...For my Genius Hour project my topic is about school. Since the beginning of their life people asked the question that made everyone think. That is “why we have to go to school” which everyone thought once in their lives. I changed that into “who created school” because that is basically the same thing. This has been on my mind the past few weeks since school have started again and more work than ever. It have always wondered how the world would be like if we did not have to go to school. They teach you so many things you might not use like how to type an essay in MLA format. As a chemist, do I need to write an essay about my findings. All I need to do is write notes on my experiments. If you do have to do a speech about your finding, make it up as you go. If you were smart you can make up an essay in a few minutes. I can rant on for hours talking about all the ways I don’t use all the stuff we do in school but now we would continue to my findings....
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...Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Announces ‘Gurutsav 2014’ Teachers have played a pivotal role in shaping and moulding our lives and enabling us to develop as citizens of the 21st Century. The MHRD acknowledges and appreciates the seminal role played by teachers. 5th September, the day when one of the greatest teachers Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born, is the day when we together express our solidarity with the teaching community and celebrate the excellence of teachers. This year, in order to combine the voice of the entire student community in thanking their teachers, the MHRD has decided to organize an Essay Writing Competition for gratefully acknowledging the role teachers play in our lives. The Ministry strongly feels that today’s generation should find a voice in remembering the selfless services of the teachers who play a vital role in shaping future generations. The Ministry, therefore, announces an Essay Writing Competition, and invites entries from the students to share inspiring stories about their teachers. This Competition will be conducted on 1st September 2014. The entries are invited in English and all the 22 Scheduled Languages. (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithali and Dogri). A practice round will be conducted on 29th & 30th August to acquaint participants with the process. The competition...
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...In the essay “Your So Called Education” by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa the ideas of education quality and the lack of it not being held to the highest standard are evident throughout the essay. These two authors have written many different works about problems in education today. Richard Arum is a professor of sociology at New York University, and he is also the Director of Education Research. Arum received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkley. Finally he led Research Partnership for New York schools, giving them solutions to improve the public school system. Josipa Roska is the associate professor and director at the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. She also is the professor of sociology at the University of Virgin. Both of these authors have high degrees in higher education, and have qualified backgrounds. Their goal in this essay is to target teachers and professionals. The main points of this essay are to give these professionals tool to make education at a higher standard. Although the use of logos is clear there is an underlining essence of pathos, and a lack of pathos. The article starts with talking about how special graduation is, and how important receiving a college degree really can be. Nevertheless it also says that the difficulty of schooling has significantly decreased in recent years. School is more about fun now then about work. Surveys have shown that “Almost 9 out of 10 reported overall...
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...and prices, school hours, teaching techniques, and discipline along with a vast array of other areas that need attention come to mind. I would not be able to do everything, but I would do my best to touch on the issues that deserve focus. This essay will explain some of the things I would attempt to accomplish as principal for a day. One of the first things I would alter are the hours of the school day. I believe that with the demands such as a heavy workload and extracurricular activities, school hours should be made shorter and more flexible to accommodate these things that are expected of kids. Doctors recommend a minimum of 8 hours of sleep for children and teenagers. Because of these facts, making school start later and end earlier would help ensure kids will have more time for rest and recuperation. This would in turn require the school year to be longer, but I believe it would be a more effective way to get students to perform at a higher level as they will be better rested and better equipped to meet the demands of a strenuous school day. Another topic of interest as being the principal for a day would be a focus on school lunches. Students seem to have a high demand for more appealing lunches from the cafeteria. Items such as nutrition, quality, and prices would all be taken into consideration. In the lunch room currently there are always complaints of lunches being “gross” or “nasty”, and that is absolutely unacceptable. In schools such as Brooklyn...
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...Christina Clarke Period 8 English Honors Persuasive Essay Students attend school everyday of the week and stay there for many hours. School should start later on in the morning. It should start later because kids would be more awake and willing to learn, students in Paramus Catholic have to travel far distances every morning, and it allows kids to get a couple more hours of sleep. If school started later, mornings for students and parents would be less stressful because there wouldn’t be as much of a rush. Paramus Catholic starts at 7:45 A.M. That is very early in the morning. Most students are not fully woken up yet when they start learning. How are kids supposed to be asked to complete an algebra or history test that early in the morning when their brains aren’t fully functioning? Students would be more willing to learn because they won’t be in a grumpy mood. They’ll be awake and the teachers can get more accomplished. Paramus Catholic Regional High School consists of students from 120 different towns. Students who live a half hour or even an hour away have to wake up extremely early just to get to school on time. Some student’s have to take the public bus. The students at Paramus Catholic get dismissed very early. Instead of making the students arrive to school so early in the morning, the faculty can make school start later and the students will get dismissed later on in the after noon. Another good reason why getting dismissed later on in the afternoon...
