When I picture my primary and secondary education the only words that can describe the two experiences are culture shock. My primary and secondary education were two very different experiences. One filled with confidence, security, and an unwavering sense of pride in my identity, and the other with insecurity, discrimination, and apprehension. As I transitioned from a predominantly African American Christian private school to a predominantly white public school I realized that the diversity of the
which most schools are like. Furthermore, as stated by Donald Super’s Theory of Career Development, I am in the exploration stage and the life roles I am playing are tutor, student, child and leisurite.
about my future as I am about to finish secondary school. The number one question on my mind is which profession should I choose? It is very hard to make any definite choices, because I know they will affect me for the rest of my life. I want a profession that will satisfy me, challenge me, and bring me joy. I believe that a job should be like a hobby. I want to love my work, and know that I am making a difference in this world by helping other people. First of all, I want to finish secondary school
With the enrichment of study experiences, almost all peers around me recognize that university has a distinctive impression comparing with secondary school. As far as I am concerned, I prefer to stay in university. With 4 perspectives of schedule, study content, extracurricular activity and interpersonal relationship, I will discuss specific features of the two studying stages and inform you of the reasons for my preference. Please follow my thoughts and then you may find something meaningful in
in secondary schools. The Academic Search Premier database is helpful. My keywords are sexual harassment and secondary school. They give me a specific direction to find sources. My research questions also helped me to find the appropriate sources. Based on my keywords and research questions, I chose peer-reviewed journal article for the annotated bibliography. They all published in scholarly magazines. Here are my research questions: Why did sexual harassment happen in the secondary school? Can
was in elementary school, I went to a church festival where an antique wooden row-desk from an old schoolhouse was being auctioned off. Smitten, I spent every dime of my allowance and won that desk. For years to come, my mom delightedly snapped photos of me while I stood in front of that desk teaching my stuffed animals English. The older I grew, the more I placed my passion for academics into my own studies instead of an imaginary classroom. As I further dedicated myself to my studies, people around
These teachers had varying musical notation learning experiences. David found learning musical notation to be “quite complicated” because teachers assumed the class had the required previous related knowledge. Three teachers said they were not taught how to sight-read in primary: they were given the letter names of notes instead when learning songs on instruments. Tony revealed this negatively impacted his learning as he had to “re-learn how to read music” for Junior Certificate music. Given the
Topic Selection Within the field of anthropology, one of my interests is in medical anthropology/public health. My main interest within medical anthropology is understanding health disparities. Medical anthropology allows me to take a holistic approach, something that I believe public health lacks, to analyze why certain populations have limited access to health care, nutrition, clean water, proper housing, education, etc. Additionally, it allows me to use a critical lens to examine power structures
of four, I supported my mother in meeting family needs by hawking fruits and vegetable oil in our neighbourhood and nearby communities. Living in a low-class area of the highly-populated city of Lagos meant early child exposure to many youthful vices such as teenage pregnancy, robbery, drug abuse and prostitution; but our mother through hard work and continuous counsel ensured that these realities did not affect her children. As an act of kindness from the school owner, my siblings and I were privileged
1.The only factor that affects my development is that I am not living with my parents. Because of their long working hours, they are not able to look after me, so they asked my grandparents to take this opportunity; however, as my grandparents didn't receive any education before, they couldn't help me to solve the problem on homework. As a result, I spend more time on homework if I have questions. 2.This year, I joined the joint school Student Ambassador Program organized by Tung Wah Group of