Miss Elaine

The Super Hero I Call Mom My mother occupies a special place in my heart that can never be replaced. She became pregnant with me at the age of nineteen. Being a young, single mother, she had to overcome difficult obstacles to get us to where we are today. Life was tough and there were many times where she just wanted to give up, but she was determined to turn her life around for the better. She ingrained a lifetime worth of advice into my head but it was her actions that taught me that the struggles

The importance of Attending Class Attending Class It is absolutely vital that you attend class regularly. Missing a class should be a rare occurrence; something that happens at most once or twice a semester. If you miss class more than this, it will interfere with your learning and have a negative affect your performance and your grade. A prerequisite to success in any in any endeavor is "showing up", and classes are no exception. If you're not showing up to class, you're forfeiting every opportunity

I know what they say, ‘you never really miss someone until they're gone.’ Until now I never truly understood this expression. I had always known my cousin was adventurous, in fact, I thought of her as an older version of me. However, I never thought she’d be on the other side of the world. Nevertheless, that is another story for a different time. Today was the day I’d get to see her again, the day we’d get to catch up, the day where it would be just like old times. I’d only have one day until

hair and shaved him from neck to base of his tail. Imagine a lions mane and tail. The poor thing looked so sad to have all his hair gone. But I think even he felt better. It had been a very warm summer. Another difference that was not hard to miss

Within a high school, there is a great divide. It separates the successful students, those were doing well and all of their classes, from the unsuccessful students, those who are barely passing their classes or struggling to get passing. The qualities that the successful students have that the unsuccessful students have not yet mastered are the ability to be attentive in class, the initiative to organize all aspects of their school life, and the intuition needed to ask the right questions. These

Domain 2 Mrs. Park’s classroom is an environment in which respect is mandatory. To promote this attitude, Mrs. Park has student-created posters on the classroom walls. The posters include sayings such as, “Kindness Matters”, “Don’t be rude to your peers, even if they are being rude”, “Rise Above”, and “Don’t feed into the bad”. By taking the time out of her content instruction, the students are able to see that Mrs. Park cares about them as individuals. She promotes a safe and respectful environment

“I don’t know the words,” he spoke. The words rolled off his tongue like tiny little pebbles down a mountainside. The class was silent. Mrs. Ray looked at Philip in a perplexed manor, she stumbled to pick up words. “I’m sorry, what Philip?”, her voice was sweet, like honey. “C-c-can I go home?” Philip choked on his words, looking up to Mrs. Ray in a ‘good God, please let me go home’ way. “Uh, sure sweetie. Let me right you a pass to the nurse’s office,” she fumbled for her hall passes, quickly

Assignment one – Discuss the significance of Lily Bart’s death at the end of The House of Mirth. You should consider the implications both for the protagonist’s social milieu and for women in general at this point in American history. The significance of Lily Bart’s death. As a writer looking towards the twentieth century Wharton faced the challenge of telling the history of women past the age of thirty. The age of thirty was established as the threshold by nineteenth-century

In Jack Londons’ “To Build A Fire,” a stubborn man with “no imagination” and his wise dog set out on the Yukon trail seeking out his camp in hopes to return and meet up with “the boys.” Being a “chechaquo,” a new comer to the land (Dictionary.com, 2015), this was his first Winter. “It was a clear day and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. The face did not worry the man.” (London, 629). The

Sociology 113AE Reaction Paper 10/20/05 Selective Perception in Paul Haggis ' Crash Prejudices are the strong backbone to the concept of racism. They are the labels and images that we designate to a group of people on the basis of what we imagine to be the characteristics of all members of that group. More often than not, they are incorrect and incomplete. The film Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, addresses the strong existence of prejudices against many groups from various perspectives