...Carlos Cuervo MGF1107 723864 723866 Mathematician Essay Assignment March14, 2013 “Jaime Alfonzo Escalante” What does it takes to become good at math? For Jaime Escalante, one of America’s most famous teachers, it only takes “ganas”. As Mr. Escalante often explained, “ganas” (Spanish word for desire) will motivate any student to find and exploit their full potential, regardless of their economic or ethnic background. Jaime Escalante was born in La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, South America. With the example of his parents, who were both teachers, he found a passion for teaching in his native country. Escalante taught math for twelve years before migrating to the United States with his wife Fabiola. The first few years in the new country, he applied himself to learn English while working in restaurants washing dishes. He went to college for the second time in his life just to get certified as a teacher in the United States. He received the highest honor as Magna Cum Laide at graduation and right away found a position as a computer teacher at Garfield High School in downtown Los Angeles, California. To his surprise, the school lacked the computers he needed for the class, so he took an alternative position as a math teacher. In that first year of teaching, Mr. Escalante was confronted with many obstacles. The school was in the verge of loosing its operative certification; many students scored poorly in their academics...
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...Contra Jaime Gil De Biedma 11/6/2011 Pueyo El pecado “Contra Jaime Gil De Biedma” de Jaime Gil De Biedma ofrece una ventana en los pensamientos de un hombre preocupado. Parece que quiere alejarse de las pecadas en su vida, pero no tiene la capacidad para tener éxito. El título del poema es interesante porque insinúa que se trata de la vida del autor. La poema está escrito en un estilo coloquial, un conversación con el lector. Pero el lector es su mismo, peleando con pensamientos de su manera de vida. Tiene un tono muy serio, mostrando frustración con su mismo. Muestra su fuerte emoción, “¡Si no fueses tan puta!” Él ha creado dos personalidades. Una representa el punto de vista de su conciencia, exigiendo el cambio y terminando los pecados. El otro es la vida desinhibido, llena de alcohol y mujeres. La primera estrofa introduce la idea de cambiando su manera de vivir. Pregunta el punto si vale la pena cambiar si los cambios no son concretos. Describa, “Poner visillos blancos y tomar criada, renunciar a la vida de bohemio.” Esto contrasta con la línea previa, “dejar atrás un sótano más negro.” El sótano representa su vida llena de oscuridad, y posiblemente secretos. El uso de colores subraya la diferencia entre su vida y lo que quiere ser. Aunque quiere cambiar, la descripción sugiere que no va a cambiar mucho. Los visillos representan un cambio artificial. También, empieza a insultando su mismo en las líneas próximas. Esto es un ejemplo de la división que...
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...Reflection Paper on Stand and Deliver “At a tough school, someone had to take a stand… and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could… Stand and Deliver” –taglines of the movie “Stand and Deliver.” Jaime Escalante has a steady job but left it for a lowly position math teacher at James A. Garfield High School. Knowing that the school is where rebellion runs high and teachers are more focused on discipline than in academics, he is determined to change the system and challenge the students to soar high in excellence. Of course, the students will not like a teacher who engages them in the things they don’t like. But as days passed, Escalante was able to convince the students and got their attention by adopting unconventional teaching methods and conveying the necessity of math in everyday living. He successfully instilled in the mind of his students that all use math everyday. With his determination and perseverance, he was able to turn gang members, no-hopers, and even the most troublesome teens into dedicated students who are ready to learn. The school board has low expectations on the students and the teachers even called them illiterates. But Jaime Escalante didn’t listen to the concerns and skepticism of his colleagues. Instead, he realized that his students are capable of more than the expectations and criticisms thrown to them. He developed a math program which requires the students to take summer classes, including Saturdays, so that...
