Reflection 18

I strongly agree with this explanation because everything that I know happened in past has happened for a reason. For what we all know today is through questioning and reasoning. Back in the days the education was based on language, religion, and much more. In order for us to study these subjects we had to question and reason and do research on it. Back then education was the main source of learning and stimulating the mind for the society to work and survive. It would provide knowledge that would prepare people who could make contributions to society, politics, government, and the occupations and professions. Everyone person would be acknowledged and taken into consideration and what they said did play a big part in society. They wanted to expand education so that it wouldn’t be based just on what’s going on in their present world, but how things were invented and what the reason for it. Also what goes on beyond around other parts of the world. English language played a tremendous part in education because it helped develop the nation around us. Then electives came into play as part of the developing nation. One advocate such as Thomas Jefferson revealed that we should have electives to help contribute to the education and society. It helped people learn more and beyond just academic sources but acknowledge their talents in a certain area. They wanted to seek education as a one whole, and not just as a social class. Then they wanted students to get hands on experience and learn through the senses of touching so that we can get a better understanding of what we are dealing with. School played an important role in society but as business industries expanded, it was not such a big deal in society because the more they worked the more money they received. So instead of large families going to school, the parents let them go on and work to receive more money. Finally the division of school and grades came into play in the late 17th century. School started at the grade level of 1 through 8. As to now its kindergarten til 12th grade and after that college is optional. Which some of us decide not to even bother to go because we may not even work under whatever we went to school for or have a degree in. there are some people you are successful today and doesn’t even have a degree in today’s society but this doesn’t make them a less of a person or human being.

Reflection 17

Basically school in New England was very much quite similar to today’s present school system. One popular book back in there times were called the Hornbook. It was first used in Europe and America. It consisted of a wooden paddle with a hole in the middle so that the children could tie it to their belts or let it hang around their necks. They learned the alphabet, the vowels and consonants which are very much still the same as today. They also learned all the syllables rather it was one, two, or three even bigger syllables. The young infants had to know a morning prayer and an evening prayer. They viewed education very closely related to religion. The majority believed that everything developed based on God. At the ages of 4 and 6 the children started kindergarten. They learned in kindergarten the following: games, arts and crafts, music, and stories. Another form believed in education was that society learned education from generation to generation. Things such as knowledge, culture, religion, and values were very much so important in education. Later on in the 17th century, pictures were put into textbooks to get a clearer understanding of what is being taught. Also another source of understanding education was audio- visual techniques. Education was evaluated based on levels from easiest to hardiest. Meaning every year or semester the work gets complicated. Language was another important source in education. It was important to know more than one type of language besides the one you already speak. Now as for education present in today’s society, it was a little similar to New England education. So far from what I know, the children must start school at the age of at least 4. Some schools require mandatory uniform or else the kids would be penalized for violation uniform dress code. We must attend school every day unless it’s an extreme emergency with an excused absent based on the attendance policy. If we miss a certain amount of days from school the parents can get in trouble and then the school district gets involve. Another consequence is the child can be retained in that grade due to excessive absences. We must be to school at a certain time or we are then marked tardy. Now as far as school lunch is concerned, this is depending on your parents income if you are approved for free reduced lunch, or you have to pay for lunch. Now as far as the curriculum goes, we are to take subjects such as math, reading, social studies, science, geography. For electives ones such as music, physical education, Spanish, and art are taken also. There is no such thing as discrimination, each classroom has a variety of students no matter the sex, race, culture, religion etc. everyone is treated the same.

