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- 351: Improving Education
- Improving Education Introduction and Program Overview Due to the increased accountability attached to student scores, the focus of educators has shifted beyond the realm of the regular school day to providing intensive instruction in a smaller group setting. Extended day is an after school program, held on campus, designed to target students with low achievement in writing, reading and math on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills or TAAS test. The program was started during ... services approximately 125 students per year which is about 22 % of the total population. Out of the total population of 569 students, 36.6% are considered "at-risk" therefore, a large percentage of the extended day participants are determined to be at-risk. Each extended day session encompasses a time frame of three to four weeks prior to the administration of TAAS. Instruction is delivered 2.5 hours each day ...
- 352: Personal Writing: Exchange Student in Japan
- ... had different names, but they spoke English beautifully even though they did not think so. They made me a great dinner and then I took a bath. I went to sleep and awoke the next day really excited to begin my life in Japan. Kazu, the brother took me out my first day there. We visited the small town of Sadaiji that they lived in, and we went to this really cool indoor mall place called Happy Town. We went to Mc. Donald's for lunch. We toured in and out of all the specialty shops, including the best bread shop that I encountered on my trip. As we neared the home, I began to feel tired and this day ended fast, almost as quickly as it began. The next morning we awoke early to go to school. This was a very exciting day for me, because I would get to meet my friends ...
- 353: Creative Writing: A Day in the Life of a Gnome
- Creative Writing: A Day in the Life of a Gnome Once upon a time there was a gnome named Knob, who lived the far off land of Gnomania. Gnomania is a huge underground lair with only one entrance. The ... and listen for the knock of incoming visitors. To assist Stubby in guarding the clam, he had a pet snark. A snark is an animal or pet that can be used as a watchdog. One day Knob went to visit his grandmother in the land of Gnollie which is about a guzillion centimeters away from Gnomania. On his way to his grandmother's house he ran across a garden. Upon stumbling ... they ate lots of mosquitoes. After dinner, they watched a cheap imitation of television. They used a big box to put different animals in and called it the Discovery channel. By the end of the day Knob was getting a little weary, so he decided to return home. When he returned form Gnollie his pet snark was there to welocme him home. He welcomed his snark back by feeding it ...
- 354: Great Gatsby 3
- ... had so recently condemned for its insularity, makes one wonder what Nick was doing during the war? If the extent and the pointlessness of death and destruction during the war had left him feeling he'd outgrown the comfort and security of the West, why has the armory he acquired from the war abandoned him after this one summer's events? Don't we perhaps feel a little let down that ... scenes to the end, we are made to feel the relentless heat as clearly as we see the green leather seats in Gatsby yellow car. Fitzgerald's revision adds more than degrees to the hot day. Heat serves to parallel the acceleration of conflict between Gatsby and Tom. Heat gives their conflict a further sense of inevitability. Fitzgerald does not miss his many opportunities to remind us that the heat of ... a hot situation. In the manuscript, Nick rides on a train during the "simmering hush of noon" toward his luncheon engagement. By the time final copy was written, a new line was added: "The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest day of the summer". In the original manuscript, the conductor on the train says the word "hot" six times. In the published version, he repeats the ...
- 355: Elie Wiesel
- ... At first the German soldiers did not seem like a threat. During the week of Passover things seemed to be going well. People were celebrating yet, it was not a complete celebration. On the seventh day of the Passover Jewish leaders of the community were arrested. After that rules were set by the Germans. Jews were confined to their homes for three days and they could no longer keep valuables such ... were reunited with others from their old community of Signet. It made them happy for the moment but they knew that the only thing they must concern themselves with is surviving for themselves. The next day Elie and his father were moved to new barracks where they were soaked in petrol. This was known as disinfection and it was done whenever anyone entered a new barracks. After soaking in petrol they ... was in charge, he was Polish, he told them they had already gotten through the selection and there was hard work ahead of them. They had to have the strength to live and hopefully one day have liberation. They were assigned to Block 17 and told to go to sleep for the evening. The words of the Pole did boost moral and there were hopes that the war was almost ...
