Laura Palmer

In this film, Laura (1944) we are introduced to a group of corrupt and fittingly shady upper-class social order types. The focus is on particular conventions of content, like themes or settings and/or form, including structure and style (Goodykoontz & Jacobs 2014). This film will be critiqued by the author through the lens of the genre theory (AMC, n.d.). The genre theory allows critics to take a short cut to categorize films. The director woks with the time-period and has a vision and that…

Frankenstein and “The Garden Party” share elements of false maturity in the characters of Frankenstein’s creature and Laura, each of their false maturities formed by their distinguished and yet isolated backgrounds and corresponding actions. In Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature’s background is unique in comparison to other characters; his learning of language…

I am in the position of supporting the requirement for learning cursive in school. I may be biased because as a child, in early grades such as first and second, I was taught both printing and cursive. I remember my second grade teacher allowed us to choose between printing and cursive to finish standard writing assignments; though when sending us home with assignments specifically designed for learning cursive, we were required to complete those in cursive. My experience with using cursive…

eliminate them. One man in particular made this his full-time job for the sake of the American people. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer was born on May 4, 1872 in Moosehead, Pennsylvania.1 He was the most known anti-Communists during this time period and his goal was to wipe out any rumored Communists along the West Coast of America. To take…

Should public school students be taught how to write in cursive as a requires part ot the curriculum? I think so, cursive is used throught life, why would you not want to know it. Medical brain scans show that writing in cursive helps with fine motor-skill developement and stimulates both the left and right parts of the brain. Learning cursive helps make the brain stronger. Those are my three reason why I think cursive should be taught as a required part of the curriculum.…

How many of today’s students know how to read and write in cursive? Currently, many American public schools no longer require their students to learn how to write in cursive. The reason for this is because many administrators believe taking the time to teach cursive detracts from more important skills such as mathematics or reading comprehension. However, there are multiple reasons why this skill is still valuable for today’s students. For example, knowing cursive allows people to read…

Teachers should teach cursive writing because, compared to print cursive has a smooth flow and it takes less time to write for some people. A good thing about cursive is students with dyslexia therapy cursive can be instrumental in helping with the students read and write. Writing cursive is not just for the fact that it’s faster but also for the fact that its beautiful compare to print and it’s not just plain. Cursive is a beautiful way of writing words. At least 41 states don’t require cursive…

Should Cursive Writing be Taught in School? Cursive writing, “the curlicue script that older generations viewed as the hallmark of a well-educated person” (Creno) has “been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years” (Shapiro and Voisin). Many states have chosen to teach Common Core standards which do not require students to learn cursive. Since schools are now teaching Common Core, they are trying to decide if cursive is still worth teaching. There have been many debates on the…

Cursive writting is indeed beneficial to a student's mental development, and therefore; should be thaught in school. Replacing cursive writting with typing and technology will do more harm than good to the student. I typing believe it will minimize their ablity to process and retain information, and is therfore essential to one's learning development. As a student myself, writing my notes by hand helps me process the information as well as remembering it as I write it down. There is no boubt…

Cursive writing is a viable part of education and brain health. Having the ability to write in cursive helps not only with medical documents, school documents, and simple bank signatures, but it also makes your mind stronger, and more diverse when writing anything down. I believe that cursive writing should be in the educational system. Growing up in a society where people always have to do some sort of paperwork, this becomes a needed factor for writing skills. Wouldn't you rather have you…