Hi! I’m Katie and I attend Two Rivers Magnet Middle School located in East Hartford, Connecticut. I live in East Hartford too with my Mom, Nana, John - a family friend, and Kassie; my twin sister. My school is pretty cool, it's a CREC school meaning that you have to enter a lottery to get in and that any student from any town in CT can attend.…
From the previous reading where the author described the heavy criticized of native of Americans and their ways of living in the Americas. In relation to the Reflections in Bullough's Pond, the author described a similar obliteration of natural resources and the surrounding habitats. The forest cover disappeared at an alarming rate, the ponds were drained, and the Indians were virtually wiped out of existent due to the European diseases and warfare over the lands. The author also described the harsh point of view the Europeans had towards the natives. “Gold and silver treasures would be discovered in barren rocks long hidden from ignorant aboriginal natives” page 3.…
There is a stigma associated with attending Brookdale. It did not make sense to me, and I did not let it stop me. In my senior year of high school, I blatantly told everyone I was going to Brookdale and faced opposition. No one understood. I was in the top ten percent of my class.…
While I have not had nearly as many hardships in my life as Jeannette Walls in her book The Glass Castle, there are still some things that her and I have in common. Throughout the book, Walls endured many struggles while traveling with her dysfunctional family. Jeannette’s father is constantly getting in the way of her success, from stealing her money to not always making her go to school. Eventually, she leaves her parents behind and makes her way to New York City, where she goes to college and finds success. Similar to how Jeannette had to overcome the obstacles between her and her success, her parents in The Glass Castle, I had to overcome the obstacle between me and my success, my bones.…
On October 1, 2015 I attended the Major’s Fair at The Ferguson Center, and I contained very helpful information. I visited the Criminal Justice and Interior Designs major table. Even though I already picked Criminal Justice as my potential major before the Major’s Fair, I got some information that I did not know. I want to attend Law School, and with that being said that is why I picked Criminal Justice so I can know the justice system well. However, besides for my passion for the law I also have a passion for design, and let’s be honest they do not mix well together.…
One of my biggest challenges has been school. My freshman year I went to an all boys school called Sims Fayola. I didn’t do all that well, and so I fell behind in credits. My sophomore year I changed to a school called Vista Academy. It turned out to be a really good school for me.…
During the era of Jim Crow laws, the African American group was severely oppressed and the movie road to brown was a great example of the hardships and roadblocks that were faced in this time where segregation and oppression were prevalent. My first impression of when the film had started was that it was going to tell the same stories and history were learned from our textbooks throughout school, but I was wrong it taught me the untold side of the civils rights movement and that Charles H. Houston was the most influential person to make way for political figures like Martin Luther King junior. I thought it was incredibly that I had never heard of someone who helped in such a big way in shaping how the American culture was formed and how it…
The very last meet of the season and I became the second best on the team. Cross country meant the world to me that year. I had gone above and beyond my own expectations of myself.…
Over the course of my visits to Fall River I think that my capacity to observe my environment and the factories stayed consistent. I naturally pay attention to minute factors and functions of my surroundings which I think is why I tended to focus on the machines and the smaller aspects of the factory. I also tend to be more reserved in social situations which lends myself to not being as willing to approach people, particularly because of the language barriers we faced at both factories and that such a great number of the employees did not wish to participate in the project. I think that over the course of my visits I was able to conceptualize all of the small parts of the factories and understand how they work in unison but I was not able…
I really enjoyed this event and found it helpful, as there have been many issues in McCandless. Bullying and negative energy has definitely been circulating in the dorm. Having the president made these issues more concrete, and helped to get to the root of the problem. Having Cervelli speak up on what is going on was beneficial, as it showed that administration knows and cares about what is going on. Since the event I have seen more action regarding the bullying.…
Whale Rider is a Newzeland-German movie, directed by Niki Caro. The movie is based on the same name novel of Witi Ihimaera. The movie was first released in 2002, its total duration of the movie is 101 minutes. Whale Rider is a story about the journey of Paikea Apirana to become a chief of a village, whose ancestors were riding on the back of the whale and saved people from emptiness. As a narrator of the story, Paikea told the audience the story of herself and the village in searching for a new leader.…
When I watched the video of the Milgram Experiment I was quite shocked by it. Seeing people so willing to do harm on another person without being threatened was very disturbing, and seeing the few that was pleading to stop was heart breaking. When I put myself in their shoes, I would like to think that I would not harm anyone or anything. However, in all fairness to the idea of what I would do I must evaluate the environment and conditions to which I would have been exposed. If I knew that this was an experiment and the other party was a willing participant from the beginning; I could see myself shocking the other person at first, but when they began to express more that a slight pain from the shock I would have a problem with being able…
My reflection upon the capstone project is very scary and rewarding at the same time. At the beginning of class, it seems very scary and intimidating. “A 20-page paper is due on a certain topic and then I have to present it?” That was the question I asked myself. I am not very good with talking in front of my peers and much less writing a 20-page paper when I have not been use to writing that much since high school.…
Vision is my inspiration. I wanted to understand how vision affects perspective and allows for every person to be unique, to mold their own personality, and to have an individual outlook on life. It is what led me to pursue optometry. The more I learned about optometry the more I came to appreciate the profession and its goal in improving patients’ vision. Now, most people take this to mean that an optometrists sole job is prescribing eyeglasses and contact lenses.…
Considering the descriptions of personality and character organization by McWilliams (2011) and exploring my view of self, others, and the world, along with core beliefs, I believe that my character style is Masochistic. According to McWilliams core experiences of the masochistic self is that of being “unworthy, guilty, rejectable, deserving of punishment” (p. 277). Meanwhile, these fears are not always at the conscious level, as I am making the assumption that I am at the character style end of the continuing, nevertheless, these painful emotions are frequently familiar. Taking rejection for example, most people to not make the assumption that if someone does not like them, it is because they have done something wrong, are unworthy, or rejectable.…