Susan K. Gardner: Article Analysis

The decision to attend graduate school can be one of immense commitment and responsibility. Success requires rigorous planning and well-defined goals, both short-term and long-term. Exceptional communication skills are also necessary to interact effectively with fellow classmates and faculty. Although completion of a Master’s program opens doors to many professional career opportunities, it does not come without challenges. One also must have several strategies in place for dealing with these challenges when they arise. With determination and hard work, overcoming these barriers will lead to success.

A serial killer is a person defined as a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events. “They are generally cunning, manipulative, and know the difference between right and wrong but dismiss it as applying to them” (Montaldo, n.d.) We are often captivated by what they have done and not in a positive way but the intriguing part as to “why”. In reality I stop to think what was happening to this person or within their minds that caused them to behave in such a way. It’s said that these acts are due to Abnormal Psychology gratification, this is the unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought. After thorough research Dr. Helen Morrison believes that it is due to a chromosome abnormality. Dr. Morrison believes that serial killers begin to start expressing these tendencies in their teen

Jazvac-Martek discovered that students recounted times when they felt like peers and times when they realized they were still doctoral students or candidates. The author also found that regardless of the experience (i.e. facilitating studies, writing papers or proposals or interviews for a faculty position) the students gained a sense of power and a sense of progress. (p.259)

When considering a journalist, the first thought is usually a reporter or an article editor for a newspaper. Staci Parks has dipped her toes in both, but today finds herself occupied with online articles and internship applications.

In this journal, written by Elizabeth Wardle, she discusses the bridge between high school level writing and collegiate writing. Although some students come to college well prepared in their writing ability, others fall short of the expectation and often focus too much on the structural nature of writing, rather than the writing itself. Wardle elaborates on the ideas that high school educators typically desire for the students to focus on the information in said paper, in lieu of discovering a wider variety of techniques and genres. A high school student writes a paper to put his/her thoughts onto one cohesive document. It is a rarity to find one student who writes for the art of writing. Wardle does an excellent job

On January 25th, 1981, Alicia Augello Cook was born in Manhattan, New York. She is now known as Alicia Keys, a famous singer, record producer, songwriter, actress and lastly, a pianist. Not only does she write and play her music, she has composed music on the piano for other famous people including Mario, Jay-Z, Jennifer Hudson and etc. She is one of many famous pianist know to this very day and is still making music/composing music. This is my essay on Alicia Keys as a pianist and her life from past to present.

Gardner, S. (2009). Conceptualizing Success in Doctoral Education: Perspectives of Faculty in Seven Disciplines. The Review of Higher Education, 32(3), 383-406.

This article tells me about an astrophysicist called Sara Ms Seager. She is a genius and trying her best to find planets that show signs of life. After her husband’s death, she had a hard time manage her life and her sons. Then she met her new friends, and married Darrow. She could not cook well, but she never stops thinking about looking for other creatures in the space. Moreover, she believes that there must be life on other planet. Since she is good at Mathematics and love astronomy, she is quite likely to succeed.

Susan Bordo is the author of "Hunger as an Ideology" which talked about advertisements and how they present men and women differently towards food. Whether it is eating it, cooking it, and body shape and size. Bordo's ideology was that advertisers take advantage of women's insecurities by showing women eating alone and eating less while men are eating in great amounts, hearty foods. The real question here is, does Bordo's Ideology hold up against any advertisement?

Ava Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, in Grabtown, North Carolina. She was the youngest out of six sibling, and was the most guarded out of all of her siblings. The small town girl grew up with the smell of tobacco in the air, and her playground being the dirt fields on her father’s farm. The beginning of her childhood was very happy, though when the great depression impacted the south in 1929 her life was turned upside down. Her older sibling move away to start their own lives; even her favorite oldest sister Bappie moved to New York with her husband. During this time Ava’s parents would argue every night about money problems, until her mother decide to move them to Newport News Virginia. Ava’s mother received a job teaching in Brogden,

Reported by, (The Chronicle of Higher Education) a newspaper and website, which acts as a digital and written word hub for both students and faculty worldwide. Cathy Davidson’s "We Can't Ignore the Influence of Digital Technologies" was published in 2007. This paper raised significant questions and posed to the academic world, can we afford to turn a blind eye to progress in this digital era. Cathy Davidson is a well know and distinguished scholar, even receiving anappoint by The President of The United States in 2011. I believe the question is both relevant and timely, considering the progress being made daily by an increasingly global community. Students, professors, and even skilled or unskilled labors half way around the world are contributing

Journalist, Hillary Stout, in her New York Times article, she argues that teens using social media is a bad thing. She supports her claim by using her own personal experiences. Hillary's purpose is to convince readers to not support teens use of social media. Her article is significant because it gives readers another point of view. However, I do not completely agree with Stout on her claim.

Author Anne-Marie Nunez, examined and researched how students who work while attending college can influence learning in different domains. The article focuses on how higher education could expand opportunity structures from Latino, first-generation, or other historically marginalized groups to improve their socioeconomic status and increase societal equality. “Compared with other racial/ethnic groups, Latino college students are most likely to report concerns that their financial situation will adversely affect their ability to complete their postsecondary degrees (Longerbeam, Sedlacek, & Alatorre, 2004).” (Pg, 92) I believe this article is a perfect example of the population at FIU and the impact it has on higher education. In this critique, I will be discussing what I believe the research should have focused on, the points I agreed with and disagreed with as well as what points could have been touched on.

In the Bell Hooks’ interview with Carrie Weems there is discussion regarding the nuances of the Black perspective portrayed in her work. In particular, there is focus on how Weems creates the Black female subject within the Kitchen Table series by showcasing a double perspective of not only race, but also gender to exhibit universal concerns in conjunction with those that are unique to African Americans. To accomplish this is said to difficult due to the fixation on race that tends to overshadow any other message conveyed due to perception of critics, who are mostly Caucasian (Hooks 421). To create the Black female subject is to create defiance towards established perceptions. In the interview, Hooks references the Kitchen Table series where

On November 5, 2016 at 1:15 PM I visited the house of Alicia Parker it was a very spacious house very large and it looked really cozy because it had a very fury brown rug in the middle of the living room. The living room had leather sofas tan to be exact sofas in which Alicia enjoyed jumping on most of the time. She gave me a great welcome by joining me at the door with a huge hug, she told me "Rosy I’m so glad you’re here" and I said “really” and she said “yeah”. Shortly after that I told her “you want to go to the living room and play” and she said “yes, I want to show you my new dolly that I got from my auntie” and I told her “really” and she said “yes it’s a Tinker Bell doll and her wings move”. The tinker bell doll had a green dress and matching green shoes on.