Train wreck

Mars Borges Literacy narrative My first comic I fell in love with was Baby Mouse— a sassy elementary schooler going through the ups and downs of early public education. She was funny, the stories were fun, but more importantly, I loved the look of the books. Every comic had a limited color palette of black, white, and pink, which I found to be the coolest thing. The speech bubbles were distinguished, the text had a unique font, the art was cute— sometimes I didn’t even need to read it, just…

Are Video Games Good For You? Not many people understand the benefits of video games, because those people have never played them. Some get frustrated when playing, but frustration just requires one to learn how to play. Each game is different and requires different skills, some are reflex, memory, problem solving, or simply role playing games. Video games have been on a slow incline throughout the years. With popularity rising developers have produced better graphics, stories, and gameplay by…

College of Emergency Physicians reports a rise in texting-related emergency room visits. A new British study has found that texting while driving slows reaction time more than being drunk or high. The results can be deadly, as with the California train wreck in September that involved a texting engineer.” (“Text at Your Own Risk”). About two years ago, Heather Hurd of the age 26 was on her way to see a friend of hers that is a wedding planner down in Florida and she was instantly killed because…

1.What was yoand estaur motivation for joining the honors college? Well one it's free and education is very expensive in the US and my train of thought was why start of college in debt when I can go my two years for free, they can cover everything and ill be able to transfer and possibly get a really good scholarship because I have, you know that, backing that I went to the honors college and follow a career with less debt the someone who just straight transferred to whatever university they…

staying illegal is their conscious choice. They can still contribute to our society and economy, so it is thought that these aliens should get tuition assistance. While moralistically this is the noble idea, legally and politically this is a complete train wreck. The introduction of mercy into the justice system is unrealistic on this enormous scale, because mercy and justice are two fundamentally different…

Madiha is six years old. Her birthday is March twenty-ninth. Madiha enjoys reading books and doing her homework. She loves to play with her friends. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Mia. Every day, she would go to her aunt's house. Every day, she thought the walk was boring. Until one day, she went to a shop, and she found a beautiful rug. She took the rug home, and she found out that it was a magic carpet. She flew everywhere. She went to India to see an elephant. She went to…

Got any cooking oil in a spray can hanging around? Then what you have there, Gus, is aerosol gold. The sheer number of things that you can call upon cooking spray to do for you is staggering. Not all of the following means of getting the most from you cooking spray are going to be appropriate for everybody, but your odds of being able to use at least a few of the following tips are significantly better than the putting all your hopes on the Detroit Lions winning a Super Bowl in the next decade.…

To begin the novel, the main character Huckleberry Finn or otherwise known as “Huck Finn” introduces himself and explains that Tom Sawyer is his best friend. Judge Thatcher has taken Huck’s money and has invested it with a dollar of interest per day and now lives with Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, Huck’s tutor. He lives with these two women because his mother died when he was younger and his father is a drunk, who cannot take care of himself properly. The two women in his life try…

FORGIVING OURSELVES I know more people who have had trouble with this than I can name. This is one of the issues that people I have worked with in recovery have shared with me, “how do I forgive myself for what I have done”? That is a great question and not an easy one to answer. I have an old friend, an elderly gentleman. He always keeps it simple and says “if you want to feel good, do good” so one of the ways we can start to feel better about ourselves is to begin to perpetuate good things…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…