Baseball terminology

Imagine having only a four day week, and coming home on Thursday to a nice three day weekend every single week. This does sound good, right? The four day school week is where the school week only consists of Monday-Thursday. However, the only flaw with this is that more time is spent in the classroom, the school year must have a certain number of hours each week. This means having a four day school week, the hours lost on Friday would need to be made up, so more hours would be distributed among…

When working in the medical field, learning and using medical terminology is essential to navigating through the vast ever-advancing medical world. Every occupation within healthcare uses it. Medical terminology is a universal language in the medical field that helps us identify, define and understand large complicated terms which facilitates faster and easier to understand oral and written communication. With the ability to put together root words and modify them by using prefixes and suffixes,…

Beat the Feet As previously mentioned, I spent my childhood, teen, and young adult summers at Camps Winacka and Whispering Oaks. At these camps, like most west coast camps, new groups of campers arrive weekly. To help the counselors and campers quickly learn names, each unit plays name games during down time on the first day. On a safety level, this prevented situations like, “Counselor, my friend fell down and got hurt!” “Who?” “Ummm...I don’t know her name! Help!” and on a more human…

The percentage of the public school requiring uniforms increased from 12 percent in 1999-2000 to 19 percent in 2009-2010, according to the U.S Department of Education (Parrish). The percentage of principals who reported a strict dress code increased from 47 percent in 1999-2000 to 57 percent (Parrish). Government school principals have always been serious about education issues, but there’s been a significant shift in their mindset about uniforms (Milburn). A growing number of high schools are…

The first book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading was Star Girl written by Jerry Spinelli. I read this book in my sixth-grade class, and although it was not my first chapter book I’ve read, it was a book that I have the earliest recollection of reading. This is because it was the first book that grasped my interest and I fully understood the characters, the plot, and the main idea of the story. I was able to make connections with the characters because they dealt with similar things that as a new…

Major 3 Basketball has been played by many people in the world. You’ll at least play basketball once in your lifetime. Basketball legends started off the same as everyone and that’s playing basketball for the first time. It must of came natural to them so they made it a passion and living out of basketball. Basketball is kinda a difficult sport to play if you don’t know what you 're doing. Basketball includes passing, shooting, stealing, blocking, and rebounding the ball. It all isn 't easy and…

Microeconomics Pear Essay The concepts of supply and demand and the notion of equilibrium are quite significant concepts in the study of economics. Let’s begin our understanding of these larger concepts by breaking down these smaller concepts of scarcity and value and exchange, competitive advantage, production. Scarcity, takes on the idea of limited resources in comparison to a vast amount of potential recipients who want or value the item. When discussing scarcity, the discussion of allocation…

Many elementary students and their families can say that the homework given is becoming to be over the top. Even just for elementary students, homework is starting to consume hours of their life outside of school. The larger amounts of homework causes tension between child and family, negative health effects, and differences between homework and busy work. Although some will disagree with anti-homework people, most would say that the pressure from homework is becoming a burden on students at a…

This report is about an in-flight breakup of the Sealed Composite’s SpaceShip Two during a test flight. The test flight and accident occurred on October 31, 2014 at 1007:32 Pacific daylight time over an area near Koehn Dry Lake, California. It encompasses background information of the aircraft involved, the pilots, and the type of test flight as well as the intended results. Sections of this report will also explain the actual crash to include elements and findings of the accident…

Data collected prior to placement such as Oneschool information and previous assessment items assisted in the lesson planning by allowing me to identify not only the students’ academic levels to date, but also note that all students spoke English as their first language, none of the students identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and there were no students with disabilities (1.3 - 1.6 AITSL, 2011). The summative assessment for the topic, and curriculum expectations also informed…