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...“At a tough school, someone had to take a stand… and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could… Stand and Deliver” –taglines of the movie “Stand and Deliver.” Jaime Escalante has a steady job but left it for a lowly position math teacher at James A. Garfield High School. Knowing that the school is where rebellion runs high and teachers are more focused on discipline than in academics, he is determined to change the system and challenge the students to soar high in excellence. Of course, the students will not like a teacher who engages them in the things they don’t like. But as days passed, Escalante was able to convince the students and got their attention by adopting unconventional teaching methods and conveying the necessity of math in everyday living. He successfully instilled in the mind of his students that all use math everyday. With his determination and perseverance, he was able to turn gang members, no-hopers, and even the most troublesome teens into dedicated students who are ready to learn. The school board has low expectations on the students and the teachers even called them illiterates. But Jaime Escalante didn’t listen to the concerns and skepticism of his colleagues. Instead, he realized that his students are capable of more than the expectations and criticisms thrown to them. He developed a math program which requires the students to take summer classes, including Saturdays, so that they can rise4 to take AP Calculus in their...
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...CHAPTER 14 Human Capitalism Parachuting cats into Borneo — Stopping the waste of people — Curitiba’s web of solutions — Faster travel without freeways — Subways on the surface — Simple, fast, fun, and cheap — When garbage isn’t garbage — No hunger pangs — A place for living — A symbol of the possible W H AT D E S T I N AT I O N D O E S O U R S O C I E T Y W A N T T O R E A C H , A N D H O W W I L L I T get there? Lessons in what not to do can often be found in cities, where most officials, overwhelmed by a flood of problems, try to cope by naming and solving them one at a time. If they are faced with congestion, their answer is to widen streets and build bypasses and parking garages. Crime? Lock up the offenders. Smog? Regulate emissions. Illiteracy? Toughen standards. Litter? Raise fines. Homelessness? Build shelters, and if that seems to fail, jail the loiterers. Insufficient budget to fund all these competing priorities? Raise taxes or impose sacrificial austerity, to taste. Disaffected voters? Blame political enemies. Sometimes single-problem, single-solution approaches do work, but often, as previously described, optimizing one element in isolation pessimizes the entire system. Hidden connections that have not been recognized and turned to advantage will eventually tend to create disadvantage. Consider what happened in Borneo in the s. Many Dayak villagers had malaria, and the World Health Organization had a solution that was simple and direct. Spraying DDT seemed...
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...Stand and Deliver Stand and Deliver (1988) is a film about a teacher and a group of students who went above the expectations of everyone around them and all passed the AP exam. The concept of self-concept is very evident in this film. Self-concept is the “sum total of everything that encompasses the self- referential term ‘me’” (42). A person cannot isolate themselves and develop a self-concept. It is built around social communication; it has to grow from interpersonal communication. The film is based in East Los Angeles, not a place where you want to walk in the streets alone. There, all of the students live and go to school at Garfield High School. Because they live in such an under-privilege neighborhood and go to a school in that neighborhood, they aren’t seen to be as intelligent as someone who lives in Beverly Hills. There was a part of the film during a teacher meeting when Mr. Escalante brought up that he wanted to teach calculus to his students the next school year. This was when the principal laughed and sarcastically said “Boy, that’s a jump.” Because self-concept is developed through interpersonal communication, the fact that even the principal of their school doesn’t believe they could do such a feat like pass the AP exam, they haven’t thought much about their education. School was a joke to them so they focused on their own personal lives at home and with their friends. That is, until Mr. Escalante became their new math teacher. Self-concept can change...
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...Stand and Deliver Jodee Licavoli Baker College Based on a true Stand and Deliver centers on a math teacher at a tough high school who persuades his class of students that education is an asset. East Los Angeles Garfield High is the setting for this inspirational true story about a teacher who refuses to discard his inner city students as losers. It is an exhilarating story of hope, trepidation, trust and above all else desire. There are many organizational development theories that stand out in this movie. They are individual differences, personality, attitudes, abilities, and emotions next are perception and attributions lastly, managing change within learning environment. Furthermore, when applying our learning in Organizational Development to a real-life situation, Individual differences personality, attitudes, abilities, emotions. From the outset Mr. Escalante (the math teacher) is faced with a challenging predicament. Arriving for his first day of school, he is confronted with a set of rebellious student’s intent on making his life hell. The negative attitude of these students towards learning was clearly evident, as was their low self-esteem. Self-esteem is a belief about one’s own self-worth based on an overall self-evaluation. “If they try and don’t succeed, you will shatter what little confidence they did have” (Menendez, 1988). Through a history of meager facilitators the students believe that their opinions and contributions are not taken seriously, and to...
