Puzzle

Many writers, find that beginning to write can be extremely terrifying and difficult. Especially, when you are first learning the correct techniques to master this process. Although, it something that definitely won’t happen overnight. For example, when your baking Nestle Toll House Cookies you follow a recipe. You also have a set of ingredients, and precise instructions that you go by, to correctly bake delicious Nestle Toll House Cookies. The same recipe follows to create a good written essay,…

someone like me might call the “Land of Drive-Thrus.” My origin is rooted deep within the soil of my homeland, Hong Kong. From falling off a slide to meeting the Monkey King, each of my memories in Hong Kong is a part of the jigsaw puzzle that represents my life. This puzzle would be incomplete if any pieces were missing, as each piece has its assigned location, placed one by one, side by side. “Look, son, I think you need a better education. Where else would you get a better…

Science coming from the Latin word Scientia, meaning “knowledge,” is a systematic structure that builds and organizes knowledge from testable explanations and predictions about the universe. The nature of scientific progress and the rationality of scientific change lies between Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. The two prominent philosophers of the 20th century had very distinct viewpoints of science which led to countless debates. One of them, which I believe to be the most intriguing, was the…

from afar throughout his entire life due to how he was never able to be a part of his son’s life directly so he admired him from a distance. “I watched him tie his shoe from across the street.” This shows how desperate Leo is to fill this missing puzzle piece of himself that he has been longing for his entire life and has been holding him back from fully existing in this world as Isaac can be seen as the most important piece in Leo’s life. Leo tries his best to fill this emptiness inside of him,…

probably, Yuugi was a target for derision quite often in his younger years. Another reason for his bullying was the fact that he leaned towards playing various games by himself, being the childish boy that he was. Board games, card games, video games, puzzles, and games of all kinds are his forte, and being raised in a game shop owned by his fellow game-loving grandfather sure encouraged his propensity towards them. Despite the fact that he had defended a couple of his bullies (Jounouchi and…

Autism can be referred to as a puzzle piece. The puzzle piece represents the medical mystery and complexity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Whether your child has autism, or your child is in the classroom with a child that has autism, it is a subject that we must all familiarize ourselves as well as our children. As an educator, I see autism prevalence in schools on the rise. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) new data has been released that shows 1…

Two ways that I could share my personal cultural background with my students include displaying a personal presentation about me; the presentation could be completed on a PowerPoint, movie maker, etc. the presentation would include pictures and stories about my family, how/where I grew up, my religion, hobbies, and other aspects of my life that define me as an individual. The second way I could share my personal cultural background with students would be to display the historical importance of…

When students rotated to the second station they were challenged to match vocabulary with definitions by piecing puzzle pieces together. As I teach math, it is easy to fall into the same pattern of drill and practice and expecting all students to demonstrate their problem solving skills through completion of math problems. As a special education teacher, within a math classroom, I constantly am thinking of how to accommodate all my students. However, after taking this course, it brought…

The book "Love Medicine" has a time span from 1934-1984, where it draws its attention on a dozen different main characters lives which all interconnect with one another. The book follows a circular pattern with it stating in 1981 backtracking its way to the 30s and then finally ending where it started in the 80s. It begins with the death of June Morrissey and while she does pass away at the beginning she has a prominent role in the story. Almost every main character takes a turn narrating the…

stumbled upon a game called Portal 2 that taught me a very valuable skill: puzzle solving. In Portal 2, you play as a silent protagonist named Chell, whose goal is to escape from Aperture Science, a testing facility run by a rogue AI named GLaDOS. You escape the facility by using a device called a Portal Gun, that, as you may have guessed, shoots portals. There are surfaces that conduct the portals, and your job is to solve puzzles using this technique. What I didn’t know at the time was that…