Schoolwork

What does it mean to be independent to you? What first of all what does independence even look like? Being independent comes in different shapes and form for everyone but what does it look like for Boston Public Schools? Boston Public High School cuts students short on independence. Choosing when and how students learn certain things, forcing one 's body to become accustomed to when it 's time to eat and when it 's okay to use the bathroom. Being independent is being able to take any situation…

In 2007, 1.5 million students were home-schooled in the United States, and that number continues to grow at a rapid rate even to this day. In just an eight-year time span from 1999 to 2007, there was a seventy-four percent increase of home-schooled children in the United States alone (Kunzman 2). This data corresponds with the rise of Americans who believe that parents should have the right to home-school their children; the approval rates for homeschooling jumped from just sixteen percent in…

are affected directly because ADHD is a cause of children’s failure in school. If, parents remain undiagnosed they usually cause problems for the children at home. These problems can cause children to become stressed and unable to focus on their schoolwork, which in turn causes them to fail. Stress can cause the child to develop mental disorders of their own if they do not already have…

“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of HP As an employee of Chicago Public Schools, my overarching mission now is to make the goal Carly Fiorina speaks of, a priority across the school district. Though I would add, for the goal to be complete, we must also transform that insight into action. We must transform data into meaningful and positive action that will result in improved student outcomes, a more fulfilling student…

Why Teenagers Aren’t Sleeping Enough Imagine this; you look inside a classroom. You will most likely find a teacher at the front of the class and students sitting at their desk. Yet, look closer, and you might notice a familiar trend: many of these students are not paying attention. Instead, they are dozing off or even completely asleep. At least once a week, more than one- quarter (28 percent) of high school students fall asleep in school, 22 percent fall asleep doing homework, and 14 percent…

It has been about a year since I found out I had cancer. Having cancer affected my school work, my taekwondo training, and my emotional and physical self. In November of 2014, after being sick for months, my father brought me to the doctor to see what was going wrong with me. After being examined by the doctor, she told me I had strep throat and my neck was swollen because of it. She told me that if the swelling in my neck didn't go down in a few months I was to make another appointment to see…

This supports item A as it states 'a set of rules laid down by the state in the interest of the ruling class'. This is reflected in crime statistics; the most common offenders are young, black males between the ages of 15-21. A counter argument to this is the idea of Strain Theory developed by Robert Merton. Traditional Marxism argues that it is increased aggression and individualistic nature of the capitalist society that inspires individuals to commit crime, however Merton comments that it…

can text and walk or listen to music while exercising. I can eat while scrolling through social media on my phone and I can sing while taking a shower. Most people can perform low-level attention tasks easily. One thing I cannot multitask is doing schoolwork while listening to music. It has to be completely silent for me to focus on my work. Unfortunately,…

favourite of his mother, and was always with her”(Equiano 23-24). Abruptly taken from his mother’s love he was soon dragged into the confusing and twisted slave trade. Both men were now lost and purposeless, Franklin, without his literature and schoolwork was lost in world of trades and work forces. While Franklin was meandering around trying to find what trade would best suit him, Equiano was brought into a new and unfamiliar world of confusion, hard…

The Signature of Jesus is a book about offering Christians to live “faith” and not religion. What this means is that the author Brennan Manning wants us as readers to live our lives like Jesus; committed to simplicity, purity of heart, and obedience to the gospel. From reading and studying the first pages of The Signature of Jesus, I learned the very purpose in which why Brennan Manning wrote the book. The purpose of the Signature of Jesus is to try and influence ourselves to live like Jesus.…