Writing system

students no matter what job they pursue after college. Writing is always involved, whether it is writing an email to your boss or a thirty page lab report, it will always be necessary. Yet nowadays there is an issue in our educational system involving student writing. Essays and papers are being graded based off of different rubrics consisting of a set of instructions to follow. Teachers are more concerned with the grammatical aspects of writing rather than the quality of it and students care more

Did you know that Sequoyah was the creator of the Cherokee writing system? Sequoyah is spelled many different ways and his english name is George Gist. He was born sometime in 1775 in Taskigi, North Carolina Colony.(Britannica Online Encyclopedia) He is most remembered for his contribution to the Cherokee Nation for creating the first system of writing that the Cherokee used. Now we will take a trip to his early life. Even though Sequoyah’s father did not help raise him he still was an accomplished

Today is the feast day of Saint Dyfrig St Dyfrig or Dyffryn (in Latin, Dubricius) was one of the great Celtic saints prominent in the history of Wales in the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries of Christianity. The earliest account of his life appeared in the twelfth century, some five hundred years after his death. According to this account, he was thought to be the son of Eurddil, daughter of Pebia Claforwg, Prince of Ergyng, which is now part of modern Herefordshire; he was born at Madley on the River

Everyone around me was silently sitting, staring down at their laps. Me, on the other hand, would just sit there and stare at a wall, while humming to myself. I never understood why all of my classmates enjoyed reading books. Correction; I actually just did not understand what was wrong with me, and why I did not enjoy reading like all of the other kids did. Reading never sparked my interest due to many reasons, including; being distracted, being laughed at, and the books I was forced to read. I

These achievements helped the Sumerians with the things that they did in their everyday lives. These advancements included writing, the wheel and the plow. Not only did the the advancements, that the Sumerians made, help them with their lives, we also use them in our everyday lives, such as writing, the plow and the wheel. To begin, Sumerians developed the first form of writing which is called cuneiform. When the ancient Sumerians developed cuneiform it helped, the other people to communicate with

This article talks about the study of the Dunbar Cave in Montgomery County, Tennessee to learn more about the varied ways that the cave was used by people. Many of the artifacts that was in the cave linked its usage time to be from the Late Paleo-Indian to the Mississippian period. The article define dark-zone cave art as “the decorations in the areas of the caves that is beyond the reach of external lights”. Mug Glyph Cave art was found in the 12th Unnamed Cave in Tennessee and since then sixty-nine

Being the second youngest in my family out of five children, you would think that reading would be easy for me growing up. But learning how to read was a challenge. It was something that I never thought I would be able to do without a lot of help from my father. Being brought up with my father, a single parent we had our ups and downs. My father was a very hard working man. He tried his hardest to take of five children. Besides having a job that required him to work long hours he made sure we

It has long been a source of debate among classicists whether the ancients read silently or aloud. Analysis of this question is necessarily fragmented, since the only information available to modern scholars comes from the few extant ancient sources discussing how texts were read. In the surviving sources, there are many more explicit references to reading aloud than to reading silently, which suggests that reading aloud was more common. Nevertheless, there is evidence in ancient literature that

the laziest form of writing” (2232). I was pleased however at how these women wrote about each other. Both wrote about the other in such a positive and affirming way, that there is no way that one could deny their close

and it is very important to us. But sometimes people wonder “Where did the alphabet come from?” I am going to find out. The alphabet started in Ancient Egypt, where they used a system called hieroglyphs which were signs that represented syllables in their language. (n the Middle Bronze Age an apparently "alphabetic" system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script appears in Egyptian turquoise mines in the Sinai peninsula dated to circa the 15th century BC, apparently left by Canaanite workers. In 1999,