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thought I had great time management skills, and note taking skills. I thought it would be really easy making friends. I even thought, my social anxiety would ease up a ton. I had all of these assumptions, and I was wrong about every single one of them. When it came to improving my note taking skills, I knew I had to figure out a way that would work best for me, but I wasn't aware of all of the different styles, before we went over how to take notes in class I was transcribing everything, I…

animosity between whites and Native people. Subsequently, the images of native people in the public changed over time as that competition increased. In 1781 when Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes of Virginia, slavery was so rampant that many American believed that it was the natural place for black people. However, in Notes of Virginia, Jefferson described how Native American’s by nature were brave warriors who instinctually protected their land and were a free group of people. Thomas Jefferson…

Shohat, Ella. "Notes on the "Post-Colonial"." Social Text, no. 31/32 (1992): 99-113. doi:10.2307/466220. This essay serves as a close-reading of the notions of temporality and teleology and the ways in which they are deployed as feedback loops between postcolonialism and neocolonialism in Ella Shohat’s article titled “Notes on the “Post-Colonial””. The Past in the “Post”and “Colonial” “The colonial in the “post-colonial” tends to be relegated to the past and…

In this free verse poem, a young adult, female student that attends college has reportedly committed suicide by jumping out of her window from her dorm. To follow up, she has written a suicide note that explains her problems in life. This poem may pertain specifically to Asian-American women, but there still is a significant message about gender roles and sexuality. The narrator states, “dear mother and father. I apologize for disappointing you…

In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson discusses religion extensively. Jefferson defines freedom as allowing citizens to express themselves without fear of government or church persecution. He firmly believed in separation of church and state. Jefferson then goes on to use his religious beliefs to show that he prefers rural life to the urban life. Jefferson writes that, “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has…

back in England. In 1995, Disney Pictures decided to create a film called “Pocahontas” which was to be based off of John Smith’s A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony. In A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony, John Smith writes the small about of time that he spent in the New World. When the movie begins, John Smith is…

Like all developments and initiatives, negative aspects of the change are also present as well as the positive aspects and this is no different for this development. Brooks and Erickson (2012) did a study on the impact of electronic clinical notes in the hospital and found both positives and negatives for the change. The negative impacts that they found in nursing care included usability concerns, server crashes and resistance to change from staff. Usability difficulty is probably one of the…

Along with strong ethos and logos, Beck also uses strong pathos. In the book’s “Author’s Note,” Beck says the gun argument “is really about control. Not of guns, but of us. Controlling what we eat and drive, how we heat our homes, and how we educate our kids—that’s all small potatoes compared to controlling our overall relationship with government” (XV). Beck is evoking anger and concern out of his audience. Beck’s main audience is conservatives, and most conservatives prefer as little…

buses on the left. Getting on the buses marked the end of our school day. I woke up another day ready to have fun. I went to school and did my normal routine. I stood in the breakfast line and watched for my friends. In Mrs. Collin 's class I took notes as usual and before you knew it I was in Coach Irvin 's class ready to have…

Literature in Isolation in Notes from Underground Literature in Notes from Underground is a prominent theme that controls the nameless character. He is an extremely well read man who lives life through books and his imagination. For him, literature is an alternative for a life he cannot or will not live. As a practice that is solitary in nature, reading isolates him from experience. He has a preconceived notion of life that has nothing to do with any life experiences. These conceptions are a…