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On Wednesday, 9/7/16, UNCW held its ‘Concert on the Commons Series. I had the opportunity to enjoy this event during my lunch break between classes at the fisher center. The ‘Naughty Feats’ were preforming down at the amphitheater. During most of the concerts they sung covers and towards the middle of the concert they began to show some of their original works. They were pretty enjoyable. I am not certain if they were a well know small local band or if they were just a student band that formed…

Using Greek Decor in the home By Daerus Anderson Mar 11, 2011 If you're about to decorate your home and are thinking of a theme to follow with sculpture, then you'll love home decorating using Greek mythology. The reason is that these characters from ancient Greece are so well known that anyone entering your home will know who they are and have stories to tell about their favorite characters and the various adventures they had. There are numerous characters from ancient Greek mythology that…

One day I had the sudden urge to go workout on the treadmill, so I hopped in my car and drove over to the Bexley Creekside Apartment gym. I walked in and noticed Jamaal training a client. I had a few fitness goals I wanted to achieve so I decided to ask for his business card. Little did I know that one action would change my life forever. Jamaal and I started training a few days later. At first I was a little shy and strictly focused on the training. After a couple of sessions, Jamaal finally…

A driverless car is an automated vehicle. It is a robotic vehicle that is designed to travel without a human driver. The “driver” sets a destination. The car’s software calculates a route and the car begins driving. Artificial intelligence software in the car is connected to all sensors and has input from Google Street View and video cameras inside the car. The software also has decision-making processes and controls the actions in driver-control systems such as steering and brakes. The car’s…

Schools all across the United States have a strict “no phone” policy. Although they say having a cell phone in school can be disturbing, it can also be useful. A cellphone can be used as a resource on certain assignments and can be very helpful. Yes, students tend to want to text during class, but it may be an emergency or for something urgent for another class. Cell phones can be used as a resource for certain things. For instance, if the student needs help to understand something for a…

The people today are using the internet more than ever. They view the internet and even more so the mobile phones as positive aspects of our society. The internet and mobile phones systems are the two biggest systems of communication which play a crucial role in our daily activities and development of identities. On the other hand, these same technologies are also often used negatively. Many children are the targets of bullying via the internet or mobile phones resulting in total confusion on…

Bright Water School Lock-In Many of the students who attend the school dances we hold are overjoyed to hear that it 's possible there will be more dances held this year, and we entertained the idea of having seasonal dances. When I brought this idea up to my teacher, I was informed that the dances are, to my dismay, quite hard to put together. When Miss Kerr heard that the idea of dances and socializing with other class was important to the students, she presented the idea of a "Lock-in." I, and…

Scaffolding The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) illustrates what the learner can perform with and without the teacher’s help. The teaching framework that aids the learner’s transition from conceptual application with help to application without help is scaffolding (Vygotsky, 1978). Likewise, Basu, Sengupta, and Biswas (2014) describe inquiry learning as an agent of scaffolding. As the level of subject difficulty rises, it becomes more important for teachers to identify the collective…

Beginning on December 29th, 1929, also known as Black Friday, the stock market on Wall Street crashed. This marked the onset of the Great Depression, the greatest economy downfall in United States history. For the beginning years of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover was the President, but he did not put forth a large enough effort to help the American people get out of the turmoil that was created. Up until the election of 1933 where Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, took the office from Hoover…

With technology advancing so rapidly it has become easy for the bullies, to bully their targets without fear. Today, a new form of bullying is facing the society that has progressed from physical to virtual; cyberbullying, and it happens every day. Our youth depend so much on acceptance, social networking apps, and texting that it consumes everything that they do. Unfortunately with cyberbullying there is no real way to identify who the culprit is, so the harassment and tormenting is done with…