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Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:54:25 GMT

In the late 1800âs everyone was on the move. The Chinese were moving east to avoid being persecuted, families were traveling to new lands in search of a better future, the Native Americans were being savagely moved by force, and Mexicans were moving north to raid Southern Texas. Everyone wanted change and although their journeys and destinations were different the things they found when they arrived were often the same.

The Chinese moved to America after hearing ship captains talk about the wonderful new land of opportunity where they treated the Chinese fairly and with respect. However when they arrived what they found instead was endless humiliation and a lifetime of hard work.

Soon after arriving to America the Chinese found jobs as merchants, farmers, and mechanics but more notably they worked as miners. Work in the mines was usually very dangerous and always underpaid giving the workers only enough money to pay for the necessities. On top of this workers had to pay for a license to work in the mines every month. When they did not have enough money to buy their license they would often be beaten and sometimes killed. Unfortunately this common occurrence came with no penalty for the offender since the Chinese were not allowed to accuse white citizens of any crime including murder. The Chinese responded to this persecution by writing letters trying to get people to understand their situation but it was with little success.

Another group facing changes were the pioneers moving west to claim free land and start a new life. One such family was the Lingrens who came to America from Sweden to chase the American Dream by moving west. Although the Lingrens did face some discrimination due to their language barrier it was with much less magnitude than other groups at the time because their appearance was much more stereotypically American.

When they arrived they worked hard to grow crops but with little luck as they were struck with the several harsh realities of the west such as wildfires, dry spells, horrible winds, and swarms of grasshoppers which destroyed their crops numerous times. However, like most pioneers, they were religious people and kept their hopes high with the promise that God would see best for them.

One group of people had no intention of moving at all and were instead harshly forced out of their homes, these were the Native Americans. It was a common misconception at the time that the Native Americans were a savage people who needed to be educated in the ways of the "civilized world". To do this the government took it upon themselves move these people to new land, take their children away, reeducate them, and destroy a culture that was older than the nation itself.

Not all groups of Native Americans saw what was coming for them when the treaties began but many did including the Nez PercÃ© tribe. The tribe was asked to sign many treaties asking them to give away their land which they always declined. They lived peacefully next to the white men putting up posts to clearly show where their land began. When their land was eventually stolen from them they fought back giving the white men an opportunity to prove what savages they were. The once great tribe was eventually forced off their land and into Indian Territory where they would remain.

A final group was also moving however this group was not looking for opportunity but for trouble. Some Mexicans came into Southern Texas planning to raid local farms, steal cattle, and burn houses. After a particularly bad raid in Corpus Christi Texans decided to take vengeance killing many innocent Mexican farmers. The stereotype formed that all Mexicans were thieves and a back and forth relationship between Mexico and Texas formed with a never-ending cycle of revenge.

Although each journey was unique they all had similarities..

<I'm really bad at writing closing paragraphs so any help with that would be great. Also, I know this essay isn't great because I wrote it in two hours but its due tomorrow so please help. Thanks!>

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Re: Is this grammatically correct?

nona the brit — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:01:36 GMT

I am having fun taking your B.E. class.

Writing letters and essays still makes me sigh but I'll keep on trying.

Is this grammatically correct?

Ellisa — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:49:53 GMT

I am having fun taking your B.E. class.

Still writing letters and essays give me sigh first, I'm keep on trying.

- let me know the mistake, teacher~!

Thanks in advance!

Please check my grammar and give me some advice on my essay. Thank you!!

S2monica — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:52:00 GMT

Hi everybody, This is my first "post" in here.
Please help me correct the grammar. Thanks!

Communication has always been an important part of our everyday lives. Many of us have composed a letter before, perhaps a note to a loved one or a memo at work. In the past, many of these messages might have gone through the postal system, but with the invention of the internet, people increasingly prefer to send their messages through e-mail. Indeed, once people can access internet, communication to anyone is more efficient and reliable, and the difference between e-mail and writing letters were cost, speed and convenience.

