I'll Stick Around

I was assigned to Mrs. Michelle Lawrence’s fourth-grade classroom for my practicum observations and final lesson. This was a great choice for me because this is the grade I hope to be assigned to teach. Do to some problems with getting our practicum schools set we started much later into the school year than was originally planned and it put us into the classrooms during the State Testing practice weeks. Therefore, most of my time observing this class was watching the administration of a…

of all those ants? How many magnifying glasses would you need? “Mr. Pierce?” “I heard you the first time...and it’s Daniel” Out of the corner of his eye, Daniel watched as the seventy-something-year-old man squirmed in his seat. Everyone did that around him lately. Dr. Randolf tightened his grip on the clipboard, fiddled with his green pen, and flashed a relaxed smile. “We only have an…

visible to those around her, whereas the narrator in Invisible Man was, on the whole,…

War I, which begs the question if his works are related to the war or if they are merely an escape from the horrors of war. William Golding, another famed author, fought similarly in World War II and his first work, The Lord of the Flies was based around the fact. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is more of an escapist form of literature, but the trilogy also relates to some horrors of war time and contains themes similar to war time authors such as William Golding. Both Tolkien and Golding’s…

what she can and cannot eat. Before the fire, Lauren’s father teaches her and other kids in the neighborhood how to shoot and be safe around a gun. These skills are extremely useful in surviving in the outside world. Surviving outside of the community wall is a very dangerous task, that Lauren’s younger brother, Keith, could not…

In the novel, Holden’s ego comes to light in day-to-day situations. For instance, when Holden says, “Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that’s impossible…” (Salinger 136). This shows that Holden understands that he lives in an imperfect world; he is thinking realistically rather than irrationally or idealistically…

Away games in Italy are not less than a nightmare. The windows of buses are blacked-out in which players travel to stadium. Pirlo quoted “Smoke bombs, tear gas, sticks, rocks, bolts, plates... we’ve had everything thrown at us in our time”. There were also incidents like hundreds of people throwing insults outside the hotels in which players are staying, objects thrown on the buses in which plyers travel to stadium…

can't dearest. Someone must stay and care for Rachel she only a baby. Your brother will go with you. You can take care of each other." Her mother cried. They sat together in silence for a while until her mother reached over and wrapped her arms around Ester's tiny shoulders and gazed into her large blue eyes and begged earnestly, "Remember one thing. You are no longer Ester. Your name is Anna, Anna Braun. Say it Anna." Then her mother gazed out of the window into the frosty winter garden and…

she reached up and pulled her hat over her ears. She peered through the glass wall, out to the ice, and quickly forgot about her frozen extremities. Ashley’s coach stood scrutinizing her as she sped across the ice, jumped high in the air, spun around into a blur of beautiful colors and landed effortlessly, looking like she hadn’t even taken a breath. Ashley continued jumping and spinning while Becca watched in amazement─ totally unaware she was smiling. The coach pushed Ashley hard, and at…

Everyone is shaped by their upbringing. How someone is raised shapes how they view the world and how they feel about society. But what happens when someone is raised by hypocrisy and intolerance? This theme is explored in Mark Twain’s fictional novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses events, circumstances, and villains to model Huck’s internal battle between heart and conscience, and his external battle with society. The first step one must go through to cleanse his or her self…