Six-Day War

anticipated. In November 2016, Albertan Premier, Rachel Notley, announced a new pilot project aimed to amend current child care issues; financial costs and space shortages. The $10-million program will involve 18 Alberta daycare centers offering $25-a-day care (Bellefontaine, 2016). Centers participating in the program will receive $500, 000 or more in grants in the first year, and be eligible to receive two more years of funding. In addition, the program boasts creating up to 1,000 new child…

Shouldn’t The Gap Decrease With Age? The gap also increases with age. Younger men and women pay gaps are closer together and expand further apart as women get older. Ages 18 to 24 the gap is at 88%, at age 25 to 34 it lessens to an 86% difference, and after age 35 the gap closes to 76% of what men earn (consequences for women). Why would the gap widen with age, when the gap should close because of experience gained? This is because of what people would called the “mommy penalty”. The mommy…

I came home to unpack the night before the first day of 8th grade started. I had just spent a week with my dad before summer vacation came to an end. My mom called me downstairs to have a discussion with her and Ron, my step dad. I assumed it had something to do with Ron’s kids, Vanessa and Trey, moving in with us. But to my great surprise, they told me that they were getting a divorce and Ron would be moving out that night. Those next couple weeks were kind of a blur. My mom was calling our…

a severe and profound school for children ages 4-21. When asked what a typical day of her job looks like she responded by saying that "there is no such thing as a typical day for me! Mainly because there is a lot of variance in the day and the routine depending on the needs of the environment. However, our classroom usually has up to 4 students if all are in attendance, and being that we only attend half a day, their is usually an activity already taking place so…

‘Chocolat’, written by Joanne Harris, is a novel that talks about the way of both the protagonist and antagonist got to where they are now. They are in a small town in France called Lansquenet-sous-tanner where the protagonist Vianne runs a chocolate shop. Things are hard for Vianne facing tradition and the black man. Joanne Harris is trying to use symbols to describe two major meanings in the book with the wind and the black man. These are all looks on the effect that the church has on the…

top eight wrestlers in the state championship tournament. Most years haven’t been successful, but last year was different. In The November of 2015, on the Monday that wrestling practice was planned to start, I showed up to practice after all day at school to meet my teammates for the year and plan out the season. This year been my fourth time doing this routine. I thought I knew what I was to expect, until my coach, Esvelt, walked up to me doing his little happy dance and whispered to me…

could have a Nothing Day, he suggested. I don’t think you are, he said. They told me that those days are canceled… He thought again. You know what? I’m going to come up with our own day. My daughter and I used to have these days when we had nothing to do, and they are not called Nothing Days. Let’s call them… Let’s call them lazy days. Yes. We’re not having a Nothing Day. We’re having a Lazy Day. What are Lazy Days? Well… That’ s a good question. You get to be lazy all day. You can’t go to…

The most important holiday in Mexico is the Day of the Dead, El Día de Los Muertos. Surprisingly, this holiday is anything but depressing. In the weeks before, Mexicans excitedly prepare to welcome the souls of the dead, who come back each year to visit the living. From October 31 through November 2 this year, I attended this fiesta with my roommate Manuel. By sharing Day of the Dead activities in his family’s home, in the marketplace, and in a cemetery, I have observed that Mexicans, unlike…

people every day. We see a man in a suit with hair gelled back buying flowers and assume they're for his wife. But they're actually for his dying mother. We come in contact with clerks at the grocery store, telemarketers asking for money, a woman rushing past you in the airport, but you have no clue who they are, what they do. They all have their own stories, their own lives, and we only get a 5-second glance into those stories. Take into consideration that there are 86,400 seconds in a day, and…

the movie, but he couldn't. Memories of Lucinda slithered into his mind, blocking out all the noise from the movie and the laughter from the impersonations being done among the students. Daniel's mind swept over to their memory of their Valentine's Day…