Medal of Honor

is not the only story that has a what if possibility for its story. In Flotsam, surrealism style if again present as the arthur introduces the possibility of humans not being the only ones capable of civilization. In 2014, Wiesner won a Caldecott Honor for his book Mr. Wuffles. Although he still uses a graphic novel style, what makes this story different is that unlike his other books it seems more…

Have you ever thought what if I had tried harder then I would have succeeded? Most likely you have and that is known as counterfactual thinking. Counterfactual thinking is the theory of what could have been. We tend to correlate our failures with counterfactual thinking. For example, if we had studied harder on that test and not gone out that night we might have gotten an A on the test not a B. We can also look at counterfactual thinking in a positive way and how that helps us in our lives. In…

Bart Conner Dedication to one thing in life is hard to accomplish, especially if the one thing requires hours and hours of dedication every week. Bart Conner, an Olympic gold medal winner for the United States and a National Championship at the University of Oklahoma was very dedicated to his career. Bart’s journey to become the outstanding gymnast he is today was long and hard, but it eventually paid off. Even though he had to mature in a hurry, he soon realized that his childhood dream would…

John Newbery’s honor (source 1). John Newbery was the first man to focus on marketing children’s books (source 2). He was a qualified 18th century printer and publisher (source 2). He owned a bookshop in London dedicated to kid’s books (source 2). His first book was written to teach kids well manners, and people loved it (source 2). John Newbery is considered the “ Father of children’s literature” (source 1). Selecting a book as the winner of the Newbery Award is a…

As a child of a US Military veteran, I was fortunate enough to travel and live in different countries since my father was frequently stationed from one place to another. Over time I grew accustomed to moving from one country to another, however, the biggest struggle I faced was when I moved to the Philippines for high school once my father retired from the Navy. Despite being a Filipino-American, I was still faced with discrimination, which I struggled with for years. Another struggle I faced…

To become a member of this famous honor society, a future educator must be within the top twenty percent of all of the professionals entering the career of education. Houlihan can boast that he is a member of the Kappa Delta Pi, along with the likes of Albert Einstein, George Washington…

In Yotam Feldner’s article “Honor” Murders- Why the Perps Get Off Easy he brings up the ongoing controversy of “honor murders” among the Muslim community in Jordan and other countries. In his article he covers the different circumstances of honor killings in the Muslim state and how they are treated socially, legally and religiously. He first provides us with the Muslim form of honor called ‘ird that represents a family as a whole. ‘Ird is a form of honor that the females of the family…

Thomas Jefferson desired a campus whose sole purpose was to educate. To achieve this, his plan for the Academic Village included a monumental library to be placed at the head of the lawn. He then wrote out a list of over 7,000 books that he requested fill the library’s shelves for the students to use alongside their lectures. Jefferson’s requests were “revolutionary” because libraries were never a focus in other institutions; instead, churches were given the most recognition. However, there…

December 2, 2014 Philosophy 337I Dr. Mirvish Honor Killing Honor killings allows for the idea of honor to take precedence over an individuals right to live. Honor killing does not develop from and is not supported from a religion. It is a cultural occurrence that develops when a society emphasizes honor on ideals such as sexual purity and religious expectations. It can occur in many different religions or denominations of a certain religion. Though honor killing can have victims of all sexes,…

Academic Honor Codes Academic codes serve partly, to gently remind the University’s community on what not to do. Among one of the major things to not do that is stated, is plagiarize. As a student, the lines may have frequently been blurred between plagiarizing and “putting ideas into your own words.” The problem with that mindset, is that it contributes to you becoming a lazy researcher. It can land you into a situation where you simply neglect to cite a source from the ideas taken from someone…