The printing press and its involvement in the reformation Sometime before 1450 Johann Gutenberg developed the printing press, this invention made the printing of lengthy texts far easier. In the years following Gutenberg’s era to Luther’s, printing as an industry was improving exponentially. The press received mechanical improvements, increasing efficiency. Printing also became a large industry with large facilities dedicated to printing. The Reformation would prove good to the printing industry…
We depend on many forms of communication in this world. Pictures. Sign language. Even everyday actions are a form of language. In the 1450’s Johannes Gutenberg had changed history forever with his invention the Printing Press. Gutenberg had gotten encouragement when he learned that the Chinese had introduced woodblock printing. Gutenberg thought of using metal letters instead so the printings would not wear out overtime. It was a success and by 1600 more than 200 million books had been printed…
Fairfield Central High is a school located in a low-income district, in which the minority of this nation represent the majority of its student body. Unfortunately, outsiders of the community have negative connotations about the school and its surrounding environment. The outsiders perceive Fairfield Central High to be a school embodying incompetent children who are only capable of outstanding athletic abilities instead of being efficient students like their neighboring Richard Winn Academy…
Augustus Waters, played by Ansel Elgort in The Fault In Our Stars, once said, “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you” (The Fault In Our Stars). This is one of many impactful quotes from this movie. The Fault In Our Stars, based on the best-selling novel by John Green, was released all across the United States on June 6, 2014. The film was produced by 20th Century Fox under the direction of Josh Boone. After the film was released, it…
In the book, three different personality types are distinguished and characterized by different traits based on peoples’ fixations of them during development in the Oedipus complex (Cervone & Pervin, 2013). These fixations are past failures that could result from too little or too much satisfaction from a single source. Those described with an oral complex are categorized as greedy, narcissistic and disregard others’ feelings and concerns. This person is mainly focused on their own wellness and…
The transition was hard for me because the education system was entirely different. I was ahead in math and science but I was behind in reading and writing, and didn’t help that I was the only black child in class. For a few years I would always struggle with reading and writing, and I would dread reading…
I interviewed Dawn Hofsted, a high school math teacher at the Forest Grove High School. When I first walked into the school, the environment felt very different from what I was used to. I went to a private school all my life, the Forest Grove High School felt very big, the hall ways was triple the size of my high school’s hall way; When the kids got out of class, everyone was talking to each other and walking in different directions and the big hall way became very packed and busy. When I got…
The Horror Fiction novel called World War Z, is a book about an interviewer that catches stories from different places from around the world which forms into a giant story about the World War against this disease. The Plague starts slow and steady with not too many countries taking this threat into consideration. Overtime the Plague hits humanity when they least expected it, and drove the world into chaos. In Clarification, The reason the novel is called world war z is because it’s about the war…
to move back to his home state, Nancy left her decades-long teaching career in the New York City Public School System. As she adjusted to life to her new home and worked in a private school, she would often pass by the Gardere neighborhood. As she built relationships with parents living in Gardere, she found that several students were struggling academically in the public school system. Out of a concern for these people and passion for education, Nancy started a tutoring program with a…
It is not easy in this area to say people live above $2.50. Remember business people in this area are a few, they are the minority. The majority of people are small peasants and pastoralists, so we are still in less than a $1 a day. I can say far below from a dollar per day. I don’t know how to say it, it is far below a dollar per day because when a farmer harvest, for example, in Mara, the majority of them cultivate maize, Millet, sorghum, beans, cassava, some of them tobacco and cotton a…