The Making of the English Working Class

In The Jungle, the immigrant’s experiences and choices acted to shape with class, racism and sexism in various ways and cases. First, class acted to shape the experiences and choices of immigrants by being unemployed. “Still they…

school graduation my plan is to attend Hawkeye Community College and working towards obtaining a nursing degree. I will then continue my education to get my medical doctorate degree, and hope to become a pediatrician. I would like to become a successful pediatrician and hope to make a difference in the medical field. Throughout my high school career, the classes that I have most excelled in were my Anatomy and Physiology class, and my Art classes. Anatomy has always been a strong suit of mine…

Prior to English 101, I have been taking several English classes, but each class helped me little by little to an English 101 student. Learning to have efficient studying habits such as study the day of the class and not doing things last minute. Also learning how to actually study other subjects and how to think critically. This has increased my learning habits. My student habits have changed dramatically, In and out of school. moving up in college you have to take your studies seriously. My…

Stereotypes: The Other Side The act of stereotyping is basically making preconceived notions about a particular group of people when no actual evidence is provided to support that notion. An extremely stereotyped group would be minorities in the United States. In the United States, White Americans are the racial majority; leaving African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, Multiracial Americans, Pacific Islanders, etc. as the selected minorities. Minorities…

faced upon my arrival in America was the English language. Because English is not my first language. I still remember my first day of work at a convenience store. I was unable to understand the customers because of their American accent English. After a year I thought I improved my English skills, but when I took my Accuplacer test for college, and I realized that I was nowhere near perfection. I was ready to worked hard so I can learn and improve my English skills. It’s a journey…

Without a doubt, international students will encounter many cultural differences. Class work standards may be different from your home country, and classroom etiquette may differ quite a bit, than what you are used to. These cultural differences may, in some cases, affect or interfere with studies. Although college is challenging, I am going to succeed by using advice from experts, by developing strategies, and by taking advantage of the benefits offered by my college. Since I am From Iran,…

Perrault, who maintains that the influence that she has been able to have on numerous students over the last six years is the primary reason that she still teaches. I met Vanessa for the first time in my sophomore year. At that time, she was working at Franklin Towne Charter High School in Philadelphia and was the director of the musicals at Saint Hubert Catholic High School for Girls, her alma mater, and the place where I would audition for their school musical. One of the reasons that I…

However, one afternoon in English class, Mr. Drazic my English teacher with an average height, wearing a blue shirt and black pants called me out of the class saying “Mandeep, can you step out of the class I would like to have a discussion with you.” This was the first time I was talking to my teacher alone especially when I just knew him for two weeks. I was extremely…

narrative of the reformation offers a conservative viewpoint of the popular response to the English reformation in the form of an unpublished account/narrative. This is useful as it gives us a detailed account of a priest who at the time (drafted in 1568) had managed to change or conceal what once were his traditional conservative attitudes in order to remain residing in his area, showing how much the English reformation had an effect on everyday lives. However, looking at this particular source…

Dear 10th grade English Teacher, I, Kelly Kwong will be a tenth grader next year and I look forward to learning new techniques and better ways to write essays and papers in English class. For ninth grade English, I took honors and I thought it was a balance like a triple beam. Assignments from time-to-time was either hard or easy. I did complain about the work but getting more work makes me determined for next year because I know what is expected of myself and how much I should be doing. Am…