REFLECTION 15

The basic goal of education in Roman was to be an effective speaker. Their school started before sunrise and the students would bring candles to see for light until the daybreak arisen. Roman education school started each year on March 24. In the early days of Roman education, the boys were taught by their fathers such as reading, and writing. Respect for the law, obeying authorities, revalances of God and truthfulness were the most important lesson to be learned. As for the girls, they were taught by their mothers who were to weave, sew, and spin. About 200 BC, the Romans used some of the Greek education system, sending their children out without permission from their fathers at the age of 6 or 7. The children wrote on boards covered with wax, and used pebbles to do math problems. Boys of the higher class attended grammar school; and the poor couldn’t attend schools that were not free. Instead, they were sent to the houses of tutors were they can receive education there for free. All boys, rich and poor attended primary school from their 7th til 12th year. As far as girls, they stayed at home and let their mothers teach them how to run the household in their future. The mothers taught them such things as cooking, cleaning, sewing, washing etc. now in Athens, school attendance was voluntary, it was not mandatory by the government. The parents and nurses instilled manners, morality, and respect for the Gods into young children. Girls did not receive a formal education under no circumstances. The Athenians focused on literacy, music, and physical education. They felt that these subjects of such would exercise the mind and body. They first learned the letters of the written Greek alphabet. Continuing on they also learned simple arithmetic which was quite easy for most of the students. Knowledge and musical played an important role in Athens education system, this helped kept the mind thinking and reasoning. At the age of 14 until 18 the young men of Athens went to secondary school and learned advanced literature, language, and mathematics. Such subjects were considered important to them because it was useful in everyday life outside of school education such as festivals, military, and religious purposes. To conclude, education of the young people in Rome and Athens were very much different than from the way we are educated in today’s society.

REFLECTION 16

Rhetoric is an art of persuasion in today’s time. It is also the study and practice of effective communication. Modern theories such as written and oral communication were influenced by the principles of Greece and Rome. Cicero and Quintilian were the ones who introduced these principles. In Rome, their main objective was to prove, to please, and to persuade others. You must persuade by speech. Their point goes as follows; basically invention is the process that leads us to development of an argument. Then after that, we then determine how it should be organized for greatest effect; next steps involve language, the way we go about speaking to others or for others. Then you finally memorize what elements you have developed during the speech. The Romans main point was questions of true and false verses right and wrong. If we really sit back and examine the Roman rhetoric, we would see a significant connection to the way words work in the world today. The truth was dependently based upon the character of the speaker. The main key was to persuade others that you absolutely right even you know deep down in the back of your head that you were wrong. Make others really believe that what you are saying is basically true. Prove it to the best of your ability. They used rhetoric as a weapon for advancement in higher education than to just settle for elementary and secondary school. Rhetoric became very much so popular because of its social and political utility. We can use the system of rhetoric not only in school, but outside of school towards government and in church. Some people may have different views about a certain situation or belief in church. It is the presidents and the pastor of that particular church to make us believe otherwise or that whatever they are saying is absolutely correct. Everyone is entitle to voice their opinion but before you speak, make sure you remember what you are saying and have enough of evidence to back it up with. Have enough will power to make other believe that they might be wrong at what they are saying and what you have stated is correct no matter what way you want to put or reword it. And lastly, being a productive speaker plays a huge part in the rhetoric system, think before you voice your opinion about something; don’t just speak to be heard, justify what point you are trying to make.

Reflection 14

Aristotle uses the Nichomean Ethics to describe what a human being must do in order to be good, happy. Another word Aristotle uses to describe happiness is “eudaimonia”. He states that the sufficient amounts of happiness itself, meaning you don’t need any other good. Aristotle describes the idea of excellent functioning is the actual distinctive function of whatever we are referring to. Humans must be happy, us as human beings must reason everything we do and reason excellently. To go along with being a virtuous person they must have external goods such as money, friends, and power; and have internal goods such as a peace of mind and good physical health. For a person to be morally virtuous, they must avoid the amount of excess of too much and too little. Aristotle focuses on mainly three of the five cardinal moral virtues courage, temperance, and justice. Which simply says to do well with regards to others, increase pleasure and avoid pain as much as possible, and have confidence in yourself. We must obey the law and treat people fairly. Now regarding the Great Chain of Being, the highest of good for a human being is to believe in God basically. Everything is because of god. We shouldn’t question god as to why this happened or what the purpose of this is. Aristotle basically is very much so similar to the religion of Christianity. With god all things are possible, which I very much so believe. With god being powerful he has the final say of causes and functions of whatever. Then he continues to states the causes of such things as to why we use this, what is the purpose of it. For example with human nature, how human are made into this world. Well basically the egg of a female and the sperm of a male meet together and the sperm fertilizes the egg of eggs. Then the fertilized egg is being nurtured from inside the mother for nine months. After the nine months the birth of a new human being takes place. Which according to Plato, at the time of delivery states that we tend to lose our knowledge because our head is squeezed between the vagina of the mother. Aristotle finally states that the formulation of a subject, being, object or whatever is used to analyze the world. It helps us get a clearer understanding of what is the purpose of it; and why god created this specific thing.

