Velcro

Advances in technology impact many people across the world. These advances have never been greater than in this past century. This technology has proven exceedingly valuable for many children and especially for handicapped people. Assistive technologies are meant to help people in their primary functional tasks. For example, wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, and canes are assistive technologies for mobility; related products include lifts on vehicles and portable ramps. More people are using…

Countdown The clock ticked down as we had less than thirty minutes to find our way out of the labyrinth that we brought upon ourselves. The further we adventured into the unknown, the more our once unscathed gleaming shoes became soiled. We kept dredging through the dense, and sticky mud that now engulfed the path. The same path that was once created with the type of gravel that crunches and crackles like pop rocks in water. Every step further lead us out of familiarity, inching into an…

The Decline of Track and Field With soccer, football and basketball becoming so popular, track and field is being left in the dust. When several track and field events are only available to watch on websites such as ESPN3 or NBC Sports Live Extra, it lowers the viewership of the sport. The sport of track and field has been one of the country's oldest sport. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the highlights and stories of the track and field were national and athletes got more…

Chapter One Willaston Place Whodunit, midnight in late July. The night sky weighed over Willaston’s spiky rooftop, and the ghost was watching. Standing there silently winding around the drapes, a shadow floating in shadows peering down at the ragged lawn. “Creepy on your three o’clock,” I whispered. My partner, Seth Holloway—a tall, slim sleuth wearing a brown trench coat and a deerstalker cap—continued fiddling with his flashlight. He liked to tinker. Seriously, a high school marching band…

making a “keek” sound continuously. I walked towards the fragile, and sluggish white tent putting on my gray tinted ammunition belt with a sterling silver buckle, sliding my feet into the brown tinted with spots of gray rubber sandals, closing the 3 Velcro…

“None, of your beeswax.” replied Lovienthal bombastically, his arms akimbo. “Look guys, I gotta go. I don’t have time to waste on you two losers. Some of us have to go to work. Where not all spoiled little brats like the two of you, who have our mommy and daddy wiping our butts all day.” After snickering at and mimicking Lovienthal, Morgan said, “What the hell you talking about gotta go to work?” followed by his brother adding, “You mean, you gotta go down to the welfare office and get…

culture ("How to Create a Welcoming Classroom Environment", n.d.). Another aspect of creating a welcoming classroom is making a daily visual schedule ("How to Create a Welcoming Classroom Environment", n.d.). For example, I would create a multilingual Velcro board that I could change accordingly to account for our daily schedule. Also, like I stated before, inviting all cultures into the classroom is something I believe…

Yellow Card It is an average day at Cumberland Elementary; my face warms from the sun gleaming through the windows, and I sit in my desk in Mrs. Huffman’s second grade classroom. It is a rather cheerful classroom; chairs of all different vibrant colors stationed at each desk, my own being purple. A cushy rug with a checkered pattern displaying the alphabet fills space between the desks and the chalkboard. The wall to my left has the sticker board marking how many teeth each student has lost. I…

unable to change into gym shoes and dress himself for outdoor play without assistance. In order to meet this need, classmate volunteers will be assigned to be Bill’s locker neighbor for a week at a time to help him with zippers and other difficulties. Velcro gym shoes and step-in snow boots will allow much independence but he might occasionally need some…

Prologue Moments Before Most detectives follow a trail of clues to solve a case, but sometimes the clues just don’t make sense. Like when a ghost runs through the thickets in sneakers, or when strange men start dashing out from behind trees to inspect a house being torn down. And what does a magical stone lying next to a skeleton dressed in night clothes have to do with a dragon? Anyway, it turned out the leads weren’t red herrings at all. There was a ghoul, a missing stone, a kidnapped kid, an…