The Equalizer

Introduction Students with visual impairments need to study the same subjects within the core curriculum as their sighted peers, such as mathematics, language arts and history. However, individuals with visual impairments are unable to access the core curriculum on the same level because they lack visual skills that are responsible for casual learning. Without intentional and direct intervention by a highly specialized educator, students with visual impairments are at a disadvantage. In…

from the earliest starting point. Household stresses from living in destitution tend to build up in a child, making it extremely hard to focus on any fundamental instruction taking place in school. While education has been envisioned as the great equalizer, this promise has been more of a myth than reality for…

Education is meant to be an equalizer between all Americans. There are many inspirational stories of students who have completed their education and became successful member of society. Yet, we are swarmed with failure, mainly in our public education system. Social class, gender and ethnicity have a unfortunate impact in the inequality in educational access and success rate in basic and higher education in America. The social and economic status of a student is the biggest predicament of the…

My Love for Continuous Learning My passion to learn budded when my consciousness began to see the world around me and contemplate how a person can have a decent and convenient life. I was born in the province of Leyte, and then we moved to Baguio City before I started my grade school. I have experienced life in the countryside as well as in the suburb. Within the city, I have observed the different lives of people and how make for a living. Our situation then is not easy; we are not well off…

In the book Fire In The Ashes by Jonathan Kozal , who is a famous award-winning author and writer, he shares a story about a girl named Pineapple and the problem in her school at, P.S 65. Teachers in her school would often leave before the year ended. The school itself would have unprepared teachers hired as well. When Pineapple reached the 2nd grade 28 of 50 members of the school had left and half those people, never taught a day in their lives. During Pineapple’s 3rd and 4th grade years, she…

strengths, and the level of my multiple intelligences. I learned that my main learning style is kinesthetic, so I learn more through doing and using my senses. Secondly, I learned that my top five strengths are group relations, integrator, believing, equalizer, and historian. Lastly, I learned the ranking of my multiple intelligences which are, from highest to lowest: interpersonal, kinesthetic, linguistic, logical, intrapersonal, visual/special, naturalistic, and musical. The only results…

Fahrenheit 451 Is equality truly as incredible as it is made out to be? The issue of equality is an issue faced by human beings in every state, in every country, on every continent on planet earth. It is also an issue faced in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The issue with equality is that there is no way to truly reach it without handicapping the extraordinary. Also, equality tends to promote mass culture, which is extremely detrimental to progress. Because of this and the examples…

success of a business, but not all successes are attributed to luck. Strategic planning incorporates what to do in situations that also may include the lucky moments as well; but success and failure cannot be attributed to just luck. Luck is the grand equalizer, because almost everyone can benefit from it (Gresham,…

about the person. My friendships are based off quality not quantity. I have used this strength in every single one of my friendships and my relator strength helps me surround myself with exceptional people. My “Standout” strengths are connector and equalizer which means I am loyal, a person of great integrity, and I always deliver on what I promise. I have used these two strengths in group projects because I never want to let people down and I expect the same from…

Fortunato’s Demise The short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, By Edgar Allen Poe is a tale that takes place somewhere in Italy within the 18th century; this is understood because the use of the term “roquelaire”. Poe located this shorty story in Italy and set the time back further within the 18th century, both of these variables that the author has provided to the story are associated with the gothic genre. Now, taking into consideration the goal of Montresor and the events that ended the tale…