Sparks

Abstract This paper will be discussing childhood obesity and gives ways to improve one’s lifestyle. I will be giving information all about this topic that is accurate based on official websites and readings. I will be giving ways to change children’s lifestyles that are healthy and explain how it will benefit them and help prevent childhood obesity. I have also interviewed a high school teacher of mine that will give her input on this topic. Preventing Childhood Obesity…

Without the aid of the context, the content of Tereska Draws Her Home can be easily manipulated. The visual only provides a small portion of the information needed to know to grasp the depth and emotional message that the image is trying to send and the historical moment that it stands for. For example, without knowing Tereska’s situation, someone might assume she is around 6 years old and that it is normal for her to be drawing inept and jagged scribbles. Annette Shore comments that children…

Have you ever wondered having to adapt to an environment you've never faced before? Well, in this novel, “Hatchet”, published by Gary Paulsen, points out that anyone can survive on their own, if they adapt to their environment . Twelve year old Brain was a New Yorker living in his mom house for the summer and living with his dad during school. His parents were divorced when he was younger. He was going on a trip back to his dad’s house on a private plane. Brian was on a private plane flying to…

convert fuel into energy. Diesel and gasoline are similar, but the biggest difference between the two are the way these combustions happen. Combustion happens in a gasoline engine when fuel is mixed with air, compressed by pistons and ignited by sparks from spark plugs. Diesel engines are…

has a youth emergency shelter in Fort Worth, and now SouthWest Kids provides dinner to the youth in the shelter. While catering dinner was a success, I wanted to involve more of the community in helping these children, and therefore contacted TCU SPARK to join SouthWest Kids in providing dinner and activities for the youth shelter. After interacting with the youth at the emergency shelter, I learned how important it is to have strong institutions and organizations, like ACH Child and Family…

In the short story, “Ball”, by Sam Koperwas, the author teaches us that parents putting their dreams and aspirations on their kids is dreadful thing for the kid and the parent. In the part, where the son gives up on trying to make a basket, the father pulls him by his ear and slams the ball hard into his stomach. Then, the father rambles on about eating an apple everyday and saying prayers can help you accomplish tasks. The father continues with this statement, “Argue and I’ll slap your eyes…

what Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois did. What Graff realized is that “Intellectualism” can be taught to students through more than just books. He argued that by allowing students to use their personal interest will not only spark an interest in learning, but will also improve both their overall academic and intellectual abilities as well.…

to advertise for things or use it as blog to broadcast views. Twitter sparks conversations that appeals to a wide population, this could be because the subject is funny or it could be because the conversation is serious and people want to voice their opinion. Conversations on twitter that have controversy tend to blow up no matter who or what is involved. Someone with 2 followers could have a tweet sent out that causes a spark, once it ignites it could be all over twitter with in hours.This is…

female. He saw gender as irrelevant, and portrayed images of male and female roles as coherent often merging the two by putting himself in drag or creating films that represented the sexuality of same sex relationships. It is imperative that if one sparks an interest in Andy Warhol’s pieces that they see it in person, because one is also able to see other works from the same artist that help give context to who the artist is, what they have interests in, and what they see as art. Moreover, one…

Colleges have been wrestling with the idea on whether or not trigger warnings should be on a syllabus. Trigger warnings are a forewarning that the material that is going to be discussed or read may be distressing to some people. Although trigger warnings do help give forewarning for certain people that are effected by PTSD or sexual assault. Trigger warnings are codling the minds of college student because it is not expanding their knowledge into present day issues. Why must trigger warning be…