers are broken I can’t imagine what has been happening here I make my way into a room full of corpses and ripped off heads there’s blood and organs all over the floor. “AGHHHHHHHHHH!” A SWAT officer screams in pain and…

Some more strategies that I learned from ECE 4475 that I have stored away in my files are the brain-based activity of SCOOT and using the online resource of GoNoodle. My kindergarten class uses GoNoodle everyday and the physical movement is a great way to give the students a brain break. SCOOT is also another strategy I’d like to use in my first year of teaching, incorporating the music, movement, and learning content into one activity is a great to get the student engaged in their learning.…

financial help from Spain’s king. From that point on Dugard doesn’t leave out any detail, he makes sure his readers know how difficult and grueling these 4 voyages were including many deaths, arguments, and defeats. On his first voyage he makes his way to Hispaniola and Nividad with 3 ships, one of which, the Santa Maria, sank. Those on the Santa Maria stayed on the island of Nividad setting up a small village until Columbus returned. His second journey back to the Caribbean was much larger,…

By “Gaining Attention” of the audience, I was able to show them the ways in which voting has taken on less of a role in our society over the years. I then “Established a need” by telling the audience that young people fell their vote no longer matters. Then I was able to “Satisfy the need” by talking to the audience on ways to show a younger generation the importance of voting. By “Visualizing the need Satisfied” I talked to the audience on how…