Little Manila

A student may be having a bad day or it could be a result of something. In special education, some small aspects can create big problems. If a student’s medication is off or their routine has been messed up, can cause a student to have an off day. If a teacher is close with his or her students, the teacher is better able to see what is causing issues and adjust lesson plans. It may be extra gym or just talking to the student that allows the bad day to cease. However, the teacher needs to know…

“I’m very passionate about the medical field and I’m going to be an Oncologist.” I spent a millisecond wondering if I had hurt my chances by uttering a run-on sentence. “I’m very excited about becoming an asset to you and your team!” Feeling a little more confident about that pre-rehearsed phrase, I paused to let her know that I was finished. I answered the next few questions with some strange unforeseen eruption of confidence that hadn’t previously been present. “Why do you want to…

Her stories then shift to the nucleus of life in the west side Barrio to her grandmother’s house. Like the hub of a wheel, all family life came from it and especially in the kitchen where they gathered making tamales at Christmas and learning life lessons sitting around the table beneath the light fixture. “A light socket, a light bulb and a dangling string, so primitive yet heartwarming, it was a sure sign of home,” she wrote. The tales fluctuate from climbing backyard chicken coops and trees,…

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” That’s what the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, recalled when he watched the first ever test of the atomic bomb. Many scientists who made the atomic bomb were against using it because of the amount of destruction they could cause. I’m going to explain to you what caused the start of the Manhattan Project, why it is called the Manhattan Project, the goals of the project, who were the people in charge, and why they dropped the…

Little did the citizens of San Francisco know, every movement they made, was recorded by The Department of Homeland Security. In Little Brother by Cory Doctorow writes a fictional story about the terrorist attacks on the city of San Francisco. Post the attacks, The Department Homeland of Security heavily enforces setting up high tech cameras, restricted internet access, and extensive surveillance of citizens. After pinpointing a seventeen year old boy named Marcus to the attacks, The DHS…

is made to believe that you have to get an education and then work hard for the rest of your life to be able to achieve success and happiness. In Mark Twain’s “The Story of the Good Little Boy,” Jacob was raised reading books of good little boys and how happy they were. Jacob in turn wanted to become the “good little boy” he always read about but despite his various attempts in doing good, he met his ultimate fate. In Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal,” the central character believed in Booker T.…

Our Town is clearly a representation - and largely a celebration - of small-town American life. Nearly every character in the play love’s Grover's Corners, even as many of them acknowledge its small-mindedness and dullness. Its sleepy simplicity, in fact, is its major point of attraction for many characters. Dr. Gibbs, for instance, who refuses to travel, thus cultivates his ignorance of life outside of Grover's Corners in order to remain content within it; his son, too, decides not to go away…

quits his job as a caddy. Dexter basically rethinks his life after the way Judy treated him. He recognizes that he wants more out of his life when he sees Judy and her high social status. This is seen on page 746, “The little girl who had done this was eleven--beautifully ugly as little girls are apt to be who are destined after a few years to be inexpressibly lovely and bring no end of misery to a great number of men. The spark, however, was perceptible. There was a general ungodliness in the…

The Bomb and its Effects At the time it was being built they didn’t quite know what to make it out of. They ended up building it out of a plutonium core. In order to make the bomb go off they had to have fission occur . Of course to have this happen, you need a large space. Thus the nickname “Fat Man” . Fat Man got its nickname for a good reason, because it weighed over 10,000 pounds, was about 130 inches long, and had a diameter of close to 60 inches (3). When the bomb detonated it would have…

a specific liking to me. I had no family, no processions and no way out. I could only guess that I was around eight at time I was sold to the Eden plantation. Words could not describe how cruel Mr. Ernest was. He and his petty little wife were the rulers of their own little kingdom and we were the prisoners trapped in a life we couldn’t escape. I had no desire to see the rich color of my skin or the uneven slope of my features but I was reminded quite frequently that my place in the world was…