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... Charter School is intended to help at-danger learners who are not succeeding in the customary setting. Customary instruction is Traditional training, is known as government funded schools conventional/traditional (Hoxby, 2004) Does the school framework needs to change? Which is better, Alternative or Traditional Education? Is sanction school the better formula for what's to come for our youngsters or is traditional/conventional training the better course for our kids. Research have demonstrated that scholars who went to contract schools for a long time have indicated a change scholastically superior to state funded school understudy in math and proficiency (Fryer, 2012). Research takes a gander at sanction schools vs. state funded schools in a cluster of states, including Florida, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Charter school scholars overshadow their standard state funded school associates. Students in New Jersey enlisted in urban sanction schools take in altogether all the more in both math and perusing contrasted with their conventional state funded school associates. More and more the weight is shifting more towards charter schools. The data is showing that it seems that students are really getting a better education in charter school system. Should parents consider taking their children to charter schools? This is a question that I hope will be answered during the essay? April Browne is a 3rd grade charter school teacher in a Newark charter school; this is from...
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...ZZZzzz! Being a teen is rough because you are steadily working hard but also barely have any you time and you can barely get any relax time.Teens usual because on an average night teens and adults only get about 6 to 7 hours,but we actually need 8 hours of sleep and children 1 through 9 get their complete hours of rest because you know. Sleep experts have determined a shift in sleep cycles (circadian rhythms) beginning in adolescence that makes it more difficult for most adolescents to fall asleep as early as younger children or older adults. Typical sleep cycles begin around 11 p.m. for teenagers and continue through 8 a.m Because of this, I think teens should start school later. To begin, many years ago in the 1950s, school started around 9 a.m. or even 9:30 a.m. in the morning...
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...believe mandatory public service is necessary to support the country and to socialize the young. The best well known public service in America is serving in the military, especially the young generation, but should it be mandatory is still a controversial topic. Despite the fact that public services would benefit both volunteer and the community, it still has its opposite side that could be a barrier between the volunteer and their service. Therefore, public services should attract the young volunteers who are willing to do for their benefits or their hopes, if they were forced to do volunteer by law, public services would be a difficulty for them. Performing in public service is the best environment for young people to shape themselves...
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...Essay 1: There are many different things that can affect student performance. One example is bullying. When a child is bullied, it can negatively affect their school performance and achievement in many different ways. The child may feel socially withdrawn, or depressed. They could be getting bullied because they are out of the “social norm,” because they are different in some way, because of their clothes, or because of just about anything. Bullying has many impacts on the victim, which can also be shown through the school work and participation. Bullying can cause low self esteem and social problems. It can cause the student to not want to participate in school activities. The student may start not coming to class in order to avoid being bullied. They may even drop out or fail the class. The student may become more focused on the bullying or avoiding the bully than they are with their school work. Statistics say that half of students are bullied at least once a week, and that it affects 1/4th of high school students. Although teachers may not necessarily be aware of the bullying, if they are there are many ways to help. First, the teacher should not ignore it, and say something to the bully right away to try to stop it. They should also be there for the victim, and show that they are willing to help them through it and listen. Giving them extra time or one-on-one attention may also be a good idea to help the student cope. There are also many anti-bullying practice groups...
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...gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Actress Lily Tomlin is correct. When students get home after a six-hour school day they are often overwhelmed with outrageous amounts of homework. This extra and sometimes unnecessary burden adds only anxiety to the average student leaving them a slave to their homework. This is a problem that can be alleviated with time and patience. Students are not happy with their current homework loads. Sixty-one percent of students in a recent survey concluded that they had to drop out of an activity because of their school workload (Galloway et al 2013). Obviously, homework affects students’ lives more than it should. It is not just something that a student would just finish in five to ten minutes. It takes hard work and brain dedication to finish homework at the time that it is required. One of the reasons that homework should be banned is because it is...
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...If you have children that are school age you have probably have thought about the options of home schooling vs. public schooling. You most likely have thought about how much would it cost or the amount of time it takes to teach home schooling. With the news articles out there about things that happen at schools you most likely have thought about how that would be on your child as well. One of the last things that most parents think about when choosing to home school or not are how your child’s social skills will develop. There are many different articles out there on this topic. The following essay will give you an indebt description of the difference between public and in-home schooling and its effects on the children. To start the first thing that comes to most parent’s mind is how much time and money they are going to spend in each situation. Concerning home schooling, you do spend most of your time with your children. There is no hiding that fact. Depending on your day-to-day life, this might be easy for you. This is the first thing you have to look at when making that choice for your children. Now concerning public school, you get to send your children to a different location for anywhere between four to eight hours. Now one good thing about public school is there are extracurricular activities available for children whose parents cannot be home after they get home from school. Another thing that parents are concerned about is the price difference between...
