Eighth Wonder of the World

Karl Taro Greenfield’s article published in the October 2013 issue of The Atlantic discusses the potential drawbacks of a heavy workload on middle school American students, specifically his 13 year old daughter, Esmee. Greenfield addresses these drawbacks by choosing to complete his daughter’s homework for an entire week to truly see how the other half lives. My Daughter’s Homework is Killing Me successfully brings to life the hardships that today’s students face concerning the time the spend on…

flood the stage, when I wonder if I can go through it. My stomach feel as if it’s a dryer in a high spin cycle and the adrenaline running through my veins makes me feel the most confident and most insecure I’ve ever felt. There is something so intimate about live theatre that it’s simultaneously terrifying and thrilling. Then the music begins, I close my eyes, and I take a deep breath. I open my eyes and the nerves are gone because I am no longer me but a character entering a world that is…

believes that students that gain of more technology in a classroom takes a regular student and decreases their focus. Which then leads to the decline in test scores. But I do disagree with Pinker because technology has an untapped potential in the world of education. If the teacher is trained well with the technology, I think technology can improve a classroom because it can be used as a great tool to teach kids in a more modern way. As I said before, Pinker thinks technology is ruining youth’s…

Psychosocial Development is the theory that as we go throughout our lives we experience eight essential stages in our lives. Each corresponding stage has a correlating virtue or vice alongside an existential question that the person may subconsciously wonder as they move on throughout their psychosocial development. Erik Erikson was an ego psychologist greatly influenced by the Id psychologist, Sigmund Freud. However, instead of psychosexual stages, Erikson theorized that they were…

the age of 50 begins to sing the AC/DC song “Highway to Hell” and he begins to realize that his favorite song came out 35 years ago. This is also the time an adult begins to second-guess their decisions they have made in the past and also begin to wonder if they are still considered a productive member of society. A mid-life crisis leads to voids in a person’s life; the first is emotional or mental void. The person begins to think that they have not fulfilled their dreams or life goals and they…

The Path to Feeding the World: Norman Borlaug Norman Borlaug is a historic figure in America known for his work in fighting hunger. Norman was a man of humble origins and deep longing for education. Norman Borlaug’s upbringing and fight for education would become the foundation of his future success. Norman grew up on a family farm. He lived in the town of Cresco located in central Iowa. Norman’s great grandparents, Ole and Solveig Dӱbvig, where immigrants to the United States from Norway. His…

There are many sides of the healthcare industry. Majority of U.S. citizens have access to hospitals and urgent care centers, but many do not think about the health care conditions in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Depending on the location, numerous amounts of prisoners did not receive the basic health care they should be provided with. Some may say that prisoners should not receive the right to health care because they just get it handed to them unlike everyday citizens. If the…

organization without its workforce. 4. Collaborative. A collaborative leader attempts to include everyone in the organization in leadership . In the mystery in Roseto, the leadership style found would be a collaborative force of a community. It’s no wonder why Wolf was interested in this community, but his finding was exceptional. Wolf explains, the secret of Roseto wasn’t diet and exercise; it was the community itself. The community visited each other, talking on the streets in their native…

These first two stanzas project a jovial and tranquil tone that allow the reader to see how the young white man may wonder why or how a well-educated person like Cervantes could think that a war between race is present. Shortly after, however, a pivotal section of the poem arises in the third line of the third stanza as Cervantes asks the one and only question present…

more excited for what my future holds. I can’t wait to get into college and pursue a career in physical therapy. The funny thing is, I wouldn’t even been considering any of this if it weren’t for basketball and one of my best friends. When I was in eighth grade I couldn’t care less about school or what I was going to do after high school. I didn’t even plan on finishing school, once I was sixteen I was going to drop out. To this day I don’t understand why I didn’t want to finish high school, I…