Cursive

With the advent of cell phones and instant messaging, one could have had concerns with how young children and teens began using a lot of shorthand abbreviations and slang in their messages. Parents and educators alike could see that this not only could make children and teens lazy, but could also affect their literacy skills in the future, writing papers and long essays. Not only has this cyber language become a part of social media, but some has even become a part of the English language,…

What vivid moments do you experience when reading, writing, or activities that involved them? Or what frustrated you about reading and writing? My experience with reading and writing start with my teacher from elementary all the way up to my teachers in high School, Ripley, Tennessee school district, and University of Memphis. My teachers during school remind me about the things I must do for class more than my college professors. In Ripley, Tennessee their district held up high standard on…

any teachers consciously trying to help or teach me how to write papers. In third grade we were required to write in cursive every writing assignment given to the students, including short stories and short paragraphs of what we did over the…

Technology’s Effect on Child Development: Inside and Outside of the Classroom The use of technology is ever growing in the world we live in today. Jobs are increasingly using technology, as well as education system. Technology is being integrated into classrooms and this is changing the way children are learning and developing. Technology is developing a strong effect on children, both inside and outside of the classroom. Background Technology has been making its way into classrooms for last…

Technology by far has become the number one thing you see everywhere. It has overrun our society while harming and damaging it. Technology was intended to help the world and make it better, yet, we have given that purpose a whole new meaning. Technology is often harmful to the human society because it affects both social skills and literacy levels. Social skills and communication skills are the most important survival skills needed in order to survive, yet, cellphones are taking that away. As…

I really liked it because I have always had good handwriting and loved the way the style of writing looked on paper when it all came together! It was just one of those things that has stuck with me and it looks neat, professional and fancy. Cursive was just one of those things that I have always liked because in a way in matches my personality, due to me playing sports it was something that I thought looked professional and in sports my coaches always preached the doing the professional thing…

corner of the room and with a loud thump she was back in her comfy oversized bed cuddling with her blankets listening to the soothing sound of the rain. She laid there with sweaty palms and trembling fingers as she traced them over the elegant, gold, cursive writing on the cover of the book as a single tear slipped down her cheek she flipped to the first page. It read Aspen Academy High graduating class of 2001. As Willow flipped and turned the pages she felt as if they were getting heavier and…

The advertisement is of a pregnant nun who has a tub of ice-cream in one hand and a spoon in the other while bringing the spoon closer to her mouth she is lustfully staring at the tub of ice-cream, next to the tub there are the words immaculately conceived. In the background one sees a church. In the bottom right hand corner, we see another tub of ice-cream but this time with the company name more visible. This is obviously an advertisement for ice-cream made by the company Antonio Federici.…

The letters between John and Abigail Adamses helps us to see them as real people, not just characters from our History books. Despite their different levels of schooling, John having graduated from Harvard whereas Abigail’s schooling was a combination of homeschooling and self-taught, their letters demonstrate a similar intelligence (Baym and Levine 625-626). Their friendship is made obvious by Abigail’s attempts to find subjects that might interest John and limiting discussions of family,…

second continental congress in 1774. In May 1775, John was made congress president and in August he married Dorothy Quincy. On July 4, 1776, he was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. His signature was very big and he had nice cursive handwriting. His signature is on display…