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Tony Danza Paper Tony Danza’s biggest struggle was he rambled a lot and he was not confident about his teaching ability. “In my nervousness, I default to monologue (12)”. There was no need for Tony Danza to talk on and on when he was with the football team. His speech should have been 5 minutes at the most not thirty. Another struggle of his was when the students did an assignment and no one wanted to read it out loud. He started reading the students’ work himself. “All right. Who would like to…

Daniel Orozco is famous for writing the short story called “Orientation.”In his story Daniel uses lots of explanation to give the readers what they want to hear. The tone that is explained to the readers is broad,because he shows a lot of imagery to let the audience know what he is talking about. Daniel talks about how everything is explained around where he works at and tells the people that he is giving a tour all about what the job is like, and between right and wrong. Everything seems weird…

On November 30th, I attended my last first year experience event; I attended the post-election discussion. This was by far the most interesting presentation I have been to. During this presentation, many topics were discussed about negativity and violence. It was a panel of people talking about their opinions on this historical and political election. As said in the beginning, one professor stated, “a man’s last name has now become simonious with negative change.” He said this was a problem…

Constructive Criticism When someone offers constructive criticism, one may respond in a defensive manner no matter how constructive the criticism may be. One tends to attempt to explain or excuse the behavior as to avoid the feeling of judgment. Reactions to constructive criticism, I believe, depends on who offers it, whether it is a family member, a friend, a co-worker, our boss or supervisor, and how well we get along with the person. Overall receiving and responding to constructive…

Plato once said, “ Only the dead have seen the end of the war”. The protagonist of the novel The Things They Carry is Tim O’Brien. He describes the events that occurred in the middle of his Vietnam experience. The book was written to share his memories and O'Brien's own stories. In those stories we discover characters like Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, Kiowa,Dave Jensen and many others whom he served with in the war. This, draws meaning about the war from their relationships. O’Brien addressed shame…

Special Circumstance Essay I was born on the smallest country in the mainland of Africa, The Gambia. Gambia was colonized by the British which made english its official language. Mostly everybody who was born past the time of the colonization knew english, but they still spoke their home language which was mainly Mandingo. I was one of those people I knew english and Mandingo. Life changed when I moved to the United States with my younger brother and my mother to be with my father who was living…

The students were passing in the fluency sprint when I entered the class. Students were asked to take out the place value chart and a marker. Teacher passed out a Kleenex to erase. (Students talked while this transition was taking place.) Teacher reminded students that the voice level in class should be 0. Students continued to talk. Dexter and Brandon were called from class. They missed the introduction and practice for the skill taught today. (I do, We do) Teacher moved to the…

Bridget Thomas is a young bubbly woman who enjoyed her time at the boys and girls club, and is more than happy to share her story and how she improved not only her life but the lives of others. Her determination to help others made her put aside other extracurricular activities for her commitment to the boys and girls club. Though she may not be the only one that felt the need to help, she is one that determined that the commitment she had was much more fulfilling than what she was doing…

I’ve written before about how I met my wife, Georgette. We met on August 4, 1978, in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the Midwest Federation Lebanese Convention. We were both 21 years old. I traveled to Indianapolis with a friend and when we walked into the hotel to check in, Georgette was walking through the lobby with her sister, Janet. My friend yelled out to them and introduced me to Georgette and her sister. We spent a few minutes talking to them and then checked into the hotel. I knew who…

(In my lab) Sometimes it is hard to explain my idea because I studied math using only Japanese in school. Although I tried to learn English math words before coming to the U.S, explaining complicated things in a foreign language is not easy. However, I was relieved that minor English mistakes are not problems because my mentor listens to me patiently. Once I come back to Japan, I would like to continue to study more so that I will be able to explain my idea using math words smoothly. On the…