As a measure of current general intellectual functioning, the KBIT-2 was administered and yielded a Verbal Score = 86±5; a Nonverbal Score = 55±5; and an IQ Composite Score = 66±4. The composite score falls within the very low or borderline educational classification at the 01st percentile rank per national age based norms and needs to be viewed with caution. Due to Hunter’s struggles with focus and difficulty attending to auditory instruction, his nonverbal score is felt to be an under representation of his actual performance. Repeated testing within the near future with this or a similarly constructed psychometric instrument would probably find Hunter scoring higher than an IQ band of 60 - 74. Analysis of KBIT-2 scores found Hunter demonstrating an unbalanced skill set between his verbal skills and his spatial, visually based skills.…
Do you ever wonder why things turn out the way they do: why the colors of the leaves change when the season turns from summer to fall, or why someone can be treated so awfully, yet still continue to love that person with all their heart ? “The sense of wonder speaks of our hunger to be moved, to be engaged and impassioned with the world and take pleasure in it, attuned to it and fascinated by it” (7 Ways to Spark Your Sense of Wonder). It is Ted Kooser, an American poet and a Pulitzer Prize winner that we have to thank for the creation of Local Wonders. Local Wonders consists of collections of Ted Kooser’s lifespan memories.…
I attended the City of Kilgore Council Meeting. The meeting was called to order by Mayor R. E. Spradlin, then the prayer was lead by Rev. Don Nicholson, follows with the Pledges lead by Mrs. Merlyn Holmes. Mrs. Merlyn Holmes also approved the agenda, and the meeting began at 5:30. To start the meeting, the mayor received and award.…
“The Ultimate Decision” Kathrine, a young girl of nine, sat buried in her closet listening to her parent’s screams. She was crying. She thought back to a mere three hours earlier when she had been at school, sharing her toys with a little boy of which she did not know the name of. The new student had been crouching in the corner until Kathrine had approached him and asked if they could play together. Listening to her parents fight, she wanted nothing more than to yell at that boy.…
As a student with an abnormality sneaks into school fearfully, the bully slams him into the metal lockers demanding for his lunch money. Soon, as fast as lightning, the savior arrives to the unbalanced dispute, saving the fragile and poorly built victim. This action led to a more balanced dispute, ending with the bully in the principal’s office and a sincere call home and the victim’s parents demanding an apology and a five day suspension. The in the tale of “Priscilla and the Wimps,” the story tells of a boy named Melvin that is a target of bullying because of this height. His friend, Priscilla, however, becomes the protagonist of the story when she stands up to Monk, the antagonist and oppressor.…
William Kirk Kilpatrick correctly explains that families need the sacred order to thrive. Since families are a fundamental element of society, society cannot function properly unless its families are. Two things families need to operate are love and respect. Kilpatrick states that the “family belongs to the sacred order, and that children require love (155, 153). The sacred instructs parents to love their children.…
The book, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, questions how two extremely similar lives have completely opposite stories. The author and the other Wes Moore grew up in the same community. One became an accomplished author, while the other ended up in prison. At what point did their paths diverge? Do we turn into “products of our environment?”…
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” Abraham Lincoln Located at the end of County Line Road, near Alfalfa, Oregon, the large sign at the entrance served as a notice that I was entering the Oregon Badlands Wilderness. Exploring the wilderness areas in Central Oregon and absorbing the seclusion they offer is invigorating. Beyond the dirt parking lot at the trailhead a gravel road continued into the federally protected wilderness area. Designated wilderness areas do not allow any vehicles, but here was a well-maintained gravel road.…
past and there was a party at the neighborhood and his friends came up to luis and they said to not talk to his other friends from the baseball team or else they won’t be his friends no more and bruce said okay that we won’t talk to them and so a week pass by and there was another party at the neighborhood and saw he his friends again and they were having a good time enjoying the music and food until a group of kids were walking to the party and Bruce remembered them from eighth grade and they are from a krew called K.M which stands for Krazy Minded Kriminal’s and so bruce told his friend that the krew from K.M. are here and so Bruce was kind of scared because anything can happened because when two different krew’s meet up there can be a fight…
Hello! Sorry to reach out to you so late, but it was just brought to my attention that my response from discussion 11- option two was copies by a fellow student. Tavian Kilburg took my response and copied and pasted it as his response to another students discussion and just deleted the students name that I had responded too. I just wanted to bring attention to this matter in case it has happened before.…
Bully or Bystander As a matter of fact, over 1,000 kids get bullied around the world. Why do kids get bullied? Kids get bullied because of their hair, cloths, and weight Est. The kids that are bullied may become bullies.…
Every year around 246 million children are bullied in some form or another (Villapando). In The Chocolate War written by Robert Cormier, Jerry refuses to sell chocolate during his school’s annual fundraiser. One simple word, no, leads to horrible repercussions. Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, tells the story of forbidden love between two feuding families’ children. Their love and death have a lasting impact on both families.…
The first piece that I’m going to discuss is “The kiss” by Klimt. I’m so moved by this painting not for the depiction itself but for the technique and time that he used. This is perhaps Klimt's most popular and notorious artwork of sexual love. The kiss is a very dynamic and distinctive piece in that you can clearly tell that the man and woman are in some form of love (or maybe they are just friends). The man that alone makes the piece is holding the woman so closely and lovingly.…
Shane Koyczan is an award-winning Canadian poet, author and performer who rose to global prominence in 2013 when he published the spoken word Poem project “To This Day”. Koyczan proficiently represents his bullying experience and its shared aims in society through the proficient use of emotionally lyrical techniques to illustrate its emotional results and the view of discovering oneself. Koyczan attract the audience attention into his personal experience by relating his own experience as a foundation on which he discovered self-identity. Koyczan draws the difference between the real meaning of his self-identity that represents connotations of selfless sacrifice, compassion and humbleness and the perception of others who level social isolation and emotional degradation against him. By expertly and paradoxically incorporating those who bully and those who experience the bullying as the audience of the poem, Koyczan is able to create an aspirational foundation to his message.…
Emile Durkheim’s functionalist theory can be applied to the movie The Ron Clark Story. Functionalism is a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society’s equilibrium. This movie is based on a true story about a teacher who moved from teaching in North Carolina to Harlem, New York to teach at one of its schools. He asked to teach the most disruptive class, which had been labeled as hopeless and impossible to control. Mr. Clark had a difficult time with the class for most of the movie, but through determination and understanding, he eventually turned the worst class in the school into a well-behaved class who scored outstandingly high on their…