...School Hours Essay Yes, Schools in America should be year round for the following reasons. Year round school is in the best interest of communities because it saves money, increases learning, and is a comfortable schedule for students. First, we need to establish why the nine month schedule was established in the first place? The nine month schedule was made when the U.S. had mostly agriculture in the communities and the schedule let the kids be able to help their parents on the farms over the summer when they were needed. Now that most communities aren’t rural anymore this schedule is no longer needed. Next, the year round schedule saves money. How is this possible? This is possible because with the year round schedule there could be what...
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...Argument Essay Revision For quite some time now, people have been discussing whether American students should be attending school year round. People seem to think that if students are forced to go to school as long as students in other countries, they will be more studious. To be honest, I have always been interested in the lives of students who go to school all year. How can they stand being around their classmates and teachers all the time? Do they any get weekends off? Do they get any vacation time to be with their families? I wonder if the new arrangement will really make kids more interested in their studies. A lot people, including myself, feel that kids and teachers just need time to themselves. Also, people claim that the extended school time will leave less time for kids to get in trouble. While the argument is understandable, there is no guarantee that more school would keep kids out of trouble. If anything, depending on your child, it might get them time to get into even more trouble. Depending on how attentive the staff and administration of your child's school is, they could just cause problems there, and probably get away with more since there are no parents around. There has also been talk that students do not need the long break because they can forget what they learned in class. There have also been claims that students will be forced to study more and focus longer in class. For me, and many others with ADD, although possible, it would be quite difficult...
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...moment, I go to a large school in one of Bahrain's villages. It's an ordinary school. I have never thought about a school in my dreams. But now I have clear idea about my dream school. My ideal school would be built in nature. It would be a big school with all kinds of sports, football, basketball, tennis, handball, etc. and there would be many activities, gardening, cooking, and aquarelle. In my ideal school there would be fifty classes with complete accessories (computers, calculators, internet, stationary...). The school would have three floors and on the first floor there would be a gym and there would also be a pool on this floor. In the corridor would be automat for coffee, tea and other drinks. On the second floor, would be Math class and Science class. In the Math class there would be a board and desks. On the teacher's desk would be a computer and TV. In the science class there would be special desks and many tools for students to work with. Also there would be laptops for students, to use to find information. In the corridor we would have tables and chairs and photos of famous professors. Moreover, on the third floor there would be more than one language class. That the student could choose to learn, like Arabic, English and French. In every class there would be interactive whitebeards and on the desks there would be computers, to help students communicate with other students, in different countries. Lessons would take fifty minutes and breaks would be thirty minutes...
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...to be made. During your teenage years life gets even more entangled. In this essay I want to find out why teenagers often stand in the situation where they have to choose between their heart or making a riot. “The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart” is a short story by Lucy Cross in 2000. It is first-person narrator and the story are seen from the main character’s point of view. The story takes place in a school greenhouse used as a detention room, supposedly located in Cardiff. The story is chronological but has a short flashbacks, about the episode with Penny Jones; « Poor Penny Jones. You should have seen her face when I asked her to meet me down the subway after school. I could feel Bethan behind me, checking I didn’t jib... » P. 8 line 3-5. The text is spread over about an hour or more, depending on how long school detention is. The main character is Lucy, a teenage girl and former grade A student, and now, her first time in detention given the question from her teacher; « What on earth are you doing in here Lucy? » P. 8 line 16. She has been influenced badly by her new friend Bethan, a though girl who cuts classes, smokes and swear. Lucy was a rule follower before she got to know of Bethan. She did her homework with perfection, had good manners and behaved as it was expected of her from her mother and school. What Lucy deals with is extremely common at any ordinary young teenager trying to find her place in society. She wants to make a riot and break free from the good girl, and that...
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...talents WOW! Last I'll be affirming my goals for 6th grade. Of course if you need a bathroom break go right now because this will take a while to read so let's get on with the essay . Hello again, this paragraph will be about my fantastic life . I was born in 03 in the lovely state of Colorado. I’ve lived in Thornton for all of my life knowing almost every street in my neighborhood . A thing I like to do for fun is something called playing video games on my desktop at home. Another thing I like to do for fun is go places with my mom and dad. Next is that I have a large family of 9 which is a pain because the house gets over crowded. Next is that I have 3 friends Pheng,Weston,Preston.I have a very useful talent witch is cooking food like fries,chicken,and of course beef.Another talent is my skill to fix and make things like a model car out of colored pencils,and fixing my bike.This is mostly what you wouldn't know about me....
