...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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...“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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...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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...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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...don’t possess enough confidence in themselves to develop their skills because they think that they are doing everything in vain. For example, “I can’t handle calculus. Everyone knows I’m the dumbest” (Stand and Deliver). This is a quote from the movie Stand and Deliver, and it shows us that this person can not handle calculus. The reason why is most likely because it is hard for him to understand the concept, except he would rather take the easy way out and give up. In the movie Stand and Deliver, Mr. Escalante, the math teacher, proposed that he would teach a bunch of kids, who didn't go pass 7th grade math, calculus. When the female teacher heard about this during their conference, she was shocked and protested against the idea because she thought that if they try really hard now and doesn't succeed later, it would crush all of their confidence. Moral of the story, although giving up is probably one of the most easiest way to get out of something, it is also another excuse for a person to ignore the fact that they should try harder to understand the...
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...Concessions Order Request Process Description When concession stands become low on product, employees inform supervisors what items need to be ordered. Each supervisor is assigned to a specific stand so that issues can be addressed immediately. Supervisors call the warehouse and place an order for products that are requested. The warehouse employees deliver the order when the event is in session. This is to avoid delays. The following is an Issues with the Communication of Orders Being a cook, our workspace is located at the back end of each concession stand. The area is filled with various amounts of noises from employee communication with one another, to the noises of fryers. It happens frequently that supervisors tend to misinterpret messages due to high noise levels. RESULTING IMPACT TO THE COMPANY Impact from Sales When orders are placed late, rush orders are often not delivered in time for intermission. Late delivers causes lack of items available to fill orders which causes items taken off the menu for the rest of the event. As result, loss of sales from potential customers orders that could have been satisfied if the products were available on time. Impact from Customer Complaints Without necessary actions, these customers could potentially take their business to competing companies. RESOLUTION SUPPORT have full support to further resolve these issues. He emphasized solving these issues will increase staff’s productivity and prevent further...
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...TERM PAPER The portrayal of race in entertainment media is a fluid concept that is constantly changing, just as our views on different races change over time. Although I feel that the media makes a more conscious effort to remove degrading racial stereotypes from films, the acknowledgement of the existence of these stereotypes confirms that they are still present. After watching a movie from three different time periods, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Stand and Deliver (1988), and Our Family Wedding (2010), I have found that representation of race in film has largely remained the same, while the acknowledgement of existing stereotypes has become more obvious. The 1960’s-1970’s was a time characterized by Irish Mob Wars (Durney 2000), Hollywood conservative backlash films, and the ongoing misrepresentation of American Indians in film (Larson 2006). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a movie is about a criminal who pretends to be crazy so that he can serve his sentence in the relatively comfortable confines of an insane asylum rather than a prison. We see the results of the historical events represented in characters from this movie such as Randle Patrick McMurphy, Mr. Turkle, the ward’s guards, and Chief Bromden. The Irish have been infamous for their mafia and organized crime, especially in the Cleveland area. Perhaps their most publicly recognized contribution to the media’s fascination with violence is the Mob Wars of the mid-1970’s (Durney 2000). These huge...
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...Lemonade Stand, Part 1 Develop a creative name for your lemonade stand, and then explain why a name is important when you are considering branding options. The name that I have chosen to go with for my lemonade stand is “The Lemonators”. The reason I picked this name is because it sounds like my lemonade stand is the destroyer of all lemons to make nothing less than the perfect glass of ice cold liquid gold; or as others like to call it, lemonade. I believe that my lemonade stand name is important when I am considering branding options because I believe that the name is genius. It’s catchy; there is no way that a customer that stops by for a quick quench of their thirst will forget a name like The Lemonators. Create a mission statement for your lemonade stand (Chapter 6); then explain why a mission statement is important for any company. To me a mission statement is what should help a person to keep spending their money at an establishment. Some examples of the mission statement is to help the people of the community, satisfy the consumer needs, etc. The Lemonators stand’s mission is to raise money to further research in pediatric cancers. We strive to raise money to hopefully make a change in at least one little boy or girl’s life, even if is a couple cents of profit. It makes everyone feel better about themselves that a percentage of their money went to help a little child in need of help. I believe that a mission statement is important...
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...doctor performs impromptu, improvised cesarean with a fishing knife, catgut, and no anesthetic to deliver the baby. Afterward, he discovers that the woman's husband, who was in the bunk above hers, silently cut his throat during the painful ordeal. Analysis This story is a good example of the "initiation story," a short story that centers around a main character who comes into contact with an idea, experience, ritual, or knowledge that he did not previously know. Hemingway wrote a number of initiation stories, or as they are sometimes referred to, "rite of passage" stories, and the main character in most of these stories is Nick Adams, a young man much like Hemingway himself. In this story, Nick Adams is a very young boy in the Michigan north woods, accompanying his father, Dr. Adams, and his uncle George to an American Indian camp on the other side of a lake. Hemingway's own father was a doctor, who spent much time with his son in the northern woods of Michigan (most critics read this story as somewhat autobiographical). Here, a very young Nick is initiated into concepts that remained of highest importance to Hemingway throughout his writing career: life and death; suffering, pain, and endurance; and suicide. Nick's father goes to the American Indian camp to help a young American Indian woman who has been screaming because of severe labor pains for two days, still unable to deliver her baby. When Dr. Adams arrives, she is lying in a bottom bunk; her husband, who cut his foot...
