Jesus Christ Reflection

In When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds it says that “comparison can block compassion both for others and for ourselves.” I agree with such statement; I think that listening is a skill you learn throughout time. One can pretend to listen without really getting anything out of the conversation that one is having with that other person. In the Compassionate Listening workshop, I got to do it with Rachel Kurland and I sit and listened to her talking about the moment her friend treason her. I tried to understand her plight, why would she not cut that friendship off, I understood she loved her friend, however, I could not resist bringing my biases to our conversation. I asked myself, why is Rachel, such a good, loving, and smart person,

High school- the transition between being kids to becoming independent adults. The time where we learn all our values and lessons that set us up for life. Good morning Daramalan staff and executive members. Today I will be presenting a film that I believe should be studied in the Daramalan College year 10 curriculum. This film was originally a classic Jane Austen novel called Emma, which is often studied in a literature classroom. Emma was first published in 1815 . The novel based in 1810s, is about 22 year old Emma Woodhouse, who imagines herself to be naturally-gifted at conjuring love matches, who then exposes herself to a world of conflict, miscommunication, stereotyping, and perception. This classic novel was been retold in a 1990s

My writing has changed in a few ways since the beginning of this class. I wouldn't go so far as to say I like to write but it is not as much of a challenge anymore. While it is still a challenging thing it is nowhere near as hard to do as it was. Being in this class I have become more aware of the mistakes in grammar I make. While I am still not great with grammar I have gotten better. Being part of a writing group has helped me in more ways than just developing my writing, but in being more confident. I am more confident in reading my writings out loud as well is being able to talk about myself.

I have a long-standing interest in studying collective flow and particle correlations in AA collisions, and have made several original contributions. Motivated by a conjectured universal lower bound of $1/4\pi$ on the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio ($\eta$/s) for all quantum fluids from the string theory, one main theme of the field is to precisely determine the $\eta$/s value of the QGP fluid from measurements of collective flow and azimuthal correlations. In extracting the $\eta$/s value from data, theoretical modeling of the QGP's initial shape presents the largest uncertainty and requires additional constraints.

The inspiration for Chantal and I’s praxis paper was from Carl Leggo’s article, “Pedagogy of the heart”. As I read Leggo’s ruminations between his prose story and his poetic expression I realized his article read like a praxis paper. When thinking about how to conceptualize this paper Chantal and I were bogged down by ‘in the box’ thinking until we were lamenting on Leggo’s method of narration and expression. I could not help but feel happy when I read Leggo’s article, it was free, honest, and creative, I could literally read the passion of his pedagogy in every word. Leggo would write a portion of his story and what he learned in his prose portion but expressed and connected his next prose with a

I stared out at the sunset from my post of land in the woods. The bleeding of reds, oranges, and pinks together perfectly reflected onto the shimmering lake. My stomach ached, but the taste of beauty made the pain somewhat bearable. This past summer, I went on a La Vida trip, where I was required to do a solo experience, where I was denied food and social interactions for two days. Fasting was proven to be difficult, but it was through that experience that I began to understand the concept of giving all yourself in worship to God. Most of my life I was only familiar with worshiping God with my time, resources, or through song. In denying myself food, I was shown how to worship God through fasting. From the lessons I learned at La Vida, my goals for the next four years are to do what Jesus said in Luke 10:27: “to love the Lord (my) God with all (my) heart and with all (my) soul and with all (my) strength.” Over these four years, I plan to worship God through every aspect of my life, including but not limited to in my academic and musical pursuits.

Jesus continues to preach. He forbids divorce and advocates chastity, while expounding the virtues of asceticism. He warns against the pitfalls of wealth, teaches forgiveness, and welcomes children. In Jerusalem, cheering crowds await him. People “spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road” (Matthew 21:8). Upon his arrival in Jerusalem, Jesus expels money changers from the Jewish temple and defies the chief priests and elders, saying, “My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers” (Matthew 21:13). Jesus’s action earns him the support of the crowds. He chastises Jewish leaders, telling them they have been poor caretakers of the temple and that the people have been hypocritical, focusing on technical legal issues rather than “justice and mercy and faith” (Matthew 23:23). Seeing the wickedness of Jerusalem, and foreseeing God’s punishment of the wicked, Jesus warns his disciples to be prepared for the end of the world. He says that tribulations will precede the final judgment, but that the Son of man—Jesus himself—will come, and that the righteous will be saved.

