The Way International

Exercising your body helps in improving your concentration. When you engage in moderate physical exercises, your concentration improves by a big margin. You will realize that exercises basically help the brain to ignore distractions. This can go a long way in improving your concentration levels. 10. Practice mindfulness throughout the…

How Immigration Affects America America is a country built on immigrants. One way or another we are all immigrants. Either our parents where immigrants or all maybe dating all the way back to our great-great grandparents. In this country you’d think that with all the diversity and amount of cultures we have, you’d think people would be more open and accepting of others. Unfortunately there are still people that believe that immigrants are bad for our great nation. America is a multicultural…

ringed thumb out toward the quad, “I don’t think you’ll find five people out there who’ve heard of YO-YO Ma. And by the way, what kind of the name is that? Is it ghetto or something? Yo Ma?” She answered right away “It’s Chinese.” I shook my head and laughed. “I know plenty of Chinese people. They have names like Wei Chin. Or Lee something not Yo-Yo Ma.” I found it very amusing the way she expresses about Yo-Yo Ma. “You cannot blaspheming…

Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships,” at some of the concepts in Tannen’s chapter “The World of Conversational Style” it is clear to say that there are different ways a person can convey a conversation and the way a person carries their communication style. Tannen connects some concepts that can relate to the way communicating with technology can affect our skill with one another. For example, the effects behind a screen like a text message or an email to being in-person can…

text, “the family has an uncle that they were hidin' in the house, and he snitched to the Immigration”, things went south for him, “They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him down the stairs”. Not only is the way Miller presenting the story unsettling, it is also downright brutal on the way he dealt with it, using words like “grabbed” and “pulled”, to show that Vinny has no control on this situation, and that his simple act of snitching caused him brutal injuries. And the kicker? “And they…

traveling in the Yukon to get back to camp. On the way there the man builds a fire every few feet, they travel back to camp. The man faces a few obstacles, but he still manages to try and make his way back to camp.Jack London created a story called ‘’To Built a Fire’’ he made the story about a man and his husky passing through the Yukon to get back to camp.The setting in To Build A Fire has an impact on several parts of the story. One of first ways that the setting has an impact involves the…

Wally, having made up with his brother Barry, tells him of his crush on Ally, although he had only met her the previous day. My troupe, The Squad Squad, is planning to perform scene six of As You Like It. We have translated this scene to a modern day setting which will be more appealing for children in middle school. Our troop is made up of four middle schoolers attending Old Donation School, which is a school constructed of the most academically advanced students in Virginia Beach. We have…

Family Groups Oddly enough my own side of the extended family, I would consider to be both a secondary group and my out-group. First of all, the vast majority of them have passed away. My mother and father are gone, as well as my beloved grandfather, and the only cousins in my family that I ever wished to associate with. Secondly, the remaining family members are volatile and have a negative impact on my life and my children’s lives, hence why I choose to keep them as far away as possible. They…

July/August 2008 issue of the Atlantic. In it, he discusses the continuing issue of how technological advances, such as the internet, have shaped the way we think and gain knowledge. Carr compares different instances of this situation throughout history in the attempt to see whether or not, an unlimited access to human information has altered the way we learn about the world. He describes that: “For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the…

It was a Tuesday afternoon. I went out with my best guy friend to Panera Bread. I told him about my experiment to analyze people with me on how they really communicate and in which ways they do it. He decide to help me with my little experiment. It was so much fun, yet we went at a perfect timing lunch time. We stayed at Panera Bread for about an hour. Panera Breads Architecture fits similar to a coffee shop. Except you can hear people’s conversations more easily and there is more sound. The…