Ways of Seeing

Think Before You Eat Chocolate “At 6 a.m., 10-year-old Emmanuel wakes and readies himself for a day of labor in the cocoa fields. Along the way, he watches as other kids walk in the opposite direction - toward school. He reaches the fields at sunrise and uses his machete to slice ripe cocoa pods from the tree. Later, he carries the cocoa pods he’s harvested from the field, hacks them open and gathers the beans, which will later be used to make chocolate.” Kids in Ghana have to wake up every day…

The Contender Grit makes us push forward or crumble without it. People think that grit is just working hard, but it is not, It is mainly perseverance. In the novel The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, a young African American boy is struggling to find a passion in life despite the discrimination he faces during this time period. When Albert does find his passion, people are constantly trying to bring him down or stop him from succeeding. The main point of this essay is to prove how we choose to…

Paul Bloom, in the article “The Baby In The Well: The Case Against Empathy,” argues that the human emotion, empathy, causes our world more harm than it does good and that humans should use reason in place of it. Bloom supports his claims by contrasting between a counter argument and examples that back up his view on empathy. The author’s purpose is to inform people about how empathy can blow situations out of proportion in order to try and make them believe that reason is much more useful in…

decision on coming to this place was taking this big of a risk worth it. The only option I have left is to crawl into one of the vents. I make my way out of the vents into the 2nd story of the building the Lobby is downstairs it’s abandoned there’s blood all around. All the computers are broken I can’t imagine what has been happening here I make my way into a room full of corpses and ripped off heads there’s blood and organs all over the floor. “AGHHHHHHHHHH!” A SWAT officer screams in pain and…

Some more strategies that I learned from ECE 4475 that I have stored away in my files are the brain-based activity of SCOOT and using the online resource of GoNoodle. My kindergarten class uses GoNoodle everyday and the physical movement is a great way to give the students a brain break. SCOOT is also another strategy I’d like to use in my first year of teaching, incorporating the music, movement, and learning content into one activity is a great to get the student engaged in their learning.…

financial help from Spain’s king. From that point on Dugard doesn’t leave out any detail, he makes sure his readers know how difficult and grueling these 4 voyages were including many deaths, arguments, and defeats. On his first voyage he makes his way to Hispaniola and Nividad with 3 ships, one of which, the Santa Maria, sank. Those on the Santa Maria stayed on the island of Nividad setting up a small village until Columbus returned. His second journey back to the Caribbean was much larger,…

By “Gaining Attention” of the audience, I was able to show them the ways in which voting has taken on less of a role in our society over the years. I then “Established a need” by telling the audience that young people fell their vote no longer matters. Then I was able to “Satisfy the need” by talking to the audience on ways to show a younger generation the importance of voting. By “Visualizing the need Satisfied” I talked to the audience on how…

Pathos which is an emotional appeal is used throughout the whole speech. Ronson’s way of using a real life story and making us wonder about our positions with psychopathy. He went for a negative appeal to the audience, as well. To make the crowd feel sorry and upset and over sympathetic of the experience that Tony had with his psychopathy…

Inquiry based approach to learning is one way that an educator can teach children in a classroom, this approach is one that can get children to be hands on. It also gets children to learn from others their own age and also share their own knowledge. It is also a great way to involve the whole class and get them to ask each other questions. Inquiry learning helps children to learn how to gather information, knowledge and understanding, along with being able to seek the truth and the topic they…

boy they had no idea of what was about to happen. Glass’s group of fur traders were attacked out of nowhere by a group of Indians. Right off the bat we start with an intense fight scene. Now many movies start out that way but the one main thing I noticed that was different was the way the fight scenes…