The Final Scene

“3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!” everyone around time square yelled. Although it’s 2001, our story takes place a decade before. In Seattle, Washington on January 1, 1991,the stadium was extremely loud. The Washington Huskies had a comfortable lead in the first half. As the soon to be winners were in the locker room when their coach Don James came in with a grin from ear to ear. Nobody knew how he was going to speak. “ Alright boys, were having Hawkeyes for dinner. Lets just keep tearing into them,…

“His tempo is off,” Sara mutters quietly to herself. It is minutes away until Sara herself will be in the same position as the boy with the off tempo. Sara is worried. She is afraid that with all her nerves of performing in front of the massive crowd, her shakes and trembles will hinder her performance, or even worse, destroy her performance. “I will be alright,” Sara says softly, “I am simply here once more to share the world my music.” Sara pauses for a moment. “My emotions.” As Sara looks…

Thomas Watson, former chairman of IBM said, “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others, as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” In my current position, the best things I can do to strengthen and improve the teaching profession are to teach to the best of my abilities, be a professional, maintain a positive attitude, keep my focus student-centered, and influence other teachers to do the same. One of my fellow teachers, Mrs. Pam Parris, and her exceptional…

their grades from their midterms and final exams to determine the change in academic success. They used the same measure of positivity of fantasies, and asked the participants to rate their thoughts as in study 1. They measured study effort at time 2 (December) by asking how many hours did the students use to prepare for the midterm and final. Finally they used the improvement in course grades from midterm to final. They subtracted the midterm grade from the final grade. The researchers…

Video games are a notably rising form of experience and pedagogy making headway into the traditional boundaries of classroom curriculums and technical work trainings. Video games open realms to explore where players may engage in experience taking by living vicariously through their avatars; in the process, they learn through their interactions and experiences taken place in the virtual worlds explored. Video games are advantageous to adopt into educational curriculums and work settings, seeing…

level and a straight shot of both the girl and her brother. It is when the first zombie attacks at about six minutes and 40 seconds through 10 minutes and 15 seconds the audience sees the first variation of camera angles. In this attack the whole scene is tilted to the side and jump cuts between the characters fight and the girls face which shows panic. As the plot progresses and she is running the image is also tilted, until an establishing shot of the farm house appears. This establishing…

leaves as his mother stated "The first week in June, during final exams, Donny vanished. He simply didn't come home one afternoon, and no one at school remembered seeing him.” (8). Donny ,whose only concern is himself, doesn’t think that his disappearance will impact others in any way. The word “vanished” is very key showing that it was as if he disappeared off the face of the earth. As a result, Donny being indifferent,which is the final component of his downfall, shows his inability to care…

was unstoppable with the ball in his hands, Kobe Byrant as well. They were guys who always took shots at the end, had confidence in making the shots, they put their teams on their backs. This June marks the 20 year anniversary of the 1997 NBA Finals where the Micheal Jordan led the Bulls played against the Utah Jazz. The Bulls won the title that season, which turned out to be their fifth in seven years. That team ultimately won six in eight years. What are your thoughts on the legacy of the…

Warriors, more specifically their ‘small ball’ lineup, as it has been coined. This lineup has been historically efficient for the Warriors, and was considered one of the key factors in the Warriors’ victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2015 NBA Finals. For the foreseeable future, it will be teams like this that will dominate the NBA…

Dakota Wensley Bus 101 Gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of the value of all the goods and services produced in one year in a country. It can be determined by taking the total sum of how much people have spent over a given period or conversely by taking the sum of how much people have earned, both produce the same amount. The former is a lot more common and it can be determined by taking the sum of total consumption, government spending, investments, and net exports (GDP=C+I+G+(X-M). GDP…