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their educational experience. A student’s day consists him/her going to class and listening to a teacher for minutes on end. Two types of schedules, modular and block, have become controversial in the world of education. According to Marla M. Mondie, in her article titled, “Teaching on the Block: A Model for Pre-Service Teachers”, “Block schedule is rooted in J. Lloyd Trump’s 1959 Flexible Modular Scheduling Design” (Mondie 3). The plan originally called for class to have a 40 minute lecture, 20…

Holmium is a brilliant dim metal found in the lanthanide section on the periodic table, which is for the most part appeared at the bottom of the periodic table. This element has 67 protons in its nucleus, which implies it is the 67th component on the periodic table. Holmium is pliable, which infers it can be bowed and folded. It is the foremost magnetic component of the periodic table. The name comes from the element lanthanum. The lanthanides are also known as rare earth elements. Although…

When envisioning an oversized teddy bear, an old fashioned alphabet building block set, and a jack-in-the-box that is emanating a soothing tune, one might think they are in a child’s playroom. Unexpectedly, however, these things were found during a concert; a Melanie Martinez concert. Melanie’s style and general theme of her concerts can more than often be described as possessing a whimsical, carnival, feel due to her usage of circus props, such as a carousel, and distinct carnival pop tunes.…

You arrive to Point Judith with your large beach bag filled with a bathing suit, sunscreen, a change of clothes, a sandwich or two, a few bottles of water and you’re ready to go. You parade up to the stand where you have to make a decision: traditional or hi-speed? With traditional it’s only twenty two dollars for a round trip, while hi-speed is thirty five dollars. You have to make a decision fast because the next ferry leaves in five minutes and you don’t want to miss it because then you’ll…

The Big Move After what felt like a lifetime of planning, our family was finally making the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our…

Jacklin Jones Urban Society Book Report Fall ‘15 Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City History is always changing and repeating itself. According to the Housing Act of 1954, it changed urban “redevelopment” into urban “renewal” and “conservation”. Therefore, this had shifted the focus to areas that is threatened by diseases and enlarged the constructions of the federal government to support beyond residential (Pattillo, 310). During several class discussions, we…

the City boundary and surrounded by both commercial and residential (Multi & single family housing) zones. The City of Edmonds, WA is located in the north of Seattle…

Gentrification can be a positive cause or a negative cause. Sometimes it can be both. Gentrification has multiple outcomes like improvements with the devolvement for the communities, it also can create revenue for the city, and want more positive outcomes. Some may differ to these outcomes and might think this is bad for the communities and thinking more of the old tradition and not more of the money it can provide for others. Old houses built in the early 1900’s could use some new-modern look…

that you can do something about it now. The discipline of planning and architecture is a very important discipline given the context of our present capital of J&K State, Srinagar. The city is rapidly urbanizing, people are leaving their villages and migrating to cities in large numbers. When they migrate to cities, one of the common problems they face is of housing. Urban housing, especially for the urban poor will become a major challenge in the future. If we do not plan for the future…

The Revitalization of Eastlake, Ohio Eastlake started off as a small village and in 1951 it officially became a city in Northeast Ohio. Home to the Lake County Captains minor league baseball team, which brings in most of the city’s tourism. The population as of 2013 was 18,418, a 9.1% decrease since 2000 (Kamenov). In Eastlake, there are many buildings that have been abandoned by the owners and left to build up dust. Some examples of these buildings are the old Wal-Mart on Vine Street and the…