Cynthia Hamlett has been an English professor for almost two decades now and currently teaches at Crafton Hills College. People commend Mrs. Hamlett because she tells it how it is in a professional manner without holding anything back. She’s herself at all times and does not have to be fake in order to please anyone. She does not belittle any of her students and instead makes them feel at home by sharing personal experiences that she had while attending college. She makes English class fun all while assisting her students become far better writers than they were before taking her course. If someone were to wonder who Cynthia is as a person they should be informed that she is a joyous, family oriented woman who is extremely dedicated to her …show more content…
One would think that she could write novels in her sleep, but that was not the case. The student spoke about how she always stressed the importance of following your dreams no matter what stumbling blocks got in the way. Cynthia told her students that she wanted to be a teacher since she was a little girl. Her dad used to tell her that there was no money in teaching, but she did not care because teaching was were her heart was at. Money did not matter to her, what did matter was her happiness and the chance to do good in the world. She said that when she was younger she used to have a giant chalkboard by her bed and she would lineup all her stuffed animals and dolls next to the board and pretend to instruct them. Becoming a professor was her ultimate goal so the fact that she had two kids wasn’t going to stop her from going back to school to get her Masters degree which she eventually did. She also struggled to make ends meet when she worked at a grocery store bagging goods, but that did not deter her. This demonstrates that if one is fully committed to what they want to accomplish, there is no stopping them and with perseverance they shall triumph. When Cynthia shares her personal life stories it sits well with the class because some of the students are going through the same phases that she had to endure at one point in
Lynda Bradley Courts is an incredibly active Community Volunteer for her hometown of Atlanta. Ms. Courts graduated from The Westminster Schools and continued on to receive her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Georgia. Additionally, she successfully completed the Shakespeare Institute program of the University of Birmingham in Stratford upon Avon, England. She also holds a master’s degree in English Education from Florida State University. Following graduation, Ms. Courts worked as an instructor for the English Department of Georgia State University.
“Going to college was just an excuse to go find me a husband but don’t tell anyone,” Marianna said laughing fixing up her earpiece. Leaving her mom at the train station sobbing, she went off to Tabor College in Kansas. When she entered college all of her emotions hit her at once she felt nervous but, she also felt excited to start a new chapter in her life. Entering college was one of those moments when you have the spotlight on you and you feel everyone is judging you .Luckily she had one of the closest friends you can possibly have, a sister. That’s when her and her sister’s journey began.
Pam Munoz Ryan attended Bakersfield Junior College and earned her degree to become a children’s teacher. She then went back to college at San Diego University to earn her Master’s degree. In college her professor gave her class a writing assignment. The professor
She went on to graduate high school and attend a community college. Family problems were beginning to be too much by then so she decided to seek solace from her English professor. The conversation resulted in her moving in with her professor; this had a critical impact on her life. Her professor provided a stable home and encouraged her to pursue writing at a four-year university.
She finally was in a place where that she felt that she personally could make a change. The sight of the first grade children running around would’ve drove some to insanity, but it was quite the opposite. She describes the scene as a swirling pool of entropy (disorganization). There was chaos and an absolute mess in every direction that you looked. Now who would sign up for hours of relentless screaming, yelling, and fighting? She saw the mess as an opportunity to shape the minds of the kids. Each and every one of those kids had the potential to something great. Those first graders were our future doctors and engineers. Only no one could see it behind the screaming and
To begin, one quote that stood out to me was, “At International High, there are more than four hundred walking memoirs waiting to be translated.” (p. 39) This made me realize that all the students that attend International High have been through some sort of struggle or event that lead them to come to a place like that. Ann was trying to get her students to answer the prompt: What is your personal power, but got answered as what is the worst
Battered Man Syndrome When many of us hear the words "domestic violence," we automatically assume the victim would be a female and the attacker would be a male. After all, men are traditionally viewed as the more aggressive of the two sexes, and the victims of most domestic abuse situations are indeed women. But a surprising number of domestic violence episodes do involve women as the aggressors, creating a new category of victim known as the “battered husband.” An abused husband suffers the same emotional, verbal and physical abuse as a battered wife, but is less likely to report these crimes to authorities. The name of the movie that I chose to review is “Men Don’t Tell.”
