Today is the day that my team and I had been working on all season. It’s competition day. Now this year I feel we have a good chance. We have been practicing non-stop from the sun up to sundown; there was no such thing as downtime. We had an awesome dance routine and one of the best crowd-pleasers around. But to top it off we had a killer stunt at the end that was sure enough going to win us first place. “Alright, ladies. It is time for everyone to get up and get dressed.” My coach said as…
Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos in Spanish, is a traditional two day festival which originated in Mexico. During the holiday communities gather to celebrate the lives of friends and family who have passed away. This holiday which incorporates ancient indigenous rituals with Catholic beliefs focuses on welcoming back the spirits of loved ones to honor them, celebrate their lives and acknowledge ones eventual fate. Recently, however, Day of the Dead has come to be associated with Halloween,…
For the past century all but a handful of midterm elections have seen the incumbent party losing a significant number of seats to the opposing party. Even though the presidential party won the presidential elections simply two years prior, the opposing party drastically wins seats from the president’s party typically offsetting the majorities within the House of Representatives and also the Senate that the president may have had originally when they entered office. Throughout the midterm…
It is hard to imagine what it is like to live with next to nothing until you sit down and pull it apart piece by piece. I spent countless hours making a budget, and then rewriting the budget, until I finally got to the point where I could make a family of four successfully live off of a yearly income of $24,251. I visited websites I never thought I’d visit and budgeted things I unconsciously assumed everyone already had. The experience was both stressful and rewarding all in one. In the end, it…
groundhog dug, other holes dug by the zookeeper to fool visitors to think the zoo had more than one groundhog. The Zoo made a special hole for the groundhog for Groundhog Day. Before the groundhog goes into hibernation for the winter, the zookeeper moves him into a special lock room that emulates outdoors. Early Tuesday morning on Groundhog Day at 6:00 a.m., the zookeeper would carefully place the groundhog on a special made sliding floor, in order, to slide the groundhog to the outdoors living…
My Career Goal Shelore Fisher Abstract To succeed in life, you should establish goals for yourself. I knew what my calling was at a very young age. My dream is to become an Entrepreneur and own my own business in the child care industry. I started working in the Administrative field and I have taught computer classes, however, due to my passion and love for working with children. I know I am on the right path now. I had to select three careers and complete individual research…
The time period between 1815 and 1914 was a time of uncertainty among the Great Powers in Europe. The center of the insecurity among the countries in Europe was the steady and fearful decline of the Ottoman empire. Due to this factor, conflicts among the Great Powers was caused by the fear of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire due to the fact that the fall of the Ottomans would unleash chaos upon Europe that has not been seen since the Napoleonic wars, and the since the establishment of the…
terrible mother as I allowed someone else to take my screaming child into a classroom while I walked out the door. It was a terrible feeling. Surprisingly it was only temporary and she started enjoying her time there, and I enjoyed sending her on my days off. That decision reappeared when we had to choose the right daycare for my son. I was shocked when the daycare my daughter was attending informed me that I needed to place him on a waiting list. I had just learned of my pregnancy and now I…
Early childhood education in Aotearoa has grown a lot in value since its beginning points. Perspectives of the value of childcare and kindergarten and its contribution to whānau and communities have changed immensely, due to constantly changing and growing societal and cultural contexts, influences and demands. Te Whāriki acknowledges this constant change, therefore, it is flexible enough that it can be used for many different ECE services, in varying environments with children and whānau from…
SDN are next generation networks. They provide high flexibility, reliability, and security. The main difference between SDN and the traditional network is separation of control and data plane. In SDN, only the controller has the decision-making capabilities. Whereas switches are responsible for traffic forwarding. The controller and switches can be programmed dynamically or as needed. Applications communicate directly with the SDN controller via the northbound interface. This plane is also…