Teasing

mid-western sounding American name. I also got a really good look at her gorgeous face and smile to go with her beautiful everything. I liked how she dressed. We played volleyball for a little while and we kept looking at each other smiling and teasing each other. I jokingly pretended to put an evil hex on her in order to win. And we laughed. We weren't…

Why is it important to Learn about ancient Greece? A quote by writer Vadim Kotelnikov once said, “If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history.” Ancient Greece is a huge part of history. The legacies they left behind have helped us develop into the society that we are today- advanced, modern and knowledgeable. We no longer rely on myths, gods or goddesses to blame or thank for our everyday lives. On the other hand, they certainly left incredible and valuable knowledge that…

Ganwar,Dave,my Aunt and Ganwar’s new girlfriend and I are getting ready to go to the airport.I cannot express my feelings, but I will try. I feel like the sun came out, but again I am feeling sad, remembering my Dad and Lual. I begin to cry, but then I remember my Mama is finally coming to America to live with us. Our family will be complete. Before we left for the airport I spoke to Ganwar. It’s been 1 year since I arrived and I have made so many friends. I made Ganwar feel better about…

some few brushed by the wings of clarion angels, God enters with the power and grace of a river in spate. But for most of us, spiritual thaw comes gradually. It starts with God touching our crusty winter soul with warm fingers, gently loosening it, teasing it away from the stranglehold of old ways of thinking and acting. Slowly a living trickle seeps out, running along the way of least resistance, penetrating cracks in our spiritual armor, slipping inward, disappearing into darkness. God…

This feature is shown through Patty’s ability to realize how her family really feels about her. Before her traumatic experience, Patty believed that despite her family always teasing her and not supporting her sports, they cared about her as much as her siblings. However, after seeing how her parents, Joyce and Ray, deal with her experience, Patty realizes how little of a priority she is to them. Her parents care more about not…

Uniforms are taking away our individuality! We use clothes to reveal our personality. Doing so will show others our differentiates to everyone else. For the past decade students, parents, and teachers have been struggling about this topic. In half the schools the uniforms work very well, and in others not so much. Although dress codes and uniforms show it helps with grades, these uniforms shouldn’t be apart of school because it costs a lot, it doesn’t change the fact that kids would still bully…

One of the oldest tricks in the book is to pretend to be insane and, that way, some people automatically let their guards down. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet and Ophelia goes crazy after the death of their fathers. However, one appears to be genuine, while the other is intended only to fool some people. Ophelia’s apparent insanity comes from the experience of her father’s death, while Hamlet’s is based solely on revenge. Ophelia deals with her madness alone while Hamlet uses…

Kinsey-Definitions Many people mistake bullying and harassment as the same thing, but the consequences are different. Bullying is the imbalance of power and the act of degrading someone else. It is usually physical and done by someone the victim may know. A bully’s intent is to pick on a person who will not fight back. Bullying is based off of jealousy, which is why bullies want the victim to be portrayed in a negative way. There is just not one form of bullying there are several types of…

Aaron is a 9 year-old boy in the 4th grade at Schultz Elementary School. He was referred to the child study team because of poor academic performance and impulsive, oppositional, and sometimes threatening behavior. Aaron has difficulties with decoding words and reading comprehension. Ms. Faber, Aaron’s teacher, believes Aaron’s poor reading skills are due to lack of practice at home and low motivation triggered by frustration. Aaron has difficulties with disruptive behaviors in the classroom; he…

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…