Random walk

Communication is widely defined as the act of expressing feelings, ideas, or thoughts to someone else. We know the significance of expressing ourselves but it is often more important the effectiveness in which you do so. How we often avoid getting picked on in class or even asking questions, unsure of how effective you are in delivering your message across. How we are usually confronted with formal presentations where you feel your anxiety rushing through your veins, consuming you, little by…

“Don’t question authority!” they said. “Stop thinking everyone’s out to get you!” they said. “Sit down and shut up!” they said. Growing up in a society where statements like this are propagated has resulted in a shockingly docile population. In other words, there is a disgustingly large amount of people who just don’t care. When something is wrong, people do not say anything for fear of being judged or getting in trouble. When all the facts do not add up, people turn a blind eye. The list could…

and it was the Christmas break I also remember the giants winning the super bowl that year. Two weeks later and here I am walking into the front gates of the school, and first thing I did was go to my guidance counselor she called in someone to walk me to my classes the kid came in he was almost same age as me, and he spoke Arabic so it wasn’t difficult to talk to him, so he walked me around the school and then he walked me to my class, my first class was algebra I walked in the…

Growing up I was always taught by my parents, that giving someone a helping hand is a great to do. It should be something everyone should learn to do because when we least expect it, our loved ones might need a helping hand. Since we help does around you when they needed help, someone will give us a helping hand when we need it. So I use that way of thinking at all times and at all places. I always try to help as many people as I can and most times I offer the help without being asked. The…

My current journey I question the word life. I question my past journey ups and downs and if everything happens for a reason. I also look at judgement in the world today. People judge others for being evil or bad and treat these individuals as if they have always been this way. As I look at my 20-year-old son today, I think to myself where did I go wrong. It takes me back to the day he was born and what a beautiful baby he was. He was a happy baby and I exposed him to love that I never received…

“Porphyria’s Lover” & “Neutral Tones”: The Sinister Similarities of the Speakers The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult experience that humans ever come up against. The poem “Porphyria’s Lover”, written by Robert Browning, adds a sense of irony to this. At the most superficial layer, the speakers in both “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Neutral Tones”, written by Thomas Hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in “Neutral Tones” seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. The speaker of…

We often hear people saying that growing up without a father figure can be bad to a child. However, I never saw it that way. When I was a year and a half old, my father had decided to migrate to the United States, and leave his family and everything else behind him. His willingness to provide a better future for his family was far stronger than anything else. Growing up I remember asking my mother when will he be back. At that time there was no, telephones or instant mailing system to keep a…

In chapter 4 of Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. Its Grown. Here’s How, Coyle articulates a conversation he had with a teenager, John Crawford, about the concept of deep practice. Crawford described the moment that he truly began deep practicing as “clicking in.” (87). This explanation of the feeling of deep practice resonated with me because I felt that same “clicking in” feeling around mid-term of this semester. In my last paper, one of my goals was to be more conscious in…

In the book, 5 practices orchestrating productive mathematics discussion, it discusses five practices that will improve student-centered discussion (Smith & Stein, 2011). These six practices are anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, connecting, setting goals and selecting tasks. The first practice is anticipating. In the book, 5 practices orchestrating productive mathematics discussion, it states, “Anticipating requires that teachers do the problems as many ways as possible” (Smith &…

1) Ensure that your goals are realistic. Making sure your goals are realistic is important because if you 're striving towards a goal and never reach it, or don 't reach it in time, you will back track and feel like a failure. This can be solved by making appropriate time goals and allowing for interruptions. Make it important to make SMART (Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time based.) goals as it will give you a strategic and focused approach to it each goal. 2) When planning…