Mcgowan’s description of Jesus as the disabled God makes sense to me because Jesus is the human form of God. Like most humans, Jesus goes through many burdens and was considered a plebeian by society. Human burdens Jesus has felt include feeling sadness, fear and being physically hurt as he was left with scars after being nailed to the cross. Jesus had a lot of emotional and physical burdens in his life, therefore, compared to the all powerful God in heaven, Jesus is the disabled God. Additionally, we see Jesus as a humble person since he lived through hardships that include being hated on and ultimately killed.

The central focus of this learning segment is comprehension. The purpose of this lesson is for students to be able to find the problem and solution while reading the text A Pencil for Tidbit and Morsel. Students will read the book A Pencil for Tidbit and Morsel independently students will need to be able to identify and analyze characters and their traits, identify major and minor events and indicate the problem and solution to the story. Students will need to show knowledge of understanding and comprehending the story while reading to answer and ask questions about the text. This will be done in a small group setting, there will be five students present during this learning. I am teaching this to strengthen and grow student’s comprehension and reading skills.

As a former co-worker and adviser, I decided to observe Carmen Macias from East Los Angeles College (ELAC). I wanted to interview her because I knew first hand of her impressive work ethic. In addition, she serves at an institution that services students who come from my home high school of South Gate, CA. ELAC is located in Monterey Park and is one of the nine community colleges apart of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). The class profile consist of first year students who are a part of Adelante, a first year student program. Many of the students in the class are in a cohort and will be taking various classes together. The classroom itself is in a horseshoe style seating. When talking to Carmen about the purpose of this,

In this lesson there are multiple process skills, knowledge, and skills to be included and emphasized. When doing this lesson, I would be addressing the process skills of communicating, measuring, comparing, contrasting, organizing, and analyzing. Student would partake in communicating during the class discussion about frog calls, when the groups discuss and create their frog calls, and when sharing with the class the frog calls they made. Measuring would take place during the extension game whenever the biologist times and records the time it took the female frog to find a mate. Comparing and contrasting would be done in the “Guess who makes that sound?” game. The students will be comparing and contrasting the frog sounds to their prior knowledge and to each of the frog sounds. They do this to try and figure out what animals is making that sound. Organizing will be addressed through the KLEWS chart. The students will organize their ideas, wonderings, evidence, and the like into the KLEWS chart. Also, the students will organize their data gathered in the extension game. Lastly, students analyze the observations they made during the entire lesson and that information was written in the Learning, Evidence, and Scientific Principle columns of the KLEWS chart. All of these process skills I will emphasize and guide the students through. Skills addressed in this lesson were communicating skills and engineering skills. Students need to know how to communicate in order to

At this point in my researching I am feeling confident in my general idea. I like my topic and I think I can support it and supplement it with proper research. I am feeling very confident in my focus on my paper. I feel that I have a good focus on my paper and that I will be able to keep on topic during my paper. I am, however not very confident about my thesis. I know what my thesis needs to be about. I know what it needs to say. I just need to find the right way to say it. I have been thinking about how I want to write my thesis but so far it does not work well. It does not give the reader the “so what?” factor that I am looking for in my thesis. I am working on refining it to fit better.

When I started this semester I expected college to be like highschool but harder. I was wrong there are many things that I did not expect, and though I did alright this semester I plan on improving a great deal next semester. Next semester I plan on improving how much work I put into academics, how I plan on spending my money, and how I plan on improving my personal life.

This lesson was the first one I did during practicum week and I thought it went very well. I did this lesson in the morning pretty much after calendar time. We had to wait a couple minutes for some of the students to get back from extra reading practice. When I went up to the front of the room a lot of the students got excited. Considering I was somebody new, they thought it would be fun for me to teach them. I first asked the students what long vowel sounds they have been working on and almost all of the students raised their hands. I was very proud of the fact that I did not have any trouble with names when I was calling on them. I started the lesson with those questions in order to get them ready for the lesson, it was a quick warm up in order to start thinking about what we will be doing.

The relationship I have with life is what I see as my reflection. Always wondering how to make it better, and if it’s possible to fix pass problems that still arise today. I love myself, but my reflection is curious, always wondering. I think we all have had this problem not being sure of what direction to take in life. I think about how my reflection has impacted my life every day, all the things that has happened to me these past twenty-four years of my life.