The Toyota Way

After my time in CI 280, I learned copious amounts of vital information regarding English Language Learners (ELL) and their education. There were many important take-aways from the class, such as the importance of giving emergent bilingual students the best education possible. If I could remember anything from this class in three years from now it would be these following things. First, I would want to remember to understand the culture all of students in my class in order to relate to them on a…

to be much harder when physically faced with different choices to plan out ones day. Throughout, my entire life, I have been through numerous activities and sessions that provide information on how to attack life and the best strategies to ease our way through school and they were…

10 Ways to Build a Winning Personal Brand Personal branding is nothing new. Julius Caesar 's three-word mantra, 'veni, vidi, vici, ' clearly demonstrated his winning-at-all-costs persona. Politicians have successfully developed and packaged their brands to win votes and build coalitions of political power. Today 's marketer, networking aficionado and job seeker find even greater pressure to build a personal brand given the digital tools that are widely available for branding and marketing a…

Corporate companies are defining our beauty standards to impossible lengths for women by manipulating emotional insecurities and using well loved celebrities as a way to define beauty expectations. In 2016 popular singer/actress Selena Gomez became the leading face of the popular hair care company, Pantene. In these series of commercials Gomez expresses her out pouring love for Pantene’s product Pantene Pro-V Daily…

land, and kills, and tortures!” (Woolfitt 37). Similarly, Saunders talks about a girl from his school named Ellen. He remembers so many minute details about this girl such as her “blue cat’s-eye glasses” even though she moved away. He remembers the way she was “mostly ignored, occasionally teased.” These details prove that Saunders noticed the girl in pain and might even elude to the fact that that he wanted to make a difference. Teasing is also evident in the story “Brownies” with Laurel, her…

today. Patricia Hampl, an American memoirist and poet, wrote an article titled “Memory and Imagination,” in which she recalls her first piano lesson. In her recollection, she soon discovers that the way she believed things had happened and the way she explained them may not have actually been the way they occurred. Barbara Mellix, who holds a masters of fine arts in creative writing and also taught composition at the University of Pittsburgh, wrote an article titled “From Outside In,” in…

language and metaphors contrast the previous emphasis on death's permanence, showing us that by remembering those who had passed on, we can prevent losing them forever. These changes allow readers to feel a sense of closure because there is no right way to mourn, but a healthy one is one with an end in…

Katherine Anne Porter’s famous short story “Flowering Judas” follows a women named Laura who is being courted by a man named Braggioni. The story itself uses symbolic meaning with flowers and religious symbols . With every event taking place in her house the reader feels the isolation with her. in Katherine Anne Porter “Flowering Judas the themes, author styles and literary devices all make the story more enjoyable to read. In Katherine Anne Porter’s “ Flowering Judas” the theme of Ideals vs…

How to be Sarcastic While there are many great personality traits, sarcasm seems to be the best one to have. We’ve all come in contact with shy, annoying, flamboyant, self-centered, sweet, kind-hearted varieties of people in this world, but none of them come close to the distinct aroma sarcasm gives off. To get accustomed with this great trait, one has to understand and learn what it takes to be sarcastic. This quality doesn’t come easy and will take some time to master, but don’t get…

some bread, butter and applesauce onto it. My brother adds a immense scoop of mashed potatoes, and another man adds a heap of sauerkraut and pork mixture. The steam from the hot food warms my face, and the smell makes my stomach growl. What a great way to start the new year. The family…