... a joke. When I had learned about the meanings, I soon was filled with rage. The media was not of any help either. Through TV, they had people mimicking us or making crude jokes about us on shows. At first I was a bit frustrated, but today, I laugh at it. This culture, although sometimes biased, taught me to loosen up and accept some comments as ... jokes and not to be so uptight. Although the jokes and comments are not as severe as they were before, they still have a tiny part of me that wants to make them stop. Despite the stereotypes ... , jokes, and other crude humor, the opportuniti...

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... girls), Manual Work (for boys), Art of Drawing, Music, and Astronomy. In class, since students know each other (most of the times since the 1st grade) there are a lot of jokes and humor during class, but only when appropriate. If students do not behave, the teacher would get mad and would discipline the class in a very angry manner. School is over ... of humor in the classrooms and even if there was I didn't understand it because I didn't speak English very well. Later on when I become more fluent with English, I could understand the jokes, but I wouldn't laugh at them. What can I say? ...

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... best friend. I would go to his class everyday for lunch, just talking to him about anything. I was known as the "teacher's pet" in class because he always said jokes in class and would point and laugh at me because I had previously heard it from him. I had a 100% in his class every quarter because I did my work, listened in class ... ...

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... logical points are separated by humorous adlibbing to keep the listeners interested and emotionally connected. Robinson is able to create laughs more than twenty times during his speech. He uses jokes and adlibbing to transform a dry and serious topic – improving the education system – into an enjoyable experience and stays on topic during those humorous outtakes. "Everybody has an ... ...

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... a deeper level, rather than just knowing what their favorite thing to do. For example, Kristiane stated her poem that she is a girl "who likes to laugh at her own jokes." From my poem, one could learn that I am someone who would do anything for my friends, and that my friends possess a very high priority in my life. I was also ... ...

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... important! Using icebreakers and helping the students get used to the intimacy of the classroom is one of the essentials of teaching. Therefore, teachers can never forget to make innocent jokes on their own actions mostly so that the students will feel the warmth of his or her personality and that teachers are also a human being who makes mistakes as them ... ...

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... highly unnecessary. Let's take the teacher's pet for example. This student feels obligated to maybe compliment the teacher on their teaching style or try to befriend them by telling corny jokes or even engaging in meaningless conversations. Then there's the weirdos, they range from gothics to Pokémon fanatics. I hate that this makes me sound rude but there is simply ... ...

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... take volunteers to come up and "student teach" the class in the way we thought would be the most helpful. This included drawing pictures on the board, telling jokes that pertained to the material, and in one isolated incident, writing a silly, yet very accurate song about the revolutionary war. It is because of this, I believe that he had the ... ...

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... as well. But in the beginning I had a very uninterested attitude and did not do much to take steps to closer achieving my goal. Similar to how Rose started college, making jokes at the students who were socially involved, not really wanting to be part of the campus, that's how I was. I did not do anything but lift weights on my own at ... ...

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... school and not settle for less. Imagine the states if this change were to come into fruition. Students would actually enjoy going to school and there would no longer be jokes about how horrible working towards a career is. Students that are motivated to achieve their dreams (biologist, teacher, engineer, etc.) will become passionate and drive them to stop at nothing to ... ...

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... and pushing me hard in dangerous situation like the stairs. These girls made fun of my personality. I was so anger, and I wanted it to end. They kept going making cruel jokes about my style of what makes me myself. One day during the end of school year they pulled on my clothes that my mother works hard to sow, they made ... ...

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... gain control of her own life. The only exception to the brash, uncaring and almost disgusting men of Mango Street appears to be Esperanza's father in cries in the book, jokes with Esperanza, does not physically harm his wife or kids and works hard. "My brave Papa cries.I have never seen my Papa cry" (Cisneros 56). Cisneros uses Papa ... ...

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... about warring a nerdy uniform, than to be shot by some gang member that did not like the color of the pants I"m warring. School uniforms have been the cause of many jokes and harassment to those who wore them. In the past public schools considered uniforms old and out dated trends, though recently many public schools are starting to implement and enforce ... ...

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... a pretty quiet girl when she met strangers. She didn't speak to me very often at the beginning. And on the field trip, I tried to talk to her more, made some jokes with her. She started to trust me more. She started talking more about herself and her brother and her family. The next Monday, she showed me her seventh birthday pictures ... ...

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... in her hands. Whenever we had problems with new words, she always used a dictionary to answer our questions. We called her "Miss Dictionary" and she was a main cause for our jokes. If a teacher is not able to give appropitete explanation without any help, it can make a student suspicious about his or her knowledge, and results in very ineffective teaching. Second, a good ... ...

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... that from schools. It is yet partly due to the influence of the mass media that youngsters developed distorted beliefs, goals as well as attitudes towards life. For instance, vulgar jokes, violence, eroticism and pursuit of vengeance are widespread through indecent movies, serials and even advertisements. There was once an earth-shattering homicide case in which the murderer, a teen, confessed that ... ...

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... a student that giving sexual advances depends on their grade. Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs when there is unwelcome sexual conduct such as touching, teasing, name-calling, sexual posters, pictures or jokes, which create an atmosphere that negatively impacts a student's daily routine. Hostile environment sexual harassment can be perpetrated by students, teachers, non-teacher employees such as janitors or other school staff ... ...

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... about anything and everything. They try their best to annoy everyone around them by pestering others or saying mean things. They also are known to play all kinds of practical jokes. They think they know all the answers to all the questions and don't hesitate to show their ignorance. They are usually in the class to learn, but they don't care ... ...

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... formed early, most likely in Junior High School. I remember having a teacher that made every effort to make math fun and appeal to the typical unconcerned student. He used to incorporate jokes and puzzles related to math in his class-time. In addition, he would bring the history of the science alive and correlate important figures and dates into the lecture. For ... ...

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... away, our dear deputy has not. Mentions of his name are synonymous with grimacing faces and disgusted behaviors from the local student population. He is often the butt of many jokes and snide comments, and rightly so, as many of his actions and decisions are not only questionable, but unreasonable. The students have much to say on their behalf when asked ... ...

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... empathic relationships. On page 149, (paragraph 2), Rosen refers to the telling of a hospital story and how it stimulates others to share their own similar experiences and knowledge. So in telling jokes, or stories, we are not only encouraging and supporting an empathic relationship we are also allowing others to get to know "who we are", our personality, experiences, beliefs and morals ... ...

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