Dorothy Day

thought best would support the success of our country. Fourth of July brought around the chance for people to celebrate the positive changes and evolutions that had been made throughout the country in previous years. With its title as Independence day, the Fourth of July, in the nineteenth century, enabled more of a division amongst people rather than unification due to women still living under mens superiority, blacks and indians still not receiving equal rights, and the misuse of the…

Today is the day that my team and I had been working on all season. It’s competition day. Now this year I feel we have a good chance. We have been practicing non-stop from the sun up to sundown; there was no such thing as downtime. We had an awesome dance routine and one of the best crowd-pleasers around. But to top it off we had a killer stunt at the end that was sure enough going to win us first place. “Alright, ladies. It is time for everyone to get up and get dressed.” My coach said as…

Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos in Spanish, is a traditional two day festival which originated in Mexico. During the holiday communities gather to celebrate the lives of friends and family who have passed away. This holiday which incorporates ancient indigenous rituals with Catholic beliefs focuses on welcoming back the spirits of loved ones to honor them, celebrate their lives and acknowledge ones eventual fate. Recently, however, Day of the Dead has come to be associated with Halloween,…

The early childhood administrators I interviewed are Linda Ackles, Jackie Zeckser, and Shelly Wright, all from Hastings. Ackles is a retired Family Childcare Provider. Zeckser used to be a Program Coordinator for Head Start. Wright is a Preschool Teacher and Director at St. Michael’s Preschool in Hastings. When asked about the mission and values of their respective programs, Ackles wanted to provide quality care at affordable rates. Zeckser said the values at Head Start are providing for the…

George Orwell once wrote “Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past" (Zinn 89). The notable quote holds a lot of wisdom, and a message of exercising caution when it comes to history. Dominant ideologies and views of history have had calamitous consequences when gone unchallenged by society. Marchak discusses who creates and controls the dominant ideology in contemporary society, as they are the ones ‘who control the present’. As the dominant ideology…

For the past century all but a handful of midterm elections have seen the incumbent party losing a significant number of seats to the opposing party. Even though the presidential party won the presidential elections simply two years prior, the opposing party drastically wins seats from the president’s party typically offsetting the majorities within the House of Representatives and also the Senate that the president may have had originally when they entered office. Throughout the midterm…

drive Riely to middle school on his way to work. Topanga, who would spend her day at home, would make sure Auggie got on the bus for first grade at the correct time. Seventeen minutes later, Riley reappeared in the kitchen dressed in a floral patterned dress and navy ballet flats. “Ready Daddy?” she said while slinging her backpack over her right shoulder. Riley kneeled down and hugged her little brother. “Have a good day!” she wished him well before standing up. Topanga kissed her…

hand he does not like. Christopher had a timeline of everything he did in a day, and the exact time he did them. Part of that timeline was his morning ride into school. One the way to school christopher counted the car he passed and their colors. Christopher determined if he saw five red cars in a row it was going to be a good day. However, if he saw four yellow cars in a row, it was going to be a black day. A black day means he doesn’t allow himself to eat anything, and he doesn’t speak to…

It is hard to imagine what it is like to live with next to nothing until you sit down and pull it apart piece by piece. I spent countless hours making a budget, and then rewriting the budget, until I finally got to the point where I could make a family of four successfully live off of a yearly income of $24,251. I visited websites I never thought I’d visit and budgeted things I unconsciously assumed everyone already had. The experience was both stressful and rewarding all in one. In the end, it…

groundhog dug, other holes dug by the zookeeper to fool visitors to think the zoo had more than one groundhog. The Zoo made a special hole for the groundhog for Groundhog Day. Before the groundhog goes into hibernation for the winter, the zookeeper moves him into a special lock room that emulates outdoors. Early Tuesday morning on Groundhog Day at 6:00 a.m., the zookeeper would carefully place the groundhog on a special made sliding floor, in order, to slide the groundhog to the outdoors living…