Gloria Naylor and Julie Bosman both went to college and participated, if not graduated with a knowledge of literacy and understanding of language and its effects. Both show that people have the right to say or print what they want. Unfortunately they both also show how some people may, or may not, take offense to these thoughts and opinions. Both pieces are talking about issues that bring up differences in ideas within communities and they each originate over a controversy over the African American community. Though in Naylor’s case it is when she was a young child, and in Bosman’s she was and undergraduate in college, both authors use personal life experiences.
However, towards the end of the short story one can identify with the struggle of this Dominican teenager and the approach he must use to manipulate himself in order to please the girls he is trying to date. During the dating lessons the narrator offers, the readers obtain an insight of his inner world and surroundings through the narrator’s actions and behaviors portrayed in the
Some students are successful at connecting their in-campus and off-campus activities while other are not. Light asserts that he found out that “those students who make connections between what goes on inside and outside the classroom report a more satisfying college experience” (p. 14). In order to prove this, Light interviewed a few students whose life-decisions had changed because of the meta-curricular activities that they took up during their vacations. Light concluded that this study would be helpful for admission officers who should realize that they should admit their students and then get in their way (in a constructive sense) to help them make these
They began by issuing a Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey to all college freshmen at a public university. This is a paper and pencil survey that the researchers used to collect data about their behaviors, goals and values. The exact questions were used by the researchers to then determine what students had divorced parents and what their expectations of college were prior to
Throughout her book, Robbins uses the same argument technique. For instance, when Robbins writes about Taylor in one chapter, she explains how almost everyone has a college counselor, but more specifically Taylor’s’ is very hard on her, insisting that all three of her college essays weren’t good nor intellectual enough. Thus, Robbins dives into the consequences of overpaid counselors explaining that some even are paid to do the essay. “Instead of merely helping students present themselves in the best light, companies are fiddling with their content and some consultants actually write the essays themselves” (Robbins pg.75) Robbins tells the reader this information to help with her argument by showing what consequences comes out of the overachieving culture. Another character Robbins uses to create her argument is Sam.
Dr. Carol Elam, Dr. Terry Stratton, and Denise D. Gibson, Ph.D.’s “Welcoming a New Generation to College: The Millennial Students” examines college-age and pre-college-age students of the new generation, Millennial. The article identifies characteristics of the Millennial students to assist in understanding their behavioral characteristics that are distinctive. The Millennial Students will challenge educational professionals with their unique qualities in several phases of their college enrollment that distinguishes them from other generations. According to the \ article, the Millennials generation observed the media coverage of the Iraq war, school shootings, an increase in school security, and the possibility of impeaching a sitting President during their childhood. Through those observations, the authors’ states that Millennial’s parents were protective of their safety and supportive of their academics, and extracurricular success.
This would also most likely be true for college students as well since college students, for the most part, are young and look up to celebrities. Towell’s article also talks about how students would also be interested in reading biographies written by a celebrity. Corey Taylor is a celebrity and the book he wrote is pretty much an autobiography, therefore based on this argument, this would be a good book for students to read. Towell’s article also makes a great conclusion; “if students are allowed to read about what really matters to them, they will become readers for life”
Then that individual will have made a commitment towards that accomplishment which will have led them into what they want to do in their life. Sure there may be a crisis that an individual may go through that might alter their identity, but a commitment can be made throughout one’s life that determines “who” that individual will be. In the research assignment of Marcia’s statuses of identity, the goal was to determine the identity given by college students male or female from the ages of 18 to 20 years of age. The research consisted of interviewing the five male and female college students with a survey using four different statements. The four statements were represented from (a) to (d) in which they reflected the identities of foreclosure, diffusion, moratorium, and also achievement.
As a college student, it would be so different from a high school student. College students should learn more and talk more. They learn more knowledge from professors and talk more in college life. Since last semester, I found that many professors encourage the students to have discussion during the class. Conversation is important for everyone.
Face Negotiation Theory Script Cast of Characters Stella: A social theorist who is currently teaching conflict resolution to her students with a focus on how different cultures view and value the “self.” Stella attended college in a multitude of countries and focused her studies on how people from different cultures deal with similar problems differently. Stella works to limit bias based on culture by asking students to examine international conflicts that have wide ranging implications such as disease and hunger. Harry: A student in the class from the Netherlands who uses his understanding of “face” and self-concept to identify the cultural difference between is fellow students. Harry’s conflict resolution process reflects the impartial nature of the Netherlands culture. The Netherlands is a regionalized unitary government.