What Patriotism Means to Me

NOW THAT I KNOW… I never know except when I traveled with an American Airline to United States with different flowers from different trees travelling,whichwere treated and respected as if they were from a single plant.Love and equality was there for everyone because we traveled with an airline from the village of peace and unity […]

The Challenge of Intangibles

Some examples of key data, as well as intangibles in software companies Intangible resources have a genuine value, and are particularly essential to a corporation’s success but are more difficult to evaluate and quantify than their material counterparts. These types of assets can be technology, consumer, or market-based resources (Metz 2008). Some examples of intangible […]

Where Will I Go?

Fear, anxiety, confusion, anticipation, excitement. All around the nation, High School Seniors and Juniors are facing possibly the biggest decision of the lives: Where am I going to college? For most, the college hunt truly starts junior year. At Arrowhead, students kickstart their search with their junior conference. They receive essential materials that will guide […]

Bad Breath=Bad dating life

One day I was sitting in class, about to start a group project. I made eye contact with my friends, planning to work with them, but then the teacher said she had already paired us up. I was briefly disappointed but then I realized that the teacher had paired me with my crush! We began […]

Education For Women In Modern Europe

Female education has been an issue amongst many communities in the world and had been met with a lot of critics as the women had been seen only as being good for housekeeping, bearing and rearing children and not for manly education based duties. Poverty and gender equality also makes the boy child be better […]

Coal Ash Contamination in America

Currently the United States of America is suffering from a horrible ecological crisis in the form of the contamination of land and aquatic systems from coal ash. Coal ash is a byproduct of of burning coal in power-plants. It is usually mixed with water or another liquid to keep it from blowing away, at which […]

The CBRN Weapons

The choice of the best weapon to be developed in Kachakistan depends on the country’s resources and technological competency. This will ensure that the developed weapons will have the desired impact and will meet Kachakistan’s strategic goals. All things considered, it is critical to assess the advantages and disadvantages of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear […]

Types of High-school Students

As you venture into the transition of becoming a high-school student at Sandra Day O’Connor, you will start to realize the people around you have changed. Instead of everyone being friends, there are a vast amount of groups, posses, cliques and squads. At O’Connor, these groups are something to be seen everyday. There is the […]

The Effects of Social Hierarchy in To Kill a Mockingbird

“All men are created equal.” This is a phrase that has often been regarded as the sacred creed to a land of opportunity, the doctrine of an indestructible nation, and the crux of American philosophy. In her literary masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee bluntly exposes that as merely an idealistic raving, and replaces […]

Education by Choice

The authors believe that the voucher system can sustain both the communist model of fairness and the democratic principles of freedom of choice and market competition. This comprehensive book summarizes the voucher proposal, which includes the Quality Choice Model (QCM). This would tolerate multiplicity in education, while guaranteeing each person equivalent power in picking schools. […]

IAncomming Freshman

Dear incoming freshman, this letter is for all of you that think high school is scary and upperclassmen hate you. That is not true at all. High school is fun. You have nothing to worry about, on my first day of high school I was terrified to go. I didn’t want the big kids to […]

Conspiracies

On the date of November 22, 1963, the United States had a threat to national security when the 35th president John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. The person who killed Kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald. After several years, though the United States citizens have had a hunch that the assassin of Kennedy […]

The Cause and Effect

Persistence in the world has no substitute. According to Calvin Coolidge, the argument he pursued then was that there is nothing in this world that can replace the role of persistence I one’s life. He pointed out that there are unsuccessful men and women and thus talent cannot replace persistence. He also pointed out that […]

The One and Only Style of Tim Burton

Tim Burton uses his style of horror and fantasy in the movies that we know and love today. He has directed the movies; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beetlejuice, Frankenweenie, Batman, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and many more. These movies are some of the most cherished and favorited around the […]

Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized

This past month a proposition to legalize marijuana did not pass do to majority vote of the state. I believe that the legalization of marijuana should have been passed for different reasons. For example, one reason is it is used as a medicine because it is a plant with natural herbs and is also known […]

