17 Dec 2009
On recalling my experience, I should say that I always attempted to make my life purposeful and useful for other people. I strongly believe that we cannot live for our own sake only. Instead, we should take care of other people around us for the more we give the more we gain. At the same time, we are not always confident of the fact that we can really help other people. I know many people who believe that they cannot be of any help to other people and they do nothing to change the situation. Frankly speaking I used to be one of such persons, but I have changed my life dramatically as I started tutoring math, which was a very important experience for me.
In fact, I started tutoring because I needed money. I was quite successful in math, which was my favorite subject, and being at high school I understood that I can use my love to math and my knowledge more effectively, effectively for me in the first turn. At first with a few students and my work allowed me to improve my financial position and made me more independent from my parents and their financial assistance. However, it was not my ultimate goal. What I needed at that time was just some extra money to be more certain in my future to continue my education since I expected to gain my majors in math and finance. In such a way, I gained some money and get practice in teaching other students math.
At the moment, it was a very important experience for me because I got started to better understand the teaching and learning process for I have never thought of teaching math before, while when I started tutoring I found out the ways to improve my learning strategies. As I attempted to facilitate the learning for my students I learned new strategies myself and started to apply them in my own studies.
Part A
In 1796, the Presidential elections in the USA were marked by the struggle of two major politicians, who played the leading part in American politics – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The choice in favor of either politician would define the further development of the country and American people should make a conscious choice. As for me, I would vote for John Adams because his political ground seemed to be more realistic and reliable.
The Aztec Empire was the leading power in Mesoamerica. Before the Spanish conquest, the Aztec Empire played the dominant role in Central American and it was the most advanced civilization in the region which could compete only with Incas in South America. By the time of Cortez’s conquest, the Aztec Empire was the main, if not to say the only well-developed civilization which had substantial financial and material resources, which could help the empire to protect its territory from the foreign invasion. By this time, the would-be powerful Maya city-states had declined and could not resist to the foreign invasion. In such a situation, the Aztec Empire was the main native power which could resists to conquistadors.
Traditionally the North of America was better industrially developed, while the South became the center of agriculture. These were not the sings of separation between two parts of the country. By the 50s of the 19th century South and North could not find agreement in economics, statehood and slavery issues. The division, which existed between two parts of one country, got the name sectionalism. Northern states abandoned the very institution of slavery by the beginning of the 19th century. Legal abolishment of slavery institution, initiated by progressive North had bad consequence for the economics of South. The agriculture of the South was mainly based on slave labor and that is why new federal legislation concerning tariffs, territory and changes of Congressional representation had negative consequences for the South (cited in Wheeler).
Traditionally, art played an important role in the human life, but the art performed not only aesthetic functions, but it also contributed to the order in human life. Moreover, art is not just a spontaneous form of artists’ self-expression, but it is rather a complex structure which can be analyzed and it is through the analysis it is possible to understand its significance and the order it brings into the human life. In such a situation, it is very important to understand the art as a complex structure.
