Online Shopping

Purchases over the Internet are a commercial mode grows daily worldwide, with significant benefits for consumers. The traditional commercial interaction worked with satisfied customers, for one or more reasons, with certain establishments or brands who moved to their physical locations to purchase their products.

Later it begans the massive use your phone to take orders for the goods that were made known through catalogs. This stills in circulation, but a huge and effective opponent has laid its foundation for knocked out: online stores and e-commerce development.

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MY STUDENTS AT CURNE, SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

     As you all know, classes were cancelled at our university last weekend, so some more work needs to be done in order to catch up with programs. Please, find your subject or subjects below and see what your assignment is for next weekend.

IDI-243 (Literature)

-Summary on Othelo by Sakespeare

-Summary on The Glass Menagerie by Williams

-From the Big Pamphlet, Read Reading Dramma

IDI-228 (Composition)

-Study the following Types of Paragraph: Narration, Description, Compare-Contrast, and Cause and effect.

-Type the three (3) paragraphs you have written for your writing project (hand it in to me next weekend)

-Read a small pamphlet named "Writing the Essay." Concentrate on writing the introduction and the conclusion. This is at Annie Copy Center. 

FEM-129 (Special Didactics for EFL I)

-Write a lesson plan for teaching a mini-lesson (10 minutes)

-Get ready to teach the mini-lesson on Nov. 23

-Do not forget Test No. 2

IDI-224 (Level 6 of EFL)

-Unit 7 and Test 2

IDI-135 (English Grammar)

-Besides the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection, study Modifiers

-NOTE: TEST NO. 2 WILL BE ON NOV. 24

SEE YOU THERE

A TRIBUTE I WROTE TO AN INMORTAL PROFESSOR

     It has been a long time since I posted the last writing piece on this blog. When I was participating in the Summer Writing Institute in Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S., I had been assigned to take a piece of writing with me and this is the one I shared with the other participants there. If you have any comment, I will appreciate it if you posted it.

PROFESSOR EMILIO LOPEZ: A GREAT HUMAN BEING

By Máximo Encarnación Gomera

For many reasons, this is the best occasion for travelling through a hero’s time line, whose teaching and one memorable key idea keeps pumping in my head:  “Everyone must be respected for what they are, not for what they have or know.” 

Once, I was teaching at a college that is a branch of the biggest one in the country at the time.  After a tiresome trip from a city in the same region of a country located to the eastern side of a magic tropical island with a saint’s name, I went into the teacher’s lounge and felt very happy to see Emilio, that short and quiet old man sitting at the biggest table in the room. That man was my former Professor.

In the process of my personal growth, this exceptional human being had contributed greatly with my awareness of the fact that people must defend every molecule of their human legacy with all their strengths.  And each day I step on the ground, I am more and more aware of the mostly ornamental role played by degrees, acknowledgements, and material possessions.

While sharing with Mr. Lopez, an array of pictures came to my mind.  One is the one of a teacher in front of his students marching while speaking softly within the rows and all of them listening in deep silence.  Another is this teacher telling some jokes and all the students laughing and enjoying them.  Once, when both professor and students were deeply immersed in their lesson of the day, he said, “A teacher is so many things.”  These pictures and others showed it very well.

The most important of all is a notion inferred from the teachings of the whole corpus of that colossal character: “the most important is being a human being. Also, among all, this is the best honor every person has ever received.”  In those moments, my mind was filled with the struggle of my own beliefs and those simple-but-deep ideas. 

“You know, I can’t live without teaching. Thus, I asked them to hire me again and they assigned me some subjects here”, said the white haired Professor Lopez after the big hug and the usual greetings shared with his former student.   

That was also a reply to a mandatory statement and a question:  “I heard you had retired. What are you doing here?” I felt even happier due to those words explained the fact that we had become colleagues. 

“What are you teaching?” I asked.  “They said Special Didactics to English needed to be taught, but I know you are teaching those subjects in this area”, expressed the listener as a reply while, as by instinct, we took a seat at the same time.  Once again, the passion showed by the hard-working man told that he would spend his whole life doing what he was born for and enjoyed the most: teaching.

Unwillingly, once again, my mind went away and in a very distant corner, I found an enthusiastic professor, sometimes glasses in hand, addressing his troops, “Next class day, there will be a strike, but do not worry.  We will meet in front of the faculty building and later, we will go to my house and have the lesson there.  There is no time to lose.” 

“In my opinion, you are the best to teach those subjects.” Then I continued, “Even though I attended your classes long ago, you are still my professor and the school does not need me if you are around.”  

Later in time, on a Saturday night, as usual, my colleague and I were heading from the small town to the capital City, where the main cite of the university was and also our homes and families.  In those times, I had been pursuing my Masters Degree since recently.  As soon as I entered the program, I had conceived deep into my self, “Professor Emilio Lopez would be the perfect advisor for my thesis.” 

On that bus, hit by the flashes of the other vehicles, and the darkened green of the fast-passing trees, and among the sharing of different and varied ideas, I said, “Professor, when we finish the modules for my masters, I would like you to be my thesis advisor.” 

With the soft voice he accustomed to express those great ideas, Mr. Lopez replied, “There is no problem.”  Then he added, “You know, I have been out of that for quiet a time; however, I would do it even if they did not pay me for the job.” 

More than a year later, when I was ready to start writing my thesis, professor and pupil started meeting at the advisor’s home midweek in midmornings and whenever it was necessary. 

“What made you use this concept here?” or “Why are you using such procedures to achieve your goal with the application of this instrument?” were part of the way Professor Lopez used to conduct our sessions.  Sometimes many changes had to be done.  Others everything was okay.  His orientations and encouragement were always present.

We finished the process and Professor Lopez sort of gave me an oral examination on the contents of the thesis. 

At the last part of that examination, that vastly experienced professor asked me, “Now that you have gone a step ahead in your career as an educator, and more prestige and opportunities will open for you, what are your plans as a master professional?  This called my attention.

“I want to contribute with the development of the field in my country.”  After these words, I raised my look to the ceiling as if analyzed a painting masterpiece on the concrete above my head, and added, “However, the most important title I have been granted is the one that accredits me as a human being”.

That last session came to an end. The joy of the accomplished task made me hurry home faster than usual.  On the way, my head and heart encountered the usually overcrowded classroom of Professor Lopez.  I saw my classmates and the guests who shared part of their knowledge once in a while. 

From those times until I departure for another leg of my journey, maybe I will meet my professor and continue sharing a pure friendship.

Maybe, in that instant, I will serve as a messenger to let the immortal Emilio Lopez Feliz know that for most of his pupils and many of his fellows, he is one of the best examples, of love, collaboration, contribution, hard work, and friendship.

Plymouth 2010