Ranger School

Smoke Signals: The Importance of Story Telling Most of us are familiar with storytelling, being told stories throughout our lives. Story telling plays a huge role in Native American culture. Stories are told within households and communities to richen the relations and bonds between people. In Sherman Alexie’s film Smoke Signals, stories are used to show relationships between Suzy Song, Victor Builds-The-Fire, and Thomas Joseph which is illustrated in the stories shared between them. In the…

deeper connection with the book and feel empathetic for the distressed and emotional life that Junior lives. For example, one daily struggle junior encounters is finding a mode of transportation to school. Multiple factors affect whether or not Junior will make it to school on time or even make it to school in the first place, such as whether or not there is enough money to fill the car, if the car is functional, or if his father is too hungover to drive him (Alexie, 88). A cartoon in the…

Whether a book should be read in high schools is decided on by many different reason. There are a lot of reasons why books are banned from being read in schools. Things like the mention of witchcraft, sexual acts, or homosexuality can be reasons of throwing a book out of Being read in schools. The Rangers apprentice is a book about a boy who is training to be a ranger. It would be a good book to read in high schools because it teaches good morales and many other good lessons. It is also an…

Us eighth graders should to go to Lava Beds National Monument. It'll be an excellent learning experience for us. We can learn about science and nature to history and culture. Lava Beds National Monument has a lot of activities us students can learn from. Some students say they learn better with hand on activities. Others say they learn better outside of the classroom. So, read this and think about letting us go to Lava Bed National Monument. On, Lava Beds National Monument (U.S. National…

In the current education system only 40% of high schoolers actually feel engaged in school(Institute of Play). This leads to cases of apathy within students as they progress throughout their day at school, and possibly into their jobs as seen in another statistic that only 30% of adults feel engaged in their workplace; however, organizations such as the Institute of Play and Quest to Learn are hard at work to solve the problem of the “crisis of disengagement”. Apathy in the education system…

Alexander Wells’ life Goals and Ambitions Over the years I have had many goals to achieve and future ambitions that I have set to reach. I have been able to reach several goals throughout my lifetime so far. Goals are a very important part of a person’s life. It gives them a purpose to do things and challenges that person to give a perfect effort and strive to do greater. Everyone wants something but without setting it as a goal to reach for then it will never get done. If you want…

time has been set aside in recognition of all those who serve in public education, honoring and celebrating those who are making a difference in ensuring that each and every child receives a quality education. This year's theme is "Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility." On our upcoming Special Visitor's Day each child invites a very special visitor to come and hear highlights…

thought, as I am an above average thinker and proud. I felt that I had lost sensation and all feeling and with all my worth I pulled myself out of comfort zones to refill my my resources with some trouble. My grades in school began to raise over the course of the last months of school, but I still very much felt depleted and weak. Still, I understood that a full recovery came with full…

never attended school, he says, “There isn't a day that goes by in the restaurant that you don't…

program. Kiser, who completed his degree under a full Army scholarship, competed in the prestigious Best Ranger Competition, and earned 6th place out of fifty officer teams. Kiser, who attended school at Hendersonville High School before coming to Austin Peay, commissioned as one of the top of his class and attended Infantry BOLC, Airborne, and Ranger School before competing in the 2016 Best Ranger Competition. As it was his first time competing, he then had to…