My Honors Physics Class

Spanish has been crucial to me for my whole life because it shows that I’m bilingual. Not only do I use it in school, but also at home with my family. For the most part, this language has been with me since I was a little girl. I began to speak Spanish at age two and learned how to write it at age four. My parents helped me practice Spanish by speaking it. They also told me read Spanish books out loud, so I could speak it fluently. Luckily I went to Mexico when I was seven, but I only went that one time, so I haven't been able to practice with my whole family. In addition, I’ve had Spanish classes since kindergarten and now as a junior I continue to learn new things. As a teenager, I seem to use it more in my daily life, because my parents only speak Spanish which is how I’ve gained experience. For example, when my parents took me to Mexico at age seven, I learned to speak with all my family.

1. The point of taking Spanish or any other foreign language is crucial in education. Knowing a foreign language can come in handy when you're visiting a foreign country and it is becoming an increasingly needed skill in the diversifying Untied States. Learning a foreign language like Spanish can also help you with your English by making you think harder when reading and analyzing the context and sentence structure of things written in both languages. Employers and colleges also look for Spanish speakers because an understanding of the language not only shows your intellect and your ability to learn but it also makes you valuable in a country that has a rising Spanish population like the United States. Besides all the benefits from taking a Spanish class it is also a lot of fun to learn. For me I have always been fascinated

Speaking Spanish or any second language opens a lot of doors in life. While the little Spanish I do know is incomprehensible to most fluent Spanish-speakers, it has helped me in some situations. The article Se Habla Espanol by Tanya Maria Barrientos is the story on how she (Tanya) dealt with the tribulations of being born in Guatemala, moved to and raised in the United States, and attempting to learn her native Language once again (Barrientos 645). While many of us, including Tanya, have difficulties learning a new language and understanding others cultures, the struggle will prove to be worth it in the end.

I also, at a year ten level, study maths and science at school. Maths and Science are quite strong points of mine. Last semester I achieved an A in science

Spanish is my native language, however, my mother advised my siblings and I to speak only English. This was because she was afraid that we would be rejected from professional careers if our English wasn 't unaccented, fluent, and similar in refinement to the working class whites. With time, I became a fluent English speaker with a developed Central American accent but like, any other young girl, I thought nothing of it. That is until one event, in particular, occurred that would cast a shadow of embarrassment onto my Spanish language. This event not only led me to desert my entire native language but a sense of my cultural identity, as well.

Even though my mother was Mexican it was hard for me to speak to my friends who knew mostly Spanish and a little English because Spanish was not my first language. As years went on, I went to high school, where now I can have a full conversation with my Spanish speaking friends, and since it is an international high school, it brings in more cultural diversity. With this international high school in El Paso, it has helped me learn new cultures and experience the dozens of traits they do for activities or how they celebrate

In this experiment, the signal generator was set so that the frequency meter showed a reading of 1,803 Hz. The microphone was moved to a distance from the speaker so that the oscilloscope displayed a straight diagonal line. This position was of the microphone was recorded as the initial position, or beginning of a wavelength. The microphone was then moved farther in the same direction until the oscilloscope displays the same horizontal line. This position was recorded as final position, or the end of the wavelength. The distance between the two positions represents one wavelength for this frequency. This was repeated for frequencies of 2,402 Hz, 3,002, Hz, 3,602 Hz, and 4,201 Hz.

I am very fluent in Spanish now and I my young children are as well. So even speaking another language is helping us grow. Diversity in society helps us grow as individuals and opens our minds to different ways of life.

When learning Spanish, it is interesting to think of it as the new English. Learning languages increases intellect. Spanish has many similarities with English in terms of the vocabulary. These open up ones ideas and thinking to diversify a learner intellectually. It is a fact that learning a language like Spanish leaves one sharper than anyone who just speaks, reads and writes English. Most children are advised to learn as many languages as they can. Why is this? Foreign languages like Spanish broaden the mind and this is another reason why learning it is

During my junior year golf career I was forced to make a decision. My AP physics teacher was offering a review session for the upcoming test on the same date that I had a golf match. It was obvious for me to prioritize my schoolwork before golf. I knew that I was already struggling in physics and that going to my teacher's generous review session would benefit. Unfortunately, my coach and teammates did not agree with me. They were furious that I was not dedicating myself to the team. He told me that I was being selfish and letting him and my teammates down. I was conflicted because I valued their opinions but as a math and science oriented student, succeeding in my physics class was crucial to me. As a student athlete, I learned that my choices

Due to the fact that I had taken Biology in Eighth grade and passed, I had taken Chemistry as a ninth grader. That had prompted me either wait until my junior year to continue with my sciences, or to take physics as a Tenth grader. Since I was a year ahead of everybody else with my science classes, I had really thought about just waiting for everyone else to catch up with me and wait until junior year to continue. I ended up taking the physics class anyway even though it was for seniors..

Taking the Spanish course in school is great for jobs out there who is looking for people that are bilingual. Some people don’t understand that if you can become bilingual you can actually make more money than others who only speak one language. I know taking Spanish is a way of demonstrating you to the real reality world we live in. The reason being is you interact with other non English speaking people. “ If you speak English and Spanish, you get an additional of 1.5% higher than the normal average only English speaking employee.bestcolleges.com You are gaining benefits from taking a simple Spanish course and have a great chance of becoming very

I was taught early on by Dr. Jacobson in PHYS 109 to employ a common five step process that I always use in physics (every physics class for four years now). The steps are: 1) Identify the givens (draw/label), 2) Identify what it takes to be solved (or what specific quantity the question asks for), 3) Write down all useful relations involving both the givens and what is needed to solve, 4) Attempt to solve, 5) Reflect on the feasibility of solution or correctness. This process is good and does not fail me; however, I always use it no matter if a problem is trivial or not. My consistent leaning on this process has a downside. It not only restricts me to a sequential form of thinking about solutions (possibly masking alternative approaches), but I often take much longer on physics problems than most. I am the type of student with good to high grades on homework assignments, but poor- passing, but poor performance on tests. I don’t believe this category of student is uncommon. As a student, I feel that I have comparably infinite time to work on a tough homework problem than the blip of time allotted to a problem on a test. I think other students share that outlook.

“I already know Spanish,” said Fabiola Delgadillo, 9. “What’s the point of going through it when I already know it? I don’t like that I’m pushed towards Spanish when I could be pushed towards learning French, or some other third language, and use that for my future.”

In the 21st, in our science classes, we are taught to believe that our world is actually made up of particles as the smallest constituents of matter. We are told that particles behave like waves because it makes no sense to teach that a particle moves faster than the speed of light, that particles can cause interference with one another, among other ridiculous things that we just never imagine a particle to do. What we are not told is that we never had to think about the smallest elements of matter, also known as, quanta, as particles. Instead, we can describe quanta as being excitations of fields, i.e., waves. There is no supporting evidence that a wave can behave like a particle, the evidence only points to experiments evaluating the data using wrong techniques, and assuming that a particle was in the place of a wave.