Lecture hall

All across college campuses, there have been contradictory opinions about safe spaces. On the one hand, safe spaces are necessary as they encourage discussion, physical safety, and group solidarity. On the contrary, safe spaces limit student exposure and can cause discrimination between the majority and minority figures, which causes safe spaces to have a negative reputation directed towards them. They engage in many definitions, my definition of a ‘safe space’ is any physical and or non-…

University has approximately 6,100 people attending (truman.edu). At University of Missouri, there are approximately 35,400 students currently enrolled (missouri.edu). With my basic classes such as chemistry and calculus, learning in much larger lecture halls rather than a classroom with 35 students would be very difficult for me to grasp the information being taught. Most importantly, the main reason I chose Truman State University was because it offers the other majors I am considering if I…

She had noticed a dark figure near the front of the hall. Kit whispered under her breath, “This is it, time to announce my engagement.” Nat cleared his throat. As he began to speak his voice started to crack. It was obvious he was nervous. “Kit and I are going to get married,” he spitted out under a…

dining hall, and a kitchen. My kitchen will near a dining hall; the interior design of my kitchen would be in Italian style. The dining hall will be furnished with dining table and hang a chandelier at a center of a table. The first floor would be surrounded with wide transparent glasses windows. And these windows are covered with a designer curtains. In my living room there will be a big sofa and a L.C.D so my whole family will enjoy our favorite T.V shows and the movie. Along the hall way…

Education is fundamental for everyone. It has always played an important role in the human society . With this, learning can be engaged in various ways, leading people to have different opinions on how the educational system works. Written in 1984, Theodore R. Sizer’s essay "What High School Is" as part of his book "Horace 's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School, analyzes a high school student’s reflection and puts in his own past experience and knowledge to state his ideas of how…

A different town full of unfamiliar people, one of which you have to share a room with, new food and a completely different schedule than anything you have ever known; welcome to college. With all these changes, beginning college is bound to be a difficult transition. However, once accustomed to the new beginning, college can be a wonderful learning experience where you discover not only yourself, but skills that will be kept with you forever. Two of the many skills I have acquired are from the…

This past year has been a long one for me; it came with many successes and many failures. I would like to break down my circumstances based upon semester that way then I can explain the changes in circumstances that have created the demise of my grade point average. In my first semester here at U Albany I believed was a great success, out of five classes in three I received an A, another C-, and lastly and E. I would like to make it fully clear that I wish I had dropped my statistics class for…

everyday interactions, people learn to play their assigned roles from others. The dramatical approach recognizes the front stage and the back stage. The front stage can be seen as the place that we spend most of our time, in the public arena. Such as lecture hall or at the dinner table. However, in the private spheres of our life, such as our bedrooms these can be viewed as the backstage (Goffman, 479). Anywhere we "act" in front of people can be viewed as the front stage; in this respect…

Attendance Optional Both online and traditional face-to-face learning are effective despite their differences. Each type of learning has their advantages and disadvantages regarding the progression of a student. Such as, the amount of help that a student receives by a teacher, the ability to cheat on assignments, the student’s mental health state, and how that can affect the learning process in and outside of an actual classroom. Traditional learning may seem scary or even challenging to some…

Have you ever seen The Simpsons on TV and saw Stephen Hawking in one of the episodes in that show? Believe it or not, one of the most famous physicists of the 20th century was presented on one of the popular animated comedies in America, The Simpsons. His presence on the show was comical but Stephen Hawking was more than a made up animated character, he was an actual person with a brilliant mind. Although Stephen Hawking has a disability of motor neurone disease, he was able to continue his work…