Celebrate!

cancel it. This really hurts my heart because I know how much it means to my students because I work with them every day. We have been building on this goal for exactly 91 days now and the students are so excited to finally get to meet Zero the Hero that they can barely contain themselves. Now to me, this is teaching. They are learning how to be lifelong learners and to love learning. I have had the amazing pleasure of receiving visits from past students moving on to higher education, future jobs, or actually seeing them out in the working community. They will not remember the names of some of their elementary teachers, ask me questions to spark their memory, but one memory is inevitably always brought up. “I remember when we got to celebrate the 100th day of school and meet Zero the Hero!” They are always excited to reminisce about the questions they asked and the pictures that they still have from the 100th day of school. Parents are equally excited about the events that we do that might possibly be thought of as “silly little traditions”. We have an amazing family at our school right now that had the opportunity to leave our school for a magnet school when their daughter was in my kindergarten. They turned it down because they loved the education she was getting and especially loved the excitement her daughter had for school. Her third child will be entering our school next year and she is so excited. She tells me how she talks to friends about how great our…

an array of addictions anywhere from porn, shopping, narcotics etc. I felt that attending this meeting would be a great opportunity to learn about other addictions and real life struggles that so many are plagued with. This meeting also incorporates the Christian perspective to these issues, to which I find intriguing. After all, A.A. speaks a lot of higher power and where higher power can be different for many; and often is in the A.A. meetings (God(s), self, Buddha, etc.), in the Restore…

Celebrate Recovery started in 2006, in 2013 I saw a notice that they needed help watching children and I felt called to help. I also wanted some babysitting experience. I felt it was important because the notice was up for several months and they really needed assistance, so I began volunteering. Some nights, Celebrate Recovery requires a lot of effort. Helping kids stop crying takes a lot of patience. For some children it is their first time be separated from their mom and they throw a…

Columbus Day is a national holiday that many people no longer want to celebrate. Columbus Day was made into a holiday because Columbus is credited with the discovery of America. It was first celebrated in the 18th century in the year 1792. It became a federal holiday in 1971 almost two hundred years later. Almost 50 years later, it is a topic of debate. The people who don’t want to celebrate this holiday have many reasons why. One of the major reasons that people boycott Columbus day is that…

Ariadne Florentina’s lecture on wood and metal engraving exposes the complexity behind the execution of wood engravings as well as the responsibility of artists to pay respect to the natural characteristics of the medium. The reading also details the extreme precision and skill required for wood engravings by exploring the role and necessity of the hand in following the directions of the mind as a faithful and dedicated servant. In essence, it is essential for the hand to showcase dexterity to…

Best places to celebrate Halloween in the World: Halloween is the festival of celebrating the freewheeling spirit and becoming the part of some spooky rituals. With trick- or-treating and costume and theme parties are the main attractions of the Halloween, there are some places around the World to be to experience nerve-wracking fear of the Halloween at the very best. From Dracula's Castle in Romania to the streets of Oaxaca, here are the most haunted and creepiest tourist spots to visit on…

slaves in 1495. Columbus tore children from their parents, husbands from wives. On board Columbus’ slave ships, hundreds died; the sailors tossed the Indian bodies into the Atlantic.” (Weatherford, “Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus). Knowing more about Christopher Columbus,this excuse of a holiday should not be celebrated at all. It should be absent to celebrate a holiday the included the death of innocent people, the start of slavery, and making it perfectly fine to rape…

Celebrating Columbus Day: Should We? The issue of whether the United States should continue to celebrate Columbus Day or not has been a topic of interest for quite some time. To some people Columbus Day is a ridiculous day on which we glorify genocide of the Arawak Indians while to others it is considered a day of great importance and a celebration of an honorable man in history. Columbus Day is actually the latter description, but to prove this an agreeable definition is needed. What exactly is…

Columbus Essay. Should We Celebrate Columbus Day? In my opinion we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day because , “Columbus sent thousands of peaceful Taino “Indians” from the island of Hispaniola to Spain to be sold. Many Died en route” And if he just abused the powers he had from the king or whoever he got his powers from he should have been killed himself, killing thousands of people for no reason?!? Makes no since to me. Also, “he ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives we killed; in…

1,100 survived because of them that is not a lot though. That is why we celebrate 911 because these heros risked their life to save others. When the day was over 343 firefighters were gone and 72 police gone,also 55 military. All people who risked their lives for other.Think about it all of those men and women not going to there familys. And others had to go up to their families houses to tell them that there love one pass away at 911.In total 470 firefighter,police,and military that died. And…