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...As I, yorc, stand before my humble soldiers, prepared to take the field of battle, my senses are keen as ever. I feel the dry, hot summer sun beating down on my back. Beads of sweat drip from my hair and stream down my limbs. Although my heart feels as if at any second it could burst forth from my chest, I know I must not let my brethren recognize my fear. Though death and bloodshed are surely inevitable, I am brave. For on this day, vengeance will be taken upon the Ramora tribe. As I stare amongst the sea of my Nelehwian soldiers, I remember our reason for battle today, and am haunted by the vision of our cenotaph, destroyed and in ruins. I see my father’s tomb, one amongst many which were disrespected, and the fire inside me intensifies. Suddenly, I am brought back to reality by the...
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...across product lines, service and business units to achieve clarity in product offerings, facilitate awareness and help allocate resources. Define who YOU are System Brand Position Communicate who YOU are Strategies Marketing Plan Tactics © 2011 KBM Group CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY Brand Continuum – Rational to Emotional 1 Awareness 2 Familiarity 3 Consideration 4 Preference 5 Loyalty Have I heard of you? Do I know what you are? (Long list) Do you meet my needs? (Short list) Do you meet my needs better than anyone else? (Win) Do you deliver on your promises? (Retain) Loyalty [Emotional] Preference [Emotional Rational] Perception [Rational Emotional] Awareness [Rational] Brand Attributes What makes a strong brand? Believable Believable Your brand should be based on reality and truth. Can’t promise and not deliver. Brand Defendable Relevant Defendable Your brand should be one that only you can own. Something your competitors can’t easily create. Relevant Your brand should represent something...
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...any other movie. Both have their own stands and relate to situations in different times and conditions. The two have many common grounds and share themes that are portrayed in different scenes through different perspectives. The movies mostly revolve around the idea of standing up for oneself and not giving up, whoever the enemy might be. Patriotism is portrayed in Brave Heart when Mel Gibson's character William Wallas refers to the cavilary as "sons of Scotland." They agree to fight against an army almost double in size, armor and men. This battle is won. In Kings Speech the King, is coping with a stammer to deliver a speech which is his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain's declaration of war on Germany. The struggle required to overcome the fear of stammering and of rejection is calmed down by the support of his friends and family. In Brave Heart love is a key theme, the movie beautifully portrays that intense love can make you go lengths you never wanted to go, change decisions like William decides to fight and rebel once his love, wife is killed for abstaining the soldiers from raping her. He starts a revolt against the most powerful men and dies trying. Love, an emotion that can help you through any stage of life, as in Kings Speech, the character Queen Elizabeth is the reason that King George VI joins the therapist. She drives him to improve and believes in him that one day the speech delivered will have no stammer. She stands by him even when his brother is against...
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...sales the company strives to make a better product. Marketing orientation and sales orientation are two philosophies that are a direct contrast of one another. A sales orientation approach focuses on the needs and wants of the company utilizing aggressive sales tactics. Utilizing the marketing orientation focuses on what the needs of the market’s needs and wants. Societal marketing orientation is similar to marketing orientation by focusing on the markets needs and wants. However, societal marketing orientation also looks to benefit society as a whole such as being an environmental activist. (Lamb, 2014) The Geoffry B. Small Company predominately delivers a societal marketing orientation. (Lamb, 2014) The consumers of the Geoffry B. Small Company want a product that is unique and has handcrafted notes. While the company delivers the unique product they also demonstrate activism for the environment. Geoffry B. Small’s concept of marketing is to create a unique and high quality product that the customer needs and will last; also focuses his company to take an activist role in the community. Geoffry...
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...It is not easy to be perceived as the bad guy. In a room full of management, I once looked my employer's CEO straight in the eye, and told him that the software he was ready to deliver did not work. It did not work, and was one of the ugliest pieces of user interface I had ever seen. In fact, I told him, I had seen school projects that were better quality that the junk the company was about to deliver to a major client. I will never forget that definitive moment of corporate terror, the reflection of panic from the sweat beads streaming down his crinkled face; the death of silence in the room. What went so wrong that this product was almost allowed to ship? Why was a mid-level software engineer telling the corporate head his watch had just created a pile of software crap destined for the company's best customer? The CEO should have been sweating; he was faced with the very real prospect of contractual breach, and litigation. The testing team had been copious in their documentation of the software verification results, and sent them to the quality manager on a weekly basis. The reports showed consistent failure of major components, and data corruption. Why didn't top management see the damming information that was so pervasive? This company had a system in place that allowed defective products to ship. But the problem was not technical, it was political. The issue was a quality manager who had more concern for the creation of a façade, than with reporting of reality. Perry...
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...Same as the other commercial advertisement, public service advertisement aims to deliver some kinds of information to the public in a short time. The reason why it is so attractive is not only the vocabulary or the grammar, but also the adoption of figures of speech, which implies some new meanings on the original idea that are lively and vivid, in order to leave a deep impression to people. There are some common figures of speech that PSA generally adopts. \ The article will stands on the point of view of rhetoric, discussing the PSA language, and mainly on the application of the figures of speech on PSA. To some extent, every object in the world exists with its unique characteristics around us. One of the rhetorical expressions, personification is to express lively these unique characteristics by a vision method. Personification regards the static entities as living dynamic entities, also implies some human being characteristics on the static entities. The application of personification is to give lives to the objects,(such as animals, plants) with the fancy imagination, in order to express the inside relationships of the object appropriately. It is a simple, touching rhetorical expressions which drives people generate infinite reverie. It is good to express in a relaxed and humor way, leading a communication between creative people and the public. Personification makes the dull sentences out of the form of sermon, but much closer to the audiences. Puns plays an important...
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