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Throughout the semester we’ve been talking about art. For my project I wanted to do something I love, so I have a photograph of a water balloon popping. Photography is a way of art because it can capture people, objects, scenes, etc, in a photograph. One photograph can say a lot about something. As for my photo, it does not have a universal message but it says something about how I like to see things. I like to capture objects that someone wouldn 't usually see by just looking with their eyes,…

It is the year 2002, my great grandpa was still alive and I frequently visited his farm with my father. This is a story about the events leading up to one visit that was very much like most visits. I was a young quick witted five-year-old bursting with energy. The summer was bright and filled with the joy of youth. I awoke in the morning and did my usual routine of showering getting dressed and brushing my teeth before venturing my way upstairs past the green walls of the corridor, the red…

“The Party I’ve Never Dreamed Of” “Don’t forget to put up the flyers I gave you guys! Benton Harbor is such a small city that I basically knew everyone, and I wanted everybody to help me celebrate for my open house and after-party. Not only were my schoolmates invited to it, but the whole community was also. Everyone knew my open house and after party were going to be the biggest event of the year. Mine wasn’t an ordinary open house because we were having an after party too. We had catered…

Innocence and storytelling are the themes that catch my attention the most. This especially how Tim O’Brien plays with writing in making you believe something that appears to be real, but then he explains in detail that storytelling is a very powerful way to express our deepest memories of people that are no longer with us. Also he means that you can make someone believe something that sounds real, but in the end it’s just a story made up by a person’s creativity and his gift to write in such…

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble” (Book of Job). In the book, “Man’s Search for Meaning” Viktor Frankl shares the history of his troubling days spent as a prisoner in the concentration camps. The question then rises, if life is full of trouble how is it that we as people persevere and go on to live full lives? Are we only here to hold a place in space and time or is there a bigger purpose or meaning to our existence? Frankl brings us his principle that, you (the…

We all are searching for truth, for what is true. Paul Bloom summed up our lives into this quote, “We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.” Bloom mentions the good life, which urges the questions of what is the good life and how does one achieve it.…

Results Interview 1: The 65 years male Doctor What is Motivation and how has your past experience play a role in what you are doing? He answered “Motivation is something that comes from within and pushes you to pursue things and achieve those things. I was born in a very poor neighborhood, both of my parents worked long hours so that my sisters and I can have clothes on our back and food on the table. They didn’t want us to lack anything. At a very young age, I knew I didn’t want to live like…

We need role models because we need someone to look up to, to help shape our lives into a better one like they have. There are all sorts of people who you can look up to in life. In life, not everything appears to be what is seems to be. Robin came all the way expecting that his prominent uncle will surely set him off on a good independent path, but at the end, he was in a whole mess on his own that he needed saving. Robin learns that the man that he had put all his faith in all, this time, was…

Humans want to be in the “Inner Ring.” This desire comes from our need for inclusion, which can lead to evil. The need can cause us to do stupid things, but if we choose the right path we might pick the right Inner Ring. Lewis argues that the Inner Ring can be good and bad. The Inner Ring is what people strive for. They want to be inside so they are not outside, but once inside they are still not happy. Friendship is the key to any Inner Ring. Without friendship people are just a group wanting…

1. Which actions by the teacher seemed to support student engagement and understanding? When first getting the data table ready for the experiment Dr. Bradbury was asking students probing questions about why the data table had to be set up in a certain manner, this can be seen in minutes 6-8 of the video. Through this portion of the video Dr. Bradbury is making sure students have a full understanding of what a data table does and how the each data table is set up. While setting up the table…