Octavia E. Butler

Username: Master_O_Blocks Age: 15 Timezone: EST Why should you be accepted as a staff member?: I believe I should be accepted as a staff member for a few reasons. For starters, I have vast knowledge of how the server is run and I know the ropes of things. My past experience as staff on AC has taught me a lot about what sorta things are done “behind the scenes” and how one must go about certain situations or instances. For the most part, I consider myself generally kind to most everyone I…

This paper summarizes the article “Read-only participants: a case for student communication in online classes” (Blignaut, Cronje & Nagel, 2007). In this summary there will be several points discussed about how online students communicate with their peers and how those who just read over discussion can compromise the community learning environment. The article argues that Read-only participants disrupt the formation of a virtual community of learners and it compromises learning of others.…

Contemporary Issues Interview Paper I interviewed Matt Augeri, who is the Director of the Career Leadership Academy at the University of Iowa. Matt obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and his master’s degree from the University of Iowa. His graduate degree is in student affairs and he has worked in education since graduating. Matt is also a first-year doctoral student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. After graduating with his master’s, he…

An educational system that does not change with the times becomes stagnant and ceases to meet the needs of the very people it was designed to serve--the students. Change is important and inevitable. With change, improvement is possible, and our children will become 21st Century learners and innovators. They will be prepared to address the future and make choices that will have a positive impact individually and communally. Change initiatives need to be thoughtful, focussed, purposeful, and…

acquired Fictionwise, one of the biggest electronic book proprietors in North America, and two months later launched e-bookstore and Nook e-reader in October 2009, but it was still two years behind Amazon. Although B&N spent hundreds of millions of dollars to compete with Amazon and Apple in the market for tablets and e-readers, B&N continued to lose money on the Nook, as well as on the e-book market share. According to an article in CNN Money (September 10, 2015) titled, ‘Can Barnes & Noble…

from C.R. Boxer in 1951, collected by J.C. Pabst and is currently held in the British Museum collection in London. Deshima Prostitute with Fan is a good example of Nagasaki-e prints, which are recognizable through their depictions of Dutch people, ships and exotic animals. A derivative of the popular Ukiyo-e print genre, Nagasaki-e prints were mainly created as souvenirs for the Japanese middle class. Background The Edo Period (1769 - 1868) saw the end of ancient feudal…

I read Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. It was published by HarperCollins Publishers. It was published by HarperCollins Publishers in New York City in 2001. There are two hundred and twenty-seven pages. This book was a 7. I gave this book a 7 first because it was a really good book. It explains very difficult things with illustrations that make sense. The reason it did not score higher is that I did get bored occasionally because it was not a storyline but individual ideas discussed. It was at…

Ignorance As human technology advances quickly, paper-printed books are no longer needed. Companies such as Google and Amazon create digital books, that are known as ebooks, to replace paper-printed books. Ebooks are often cheaper than paper-printed books, and conservative consumers will choose to buy a Kindle or read an ebook in their computer to boost their savings. Slowly, all books will eventually be digitized, and paper-printed books are no longer existed. The society have abridged the…

Wall-e is a new, dare say one of the best upcoming roller coasters and it is based off of the sensational movie Wall-e made by Disney’s Pixar. In the movie, the plot takes place in 2805 where humans have abandoned Earth on the account of it was not in the ideal shape for humankind to live in. Therefore, humans left robots to clean up the mess they had made where after some time, the Earth became habitable once more. Mankind had been sending extraterrestrial vegetation evaluators or EVE to Earth…

Barnes and Noble is a publicly traded company. A publicly traded company is a company that “issues stocks that are traded on the open market.” Through research and study, Barnes and Noble’s history, leadership structure, and financial health will be addressed. In 1873 Charles M. Barnes started a business in Illinois which would later lead to Barnes and Noble according to the Barnes and Noble website. With the help of Leonard Riggio, Barnes and Noble is a “Specialty Retailer” “specializing in…