The Way Home

to support their families or live in their homes. Today, many thousands of those victims of foreclosures have since turned into potential homebuyers. Today, just 5 or 6 years after the economy took such a large hit, it has reached record heights. The real estate market is still difficult to buy for many, but it has definitely come back from where it was. How did real estate turn around so well you ask? When homes are…

call home. The warmth and the comfortability of it makes you never want to leave. With the nurturing suffocations from childhood memories always remaining etched in the back of your mind. My definition of a home can be quite different than most. Whereas, my home is not something physical, but purely psychological. The road to a physical home may also have various curves and streets that you have to cross in order to get to your destination. That’s why I try to find solace in creating a home that…

chores is an allowance, or in other words money. This is a bad incentive because children should not be getting “paid” to help maintain their home clean. Do their parents get an allowance for sweeping the floor, doing laundry, cooking dinner, or cleaning the bathroom? Children should do these chores regardless. Adults don’t get an allowance when keeping their home clean, why should children? Giving children an allowance for vacuuming, for instance, gives the child the idea that…

of one car can leave a bittersweet in their mouths. The excitement of being on their own for the first time overpowers the crippling anxiety that comes with the experience of actually being alone. The adjustments of a new town, new people, and a new way of life for the average incoming freshman at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) are nothing compared to the adjustments international students make when coming from abroad. Language barriers, dietary differences, and culture shock all…

Cleaning your home is often the last thing that comes up in the mind and the schedule of a busy person. No matter how big or small your house is if it’s dirty it looks like it’ll take forever to clean it. When you try to keep up with your professional life, taking care of your kids, cooking for your family and trying to find some extra time to spend with your significant other, somehow the cleaning goes to the bottom of your priorities list. When your house is a mess, you feel less productive…

very observant in class. This notifies me that I need to engage the class is a discussion. A debate or Socratic seminar might work best for this class and especially these three students because of how vocal they are. However, their weaknesses and the ways in which these three learn are very different. I would never be able to pair Aiden and Logan because Aiden is dependent on another person, and Logan is independent and works best by working alone. Aiden and Alex, on the other hand, would be…

passive observation information is given by others’ personal experience and it is our choice whether to accept or to ignore it. Observation is given to us by biased experiences (Although everyone can say that they are biased in one way or another). By using observation as a way of producing knowledge are interpretations are more molded around what others have witnessed. In active experiment we are put in real life situations where our actions impact what we do, allowing no influential bias from…

High school for me is very different then the college life that I have experienced so far. In high school there is so much judgement by the things you wear, who you talk to, and the things you do. But in college no one really cares there isn’t time to judge people it doesn’t matter to them. High school could be super brutal to some people because they don’t fit in they aren’t the typical student and others make sure that they know it. I feel that in college there is so many different types of…

Leadership is never just one way, it changes is every aspect. One day it can be following and learning while still providing direction. Others days it may be doing nothing more than over whelming subordinates and watching them learn. Strong leaders have the ability to cause the change or be the one getting changed themselves. This is best described by walking up and down a staircase. You can have a slow and steady climb and only deal with one task at a time. Being very boring. Or you can climb…

that these are complicated issues and they are not going to go away. As that affects the way that we think about generating curriculum and what kind of learning experience we are creating, it is incumbent upon you guys to think about that. What are your programs and how are they responsive to that? How seriously do you want to take those concerns? How might we direct those conversations in productive ways, reflecting on those aspects of their criticisms that might have legitimacy and…