Yale Divinity School

enough to get accepted into a prestigious university? Nowadays, a syndrome of ‘overachievism’ fills the halls of High Schools as students overload their schedules with numerous rigorous classes and get hyperly involved in extracurricular activities. In the Overachievers: the secret life of driven kids by Alexandra Robbins, the overachieving Yale graduate goes back to her high school a decade later only to discover that the mindset of students is transforming into a obsession with grades and…

One of the most waited for events, in an architectural sense, was the completion of Paul Rudolph’s Yale Art and Architecture building in 1963 a postwar American Architectural event. Also known as the A&A it was considered Rudolph’s master piece as it promised to be the solution to solving modernism’s major unsolved problems. As New York Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable said, “it asks and answers some of the major questions facing the art of architecture today, at a time of crisis and transition…

Have you ever struggled making decisions? Feeling like your a nobody in this ginormous world? Then you're missing that escort to help and support you, a role model! Role models are a necessity to life! They provide a guidance that will aid you in life or provide just a simple motivation that will inspire you to do great things. A role model that I look up to and aim to be is the unremarkable Ben Carson. Starting life in a poor community and in financial devastation, Carson had little hope. He…

others in her community. A community that she once promised herself she would help heal. The limitations of a community sets many for failure. There is nothing more dangerous than ignorance. Informing individuals about how they can be able to go to school and achieve their goals is very important. Not many individuals have the same motivation and determination Sotomayor had. The author was very successful at portraying the issues in the community and the hard work and determination that is…

Ever wondered where your ancestors came from? What were they like? What did they become? Well for Cathy Song, her heritage was the success of her life. As a young girl, Song grew up as Chinese-Korean American and knew that she wanted to write about her family’s history. Song has taken her written career serious and tries to educate her readers with the terrible lives of arranged marriage women, through the art of poetry. Not only does she write about her family’s ancestry, but she loves to…

most embracing moment for his life because they must announce their mark in front of whole class. One day when ben was reading a book at home he was not able to read words very clearly so he asked his mom to read and he had also the same problem at school he was not able to see clearly on board. So, they get their first spectacles. And that was the turning point of his life. After that they have improved their grads and they started doing better. When ben was a eight year old her mother used to…

I grew up in a small church, where my mom was a Sunday school teacher and my dad was the Assistant Pastor. They also were involved in the youth a lot. Growing up, I can remember driving down the road on our way to church and seeing kids that knew or my mom knew and we would ask them if they wanted to go to church with us. Next thing you knew, we have like 5-6 local kids going to church with us. I can remember when we use to ask them where they lived so we could make sure that it was alright with…

One of the most prevalent differences between cultures seems to be how the youth are educated. Concerning the kinds of material taught, the methods used to produce learning, and the relationship between students and teachers, education varies extensively from culture to culture. After reading Abubakari Lunna’s life story regarding his drumming education, it is evident that the way people present themselves has a lot to do with how we develop relationships with others. While I have heard of…

Should We Stop Child Labour? (Opinion Paper) How would you feel if you ever had to see your 7 year old brother or sister going to work instead of school? In today’s society teenagers or kids usually whine about how much work they did around the house when in reality they only did a bit. They usually don’t think about the kids that are forced in to labouring for many different purposes and cant whine about it because they won’t get there pay or they would get beaten. Have you ever thought why…

CCSS, its transition into school and how it’s affected the lives of students and teachers. This reform on education might have hindered the system…