Interview Questions : Interview With Rahul

4. What made you decide to come to UT and/or what made you decide to come to college at all?

Discuss a significant issue in your home country about which you are passionate and describe how you would use the education you obtain at our institution, American University (AU), Washington, DC, to create positive civic and social change once you return home. Please provide specific examples.

As a young Indian girl, I was happy to be incorporated into the American way of life. I loved the exotic mixture of people, the food, and the principles. I loved everything about it. Yet, in the end,

The name of the individual I met with was Brandon Habig, a student in another section of WU 101 who was an acquaintance from high school. While we did go to the same high school, our differences include the fact that he was a relatively hard worker, receiving a 4.0 grade point average at the end of high school whereas I put minimal effort into high school only receiving a 3.2 by the end. Additionally, we grew up in very different households with his parents forcing him to get a job where mine were largely unbothered by my lack of employment. There was a reason that I chose to interview him over the countless other acquaintances I have made over my short time in college, I wanted to have a serious discussion. I felt that it was necessary to meet with someone I was relatively familiar with so that I could ask serious questions without coming off as jaded or

“ Okay, when I came here I thought things were gonna be easy as I thought before going back to the American dream. I thought it was bigger, had a lot of nice building but, I can say that for the people that they are not as friendly as Liberia. In Liberia you could go to neighbors houses but, here people keep alot to themselves you can’t just go to their house like Liberia. People here are more stuck up or keep more to themselves.”

I choose this topic because when I interviewed immigrant, Kay Collins, her experience was full of discrimination. When I was interviewing her, I chose this because it really spoke to me about how this is actually a part of the American Identity. Collins said, “When I first came over to work most people were very friendly. The only people that would give me a ride to work were the African Americans. The other thought that I should’ve stayed in my country. Times have changed not though, that’s when I first came.” Collins came to America from Wales around the 1960’s or 1970’s. Even today you don’t hear about discrimination as much as you did, but it’s still around. In our course we learned that other immigrants were treated in similar ways when they came over in the late 1800’s early 1900’s. From my research I found that “When Italian immigrants began arriving in the United States in the late 19th century, they were met with prejudice.” The same thing happened to Collins when she came over to the United

“Welcome to Character and Author Interviews!” Loud intro music starts to play while an animation plays on the broadcast screen. “Today we are here with the main character, and the author of “The Testing”, Malencia Vale and Joelle Charbonneau!” My heartbeat quickens as the presenter says my name. I think her name was Susan, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I don’t remember how I got here, all they told me is that I am not the real version of Malencia Vale, and that I have to ask my creator, or author as they call her, 3 questions about The Testing. According to their explanations, I am not the real version of Cia as I remember everything and even things that happened after the memory-wipe, something about magic and pulling me out of a book.

At first I couldn’t understand any special attitudes against me as an immigrant because I didn’t know what was considered right or wrong in this country and culture. My first experience of discrimination was while I was working in an amusement park as a ride operator and I couldn’t get my salary because of a “mix up” with my social security card. Although I was completely eligible, people gave me an unnecessarily harder time than other students that looked, acted, or sounded more American. This caused me a lot of time and stress, which was very unfortunate. Almost every day I was standing in long lines, calling and waiting on hold for hours, but nobody wanted to listen or understand me because I was an immigrant that couldn’t talk on their terms. Anyway, instead of losing hope, I just moved forward.

I truly enjoyed the Mechai Viravaidya interview by Melnick (2013). I found his simplistic ideas refreshing as well as his use of the media to get the public health message out. I also thought his approach to desensitizing condoms was brilliant! However, Viravaidya suggests that to achieve what Thailand did you have an open culture. Therefore, his approach to condom education may not go over as well in the US where some schools still teach abstinence only. I do infer that other approaches especially child nutrition games could be useful in the United States.

For this reflection of the otherwise, Abdula and I decided to meet at the quad like we usually do. This time we decided to pick people at random. This made things interesting for us and our decision. For y interview, I decided to take the easy way out and pick a student (Patrick) that I knew from American Sign Language Class that happened by. This interview went well. But at the end of it I felt like I had to offer Patrick an interview back for one of his classes to make it even and not in dept. Abdul to his credit just walked over to the Vote for Hillary booth. This went better than expected, and the conversation went deeper with the individual considering your online presence as a “other”. During this we both decided to do out to dinner

I just read about the interview by Haben Girma and I agree with the way she thinks and believes in things. She believes that people with disabilities can do just as much as a person that Isn’t impaired. She puts her ideas into a better perspective by asking the audience what they think about when they hear the word lawyer. After that, she continued to ask if they saw someone nice, a female, someone in a wheelchair, or someone deaf and signing things. I believe that anyone can do anything they set their minds to.

2. Provide three (3) examples regarding how and why you felt culture shock….i.e. provide detailed examples of actions, behaviors, language styles, food, clothing, interaction styles, etc. in the new environment you were in that led to you experiencing culture shock. Be sure to be detailed and specific.

Question I: Please describe reasons for your choice of college and your career objectives in Fashion, Visual Arts, Interior Design, or Entertainment.

Conducting an interview with a business executive has been an enlightening and helpful experience. The conversations and email exchanges have allowed me a glimpse of how leadership theories and other concepts learned through our strategic leadership program are applied in day-to-day operations of a large manufacturing firm. A friend since childhood, Erik Shay, holds the esteemed position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) for North America of Veka, Inc., a worldwide extruder of PVC window profiles. He manages the operations of three manufacturing plants in North America, with over 700 people under his authority. His journey of leadership experience commenced at the age of seventeen with the discipline, structure, and rigors of life in a military academy. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with an engineering degree and served the majority of his years in the Navy on a nuclear submarine. He sought an MBA degree upon completion of his military service and has held multiple positions in manufacturing corporations since. He has been in his current position for six years.

He experienced childhood in a parse family unit in Bombay (now Mumbai) and this is the thing that he knows