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...Republic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION Region III Division of Bulacan Baliwag North District PAITAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Paitan, Baliwag, Bulacan ANNUAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2011-2012 Project | Objective/s | Activities/Strategies | Personnel to be Involved | RESOURCES NEEDED ( Supplies, Materials, Equipments) | Sources of Fund | Budget | Time Frame | Success Indicator | Sustainability | Pupils’ Development Poor/ Low comprehension skills in both English and Filipino. | 1. To Increase the reading comprehension of pupils with low comprehension skills. | 1. Encourage pupils to borrow or make use of the school library during vacant hours. 1.1 Add more reading materials/ activities in subject areas that use the English language. 1.2 Organize remedial classes in Reading. 1.3 Conduct a teacher –parent meeting to encourage parents, cooperation and guidance to improve pupils, reading comprehension skills. | School head, teachers, parents | Literature books, different reading materials, charts, flashcards | PTCA Fund, MOOE | Php10,000 | June 2011-March 2012 | 1.Improvement pupils’ comprehension skill in both English and Filipino Improvement of pupils study habit Children and parents relationship enhanced Vacant hours used for more productive activities | Continuous encouragement of both teachers and parents in pupils’ love for readingContinuous remedial programCooperation of teachers and parents. | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...Critical Thinking Student Development Unit 2005/06 [pic] [pic] Welcome! This booklet contains all the handouts and information that you will need for the Critical Thinking workshop held at the Student Development Unit. As well as the exercises we’ll be working on during the session, you will also find guidance that you can keep for future reference, such as advice on active learning and intelligence, models for critical thinking skills, and questions to help you think critically. When you are asked to complete an academic assignment, your tutor will be looking for evidence of these three skills: • Gathering of complex material • Making sense of that complex material • Communicating your understanding of that complex material to an informed reader.[1] The ‘making sense’ stage is the one we tend to neglect out of fear that we may not have anything of value to contribute. But, as the eminent thinker Edward De Bono puts it: ‘Thinking is a skill that can be improved by training, by practice and through learning how to do it better. Thinking is no different from any other skill and we can get better at the skill of thinking if we have the will to do so.’[2] We hope that this handbook will help you to develop strongly argued and well-structured pieces of work, and encourage you to build critical thinking into every aspect of your academic life. Be prepared to make some changes to how you work – if you always...
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...struggle for one’s independence re-shape the parent-child relationship. People who grow up in a country that is foreign to them often break family tradition as they grow to have different goals and standards than that of their parents. By breaking tradition and seeking their own goals, people form their own identity. Children who have immigrant parents will always have different goals and traditions than their parents? Maxine Hong Kingston, a Chinese-American, breaks her traditional mold by publishing a story that her mother told Maxine never to speak about to anyone, especially not her father. In No Name Woman quotes not italics Maxine’s mother opens the story by warning her “[y]ou must not tell anyone,” mother said, “what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born” (29). In Maxine’s family, the tradition her mother wants her to follow is that of not speaking about a tragedy that happened on the father’s side of the family. As demented as it is to tell a daughter what she just did, it is more traditionally important to her mother that Maxine not break the silence and speak on this matter, however, Maxine has questions of her own regarding this story that have never been answered; she decides to break tradition and publishes a paper on what she thought has happened and the possible events that lead to it. Run-on sentence? Even with...
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...A. Definition of terms DOTA - is a multiplayer online battle arena game in a three-dimensional environment, presented from an oblique high-angle perspective. The player commands one of 110 controllable character "Heroes. Each Hero begins the match at level one and becomes more powerful by accumulating experience points through combat, thereby leveling up to the maximum level of twenty-five. With every level gained the player either selects a new ability for their Hero to learn or enhance their general statistics. Each Hero's method of combat is influenced by its primary property: Strength, Agility, or Intelligence. Custom map- is game that you can modify its features its features using World Editor. Computer shops are places that contain computer units that you can rent for surfing the net and gaming. Some shops utilize cubicles for the privacy of their users. Multiplayer Online game – is game where one of several thousand players can simultaneously join in a persistence gaming experience in a world that exist even when they aren’t playing. Participation in these “worlds” allows players to build social relationships with others players. This often developed into organized collaborative groups called guilds. Real time strategy – Is a strategy game that is played without turns. Instead all moves and countermoves are made in real time, allowing for faster pace. Managing resources to create and deploy semi-autonomous units that would engage in real time combat. Social connectedness...
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...I read the book, A Thousands Never Evers :Miss Addie Ann Pickett, who always thought about how unfair things are. By Shana Burg “ Although I spent a whole school year in seventh grade,it’s the two minutes when my math teacher stepped out of class that I’ll remember for the rest of my life” ( Burg xi). This was a similarity to me, because from seventh grade year in math class I will always remember. All the times kids were really loud too when we were all so quiet it was scared, the teacher leaving the class to take a call, to the teacher keeping us after class because there was paper/garbage on the floor. “ You know Medgar went to war in the United states of America? He risked his life in the Second World War.And you know what else?When he...
