Extras

After giving the students a copy of the book Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, they are going to read the first five pages of the story for themselves. Sounding out the words they do not understand and asking for help if they need it. As they read the passage they are going to write down all the single syllable words they come across. Once the students have completed doing this they will group the words into the list based on the vowel sound. All the ones with long vowel sounds go in one list while…

opportunities, many students engage in extra-curricular activities while still studying at university, considering that such activities will give them a leap ahead in the labour market (Roulin and Bangerter, 2013). This essay aims to investigate the direct relationship between extra-curricular activities and the graduate labour market by analyzing the extent to which such activities influence graduates’ employment opportunities. Firstly, an analysis of the…

approach views social welfare as a function of individuals’ utilities (a measure of how much one values a state of the world; Cohen, 1993) only, and asserts that individuals are the best judges of their own welfare (Culyer, 1990; Coast et al, 2008). The extra-welfarist approach on the other hand, uses the principles of welfarism plus, in some cases, an adoption of Sen’s notion of capabilities (Sen, 1985). It particularly draws from two aspects of Sen’s: the importance of functionings (health)…

ever wanted to catch an illegal alien? That’s exactly what director, Steven Spielberg was attempting to do in the blockbuster film E.T. extra-terrestrial. At the time of its release, E.T. was ahead of its time and drew record crowds. The score was written by the famous composer John Williams and won an Academy Award for best Score 1982. The music in E.T. the extra-terrestrial establishes the exciting and frantic mood the characters are feeling and foreshadows the action in the upcoming bicycle…

fields like ontology are focused on determining the truth of existence, whereas epistemology studies how we know things and whether our method for acquiring knowledge leads us to the truth. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense”, he questions our position in relation to truth. Nietzsche questions both whether we are actually seeking truth and whether what we conventionally refer to truth is the real truth. Nietzsche points out that human beings are highly…

Extra-curricular activities, AP classes, and jobs…what do they all have in common? They take vast amounts of time out of a student’s day. Each time I think about students who have to juggle all three of these, one thought always comes to mind- how do they do it? Just considering the load of stress a student who goes to school and takes at least two AP classes, has to stay after school for a sport or a club, and then goes straight to their job has makes me worried for them. Especially seniors;…

future. The discourses and wisdom we acquire inevitably taint our relationships with matter, spatiality, and time. German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin address the partiality of knowledge. Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense" uses metaphor and the human condition to emphasize the subjective nature of knowledge, concepts, and truths, while Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" critiques historicism by criticizing written histories, historical materialism,…

Rhetorical Analysis “A Second Chance” Extra Gum created the commercial A Second Chance to tell a love story between two adults who knew each other since kindergarten and drifted apart; by the end of the commercial their story becomes a full circle when it ends with a proposal. Extra Gum uses this anecdote to appeal to the audience by creating a purpose, tone, and uses pathos that reaches the audience. The intended audience of this commercial are young adults and adults who may be going through…

people’s attention. The commercial by Extra Gum called “Extra Gum: The Story of Sarah & Juan” caught mine. It aired in 2015 and is one minute and 57 seconds long. This commercial tells a love story about a guy and girl, Sarah and Juan, who meet in school when she gives him a stick of gum for helping her pick up her books that she dropped. Throughout the commercial shows different memories they make together and Juan draws them on the gum wrapper. The “Extra Gum: The Story of Sarah & Juan”…

In “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense” Nietzsche sets out to show that humans have developed our own senses of truth and formation of concept, which are mere lies. He says it starts with a stimulus that creates an image metaphor, which leads to a sound metaphor, which creates language. In Ignorance: How It Drives Science, Stuart Firestein’s explains that knowledge does not come after ignorance, it is the other way around. Nietzsche asserts that there is no thing as absolute truth. To him…