SHREVE — Changes are coming to the village’s leadership as the mayor resigned effective Monday and the administrator is leaving May 30. Bruce Biggs submitted his resignation letter Monday at the village hall, effective as of noon. And, Administrator Kim Arwood will be resigning May 30. The Daily Record left messages with Biggs and Arwood seeking comments, but those calls were not immediately returned.…
Over the course of our country’s history there have been several characters that revolutionized modern day America. These characters are now only publicized in museums with little to no intellect on how important they are to our country. Although their history is taught in schools and history lectures about their success, one can think, what made these founders so special? The personality of these founders aided in their decisions on what was important to make America better. In the intensely written work Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, Gordon S. Wood analyzes eight founding fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Madison, John Adams, Thomas Paine and Aaron Burr.…
UCM: CPSW received phone from Fits supervisor Morgan and she stated that the supervision went well today. Mr. Stark and Ms. Mauer were playing mostly with their son Kaison. Ms. Mauer feed him and changed his diaper during the visit. Overall, the visit went well according Morgan from Fits. Goal 1-2…
On July 31, 1961, Harry Crews experienced a father’s worse nightmare of becoming an orphan to his own son. At the age of four Patrick Crews was found face down at the bottom of his neighbor’s pool leaving behind his mother Sally, father Harry, and a younger brother Bryon to get through the hardship as a family. The tragic loss of Patrick made Harry think this terrible incident was his fault filling him with guilt. He believed he was the reason of Patrick’s death and could not see any other reason as to why he died. Just as Harry was going crazy his family stepped in forcing him to raise his other son.…
Teen’s death was a tragedy born of hatefulness I was puzzled and saddened by the story of 13-year old Megan Meier that Leonard Pitts wrote in his Sunday commentary in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. The parents of an ex-girlfriend of Megan, who lived a few doors away, created a MySpace page and kept sending messages to Megan using the name of a fictitious cute boy called Josh Evans. After befriending Megan and calling her pretty, Josh unexpectedly broke up with Megan and kept sending her mean and hateful messages. He had also been sharing her messages with the online community; describing her as a “fat slut.” In his last hateful message, Josh told Megan that she was a bad person, everybody hated her and the world would be better without her.…
The Shawnee News-Star is an American every day daily paper distributed in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It is the daily paper of record for Pottawatomie, Lincoln and Seminole areas, in the Oklahoma City metropolitan range. It took its present name in 1943 after the merger of the Shawnee Evening Star and Shawnee Morning News. The paper was earlier possessed by Stauffer Communications, which was procured by Morris Communications in 1994. Morris sold the paper, alongside thirteen others, to GateHouse Media in 2007…
In a conversation (email) with Gene Yoder he indicated there is a Book covering the program. It is either in the office or Linda may have knowledge of it. If the whereabouts of said book is unknown we may want to contact Jim Kirsch. I do not have any contact Information for Jim.…
“Do you think we’re all just products of our environments?” His smile dissolved into a smirk, with the left side of his face resting at ease. “I think so, or maybe products of our expectations.” “Other’s expectations of us or our expectations for ourselves?” “I mean others’ expectations that you take on as your own.”…
“Should He Be Fired” 12-18 I do not agree with Toni’s decision. I feel that Bill knew the policy and even though he was trying to help out and save time. It was dangerous for him to be counting the money when customers where present. It was also distracting and he could have miss counted the money. There should always be wo people counting the money to assure everyone is held accountable for their actions.…
Today’s students face great challenges as they prepare for college and their future careers. A major factor in this journey is the teachers and the knowledge they pass on. These teachers, however, aren’t always decent at what they do and fail to prepare these students for the future. Matthew Miller discusses this issue in “A New Deal for Teacher,” an article in The Atlantic Monthly. He has found that bad teachers are the cause of a large educational gap between poor school districts and other school districts.…
Gordon Grice, an essayist and writer, is caught in a web that is the mystery of the black widow. He himself has been enamored by the widow’s venom, in particular, and how it seems to be more powerful than need be. He reflects on killing widows with his mother and the gravity his mother held while doing so. Putting the powerful venom of the widow in perspective, Grice explains how there is no need for the deathly venom yet it still exists, and he relates this to the evil of the world, how purposeless it is. However, within his work he remains in awe of the widow, keeping the tone mystic but informative.…
Gordon Wood’s book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, is a series of compiled essays and articles that the author published previously and separately. Wood then took the essays and articles and put them together within one central book and implemented an introduction, as well as an epilogue to tie the book together and support his main thesis. According to Wood, the Founders were a “unique elite” that molded a system which, overall, ensured that no one like them would likely arise again in the future of the country. The author also believes that the founding fathers were creations of the time with which they lived in and that they were necessary for the creation of the United States. He also illustrates that the founders…
To start with, in the text High Price by Dr. Carl Hart we can knowledge a lot of and learn alot from him by just reading couple pages. The author Dr. Carl Hart is a professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. Carl life-changing experiences led him to processed with the career that he currently in, that one reason why he is a important notable source. To sum up all of this his own research on secondary that he had examined has take him to the path of conducting parts of his personal research like behavioral and neuropharmacology effects of psychoactive drugs. Hart because of all his study has won a lot of awards like the Columbia University President's award and the the Pen/E. O Wilson literary science writing for his book…
The word Exegesis and is derived from the Greek verb meaning to lead or show the way, to expound, interpret or explain something and the Greek noun exegesis, statement narrative, explanation or interpretation. This task that Fee and Stuart discussed in the textbook involves the looking into biblical text and setting forth your comprehension of the text. While we take a deeper look into what Fee and Stuart are saying to us involves a much disciplined person. One who will also allow the Holy Spirit to be a functioning guide in interpreting scripture? It is very important that we not let exegesis take on the form of eisegesis which is an unconscious reading of the text into your own values and beliefs in a way that stifles the text.…
Baddeley created the working memory model as a way of explaining short term memory. He proposed that it consisted of 3 subsections, a central executive, a phonological loop and a visuo-spatial sketchpad, these subsystems are then further fractionated. Logie (1995) proposed that the visuo-spatial sketchpad is divided into two components; a visual cache and an inner scribe. The inner scribe contains information on movement and spatial awareness. Whereas the visual cache stores information about visual form.…