The two articles Agonism in the Acadamy Suriving Higher Learning’s Argument Cluture by Deborah Tannen and The Better for My Foes The role of Opposition by Elouise Bell are both well writien articles. They both have very diffrent views but at the same time have some similaritys. One thing that I noticed when reading that they both talk about heated debate/ agurmnet. When i see those two words togther i think they are similar, as they both result insomething that you are talking about with…
The title of the article is Students Under Stress. It talks about students that are in middle school and how they have too much homework. A parent that has spoken out about this growing topic is, Nancy Kalish. In the article, she talks about when her daughter gets home the first thing that she asks her is, “How much homework do you have?” She says that their “entire relationship revolves around homework.” If her daughter Allison, had a lot of work to do, then she would not be able to “see…
My experience with the Crossroads Community Center’s “Practicing Inclusive Excellence”, or “PIE” workshop, was an extremely positive one. Paige Bolden, the facilitator, and coordinator of intercultural engagement and her intern Kelsey used a series of group activities to teach us not only about ourselves but also gain a better understanding of our class as a whole. The workshop encouraged us to be open-minded and to not make rash assumptions about others without knowing them. The first day of…
"My Bikini Belly” By Shawna Kaminski - Our Full Review Hi there and welcome to our review on “My Bikini Belly” by Shawna Kaminski. As always, this review will be broken into 3 main parts: 1. The basics section that will help you understand what “My Bikini Belly” is all about. 2. The pros and cons section where you will read about the primary benefits and drawbacks of Shawna Kaminski’s program. 3. The conclusions section about My Bikini Belly that sums up our thoughts and feelings on this…
Banished words are words or phrases that can be misinterpreted, misused, overused, or otherwise deemed useless. Every year Lake Superior States University releases a list of banished words. These words come from a variety of sources across the entire country. These banished word nominations are sent in and a committee makes their decision of which words make the cut before the end of each year. Inspired by words on the Banished Word List, our team was tasked to come up with 10 words which we…
During the Mt. Everest team simulation, we learned quite a bit about what it means to be on a team. When climbing Mt. Everest in both a simulation and in real life you really depend on your team to do what is necessary to reach a goal. This could be a simple personal goal (such as the photographer to stay at camp 1 and 2 an extra night) or a larger goal that is shared by multiple people on the team (the leader and marathoner’s goal of reaching the summit). Our team had achievements and failures,…
Question 2 Addressing Moffitt’s developmental theory known as taxonomy, recognizing the year it was proposed in is important which happened in 1993. Next, to be discussed about the theory taxonomy is how it is broken down into two main groups the first consists of adolescence-limited offenders and then the second more serious group are life-course-persistent offenders. These two groups revolve around Moffitt’s main idea on the types of offenders out there. Adolescence-limited offenders are…
Retributive Justice in Agamemnon and The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea The concept of retributivist justice is best understood as the form of justice ruling that “those who commit certain kinds of wrongful acts, paradigmatically serious crimes, morally deserve to suffer a proportionate punishment” (Walen, 2016). In Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea, the concept of retributive justice influences the emotions and actions of the…
Write two quotations from the reading or activity. Use the proper grammatical format. Use three visual images, either drawn or cut out from magazines, to create a central focus to your page. If you use a computer image, personalize it to make it your own. --1--Place five essential vocabulary words/phrases around the images. These terms/words/phrases should express the main ideas, your impressions, feelings, or thoughts about what you have seen or read. --1--Write the main idea of the reading.…
Content of Interview In this interview I focused on asking the students questions that assess different types of mathematical approaches. For instance, I asked questions pertaining mental math, adding, subtracting, putting numbers in order from least to greatest, and word problems. I wanted to address the different aspects of math in order to have a better understanding of what type of level is the student performing in. Throughout the interview, I saw that the students used his strategies to…