Imagine Driving down the road with the windows down and your favorite song on the radio and everything is just so relaxed. Now Imagine one day you can’t do this anymore. Can you think of something that you love? Now imagine if that thing you loved was taken away or imagine even worse that you never could experience the thing you loved again. I love music. I love the way the notes dance around the lyrics. I love that some music can calm me when I am upset or get me pumpin when I’m jammin out.…
The Hundred Year’s War It was approximately two years ago that my husband and I started watching the television series called Game of Thrones. This show got me interested in the history of England and the various battles that took place there. Different countries experienced different effects from the conflicts. Powerfully strengthened by the battles; England became a one of the dominant countries in Europe. This paper explores the Hundred Years’ War which was a series of battles between…
And I think it’s something we should be grateful for everyday. For example, I think it is fair to say we live in a patriarchal society. Male privilege is a real thing today. There are certain things women have to worry about more than men. This includes sexual harassment and sexual assault…
am a woman of the Red Nation, a Sioux woman. That is not easy.”(Crow Dog, pg. 3) and “It is hard being an Indian woman.”(Crow Dog, pg. 4) She says that she is a victim of sexual violence because she is not respected due to her race and gender, “At age 15 I was raped.” (Crow Dog, pg. 4) White men do not treat her fellow female Native Americans or her properly. For example, her sister was given a hysterectomy against her will in a white hospital. According to her stories, her father was a…
Precious (2009), Precious suffers verbal, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of her mother and father. Detaching herself from the violence, Precious builds a fantasy world rampant with fame, romance, and normalcy. Being abused at such a young age renders Precious powerless, therefore illustarting that she has limited control over the effects abuse has on her. Precious is constantly let down by adults and systems meant to protect her. Precious’s mother, Mary, constantly diminishes her…
picking up zero information from the words on the pages. You can thank boring books for that! Too often, kids are forced to read many books that are too mature for them such as Old Man in the Sea or Hamlet. Books falling into the “classics” category should be kept for college level classes. One book that shouldn’t be crossed off the list is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is a timeless book offering a range of skills to improve students reading and writing. It offers intense…
“We shall need a substantially new way of thinking if humanity is to survive” said by the world renown scientist Albert Einstein in 1954. This proves that human-induced Climate Change has been affecting the world for decades. It is a highly discussed topic among world leaders (President Obama) and scientist everywhere (Bill Nye) and most argue about whether or not is it effecting us. During my research I think I will discover how drastically humans have negatively impacted the Earth, and also…
1: I think that romanticism is when a person or someone makes a situation seem better than it is. Romanticism would be taking a situation for what it is not and thinking that it is romantic, exciting, fun, or something that everyone should do. Romanticism is unlike realism in almost every way. Realism is when you take a situation true to life or for what it actually is. We are not always able to tell the difference between them. It seems like we would always be able to tell the difference…
It seems as though the patient was discharged from the hospital instead of being admitted and monitored. With the patient’s presenting symptoms, sustained rapid heart rate and abnormal lab values, more care should have been offered to her at the hospital. With respect to Dr. Dorrough it seems in hindsight the patient was misdiagnosed by him and because of that they did not do critical treatments such as starting heparin or another blood thinner or performing…
Can Standardized Testing Cause a Negative Impact on Curriculum Design? Bertha Marie Payne University of West Alabama The discussion has been raised many times in regards to the negative impact that standardized testing can have on curriculum design. Some feel that the time, talent, and effort that goes into curriculum design is tainted by standardized test guidelines. This paper points out areas that can be negatively impacted by the over utilization of standardized assessment…