Student voice

level in order to provide their students with the proper material they need for their major. Creating a required curriculum that is interesting to students can be quite an arduous task. Curriculum descriptions attempt to appeal to students by making their general education requirements…

levels of education, from elementary school through university, grade inflation exists: too many students get too many A’s. I am not saying that no student should get A’s, but students have started to expect A’s, thinking a B is somehow “bad,” even though, in reality, a C is supposed to be average. In a nation where everyone is special and participation trophies are handed out like candy on Halloween, students see C’s as terrible failures, B’s as poor scores, and A’s as the only acceptable…

For the interview portion of exploring my major, I spoke at length with Grant William Rodgers. Grant and I met about a year ago when I was inducted into, Pi Kappa Alpha, the fraternity he had joined his sophomore year of college. Shortly after meeting, I realized that Grant and I had similar interests in our academic aspirations in that we were both pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and he was in the in the Walker School of Business, and I was working my way there.…

University, William Zinsser describes the different amount of pressures that students struggle with in college in his essay, “College Pressures”. Because of his position at the university, he constantly noticed the students around him and the anxiety that was radiating off them. He believes that economic pressures cause students to feel anxious about paying back student loans after college. However, parental pressure leads students to make decisions that their parents would be happy with…

Whenever I'm around certain people my voice changes so one day I decided to keep the bad voice and it became a bad habit, so this book influenced me to do my regular, sweet and careful tone. 2. Whenever I'm in getting in my car I put on my seat belt and that's a good habit I have, but, my sister has the opposite habit…

process (Brookfield, 1990). I entered my community engagement practicum with an understanding that a classroom is made of diverse students. While completing my community engagement I came to appreciate the vast amount of diversity in the classroom and how it shapes the learning outcome for the students. The teacher demonstrated how to teach a lesson which catered to all students but differentiating aspects of the lessons to be beneficial experience. I had never considered the many teaching…

In modern society, young women can personally choose how their lives will pan out. They can choose to pursue education at a college or work towards their careers. Or, they can choose to take a few years off of school to discover themselves and what they truly want. Other women may choose to get married or take care of their family. However, women's choices were not as wide and diverse in the 1940s, especially in rural or southern states. Many women would get married at a young age and become…

kept in mind students who were like her in school. Tan also highlights the literacy struggles of other Asian-American students like herself who struggled with English test in school. She explains that she believed the, “answers on English Test were always a judgement call” which was why her English scores were poor compared to her math (Tan 653). While her reader can sympathize with such students, Tan was one of them and can therefore understand the hardship. These are the students who, through…

David Sedaris' essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day" gives a look into the struggles of a man attending a French class, in France, in his early forties. Well past the "normal" age of a student. It is a well written account about the ups and downs associated with learning a new language, especially in a foreign land. Even though the essay is written about a man taking a class, the lessons learned from it can be applied to anyone who is thinking about go after their goals. No matter what stage of life…

AMITY UNIVERSITY Topic : Portraiture of Overambition in Christopher Marlow's Dr.Faustus Under the Guidance of the Director of Amity School of Languages Dr.Kumkum Ray SUBMITTED TO- SUBMITTED BY- Dr. Anupriya Roy Srivastava Vasudha Bisht…