KANSAS City, Mo.--Esa Ahmad snapped out of a slump, notching a double-double and making the go-ahead free throw as No. 2 seeded West Virginia University topped No.8 seeded Kansas State 51-50 on Friday. The Mountaineers (26-7) overcame a 12-point deficit to advance to the Big 12 Championship on Saturday for the second time in as many years. Ahmad had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Tarik Phillip tallied 13 points and Elijah Macon grabbed 10 rebounds.…
Education budget cuts are hitting children’s passions in a negative way. School, teachers, and extra activities are a safe place for some children. Lynda Barry is showing how education is a safe place for children, as it was for her. School and teachers can save children from their negative home life. In Barry’s essay she shows how school was her safe place and how education budget cuts are bad.…
The story” Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen tells the story of two young kids living in the holocaust. It shows how their relationships change and how they get to know each other. It shows that pre-formed opinions aren't always right and that you can change your perspective on people. The story starts when Suzy and Leah notice each other in an internment camp.…
This is when her life slowly started falling apart and who she thought she was, wasn’t true anymore. After this event she felt ashamed to be Japanese-American, she felt like everyone around her hated her now even though teachers and kids at school were still nice to her and…
¨Suzy and Leah¨ by Jane Yolen Within the story of ¨Suzy and Leah¨ by Jane Yolen, it talks about two young ladies, Suzy and Leah, one born in the U.S. and one who was a German-born Jew who was a refugee. Both of which, when they first saw each other, had no idea they would change eachotherś life in the future. Both would help each other out and have similar feelings. Within this I will be telling you about Suzy, the American, got along with Leah along with their problems with each other…
apologize for the lack of communication these past few weeks. There have been two occasions in which Our Lady of Fatima School was prepared to announce a location, only to have circumstances beyond our control nix the deals at the last moment. It was important to be measured in our approach, and obtaining a location before fundraising was always our plan. We wanted people to know that their money was going towards a school rather than an idea of a school. The same is true for enrollment.…
During World War II there was the darkest and miserable era called the Holocaust. One of the characters Anneke, a 14-year-old girl is willing to do what it takes to survive in the holocaust with her family. She is a hard-working girl that cooks and cleans for the Nazis. Anneke has been through a lot throughout the story, watching people die losing her love ones such as her best friend named Hannelore and her Lover´s kiss Franticek. Anneke had many tough choices to go through in the book…
There are many points that resonated with me throughout our reading and discussions of Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol. The first point that resonated with me was in Chapter 1. Kozol write “Entrap them first in fascination. Entrap them in a sense of merriment and hopeful expectations. Entrap them in “Bird Gardens.”…
Comfort The time period that the author wrote this book is around the 1930’s to the 1940’s. This story was about a girl named Ann Fay Honeycutt, her dad, mom, and two sisters. She is Helpful around the house, and is trustworthy when watching her sisters. She is also strong in the heart for have suffered polio. Some problems that Ann Fay went through was Polio, the death of her brother,And her dad getting hurt in the war.…
In The Sanctuary of School by Lynda Barry she tells a story of when she was 7 years old. The story was about her first time sneaking out of the house and why she does so. Growing up, she tells us that her brother and she had to give up their bedrooms for other relatives. These relatives were only supposed to be staying at their house for a short while, however most of them never did leave and ended up living with them. Their parents were always fighting and arguing over finances.…
Being born into a Jewish family in Mexico, religion was constantly present through my childhood. I went to a Kosher, Jewish school from Pre-K to second grade, where Hebrew and Jewish history were as an integral part of school as math and science. Although my family is not orthodox, we did celebrate all of the Jewish holidays from Hanukkah to Tish’a B’Av. It was only when me, my parents, and my sister moved to Florida, that I left the tight knit Jewish community that I had been a part of for my entire life. I began attending an irreligious school where I was no longer surrounded by people like me; on the contrary, I was one of only few Jewish kids in my classes.…
Scholars raised a host of questions about the political struggles over suffrage, social reform, and equal rights for both sexes, and they studied changing configurations of domesticity.1 At almost the same time, the field of American Jewish women's history emerged, marked by the appearance in 1976 of Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel's The Jewish Woman in America, and five years later by a special issue of American Jewish History entirely dedicated to women.2 Since that time there has been a flood of papers, articles, anthol- ogies, and books dealing with Jewish women's religious lives, their early feminism, their consumer activism and voluntarism, and their special ex- perience as immigrants.3 Moreover, most serious scholars in American Jewish history now include thoughtful, substantive considerations of gender, whatever the focus and thrust of their respective studies. Though the…
In August 2010, I stepped onto United States territory for the first time. My older brother, my mom, and I arrived at the bus station. It was crowded and people were desperately trying to get their luggage. My body felt the heat as soon as we got off the bus. The clouds were removed from the sky and the shiny sun was all by itself.…
I felt my heart pounding in my chest. I knew I was next, but my demons caused me to doubt myself. As I heard my name called, I slowly rose from my seat, and looked around me, and stole a glance at my brother. The small smile he gave me filled me with the courage I needed to approach the microphone. As I looked over the podium, I scanned the crowd.…
After 14 years in Jewish day school, I am poised to leave this sanctuary and venture out into a wide world. Next year will be the first time I will attend a secular school. On the eve of this departure, then, I ask myself, who am I? What kind of Jew am I right now, at this point in time? Where do I see myself in five years?…