Reflection 13

Basically Plato impact is idealism to him is a simple copy of a super sensible spiritual nature. He feels that the first and most important principle of all things is one being of human worth called god. The world is essentially dependent on god. We believe that god is the creator of the world. Basically, with god all things are possible. In the case of reminiscence, the mind Plato states that our souls are immortal souls. Plato states that before we were born our souls are purely formed. At birth, we tend to forget knowledge and ideas. Plato states that we receive our knowledge through sense impressions. He feels that when the mother has the child, the child head is deformed because it is forced to squeeze through the mothers’ vagina. This has an effect on our brains which causes us to lack in knowledge. Plato aimed that the theory of reminiscence should lead a person to be virtuous and happy. To be virtuous and know what the absolute form of good is, each person needs to have a soul, which has access to the good in before existence. You cannot be virtuous through experience, or others teaching you. You have to experience it yourself in your own soul. As for the soul, his style of thinking he uses thinking and math learning to achieve the philosophical truth; he uses written dialogues. Dialectic is a type of method Plato uses to question and reason. To know the absolute truth we have to use questioning and reasoning. Reasoning is what killed god. You must state the facts which are characteristics of perfect knowledge. Opinions is not finding the knowledge of truth and being a virtuous person. We acquire the facts through our senses. The five cardinal virtues that Plato touches basic detailing on are wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, and prudence. Plato taught that the truth is in all things and we should search because it is knowing the truth and being a virtuous person. The truth and realness are characteristics of moral excellence based on Plato. To conclude, in order to be a virtuous person we must question and reason the absolute truth because based on Plato, opinion is not accepted in life.

Reflection 11 Impact on modern education

Happiness-an impact on happiness concerning virtue states that you can have a fun and good times in the world, but if you are not virtuous there is not sufficient quality of happiness. You may be the wealthiest, prettiest, hi-class, and are successful in education, career, etc it is still not a full view of happiness. In reality most famous folks that has lump sums of money are the most miserable, unhappy, and mistreated people believe it or not. So in saying being various, you can be poor but long as you’re an honest person with a warm-heart that carries much love within you will be blessed and live a good life. The key to being virtuous and ensure happiness is wisdom, we would set guidelines, goals as to where we want to go in life without doing this it is not virtuous. The modern views of happiness we think we are happy by how we feel about a certain situation etc. long as you have ample amounts of pleasure it can make you happy even when you are lacking moral virtue. The theory to happiness is utilitarianism with the philosophers input of John Stwart, Mill and Jeremy Bentham. As far as Mill we know we are happy using the Utilitarian Calculus and Bentham the Principle of Utility. Now with regards to Socratic elenchus it shows us that we are confused about our moral beliefs. We reason everything but we also believe that God did everything. Once we find out the real answer or a sufficient answer we then sit back and question god. Elenchus displays inconsistencies among beliefs, and this then makes it difficult to understand how reasoning could lead to moral knowledge or a correct answer. I feel isn’t actually any specific correct answer when it comes down to reasoning moral beliefs. Every individual is entitled to their opinion and belief freely! No one is incorrect of whatever their belief may be. We all have our own personal feelings and moral beliefs towards anyone and everything in life and we will not get the actual truth until we experience these paradigms ourselves.

