Cursive

trip in 3rd grade. Learning how to tell the differences between words Struggling with spanish throughout life Understanding how hard it is to learn a language when you tried French Communicating with others through math Reading and writing spanish Cursive writing Poetry Rapping Diving into deeper meanings of words. Reading between the lines Frogger and mom, hungry caterpillar [Ms. Megill don’t read past this point.…

Change Hugh Prather once said, “Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” In life, changes occur often, sometimes even without a warning. And these changes people experience often alter them as a person. Either altering their behavior, or their outlook on life. These ideas are clearly represented in a novel called The Help by Kathryn Stockett. In this novel, set back in time when segregation was still normal and accepted, multiple events happen to the main characters that…

Ritual is defined as the composition of a pattern of symbolic activities, not part of normal social routines and they are recognized by the members that participate in the ritual. Ritual is not something the current participants usually make up, but has been created over many years and passed down through the generations. The ritual of celebrating birthdays came from ancient Egypt when the date of coronation was honored. The pharaohs actual birth date was not celebrated, but to the Egyptians the…

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, STAR WARS captured the hearts and minds of millions of people around the world. It sparked people’s imaginations. It gave them a glimpse into a strange, fantastic world far more technologically advanced than our own. People wondered if the technology in STAR WARS could ever be realized in our world—if we would ever reach that level of advancement. But for years after the release of the original STAR WARS in 1978, people’s hopes and dreams for…

You see it on sidewalks, walls, trains, and in public bathrooms. You’ve never put much thought into graffiti. Some graffiti you see can be funny and welcoming, while others can be crude and racist. The Oxford Dictionary defines graffiti as being, “writings or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or in a public place,” while other people argue that it’s not illegal and is art. Which side of the story is correct? Is graffiti art or vandalism? Graffiti is a way for people…

Since the beginning of the 20thcentury, it has been deliberated that the works of Marx have shaped and sculpted many aspects of art through to the postmodern era. Barbara Kruger is one of many postmodernists, who’s practice demonstrates the issues of the social and economic powers of the 1980s, by applying her work to all echelons of society. Through the theories of many postmodern critiques, the original Marxist views have been retrospectively accepted however re-worked within the master…

Learning to Speak Through Writing Introversion is a state of self-concern, the distrust of one’s outside world and resultant fear of its expedition. To prove unable to speak when it is expected of you, for reasons either hesitant or uncertain, is to realize how voiceless you truly are. And it is the goal of this generalized introvert to acquire that voice, to speak freely alongside their peers, and become normal in the eyes of their perceived society. For me and in my pursuit of voice and…

The writings of the New Testament have survived thousands of years due to the work of faithful believers and scribes who copied the Christian works that we treasure today. During their day, these people would use a variety of resources as writing surfaces, including wood, bone, broken pottery, and parchment. However, the most important within the New Testament period would be papyrus, a fifteen-foot stalk harvested from the Nile area. These stalks were cleaned, flatten, and cut into strips that…

goals. Yet Common Core, by its very nature, moves all kids largely in lock-step, processing them like soulless widgets.” They need to be taught life skills that they will need after the graduate from high school such as check writing, signing in cursive, and simple adding and subtracting. All things lost or eliminated with these core…

Going into the special collections, I had feelings that there was going to be little to surprise me. I knew that universities were repositories for documents but I assumed that being there are much larger, more important schools, not too far from here, that they would be stored there. It didn’t take long for those thoughts to leave. It wasn’t that Charlotte somehow had something unique and spectacular but the fact that it had varied items from throughout the history. Thinking back, most of the…