Knowledge is Power

Claudia Acosta 5/22/17 Emotional Expressivity Emotions play a very important role in every day of our lives. All of us every day are witness a great variety of emotions, both ours and also of others. All of us express our emotions in different ways, sometimes verbal, corporal, facial, written, etc. Signs of body language and gestures sometimes have different meanings according to different cultures. In some cultures more than others, the emotional expressions of people from other countries and cultures are expressed in different ways and depending on the culture of the people. They are also interpreted differently. In some cultures it is considered offensive to demonstrate negative emotions in the presence of a person of authority. In others, couples can't be take the hand of his / her boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband and give a kiss or a hug in public because it is offensive. My personal experience In some countries like Uruguay, for example, br...

Claudia Acosta 5/19/17 Cultural Miscommunication The cultural miscommunication is the way people from different countries communicate with one another, especially when there are different languages. The communication and culture are two universes inserted in the human life. Analogy of my different experiences When I emigrated from Uruguay to the United States and began to have contact with people from many places around the world I was able to see the existing miscommunication. I was with some people from a specific area from ​​ Colombia, they spoke to me very seriously and seemed angry when they said things. Later I discovered that only some Colombians from a certain part of Colombia are like that, but it is normal, they are not angry. Other people told me that the people from Uruguay and Argentina when they speak seem to be giving orders. The people from Mexico, they used so many thousands of words so different from the ones we used in Uruguay that it s...

Claudia Acosta                                                                                                          5/17/17                                                                                  Monochronic Culture vs Polychronic Culture Definition Monochronic: Some cultures are traditionally monochronic. The rules are based on a schedule already planned. Late arrivals are not accepted. In the USA we live in a monochronic culture in the cultural paradigms. Polichronic: Most of the countries ...

Lesson #5                                                                                                                          5/15/17                                                                                                                                                               ...

4/26/17 Lesson 02 Is the Great American Teacher Dead? “The intellectual campus of the teaching is almost dead. Everything remains basically the same and boring.”           Education is a passionate, positive, inspired, inviting, meaningful, and trans-formative process of acquiring education. If we don’t try to put into practice this way of delivering everything when we teach, then the teaching becomes flat and the interest is lost. What is the status of great teaching in the U.S. today? It is difficult to tell.                      Teaching should have a reform, use new methods. We should not be left alone with what we have already learned. We must encourage, motivate, seek new horizons.                      Not everyone can see what things are failing in the Unit...