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...of why, in inner-city schools and elsewhere, approximately 50% of teachers leave the profession within the first five years? Was Jaime Escalante a true improvement in the system? Or not? Was he an exemplary teacher? Was he a model of change? Or was he a one-of-a-kind flash in the pan? Was he an example of how change happens in public schools? An example of why education will not improve, despite the best efforts of the best teachers? Are standout, brilliant teachers like Escalante the answer to a distressed educational system? “Savior” teachers like Olmos’s Escalante, Sidney Poitier in “To Sir with Love,” (1967) or Michelle Pfeiffer in “Dangerous Minds” (1995) all make for good drama. They sell tickets to the movie theater to moviegoers who...
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...Case Name Leonor Jaimes and Jose Jaimes v. Sears, Roebuck and Co., CherryVale Mall, LLC, CBL/CherryVale I, LLC, CBL & Associates Management, Inc., National Elevator Inspection Services, Inc. and Kone Inc. Insured Name and Role in Case National Elevator Inspection Services, Inc. performed inspections of the escalator involved in the plaintiffs’ alleged occurrence. Plaintiff Name and Role in Case Leonor Jaimes was allegedly injured while on an escalator at the Sears store in CherryVale Mall. Jose Jaimes, husband of Leonor Jaimes, alleges a loss of consortium claim against all defendants as a result of the personal injuries allegedly suffered by Leonor Jaimes. Co-Defs Names and Roles in Case According to the complaint, Sears occupied and controlled...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top 10 Richest Men in the Philippines of 2010 People say that the Philippine economy is bad but these ten persons who would say otherwise. Find out who made it to the list of the Top 10 Richest Men in the Philippines for 2010, learn from them, and be inspired with their success stories. Henry Sy Being the owner of the SM Group of Companies, who wouldn’t know Henry Sy? For four years in a row, he has been number 1 in the list of the richest men in the Philippines. In 2010, he continued to expand his investments to other industries such as leisure, banking and financial services, and commercial property development in very strategic locations. All his businesses compliment each other so well that his net worth went up to 38 billion USD from only 5 billion USD in 2009. Lucio Tan The government ads that discourage people to smoke and the issues that happened to some of Lucio Tan’s businesses might have affected his income in 2010 but he is still one of the most prominent business magnates in the country. From being an ordinary employee, he is now the owner of the largest tobacco company in the Philippines,Fortune Tobacco. He also expanded his investments to different fields. Among his well-known businesses are Asia Brewery (the 2nd largest brewer in the Philippines), Tanduay Holdings (one of the world's largest rum makers), Philippine Airlines, Philippine National Bank, and Allied Bank. Like the other tycoons, he also ventured...
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...Family: Jaime is a 15 year old Hispanic male who lives with his mother Mauryzette Fernandez, his 12 year old sister, great aunt. Jaime continues to display unsafe and impulsive behaviors in the home and in the community. Jaime has some positive relationships with family members, however his anger outbursts and physical aggression is always directed at his mother. Youth also has a conflict when Mrs. Fernandez tries to enforce rules in the household. Mrs. Fernandez that Jaime does not listen, he is impulsive, disrespectful and comes and goes without permission. It was also reported that youth smokes weed and may be involved with a gang. Jaime recently has a horseshoe tattoo on each one of his middle finger. CM suggested to Mrs. Fernandez that family therapy can assist her with establishing and enforcing clear boundaries with Jaime. CM express to...
