Listening To Mark Wick Analysis

As far as selecting picture books for use in a classroom collection, Tuesday by David Wiesner would be an excellent addition. The book itself is a wordless book, with limited text and depends on sequenced illustrations to present the story and carry the narrative. Despite the lack of text, colorful illustrations throughout create interest in the story and make the reading experience an enjoyable one. Looking at evaluation criteria for selecting picture books in a classroom, Tuesday adheres to many of the standards. Tuesday is about a topic that children would find interesting; it avoids all forms of stereotyping in both text and illustration. The figures of frogs flying about on lilypads, is well done, but not so complex that it is not appropriate

In this Ted talk, Mr. Norman Spack talks about a very sensitive issue prevalent in the whole of the world, an issue which affects a substantial population of the world yet people find it difficult to address it. He talks about how sometimes when a child is born the doctors find it difficult to specify the sex of the child because of either the discrepancies among the externals or between the internal and external organs of the body. I agree with his statement that many times our feelings and sexual orientation differ from our gender identity. We also feel something which is not a normal thing for our gender but is a common trait with the opposite gender. The speaker rightly points out that whether the sexual orientation is in harmony with

Stuart Scott did exceptionally well in his speech at the ESPY’s. He showed empathy towards people in general, making it feel like the audience can experience from his viewpoint as well. Mentioning the words, “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up. “ from Jim Valvano’s speech was a great start to the general purpose of his speech.

Shawn Pogatchnik shows how important the fact that so many migrants are trying to flee to Germany and other EU countries by using statistics. Pogatchnik states that the EU countries “...has seen more than 332,000 migrants enter so far this year.” He also says that Germany “...is expecting to take in 800,000 migrants in this year.” When people read the article, they realize that what is going on must be bad enough for hundreds of thousands of people to want to flee their own country to enter another European country.

In his video “How Do You Make a Biblical Case for the Trinity?", Brett Kunkle provides three “steps” to systematically explain the essential truths of the doctrine of the Trinity (STRvideos). The first step is to “Start with the very clear passages that suggest that there is only one God” (STRvideos “How Do You Make a Biblical Case for the Trinity?”); this is essential to avoiding the heresy of tritheism. Several passages of Scripture, including Deuteronomy 6 and John 17:3, affirm that the God of the Scriptures is alone God of all the earth. The second step is to “Look[] at the distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” (STRvideos “How Do You Make a Biblical Case for the Trinity?”). By studying the various roles of the three members

Robin Williams was one of the greatest actors that ever lived. He always thought positive things, “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world”. He was always inspiring many people. When someone was sad, he’d always cheer them up. His entire life was full of happiness with a few ups and downs here and there. He always tried his best. Even though he was always happy, he did feel depressed at some points. But he managed to power through them. “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it”. His depression only encouraged him more to keep trying and never give up. He used this throughout his entire career.

Every living human being has the opportunity and ability to do what he or she feels is just for the world. Although, in the present age, society seems to lack the figures of “social beings” (cctwincities.org). These social beings are seen as up standers. They have the charisma and dedication required to relentlessly pursue and never give up on a cause that they feel strongly about; be it through their words or actions. Craig Kielburger is often referred to as an up stander. At a very young age when Kielburger’s passion towards helping others to promote the common good began, his parents encouraged him to go for it [,] [t]he only failure in life is not trying (Kielburger, 1998, p. 13). Through the many institutions that Kielburger works with,

Almost my embarrassment was liberated when I read the book Mindset. Dweck has used some writing moves ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade readers. I myself was feeling excited, enough of patience to continue to find out. I want to see how she did it.

Sentence Outline Commemorative Speech—Robin Williams Speech Title: Comedic Genius Despite Depression Public Figure: Robin Williams General Purpose: To praise, inform, commemorate Specific Purpose: To commend Robin Williams and inform classmates of his lasting positive impact on the world, despite his mental illness. Thesis: Like Robin Williams, one doesn’t have to allow a mental illness to dictate their life. 1.

While reading an intriguing article by Rich Juzwiak on the Gawker website, he discussed his distaste of enforcing same-sex couples into a box. He despises how gay people have to either be the submissive one or the dominate one. Not many people know this, but there is such a thing called versatility. In the gay world, we have tops, bottom, and versatile people. The versatile partner gets to decide if they want to be submissive or to be the dominate partner. They are not subjected to being this one thing. In Rich Juzwiak he discussed how gay men are categorized as one kind of position in a relation, and he challenged those limits by saying that they can do both. Why have cake, and not be able to eat it too? In his article, he states this,

The podcast was an interview with Christy Oslund and her book “Supporting College and University Students with Invisible Disabilities: A Guide for Faculty and Staff Working with Students with Autism, ADHD, Anxiety and Mental Illness.” It was an eye opener for me because the new innovative ideas for student struggles, transitioning, and those students that have never needed help.

Ryan Hickmott was completely immersed into the gay community by spending time in the “Gayest place on the planet”, San Francisco, and living with a gay man for 30 days. He strongly believed that homosexuality was a sin and marriage was only between a man and a woman. He would voice his opinions on multiple occasions. He had a very dogmatic viewpoint and over time, because of his environment, his strong opinions began to fade tremendously. He experienced things like going to dinner with gay guys, going to a gay bar, going to a gay church, working in a predominately gay area, and even speaking with some gay veterans. He was extremely uncomfortable in almost all of these situations, and at one point considered homosexuality to be an equal sin compared to murder. But later on he comes to the realization that contradicts his beliefs when saying he would be completely fine with his new gay roommate being in the same military unit with him because he is comfortable around him. Lastly, he had the opportunity to go to a PFLAG meeting, which is support group for homosexuals and had a truly eye opening experience. He discovered that gay people deserve the same treatment of a straight person. The stereotypes that were built into his mind were diminishing rapidly. When going home to Michigan he realized how easy it was to make an opinion about gays with complete ignorance. It was an experience that

Howard Roark is the personification of the phrase, “I do what I want.”. He doesn’t do anything other than for his own reasons. He is expelled from college in his third year for refusing to complete the assignments as directed. He is fired from multiple architecture firms, for refusing to bend his ideas or refusing to reach a compromise of any kind. He refuses to take on projects where he will not be given complete creative freedom to design his buildings. He lives to make himself happy, designing buildings as he envisions them makes him happy, and so he does nothing else, he plays no political games, he plays nice with no man, and he concedes nothing. This is the embodiment of Objectivism. Roark’s entire life is based on Objectivism, but the

I feel excited and accomplished. In the podcast it mentions that in western culture we associate understanding something immediately with being smart, and personally, this is very true. When I understand something immediately I feel very smart and I feel as if I am excelling with the concept at hand, and in all honesty I also feel as if I am above those in the course who may not fully understand.

​Hi, Amanda! First, I'm sorry for the ridiculously slow response to your email. In Summer I stay clear of the computer and email as much as possible. I appreciate and admire your early enthusiasm for the philosophy course. Your curiosity is certainly justified since, as you may have noticed, philosophy is given little chance to speak for itself in the K-12 education system. So for most students it really is a new occasion for asking questions and trying to think straight about big questions. Philosophy is a practice of patient thinking. That is probably its chief characteristic, along with others like logic and creativity. Have a look at this ​short essay by Simon Critchley and let me know what you