Reflection On Enclosed: Massasoit Community College

In the short story,“The Sanctuary of School,” by Lyndd Barry, the author uses characterization, the building of one’s personality and feelings, to create a central idea. The central idea that is supported in this short story is that home is not a place, it’s a feeling of love and safety. The writer of the story,“The Sanctuary of School,” proves the central idea that home is not a physical place but a feeling hope and protection, through characterization.

An author’s personal experience gives authenticity to their text. Peter Skrzynecki, an Australian poet of Polish origin emigrated to Australia shortly before the end of World War II. His assimilation into his newfound homeland is portrayed in his emotive poetry, where he explores his disconnection and alienation. The way in which Skrzynecki writes about his personal experiences gives an authentic insight into the perspective of a migrant, allowing the audience to better understand the challenging emotions evoked by the migrant experience. These emotions are clearly seen in Skrzynecki’s poem St Patrick’s College, where he delves back through his experiences at school and highlights the disconnection and alienation he felt being a migrant. This disconnection is further expressed in Feliks Skrzynecki, where Skrzynecki alludes to his detachment from even his father. These feelings of disconnection and alienation shown by Skrzynecki in his poems, allows the audience to understand the effects of growing up as a migrant.

Lynda Barry is a writer, teacher, and cartoonist who is best known for her comic strips about troubled family life. “The Sanctuary of School” portrays school as the haven that Barry found it to be during her childhood. School, Barry explains, was the place she felt safe and where she had the opportunity to utilize art as a coping mechanism for her home life. Through this narration of her childhood, Barry also addresses the importance of funding our nation’s education system and providing students with opportunities they do not receive at home. I believe that the message of the author is crucial as students in underprivileged neighborhoods may not have the creative outlets they need in school. The essay allows me to reflect on my own fortunate

Images of confinement and escape in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. Is shown all throughout the story, Mrs. Mallard felt trapped she did not seem happy at all. The feeling of freedom seemed to take over Mrs. Mallard body. Her exhaustion seems to confine her so when Mrs. Mallard heard the news about her husband. All she could think of is being alone and confining herself in a room where she can express how she truly feels. Mrs. Mallard felt tied down and exhausted from being trapped. Instead of her

Nowadays, the society has changed a lot. The varieties of technology bring people many benefits. Moreover, with the development of era and society, human being gradually will be influenced by some factors. Now perspectives are totally different from traditional world, and the character of people similarly has changed rather than follow the traditional tendency. “Connectivity And Its Discontents” is written by the Sherry Turkle. Turkle describes that the technology influence relationship and communications with others. Even though the technology always can let people contact with friends and family more convenient and quick, at the same time Turkle also realize that negative effect influences people’s lives. In addition, as known to all, the role of parents for children is extremely crucial, and the communication with parents and the harmony of family generally influence children’s growth. “The Sanctuary of School” is written by Lynda Barry. Barry states that when she was a child, she experienced her parents fighting all night and felt panic. She just went to the school in order to see her teachers and employees in school, because Barry thinks that she has the feeling of security when she communicates with them.

Isabelle Knockwood’s novel Out of The Depths shines a light on Residential Schools in Canada through the first hand accounts of twenty-seven survivors who attended the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. Although Knockwood’s compilation of accounts are all from students of one residential school, the treatments and experiences echo the sentiments of students and authors over a much greater area. The affects of Residential Schools have had a lasting impact, affecting communities and individual generations later. Knockwood’s novel is very unique because it voices not only the harsh realities we associate with residential schools, but also personal experiences of appreciation for what the school(s) did. It will be interesting to look at

After taking the course WCWP 100, I feel the most significant change is not only the improvement of my writing, but also during the process that I have greatly change myself, I believe it as a self-fashioning process. According to the article "Self-fashioning in Society and Solitude: On Crafting a Liberal-arts Education", Nannerl O. Keohane explains that how the education can shape the individuals' self. Here, Keohane asserts that in college, equipping ourselves with knowledge, interacting with other people around us and engaging in extracurricular activities can provide excellent opportunities for individuals to develop their "selves" (Keohane 98) And as the author claims that in college, you have a chance to shape you as the person you want

The College welcomes applications from transfer students who have a 3.0, but those who have completed a two-year degree may be ineligible for admission. Students who already possess a four-year degree are not eligible for admission.

