A Time for Choosing

“The Road Not Taken” is by Robert Frost. It is about choosing between two different roads in the wood. The narrator chooses one road and thinks that he can go through the second one in another day. This poem is a combination of nature and human life. The narrator is not talking about two roads in the forest. He is talking about two paths in life, and how important it is to make the right decision at the right time. Life is a path, and a choice taken. The narrator describes the path of life as a…

away from home. Not all families have the luxury of having a stay at home parent. With this being said, finding the right day care or babysitter for your child can be difficult. Each parent has their own preferences and requirements when it comes to choosing the right fit for their child. Each child is different, as is each home environment. Children should be introduced to a preschool setting because they should be around others their own age to help improve their social skills. As long as a…

destination in Northern Italy but in the 16th century it was much different than the city it is today. Three of Shakespeare's play have been set in Verona and in the case of Romeo and Juliet the setting greatly affects the plot of the play, with Capulet choosing who his daughter is to marry for her, the constant fighting in the streets and Romeo's banishment being all unlikely events for 21st-century Verona. The setting of Romeo and Juliet affects the plot of the play because of Juliet's…

Democratic Classrooms It is time for education to turn from conventional-authoritarian to modern-democratic inside classrooms. Students need to engage more in their learning and in their activities in school. Schools should stop being a place where students go to get filled up with information and start being a place were students organically process, engage and develop their learning. For this, participation from the student is needed, and that means, a slight change in the teacher student…

In 2005 several areas in the city of Springfield area were designated as Food Deserts. There are 16 census tracts that are considered Food Deserts in the Greater Springfield area, with 4 in Springfield proper. However the census tract that overlaps the Mason Square neighborhood has the most highly concentrated factors for this issue by meeting all of the leading indicators for food access deficiencies. This is demonstrated by the results of the USDA Food Access Atlas Indicator Tool shown in…

Choosing a Different Path This point leads me into just what types of homeschool styles are there and what does the curriculum look like. Homeschooling is individual for each family, and a lot of times individual to each child in that family, because we all do not learn the same way. What is working for one, might work for another. To answer this question there are some typical terms you’ll hear when looking into homeschooling. These include—classicalist, unschooling, traditionalist and…

How will you be living 10-20 years from now? Preparing yourself for the future can be hard to do. You 're not sure of how your life is going to be at that time but you have to make decisions about it now. A major topic that has to be looked at as how your money will be saved and handled. There are two different types of methods that you can use when planning to save and increase your money. Having a savings account and investing in real estate can both be options. Due to the fact that the…

children who are in or will be put up for adoption. In today’s society we’ve come up with more scientific ways for couples to begin families. Many couples deal with fertility issues and aren’t capable of conceiving on their own. One way couples are choosing to deal with that issue is by hiring a surrogate mother. Surrogacy is when a couple retrieves their own egg and sperm or ones that are donated and has them injected into another female that will carry the fetus…

an aging population and fewer births the population growth rate as of April, 2015 is .73%; a downward trend since July of 2000 when it was at 1.12% making it the slowest growth rate since the great depression. (Multpl, 2015). Back in the early times of this country it wouldn’t be unusual for families to have ten or more children, though few did survive into adulthood, this trend carried on for many years. Families were still having more than a few children in the 1950’s, but then having…

Students are required to take General Ed classes along with required core classes towards their major to meet degree or graduation expectations. Not only is that time consuming, but it also creates more debt. In “The Overworked Bachelor’s Degree Needs a Makeover,” Jeffrey Selingo states that “Every student is required to spend months and years in a classroom to collect the 120 credits typically necessary to receive his or her diploma, piling up debt and forgoing the important experiential…