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I will start this by being brutally honest, I tend to indulge myself in things others would refer to as “mushy crap”; ice cream, boy bands, badly written romance novels, all things I enjoy, along with Waitress. The musical based closely off of a 2007 film of the same name, opened on Broadway in April of 2016 and has been experiencing a successful run so far, with a tour scheduled for 2017. I had the pleasure of seeing Waitress this summer, in early July and, admittedly, shed a tear or two, or…

Sophists were a category of narrators, educators, writers, and supporters, who received the reputation for their displays of language and for dazing their audiences with their “brilliant” styles, intriguing appearances and loud personalities. The Sophists believed that law was conservative/cautious and truth was relative. Seeing persuasion…

In Richard Rodriquez’ essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, experiences with education and how a desire to acquire knowledge has the possibility of straining family relationships are explored. Rodriquez describes himself as a scholarship boy; the type of student who is “Always successful” but “always unconfident”, he was “exhilarated by my progress” but “Sad” while being “anxious and eager to learn”, in conjunction with being “an imitative and unoriginal pupil” (Rodriquez 339). In essence,…

The play A Streetcar Named Desire explores brutality vs. tenderness displayed through the personalities of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Marlon Brando's charismatic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire undermines the validity of Blanche's struggle. The contrast between Vivien Leigh's Blanche and Brando's Stanley emphasizes the most negative aspects of Blanche's character while supporting and validating the most positive of Stanley's,…

Context: Denton Elementary is a small school near the heart of Lansing. The school itself is in pretty nice shape. It is newly painted thanks to the teachers. One of the local hardware stores donated the paint and in the summer the teachers came in and repainted the whole interior of the building. The children are from a lot of different backgrounds. The school has one hundred and seventy-five children, from grades kindergarten through third (School Directory, 2015). Forty-six percent of the…

She was able to successfully read letters that were ***** with only two. Words that were *** she was able to answer with confidence, and did not hesitate when sounding out the words. The three sound blend words is Carmen’s area of strength and she received them all correct. Carmen’s area of strength with the Yopp-Singer Test Knowing that Carmen is capable of listen to the sounds of words demonstrates how she is capable of paying attention to the sounds of words and how she is able to break…

Introduction The fundamental function of language underpins most everything that the 21st-century learner engages in; including, multimodal mediums such as; visual, written, symbolic, and oral representations; language is consequently seen and heard. The contextual components of language cement meaning and understanding for the diversity of participants, while the malleability of language has witnessed the growth of dynamic capabilities (Emmitt, 2010, p. 54). The ever-evolving nature of language…

I thought I was prepared enough. Participating in clubs and working hard for all kinds of tests, memorizing esoteric words and native idioms, I got high scores and received offer from my dream school. Watching American movies and TV series and reading English books, I tried to catch a glimpse of their lives and trained myself to be familiar with reading and scanning. Despite all my efforts, there are still huge gap…

already used to a college environment. Doing this service learning project made me feel that I was back in high school. I decided to do this project for four main reasons: I didn't want to do the research paper, I wanted to return the help that I received from my ESL teacher when I was in PHS, I wanted to do something productive with the time that I had available between my classes, and lastly I needed some money. Overall, I wasn't expecting to see so much difference between the standard, and…

The health care reforms have received negative remarks from various insurance companies like United Health group etc. The UnitedHealth Group company estimates noted that if it fails to comply with the pricing for the medical costs, then its profitability will greatly suffer. They will…