Reflection 12 Soviet Sputnik

Well basically before the Soviet Sputnik, the visible curriculum such as formal or explicit specified that learning in schools were different from learning in life in that which is formally organized. Formal curriculum is not a steady course of study; it tends to change to reflect the values of the time that is present. In the eighteenth century, they began to focus on building a new nation including education. Studies still included reading, religion, and morality, but also added to this was writing and arithmetic which received more attention. Then after the low point launching of the Soviet Sputnik, America’s schools were made the scapegoat for the U.S. failure to beat the Soviet’s into space. University academics were recruited to develop a harsher and disciplined curriculum, especially in science, math and foreign languages. These courses were organized so that the students would focus to think like mathematicians and scientists. Then the Civil Rights movement had an impact on the school’s curriculum. By high school students would explore an order of electives such as Black Studies, Multicultural Studies, Ecology, and Sexuality which we refer to as today Human Growth and Development. In the 1960s and 1970s the excessive spread of electives led to an apparent rather than real course option and a less harsh curriculum. They had electives that would have replaced a basic course you may have needed, or even shared some similarities in another course. After while the students began doing poorly in the basic courses which were the ones that are the most important, such as reading, writing, math, etc. Then critical reports were being made and books were being written about the poorly test scores the students were making. By these actions taking place they decided to eliminate electives and increase the number of basic courses required for graduation. Unfortunately the electives were much more interesting to the students but these were not a big concern for passing test scores for the basic courses. They made an increase on the number of basic courses required for graduation. Clear academic standard and frequent tests increased and then the scores eventually improved. In today’s society, the school’s curriculum is looked up by the states, and school effectiveness is determined by standardized testing. For example, Florida standardized test is called the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test). This test is a graduation requirement, so if you did not pass this test or the SAT test you would not have fulfilled your graduation requirement. You also need a minimum of twenty four credits to also fulfill this graduation requirement. Graduation requirements vary from state to state some may not need as much as others and their tests may be different. The FCAT test require to be passed in the third, eighth, and tenth grade.

Reflection 10

Gatekeepers, teachers must determine who will talk, when, and for how long., as well as the basic direction of the communication. As we know, that most of class room time is taken up by talk and the majority talking time is done by the teacher. Questioning time is a signal of curiosity; it is the teacher who does the majority of asking questions. Students rarely ask academic questions due to shyness or embarrassment. Teachers interact according to the grades of each student. For example, if a child whose grades are borderline the teacher would obviously be on top of them and pay little attention to a student whose grades are B’s and higher. They require less attention. Also if a teacher spends most of the time handing out supplies or enforcing behavior rules time for learning as decreased. The majority of questions asked by the teacher require that students use memory. It is more than likely questions asked about what was previously reviewed what they have learned from the curriculum. The point of gate keeping is to increase student’s curiosity and question for knowledge; for teachers it is to manage classroom interaction time. It expects students to be quiet, to think quickly and give the correct answer, to rely on memory, and to be dependent on the teacher. When students sit quietly and have less participation in classroom interaction they tend to have less positive attitudes and lower achievement in work practices. As student have communication with your teacher is a great tool to academic success. If you don’t communicate with your teacher, how would she know that you need to seek help in a particular subject area; they can’t read minds! Once it’s time to grade the paper and you receive an unsatisfactory grade you want to start opening up at the end once the final grade is in and it’s too late. So I say we need to continue using gate keeping and let the student apply more of the talk than the teacher would. As if the teacher asks the question, then turn right around and answer it that’s not considered learning to me.

Reflection #9

When compared to ancient education and first schools education, teacher effectiveness in today’s society is quite similar with a little difference set aside. Much education is based on a belief that all students are capable of equal outcomes. A difference in outcomes is all a matter of opportunity and fairness that education must fix. Back in ancient times, he children copied what they saw their parents doing and used this as their eventual trade of profession of such. Also whatever their parents taught them rather is was religious, point of views about how to look at others or label them all came from their parents’ beliefs. They never had their own opportunity to go out and explore the world themselves and experience it. Everything was by basically word of mouth. Just as today’s modern teaching, back then they had on job training also called (vocational training). Where the child would actually go out and work in a specific field of study. The only difference when compared to present day teaching is that it depends on the student’s credit on rather or not they were eligible for vocational training. For example, I was involved in on the job training as cosmetologist at Hair Escape Salon and Spa as a hair stylist. Every so often my teacher would come and check on me to make that I was attending work and was a doing a great job at it. This was a requirement that I had to fulfill for my graduation requirement. For the men in Egypt, their careers was not decided by themselves, it was often followed by their family trade or profession of study. Back then, there was no set limit to finish schooling nor start it, compared to today you must start school at the age of what I think four or five and graduate the twelfth grade before twenty.

