Trigonometry

It was a night filled with worry and stress. What kept us up is an intoxicated friend, study guide filled with logarithms, trigonometry, and limits, and a side of procrastination. It started out on a Friday night, I have a math final the next morning at 11:30am and did not study for it. I was in no pressure and thought it would not take long to study, since I only needed to work on the study guide that my professor created for us and assumed it would be like the final. I began to work on the…

Alteration in History After World War II came to an end in the mid-20th century; a new conflict began known as the Cold War. The Cold War triggered hostile and the wary relationship between the two great powers, the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. It was a dominate affair and both countries had different beliefs that led to the weapons of devastations. They had major crises like the Cuban missile crises, Hungary, and the Berlin Wall but the most…

Western civilization arose in Mesopotamia and Egypt about 3500-3000 BCE ruled by kings supported by educated priestly classes and share power with an economic and military elite. However, it was slave-based with a society of hierarchical and stratified surrounded by palaces and temples. Mesopotamia means “between the rivers,” which is where it all started known as Iraq and part of Turkey and Syria located between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in the valleys of the Middle East (Matthews et…

“Students who had three high quality teachers in a row were way ahead of peers who spent one or more years with less competent teachers” (Woolfolk, p.23). This is just one of the many statistics that exemplifies how important the quality of teachers is to the education system. The major topics that I will address in this paper are development, learning theory, motivation, assessments, grading, and teaching strategies. Woolfolk discusses two different theories of cognitive development, Piaget’s…

A. Trends and Benchmarks In this section I will discuss the academic performance trend of our educational institution in relation to three benchmarks of academic performance and student learning outcomes. The principal at our educational institution mentioned three benchmarks that we use to assess our student learning outcomes. They are the ACT, the three institutional benchmark assessments used three times throughout the year, and the end of the year assessment called SAGE. The first…

As Diane Grim once said,” It’s better to walk alone, than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction.” In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus and Scout are both very involved in their society of Maycomb, but go against some of their mainstream ideals. People can be a loyal member of a society yet oppose to the society’s standards. Not all of Maycomb, Alabama residents agreed with the town’s prevalent racism and segregation. Atticus, a white lawyer in the town of Maycomb, was…

collge course beforehand. It 's not that they are be prejudice, their going to pick the better and more prepare applicant and its nothing wrong with that but minority students cannot help that their school dont have qualified teachers to teach ap trigonometry or a college english class. According to Thandeka K.Chapman, in her article about the separation of the currliam between white and black schools, talks to a variety of urban and subran high school teenaers. One particular conversation was…

Introduction: The American Revolution, fought between 1775 and 1783, was the tussle by which the Colonies of North America acquired independence from Great Britain to develop into the United States of America. The war was successful because of the efforts of key leaders in the revolution. Having a broad historical understanding of these leaders is essential in understanding the reasons for the accomplishments of the war, so that educated conclusions can be constructed about the past; so that we…

Imagine you are fresh out of high school, graduated top of your class, and now on your way to college. Now imagine your University is several hours away from home. Your parents inform you that the only way to get around from place-to-place will be with the obtainment of a new vehicle. Now you are burdened with the task of deciding when, where, what, and how you will carry out the task of buying a car. What is the first step to take? Many young adults are thrown into confusing situations like the…

What would it feel like if you were rushed to grow up? During World War II, teenagers from around the country were experiencing the answer to that very question. One of those people is Gene Forrester, a prep student at the prestigious Devon School in New Hampshire during World War II. Gene grows tremendously as a person and eventually becomes the perfect leading character for the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and its underlying themes. At the beginning of the novel, his conformist…