Radio Hauraki

In the short story “The Enormous Radio,” John Cheever describes for us what happens when people get addicted to anything, similar to what we saw in Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited. He shows how by obtaining a certain item, people get haunted with its function and can’t control themselves until it starts to affect their own lives. In this story, the abruption of the smooth sailing life of the Westcott family was the enormous radio that Jim bought for his wife Irene. People that are high up…

The goal of this project is to learn how to study students and their learning. I was placed in a third grade class at Carl Cozier and learned a lot from my learning partner as well as many other students in the class. I spent about half of the day with my LP and the majority of the time spent together was in the classroom setting. The six things I observed about my LP include her physical presence, relationships with others, activities and interests, modes of thinking and learning, strengths and…

Caitlin McCarthy Com101-Interpersonal Communications 3/14/16 The purpose of this paper is to show how I have been using the responding technique that we have talked about in class in my daily life. Some of the response skills that I have been consistently using are paraphrasing, framing and advice. While practicing these skills I have realized that they truly do work. One instance where I utilized a responding technique was during a situation while babysitting. The situation involved the…

If you’ve ever walked down the halls of Worland High School in the last couple of years then you are probably familiar with a certain teacher who has been mesmerizing and inspiring students for years. This teacher, like many teachers at Worland High, has the ability to transform students from simple minded balls of clay, to Michelangelo sculpted philosophers. The teacher about whom I’m talking of is not only a teacher, but a doctor which is even more reason to believe everything that he says.…

Nine seconds left before halftime, the Indians only needs three points to be tied with the wildcats; number ten shoots for a tying score for the Indians. The crowed is on there toes, SWISH the Indian fans go wild, he made the shot and the score in now twenty six: twenty six. This basketball game is where it all started, I thought I met the guy of my dreams. I was a senior cheerleader for the Indians and my mother was working in the concession stand that night so my friend Kira and I decided…

I interviewed a nurse whose name is Rosetta Smoots and she has been in the field for over twenty years. She helped me to understand that being a nurse will not always be easy emotionally for me and that I will have a lot of bad days. She wanted to get into nursing for the same reason I do, to help people. This talk also helped me to understand that nursing school is very competitive, and that I will need to work harder than I ever have to be successful. She said as long as this is what I truly…

When I was 13 years old, after completion of seventh grade, my family moved to Kansas City and I started a new school. I met my best friend Dawnitra (D) in eighth grade music class and we have been in each others lives ever since. I would not say that we became best friends instantly, this is a fact that neither of us denies. My hatred for musicals and constant bitching about having to watch them in class annoyed her. And I thought she was a bit mean; she used to trip me in the hallway just…

Curtis brings a lot of information together in chapter five, The State and Sexualities, in her book, Pleasures and Perils: Girls’ Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture. She uses her observations, interviews, and informative talk show community radio stations to get her understanding of the sexual culture she is surrounded by in Nevis. Curtis explores both some of the institutions around the Nevisians lifestyle alike the Nevisian Ministry of Health as well as the people’s words and…

Ted Bundy states to the Pensacola police, “I’m the most cold-blooded son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.” Bundy gives a perfect description of himself after being convicted and taken into custody by the Pensacola Police Department. Bundy was very open about the thirty killings he convicted, and he offered the Pensacola police officers details about these killings that forever changed the lives of the very frightened and disturbed American people Bundy, above all, did not want to be caught, ever.…

Two Gender Styles For decades, researchers have concluded that women and men have different forms of acting, thinking, and even communicating. Due to the differences in their behavior men and women usually do or say things that disappoints their partner. In occasions a simple misinterpretation of a response can make a person feel bad. Could it be that men and women express their words differently? Or does the communication style make men and women to decode the response differently? In what…