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...year old Jaime finding out that he is attracted to boys, and when a beautiful girls shows interest in him, he is all the more intrigued by her father’s work developing a new drug for gay people. Dr. Gomez tells Jaime, “People can be complicated. Desire can be confusing. Not for you? Consider yourself lucky” (Klise 3). The pivotal moment in this novel is when Jaime finally understands that no pill will cure homosexuality. He finally understands that there is other homosexual people in the world and that it is okay to be gay. When Jaime starts high school, he has a simple strategy to survive: fit in, keep a low profile and most importantly protect his biggest secret, he’s gay. Jaime does not think that being gay is normal and when he starts noticing his attraction for boys, he tries to stop it no matter what. He thinks that the world is not okay with gay people and he does not want to be judged for who he is, he just wants a simple life. Jaime says, “Gay is the word my best friend uses to describe the essays we are assigned” (7). This quote shows how the way society uses words like “gay” is wrong. We never really know how a person is going to take what we say, and this quote clearly shows how Jaime thinks is wrong to be gay because of how the word gay is used in his school. Not being able to like Celia Gomez, the most beautiful, funny and smart girl in school frustrates Jaime. Dr. Gomez, Celia’s father, is creating a new drug that can cure homosexuality. When Jaime steals the...
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...them together and keep them stronger. You would become the best person you could ever be because of the person you love. Also, if you truly love someone, you will have respect and faith with one another. 2.) Cite situations in the film which reflects the element of true love. When Landon met and fell in love with Jaime, everything about Landon has changed. He became a better person because of Jaime. He stopped doing pranks to others with his naughty friends. He started to forgive and accept his father. He granted Jaime's wishes like getting a tattoo and marrying at the same church where her parents got married. He even saved Jaime from humiliation. In these situations, it is evident that true love will bring out the best in every person. Also, element of true love is reflected during the time when Landon discovered that Jaime is sick. Through ups and downs, he was always there for and never left Jaime. Even until the last days of Jaime, Landon did everything to express his unconditional love for her. He took care of her at the hospital, asked for his father's help for Jaime's sake, made a telescope so they could see the sky together, learned to dance Jaime well and even married her. 3.) What lessons can you derive from the movie? What I've learned from the movie is that we should always have faith and respect to the person we love. We should always believe in the goodness of one another. Being truly in love is not only being with the person you love during the happiest...
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...Viewers will no doubt know exactly what scene I mean. In the Great Sept, next to the dead body of their first born son, Jaime Lannister rapes his sister, the mother of his three children. Immediately after this scene aired, fans were at their keyboards crying foul. Jaime Lannister would never! That’s not how it happened in the book! How could they? I had waited anxiously for that scene. In the books, it was the first time Jaime and Cersei were reunited since he went off to war. It was an emotional, passionate, and bloody (period sex, fuck yeah) reunion. I assumed it wouldn’t happen since Jaime returned early on the show’s timeline and their reunion was less than enthusiastic. I was wary when they revealed that Jaime has been back for two weeks on the show’s timeline and they still hadn’t had sex. In the books, they were fucking within a matter of minutes. “Hurry,” she was whispering now, “quickly, quickly, now, do it now, do me now. JaimeJaime Jaime.” Her hands helped guide him.“Yes,” Cersei said as he thrust, “my brother, sweet brother, yes, like that, yes, I have you, you’re home now, you’re home now, you’re home.” She kissed his ear and stroked his short bristly hair. Jaime lost himself in her flesh. He could feel Cersei’s heart beating in time with his own, and the wetness of blood and seed where they were joined. Imagine my surprise when Jaime shows up to visit Cersei in the Sept then. Excitement stole through me. They were going to be true to the story after all...
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...Pro-Death Penalty Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who might accidentally get an execution sentence. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year by the hands of heartless murderers. There are more murderers out there than people who are wrongly convicted, and that is what we must remember. I, as well as many others, have total confidence in the death penalty. It is a very beneficial component of our justice system. The death penalty saves lives. It saves live because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again. It also deters potential murderers from ever committing the crime. Unfortunately, the death penalty is currently used so rarely that it is not nearly as effective as it could be. In order for it to work, we must put it into practice more often. In recent years, crime in America has been on the rise, in particular, violent crime. This has led not only to an overcrowding of prisons in our country, but also to an increase in the number of death sentences handed down by the courts. Despite the fact that the number of inmates on death row is climbing, the number of death sentences actually carried out in any given year lags far behind. People simply aren’t fearful of the death penalty when it is not used the way it should be (Stewart 50). If the death penalty has been declared legal, then the...
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