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are shaking their heads at the consideration of a four-day school week, and a longer school day. Shorter school weeks or longer school days are reasonable solutions when there is a shortage of funding, or possible budget cuts coming to the school district. This solution has many mixed opinions from parents, teachers and school board members.     An article from The Wichita Eagle really focuses on one family and how the change to longer school days has impacted them and their first-grade son. It also

When we were little, especially with older siblings, something like drinking at a party seemed so sinister. I told myself that would never be me, and I really believed it. When you grow up, even just a few years, you learn more about how the world works and some things become more clear. You learn how businesses run and how the government works. Criminals and terrorists cover the television screen on the nightly news. Your friends from middle school grow up and some go to college and some fall addicted

In the book, A Long Way Gone, there is an array of different tones. The author uses them to shine light on the central theme and main idea of the story. The tone is important because it emphasizes the emotion of the text and the story being told. The author, Ishmael Beah, who is also the main character in the book has had a rough life. He grew up in the city of Mattru Jong, which is in the country of Sierra Leone. War had swept over the land changing everything and everyone. Beah was forced into

Studies have verified the benefits of using classroom discussion to increase overall student achievement (Li, Murphy, & Firetto, 2014; McKeown, Beck, & Blake, 2009; Murphy et al., 2017; Wolf, Crosson, & Resnick, 2006). The studies stressed the importance of teacher facilitation during discussion and the overall goal of student ownership over discussion. This study investigated Discussion Stem Discourse (DSD) and the impact it had over student ownership of the discussion around literature. When teachers

students strive to be “cool” or “popular” or simply fit in when they attend grade school. Although not all students fall into the wrong path, every student deserves assistance and the opportunity to grow and prosper. In the Pasadena Independent School District (PISD) about 90% of the students are minorities. Meanwhile, in 2015 the highest percentage of drop outs within ethnic groups was 9.6%; it belonged to a minority. Although minorities tend to have higher dropout rates, there are nonprofit organizations

FUNERAL Todas believe in life after death and believe that the soul is immortal. They have a grand funeral ceremony. They cremate the dead bodies. The todas believed that the buffalo’s spirit would be a companion to the dead person and the dead person could live as he lived on earth and therefore used to sacrifice buffaloes. However, this cruel practice has been disregarded by the Government in 1964. There are two types of funeral ceremonies which is the Green and Dry disposals of the dead. Green

A Personnel Incident Accounting Application School emergencies can range from a simple fire drill to a full-on armed intruder. One of the hardest tasks to do in an emergency is to account for everyone to ensure folks are safe and to avoid sending emergency personnel into a hazardous area looking for people who may actually already be safe.  It’s also important to know if someone is still in a hazardous area and exactly where to make rescue quicker and more efficient.   My proposed application would

The arts have been long-recognized as a vital component of the well-rounded student, but for the past several decades, the importance of arts programs in many U.S. schools has been steadily compromised (Rabkin & Redmond, 2006). Pressure to compete internationally has influenced educational institutions to believe that an almost exclusive focus on academic fundamentals is the sole way to raise standards and close the achievement gap (Sholl & Sweetland, 2016). Katz-Buonincontro, Phillips, and Witherspoon

though there is not the same overwhelming amount of stimulation as Times Square, Union Square has still become a big tourist attraction Rather, all along the outskirts of it are different neighborhoods we’re all familiar with, such as the Flatiron District and Greenwich Village. As Union Square underwent re-design and gentrification, so did the outer neighborhoods, hiking the rent and making it harder for

considering. As senior experts at the Center for International Forestry (CIFOR), Colfer and her colleague, Byron, argue that traditional forest management was a system rural communities use in upland farming to show ownership of uplands fields, prohibitions and regulations about land and other resource use, and to settle disputes over natural resources. Similar to the traditional forest management, the agroforestry management system is used by the communities in Benuaq Dayak to recognize forest successional