The Bucket List

Preparing the Classroom One thing that almost every teacher I talked to while helping prepare classrooms for the first day of school said was, “preparing your classroom takes longer than you’d think.” I am grateful for the assignment to go in before school begins and help a teacher set up their classroom because it showed me how crazy preparing for the first day really is and how much time is needed for preparation. I did my participation hours at Cassville Primary School where I was able to…

All my summers during my High School career, starting my freshmen year in 2011, have usually all been about working, working and working. But most importantly, I’ve always dedicated half of my summers to wrestling camps. Wrestling is a big deal for me and my family. It all started with my god-father wrestling in High School and his brothers. In my culture and religion, your first god parents which are your baptism godparents, are like your second parents. I grew up looking up to my godfather…

old friend, I pretended not to pay attention to his remark, feigning, that way, to have already pondered “the importance of being V.S.” and discarded, for some deep and mysterious reason of mine, the possibility for the old man to be included in the list of suspects. Sanvergogne was not duped by my poor attempt to fool him, but he was my friend, and it was impossible for him to conceive any fault in the brilliant mechanic that he so wrongly imagined I had for a brain. He quickly changed the…

a normal American family because of “racialized enmity” (137.) This exploration leads her other argument of continuing distinctions between minority groups in the United States which is directly related to political speak in the United States. She lists the labels that given to these groups, such as “Jap,” “Chinese Communist,” “Vietcong,” and argues this problem persists even today in a Post-9/11 environment (137.)…

1. The medical practice currently places a stronger emphasis on the biological aspects of illness and overlooks many ethical and personal aspects that should also be accounted for. This naturalistic approach generalizes illness based on “natural or physical facts that are sufficient to explain the human world.” (Carel, 9) Although biology plays a very important role in the understanding of illness, the most ethical and important role should be the patient’s perspective of their own illness and…

3.1 Understanding Cloud Computing (IBM, 2014 [17]) Cloud computing, often referred to as simply ‘the cloud’ is the delivery of on-demand computing resources everything from applications to data centres over the internet on a pay-for-use basis. Cloud computing is the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. The salient characteristics of cloud computing based on the definitions…

Two Kids on a Plane (This story was written in 2002 and is used here to help explain why it is so important to stay positive about yourself and others. It is also a story I never want to forget, and I always said I would publish it some day, so here it is. You should be able to get some lessons out of it on ways to stay positive when life is not going your way. Try talking to yourself the same way I talk to myself and see if it doesn’t help with controlling your ego and consciousness when…

The Good, The Bad, and The Laws When it comes to the topic of when someone can break the law, most of us will readily agree that breaking the law is unjust because laws are put in place to keep the community safe. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of when a law can acceptably be broken. Whereas some conclude that laws should never be broken, others maintain that there are some (4) instances where laws should be broken such as when the law is immoral. Socrates and…

Everyone has their unique ways of learning something from start to finish. Often times we take for-granted our abilities to successfully teach a task or technique to ourselves not to mention others. Once we find that drive or that spark we can put forth the effort to teach us something that we have never learned before. Its all about the ideas behind what actually goes into learning something new. In an effort to gain a better understanding of how we learn I have thought of a learning goal,…

‘Dishonesty is the quickest means to wealth! That’s why we are hardened criminals!’ This was the philosophy of Sam and Lawrence, rascals of the most feared Dry Skull Gang. They had large knife scars across their faces denoting membership to this gang which bore testimony to their ruthlessness. And this was their anthem: ‘The rich get richer by exploiting the poor so we have to steal from them in turn.’ These criminals were born and brought up badly within a crime-ridden environment called…