Keene State College Essays

  • Texting and Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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    vast amounts of research done on this topic but a specific one to mention was done by an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. The professor, Ilana Gershon, conducted research about technology and communication with students at the college campus. Gershon stated in her book, The Breakup 2.0, that, “To think of technology as something that is used in social int... ... middle of paper ... ... Lori

  • Becoming Evil Summary

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    Dr. James Waller is a professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire and is home to one of the nation’s oldest Holocaust resource centers, the Cohen Center for Genocide and Holocaust Studies. Becoming Evil uncovers the historical and modern day reasons to why people do evil and attempts to debunk common explanations for genocide and mass killings. Some of Waller’s other notable works include “Prejudice across America” and “Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America.” Waller takes

  • African American Artists

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    attended City College of Los Angeles, Associate of Arts and graduated in 1954. Then changed schools to the University of Southern California and studied occupational therapy. After that she changed schools again to the Los Angeles State College and received her Bachelor of Arts. After her schooling she met her future husband writer and playwright James Vernon Hatch, who is white, and traveled to Egypt and had a one person exhibit for Camille. After her exhibit in Egypt she came back to the states to go back

  • Battle Royal, by Ralph Ellison

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    also an electric carpet, but the boy preservers through them all. At the end he is finally given a chance to deliver his speech. Although the men are being inattentive, the superintendent rewards the boy with a briefcase and a scholarship to the State College for Negroes. Through humiliation, the main character demonstrates from his grandfathers dying words what’s necessary to overcome racial inequalities. The young man’s grandfather’s dying words mean a lot to him and his family. The young man is too

  • Teacher Expectations and Education

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    learning support students tend to make up the lower tracks. I remember feeling; both shock and surprise when I learned that State College still practices a form of tracking, but Regular, College Prep, and Advanced English seemed pretty harmless at first. The distinct difference between the curriculum and "types" of students from level to level, particularly from Regular to College Prep is what soon began to catch my interest. I should first point out that in the 9th and 10th grades there are only two

  • My Teaching Philosophy Statement

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    My Philosophy on Education As an education major at State College, I’ve decided to become a teacher for several reasons. As I progressed through elementary, middle, and high school, many of my teachers were great role models for me. This has inspired me to become a role model for someone in the near future. My love for science and math has also influenced my desire to teach and make a difference in a child’s life. I want to teach students the subjects that I love so much. I want the feeling

  • Bartending

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    Bartending It was in the year 1999 when a Penn State College student named John Gayewski decided that he needed a way to, “make some money, do something fun, and you know, meet some women.” He was going to make his claim to fame and take what was his in the world of opportunity. So, early in the summer, John decided to enroll into a forty hour bartender’s course, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. For the duration of the course, the instructors taught John the intricate methods to memorizing drinks

  • Eulogy for Grandmother

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    a lot of their early married life in the Morristown, NJ area where my grandfather was a schoolteacher and later a principal. He earned his doctorate in education during that time, which ultimately allowed him to become a professor at Glassboro State College in Southern New Jersey. They moved to Glassboro in the late 1950s with their children, Sharon and Dennis. This was my grandparent's home until around the time my grandfather died in 1982. During this period, my grandmother managed to have a

  • Stop Literary Censorship

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    or otherwise objectionable in light of the standards applied by the censor" (Cromwell). Definitions aside, great literature is being banned by many people for a number of reasons and shouldn't be. The First Amendment to the Constitution states that: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government

  • I Am An English Major

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    writing, and at the age of eighteen, I was a first-year student at State College who decided to major in English. I am now a senior in college (thinking about that fact literally sends a strange mixture of frightened, yet excited shivers charging through my body) and a very different person than that nervous first-year student I used to be. The entire idea sounds almost trite-I've grown tremendously through my college days; however, as I have spent the last three months mulling over

  • The Soft-serve Ice Cream Machine has Improved Life at State College

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    The Soft-serve Ice Cream Machine has Improved Life at State College When students returned to State College after Christmas vacation, they found a new entity in the Marriott. In the southern corner of the rust tiled dining room—inconspicuous yet bright like the last present under the Christmas tree—stood a stainless steel, soft-serve ice cream machine. Like it or not, the students had known the machine was coming. As much as they had loved their scoop-it-yourself ice cream freezer with

  • Teaching Standard English in Urban Schools

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    primary discourse. It is also a fact however, that in order to be viewed as a successful, functional member of society, Standard English, if learned as a secondary discourse, should be written and spoken as fluently as the primary discourse. As a State College student who received her high school diploma from an urban school district, I have found that often, students of urban schools have a difficult time becoming fluent writers and speakers of Standard English. According to the book Teaching Strategies

  • Abnormal Psychology in The Minds Of Billy Milligan

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    The Minds of Billy Milligan Out of all the classes that I have taken here at Westfield State College, I can honestly say that Abnormal Psychology has been by far the most interesting. Since this course has had such a major influence on me this semester, I am strongly considering continuing my education in this field of psychology. Throughout the semester, we studied a number of intriguing disorders. The disorder that really seemed to catch my attention was the Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

  • Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal

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    give a speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citizens. Where he was told to take part in a battle royal, with nine other black men. After the fight and the speech he was awarded with a calfskin brief case and a scholarship to the state college for Negros. On his grandfather's deathbed, his grandfather told his father to "keep up the good fight". "Our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days", "live with your head in the lions mouth". His parents tell him to forget

  • Fond Childhood Memories

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    It was a maddening rush, that crisp fall morning, but we were finally ready to go. I was supposed to be at State College at 10:00 for the tour, and it was already eight. My parents hurriedly loaded their luggage into the van as I rushed around the house gathering last minute necessities. I dashed downstairs to my room and gathered my coat and my duffel bag, and glanced at my dresser making sure I was leaving nothing behind and all the rush seemed to disappear. I stood there as if in a trance just

  • The Painting

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    The Painting "A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that

  • Special Education in Rural Communities

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    hurried quickly to the party, stereo in hand. Checking the time, I rushed across Pollock road to attend my first function as a member of Best Buddies, a community based program sponsored by universities throughout the world to enrich the lives of college students and adults with intellectual disabilities. I entered the room; a low buzz nagged at the edge of my hearing. As I placed my stereo upon the piano and plugged the chord into the socket, I kept my face adverted from the room. I struggled, as

  • I Always Knew I Wanted to be a Teacher

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    activities. In college I volunteered in a tutoring program at State College High School and interned in the Learning support department at Mt. Nittany Middle School, where my father taught 8th grade science for 35 years. I guess I always knew I wanted to be a teacher, even when I didn’t want to admit it. I wanted to be someone different from who my parents were despite the fact that they love what they do. When I finally admitted it to myself, I already had three years of college under my belt

  • Economic Impact of College Football on Employment

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    There are a total of 3,878 jobs created from Penn State Football. This may not seem like a large number, but it is almost 4,000 people that would not have jobs if Penn State Football were irrelevant. The University of Nebraska is no slouch either when it comes to employment opportunities. Thompson and McClure (2014) found, “The University of Nebraska Department of Athletics is a significant employer in Lincoln and the State of Nebraska. The department had a payroll of $33.8 million during the 2013-14

  • Free Narrative Essay - Our Big Trip to State College

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    Trip to State College Overwhelming, there is simply no other way of putting the impact that my first "big trip to State College" had on me.  The weekend had the potential to be an explosive one, but I had no idea that it would take the turn it did.  We began our trip with a stop at Sheetz, picking up all of the necessary goods, such as gas, beef jerky, and cigarettes.  One might be thinking, how can one trip to State College be any different than any other. All that college kids do