pmorris
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Instructor |
| Location | Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States |
| Introduction | I was born in Texas but grew up in Pennsylvania. I moved to Alaska when I was 18 and worked in the Alaskan Arctic for an oil exploration (seismic) crew. After a few years there, I moved to Mississippi to attend college. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with a sociology minor. I then received my Master of Arts in the Teaching of Languages with dual emphasis in Spanish and TESOL. I then worked for two years as a Visiting Instructor of Spanish at a local university. I have presented original academic work at two conferences. One presentation was on using Discourse Analysis in the classroom, the other was about using code-switching in music to improve listening skills. |
| Interests | Travel, Spanish, TESOL, Cultural Studies, Second Language Acquisition, Animals, Mesoamerican Mythology, Linguistic Anthropology |
| Favorite Movies | American Psycho, Last of the Mohicans, Ley de Herodes, The Great Escape, Ratatouille, Seven Samurai, Midsomer Murders, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, The First World War, Jeeves and Wooster, Band of Brothers |
| Favorite Music | Molotov, Ranchero, Punk, - Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Social Distortion, Offspring, Classical, - Wagner, Mozart, Carlos Gardel |
| Favorite Books | All Quiet on the Western Front, Cartas y Relaciones (Personal letters of Hernan Cortes during the conquest of Mexico), Popol Vuh, China Road, Red-Color News Soldier, the entire Calvin and Hobbes series |