E-mail holds several advantages over traditional post. One of these is cost. A person who sends a letter by post will need to buy paper, an envelope, and stamps. By comparison, the digital ones and zeroes making up an e-mail message essentially cost nothing. Although an individual letter may only cost cents, the cost can add up for larger volumes. For many businesses, effective communication with clients is often critical to success. This can translate to a large amount of print material being mailed out. Sabina Chen, an Insurance agent and regular e-mail user, âE-mail is cheap, by using e-mail our expensive of postage onto envelopes, labels and advertising prints. It decreased almost 50% than before.â

The second advantage of e-mail is time. Sent and received an e-mail only takes a few seconds for the destination of around the world, and using e-mail service is available twenty-four hours and seven days a weeks with no restriction on the office hours like post office collecting time. For many businesses, E-mail becomes prevalent, send a hundred of clients about their new products information within seconds. Unlike using the postal service it must take more than a days or even weeks for delivery and its can limiting the time for waiting line inside the post office. Indeed, use postal mail peoples must be collecting their mail from the home-basis address or Post office box. By using e-mail people can avoid wasting time. Sabina said, âNowadays almost everyone has an e-mail address. Why spend time to prepare an hundred of envelopes, labels and letters than make a special trip to post office?â

Another advantage of the e-mail is the convenience. Everyone has experience to write a letters to their friends, family, and business parties, using correction tape cover a mistake words or wrong spelling is very common. E-mail allowed people delete text, add text, center it, indent it and change the font size and color, and checkups spelling/ grammar, all with the click of a button. Using traditional pen and paper would take me forever to write all those out and hopefully the viewers will able to figure out a bad handwriting. Sabina said, âE-mail has a power features that regular letters do not have.â

In conclusion, these advantages by using e-mail as our communication tools, this makes contacting people a lot effective for everyone. Unlike wiring a letter, using e-mail allows us to enjoy all the benefits from lowered the business costs, no time zone distance with friend, and easier to change something in the document avoid the minor mistake. Communicate to almost every corner of the world with the push of a button.

paper and pencil skills - pen and pencil jobs

HellenVare — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:11:33 GMT

In a translation I am proofreading I found the following (in the original):

âLikewise, they were liable to pursue further studies under the guidance of a mentor either to sharpen their paper and pencil skills, which involved mathematics and accounting or time-keepingâ¦â
âthey were placed at an advantageous position to perform jobs requiring English speaking and paper and pencil work, and eventually, to do well in the Spanish education systemâ¦â
âwere capable of producing not only paragraphs but entire essays discussing a variety of topics, which made it possible for them to eventually be hired by North American companies for performing pen and pencil jobs.

I have searched for a good translation in Spanish, since I am not really happy with the âequivalentâ ââ¦ de papel y lÃ¡pizâ or ââ¦lÃ¡piz y lapiceroâ . I have been doing a lot of research in Internet trying to know what the real meaning of those terms is, but I havenât been lucky. I wonder if âpaper and pencil skillsâ only include mathematics and calculations, and if âpen and pencil jobsâ only include writing letters (for instance). I will appreciate very much if any of you tell me something about the real meaning of these terms.

Thanks!

Hellen Varela

Costa Rica

I ask you nicely to check my letter.

Anonimous — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:00:11 GMT

Hello,

I would like to apply to the Vocational Teacher Programme and I have to write the essay.
Write an essay (2-3 pages) and title it appropropratiely considering the main contents. The essay should be based on the following points: â¢ What is your current occupation and what are your main work tasks? Describe and justify the choices you have made in the defferent phases of your work history â how did you get to the current phase? â¢ Discuss: What are the challenges of your own professional development as a teacher? How is the vocational teacher profession changing in relation to the changes in the working environment? How could the challenges you described above be taken into account in the X... Vocational Teacher Education?

I don't know how to title it, so please here is the essay itself. Thank you for any comments.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to apply to the Hâ¦. Vocational Teacher Education Programme in English.

I work nowadays as an English teacher in Jâ¦.. Comprehensive School.

My main task is obviously to teach English (27 hours a week), but as a full time teacher I take care of two international projects, such as Comenius- Sokrates and E-Twinning. Both projects involve students and teachers from many countries.

COMENIUS supports school partnerships, projects for the training of school education staff, and school education networks. It thus aims to enhance the quality of teaching, strengthen its European dimension and promote language learning and mobility. In December 2005 Comenius conference took place in Jâ¦â¦. Our school was proud to host many project coordinators and teachers from Holland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc. We had a week to discuss about future projects and other activities. Our school will take part in the exchange student program. Five students with two teachers will go to France in May 2006.

E-Twinning is the main action of the European Union's eLearning programme. It promotes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at schools in Europe. Teachers and students use the Internet to work together across borders. They cooperate, exchange information and share learning materials. Our school has had two partner schools so far. We have done introduction presentations and have been writing letter to each other. Many different written projects have been sent among partner schools.

As the English teacher I have done web pages where pupils find on-line recourses for learning English language. They can read different texts, grammar materials and check their language skills trough on-line exercises.

But how did I become a teacher?

I have got a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration in 2001 from the H..â¦.Polytechnic. However since there was no possibility to take a masterâs degree in English with a polytechnic degree that time, I have completed other studies abroad.

