U Turn

Left After a hard day’s work, Greg decides to make a midnight store run. There’s a circle k convenience store, just up the road, not wanting to drive too far because of the rain, he stops in to grab some junk food. “Is that all for you?” Asked the clerk. “And let me have $20 on pump three.” After paying, he goes to the pump to fill his tank. While he’s pumping, he spots an odd figure off in the distance. Now, there are lots of homeless people in the area, so he doesn’t think much of it, just…

It’s now been twenty years that I been putting up with the bullshit in today’s society. I’m a Hispanic American that was born and grew up Brooklyn, New York, which is to be considered to be the “hood”. I grew up watching violence almost everyday of my life in my neighborhood, all I want is for racism to stop. The main topic spoken in the twenty first century is “police brutality”, “Police brutality is the wanton use of excessive force, usually physical, but also common in forms of verbal attacks…

To begin, on September 28, I was given the opportunity to assess a kindergarten student. Before I presented the four assessments, my student and I got to know each other well. I told her some background information about me and she did the same in return. She told me her name is Ally. She is a five year old. Her birthday is October 14. She also stated she liked the color blue along with arts and crafts. Letter identification, phonemic awareness, sentence dictation and concepts of print were the…

screaming, “Let Jesus fuck you, let Jesus fuck you. Let him fuck you,” (The Exorcist). The sounds of the cuts are chilling and unforgettable. Audience members will eternally remember that sound of flesh being torn and cut without mercy. This “stabbing” turns the purpose of the scene completely around. The scene is no longer erotic; it is instead quite painful to watch. The demon is not violating Raegan with passion, or twisted pleasure, like he did in the novel. He instead is emotionless, and…

sociologist, Orrin Klapp, has noticed trends and patterns in how we as a society define our heroes and how we follow them. In the example of entertainers, he said it was their “box office (ability)” (Klapp 54) that brings in their fans and that can in turn lift them to the status of heroism. I feel it is not just the natural ability of the entertainer that elevates them to the status of hero but also their ability to relate to their fans and have a positive impact on their day to day life. I…

them. I quickly took in this new information, acting calm I simply stated: They are just behind the trees, I'll walk over, and find them. At this point I’m pretty sure my dad had second thoughts about what he had agreed to. He quickly pulled a U-turn, heading over to the side of the park that I had indicated. Arriving on the other side, he again saw that no one was present; turning to me he told me something like: This doesn't look very good. After a short pause, he concluded that I could…

Reflective Paper 1 Kaitlin McHugh Middlesex County College Public law 107-110, which is more commonly known as “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) is a law that President George Bush signed into effect in 2001. “This law changes the federal government’s role in kindergarten through twelfth grade education by requiring United States’ schools to describe their success in terms of students’ attainment of academic standards and performance on standardized tests” (Hyun, 2003).…

Marc Duyck, a middle aged retired educator, had his life changed unexpectedly during his typical every morning bicycle ride (Marc Duyck page 62). Marc was riding behind a truck (Marc Duyck page 62). Out of nowhere, the truck unexpectedly took a U-turn in front of him (Marc Duyck page 62). Swerving all around while being blinded by the truck headlights, Marc was struck by…

explore the nature there, try Puerto Rican foods, speak in Spanish, and tour historical sites. We left at four in the morning to board our plane. When we arrived on the island, we rode a bus with an extremely sketchy driver. He drove very fast and made U-turns at least twice every hour. After the bus ride, we got to explore the city of Ponce where I found many cool souvenirs that I brought home to my family. Ponce was full…

Beauvais, Clémentine. 2015. "The ‘Mozart Effect’: A Sociological Reappraisal." Cultural Sociology 9 (2): 185-202. doi:10.1177/1749975514557096. http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/17499755/v09i0002/185_teasr. Beauvais argues that the ‘Mozart Effect’ was a successful sociocultural phenomenon because of its many varying components and factors. Beauvais discusses the many ways in which the “effect” took the world by storm, and along with it, the falseness of the “effect.” Beauvais…