- 356: Vegan
- ... and even pearls. They also cannot use products which have been tested on animals. Vegans are sometimes referred to as an animal's greatest ally. Veganism originally started in India in the first century A.D.. Hindus did not become vegan because of deep religious reasons or for personal health reasons, "but because of environmental pressures. It became both uneconomical and unsanitary to raise animals in so crowded an environment". (Seamen ... dairy products, and restricting egg-yolk intake to two or three a week ... the data leads me to the conclusion that such a strategy is the equivalent of cutting smoking down to one pack a day. (Seameons p.2) When someone makes the switch to the vegan life style then must understand that: it is essential to eat a wide variety of yellow and green fruits and vegetables and different grains ... lobbying efforts, lawsuits and civil disobedience, IDA promotes justice and compassion for all creatures. Many people have joined the IDA in hopes of making their friends and communities more aware of animal abuse in every day life. Many people our age are overwhelmed by problems the world faces and don't feel that we have the power to affect real change. Fortunately, there are things we can do to make ...
- 357: Unions
- ... enjoy the benefits of union protection get benefits too. "The labour movement was in the forefront of the struggles for public health care, for public education, for minimum wages, holidays and employment conditions."2 1 D. Martin, Form War To Peace, Canadian Labour Congress, Quebec, 1991, P.17 2 Notes On Unions, Canadian Labour Congress, Quebec, 1992, P.1 P.2 UNION NOWADAYS "Unions are like businesses: their success depends upon ... up, melt or leak."4 Five important needs for union movements are: 3 Alistair Davidson and Ian Mckinnon, "Unions need to study marketing," The Globe and Mail, May 8 1984, Business section, P.8 4 D. D. Carter, Canadian Industrial Relations In The Year 2000, Industrial Relations Centre, Kingston, 1992, P.50 P.3 1) job preservation 2) health preservation in the workplace 3) day-care 4) retraining 5) financial negotiations ...
- 358: Freedom VS DestinyFreedom VS D
- ... allows them to create them. Predestination explains almost ninety percent of what happens in the world, from birth to death, and even pure luck. Freedom can not cause you to have “good luck” in a day, it is predestination which brings you to this “good luck.” Freedom is a fallacy that takes over the human race like a parasite. It is used to cover up what people do not want to ...
- 359: Pruning Trees
- ... devise some plan to get Mat. He’s the one nobody likes because he’s sort of a stuck up prettyboy. Once in a while we get into a serious controversial issue and argue all day about it. There’s always some trash talking from someone. Who can beat whom at a video game or at grubbing? Grubbing is a pruner’s term for wrestling; it’s what we do when ... will be arguing about something and throw down their knives and go at it, in which case everyone in the field runs to watch. It’s the best entertainment we can find on a long day out in a tree field. One day we were all sitting around eating lunch and decided we should have a two-on-two match up and somehow I got put on one of the teams. Someone said go and we started. ...
- 360: I Want To Believe
- ... almost always paralyzed and unable to speak, making the conditions ideal for the abductors to stealthy extract their quarry "Secrecy appears to be critically important to the aliens in determining the opportunities for abductions" (Jacobs D.M, 1993, P.12). Nocturnal abductions are also advantageous in that the absence of the person who is being abducted is likely to go unnoticed and any memories that they might retain of their abduction ... subterfuge when carrying out their clandestine activities, it seems more feasible to surreptitiously sequester people from their beds whilst they are in a transient state, rather than to snatch them from the street during the day. . One of the most reliable cases of alien abductions with multiple independent witnesses ever to be documented, was the Brooklyn Bridge Incident of 1989. The credibility of the witnesses was so convincing that, Bud Hopkins ... Old Hag has been regularly reported for more than two thousand years, it has been attached to a variety of narrative frameworks . . . , But regardless of the framework, the experiential features have remained the same" (Hufford. D, P.39, 1982). Huffords statement suggests, that visitations by insidious creatures during the night, may have played a part in differing societies throughout history, however today, there seems to be a general concessus amongst ...
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