New Year

to a year-round calendar. The main focus of the debate is centered around the idea that using the year-round calendar will provide kids with a more consistent learning schedule, which in turn creates better grades within the school and cuts back on summer learning loss. Year-round calendar and traditional calendar are far different. Traditional school calendar provides ten weeks of summer break and year-round calendar provides a shorter summer break but more frequent breaks throughout the year. The

Every year my family and I count down to the new year, this year I am came up with a resolution that I can keep with myself for a long time and use it until I am out of school all the way up to collage. New Year has always seemed to be a fresh start of a new cycle, this year I hope my resolution shall be one of the best one! My new year's resolution for 2018 is to do better in school and to think outside the box when it comes to schoolwork. This has been something that I have been trying to reach

wanted to hear the first day of school and it was definitely not what I had in mind for my long-anticipated glorious eighth grade year. I already knew it was going to be a long year. This was my second year attending Bennett Academy Charter School; it definitely challenged me academically in 7th grade and it was very clear that it wasn’t going to get any easier this year. My English Language Arts teacher, Ms. Walton, told my classmates and me that in mid-November we will begin to start working on our

Year Round Education: A New Perspective Introduction Over the years we have gained aspect to all the new technologies and advancements that have improved the educational system. Each innovation has helped in some way or another to develop better academic programs in schools around the United States. Recently, a proposal has been made to change the traditional school year of nine-months to a year-round program that has sparked controversy all over. Despite controversy though, there are

This year was the same as last when it came time to make my New Year 's Resolution. I set out to exercise more and lost twenty pounds. Also like last, I haven 't stuck to my plan and have given up already. I have tried to accomplish this over the last two years because I have tons of clothes that I can no longer fit into and it 's a small amount that I feel I should be able to lose, but I seem to always fall short. The first few weeks in January I staied solid. I was going to the gym, eating right

Happy New Year! As we start things off here in 2016 the tone has already been set for an “interesting” year. We have the DOL still fighting the ENTIRE industry as a whole, you have the market taking a major nose-dive which follows major sells offs in the Chinese markets, you have mortality tables dictating new rates and payouts…can we take a breather already?! Now, let’s do away with the scare tactics and talk about reality...We will ALWAYS have something going on that could impact the insurance

Happy New Year! If you are a regular reader, you may remember that I usually end the year with a lengthy post to remind myself of my accomplishments and experiences in art during the past year. To start I would like to say that one of the most important practices I have engaged in this past year, has been to re-commit to writing this blog. I am very proud that I have returned to this ritual after attempting to write unsuccessfully in a couple of other places after moving to Scotland. This blog provides

Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1970) Many historical texts about the American Revolution and the events leading up to it are generalized, unspecific and do not investigate the preliminary causes of the changes America underwent before the Revolution. However, A New England Town by Professor Kenneth Lockridge attempts to describe how the colonies in America developed by following the progress of a typical Puritan colonial

The New Testament and its canonization were the result of a process that spanned over 250-300 years of Christian history. It is special, in the fact, that we can trace its development to the modern day canonization of the scriptures. Several factors are responsible for this, such as the death of Christ, disseminating of the disciples and their teachings, and the availability of the teachings of Christ to the common people. The words of the apostles could simply not be replicated, due to a special

short story 10 Years Since: A Mediation on New Orleans, “I don’t know how long my city has for me, but every day that I remain, I am working, searching for a newer, truer meaning for the concept of forward.” To this day, this sentiment remains authentic for those devastated by the August 2005 Hurricane Katrina. Accordingly, the aftermath and trauma that victims of Katrina faced in New Orleans, Louisiana, left countless amounts of people homeless and with psychological issues. Levees in New Orleans failed