Radio Reconnaissance Platoon

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…

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…