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open glass door to the balcony clattered in the midafternoon breeze. “Uh, it’s cool.” What was I supposed to say? ‘Nice cardboard box tower, Dad’? “This is where I’ll be staying for the next 6 months. Do you remember your friend Namika from Guam? And Ken and Chei? I’m going to be moving there in July to work for them.” I felt like there was something missing…

certain score on a standardized test. The emphasis is not on actual education, but rather on memorization. This practice is very damaging to students because it hinders learning; dampens curiosity; and encourages conformity instead of self-sufficiency. Ken Robinson argues, “the dominant culture of education has come to focus on not teaching and learning, but testing. . . . should not be the dominant culture of education.” Although assessments are an important component of education, it cannot be…

play a game she too loved to play. But Bailey Bagel and Barry Biscuit would not let her play. This made Patty Pancake very sad. Page 9 Patty Pancake watched Ken the Kountry Potato, CeCe Cereal, Eric the Egg and Huckleberry Ham play four square. She waited and waited hoping to join in and play another game she too loved to play. Page 10 But Ken the Kountry Potato, CeCe Cereal, Eric the Egg and Huckleberry Ham would not let Patty Pancake play. Again, this made her feel very sad. Page 11 She…

Curtis, Sorry it has taken so long to follow up on our conversation about jail rehab. Currently, when someone is incarcerated and wants treatment, the procedure is to get accepted into a rehab facility and request a furlough from the court. If the court grants the furlough they are released to the facility and given a return date. Reviews are set to check the status of the defendant's progress. Once completed, if successful, the defendant is usually given credit for time in rehab against…

Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington is set in the time in which the First and Second World Wars took place when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party were in power in Germany. During this period, homosexuals were severely discriminated against and deprived of most of their civil rights. However, there was a time before Hitler’s reign when homosexuals strived in Berlin and lived their lives freely without a worry that Nazis will come to take them from their families. Paragraph 175 was the…

Let's be honest, stupid ideas can grow into a serious business venture. Once-laughable business concept with no common sense, often made their inventors get the last laugh. We've compiled a list of top ten stupid ideas that actually worked. Stupid Idea Number One: The Pet Rock Children love pets. But who would imagine that a rock could substitute an animal? Who would exppect people to buy rocks instead of dogs or cats? Well, the California guy named Gary Dahl, is actualy the one who did. He…

Strength and Vulnerability in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Throughout his famous novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey shows that power and vulnerability are largely subjective, and people often only have power because others think that they do. Chief Bromden’s unreliable narration depicts all kinds of power as physical size despite a character’s real size or physical ability. Nurse Ratched’s power over the rest of the characters, and McMurphy’s ability to resist it, shows that…

In 1984 Japanese manga author and illustrator Akira Toriyama published the first chapter of Dragon Ball, a series that would become a massive pop culture icon and inspire countless other manga series in the future. Dragon Ball follows the story of Son Goku from being a foolish child to being an overpowered foolish adult with countless different forms, all of which involve changing hair, muscular bulk, and sometimes even eyebrows. Dragon Ball was originally intended to be a story directly based…

killer whale attacks on trainers develop through the distress of the whales outside of their natural habitat. It is evident that the trainers react to the attacks with shock and fear. Cowperthwaite highlights the killer whale’s incident with trainer Ken Peters because it embodies the reality that captivity traumatizes killer whales. This incident shows that the violent behavior is a reflection of the whales’ emotional torture in…

The purpose of this paper is to self assess and analyze. This will show what motivates and what drive me as a person. I will also be talking about theories from Drive by Daniel H. Pink, and The Element by Ken Robinson. These were the two books that were the makeup of the course. There are many reasons that drive and motivate a person to behave, there are also a place where everyone will be in their element, but when you have both of these together in your field of work you have found what…