Author: Neliza

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Educational Narrative

Neliza Castillo

English 103

 

As far as I could remember my earliest experience of learning, was when i was in kindergarten and i was learning how to read. My teacher used the arts of music, with songs to help us remember words. Also practicing turning and talking to our partners in order to express ideas about what we thought the correct answer was. We were all on the rug and we would go about our daily routine. During my elementary school years i attended two different schools. I first started at P.S 178, which was only up to second grade, so after that i had gone to P.S 152 to finish until 5th grade. Starting my elementary years in P.S 178 was a great experience it was a fun school with nice teachers who had many festivities to celebrate the years of learning and make sure we had fun while getting our abilities to higher standards. Things such as Tiger day to celebrate 100 days of school. I remember making the number 100 using a hundred items, and also dressing up as an elderly to represent the value of the number. Also we had Bear Day at my other elementary school. Bear day was a day to celebrate reading, standing for “Be Excited About Reading”. Each class would read lots of books and design their very own Bear, and at the end there would be a competition for the best bear. Another thing that i enjoyed alot was my math bee, in the 4rth grade, a very nerve wrecking but amazing experience for me. Doubting myself and all i went along with the bee and ended up in third place, i’m as happy as i was back then for this position because i had made it to the three finalist along with my classmate who was number 1! Such a fun and motivating way of learning. Maybe if my middle school or high school math  lessons where this exciting i wouldn’t struggle with college level math so much. As a student i have confronted the challenge of pushing myself, motivating myself. Somedays i was motivated other days i really had no idea how i would motivate myself passed the doubts. Luckily i always took advantage to listen to those who wanted to see me and my classmates succeed and that was great help.  

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My Research Topics

My Research Topics

 

The top two topics that interests me most for potential research are, the history of women’s roles in jobs, positionings and their limits in America, also early settlements in Caribbean islands, such as Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, to gain more information on who resided in those islands before europeans conquered. What attracts me about the history of women’s roles in America, is the idea of women not being paid equally as men, but also learning more about how women work together, what are some issues that they have and what are some things they are really strong at. As to the early settlements in the caribbean islands, is a way to find out more information about the background of these islands and what they are composed of, what can the people from their relate to, is a way to bring people together and i would like to have valid data on the topic. I’m already familiar with the many protests and movements that women fought in order to gain rights such as voting, situation that came a long way and should be celebrated. One thing i know about natives in the caribbean is that both europeans and africans had stepped foot there, after conquering and enslaving communities. However what i would like to find out who was settled there before the conquering, and what happened to them and what was their culture and tradition like, kind of like the Inca Empire in Machu Picchu before the europeans. For female roles, i would like to find out what are women’s strengths and weaknesses in working together, also what are the situations that prevent women from being equal as men, all through there organismic differences. All in all i think my topics are specific enough, even though they are really broad ideas and arguments behind them, because i talk about specific people and places and specific ideas in which im looking for information on. In order to find my data, i would want to use text books and articles based on time periods with examples of perhaps laws that existed or still exist that refer towards men or women only. Also look at interviews and documentaries of people giving their experiences and opinions of women in the workplace in general and perhaps compare that to men. Also for my second topic, i would look for any primary pieces of evidence that could work towards finding out about the cultures in early settlements of these islands, and documentaires of the history about the before and after of the conquerors era. I would start looking at the library and also documentaries and maybe interviews.