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a. Strengths: An assets of hope academy is that they have 95% of their students located in less than 5 miles of the building. This allows not having to fund bussing and lowers cost for getting students to and from school. The community has come together and helps make Hope Academy possible. Teachers that truly care about students, have and are willing to put in the extra time for the STEM Program. Growing student body as well as great faculty to student ratio. Hope Academy is filled with…

Sit still. Pay attention. Stop looking out the window. All things that boys hear at best a few times during their school year. Many boys come into the classrooms on the first day to a teacher who are preconditioned to think that they will be trouble and so they are treated accordingly like they are causing trouble even if they are not. There is a reason as to why boys are doing academically worse than girls and a large portion of it is the societal expectations that they will do worse even…

Shadow Experience Reflection This paper will discuss the shadowing experience that I had while following two different nurses at Swedish American Hospital in Rockford, Illinois. Description of Experience My shadowing took place on Sunday, September 27, 2015, from 3 p.m. until 11 p.m. on the 9th floor of Swedish American Hospital, in Rockford. Since I shadowed from 3-11 I had the opportunity to follow two nurses throughout my day. The 9th floor is made up of patient rooms, of all the…

This Is Me Eighteen years ago on June 16 I graced my parents with presence shortly after my birth my parents gave me the name Nicole Merkel-Hays,I am 18 years old. When I was a kid, wanted to be a teacher when I grew up because i always loved school especially science class. With in the last two years I decided that teaching would not touch enough children's lives so I searched for a new career path to follow and landed on social work.I eventually strive to earn a living working for the…

Addams’s grew up in a privileged background, she graduated from Rockford Seminary in 1882 and did not have to participate in paid labor much similar to her peers in the same social standing. In her autobiography, she described that it was a overall pleasant experience to live at the Hull House and shies away from negative…

“Careers and higher education are leading to the masculinization of women, with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country. When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to?” This quote is taken from the film A League of Their Own when a woman on the radio, Maida Gillespie, is disgusted with what is happening to the “role” of women in America. However, its not only her that is appalled at what is happening, but also most of…

essayed many versatile roles in films like Chinatown, Back to School, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Once Upon A Time in America, Convoy, Downtown: A Street Tale, Last Exit to Brooklyn. He took many television projects, appearing as an actor in The Rockford Files, Baretta, Law and Order, Walker, M*A*S*H, Texas Ranger, The Sopranos as Bobby Baccalieri’s father. After his appearance on Baretta, he started his career as a writer and scripted the CBS television movie Daddy; I Don’t like It like…

On September 6, 1860, political and social activist Laura Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois. Growing up, Jane struggled with self-confidence issues and she felt like she couldn’t find her place in this world. Throughout her childhood her health began to deteriorate. She struggled with mental and physical health problems such as, depression and Potts disease (tuberculosis seen on the vertebrate). At the age of two, her mother Sarah passed away. She came from a family of a wealthy…

Grand Theft Auto V is a video game designed by Rockstar North and was released in 2013 to critical acclaim. The game revolves around three protagonists or antagonist (depending on your views) named Franklin, Michael, and Trevor who are all on a mission to succeed in the city of saints, Los Santos, which in itself is a satirical reimagining of modern day Los Angeles. The game starts off with a bank robbery that occurs in the small city of North Yankton. Here you are introduced to Michael, Trevor,…

Enheduanna (~2300 BCE): Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire in Ancient Sumeria, approximately 2300 BCE. She is the largely credited as being the world’s first named author; she wrote numerous poems, psalms, and prayers which lay the foundation for later Hebrew psalms and the Homeric Hymns of Ancient Greece. Enheduanna served as High Priestess to the Akkadian Empire, and was charged with the responsibility to maintain the city’s temple complex…