John R. Thelin called the period from 1970 to 1980 “turbulent waters” for all institutions (Thelin, 2011, p. 317). After the golden age, the industry of Higher Education in the U.S. faced the not-so-bright future with a lot of colleges and universities being shut down. Thelin (2011, p. 337) points out that the institutions could have been prepared to handle the steadily declining enrollment, decreased revenues, decline in funding, stagflation, and rising campus maintenance costs if only they picked on the first signs of upcoming financial crisis when in 1970, the share price of the NSMC fell from $140 to $7 over the short period of time (Thelin, 2011, p. 317). However, the universities and colleges of that time were so confident and relied on “the public image of higher education as a “growth industry” (Thelin, 2011, p. 318) so much, that they were not monitoring the changing situation and thus, were not fast enough in adopting to new conditions. It does not mean that there were many college closings; vice a versa, some colleges grew, opened new programs and applied for research grants. These colleges adopted the enterprise thinking (Thelin, 2011, p. 337).

Over the summer coming into senior year, I completed my Personal Finance (FINL 041: Financial Literacy) and Physical Education (AEROB 045: Aerobics) credit online at Brigham Young University Independent Study. Alongside taking these online courses, I worked with my Latin teacher Joshua Crumm to learn Latin 3 so that I can join AP Latin my senior year. I passed his final with an A and was allowed to join AP Latin. This is the reason why Latin 3 and the online courses are not presented in my transcript.

Personally, “The Sanctuary of School” offers the strongest conflict. Namely, the conflict of Man v. Society, because troubled children like Lynda Barry contend with those who think before and after school programs are unimportant.

By the time most students start thinking about the credits they had previously earned at the community college it is too late and they have already lost them. This is the most difficult part of the transferring process due to the fact that

To prepare myself for this new chapter in my life, I have taken many steps to help prepare myself for the fall of 2017 at Morehead State. In the spring of 2017, I chose to transfer to a community college to help improve my grades and my GPA. (Seeing it went from a 1.3 to a 2.6).  I have talked with advisors that have helped to map out the rest of my college career to have me reach my goals. I have researched all courses needed for my intended major of Health and Physical Education. I know which credits I have already earned and which of those credits will successfully transfer over. I have taken a closer look and

For the purpose of observing a school environment, I was granted the opportunity to visit Marcy Open School, a K-8 Minneapolis Public School located in 415 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN. Like all magnet schools, Marcy Open School strives to achieve racial balance and incorporates specialized curricular themes to reach out to its scholars. In addition, the school website states the mission of the school is to,” Educate for life-long learning in a respectful environment that emphasizes responsibility, creativity, curiosity, and connectedness to the world”. To enhance students’ learning outcomes, Marcy Open School incorporates the following nine unique programs: Marcy Arts Partnership, a program that funds for arts-integrated programs and residencies for all children, regardless of race, religion, developmental level or socioeconomic status. Parents established the program in 1995 in an effort to connect students with the wider community and strengthen students’ education. Also, the school provides Path to Reading Excellence in School Sites (PRESS) a partnership between, target, the University of Minnesota, Reading Corps, and select Minneapolis schools (Marcy included), that focuses on teachers and students in grades K-3 and provides them Quality Core Instruction, Data-Based Decision Making, Tiered Interventions, and Professional Development. This program was designed because ample research proves that children’s’ ability to read by third grade determines their future

As with any modern community, there are certain freedoms that need be alienated in order to live in peace with fellow neighbors. It is the HRC covenant, the Guide to Community Living, and the prayers of Taizé give meaning to the community known as the Honors Residential College (HRC). The texts each serve as evidence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract Theory in work, each including a type of self-sacrifice for the greater good and solidification of the community.