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...Christiana Uzoho English 101 (1109) Professor Long Word count ( ) May 5, 2014 Essay 3 The Important of Prayer in every School Whenever I remember prayer, what come to my mind is how merciful our God is to everyone in this world, no matter the kind of sin we commit the Lord forgives, and also bless us. It is so painful that the children of God have been denied the opportunity to pray, worships, and serve their God in the public schools. Nobody remember again that something make us to be in existence as human beings today. Prayer in school is to shape good citizens by leaving a moral life, despite the kind of religion you are into there should be a way you serve your master, the creator of our existence. The reason we need prayer in school, immorality of the youths, and prayer can abolish the immoral life of our youths today. The reason we need pray in school is serve our God, to make him our Lord and personal savoir. Despite the kind region we find ourselves, it shouldn’t be hinders for us to pray. Prayers in school bring success to students, teachers, and the institution itself because people will them as serious students, school where a person goes for success. The reputation of the school will be prayer is the key. It prevents us from getting into troubles. Been a successful student involves having God as the leader of everything one do, for instance, in my first year in college my parents advised me that in everything I do in life, and in all my education let God be...
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...Lê Quốc Bảo Living in Ho Chi Minh and Da Lat Sample Essays Can life in Ho Chi Minh City be considered a paradise? It is so difficult to respond to this question. Nowadays, there are so many people nationwide who choose Ho Chi Minh City as their second homes because they think they will get some convenient conditions from this, such as schools, hospitals, or money. In my case, I have lived and studied in Ho Chi Minh City since I graduated from high school in 1999. Living nearly 10 years in Ho Chi Minh City, I recognized that these are three typical differences which make Da Lat a better place to live in than Ho Chi Minh: weather, cost of living and transportation. One noticeable difference between the two places is the weather. Ho Chi Minh City has two distinct seasons: a very humid, rainy season and a long, hot, dry season throughout the year. The highest temperature climbs to approximately 39 degrees Celsius around noon in late April and the lowest may be about 16 degrees Celsius in the early mornings of late December. In the dry season, December through April is really hot and humid. The hot climate is hard enough on the people that they have to turn air conditioners all day. Besides, in the rainy, May to November, is a little cold but still humid because it has been raining on this period of time. So, it is not easy to live in such a hot city because you always break into perspiration and feel uncomfortable in your daily routine. Like Ho Chi Minh City, Da Lat also has...
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...Anthony Gentile October 5, 2014 Wallis and Steptoe Summary In the essay, “How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century,” Claudia Wallis and Sonja Steptoe argues that while everything else in the world is becoming more modern and up to date with time, public schools are still stuck back in time and that the key elements of kindergarten through 12th grade curriculum should be upgraded. Rip Van Winkle says, “We used to have these back in 1906” (378). In developing their argument, Wallis and Steptoe first criticized schools by saying, “American schools aren’t exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks” (378). They pointed out that kids now in the days are doing exactly what their elders did 40 or 50 years ago; sitting in rows of desks starring at a blackboard for 7 hours 5 days a week. For example, they pointed out that “Kids are global citizens now, even in small-town America, and they must learn to act that way” (379). According to Wallis and Steptoe, it is becoming more and more important to develop social skill and stated that the CEO of UPS mentioned, “Needing workers who are “global trade literate, sensitive to foreign culture, conversant in different languages” (379). Wallis and Steptoe draw’s a point that teachers need to not be scared to take charge of a lesson and not fear being obsolete. “They will, however, feel increasing pressure to bring their methods-along with the curriculum-...
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...Accounting Association Spring of 2010. I then pledged for the Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) organization and was initiated fall of 2010. I have been an active member since then and became BAP Membership chair spring of 2011. Becoming BAP membership chair is a privilege to me because I get to be the “welcoming person” to our organization. I am a good candidate for this position because I am friendly and very easy to get along with. Being a part of BAP is a wonderful experience. This organization creates many networking opportunities and great friendships as well. The Accounting Association and Beta Alpha Psi are a great part of the college experience and I am exceptionally glad that I decided to join. Hopefully I am having that same affect on other students who are pledging BAP. It makes college much more fun and beneficial having friends who are also in the same class. I am glad I became an active member of BAP and hope to branch this success off to others. I hope to become involved in many more activities over the entire campus so that I may broaden my experience and create more friendships. Write a total of one to three paragraphs about your employment experiences over the past five years. Be specific. Please describe all jobs you have held over the past five years. Include duties performed, employer name, and dates of employment. Also include hours worked per week. . I began as a part time cashier on the front end at Giant Eagle. This was the basic duties of ringing groceries...
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