Pocket watch

Subject: Language Arts Grade Level: Preschool Title: telling the time to the hour Objective: Student will tell the time using a digital and analog clock. Standard: 1- Physical Development 2- approaches to learning, 3) Social and emotional Development, 4) language, communication, and emergent literacy, 5) Cognitive Development and General Knowledge. Material: Clock, book: it’s about the time by Stuart Murphy, white card stock, colored card stock (two colors), scissors, and brass paper fasteners.…

Before Thanksgiving break, we had the opportunity to watch part of The 11th Hour movie in health class. I continued to watch the film after class because it seemed very interesting to me. As I watched, I was surprised to hear that the bulk of the environmental problems in the world today are a result of individuals abusing what the world has to offer. Many of the natural disasters we face are a result of the earth fighting back to what we as humans are doing. I thought that this film was very…

Ancient technology has shaped the world we have today. Technology is where knowledge has been used to create or improve objects for the advance of the human race, which in the advances made often make life easier. Through the three technologies included in this essay (mechanical clock, double hulled canoe and aqueducts) it will be possible to explain how these technologies have evolved and caused change in our society today. These changed society by providing order, keeping time, transportation…

Intro In my world, everyone is born with a timer already implanted on their wrists. No one knows how or why we’re born with it: all we know is that it counts down to the moment you meet your soulmate. It took ages for people to reach this conclusion and still, it has been at the peak of human curiosity for as long as I could remember. The Timer has inspired a generous amount of literature (including many famous ones) and even more conspiracy theories than the universal question of life itself.…

If I want to be somebody & I want to go somewhere, you better wake up & pay attention. These are the words that come from a wise attentive woman. My mother the woman who gives me a hard time but will always be there by my side the same way when I was by hers as I watched her cry as I watched my father walk out the door without saying goodbye, because of the handcuffs on his wrist was too tight. I've been dealing with the Domestic abuse my whole life, it happened on the daily year after year I…

The “Ghost Clock” is a fascinating piece of artwork, done by the modern sculptor and furniture maker Wendell Castle. While the piece may appear to just be a grandfather clock covered with a sheet, it is actually one whole piece. The Ghost Clock is completely made of mahogany. To achieve the look of a sheet draped over a clock, Castle had to bleach the wood multiple times in order to strip it of all its natural color, seen on the bottom of the sculpture. This is part of what makes the piece…

sometimes promote bad behavior like Swearing and most parents do not want that. Graphs show that 45%-55% of kids start watching PG-13 movies at ages 8-9 and up. So if schools were to watch PG-13 Movies without permission parents might get upset. Because they might not allow tWhy can’t we watch PG-13 movies? Why can’t we watch PG-13 movies at school?. Most schools have a rating system and it is like this G-PG is for elementary school, PG-13 for middle schools with parent or guardian permission,…

Daylight Saving Time – March 12th 2017 Initiated by a satirical essay penned by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, the idea of changing sleep schedules came to mind due to the “rude awakening” that the summer sun caused Franklin at 6:00 am in Paris. However, it wasn’t until 1905 that the first ever campaign to move the clocks forward between April and October was promoted; The “Waste of Daylight” measure was led by Englishman William Willet. One morning on horseback, Willet had the epiphany that the…

“Radium City” is a documentary about a once prestigious clock making factory in Ottawa, Illinois. This documentary tells the real life story about the women who fell victim to the over exposure of radium by painting the numbers on clock faces. In the 1920’s, Radium Dial advertised a good paying job for painting luminous numbers on the faces of clocks to teenage girls that were straight out of high school that paid a better wage than what their parents were making every week. To these girls…

The audience who watched this play from the beginning know of Iago’s evil plot to cause as much hurt as possible, watch the same character pretend to be on the side of Othello. After Othello makes a “sacred vow” (523) to create a “capable and wide revenge/ [to swallow Cassio and Desdemona] up,” he kneels in front of Iago (520-521). The vulnerable main character of this…