The Way Things Work

many things about correctly writing over this semester that it is very insightful now. I will always be the reader, not the writer but that ok because I have had a wonderful Comp teacher that has helped me more than I could have dreamed. I know that if I have any problems with not understanding specifically what is being assigned that the extra help is there. As a class, we learned to help each other and help the other students to stay on course with each assignment. There are so many things…

spare time trying to learn as many new things as I can. Currently I’m learning outside of my academics is acting, gymnastics, rock climbing, and swimming. There isn’t anything that I would ever take pride in, not because I’m bad at everything but because I find it meaningless. It won't benefit me much if I look at the good things I've done. If I had to pick some things that I’m good at I'd say running and the saxophone.…

At the third Performing Arts Center (PAC) session for First Year Experience students, the people on the panel related how their majors/fields of interest influenced how they viewed the world around them. They also related the ways in which their fields of expertise could be used to promote and/or understand sustainability. In this essay I will attempt to relate how my own interests influence my world view and how my interests can be applied to sustainability. The PAC session was very thought…

The mind works in many different ways; any psychologist will tell you no two minds work the same way. The short story“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” shows the destruction of another for the happiness of others the (community.) In many ways the child represents the person you vent your emotions to such as your parents, children, family members subconsciously. As “The Raven” shows the destruction of one's self through the mind (the self) the raven could represent many different things, but in…

important things in writing because it is who reads and how they perceive it; they get to see your point of view. Along with writing, we learned all these little things in between that are way more important than we think it is the style, tone and voice. For example, style is important in writing because without style your writing becomes a boring piece of writing or a poorly written piece. The tone of the writing conveys a message from you as the writer and affects the reader in a particular…

The Help, a novel by Katheryn Stockett, is about a group of African American maids and housekeepers that are known as “The Help.” The book starts off in August of 1962 and shows that the Help They work for a group of white women in Jackson, Mississippi. The group of maids consists mainly of Aibileen and Minny at the beginning. Minny gets hired by a women named Celia Foote. Celia has no idea how to clean or cook, so she hires Minny without telling her husband. But, her husband eventually finds…

The article “Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster and How Small Groups Can Be Made to Work” by James Surowiecki begins by explaining the twenty-eight flight of the space shuttle Columbia. Columbia was hit by a large piece of foam which has been broken off by the left bipod area of the shuttle's external fuel tank. Surowiecki focuses on a narrow strip of the disaster which is how the small group decided that “nothing could be done”(Surowiecki, 475) about the hit and how their…

to remain motivate and perform at work. According to what Herzberg has defined as motivators Google.Inc provides its employees with factors like promotion, bonus for good performance and opportunities for development and growth of employees. Google.Inc lets the employees work in groups and gives them 20% of their time to work on their personal projects which also results in 20% of new product launches from these personal projects. To motivate the employees and work more efficiently the employee…

cute and different way. In the article, ‘The Science of ‘Inside Out’’, the author points out that the movie helps understand emotions, and that emotions help organize rational thinking and our social lives. In the article it states that “…emotions guide our perceptions of the world, our memories of the past and even our moral judgments of right and wrong…” and that the movie did show that, in a way (Keltner & Ekman, 2015). It helped show, also, that sadness is not a bad thing that it can…

Every day, more or less, is the same for the average person. We rise, work, and return home to start over. The only reason anyone would succumb to a seemingly dreary existence is because there is a light inside that tells us everyday we get through is another day closer to that thing we want most for ourselves. This is seen in “War Dance”, a documentary about the yet to be mitigated Uganda, and the wondrous film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. One could even see it in the classic novella “Of…