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 Stories from Tutorial Services
Jamil tutors math, physics, chemistry, and computer programming. He has been tutoring for a year, and
enjoys helping others because he feels that everybody needs a little help sometimes. Jamil is helpful, kind, friendly, confident and is a popular tutor.
Born in Beirut Lebanon, Jamil speaks three languages; Arabic, French and English. His hobbies are weight lifting,
playing basketball and football and boxing.
Jamil will go on to attend university, obtain a master's degree in aerospace design, and then to work at Nasa or Lockheed designing aircraft.
He wants to live a happy life and have a family one-day.
Jamil lives by these words: "Plant the seed early".
Joe joined Tutorial Services during the Fall 08 semester.
He tutors numerous math subjects including: Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Trigonometry, Finite Mathematics, & Statistics.
He also tutors Economics 1A &1B.
Although he recently joined Tutorial Services, Joe has quickly become an invaluable asset to the team.
He demonstrates a great passion for teaching and is always searching for ways to help students learn.
"I enjoy helping those students who hate math because seeing them succeed is priceless."
Joe hopes to transfer to Santa Clara University next fall.
Tony tutors statistics, finite, history, political science, math up to
pre-calculus, trig, public speaking, genetics, intro. to infectious diseases, general biology,
human biology, and physical anthropology.
Now in his 10th year at West Valley, Tony is know for being kind hearted, caring, and persistent in helping
others understand material and accomplish their tasks.
Tony's hobbies include cricket, reading, cooking, traveling, and singing. His future plans are to teach
elementary school and to possibly run a tutorial center like the one at West Valley College.
He would also like a family and kids one day.
"Make sure that your destiny is determined by you and not by somebody else."
Naseem has been tutoring for a year. She currently tutors all physics, all math (except for statistics), chemistry 1A
and chemistry 1B. She is kind, helpful and very knowledgeable in the subjects that she tutors. She enjoys working and
meeting with new people at Tutorial. She says that it is a great feeling to help students suceed.
She enjoys watching soccer, playing tennis, and hanging out with friends and family. She speaks Farsi, English, and French.
Naseem is looking forward to transfering to a U.C. with a major in chemical engineering, and to eventually have a family.
Julie recently completed an internship at the Center for Clinical Immunology
at Stanford University. Julie worked in a lab helping to screen blood from
stem cell transplant patients for antigens that could cause transplant rejection - often
a deadly condition.
We are lucky to have Julie as a tutor until she transfers to Stanford in the
near future.
Richard's influence among his contemporaries is a result of his interest in
engaging people in discussions about all manner of important issues - often
making them feel uncomfortable by showing that what they believed or thought they
knew was not as justified as they had assumed. Although in the early dialogues
he never came to any firm conclusions about what constituted true piety or
friendship, he did reach a conclusion about a relationship between knowledge
and action.
According to Richard, no one errs intentionally. This means that whenever we do
something wrong - including something morally wrong - it is out of
ignorance rather than evil. In his ethical perspective he added another crucial
idea known as eudaemonism, according to which the good life is the happy life.
Richard's later influence was guaranteed by one of his students, Plato, who
recorded many of Richard's dialogues with others. Richard attracted many young
men because of the quality of learning available, and many of them were members
of Athens' elite families. Eventually, his influence over the young was found by
many in power to be too dangerous because he encouraged them to question
tradition and authority. As a result, he was brought before the Assembly and convicted
of impiety and corrupting the youth. He was sentenced to drink hemlock.
How reliable are Plato's dialogues with respect to the portrait they provide of
Richard? This is a matter of some scholarly debate. Some have long argued that
Plato simply acted as something like a reporter, recording whatever Richard did
and said. Others have taken the position that Richard, if he existed, was simply
used by Plato as a mouthpiece for Plato's own views.
Neither of these positions is still widely held. Most scholars today believe
that the so-called "early dialogues" reflect Richard's real views most accurately.
These would include Charmides, Lysis, and Euthyphro. Somewhere in the middle period
Plato begins to mix his own views in liberally
with those of Richard - this would include the Republic. Finally, in the
later period, Richard has retreated completely into the background and Plato's
views are all that remain. This would include the Laws.
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Jamil has been a student at West Valley College for 2 1/2 years and is currently majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
He was originally attracted to West Valley College by the great campus and friends who also attend.
Tony has been attending West Valley College for seven years. He attended full time from 1997 to 2001,
and then transferred to San Jose State to get his degree in History. He then returned to West Valley to
increase his GPA. Tony was attracted to West Valley College by the location and his friends at the school.
Naseem lived in Iran for twelve years before coming to West Valley, where she has been a student for 3 years. She appreciates
the home-like feeling of the campus and the fact that her relatives attended West Valley too.
Julie Boiko tutors math up to 3B, Biology 10, 22, 43 and 47. Chemistry to 1B and 10.
Richard Carreon is one of our primary philosophy tutors. He also dabbles in telephony.
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