Personal Narrative: My Economics Class

A part of my formal education, that has challenged me the most was class debates. While I am fairly skilled in argumentative essays, I always had trouble voicing my arguments as I am an introvert, and in an extremily extroverted society, this was a detriment. I was often pitted against more vocal opponents, who more often than not didn’t have solid arguments, but spoke clearly and confidently, in contrast to my timid soft spoken voice and lack of eyecontact causing my audience to be disinterested. However, as my grades became more dependent on participation in class debates and historical role plays, I began to formulate coping mechanisms to help me use my introvertism as an advantage. One thing I learned is to never try to speak louder than

Everything in life happens for a reason. Every experience, whether it be good or bad, can teach a lesson. We all have to deal with mistakes, tragedies, and failures. Being able to learn from them is an essential principle for personal and professional growth. Our experiences add character to our personalities and mold us into who we are. They can make or break a person. For me, it was both. I believe that the lessons I learned through my mistakes have prepared me in becoming an accurate representation of what it means to be a Price College of Business student.

In the last four years, the United States has implemented a new reform in our medical system called the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Its goal is to reform the health care system, by providing Americans with a more affordable health insurance policy. It also tries to compress the growth of healthcare spending in the United States. The ACA offers Americans better health coverage because of the widespread reforms that are included. These reforms will expand our healthcare coverage, hold insurance companies liable, lower health care costs, guarantee more choice for patients, and improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans (Markette, 2011, p. 12). As the law has passed, there have been many people affected. For example, the craft supply

During my two last years of high school, i've been in contact with a lot of colleges and universities. Many of which don’t get my attention. Throughout my whole high school years, there was only one college that i wanted to go to, Liberty University. I have heard so many wonderful things about Liberty and what i loved the most was that it was a christian school. Liberty had the number one thing that i am looking for in a college, that is a christian school, but many of my other things that i look for in a college where just not there. I used to live in Florida approximately 11 years ago and let me tell you, it's hard not to miss the sunshine state. Liberty is in Virginia, a state where it doesn't feel like home. When i received a brochure

2014 Fall Semester in the begining was going pretty good i was excited to began school , adapting to the new college life, and interacting with friends and new people. I was attending all my classes on time , studying , and completing the required assigments that needed to be done. I also was working a full-time at Gensis Logistics it wasnt easy trying to manage my schedule , but i tried to make it work the best i could. MTE 1 , 3 , and SDV was a breeze to me I was completing my assigments , studying , and understanding the information that was given to me. Now on the otherhand ENG wasn't hard for me i just didnt understand the content that was teached by the teacher. English was always the strongest subject for me so i couldnt understand why it was such a problem in college , maybe it was the teacher and her teaching methods. I never understood any information that was given it seemed to me like our class was always off topic one class period we would talk english, and then another class period we would talk about something else besides english. Then she assigned papers and assigments that was unfamilar to me it seem like everytime she assigned the class papers

On the first day of school this year I was asked what my goal for the year was. Instead of responding saying my goal was to earn good grades, or improve my GPA, I said that my goal was to learn. Not to memorize, take a test, and forget, but to really learn and understand the material. A high school course that I consider to be the most meaningful to me is my AP Macro/Micro Economics class. The internal values I reflected upon above are my main motivators for the class. Before signing up for the class I heard negatives reviews from past students, saying that the class was quite challenging and there was a great deal of work. However, this did not deter me, as I was, and continue to be, interested in learning the subject. So far this class has

Others argue that the absence of market competition could set back innovation in treatment and research. In a BalancePolitics.org article that summarizes the pros and cons of universal health care, one statement on the con side argues that “Free health care isn’t really free since we must pay for it with taxes; expenses for health care would have to be paid for with higher taxes or spending cuts in other areas such as defense, education etc.” The author then asks, “What good would it do to wipe out a few hundred dollars of monthly health insurance premiums if our taxes go up that much more?” (BalancedPolitics.org, Pro & Cons Argument) Shirley Svorny, a professor of economics at California State University and the author of a new Cato Institute study on Medical licensing offers what she considers a lower cost alternative to universal health care: “using innovation to make health care cheaper and more accessible.” (Svorny, Sun Herald) Svorvy claims that patients should have low cost options when it comes to certain routine medical procedures and check-ups. She points to the success of retail “convenience” clinics at Wal-Mart, Target and CVS pharmacies that are now staffed with nurse practitioners that can provide routine care at affordable prices. (Svorny, Sun

