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A new warning has just been issued to students: “The tiredness that you feel in the morning may not be your own fault but a product of your everyday habits. Some habits that lead to your tiredness could involve your tablets, phones, video games, or even your after school job!” In the past, children, teens, and even teachers have faced tiredness at least once throughout the day, and many want a solution. Teens face many obstacles when trying to acquire enough hours of sleep, and this problem…

Public schools in the United States have never fully adopted a school uniform like most private and religious schools have. Public schools do have a very descriptive dress code that they add to set the standards for how to properly dress for school. The schools normally involve rules that exclude inappropriate clothing for numerous reasons. Now, schools are starting to adopt the use of school uniforms. The reasoning is because the idea of school uniforms is theorized to benefit the learning…

The problem of evil has been a debated topic for many years. The question of, “why does God let bad things happen in the world” has intrigued many theologians and non-religious persons alike. To answer this question, I asked myself a few other questions. What are the assumptions, interpretation and inferences on the topic? How does point of view or perception effect this subject? Finally, what is the purpose of good and evil? What is good and what is evil? Throughout this paper I will discuss my…

Exploring the Relationship between the Application of School Uniform Policies and Third Grade Reading Achievement in United States Public Schools I. Introduction The motives for the implementation of dress code policies in United States public educational institutions have transformed since the earliest examples of the 19th century. In 1894, the announcement of uniform requirements for students at South Carolina’s Winthrop Normal and Industrial College was a push to eliminate sartorial…

Kings Trail Elementary Professional Development School demographics are that approximately 38.3% of students identify as African-American, which creates the largest segment of the student body and is expected in many schools in Jacksonville where 41.7% of student population is African American (Kings Trail Elementary School). In addition, 27.9% of students identify as Hispanic, while, 20.7% identify as White and 9.2% identify as Asian (Kings Trail Elementary School). Lastly, 3.5% identify with…

For those of you who have played baseball or softball. Have you ever gotten a sign from your coach to bunt, but you don’t know how? Well that has happened to me before. I’m going to show you how to bunt effectively in three easy steps that my coach taught me. The steps will be to be in the right position and twist your hips, bunt the ball, and run. The first step is to you need to twist your hips and be in the right position. First you want to be in the right position. There are five positions…

Economics is how we use our resources when there is scarcity. Time is a scarce resource, and people need to use it wisely. There are tradeoffs and differing amounts of utility people receive with what they do with their time. One-way people could spend their time is at the gym. While some people easily make a habit of going to the gym, others struggle to go and work out. People need to make decisions and they face tradeoffs with how to spend their time. One thing a lot of people say, is I…

In my sophomore year my baseball team qualified to the state championship game. In high school sports that is the highest stage you can reach. It was the dream of a lifetime to play the championship game at Volcano Stadium. I was so nervous, but I was able to keep my cool during warm ups. The game did not start the way we wanted it, we played terrible the first four innings, making many errors and mental mistakes that cost runs. The game was starting to favor the other team by a staggering…

Benefits of School Uniforms The first school district in the United States to require all students to wear uniforms was Long Beach, California, in 1994 (“School Uniforms”). Having students wear school uniforms serves a purpose as to letting the students focus more on school work as opposed to how they look around their peers. Still today, many school districts are considering the uniform policy causing the opposition to think differently. Because school uniforms have been proven with strong…

Evil is something that everyone sees and feels differently. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it in many ways ranging from “morally reprehensible” to simply “bringing sorrow, trouble, or destruction”. Obviously, evil is hard to describe and yet has been with us from the start. From a religious perspective, many cannot understand why an infinitely good being such as God would allow this evil suffering and pain to exist unless and feel betrayed by Him. Evil, to these people, is the direct…