The commons

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. -James Beard Growing up a meal at the dinner table was something that was always guaranteed to bring my family together. Everyone in my household had a very busy schedule. Whether it be soccer practice, basketball games, my parents working long hours, and mountains of homework that even as a small child I would receive on a nightly basis. Dinner was something I could always look forward to. It didn't matter if it was 4pm or 9:30 at night, my…

What do teachers think about common core? As a student, I thought common core was stupid. It is not right for everybody in my opinion, especially for younger students in elementary and even grade school. I first thought of this question of common core after my teacher interview. I asked what were some of the struggles seen in education and she replied back with common core. “Meeting the demands of this, the rigorous testing and the amount of testing is very difficult because not only are you…

Describe what a common stock yield is and why it is important for an investor. A common stock yield also known as dividend yield is a financial ratio that measures the total cash given to common shareholders in relation to the market value per share (Accounting Course, n.d.). In other words, common stock measures how much an investor will receive on every dollar invested in shares. The formula for calculating a common stock is Common Stock equal Cash Dividends per Share divided by Market Value…

Most people have a general sense of what the common core is but they are uneducated just to what it actually entails. In 2009 the standards for teaching in our schools that we know as the common core were launched. According to the common core’s website, corestandards.org, the common core was created in order to have equal standardize across our nation. Before the common core, states were able to mandate their own expectations of their students leading to an unbalanced education system. These…

are that Common Core Standards should not be in use. Common core standards should not be in use because every student has different learning abilities. In a classroom full of different individuals it becomes difficult for for students who take more time for develope and make sense of he information being presented to them, then for those who can easily pick up information and make sense of. According to…

talk about how we serve the common good through gun control. To do that though, I first have to define the “common good.” The common good is the respect for the life and dignity of every person and requires a commitment to the social well-being and development of the group, especially by ensuring that individual basic needs are met. We can do this by trying to establish and maintain a peaceful and just society. But does gun control fall under the category of the “common good?” Personally, I…

Most Common Essay Conventions Errors 1. Hitler the leader of Germany during the Holocaust believed their was only one way to make the world better and it was to get rid of the Jews through a variety of techniques such as labor, dehumanization, exhaustion, or starvation. 1. Hitler, the leader of Germany during the Holocaust, believed there was only one way to make the world better, and it was to get rid of the Jews through a variety of techniques such as labor, dehumanization, exhaustion, or…

ADHD is a common disorder which can have the children to disturb the class by misbehaving, talking too much, and always moving around. ADHD is a mental disorder that affects children and adolescents wither their behavioral and emotional adjustment. These type of disorder overlaps with a learning disability (LD) since the students tend to have issues with either comprehension of reading, math, and writing. These correlates with the two types of ADHD which are predominantly inattentive and…

legal field, causing less and less people to become lawyers in this world. Lawyers have always faced many stereotypes that do not define every attorney but just because they are lawyers they are put into stereotypes that do not fit the person. One common stereotype of a lawyer is “the rich lawyer.” There is always…

Smith calls this mode of rhetoric common sense. Citing Addison, Swift and Bolingbroke as examples of communicating to our sympathies Smith says: This you’ll say is no more than common sense, and indeed it is no more. But if you’ll attend to it all the Rules of Criticism and morality when traced to their foundation, turn out to be some Principles of Common Sense which every one assents to; all the business of those arts is to apply these Rules…