Teaching experience

capability to respond. //Before taking this class I had some exposure to issues of social justice. I took a six-week trip to Toronto in 2014 which focused on the intersections between art, social justice, and Christian culture. While there, I could experience a walk-in lunch at Sanctuary, which feeds over 500 home-insecure people a week and an art class at the Dale which is an organization providing support for

In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Dana and Kevin both experience many unbelievable events that change their sense of reality. They each travel back to the antebellum South for different amounts of time, gaining different insights from the same events. Kevin, a white man, travels back to a time of privilege, while his wife Dana, a black woman, travels back to a time of hardship and enslavement. Their contrasting perspectives cause them to see the world differently. For example, Kevin draws from his sole

College is often called the best time of your lives but it is also the first time you are left alone with new experiences. Some of these experiences are good ones you will keep for life and others are one that teach you valuable lessons. These experiences often can either make or break people depending on their level of responsibility and accountability. For most college student’s college is the first time they are on their own away from their parents giving them a new-found sense of freedom.

‘The Grave’ by Katherine Anne Porter is a story that illustrates the initiation of a child from innocence to experience. The underlying theme behind the central idea of innocence to experience is the cycle of life and death and rebirth. This theme is illustrated in the young protagonist, Miranda, and her epiphany on the concept of the cycle of life and rebirth. The dominant tone in ‘The Grave’ is melancholic, and that tone is created through the language elements of symbolism, diction, and imagery

atrocities. She experienced first hand the realities of war, death, and oppression. Formative and influential on Satrapi’s outlook on life, these experiences will sculpt her opinions and world views. As a result of her arduous childhood, Satrapi gained a unique comprehension of difficult concepts such as war, death, and freedom. On the other hand, the same experiences that gave her early maturity and compassion early on, might result in turning into an isolating factor when she moves and is engulfed by a

Rivkah Nakhon How has your education and community service experience helped you to better serve the community? The education and community service that I have personally experienced has tremendously helped me better serve the community. Being provided with an excellent education that has not only focused on high levels of academic secular studies, but has also focused on vital biblical studies that emphasize the importance of life morals and values, has greatly impacted my life. I was always taught

Faced with the overwhelming stigma that surrounds mental illness, we have spent the semester learning how to break down doorways into the lives of characters who have struggled with their mental health. Far too often have these doors been kept bolted shut. As a consequence of public fear and lack of understanding, the people behind these doors -- individuals with mental illnesses -- have been given no choice but to struggle in silence. In reading various works throughout the semester, we have been

viewpoint on education, business, and food science. Accepting the offer to participate in an internship with Mondelēz International last fall, I understood that the experience would be very enriching, for this was what my professors and older students conveyed. I set goals such as attempting to act as a sponge, extracting every single experience/knowledge that I could from professionals in the industry, networking with other food science students participating in the internship as well as the mentors that

12 Angry Men, there were many factors that went into their final decision. All jurors except for one thought the young man pleaded guilty, but one by one began to believe he wasn’t guilty after all. Factors like the temperature, time, and past experiences affected the overall decision of the small group within this film. The temperature was a major factor to all of the jurors throughout the movie. It was stated to be the hottest day of the year that specific day and was shown to be very evident

group can be a true tragedy: perhaps these people are not close enough to the rest of the community to know the lingo, or perhaps they use synonyms such as isolated or outcasts to describe the same emotion. Either way, they can and most likely will experience some form of alienation in their lifetimes. To relate it to a more slightly different outlook, it is as if that dark night of self-hatred and alienation is the cocoon that followed my caterpillar childhood. And, in my new life as some sort of butterfly