Professor Essays

Chair’s letter supporting Dr. Anne Mocko’s evaluation for tenure and promotion to associate professor (fall 2018) Dear Division Chair, Dr. Arnold and members of the Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee, It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to comment on Dr. Anne Mocko’s evaluation for tenure and promotion to associate professor. Since joining Concordia’s faculty six years ago, Dr. Mocko has become an integral member of our department—not only because of her indispensable expertise in

Members of the Search Committee: As a member of the Harvard Law School Class of 1981, I recommend that Professor David Wilkins '80 be named to replace Martha Minow as HLS Dean. I have known David since we were both students at HLS. Back then, I was struck by his gregarious and effervescent personality; he was a real "people" person. Now, almost four decades later, I am compelled to recommend David as Dean precisely because he is such a people person, a quality that motivates him to identify issues

Scott W. Williams is a famous mathematician who is much known for a few out there. He was born on April 22, 1943, in Staten Island, New York. He studies and is a professor at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His education the school he attended was Morgan State University and Lehigh University. Scott W. Williams is an only grandchild, which his grandparents takes education series. His mother Beryl E. Williams was the first black women to graduate from the University of Maine in 1956. His father Roger

given to professors has remained largely debated. On one side, professors need the freedom to teach the material the care about and believe in, as to enhance the class itself and be a more engaging teacher. Furthermore, they need to have some freedom within their research projects to allow for discoveries and new ideas that may benefit society as a whole, no matter how controversial they once appear. However, problems occur when controversial issues arise within the classroom, or when professors become

Most high school students often wonder what they will need in order to be successful in college. For my English class, my English professor gave us a service learning project, where we were put into small groups with high school seniors and/or juniors. We talked about what they would need to be successful not only in a college their first college level English course, but in general college classes as well. During my service learning experience, I spoke to a couple of seniors from Largo High School

Purpose: To make faculty aware that students have no centralized way to make problems on campus known or suggest changes Thesis: Students at Embry Riddle have no central outlet to deliver criticism and suggestions. I. Introduction A. Greeting: Good afternoon! B. Attention Getter: How many of you have ever seen something on campus that was just wrong, plain dirty, or even out of place. When you saw this, do you know a place where you can let the proper authorities know of

The first author, Jason A. Ford  is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Central Florida. He has B.A. degrees in both History and Sociology from Bowling Green State University. He went on to Kent State University where he received an M.A. in Criminal Justice Studies. His

It wasn’t until I was walking up the stairs to the apartment that I realized what time it was and how long i’d been gone. What was I going to say when I walked in “Oh sorry, some people showed up and I broke my hand but they got meded magically back together!” their was no way out of trouble I’d get in trouble no matter what. I knocked on the door and not even two seconds later the dor opened up. It was my mom her eyes big and red and my brother standing behind her looking really furious. My mom

Failure is perhaps one of the most influential things in people’s lives because it can alter the course of our actions, by teaching us persistence or leading us the opposite way. Through his book, Dr. Cleamon Moorer guides the readers through an intimate journey about his progression from failure to promise. Cleamon is from a small town of Detroit with parents, who love him and enforce discipline, but most importantly, they nurture his faith in Jesus Christ. He excelled in academics during both elementary

According to the American Institute of Social Research, the Vietnamese people have 10 major characteristics. The fifth characteristic listed is Vietnamese people love knowledge and have quick understanding but hardly learn from the beginning to the end of things, so their knowledge is not systemic or fundamental. In addition, Vietnamese people do not study just for the sake of knowledge (when small, they study because of their families; growing up, they study for the sake of prestige or good jobs)

In one of Octavia Butler’s most well known books, Dana a struggling black author is yanked back in time to the antebellum south multiple times to save the life of her white slave-owning ancestor Rufus Weylin. When literary critics examined this piece of science fiction, many were motivated to write papers on a myriad of subjects in the book’s less than 300 pages. Scholarship on Octavia Butler’s Kindred has evolved from primarily focusing on how the novel connects its readers to the past to addressing

good.) They don’t go on the internet only to meet potentials love interest. He continues his reason with why the internet isn’t such a corrupt place, by bashing stereotype, which said kids waste their time on the internet. In wrote that when the professor at the M.C Author foundation interview kids, they realize that kids were finding “new ways to express themselves and pioneering new rules of social behavior through blogging, movie making and

James Thurber is positioned in one of the most prestigious American humorists. His short story "University Days" has portrayed lively everything about those days he spent at Ohio State University. Despite passing most of his classes, he still could not complete the degree by one subject. As it was, but Thurber was not embarrassed to laugh at himself and to give out his exasperation. I am fascinated by the way he narrated his own story, witty but delicate. Thematically, the story focuses on the absence

The Poisonwood Bible ultimately communicates that as humans live they acquire their own history, and therefore their own story. History is originally retold through the perspectives of people who experience it, therefore it is littered with, and consequently altered by, their own personal emotions and memories attached to the moments. Adah Price, arguably the most introspective narrator in the novel, sums up human life to be “what [they] stole from history, and how [they] live with it,” which further

Yossarian. Surely, such a name does not exist or cannot possibly even have a right to do so. What a name, even thinking of it! Really, James Heller’s Catch 22’s hero or ante-hero is something that no one else could have dreamed of but a modernist and at that, a sadist, a righteously cynical one. In fact, during the rudimentary monologues of characters like Colonel Cathcart, Captain Black and Major Major that make the novel a swashbuckler, it all involves them questioning the almost dreamlike existence

A case study on Healthco The case study of private health insurance company, Healthco, addresses key issues related to bureaucratic leadership, weak organisational culture and insufficient communication. 1) One key issue Healthco face was the problem of bureaucratic leadership. The CEO of Healthco is well-respected in the healthcare industry. He had established Healthco’s reputation for its extremely competitive and aggressive approach towards price and expansion. These traits had allowed Healthco

I realized that teaching is not considered as merely transmitting knowledge and information to students. First of all, I understand that learning should take place in authentic and real-world environments. According to Piaget (1954), the learner must be active to be engaged in real learning. Learning is a process of interacting with the outside world (Brown et al., 1989; Lave & Wenger, 1991). In the early 20th century, John Dewey (1933) advocated the use of authentic tasks can help students acquire

Literature Review The purpose of this literature review is to garner information about nursing student’s perception of nursing and identify factors influencing readiness for the profession. Perception as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (2010) is characterized by ones awareness and understanding of sensory information attained through interaction between past experiences and one’s own culture and interpretation of the perceived. Nursing students’ perception of nursing has been influenced

Gus Van Sant’s 2000 film Finding Forrester portrays a unique relationship that develops between William Forrester, an eccentric, reclusive novelist and Jamal Wallace, a gifted scholar-athlete, African-American teenager. After the novelist discovers that the young athlete is also an excellent writer, Forrester secretly takes Wallace on as his protégé, and they develop an unlikely friendship (Van Sant, Finding Forrester). As their relationship develops and they learn about each other, Forrester and

When I look at the Freud’s reading Some Character Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work, I get the solution that psycho-analytic work furnished up with the theory of people become ill of a neurosis in consequence of frustration with a real satisfaction. After comparing Freud’s text with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, I can easily say that the thesis of neurosis can be generated when a conflict occurs between a person’s libidinal wishes and his ‘ego’ is verified with the lead female character Lady Macbeth