In my many years in school I have managed to stumble into a number of seemingly unsurmountable predicaments. I remember one in particular being in my AP United States History class. It was one the hardest classes I was taking and within weeks of the school’s opening I had an F in that class. I had become accustomed to my nonchalant approach to my academics and hardly ever worked too hard for a class. I managed to skate on by getting usually As or Bs but this class was different. I struggled with the workload and the amount of content I had to learn and remember. To matters worse my ability to participate in extracurricular activities was put into jeopardy. It was to catch up on the numerous assignments I had missed yet it seemed like every
day the teacher gave a new assignment covering the next chapter. The work was arduous to say the least and and every chapter was saturated with content that I had to filter through. I did not want to drop or fail the class, so I did not give up. I forwent some frivolous activities and read the book, asked questions, and sought aid from the teacher. As I did all this, it clarified much of the material and I was able to complete the assignments with stifling efficiency. Doing them gave me a sense of accomplishment. I was edified and gained a vast knowledge of the material. I was able to do better on tests and I now know more about our nation’s history. This experience gave me the rigor to work towards my goals and future.
I had learned lots of new things this year and especially this semester in U.S. History Since 1877. This history course required all students to complete twenty hours of service learning or to write a term paper. After considering the two options, I decided to give the service learning a chance because I thought it would be an interesting experience. There were a variety of projects to choose from, but I felt that the Sustainability Project was the right fit for me.
The social history regarding reconstruction has been of great controversy for the last two decades in America. Several wars that occurred in America made reconstruction efforts to lag behind. Fundamental shortcomings of the reconstruction were based on racism, politics, capitalism and social relations. The philosophy was dominant by the people of South under the leadership of Lincoln. Lincoln plans were projected towards bringing the states from the South together as one nation. However, the efforts of the Activist were faded by the intrusion of the Republicans from the North. Northerners were capitalists and disapproved the ideas that Lincoln attempted to spread in the South (Foner Par 2).
1865-1877 the Period of Reconstruction America has gone through many different struggles and positive changes. There have been so many different revolutionary moments in America. One of these revolutionary moments was Reconstruction after the Civil War. Reconstruction had different periods such as Emancipation and Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, and the Compromise of 1877. The period of Reconstruction had many goals and accomplishments.
Reconstruction was the rebuilding after the war. The Reconstruction period lasted from 1865-1877. Reconstruction was not only the physical rebuilding but also the “political, economic, and social changes” (Berkin, Cherny, Gormly, Miller, 2013, 417). The stages of Reconstruction were the Presidential Reconstruction, Freedom and the Legacy of Slavery, Congressional Reconstruction and Black Reconstruction. Reconstruction started off as a success. It united the United States. States that succeeded from the union had made new constitutions and accepted the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
William Howard Russell once said, "Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat, the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall.” At one point in History, the United States was not one nation. The Civil War had created many issues for the United States and the country was desperate for a solution. This solution was thought to be reconstruction. Reconstruction was the attempt from the early 60's until the late 70's to resolve the issues of the war after slavery was dismissed and the Confederacy was defeated. Reconstruction also attempted to address how states would again become part of the Union, the status of Confederate leaders, and the status of African Americans across the United States.
American History is a story written by Judith Ortiz Cofer in 1993. She normally writes about poetry but in this particular story she writes a short story about her life. The story begins with the speaker of the story, Elena, talking about the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The story continues through her own tragedy of her neighborhood crush shunning her away. The is short, however, it has many key points in life. Three of the themes of the story includes shame can be self-generated, shame can destroy your self confidence, and death can bring people together.
The liberal arts are becoming increasingly rare in schools and universities. However, Saint Catherine University makes it a priority to teach its students the core benefits to the liberal arts college. It requires students to take the course “The Reflective Woman” along with “Global Search for Justice” as an introduction and conclusion to a liberal arts education. Throughout this semester I became more knowledgeable on what the liberal arts truly are, honed my reflective judgment, developed my writing skills, and I now have a deeper and defined sense of self.