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...The following paper serves to explain the thought process of acting upon the following scenario: You are a police psychologist for a major metropolitan area. You are also a member of its hostage negotiation team. You have just been called out to a crisis incident at 3:15 p.m. on a Friday. It is a residential area about three blocks from a middle school and a public library. The information you have at this time is that the subject is a 42-year-old male who is holed up in his house with his wife, son, and family friend. He has murdered his next-door neighbor and is threatening to kill those in the house if he does not get his demands. One of his demands is for immunity from the murder charge if he surrenders without harming any of the people in the house. He also wants a case of beer and some fast food soon or "something will happen". The focus of this essay is to explain the type of incident that has occurred, which category this hostage-taker falls into, and what my optimal role is in the situation as a police psychologist. Next will be to provide a plan and course of action to interact with the suspect, explain the precautions to be taken, along with the precautions I will request the department to take, express what fundamental problems that I as a police psychologist may be able to foresee in a prolong standoff and how to address them. Identifying the sources used to gather information regarding the perpetrator and the specific information that would be most beneficial...
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...Raisin in the Sun essay - Beneatha Beneatha is a character in Raisin in the Sun that faces a lot of prejudice during the book, including sexism, how she overcomes it is sticking to her dreams and staying independent. She is put down by her family and other strangers because she is a African American woman in a white-male dominated area. She has big dreams of becoming a doctor and she is determined to succeed. Beneatha is independent because she is not influenced by the possible marriage of George, a rich husband who could take care of her, she wants the person she loves, Asagai who doesn’t satisfy Mama’s and Walter’s expectations. When the Younger family is moving out, Beneatha says, “Mama, Asagai asked me to marry him today and to go to Africa-” (Beneatha to Mama page 149). Mama, so concentrated on the heat of the moment on rejecting Linder (Linder was trying to get them to move out because they were black) brushed Beneatha off by retorting, “You ain’t old enough to marry nobody's -Darling, that ain’t no bale of cotton, please handle it so we can sit on it again! I had that chair twenty-five years...” (Mama - Beneatha page 149). Beneatha is a high school graduate that has been striving to achieve her dreams on her own, her family has given her almost no support, and Walter spent the money that was supposed to send her to school. Mama didn’t even pay full attention to the huge news, especially in a mother's’ life, when her daughter is asked to marry someone. Beneatha continues...
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...Personal Responsibility Essay “Ultimately, whatever is in your reality is your responsibility.” (Neta) I have been the responsibility of others for the first 18 years of my life. My parents have been responsible for taking care of me, sending me to school and ensuring my younger education, my meals, roof under my head, making sure I stay out of trouble and so forth. I have been the responsibility of babysitters, other family members and teachers. Never did I know or pay attention to how much personal responsibility means. Once I turned 18 years of age, I then found out what personal responsibility was all about and what it meant. “How else can children learn personal responsibility if they do not see the adults in their lives display the same quality.” (Rose, 1996) Personal responsibility is taking responsibility for your actions, accepting the consequences that come from those actions and understanding that what you do impacts those around you. To me this means that instead of blaming others for an action or outcome done by you, you own up to it and takes responsibility for yourself. Also, being aware of what is right and wrong and being aware of what I should do in order to achieve what I want. After a certain point in your life you must take personal responsibility for yourself and your actions. Once you leave your parent’s house and responsibility, you have your own. You now have to pay your own bills, go to college, get a job, do your own taxes, learn how to manage your...
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... It is so easy to understand that without guns or rifles, killing of criminals would have been much more difficult to consummate, which is sometimes hard to explain how it is possible that guns are legal in the largest and most powerful democracy in the world. But it is undeniable that easy access to firearms greatly facilitates this sinister task (Amo, 1989). The criminals have committed one of the latest killings with firearms that shook Americans, 14 Dead Colombine students in 1999. With the use of firearms, criminals made the last great slaughter at a university, the 15 dead at the University of Texas in 1966. With firearms, almost daily acts of revenge or punishment occur in the workplace or at home. And with the use of guns each year more than 10,000 people die in the U.S., according to the latest official figures available. Almost half of American families keep in a...
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...------------------------------------------------- Engelsk A Studentereksamen 2. delprøve kl. 09.00 - 14.00 Mandag den 27. maj 2013 kl. 9.00 – 14.00 ------------------------------------------------- Answer either A or B ------------------------------------------------- A Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and interpret Bridget Keehan's short story "Sorry for the Loss". Part of your essay must focus on the narrative technique and the use of contrasts. Text Bridget Keehan, "Sorry for the Loss", 2008 ------------------------------------------------- B Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and comment on Susan Cheever's essay "My Little Bit of Country". Part of your essay must focus on the use of contrasts and the themes explored in the text. Text Susan Cheever, "My Little Bit of Country", 2012 Teksternes ortografi og tegnsætning følger forlæggene. Trykfejl er dog rettet. Opsætningen følger ikke nødvendigvis forlæggene. Dog følges forlægget nøje, hvor opsætningen på den ene eller anden måde indgår i opgaven. Teksternes ortografi og tegnsætning følger forlæggene. Trykfejl er dog rettet. Opsætningen følger ikke nødvendigvis forlæggene. Dog følges forlægget nøje, hvor opsætningen på den ene eller anden måde indgår i opgaven. A Bridget Keehan is a writer who lives in Cardiff, Wales. The short story is from Eagle in the Maze ‒ An Anthology of Stories from the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition...
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