Lafayette

Angevine Middle School in Lafayette. The school is very large. One side of the hallway is lockers and the other side is a window. The classroom my group has their activities is in the Special Education room. The room has big windows, Christmas lights, colorful pictures and other things that are visually appealing. The desks and chairs in this room are unlike a typical classroom. There are a variety of desks. Some students can stand at; others have elastic bands on the bottom where the students…

Chronic Wasting Disease: The Silent Assassin Chronic Wasting Disease, also known as (CWD) kills herds of deer by the hundreds. As of right now, it is a guaranteed death for any animal that contracts the disease. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) started monitoring the white tail deer population in the fall of 1999. They came across there first CWD positive deer in November 2001 when they were testing harvested deer. The location where the deer was shot is unknown. (DNR.wi.gov…

privileged branch of the Estates-general. This also signals the reluctance of the Kings to segment his power and perhaps his arrogance in believing that he would continue having this level of power. His naivety would soon be punished as by August 1792 Lafayette would flee to Austria and by September the Legislative Assembly would abolish the monarchy and further humiliate Louis in implementing a Republican calendar. This shows that the original power which they held by 1792 had almost…

Ole Miss running-back Akeem Judd found his way out of his troubled childhood while growing up, playing football. Judd entered South Durham high school in the fall of 2008 with no real relationship with his father. Judd’s mother, Tammy, raised him and his three older siblings by herself while struggling with substance abuse. She often disappeared for lengths of time, leaving Akeem to fend for himself. Often Akeem would go hungry with no household utilities from the lack of work and he would have…

Presentation and Explanation of Concept to be Investigated One of the beginning cornerstones in this devising theatre challenge was the concept of fractured narratives, referring to the idea that a story can be told through non complete chunks or scenes which, when strung together, convey a story. Fractured narratives can be used in several ways: for example, scenes where multiple conversations are being held at once may use fractured narratives in jumping between conversations, without…

Identity is who you are, the way you consider yourself, the way you are viewed by the world, and attributes that characterize you. A person’s identity is what makes them unique and sets them apart from other individuals. Privilege is constructed and standardized by the established frameworks of society and it grants privilege to people due to certain aspects of their identity. All through life, privileges will change each day contingent upon your location, the society you are surrounded by, and…

intricate design of traditional experiments and virtual reality simulations can similarly affect participant’s interactions. According to Dr. Brown (personal communication, September, 15, 2016), an associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, “you can learn people’s reactions to a scenario with a vignette, but its hard to know what they would actually do in those situations. Virtual reality simulations are more real, more aversive, which offers the chance that their responses…

Many time periods have been affected by other time periods preceding them. Whether it be in politics or art we can see certain aspects of the previous period in the next period of time. This is very evident in art forms. In many art forms, artists (whether they be authors, painters, or composers) are influenced by other artists before their time. This is the case for many post-modernist artists, for they are sometimes influenced by the era of art before them, the modernists. The era of modernism…

According to information provided by Newsweek, there has been a decrease in not only one but several things. First off, although gun deaths have not come to an end, the country has seen a 59 percent decrease in gun homicides between the year 1995 and 2006. Also, Australia’s murder rate has decreased to one per 100,000, while the United States, thankfully better than before, is close to 4.5 per 100,000. Furthermore, gun homicides have decreased more than 65 percent too. However, the most stunning…

Educational Psychology in Mean Girls Mean Girls may very well be a movie that defines a generation. Although it was released ten years ago, the film is still constantly quoted throughout much of pop culture. Taking a closer look at this queen bee vs. worker bee movie, it exposes some signs of deeper issues in the world of educational psychology. The film focuses mostly on the social hierarchy of high school, but it also looks at different educational issues that researchers have been looking…