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Stories from the Grave Cemeteries bring to life memories of the dead. Visiting the Syracuse cemetery was eye-opening for me. The only times I have walked in cemeteries, have been for the burials of both my cousin and grandfather, and when I visited the American cemetery in Normandy, France. For some inexplicable reason, I have always been wary of graveyards, memorials, and cemeteries. This project thrust me into a world that I have never cared to observe. I didn’t learn as much about death on my…

I currently work as an Interventionist. I provide small group interventions to at risk elementary students. The teacher leadership program has added purpose to my profession as an educator. I’ve learned to use data and records on students as powerful resources to plan effective lessons. Data lets me learn strengthens and weaknesses of the students. Viewing past and present records of students helps me to understand the whole child. When I review data and records of students, it enables me…

and 12 Angry Men we also have one character in each play arguing for justice, to stop the execution of innocent people. In 12 Angry Men, we have Juror #8 who changes the other jurors minds slowly, the first change of voting happens when the foreman tallies the votes from the second vote. He says “ Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. Please. Six guilty. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. Not guilty. Guilty.” (Rose 26) Juror #8 was able to persuade another juror into believing that the boy was…

Brief Description of the Activity: The activity will begin with students drawing a self portrait on a cue card. They must choose a colour that represents them and use the colour more than once in their portrait. After everyone is finished their self portrait, we will make a bar graph as a class to represent the class’ favourite colours. This activity will begin to show students what the axis of the graph are and introduce proper mathematical language (axis, scale, and one to one…

History has seen its fair share of great architectural works, from the Roman Colosseum and the Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt, to the more modernized Casa Batlló of Barcelona and the Empire State Building of New York. These pinnacles of architecture helped define their societies with their exterior beauty and their underlying meaning. But, there is one monument in particular that to this day, that has still not been fully understood in regards to its origin and meaning. This monument is one…

Harari’s Sapiens Sapiens written by Yuval Noah Harari depicts the history of humans in his own way. By bringing the history and science of human development together he creates valid points that make the mind of the reader rethink their existence. His ideas began with the Cognitive and Agricultural development and how it changed the course of history. In many ways there was much to find in these two eras and from the finding Harari explains his reasoning for believing why they were…

Student success is defined as a student who has received a final GPA in the class of a 3.0. Student success is defined by the student’s ability to master tasks associated with presented information as well as recount the skills at different intervals during the particular school year and beyond. Success is also defined by the student’s ability to participate as a hardworking, productive member of society. We measured student success using the GPA scale. We are able to compare the GPAs of…

for a favor from the secretary of the navy to be able to return to his homeland. Captain Barclay was giving a speech a couple short months later and gave a toast to Commodore Perry and which everybody applauded. Barclay then lead on to tell the tallies from the battle that read that there were forty-one killed and ninety-one injured. The British assumed the they would be tortured and scalped by Perry but he sent them on land and had them well fed. The officers that were killed in the battle…

The nurse’s involvement in research and transformation of evidence-based practice into the clinical setting has been highly endorsed over the years. This is due to the fact that nurses work closely with patients and spend a lot of time with the patient than any other member of the health care team. Nurses are encouraged to raise their concern and come up with evidence-based practices that would support interventions and improve patient outcomes. The implementation of a diet and exercise…

Describe the Work Hall of Bulls is a beautiful Upper-Paleolithic cave painting made in ca. 15,000 B.C. The painting is scaled larger than life size standing 25 feet tall and 62 feet wide; and, it resides inside of a cave on a coarse, rigid, and uneven rock wall. The cave is located in a small geographical area called Lascaux located in Dordogne France. Furthermore, there is no known artist for the Hall of Bulls, because of historical ignorance and the age of the painting; however,…