Whitby

When I think about my classroom this year in relationship to the Habits of Mind one mindset truly stands out, responding with wonderment and awe. This year my students are so intrigued when there is some type of mystery that we have to solve. They love to use their imagination, which allows them to see the content in a very different way. In our current math block on Friday students participate in a math investigation called Truly Problematic Situation. This is a time where students have to come…

in the form of propaganda, and stories that perpetuated the belief that trench life was enjoyable. In addition to these factors for social unrest in Britain, it was also Germany's aggressive actions such as the raids of Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby that enraged British citizens and created an intense hatred for the Kaiser and his people. Marwick specifies that the arguments justifying war, stacked against some claims that it could potentially hurt the economy, overwhelmingly swayed the…

Dracula Dracula has been heard of for many years, but have you ever realized the roles that gender plays in the novel? The novel, written by Bram Stoker in the late nineteenth century is typically thought of as a horror novel. After analzyation, I have realized the book itself has many symbols and themes for female sexual symbolism within its pages. Dracula was set in the Victorian culture. During this time, women were to be put down socially and men were to be praised and known for their…

The book Dracula written by Bram Stoker is about Jonathan Harker, a man who travels to Transylvania to come up with a deal with Count Dracula, who lives in a castle. The Count sees a picture of Jonathan 's soon to be wife Mina, and he tells Jonathan to tell her he will be at the castle longer than expected only to be trapped by Dracula. While Jonathan is trapped in the castle Dracula travels to meet Mina, who falls in love with because of her similarity to his late wife. While Dracula is…

played an important role in codebreaking. They worked in trainings schools around British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Ontario, including at Camp X, which was a, “A training school for covert agents and a radio communications center that operated close to Whitby, Ontario, during the Second World War.” (Chenier "Canadian Women and War"). The women helped crack…

Opinion Essay: Over-representation of Aboriginals as Offenders Amy Brown ID #201591413 Diversity and the Justice System – CRJS 1013-001 Professor Aulakh Harpreet Tuesday, February 3. 2015 In 2006, Statistics Canada found that 21% of people sentenced to custody and 18.5% in federal institutions were in fact of aboriginal descent (King & Winterdyk, 2010, p. 63). In a graph presented in the text by King and Winterdyk (2010), from Statistics Canada, the graph suggests the highest percent of…

Early in the semester, I created a goal for myself regarding teaching English. My goal was to create a collection of resources that I can use in the future to support students who struggle with reading by the end of the semester. The various assessment I have completed as part of EDUC4702 has allowed me to further my understanding of struggling readers and help me begin to meet my goal. Research that I have undertaken has also helped me determine high quality resources to include in my portfolio…

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bram Stoker’s Dracula were written three centuries apart in vastly different social climates. Macbeth was born from the beginning the English renaissance, as King James took the throne after the long reign of “The Virgin Queen,” Elizabeth I.. Dracula was written during the tail end of the Victorian era, a time of rampant social anxiety and unrest stemming from the Industrial Revolution and new ideological movements such as women’s suffrage. Despite the differing…

Culminating Task: “Road Ends” and The Systems Theory Road Ends is the story of the dysfunctional Cartwright family and the events in which they experience that impact them as a whole. Though many theoretical perspectives could be related to Road Ends, the Systems Theory relates the most. The systems theory is the most relevant as the members of the family, specifically Megan, Edward and Emily greatly impact the family, or system as a whole. Megan, daughter of Edward and Emily , possibly has…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…