Eraser

Hallways were warzones. School yards were the obsidian Gates of Hell. “One day children came in to find three dead bodies dumped in the schoolyard” (Leach). It was a toxic environment to say the least, with drugs and gang violence as common as rubber erasers and pencil shavings. When the Quiet Time program popped in to take a crack at these tough students, not many teachers gave the program a second thought. Everything had been tried before, all ending with the same results. How was a simple…

Mr. Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, sparked an intellectual event that spread far beyond philosophy. Being and Time is considered a landmark work of the twentieth century, although it was at first rejected and thought to be “inaquidate” It was originally published in Germany in 1927 and the original copy was only four hundred and thrity-seven pages long. Many people that have read his book consider it a legendary difficult read. Mr. Heidegger’s largest critigue is that Mr. Martin as…

Jon Forrester never left his room. Which was common for a writer. The only times were for a smoke, or too lie up on the roof and watch the planes fly by. The planes were headed somewhere important. Off too burn a couple of traitors, no doubt.Anybody with two functioning eyeballs could see the bombs hanging off the belly of the machines. End of the world shit. Anybody with a brain knew that the taste of sulfur and gas in the air, wasn’t natural. Nor was the way the skyline would light up like…

Thousands of years ago, ancestors used horses to deliver the message to other tribes when it is necessary. Chinese warriors used fire to light up the great wall passing signals to camps from hundred miles away. Nowadays, thanks to the technology that people no longer have to waste time on the trip for one message or a letter. After the mobile phone has published to the public, it becomes one of the necessities that people use and carry every day. The message is one of the most efficient…

As a child I always envied the pretty girls that had a group of friend with them all the time I wanted to be just like them in every way, but little did I know my life in school would be nothing like that. All throughout my life, I 've been bullied. From the time I stepped foot in a elementary school to when I graduated high school. Or to go back... When I was in kindergarten, the class choices were am and pm. I had a am class. On my first day, I was in a big classroom. This…

face. " I can tell you an answer to a crazy math problem mom, but I have to agree with you, I don't know why we learn this stuff that doesn't really apply to life." When people think about school, most think of the blackboard with the nasty, dirty eraser, or the famous apple on the desk with a worm in it icon, but what…

given below: General tools Pliers (pealing of insulation from the wires) Screw drivers: four main and two heads (to open the headphones and the transmitter housing or transmitter) A pair of scissors (to cut the cable and other uses) Pencils and eraser (for labeling Board and other…

so we didn't do too much work. A few periods into the school day and there was an announcement on the intercom, declaring it a half day. We were too excited to listen to the reason behind the half day. We quickly gathered together our pencils, erasers, notebooks and our snack boxes and shoved them haphazardly into our bags. we were handed over by our class teacher to our respective guardians. My maid was waiting outside…

Globalization is the increasing interaction of people worldwide through the growth of the international flow of money, ideas and culture in a facile manner. For the purpose of this essay I will focus on the global spread of culture. Culture may be defined as the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular society. This essay will defend the notion that globalization is a major cause of the increased culture of skin bleaching in the Guyanese Society. For clarification, the focus is not on…

Standardized tests are defined by W. James Popham, former president of the American Educational Research Association, as "Any test that's administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner." Standardized tests have been part of school systems since the 1800`s.(Standardized) Their use skyrocketed after 2002's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandated annual testing in all 50 states. Standardized testing confuses some students and the amount of testing can stress them out,…