Cascarones During Semana Santa (Holy Week) in some places around America, there is food, parades, celebrations, alfombras and parties. According to Catholic traditions, meat should not be eaten the Friday in Semana Santa. For the parades, the costaleros (person carrying the image on their shoulders) carry pasos (images) to the catedral (main church). Other celebrations are fallas which are burnings of ninots (sculptures made of paper mache). Alfombras (carpets) are made in Guatemala with…
An amazing trait that humans have is their learning capacity. There are many ways to learn. For example, some organisms learn by trial and error, and learn from their mistakes. Experimental psychology conducts experiments to understand and predict behavior. There are three types of learning, observational learning, classical conditioning, and instrumental conditioning. Observational learning is when someone learns by imitating or copying from other people. If a group of children watch a…
Kids have the ability to interact with a guy named Joe and his cute, blue puppy, Blue. Along with Joe, children work to solve a mystery that Blue has laid out for them. With this show, children have the ability to be entertained through interaction with an animated puppy that also stimulates their brain. Though “Sesame Street” has been seen for many years and is highly known, this show still continues to branch out more and more. This Day, a newspaper out of Nigeria stated that later this year,…
feel better and buy it. This proves that kids felt better when the character looked down at them, and they bought it, giving the company more money. A technique advertisers use is called testimonial. Advertisers put popular kids shows, like SpongeBob SquarePants, on things like mac n’ cheese boxes to get kids to buy them. This evidence shows that advertisers will use popular kids role models for children to buy their…
mind has to imagine. When you think of imagination, immediately you may think of unicorns, rainbows, and other fantasies that do not have any real physical realities. In Season 3, Episode 4b of the popular children’s cartoon SpongeBob Squarepants, the main character SpongeBob gives his own philosophy on imagination. He receives a cardboard box in the mail, and turns it into a “box of imagination”, in which he and his companion, Patrick Star, have different adventures inside the box, such as…
Number four and lastly be yourself. Life is too short and no fun when you pretend to be someone you’re not. When you truly know who you are, people will truly love you for that. Don’t be afraid to admit you snort when you laugh too hard, watch Spongebob Squarepants for fun, only know quotes from Disney movies, sing the loudest you can if you want to and dance like nobody's watching when you’re alone. There are so many things I have learned in the past four years in high school. While I’ve…
Research Shows Texting in Class is a Distraction In the journal article “OMG! Texting in Class,” by Amanda Gingerich and Tara Lineweaver the researchers explained how they set up two separate experiments in order to truly be able to tell if texting in class is a distraction. For the first experiment, several students volunteered to be part of the text group that would be texting a pre-written conversation with others who also volunteered (Gingerich & Lineweaver, 2014). Before the lecture…
octopus species, and I believe I am the best option as your head chef. The Krusty Krab is Bikini Bottom’s hit burger shop, and I know that I can deliver the necessary needs to uphold this strong reputation. I understand that your original chef, Spongebob Squarepants, has retired. I will do my very best to replace him. First, I’ll let you know a little bit about me. My family went through overproduction. Because of this, many of my brothers and sisters were not able to survive. When I was around…
About two years ago I went to my cousin's cabin for the weekend. It takes about an hour and 30 minutes to get there. When we got there I immediately got out of the car and ran up to the house. When I opened the door I ran inside the first thing I saw My cousin on his Xbox 360 playing NHL 15. He asked me if I wanted to play a game with him, I said yes because NHL 15 is my favorite video game. He chose Team Usa to play as and I chose Team Canada to play as. I ended up winning the game 7-5.…
Imagine, living on a farm with eight different horses. For a young woman named Amber this is an everyday reality. On August 31,2016 I interviewed a seventeen year old junior named amber. This is the First time i met this girl who is in my period four english class. While interviewing Amber Mantsch, I discovered many interesting things about her family life, academic interests, as well as her personality traits. According to Amber her family is very close. Amber is seventeen years old she…