Tote bag

Two days after inputting my final grades for the spring 2015 term, I headed to the outskirts of Portland, to attend the Pacific Northwest Great Teaching Seminar (2016). Carefully tucked inside my tote bag was the homework: bring a written summary of a classroom triumph and a classroom failure. The first day triumph workshop was energizing and fun, and we all enjoyed sharing our lessons. The next day, we gathered in one of the estate’s beautiful rooms and sat in a circle. The instructions were…

In the global city of Washington, DC, gentrification related to affordable housing and social/racial tensions is becoming more and more prevalent. This, in turn, is affecting the future of the community and having adverse implications for the city’s old and new inhabitants. Gentrification is the practice of revitalizing or reforming a community to appeal to higher-class tastes, most often the tastes of the white middle-class. While gentrification is sometimes associated with increases in…

When you're having a Crohn's flare, you'll be dealing with symptoms that include abdominal pain and cramping, diarrhea that can be both sudden and explosive, gas, bloating, nausea, and more. If you have a career and can't just stay home, or if there is an event that you simply must attend, and can't get out of or postpone, or an important meeting, you may want to keep the fact that you have Crohn's disease to yourself, and hide the symptoms that you're having as best you can. It is probably…

I don’t really know if there was ever a specific point that I realized all of my friends hated me because I think a part of me already knew. Middle school is usually bad for most people. Some people consider high school years the best years of your life, that is because I think that it is such an improvement from middle school. There is also not a specific reason that middle school is so terrible. It may be the discovery of highlights or black eyeliner or it may be the longing to be in high…

The Adventures Of The Organic Animal Club Synopsis: Join Bert Bear, Fred Fox, Olivia Owl and Rebecca Rabbit on their adventures in “The Organic Animal Club”. After a long Winter of poor eating habits and no exercise, Bert Bear is inspired embrace a healthy, organic, green lifestyle with his friends Fred Fox and Olivia Owl and start the club so they can bond and work together to learn more. They have to overcome the obstacle of convincing their friend Rebecca Rabbit to give up processed…

Preparing the Classroom One thing that almost every teacher I talked to while helping prepare classrooms for the first day of school said was, “preparing your classroom takes longer than you’d think.” I am grateful for the assignment to go in before school begins and help a teacher set up their classroom because it showed me how crazy preparing for the first day really is and how much time is needed for preparation. I did my participation hours at Cassville Primary School where I was able to…

Analysis: Initially after I received my results from the GMI survey I was surprised by their outcome. Being a Global Studies major, I thought that my overall averages would have been significantly higher than they were. However, after reading through the aspects of each individual section, and a close inspection of myself in regards to the requirements to those sections I began to understand the reasoning behind my scores. When I first started assessing my GMI results, I expected my scores to…

In middle school I had always been infatuated with the Teen Vogue magazines. I loved looking at the latest fashion trends, hearing about the newest makeup products, and reading the recent interviews with A-List celebrities. Almost seven years later, I’m back looking at my old Teen Vogue magazines, realizing that many of the advertisements placed in the magazines aren’t necessarily appropriate for Teen Vogue’s target market- especially one in particular. Using the persuasive technique “sex sells”…

Effective, strategic leadership evaluates an organization’s products, markets, and competition in order to promote opportunities and growth. A corporation’s leadership assesses the current and futurist markets and competitive position with multiple tools, such as the Grand Strategy Matrix (GSM) and The Boston Consulting Group Matrix (BCG) to determine the best strategies for forward propulsion of the organization (GSM 2010). According to Steve Riggio, Barnes & Noble's (BSN) Chief Executive…

Ulrich’s quote to the public’s attention by making a plain white shirt with just the quote across the front of the shirt. Portugal’s shirt went global making Ulrich famous for writing it in her article. This quote was then plastered on buttons, cups, tote bags, magnets, greeting cards, and websites. Ulrich’s small line, written twenty years before being publicly noticed, is what made her famous. But if it was not for Portugal taking interest in this quote and putting it on a shirt, the quote…