She moved to Bakersfield California when she was just two years old and has lived here ever since she has two children and three grandchildren. Cindy wishes that others would know about her is that life can get harder sometimes as you age people will treat you differently to stay in school because growing up without an education will destroy your adulthood. Cindy has experienced discrimination managers at her workplace would give the younger cuter girls better hours. They would work around her schedule for them but not hers. Date sometimes give the other girls requested days off but shrug Cindy's request to the side all this while she works harder than the others because she needs her job and she needed to maintain her position some insight she said she shares with our class is that we should stay in school and earn our degree other money doesn't buy happiness it brings things that can help your life and make you happier last but not least don't get
My English Literature major has helped me to achieve an outstanding level of appreciation, enjoyment, and knowledge of both American and British Literature. As a high school AP English student, I struggled through great works like Hamlet and To the Lighthouse. My teacher’s daily lectures (there was no such thing as class discussion) taught me merely to interpret the works as critics had in the past. I did not enjoy the reading or writing process. As a freshman at Loras, I was enrolled in the Critical Writing: Poetry class. For the first time since grade school, my writing ability was praised and the sharing of my ideas was encouraged by an enthusiastic and nurturing professor. Despite the difficulty of poetry, I enjoyed reading it.
Luu was growing up, she did not have that many struggles, her parents were strict about her grades, but that was very easy going for her. While she was in college, she majored in Political Science, this was very helpful for her teaching career because it made her a thinker and a writer, not only that it also was very helpful for problem solving and daily life struggles. This major helped her solve students questions and their life problems or struggles easier. As Ms. Luu was choosing her career, she wanted a career where she can be in the medical fields and be played plentiful, but the stress out of those careers made her chose a teaching career. At first, Ms. Luu’s parents did not support her teaching career, they wanted what all asian parents wanted a doctor or something in a medical fields, though they did not support doesn’t mean they do not like the career. Ms. Luu’s parents like the fact that the teaching career benefited their community.
The students started in write in the Journal that she supplied them with. They wrote about their lives with involved violence and hatred that had against everyone in their school. As a class they joined all their journals together and published a book. She had faith in the students and showed dedication, She also gave them hope, She had patience there was times that she could have exploded but she didn't, She was Selfless she put the students before her own relationship. This
Jackie’s lowest point in life was when her mother died of breast cancer 6 years ago and even if she didn’t show it Jackie says without her mother in her life she would have never reached the place she is now. With a well over good paying job, healthy nourished children and 2 story house in a safe friendly neighborhood. She states that her lowest point in life was when her mother died she fell into a deep state of depression and a finiacial hole. Shes healing everyday shes gives it up to God and her mother for helping her be the best she could be. In college she states it is so important to be more responsible for your own education and although they care about their students, teachers are less strict and unwilling to chase their students around for assignments.College teachers are are less likely to be taken advantage of and manipulated like most of the teachers in high school because you are paying to take the class its not their life its yours.College is important because it helps you get a good career, good education, a well-paying job, keeps you active, and rewards you with
While I’ve never met her, Mrs. Schmuck has helped me break the “good grade habit” and has helped me to truly excel in English. Even though I have a different—and yes, less interesting—teacher this year, I still process the material in the ways that she taught me. “Explore not only the character’s life, but your own”, I tell myself before every piece of literature we tackle. It is so easy to be disconnected with the things of old without realizing that the ways of man
One of the nurses gave me a ride to school, but I didn't know how I’d learn as though I do at all. I got one friend here, Jane’s all I need really the only one not doing drugs or stealing. Her mama died about 7 years ago when we were young.She’s in advanced classes, and already knows what college she wants to go to. She’s the kinda person who uses words like malaphor and petrichor, and reads like it’s breathing. Her dad don’t like me, but I like her a lot. The teacher was sitting at their desk again, dealing out quizzes again, and I was drawing in the corner again.
In The New Holy Trinity, Richard M. Re takes us back to the very controversial 1892 case, Holy Trinity. This is one of the most problematic cases for purposivist and it lead to a decrease in purposivism as an interpretation tool. It has been criticized by textualist, such as the late Justice Scalia, due to its prioritizing of a statutes purpose over the plain language of the text. As a result, Holy Trinity was overthrown thus making New Textualism the prevailing view – especially in the Roberts court. However, Re argues that purposivism has evolved and now has the “upper hand” in the Roberts court. “The New Holy Trinity”, according to Re, is the resurgence of consideration for non-textual factors when determining how much clarity is required for a text to be clear. Re argues that the Court has embraced NHT – that is a hybrid version of textualism. The court looks at the purpose of the statute in light of the text before deciding ambiguity. Then it goes to the purpose of the text – shown by legislative history, common sense understanding, a canon, and then decides based on that rather than the plain reading of the case. Re uses three Supreme Court cases: Bond v. United States, Yates v. United States, and King v. Burwell as evidence that his theory is correct.