Reflection 7 redited

The approach to education in the ancient civilization of Egypt and Mesopotamia goes as follows. Similar to modern time’s children in Egypt imitated adult like behavior. As time went by and the children grew older, they did tasks such as farming, workshops, the vineyards, and received most of their knowledge and practical skills from their elders. They received knowledge out of the books of instruction, or wisdom literature. Along with these texts was formal vocational training also known as “on the job training”. Just as in modern education of today. I was involved in the on job training in high school, and i was employed at Hair Escape Salon and spa. The boys did not manage their own trade of profession by themselves; instead they took on and followed whatever profession their family members have had or were into. As far as the girls from less wealthy families learned how to manage a household, sing, dance, and play music instruments. Foreign languages were not taught nor were religious. Students often used pottery shreds or limestone fragments to practice their writing skills. There was no set age length for schooling. As for Mesopotamia, the developed education very closely related to the Egyptian. It included from the basis of reading, writing, and religion to law, medicine, and astrology. The intellectual activity and training was the library. Memorization, oral repetition, copying of models was methods of teaching and learning. To conclude these two ancient civilizations has various similar ways of schooling education. Mesopotamia just had a little more information required and they taught than ancient civilization of Egypt which just got down directly to the basics. If I can go back into these times I would consider using the Mesopotamia methods because it taught a little more and I feel that I would have learned in a very simple matter. Furthermore feel that as far as the boys are concerned, them following their trade of profession from the families was a bad idea. What if this was not what made the boys happy or they were not satisfied with this profession. They may not have to work or school ad gave it their all knowing that was not what they intended on doing. As for the girls, they were okay. Due to the fact that back in the days the women were responsible for taking care of household. Things of such cleaning, cooking, and washing etc fulfilled these requirements that i feel was fairly easy. As far as the singing that should have been easy for them and make time go by fast. It may have enhanced them and maybe in the future the women may have become singers or dancers.

Invention of Writing Reflection #6

Writing was so virtually important and their main string of year ago. It was invented about three times in different places and in human history: Each place had their own invention and ways of communication through writing in Sumerian first; they used pictograms beginning with simple pictures to label basic farm produced food. In cities and urban areas of manufacturing goods they used tokens. Then eventually they used clay tablets. The impressions were used as a memory aids in recording economic data. Furthermore, homonymy began to have been used as abstract symbols that represented sound. Some English language can be used by this tactic but more complicated English cannot. In another area Egypt, they used hieroglyphs, or holy writing. This system was used as syllabic symbols or alphabetic symbols that represented single sounds. This system has been used by the priest to record events or royal and religious significance. This invention was complicated and no one has ever used them again besides themselves. Finally, the last place writing was so important to be china. They invented most of their writing independently. They had some connections with Sumerian writing and used pictographic signs as sound symbols. The sound was represented in the homonymous syllable way. Eventually when signs lost their requirements of resembling what it represented they became stylized. The meaning of a syllable as well as its sound was a way of syllable as well as its sound was a way of how the syllable was written. This is still in effect in modern Chinese today. To conclude, all of these systems of what ancient civilizations used writing for represented sound first and what they stood for secondly. These places used these different forms of writings as way of communicating with each others for events, and farming goods. All of these writings are special and different in their own unique way.

Reflection 8 The Three Waves of education Reformed

In 1983 a report cited a decline in test scores, the weak performance of U.S. students compared with those of other nations. This called for an education reform. To reform education they came up with three waves of reform which continues to influence American education today. The first wave of reports states, the goal was to raise educational quality by reporting more courses and more testing of students and teacher performance. States were to assume the leadership in improving existing practices and this wave continues to be the strongest. This wave also viewed reform in terms of national defense and economic competition. This first reform wave covered several educational issues and topics such as; the rapid growth of state tests, and the effort to identify weak performing students, teachers, and schools. The second wave of reform, began in the mid-and late 1980’s, and was led by educators, rather than by politicians and business leaders. They see the nature of the curriculum as a central weakness, and recommending that students cover fewer topics but study them in the greater depth. They were alarmed by the loss of teacher autonomy in school climates and poor academic performance. To change this they came up with a conclusion to reduce bureaucracy, creating a more professionally trained of teachers, and study the subjects in greater depth. Finally, the third wave began in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s refer to full service schools, by all means to provide a network of social services, nutrition, healthcare, transportation, counseling, and parent education. School policy, focused only on education, would be replaced by children policy. In my opinion I feel the third wave has been so dominant because it primarily focuses on the need of the children and not the sake of the nation’s reputation. We never know what a child is capable of and have access to. Some children may not afford the ability to seek counseling, healthcare, and networking. School is probably their only access to the key to success and other guidance beyond their own home. In my opinion, the first wave is basically worrying about making the students improve to give the nation a high-quality view from other nations or as a competition.

