Non-metropolitan district

III. Professional Biography (two double-spaced pages) A. What factors influenced you to become a teacher? Describe your greatest contributions and accomplishments in education. My mother always alleged I became a teacher because I loved to chat, but more than that I loved to share. As always, my mother was correct. She believed in me, as well as numerous Tyler ISD teachers (TJ Austin, Bell, Moore, and Robert E. Lee) who educated me well and for this I will be grateful! It is my longing to…

International Business District (IBD). Hailed as one of the worlds most futuristic cities, Songdo IBD is located just 40 miles southwest of Seoul, South Korea. The new development is scheduled for completion in 2018 and is being build on 1500 acres of land, “right along the Incheon waterfront.” Rita Lobo (2014) of World Finance claims the Songdo IBD, “is the largest private real estate development in history with a price tag of $40bn (para. 1).” Many believe the new business district will…

Language is used to give tone, and the author’s word choice is exceedingly important regarding any connotations to the subject. Garcia Marquez takes a brothel; a place normally associated with dirty, degrading activities and glorifies it through the use of language. At Cervantes’ brothel, there are musicians who plan in an “enormous courtyard for dancing lit by lantern gourds bought in the Chinese bazaars of Paramaribo.” (Page 64) The atmosphere created by these words quite serene, the dancing…

was a force behind his anger. Nobody knew he suffered from his war experiences like I suffered from mine. Yet, he was able to marry. I wondered could I find a woman if anytime I thought about anything I thought about Nam. I remember the red light district of Saigon. I remember going to those houses, but mostly I remember the everyday woman walking with children or along the dams of the rice paddies. I thought of Bao’s woman. She was blown apart because she had an American…

The area of Metro Center is largely inhabited by commercial businesses with major through traffic coming from a neighboring interstate, downtown Nashville, and two nearby universities. Because of the overwhelming commercial presence in Metro Center, the housing options are limited and traditional single-family homes are nonexistent. Only four apartment duplexes are located in the area, with the maximum number of bedrooms being three, leaving little space to grow a family. Not only are options…

Flights land at 7am in the infamous O’Hare airport which seems to be a standard time arriving from Toronto. The markets gear up to open, and the brokers are already thirty stories above the streets in their offices preparing for the day. Chicago is a city of many skyscrapers, traffic, and the odd smell of chocolate coming from the Boomer’s Chocolate Company. It is a city of shadows that casts a never-ending gloom, only to have it broken up into tiny fragments by the narrow gaps in-between…

“This isn’t actually happening? How could this be? What? Why?” These questions kept running around in my head as I stay up through the gloomy, cold nights. I desperately tried to disregard the darkness of the situation. It was problematic for me to focus on keeping warm in this blank, emotionless room when this situation, of roughly three months ago, had kept recapping in my mind – the intense pain shared between friends and family, endless tears, and the cramping of my hands from trying to look…

Born Into Brothels Reflection This documentary about the red light district really opened my eyes, and helped me learn about the hardships some kids were facing in parts of our world that I knew very little about. I noticed three main things about the lifestyle and personalities of the children. First, they had nothing: no love, no care, and no one to support them. Even so, they seemed full of joy, never complained, and persisted on with life. After meeting Zana, their lives had changed so…

the effort that goes into the event itself. Summary of the film The First Monday in May follows the behind the scene storyline of how The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition of “China: Through The Looking Glass” came to life, as well as the effort it took to host the 2015 Met Gala. The exhibition of “China: Through the Looking Glass” is The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibit to date. The film also studies the importance of fashion in our culture, and balances the…

Byzantine and the Renaissance are two major periods in the history of art. During this time different forms of art were influence by religion. During these eras, artist produce pieces of art that represented Christ, the Virgin Mary, or the Saints. These masterpieces reflected the ideas and artistic thoughts that were evolved during these time periods. This essay will compare and contrast two masterpieces (Virgin (Theotokos and Child between Saints Theodore and George and The Maestà, Museo…