Pong

Toronto, a place to come back to again The city At first, when I arrived at my homestay, I didn’t realize that I was in Toronto because it didn’t look as a city with 2,6 million population. It just looked like an ordinary small city in Switzerland but when I went in the core of the city, I realized, everything was so much bigger than my town. In Toronto, there is a law that you must show your ID when you want to go in a pub after 10 pm. because you had to be 19 years old to be legally drinking…

When working with students teachers will always have to work in the best interest of the students. In order to work in the best interest of the students teachers have to work together with administration and with the students’ parents. There are many examples of how can it be done, but Principal Juan Gonzalez is a magnificent example that it can be done when you work together. Principal Juan Gonzalez went from Administrative Intern to High School Principal. When Juan came aboard Camp Wyler High…

As stated in the course description, “our ideas about and experiences of health, ‘dis-ease,’ and medicine are profoundly shaped by culture.” In compliance with this theory, we discussed our medicinal upbringings and backgrounds, and how these influence our choice of healing practices today. Our experiences included topics of mental health, oncology, and alternative medicine, among others. In this paper, we will review these anecdotes and reflect on the similarities and differences between our…

I’ve never had a girlfriend before. I just couldn’t approach girls in the same way as what my friends do. I see each of them makes a cute couple and wonder if I can find my soulmate soon. There are actually a few times when I meet a new girl and think, “Oh! she’s so lovely and nice to me. I want to know her more.” But I mostly let go of my chances. It’s always hard for me to approach a girl directly since I’m not a handsome guy. But this time, my destiny brought me to meet a very nice lady. And…

Forrest Gump is a film that defies the conventions of filmmaking, and in that sense it is difficult to do a typical analysis of the film. It’s not so much that the film is overly complicated or that reality is always in question or any art house tricks of that kind; it’s just that Gump doesn’t really follow any rules. We begin with the most obvious: the plot. This is a film that should have redefined the biopic. It is completely about the life and times of Forrest, the protagonist, in fact…

How are you doing? I have not talked or written to you for such a long time, and I really regret about the lost connections between us. I can still remember playing basketball, soccer, and ping pong with you everyday after school. Although you were always more athletic than me, I was still very confident to challenge you every single game. Do you still remember the good times we spent in Mr. Wang’s English class? We were the troublemakers in that classroom, but Mr. Wang could tolerate our…

Every minute of every day we are exposed to some form of leadership, whether it be in a newspaper clipping about the presidential election, or on a famous pop star’s Twitter feed, leadership is prominent among a multitude of platforms in our society. In class we have learned about leadership through our understanding of articles like, “The Enemies of Trust” by Galford & Seibold Drapeau, and also through the classic leadership book, On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis. Through these lenses we…

Part One "Rochelle, are you sure you don't need me to pick you up?" my mom asks as she leans out the car window. I stand in front of my new school, Laguna Creek. It towers above, coating me in shadows. I nervously clutch the strap of my backpack, and, with my other hand, cling to the safety of the car door. "I'll be fine, mom," I say, and release my grip on the car. "See you at 3!" My mom waves as her old, beat-up black Suburban coasts down the school driveway and disappears from sight. I…

named Bertie the Brain. The game “Spacewar!” (1962) was credited as the first widely available computer game. The first at home video game console was created by Ralph Baer and was called the Magnavox Odyssey (1971), which on sold under 100,000 units. Pong, developed by Atari Inc. in 1972, was the first arcade game to ever…

As I walked into the Santa Monica Boys And Girls Club (SMBGC) for the first time, it was lunch hour. I noticed many kids, roughly between the ages of six to sixteen, jumping around, laughing, eating, and talking to Charnelle Ruff, the education coordinator. I tried to approach Charnelle to greet her and ask for my volunteer shirt through the diversely populated crowd of children that I would be interacting with for the next few weeks. However, getting ahold of Charnelle was not as easy as I…