Gregor Kenner Interview

I met a life changing individual in middle school. We referred to him as “Mr. D”. He was my seventh and eighth grade English teacher. I sat in his class and dozed off during his grammar lectures. He often sparked my attention with jokes, sports scores, stories from literature books. However, the majority of Mr. D’s classes were not overly exciting or stellar in anyway.

Goodman first discusses the competition pre-med students endure with great detail using allusion, metaphors, and repetition. She first notes Chem 20’s “Olympian anguish and Olympic competitiveness.” She uses this allusion to the Olympics in order to fully express exactly how competitive the class was by comparing it to a highly selective competition that takes years to train for. This stresses to the audience the high-pressure and nerve-racking expectations of student success in the class. Goodman then emphasizes this concept by repeating the phrase “go through...competing…” in order to convey the never-ending competition that pre-med students are in their entire lives. To the audience, this displays a sense of repetitiveness and routine in doctors’ lives. Goodman extends this beyond college by comparing the world to “a ladder to be climbed”. This metaphor exemplifies a doctor’s constant need for self-fulfillment. Goodman does this to show to the audience that the competition does not end when Chem 20 is over.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Christian Schaffer, the Co-anchor of Good Morning Maryland at WMAR-TV at ABC-2 News in Baltimore. Broadcast news is a medium that is thrilling, exciting, and fast paced. Schaffer took time out of his action filled days as a Co-Anchor to allow me to interview him and get inside his world.

In addition, teaching is a significant part of any doctor’s life. As physicians, we are constantly educating not only our patients and their families, but also other physicians, residents and medical students. A physician may know all the medical information in the world, but the care of a patient is primarily predicated on that physician’s ability to successfully

-With the professionalization of the medical education, nobody is his own doctor anymore. You don’t get medical education by reading medical books on your won

his writing. He brings good examples, but they are not credible. I agree that teachers, who get good

In addition, Krakauer appealed to ethos by integrating interviews from Chris’s friends and family into the novel. This source of evidence builds credibility for the author because it includes multiple perspectives of Chris, creating less biais. The general outlook of interviews contained mostly positive connotations on Chris. Wayne Westerberg, an owner of a grain elevator in South Dakota, hired Chris and mentioned, “he was the hardest worker I’ve ever seen...And he never quit in the middle of something” (18). By having the input from others about Chris’s personality, the author can conclude that Chris was mind-driven and self motivated. Others also expressed him as highly intelligent and easy to get along with. The strategy of interviews support

Dr. Kaplan was a good doctor. He had to help in the make-shift hospital because he was a

I met with Greg Williams, who has been an archivist at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) for 11 years. Prior to arriving at CSU Dominguez Hills in 2004, Mr. Williams was curator of photographs at the San Diego Historical Society. He has also worked as an archivist and curator for the New Jersey Historical Society, Rutgers University, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and the Oregon State Archives. He has traveled all over the country. Mr. Williams received his master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon and his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University. However, he did mention that this is his favorite location.

During my sophomore summer, I shadowed Dr. Hoffman, a family medicine physician. From this, I learned the nature of general medicine and the intimate relationship that these physicals often develop with their patients.

He does a great job setting the mood for how he feels stating "For a student like me who considers any class before noon to be uncivilized,

And that we will remember the words of the poet, Maya Angelou that people will forget what you did but people will not forget how you made them feel. I hope that all these years of training will help us to think not only like physicians but also like human beings because the practice of Medicine is a challenging but deeply rewarding art with which we can make positive differences in the lives of our patients and their loved

When asked how he became such a good mentor he replied that he did not think he was a good mentor at all. This to many of his former students is not true. Thinking of what many of his former students lives would be like without out him in it, and they would not be the men and women they are today. He also believes that he got more out of the relationships with them than he gave. This is not case for many of his former students. He has had his house robbed by young men that he was mentoring. Earl did not get mad or yell and scream. He did press charges on the third time the same young man robbed his house. He also visited the young man in jail every weekend and even put money on his books. Earl is amazing in that way he is always there for you even when you are messing up. He will not judge you. Now, that is not to say there are not consequences for the choice that you make. He just does not get mad, well at least he does not show when he is mad. I strive to do this in my own life and find it difficult at times, where it appears so easy for

Out of all volunteers, the one who relates to Chen the most was Michael Starsiak. In his interview he says that he wasn’t ready for the Morgue Volunteer because the smell, touch, sound, and taste were things he wasn’t prepared for. Chen was also not ready handle death of patients and she had hard time getting over it. During human dissection, she had a difficult time dealing with the smell of formaldehyde. However, Michael’s case was far more extreme than Chen’s because 911 is a day that everyone remembers and something that can’t be forgotten. Chen said, “she needed to begin to detach herself emotionally from the experience” (Chen, 2007, 9) and Michael said, “you detach, you dehumanize” (Starsiak, 2013) to get through it. This shows that

Again in my own opinion, I truly think this made his presentation crash for me in the simple fact that at some point in an educator's life you will have to deal with all sorts of different people difficult and not, but a teacher has to be prepared and grasp and or uphold all situations in a calm, peaceful and professional manner. Him, having said that made it seem as he still has not yet accepted that fact. Overall the teachers visit was very informative I did take a lot of mental notes from what the teacher said into account and do hope to practice as well as utilize some of his methods in my own classroom to see how well they work for me. He did inspire and motivate me to try hard and put everything that It can possibly give into teaching and the college process because the payoff is life changing. Having this professional education instructor come back to his college in which he graduated and having the luxury of conversing with students sitting where he was not too long ago about being an educator was very inspirational to me. Also to see the amount of the commemoration doctor dresser was awarded to this man gave me the intuition of doing the same and come back to my college to be bestowed the occasion to tell aspiring