Reflection Paper On Slime

Most people would agree that “practice makes perfect”. That goes for anything one does, including in an English class. Throughout the semester I have grown as a writer. There are still things that I could of course work on, and get better at. But, as of recently I have become a better writer than what I started out as. Concepts that I have learned I can continue to build off of to become a better writer. Which is something I hope to do. Going into English 1010 I knew there were things that I could be better at. Therefore, I came into class with an open mind. This class has taught me how to use certain skills to write a well written essay. By using the learning objectives exemplified in the class I was able to write multiple well written

He left his seat as I stood frozen in shock. He walked to the back of the classroom. He balled-up his thick fist and PUNCHED the classroom’s back wall.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Over the past year, I have felt the true feelings of spiritual and emotional growth. This past year, I started at a new school, which in its self was a big change for me, I joined a new church and changed my major in school. Shortly after starting at Towson University the thoughts of changing my major from music to business arose on many occasions. Along with that came the struggle to no longer pursue music as a career. To come to a decision I continuously went to God in prayer, aside from the decision to switch my major from Music to Business, my relationship with God increased ten-fold. Along with this great decision going on I also started to attend counseling at the school’s health center. With the progression of my sessions with my counselor, I slowly but surely addressed some of my inner demons dealing with myself, my mother, and my biological mother. With this came some pushback from some family and friends, telling me “you don’t need counseling, you have God’ and etc. God really reviled himself through this because there were times when my counselor and I would discuss something and the same day or on the following Sunday my pastor, or a minister would repeat the words of my counselor in a sermon or in personal conversation. The relief of finally knowing how to address my feelings and emotions in life situations is

Since I was 12-years-old, my dad drilled the following three rules into my head: boys are dumb, drugs are bad, and stay out of bars- regarding both jail and alcohol. I did not know it at the time, but I should have abided by my dad’s “rules”. When I started my freshman year of high school, the first rule was incredibly hard to listen to. Though I had never been in a real relationship until the end of my junior year, I went through my fair share of douche bag “flings” up until that point. These flings taught me what not to look for in a man, because each resulted in me feeling really awful about myself. So awful that I did not know how I could go on some days. But, I would not be where I am today without those douche bags. They dropped me onto the path of another soul who was just as lost as I was.

At my internship site at the international High School Union square, my site supervisor has given me the role to be in charge of writing and sending planning interview letters of course under her supervision. Therefore, for my reaction paper I decided to use a planning interview meeting. We have one student who has several absents, there are time that he doesn’t come to school for two weeks and then he decides to come; counselors, social worker have talk to him and he keeps promising that he will come to school. This event has been occurred since the beginning of the academic year, the student cannot be discharge because he is under eighteen.

Grumpy Hughes Lane. Avery County, North Carolina. July 2017. Situated in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains lies a humble homestead with a paraplegic man and his lovely amicable wife. Their home, a dilapidated nineteen thirties fixer upper, was in desperate need of repair, especially on its exterior, so myself and other youth collaborated to make the Hughes family’s dream of a reliable and dependable home a reality.

I thought that service learning would be a great way to connect with the community while learning more about the environment. In ENVIR 239, I knew that I was going to be focusing on minimizing my footprint and aside from class assignments, I wanted to know what other hands-on activities I could do. Through the service learning, I actually feel like Beaven, “balance[ing] what negative impact [I] couldn’t eliminate with some sort of positive impact” (Beavan, 15). As Beaven would call it, this “environmental activism” has made me wonder what other activities I could do aside from composing and recycling. When I went to my first volunteer event, I was surprised to see the different age groups. There were kids and adults eager to get their hands dirty and do their part to minimize their footprint.

My parents have taught me many valuable lessons throughout my life. Among these are respect, hard work, honesty, and dedication. However, the aspect of my family which has impacted me the most was not a lesson that could be taught with words, but rather, learned through my parents’ example. Growing up I witnessed the importance of having a strong work ethic and pursuing an education through my parents’ immigration story. It was in those moments when I saw my parents cry that I truly understood how their background shaped my family.

“But mom, coloring pictures is for babies,” I whined. And then disaster struck. All of a sudden I heard a giant CRASH! Everything started to feel hot and I couldn’t breathe very well.

We begin at an early age training our brain how to work in coordination with the rest of our body. Walking with one foot in front of the other, holding a fork and getting it from the plate to our mouth with the food still on it, all require training muscles to respond in a certain fashion. Then we progress and learn various other skills and facts that cause us to function in certain fashions. We learn what is deemed as right and wrong in society and then try to live within the norm. After much observation and study some of us, myself for one, believe that the sun comes up and goes down because that is how God made the world. That much I know to be true, but my understanding of how that works falls short. We try repeatedly to understand the things we know and yet we continue to search for clearer and sometimes even reasonable answers. How does our mind work? Do we know or do we understand? Turn left and you will go right, turn right and you will go left, said no one, until Destin Sandlin tried to ride a bike that worked backwards.

A sliver of moonlight lessened the darkness, but not enough to safely guide our bus driver up the unpaved road of the mountaintops. The bus offered no seat belts and the mountains provided no railings for our protection. The lives of over 120 volunteers and health care providers rested in the hands of our bus driver and his unorthodox driving skills. Despite the harrowing experience, the medical team had arrived safely to Cao Bang, Vietnam. This remote province became our new home and the site in which we helped provide medical care to over 2,000 patients.

Future Chrystal Are you there? Can you Hear Me? Perfect I need to talk to you, no this is not a dream. I want to see where your head once you hear me. You did not care what politics pertain to. Leaving this class introduces you to what my mentality will end up like later.

I believe I live up to the qualification of loyalty to the Jesuit ideals of higher education through my active participation in many of the classes, clubs, and jobs here on campus, as well as my continuous effort to participate in all the events the college has to offer. I believe that since many of the classes, clubs, and events are founded at the college, they are already rooted in the Jesuit ideals and values and thus, my active participation in them throughout my college career so far has allowed me to unconsciously live up to these standards.

Throughout my career as a student, I have met several great teachers that have inspired me in their field of expertise. These teachers often use approaches of great educators and their philosophies of teaching in order to become great teachers. One of the educators that have a valuable approach to teaching is the educator Eleanor Duckworth, who emphasized the development of intelligence through ideas from students (Hall, Quinn, & Gollnick, 2017). Duckworth’s philosophy can be seen in the two great teachers that I explored in this paper: Dr. DiFabio and Hanne.

As a child, I was introduced to many people that have impacted my life significantly. Whether it was positive or negative, it still taught me valuable lessons. Furthermore, there was a fair amount of issues that have caused problems throughout my life, resulting in me spending quite some time by myself. However this hasn't affected my goals and decision to be someone in life. Provided that I had a high expectations of me, i have and will always continue to do good in school and keep my reputation clean. For this reason I strive to stay true to myself and stay away from the wrong crowd.