Daydream

The purpose of the Best Practice lists are to provide students with a classroom environment that will produce the maximum learning potential. Even though this list was updated in 2012, there is most likely no classrooms that follow the list perfectly, but some classrooms operate under most of the points on the list. Ms. DiMaria, at the Lebanon High School, provides and creates an atmosphere in the classroom that follows the Best Practice’s list to the best of the districts abilities. A…

I let my mind wander into a daydream of different remedies when suddenly I snapped back into reality when my mother slung open the van door and assisted me into an awaiting wheelchair. “We are going to fix you all up so do not worry sweetheart.” , a nurse assured me. Feeling more at…

On November 17, 1973, at noon, Susan Miriam Spaet, the youngest of the three girls, was born at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Scarsdale, New York. Susan was born by c-section and didn’t meet her mother, Mona Spaet, until a few hours later when the nurses asked the tired woman, “Is there anything we can do for you?” Then her mother could hold her little five pound, ten ounce, ninteen inch long girl. Her father, Theodore Spaet, was a hematologist and research scientist. In the fourth grade she…

moments leading up to her brutal death. It was a playdate like any other, which meant that I was sitting in my room playing absentmindedly with another preschool aged girl who I was not particularly fond of while my mind drifted off into a sort of dark daydream that one would not generally…

A comparison of “The Things They Carried” and “The Guests of The Nation” Duty in military service is a significant theme in “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and “The Guests of the Nation” by Frank O’Connor. Both authors depict how their protagonists are allowing personal matters to interfere with the responsibilities war demands. Despite O’Brien’s opposition towards the war he recognizes the necessity of duty for the sake of his fellow soldiers, driven by his own involvement in the…

A play’s setting allows the author to bring out many issues facing society, especially related to the social stratification decided by people’s lifestyles. In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is a school teacher who moves in with her sister and husband in New Orleans. It is clear that Blanche has fallen through hard times, but she cannot leave her social status attitude when she moves to this working class neighborhood. Her solution is to develop a drinking habit while rooting…

Adulthood is a very life transforming experience, one that is nothing like I ever envisioned in my daydreams as an adolescent. When I was a child, I always assumed that becoming an adult was a rite of passage that would grant me the ability to work independently without my parent’s harsh and strict supervision, like staying late into the night playing video games with friends or watching whole seasons of shows in a few nights. Unfortunately, this idealization was only a partial truth, as I…

I may be a little slow to the podcast game, but I blame my extremely short attention span. In no way am I a “books on tape” kind of girl, because then I become “daydream-look at the window –miss half the chapter” kind of girl. So years ago, when my husband suggested I download these podcasts, I dismissed him. Like I smiled and nodded my head and thought about puppies, ice cream cones, and sunshine while he listed a bunch of podcasts I would like. I lumped them together with my attempts to…

The word wriggling has connotations of something bug-like or gross, symbolizing his disgust with himself and his humanity even while transformed into an animal. Often times, Gregor seemed to daydream about other things, wishing he had freedom from the debts his family had accumulated and the occupation he grew to hate. Gregor would make it a habit to climb up and look out the window, “He did only in some kind of nostalgia for the feeling of freedom…

All 7.28 billion (and counting) people of the world, from the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic and the Quechua in South America, to the Slavs of Eastern Europe and the Indochinese in Southeast Asia, identify themselves to at least one culture of some sort. The world teems with hundreds, if not thousands, of rich cultures, some of which date back to the Bronze Age and remain slightly changed, if at all, from the Age of Imperialism that saw the rise of empires covering a large chunk of the world under…