Stick It

We’ve all heard of the ‘carrot and stick’ approach, where the carrot is the reward for certain behavior. VHS initial training was the carrot to lure you in. Starting at 9:00 a.m. it was held in the same building that I had interviewed in. Noting again how a small house had been made into their headquarters, I wondered just how viable this online high school was. Entering through the back door, I was hit by the smell of coffee. Walking into what was probably a living room connected to a…

I had the lacrosse stick since I was eight. It’s a silver stick, with a white head, and white/yellow stringing. It’s laced up with white grip tape that helps me pass and shoot. It was at about a quarter to two when we started strapping up for our last game of the day, but we were facing Summit. Summit had at least 20 players while we had eleven. At the start of the fourth quarter 2-0 Summit. We won the face-off and set up our offense. I started moving around and v-cutting, I got open and called…

“What Sticks” by Dan and Chip Heath, “Brainology” by Carol S. Dweck, and “Four Kinds Of Reading” by Donald Hall. I found all the readings extremely interesting and inspirational. “What Sticks” has some very interesting concepts. The concepts are not something a person regularly thinks about. The article demonstrates these concepts as six steps to help to make an idea stick such as simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions and stories. Although the article “what Sticks” is…

Hub decided to look after Walter and said, “I'll stick around and be your damn uncle. Don't expect me to be happy about it” (McCanlies,1). Hub realized Walter needed him in his life because Walter’s mother did not take much action to ensure that he gets what he needs. Since Walter did not have such…

The stick shift or manual car is rapidly progressing to become a rarity in America. Statistics on knowledgeable drivers to this now outdated concept are around 18 percent of the driving population. How could this once mandatory concept fade into an atypical concept? This is what most people ponder over when they hear this, until they actually try to drive darn contraption… My parents’ have had a pressing belief that everyone should be cognizant of how to drive a stick shift car. I was even…

readers to invest more time in reading. A two paragraph short story, “Sticks” by George Saunders captures the reader’s attention and holds it for the duration of the story, which takes no longer than 5 minutes to complete. This narration can help any readers having a hard time staying focused on a long and descriptive story realize that a story as short as this can provoke just as much thought and consideration as a novel. In “Sticks”, the narrator’s father tries to display to…

with a syringe previously used on another patient (ONE News, 2014). After realizing her mistake, the nurse then delayed informing the patient until the fifth day post injection. The injury sustained by the patient in the report is termed a Needle Stick Injury. This is defined as an incident that induces a blood wound that introduces “blood or other hazardous material through a hollow bore needle or sharp instrument” (Malik, Shaukat, & Qureshi, 2012, p. 114). Though there was a low risk of…

Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath analyzes six criteria that make an idea stick. Two of those are Emotional, which motivates the target audience to care about the Central Message (Heath, Volpe), and Stories, which motivates the target audience to take action on the central message (Heath, Volpe). In the text, “Pedagogy and political commitment: a comment” by Bell Hooks argues that college english teachers should educate for liberation to allow students to learn to think critically and…

How to Drive Stick Shift for Beginners Driving stick shift is a process of various shifting. If you are use to driving an automatic vehicle, meaning you use the automatic transmission that uses the symbols P, R, N, D, 2, and L. which are P for parking, R for reverse, N for neutral, D for drive or third, two for second, and L for low or third. It might be a little difficult for you to adapt to the new things you will need to do to make you car go faster. You will have to make more movement when…

Growing up as the only child I had to stick up for myself. Besides my immediate family, I never had anyone to stick up for me. Knowing that I was the only child, it would be common sense to stand up for myself. Throughout the years of my life, there were certain situations in which I wish I had the guts to stick up for myself. Though I am still young, life is still a learning process that I have to accomplish. The goal that I want to achieve is to stop being fearful and the strategies that I…