Reflection: Only Connect

One of the important thing that I do here in the class of UNIV 1301 is that now I am writing more essays, more feelings, and more importantly more opinions. This class gave me the chance to write whatever I got from the three different articles. Most of the articles that I read where interested because they talk mostly about how the school system are working, one reader do not agree in how the student are being teach and another writer is talking about how the student need to have their mind and their focused to pass the school. Well what I retain from the story of “Only Connect…” was that the students can write clearly in order to be persuasive and movingly, and is what I do in this class because what happen is that I need to be persuasive

Page 3) this is what I mean that not only I am writing but I am also telling the person that is reading my assignment my point of view in what I just read. And also persuading the teacher that I have done my home work is like I am talking with him and telling how I see the author feelings. Not only did I learn to speak in letters but this class also make me practice my writing skills. Most of the work that we need to do in this class all of the requires to make good replies not only speaking but mostly to be written I sincerely do not think I am a good writer but this class had help me become a better one. I learn from the teacher that what I write it should stay as it is because the way that I am putting my words that is how I want the people to hear me. So another thing that this class had make me do was to put more “ganas” in every single work that I do. Not only in this class but also in all my other curses. In order to pass this class the students need to have a lot of “ganas” in order ti=on pass because if the student have laziness they are going to fail. But they need to understand that not everything in this life is easy in order to improve in your life you need to be ready to put from your

But for most of the time the teacher do not think that the “ganas” that the student have are just enough, because they expect more from the student making it harder for the student that want to succeed. From the article “Ganas: From the Individual to the Community, and the Potential for Improving College Going in the “Land That Texas Forgot”” talk about the project that the authors had put in The Valley and I really think that most of the results that they had are still going on. For example, the article said “the teacher portrayed in the movie Stand and Deliver ,was famous for saying that all students needed was ganas—the desire and drive to succeed, this individualized emphasis on ganas is problematic because, by inference, Latina/o educational underperformance can become narrowly understood as a lack of student and parent motivation” (para. 1, page 2) this is still one of the things that happen in our college life, most of the times we have “ganas” so like I said early in order to succeed you need to have the gut, the ganas to do the