Reflection 5 Initiation rites and rites of passage ceremonies

Initiation rites and rites of passage ceremonies have several traits that involve teaching and learning such as communication, relationships, performances, beliefs, and formal structures. For one thing, it examines face-to-face interactions through which diverse individuals are transformed into teachers it uses rites of passage to describe the processes in which teachers acquire cultural knowledge about teaching and eliminate inappropriate displays of behavior. It is a transition from one social group to another. It also depends on the way the school operates would justify how the teacher would adapt based on the guiding beliefs, skills, and aspirations represented in the school. It also refers to the environmental location of the school whether it is in a good or bad neighborhood. Good quality relationships of both personal and professional characteristic. It begins at home and continues in the school environment. You can’t expect to not have any discipline at home and once they arrive to school they are the perfect angels…NEGATIVE!! We as teachers need the support from the parents, this would be a tremendous help to managing a classroom. Another is among the colleagues, disagreements often arrives from staff conflict and experiences with school base politics and unfair treatment from some of the staffs. Primary teachers have to contract with classroom managements; they will have to deal with different attitudes, disruptive students, Students that refuse to complete their work, etc. In my opinion, without classroom management lesson plans will be ruined. As far as learning, most teachers use learning objectives to pinpoint their lesson plans. Since learning cannot be seen directly teachers must make inference about learning from the information the students turn in. a well planned learning objective would leave less room for doubtfulness about what the teacher plans on lecturing. In conclusion, my view is that initiation into teaching has its similarities with the initiation rites of some eras. It can be painful sometimes and involves time to you before trying to deal with others. A well written learning objective it is the meat (root) of a lesson plan. Without this your class will not have any patience or practices.

BIO OF ME reflection 1

Sherika Davis is my name. I was born on March 3, 1989 to the parents of Sherry Rolle and Fredrick Davis. I have six siblings and I am the third oldest of them all. I attended Carol City elementary, Lawton Chiles middle, and American senior high school. While attending American I was involved in the OJT program (on the job training) and joined the auxiliary team as a captain of the flagette squad. I graduated in 2007, and continuing to extend my education at Miami Dade College north. When I began attending MDC my major was criminal justice. My whole way through high school I was so focused on criminal 0justice because of the money. Months later after my junior year I changed my mind because my father was incarcerated for over twelve years and he told that I was a very nice, soft-hearted person and he believed the people would probably run over me and I wouldn’t be fit for that pressure. Then I started getting opinions and hearing stories from prior correctional officers and detectives which made me change my major to elementary education. I decided that I want to be a teacher because I want to help children better themselves and be a part of their lives in becoming someone successful. I also enjoy tutoring kids with their homework. I can’t get enough of the happiness children can bring I love being around them I adapt to them just fine. My goal is to become a teacher; I feel I would be a teacher that looks forward to waking up bright and early every morning and going to work joyful without any doubts of a bad day. Once I leave work I want to have an impression left on me as if I got the job done of making a better understanding with my lecture to the children and made a difference. It may not be every single piece of information but hey...At least I can sit back and say “I tried” and I will continue I will never give up on any of my students. I also want to make a great connection with the parents and not just the students. I will like for all the children to have study time in and outdoor so they can have help from the parent or legal guardian. To conclude, I wish and hope to meet all the requirements to succeed in this class to enhance my chances of becoming a great successful teacher in the making.

Reflection 4

RELECTION #4
What I have learned is that the first human evolved in Africa about 2 million years ago. The earliest humans are called Homo habilis which means handy man because of its contact with tools that they used to survive. They used tools such as the hammer stone, flake scraper, flake, and heavy duty scraper. These species share some characteristics one being the bipedal locomotion meaning walking upright. Mitochondrial DNA is transmitted only by females. But a more clearly nuclear DNA is called chromosomal DNA. Where as in today’s society, they use this to determine if a male is the father of a child in many situations. Then there was a conflict on the Mitochondrial DNA because the female eggs carry many mitochondria while the sperm contribute no mitochondria to the new baby. This can be a big problem in society because without a male sperm contribution, no baby can be made. So physically when the female have sex with males and the males disperse their sperm inside of a female, we will never know who the baby belong to. On the other hand, the chromosomal DNA showed a clearer analysis from the cell surface receptor on white blood cells that identifies the AIDS located on human chromosome 12.Then with this solution they came up with all the answers concerning humans. Humans and Apes share many characteristics that are very similar, Apes have a skull base of humans also a few teeth and little similar bones which characterized that human descended from ape like ancestors. Ape species are small brained when they are compared to human species that specialize in eating tough plant material and are considered vegetarians because their brains are small and they have to maintain their brains in a healthy function. As for humans we are considered omnivores (meat eaters).Since our brain is way much larger we can eat more meats and plants than compared to Apes. I truly believe that we share and have several characteristics as Apes that it’s scary to me. The information presented to me in these readings leaves my opinion that we as humans evolved around apes in several types of aspects. Such as bones structure, the texture of our skin, and hair type to our color. If we all evolved around Apes I have to question how did people of white race get their skin color pigment? Why woudlnt we question God when people say that God made all humans and we evolved around Apes. Does this means that God made APes first and we were born from Ape ancestors.

