Bracelet

it slowly opened, hinges creaking. Her mother’s bracelet shone in what little light the table lamp provided. Gathering courage, the girl pushed her blanket back. She placed her feet on the floor. The motions were almost robotic. She slid her feet out from the comforts of her bed and felt a shiver go up her spine as her bare feet were left exposed to the cold air. The girl stood up. She made her way across the room. Carefully picking up the bracelet and turning away from the door, she tried to…

race like blinders in order to keep up with sales. As I was handing a family a few Italian ices, a woman inquired about my now sweaty rubber bracelet. Everyone in my family wears a grey wristband which says “No One FIGHTS Alone!”…

Rave Culture How do electronic music, LED Lights, and young people go together? Well you might have guessed a party, but it’s a little more specific than that. What I’m talking about is a rave. I’m here to briefly explore the origins of rave culture, the music, dancing, and even attire. The subculture is a bit odd, and very different from a typical night out. The early rave scene subculture started in the late 80’s in Chicago. Young party-goers attended events called “Acid House Music Parties”.…

Overview Cubot S1: Fitness Bracelet with 6-Axis Accelerometer Cubot decided to set a new benchmark in the market for budget fitness accessories, which allow amateurs and professionals to monitor their activity during training. A full list of Cubot S1 features, priced at $ 39.99, listed here in our review. Case and Design The Cubot S1 is in an aluminum casing made of soft and hard plastic found around the exterior. The frame is metal and you can notice plastic on the front and back. The strap is…

Lila Abu-Lughod immersed herself into her field study developing relationships with the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin women in Egypt. These relationships allowed her to challenge her beliefs and open up to a spectrum of different possibilities. This quote underlines the significant role these women came to play in building up her own personal experience. Participating in their everyday lives allowed her to acquire knowledge that soon became practical to apply to herself. Thus when she was uncertain about…

Her hair trimmed just below the ears, she is wearing a large three-course necklace and some bracelets on her arm. Her other arm is raised to hold the load on her head. Her feet were not sculpted, but painted on to the pedestal, which was they did with wooden sculptures made during this period. The style of the sculpture and the attire of the servant…

CBM Preparation The CBM that I will be conducting will be the hiding assessment. This assessment will show “Children who are able to subtract with ease and efficiency know the parts of number and see the relationship between composition and decomposition of numbers and addition and subtraction.” Kathy Richardson, Assessing Math Concepts: Hiding Assessment. Didax Publishing, page 26. The probe will first be probing for the student’s ability to see part-whole number relationships. For each of the…

In 2015 the world was battling with the persistent question of ‘Where can the Syrian Refugees go?’ and ‘Who has the available space to hold the increasing number of asylum seekers?’ One response to these questions was that we, as a first world nation, had a responsibility to care for and help those who had nowhere else to go. Followed by then by the people who blatantly said, “We do not want you. You are not welcome. We will not accept your religion. This is not our problem.” Unfortunately, the…

The general American society is obese. Only two percent of children in the United States eat a healthy diet. That right there is totally parents fault. I mean when I was younger we didn’t go out to eat every two days. Most of our food now a days are processed. Many kids don’t even participate in free-time physical activity, twenty-five percent are too lazy to get up off their ass to stop watching television or playing video games, their being “fat kids”. For a long while kids didn’t have that…

My Cultural Identity My culture tends to be diverse more than meets the eye, you’ll see I am very Americanized but yet still contain my Laotian Heritage. Throughout the the year I tend to change. I still am becoming, well more like deciding what makes me, me. All these different materials and everyday things we do in life is a part of who I am and what i choose to be. Taking under consideration that I am still at the age of 15, and having the ability to unconditionally not being able to make…