When studying international business I got interested in electronic commerce. Thatâs why I took master courses in E-commerce at B.â¦. University.

Finishing business studies had given me a sense of accomplishment that whetted my
appetite for further studies, so I started studies in psychology at Wâ¦.. University.

Psychological studies aimed at providing selected elements of psychological knowledge and skills to the holders of higher education diplomas which are taken to update or develop professional or academic knowledge.

As you can see yourself I have done a lot of work to increase my qualifications. Moreover I have done my degrees faster than other students. For example Xâ¦..â¦Bachelor degree I completed within 2,5 years with good grades although the whole studies usually take 3,5 - 4 years and thatâs why I was awarded by a scholarship. I was considered to be a courteous and studious student, a light-hearted friend and an enthusiasm coworker.

I think my carrier path has also showed that I have developed as a person.

Before my graduation I was working as a marketing assistant, later on as a customer service representative. In the beginning of 2003 I was ready to establish my own firm and became and entrepreneur. In the same year I published a book âBusiness in Polandâ and the publisher Mâ¦â¦â¦.. has been selling out successfully.
I was a language and culture trainer for Xâ¦.. businessmen and individuals. I was able to help different organizations and companies with translations and interpreting. That was the time when I realized that I love to teach.

My studies in psychology at Wâ¦. University give me bigger possibilities to be a good teacher. In order to achieve a good command of the language, it is important that the students master all the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Therefore my students are always encouraged to speak up in class. I have created the English on-line exercises page when making the school web pages to give students opportunities to study in different environments. Different international projects have been also part of my teaching methods. It is very important for me to have a positive influence on a studentâs learning process.

Since I hold a degree in business thinking about my future career I see myself in a position of a vocational teacher.

When studying at W.. University I began to see vocational education in a different light. It's what good education is all about. It involves students. It asks them to work together. It asks them to put their "book learning" to work to solve real problems. That is, education that helps people learn to solve problems, be creative, and adjust to new situations. Itâs using theory in practice.

I thing there are many challenges in my own professional development as a teacher.

The challenges of teaching have certainly not stood still. Teaching students today is very different than in previous generations. There are much higher expectations by students, families and society. Students need to know more now than ever before to succeed. Yet, students are also less in awe of authority than in previous generations. Like never before, there is a broader diversity of students, both culturally and in terms of how they learn.

Teaching and learning are complex, and teachers need time to learn and experiment with new concepts in the classroom, just as their students do. Principles of effective teaching and learning for students extend to effective professional development for teachers. It should be driven by an analysis of teachers' goals; it should involve teachers in the identification of what they need to learn; it should be organized around collaborative problem solving; it should be continuous and adequately supported; it should be information rich; it should include opportunities for the development of theoretical understanding; and it should be part of a comprehensive change process. Teachers need time to reflect on the meaning of education in a pluralistic society, on the relationships between teachers and learners, and on social attitudes about language and culture that affect students.

I think that the vocational teaching profession should be changing in relation to the changes in the working environment. Vocational institutions should develop fully the talents and capabilities of the students. The industry is still changing and new jobs are being created all the time. Many branches of studies should introduce subjects which are in particular demand on the labour market. In particular, when students leave school they should have employment related skills and an understanding of the work environment; they should have career options and pathways as a foundation for, and positive attitudes towards vocational education and training further education, and life-long learning.

Different teaching methods should be introduced to achieve the goals. In many countries schools have already adopted E-learning courses or even the whole programs are instructed via the internet. Also evening programs or the modular study system should be introduced in all vocational institutions, which would increase the number of students.

English Polytechnic Masterâs programs should also come in force as soon as possible.

I would like to have the opportunity to enroll in the Hâ¦.Vocational Teacher Education Programme in English to put my knowledge into a higher standard.

In addition, working and attending this programme , I will have opportunities to meet people from various professions, offering me different points of view and contributing to my flexibility and creativity, besides the cultural and language gains. Moreover, I have come to recognize that a deep and solid education provided by your programme is needed for me to pursue my career in teaching area. Therefore, if I successfully graduate from the programme and I will make practical use of what I have learned.

I hope that I will be accepted as an an applicant of the Vocational Teacher Education Programme. I understand that admission to the programme is competitive, but I am also confident that I am qualified and eager, and prepared to meet all of its challenges. With my good command of English, I will not have difficulty in studying subjects taught in this language. I have also taken part in many social activities and worked with foreigners, so I am able to adapt to a constantly changing work environment and maintain good working relationships with individuals of different cultural backgrounds.

I would be most grateful if you could give my application your most favorable consideration.

Yours faithfully,

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I urgently need the feedback on my motivation letter to study....

Anulka — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:23:25 GMT