Educational Technology and the Impact on Student Achievement

“Increasingly central to the role of the new professional teacher is the ability to employ technology to improve student learning and to employ technology in the many facets of professional work. This will require new understandings, new approaches, new roles, new forms of professional growth, and new attitudes. NCATe (1997). The National Council for Accreditation […]

The Effects of Jazz Throughout the Great Depression

As the Great Depression was one of the most influential time periods on music in itself, jazz music, the music originated in America that consists of improvisation, syncopated rhythms, and many distortions of pitch, underwent a great amount of changes. These changes were so impactful that they still exist today and changed the spectrum of […]

The Case of Contamination

Kwame Anthony Appiah in his article The Case for Contamination discusses three interconnected issues: cultural diversity, globalization, and ethical contemplation. The author describes two roles that religion plays within all these issues. This essay presents the opinion of Kwame Anthony Appiah regarding multiethnic unity expressed in the New York Times article The Case for Contamination. […]

Myths of College Entrance Exams

High school is the place where most students try to prove themselves to their chosen universities. This is the time to get ones act together and earn that perfect GPA. But on top of grades, extracurriculars, and the like, there is also one more thing that every high school student dreads: college entrance exams. These […]

Sleep and its Mysteries

Most people think that the heart is the most important vessel that pumps blood throughout the body. Little do they know that the brain controls the pumping. The brain is one of the most fragile organs of the body, yet it could potentially give you great knowledge and ideas. How does the brain get enough […]

Educational Psychology

A framework for an educational psychology of assessment for teaching and learning is proposed, consisting of three dimensions: epistemology and theories, the interpreter and user, and assessment characteristics. The dimension of interpreter and user is equal in importance to theory and assessments, responsive to cognitive constructivism and the construction of meanings and beliefs, as held […]

Writer's Block!

I get writers block a lot, and I bet you do to. Here is a list of things you can do if you do get writers block. • Find your favorite chapter from you favorite book and re-write it the way you wish it would have happened, or maybe from another point of view. • […]

The History af Cummins Engines

The biggest name in diesel engines, known for its color red which is even named after them and it’s insane amount of power puts this engine at the top of the list for the diesel world. If you haven’t already guessed it this should be a dead giveaway, the most popular engine in the Dodge […]

The Carlos Marcello Family

One of the endless lists in the world comprise of criminals. There has been continuous emergence of criminals throughout history with some having family background influence. In other words, it has been found that a number of criminals engage in such activities because of family structures and organization. One of the families which have received […]

The Desire to Escape

Tales of fame and fortune always have to start at the core, where it isn’t always as clean and free at the top. Kanye West’s Spaceship is parallel to the American slave songs of Frederick Douglass’ time in both lyrical content and motivation for writing it. The songs slaves sung eased the burden of the […]

Hurricane Harvey Hits Houston

Hurricane Harvey, a category 4 storm, hit Houston, Texas on August 25, 2017. This is one of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States mainly because of the flooding. Hurricanes form when strong and wet air rises and makes huge clouds. It then causes heavy rain, strong winds, and pressure. The people of Houston […]

Educational Inequality

All through history of America education has served very crucially in both the political and economic needs. The goals of education in America include: all children have access toll start school ready to learn, 90 percent increase in High school graduates, development of graduates who demonstrate competency in various areas, create a lead in mathematics […]

What is Writing?

What is writing? Is it some type of sixth sense? Is it just another subject in school that some people are good at and others aren’t? What is writing? Most people don’t ask that question, because they think they know the answer. They’ll say that writing is constructing words, sentences, and paragraphs on a piece […]

The Business Of Blogging: Garance Dore

Introduction Garance Dore is a 37-year old blogger, photographer and writer of Algerian and Italian descent. Dore’s blogging career was inspired by her desire to be an artist. Consequently, she quit her job as an assistant programmer and started drawing illustrations for art publications and magazines. The Growth of Dore’s Blogging Career However, she soon […]

Cyberattack

Over the past six weeks, the global technological, giant, Sony’s servers were attacked by malware. The attack leaked private information, which included financial and other private information. Costs from speculators put the costs of the cyber attack in the hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the largest in recorded history. Following the assault on […]