Family History When tragedy strikes it does not hit you until you see it with your own eyes yet alone endure it in your own history. Each day mankind must live in the silent battle between good and evil. On December 14th of 2012 in Newton, Connecticut evil won. Twenty children were fatally shot all between the ages of six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Prior to the shooting Adam Lanza, the shooter, shot and killed his mother in their own…
Although the Middle East counties’ education systems emerged around the same time, how they are structured varies in each of the countries. The basic break down in the Middle East is a lower or primary level for about 10 years. The primary level is required and free for the students. After primary school, a majority of students move onto secondary education. In most countries, the secondary education is divided into three categories: general academic, teacher training, and vocational to…
The Van Hiele Levels of Geometric Reasoning describes how students learn geometry. It was a theory worked on by Pierre Van Hiele and his wife, Dina Van Hiele-Geldof. They were Dutch researchers and teachers. They came up with this theory at the University of Utrecht in the year 1957. The Van Hiele’s did multiple research experiments and it took years for them to complete this thesis. Shortly after the thesis was complete, Dina passed away (Šafránková, 2012, p. 72). These levels have five…
Saturday Morning Art was a meaningful community service engagement project. The program increased my awareness of some of the needs and issues in my community regarding art programs inside and outside of schools. The project gave me the opportunity to self-reflect and understand that art is not always a common subject in Education. Saturday Morning Art is located at the University of St. Francis in the downstairs of the Mimi & Ian Rolland Art & Visual Communication Center. The program houses 6…
been a recent increase in Western education at the secondary and higher educational levels. However, preprimary school is still a prerequisite to government-established public schools to allow for the teaching of reading and writing (Milkias, 2012). Primary educational institutions account for 11,754 buildings and have on average 7,876,188 students attending (World,…
In the series Six Feet Under, the underlying color scheme is muted and cold. The strategic use of color in the series coincides with the underlying theme of death throughout the show. The first instance of the dark color scheme is shown during the show’s theme song, in the theme song there are many items that appear in gray, brown, and white colors. The flowers in the opening song of the show start off with bright green and pink colors, which quickly turn to dark brown dull colors as the flowers…
Walking into Hemlock Creek Elementary School, I get a feeling that I do not feel at any other school. I was able to attend this school the first two years after it was built. A great number of memories have been made here by the kids heading to school. The children are kind and greet you every day. During the summer, a lot of additions were being made to this somewhat new school by Miron Construction. They were adding a new gym and many new classrooms because the school was expanding quickly.…
Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Thesis: In his preface, Bailyn describes his texts as a "preliminary effort to open up the questions and identify major themes of a very large area of history which we still only vaguely understand (xii). In chapter one he goes onto define the actual idea behind the title: " It brings together the major aspects of life in the American colonies- social structure and settlement patterns,…
DiNardo, Brown, & Barlow, 1994). The ADIS assesses anxiety disorders, as well as psychosis and other diagnoses that are often comorbid with anxiety disorders, such as major depression. The inclusion criteria for recruitment required that patients have primary diagnoses of DSM-IV anxiety disorders, but excluding those with specific phobias and public-speaking anxiety. They have to have had…
presidential election, the first stage is the primaries. During the primaries candidates are campaigning to be the party nomination and represent their party affiliation. But an Independent campaigning has to gather signatures on a petition to be put on the ballot. Depending on which state a voter lives in determines whether or not they vote in open primaries, where any registered voter can participate regardless of party affiliation, or closed primaries, where only registered members of a…