What is the Monroe Doctrine ? The Monroe Doctrine is a policy of the United States created December 2,1823. The Monroe Doctrine states that new countries should be allowed to develop without interference from stronger countries. In other words, the United States should not interfere with affairs of smaller or weaker nations. I believe that it is possible to follow the Monroe doctrine to a point. Europe has not really been bothering us according to the news. Also, France has been having several governmental issues recently, but in no way have their issues affected us. I believe that if they ask for our help we should give it to them as long as what they are doing is not wrong. However , if they start trouble we should stop them. If they terrorize
Being the average high school student, I always wanted to succeed. Failure was not an option in anything I did. It was just how my mom raised me, to be just like her. My mom would always say, failure will never overtake if my desire to succeed is strong. During my senior year of high school, I decided to challenge myself by taking my first AP class, AP Literature. Albeit, I completely dislike literature, but I wanted to push my boundaries. I dislike literature because of the reading of sophisticated novels and sometimes I didn’t understand as well as the other students in the class, but I wasn’t going to let that deter me.
Acceptance is the key to converting our flaws into positive attributes. In my first semester, I believed that college was just like high school. I thought that I could just study for a test the night before and end up making an A on the test. Thus, I skipped classes and overslept on a regular basis. Consequently, I was unable to perform well during the first semester. However, this major incident helped me develop a sense of conviction that college is nothing like high school and I recognized that I must work hard and limit the hours I sleep daily. Thereby, this incident assisted me in developing a firm conviction about the adverse effects of skipping classes and
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work in see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded. Some of the skills I had shocked me as I didn’t think I had those capabilities in me.
Sometimes I am very intellectually challenged in certain subjects and challenges even containing outside of school. I have ADD but I don’t take medicine for it, so it is really for me to focus at school. I have some family problems also they sidetrack my learning and thoughts during school and everyday life. I feel like these family problems sidetrack me from being a really good student to just being a good student. Both of my grandmas passed away in 2015, which was very hard for my family especially my dad and mom. I started to struggle in school and that is when I realized I needed to do something about my work and put more effort into school. I have solved some of these problems in my life, but some just seem to never go away.
During the fall 2011 semester at Montgomery College I enrolled in a heavy course load without consulting my advisor, hoping I could expedite my time at the college. I naively mistook asking for help as a sign of weakness. As a result, I quickly fell behind. The semesters that followed were desperate attempts to recover lost time.
Writing a reflection and a summary of dozens of experiences is very challenging and demanding. I cannot count how many ups I had, yet I cannot deny the fact that I had some downs where I could transform them to ups. The year was full of challenges, excitement, fear and lessons. Each Wednesday I had mixed emotions. Every time I came to school I had the same fear and heartbreaks. In my reflection I am willing to compare between Adan at the beginning of the year and new Adan I became.
Living up to my resolution, I joined several clubs, both in and out of school and academic and recreational. I also met some of my very best friends in high school. Achieving all of this, friends, memberships to academic clubs and good grades, made up my first successful experience in high school. I was driven by the years in middle school and the promise that I made to myself at the end of eighth grade. Throughout my under classmen years I exceled in all subjects and thoroughly enjoyed the clubs I had joined. I think my downfall for the last two years of school was that I took for granted my good grades and as my classes got more rigorous I didn’t change the way I learned the material, but continued on the same path that I had been following my entire academic career, even when my grades were slipping slightly. Halfway through my senior year, I realized I needed to change the way I was learning the curriculum my instructors were teaching. I’ve always been the type of student to take good notes or listen to a lecture and understand everything the first time around, as was the case in elementary school and middle school. But my more rigorous classes proved to be a challenge for me and I did not know the proper way of learning the material on my own. I started by asking more questions in class and then going to my friends for help on subjects I didn’t understand. After many questions and after school tutor