Year Five

that question is yes, then you should consider taking a gap year. A gap year is described as a year off of schooling between high school and college. Taking a gap year is more beneficial than going straight to college after high school because you will strive to do academically better, you will be better prepared for real world experiences, and you will be able to figure out exactly what you want to go to school for. First, taking a gap year before college is more beneficial than going straight…

The novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children 's Crusade written by Kurt Vonnegut is well loved by many people. The novel is about Kurt Vonnegut’s past and future in the perspective of the main character Billy Pilgrim. Through Billy Pilgrim’s experience with the Tralfamadorians and the frequent time travel between past and future. Kurt Vonnegut explores the issues of the inevitability of war, fatalism, and of free will; also the form of his writing, why it took so long to write, his experience…

It is early in the sixteenth century. People across Europe are frustrated and discontent. The religious and social institutions of the era are in a state of decay and corruption. Amid this environment, a new religious movement starts that is known today as the Protestant Reformation. This movement’s aim is to correct the errors and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church (Jacobs 404). One of the movement’s most prominent leaders, Martin Luther, makes this aim his life goal. This man’s life,…

Seventh grade, my second year now at what I thought to be the worst school in the world. On back to school night I met a man who would change my perspective on life completely, that man being Brandon Lilly. Henry Adams once said “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” At a mere five-foot four he appeared to be a kid minus the burly lumberjack beard that he possessed. I remember being skeptical at first because I had never had a male teacher before. All of my…

winter night in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On the fifth of January, I was introduced to the world, I was born on the coldest day of 1999, at a frigid -30 degrees. I’ve been blessed with the two greatest parents in the world that have been married for 19 years. My family was completed on May 24, 2001, when my little brother Mason was born. Mason and I were not given our names for any specific reason our parents just liked the names. James was my middle name that my parents had given me which came from…

Our 1,000 Paper Cranes It all started one day in Ms.Anderson’s sixth grade classroom at J.A Rogers Elementry.It was a normal day early in the year about September,in class with work about ancient Greece after the lesson was over we had to answer questions and do a worksheet. I sat next to my best friend Nicole.She was taller and has dark,median size hair in a bun and black eyes with a scar on the side of her nose.She always made me laugh and I made her laugh but we were very different…

here with my family.” It wasn’t an acceptable answer for either part of the question. I hated that part of dinner. But for the rest of my life, past the age of five, I couldn’t even answer the question with that sarcastic response, because my whole family wouldn’t be there together again. I now, at 22, long for that nightly moment. I was 5 years old and home from morning Kindergarten. I was playing…

with at were different grade levels and had different years of experience. They were all math teaching in middle school, the first I met with was Ms. Hall a seventh grade teacher in her second year of teaching, the second was Ms. Ambriz a sixth grade teacher with twelve years of experience on that same day I also visit Ms. Martinez eighth grade with more years than Ms. Ambriz and finally Mr. Bravo who was also a sixth grade teacher on his first year of teaching. When observing I was able to see…

The Protestant Reformation occurred in the 16th century, starting in 1517 and ending in 1648. The Protestant Reformation was initially aimed at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Its religious aspects were added to by ambitious political rulers who wanted to extend their power and control at the expense of the church. The most dramatic of the events that occurred during the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, although the Protestant Reformation swept…

Slaughterhouse-Five, a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, brings a new aspect to the image revolving around time, life, and war, as well as how war is perceived. Vonnegut changes the glorified image of war and brings a never before experienced reality into his novel. In the words of noted scholar Josh Simpson, “Slaughterhouse-Five shows two things simultaneously with equally chilling clarity: what war and bad ideas can do to humanity” (Simpson 7). Like-minded, Dr. Ruzbeh Babaee adds, “Vonnegut’s dark…