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Judge Channing Bennett and Avery’s Child Support Walking into the courtroom was an experience in itself, preparing for whatever dull or typical case would entertain my sights for the rest of the hour. A young and nimble man in a hoodless sweatshirt stood poised at the defendant’s table with an empty chair beside him. The prosecutor 's table supplied an older man and a young auburn haired woman, seated and watching as the older man shuffled through paperwork. Two women sat in the benches behind…

acknowledging of how many sensors we use in a daily basis. At our home, work , cars and even us, human beings have “sensors”. We as humans say the top five senses are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. These senses have sensory organ: eyes, nose, ears, tongue, and skin. According the article, How the Human Body Receives Sensory Information , “ these organs receive raw stimuli and translate them into signals the nervous system can use. Nerves relay the signals to the brain, which…

was much worse. They would say things like, “You are so fat that the monkey bars are going to break under your weight,” and talk about me behind my back saying things such as, “She can’t even walk without falling over”. All of that abuse is only the tip of the iceberg. Although this experience was very harmful and damaging, I have come to terms with it and learned many things from it. Getting bullied taught me that there is always something better for me in the world. Being bullied for so long…

It was a warm and cozy afternoon, with the temperature reaching 75 degrees at max. The sun rays were still shining brightly, casting shadows across a wide field full of green grass. The sounds of various birds chirping can be heard clearly everywhere, and occasionally a butterfly would fly around, landing gently on the ever-fragile petals of the clarie flowers. Right next to the field was the woods of the Kaiboro Forest, a mysterious place full of never-ending clumps of trees(that was so an…

In a nation striving to be the biggest and brightest, 1 in 7 Americans has some type of learning disability, according to the Landmark School, a school specifically developed for children with language-based learning disabilities ("The Truth About Dyslexia and Other Language-Based Learning Disabilities"). However, 30-50% of these Americans have not been diagnosed ("The Truth About Dyslexia and Other Language-Based Learning Disabilities"). While not all of these learning disabilities are…

Westward Expansion During the early 19th century, the Louisiana Purchase was made between Napoleon and President Thomas Jefferson. The Louisiana Purchase, was a land purchase for fifteen million dollars, that doubled the size of America. Due to Americans lacking knowledge of the land, President Jefferson, sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to explore the territory, better known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The foundings made of the land by the explorers encouraged…

Pigs and mammals share a number of similarities in external features. Pigs and mammals have -an umbilical cord -ears, eyes, mouth -four limbs -an anus on the exterior - a scrotal sac (male pigs) like most mammal males -hair (fur, whiskers) -teeth, tongue and two nostrils (Nose) The fetal pig does indeed have pelage and tactile. Firstly, the pelage covers most of the body such as the (dorsal, ventral, anterior, posterior etc). The pelage alsos possesses a relatively short length. Moreover,…

Dyslexia is an inherited condition that makes it extremely difficult to read, write, and spell in your native language, despite having an at least average intelligence. Dyslexia is very common, but has only been talked about in recent years. It was 1878 when German neurologist, Adolph Kussmaul, first used the phrase “word blindness” describing what we know as dyslexia today. The word dyslexia was first used by Rudolf Berlin of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1887 to describe the inability to read. In…

Nick Fest AP Language Mrs. Pittner August 15th, 2017 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Task 1: C.V. “Dave,” I said. “Take me home! I have to push!” (This was the word we were given for this particular function.) David didn’t want to hear it. “Go do it in the woods,” he said. It would take at least half an hour to walk me home, and he had no intention of giving up such a shining stretch of time just because his little brother had to take a dump. “I can’t!” I said, shocked by the…

The external features of a lion help them survive in their habitat. Both females and males have a golden tan color that help them camouflage to their surroundings. However, there does exist a white variant which appears once in awhile in some lions. There is a huge external difference that separates males and females which is the male's mane. The mane is large and bushy, and it stretches all the way from the neck to the beginning of its back. It also gets darker as the lion ages. The lion has…