Reflection 3 Multicultral education approach in elementary school

The extent to where my elementary and secondary education was multicultural has been exposed to me in many ways. It begins in my neighborhood, of course some of the kids that lived around me went to same school I went to so, so we interacted with each other outside of school also. I was surrounded by Hispanics, Asians, Haitians, Jamaicans, and many more. Everyday some of us would come outside and play with each other; sometimes the Haitian kids got teased at for being Haitian. I can vouch for that because I use to tell them that they eat cat for dinner and do voodoo. Of course now my opinions about them as changed as I grew older because I learned more and interacted with them more. Not just in my neighborhood, in school too. I also understood that when I was in school and got caught teasing other about their ethnicity would result in a punishment and bad consequences. Secondly, the school had several celebrations for different cultures such as Black History Month, and Hispanic Heritage Month. The United States schools are so diverse that we interacted with other kids we probably never even heard of the ethnicity background. We tend to learn a lot from others such as the way they are punished, certain beliefs, different types of food, music, and so on. I remember at my elementary school, “Carol City” during black history month the teachers would come together and have an African American parade. The students, counselors, principals, and teachers would wear their African attire and the music would play African American music and bring out the instruments. Another activity that the teachers involved us in was a bibliography project. The teacher gathered up a couple of Hispanic famous people and we had to research information on them, and the day of the presentation we had to bring a Hispanic covered dish or drink of whatever we wished it to be. If I can go back to my elementary education, I would want my teachers to take the social action approach. I feel that this action was already being taken and this was an interesting and exciting approach. With this approach, we are communicating face to face with each other. We can get a clearer understanding of what other students and teachers experience of different cultures. I think that Carol City Elementary did an excellent job in introducing us into and implying multicultural activities to our school work. What do think about your elementary school?

Reflection 2

Basically, a paradigm is the most powerful form of mental models which represents how we see and interpret things the same. The root of that lens influences what we believe to be real or true (fact). The paradigm has a reason and set of assumptions that imposes on what is viewed. When a paradigm is created, it draws down a limit at this point for us to focus on that one piece of information and let us sort out the information.
PARADIGM SHIFT/CHANGE
A way of looking at a paradigm change over time is to look at evolutionary development and history of species. Back in earliest times, men had to basically be a hunter for everything they needed. Now in this time of the world everything is basically given to them easily, which is why men in past time appreciate the things they received and have accomplished because they worked hard for it. The inventions of man eventually makes them have a paradigm shift on what he believe or have learned previously before. Another example is Homo erectus, which represents early man tool making; it produced hand- axes in addition to sharp edged flake. It improved hunting skills. As for relationships, “as I mentioned in class” the male feel they should have the upper hand in the relationship due to their state of being the breadwinner. They make the rules, and whatever they say should go as follow. For example, my mother was taught that a man should be the person in charge if he is keeping the roof over your head and keeping food on the table. So yes my grandfather did have the upper hand in the relationship. Therefore, my mother took this same paradigm when she began dating and built a relationship with my now stepfather; this paradigm is still believed today. Now on the other hand, as for me I believe the same thing but, from the looks of things I feel it will be a 50- 50 action taken place. So when I decide to move out with my boyfriend a paradigm shift change will then occur. To conclude, everything we think, feel or do is shaped by our paradigms. Changes would occur when one paradigm is replaced by another. It also occurs when we change the way we view ourselves and others. A change in the paradigm wouldn’t occur until you yourself have experienced it.