I've loved writing since I was a young child, especially creative writing. It allows me to express myself, and it seems almost magical to be able to create things simply by writing down a few symbols and twenty-six letters in various ways. I've written many fictional stories of various genres over the years. Unfortunately, while I have done a lot of creative writing, I haven't done as much academic writing. I would like this class to help me become the kind of student who earns A's on her papers by assisting me in becoming more efficient in the overall writing process.

My first semester of college, I detached my retina and underwent emergency eye surgery two weeks before finals. The surgery restored my vision, but I wouldn’t be able to do strenuous activity or read for two weeks. I wanted to make a full recovery, however I also wanted to take my finals, and receive high grades. My doctor understood how important my classes were to me, and we created a plan where I would be able to take my finals, and still make a full recovery. The first week, was rest with no reading, but my family could quiz me. During the second week, if my eye felt okay I could read in short segments. Finals week, I could take my finals but no extra activity. My professors and I worked to make a similar agreement to cover the material

I learned in the “banking approach”. I had an English teacher who always made us do multiple essays for homework and I noticed that he never read them. I felt like I was not learning anything because I did not receive a graded paper back, until I asked him why he made us do work that will not take us anywhere. I was desperately to learn, and I needed it because English is not my first language. When I talked to him, I noticed that he smell like alcohol and that’s when I quit the class which was not taking me anywhere.

Through various endeavors, I have been able to develop and enhance crucial skills that I believe will allow me to succeed in not only the MMPA Program, but also in my career. My responsibilities as an economic teaching assistant (TA) allowed me to confidently present new material to groups of 50-100 students in my tutorials in a manner that is both informative and understandable. Additionally, I was also tasked with developing problem-solving skills for those in my tutorial with the goal of improving test results and increasing comprehension of models being discussed. As a result, I have been able to polish my public speaking and communication skills, which are critical in order to advance in the profession. Secondly, by fulfilling both my

I have always been proud of my reasoning process and my planning ability. These skills failed me once, however, for I abruptly decided one day to double major in Economics with no rational reason. I owe that to Fadhel since he pushed me into this endeavor. I met him when I started volunteering at the Red Crescent during Ramadan.

I've been reading a lot about the economy. I've lived through Reagan, Clinton, the Bushes, Obama. In my old age, I've probably forgotten a president or maybe two. But it really doesn't matter who is President of the United States, he (so far we've only had Hes) gets more credit and blame for things than he really has the power to change. Without a cooperative Congress to write legislation, there are no bills for the President to sign into law. Currently, many people think it is President Obama's fault that our economy is in its current state. They blame his policies. Others blame the Fed (the Federal Reserve Bank). Still others blame big corporations. I think it's much simpler and comes down to basic money habits and how we each learned to

Views on basic human essentials range from shelter to clothing, and when a person is sick or about to die, they deserve medical treatment. Medicine plays a great role in today’s society to help people live day to day. Not only can they maintain life, but they also fix it as well. Pharmaceutical prices have sky rocketed to where people in financial crisis cannot afford to buy essential medicines. The disadvantage people in society are suffering due to greedy pharmaceutical companies prioritizing profit over a patient’s health. America’s poor cannot afford the astronomical pharmaceutical prices because patents allow for certain drugs to be distributed by monopolies, physicians are given incentives to prefer a certain drug over another, and the cost to research and develop drugs is too much for companies to have competition.

The case allows a discussion of several important issues. At a broad level, the case deals with selling a relatively technical breakthrough that could have tremendous social value in a developing