Reflection Paper On AAA 109

This semester in AAA109 has been very stressful for me. The challenges that I have faced and overcome are: (1) academic Skills/time management and (2) personal responsibility/ self-management/finances. What I have learned in AAA 109 is ethnicity, inclusion, and marginalization. Academic skills/time management are part of personal responsibility and self-management. Without self-management with my finances, I would have less money to use each paycheck and eventually have no money in the bank. In order to have money from each paycheck, I have created a budget with my stepfathers help to make sure that I have enough money for everyday expenses and pleasure like going to the movies. Ethnicity, inclusion, and marginalization are different parts of an individual.
The hardest obstacles that I had to overcome in AAA 109 were time management and academic skills. Annotating chapters, video clips, and success essay assignments were the most challenging academic skills to master because I work a full time job at the FedEx ramp which is located at the airport and making time to do homework. For the longest time, my time management skills lacked because I didn’t have set schedule on what I was going to do each day for tasks like homework or going to the gym.
But, the one that was interesting the most was about Ethnicity/Inclusion/Marginalization. Ethnicity is the type of race an individual which may include the following: White, black, Latino, and Mexican. Marginalization is preventing an individual or individuals to move up in life, such as getting promoted to the next rank in the military or becoming a manager at a job due to their race or abilities. Inclusion is the involvement of being in a group. The Ethnicity part was hard to overlook in the Ethnicity, Inclusion, and Marginalization lesson because I didn’t want to hurt a person’s feelings by asking what race they are or making assumption of what race they