These can create challenges for educators when family structures and norms conflict with the assumed norms of the school. In the US, these are most often based on white, middle-class cultural assumptions. Provide an example from your own life or one in the media where these values have led to conflict or misunderstandings between the school and family. How might the educator or school have responded in a more culturally sensitive manner? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.…
The reporting party (RP) stated former foster child Joshua Andrew Moore DOB: 1/29/01 disclosed when he was approximately 5-7 years of age he was placed with foster mother Betty Paul for approximately 2 years. According to Joshua the foster mother would force him and another foster child named Anthony Wallace Jr. to fight each other. Subsequently she would whip them with a leather whip during those occasions. When Joshua was questioned if the whip was used for anything else she replied "no, just…
As I waited anxiously for my friends to come I was staring out the window.After about five minutes kendra and caira came I thought to myself (finally I feel like i have been waiting forever and a half).We went into my room and i hit caira with a stuffed mallot that i made with my sewing machine, sewing is my hobby . Then kendra got her pillow and hit her too. Then caira got a stuffed stick that I call a breadstick because it's shaped like one that i also made. She hit kendra and me.Then kaylee…
along with a lot of dancing. For example, bachata was danced by many Latino students in Concordia College. There was other genres played such as hip-hop and rap. Homecoming was themed “Under the Sea.” There was under-the-sea decorations, confetti, balloons, and lights everywhere. Once twelve o’clock struck, our Homecoming King and Queen was announced followed by the underclassmen Prince and Princess. It was a uniting idea to allow the underclassmen to have the opportunity win Prince and…
The lives of humans and the lives of the corvids are similar because we both have character traits and we both live in this world. We humans have something that makes us tick, we have emotions, we communicate with one another, and we learn whether it’s a school or from our mistakes or from each other, sometimes we even work in small groups to accomplish a task, even the corvids. Choosing my resource “Meet the Bird Brainiacs: American Crow” by Kat McGowan and my personal experiences will show why…
I have been reading ever since I could remember. I was read to when I was little as well. I do not recall learning to read, only that when my mother sat me down to start learning how to read, I already knew how. All throughout elementary school, I participated in the Accelerated Reader (also called AR) program. I loved it because you would read books, and then takes quizzes on those books. Depending on your score, you would accumulate points, and those points could be used to buy things from the…
Gender Roles: The Horrible Expectation(s) In today’s society, there is a stigma surrounding the views around, both, men, seen as the strong, manly guy who is the backbone of the family, and women, seen as the sexual object who is the stay-at-home mom and man’s servant. This stigma is gender roles, as along with societal expectations. In earlier centuries, this was the way of life, but now, things have changed to the point, where gender roles need to be a thing of past, since companies, like…
fact this his collection of writings is a narrative style format is also the reason it is so effortless to read and understand his literature. In Douglass’ My Life and Bondage, he writes “Disappearing from the kind reader, in a flying cloud or balloon (pardon the figure), driven…
BREIFING NOTE FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CONSUMERS AND HOUSEHOLDS AT DECC SUBJECT: Insufficient persuasion techniques, aimed to persuade UK energy consumers to reduce their energy consumption ISSUE The current issue is that the DECC’s current attempts to persuade UK energy consumers to change their attitudes and behaviours have been insufficient. This is due to the process by which the DECC has presented their information about the issue of consumerism. In order…
Haiti’s origins are rooted as a French colony of slaves producing sugar, coffee, and cotton. Dutty Boukman was the first leader to help free the slaves of Saint Domingue, now Haiti, from the French plantation owners during the Haitian Revolution. In 1804, shortly after the United States declared its independence from England, the small island of Saint Domingue declared its independence from France, but not without numerous revolts and battles. Saint Domingue then became the first colony to gain…