Abstract In this research paper, I will share my personal history in after-school programs and attempt to chronicle the history of funding for after-school programs in California. This will include a history of the positive effects of these programs in general and the proven effects that budget cuts could have on student outcomes. Included in this paper will be an analysis of funding pushback, focusing on the Trump Administration and its proposal for cutting Education spending, and finally, I will...
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Artifacts are an important part of human civilization, artifacts that come from different parts of the world and are unique symbols to many cultures. These are found all over the world and are passed from generation to generation. Artifacts are made up of music, art, literature, philosophy, and religion which are deeply rooted in specific types of cultures. The Statue of Liberty for example is an artifact that represents the United States as a country, it represents freedom and the...
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Courage is when you are aware of something that is wrong and unfair you want to stick to the right thing no matter what happens. Courage is not about being fearless. Fear is a very natural response when we are in danger. But courage will show us a way out of that dangerous situation safely. Fear actually saves us from danger. If you don't overcome your fear you will have to worry about the danger for the rest of your...
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‘Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry’, is an interesting story written by Mildred D. Taylor. A story of courage, love, and pride, are the three words displayed on the front cover and are also the three words most people would describe in this story. The story is an award-winning best-seller book and is definitely a must-read book. The story displays a range of different aspects to do with Prejudice and how the whites treat the blacks poorly just because they...
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What is Racial Formation? Omi and Winant defined racial formation as the process by which social, economic, and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which in turn they are shaped by racial meanings. The theory of Racial formation identifies that race is a social construct that cannot be varied, the main reason for this would be that those who seem to be at the top of the racial hierarchy implement it. This is a...
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Unified communications at Boeing In order to ensure the privacy and integrity of Boeing using UC Security Mechanism are: 1. Deploy a Properly Configured Firewall: A general rule is to block all unknown traffic into the network and only allow traffic from trusted sources. The UC server should absolutely be behind your firewall. We should only allow internet traffic from our ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Provider) or VoIP provider or the Airport Center only and no other sources should be...
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Over the past century, muralism, the art of social and political engagement, has become a staple of Mexico’s identity. Analyzing the visual, cultural, symbolic, social, and historical work of the three most famous Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco is an obligation when trying to understand the history of Mexico. Murals, to start things off, is a piece of artwork, most commonly a painting that is so huge and requires so much time...
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There is no universally accepted definition of policy and public policy. This is due to the fact that policy is very much evasive in the sense that it changes in meaning in accordance with the different contexts or point of views used (Biruk, 2014). As a result, there is no general consensus exist concerning the exact definition of public policy. Thus, some scholars define and conceptualize it as follows. For instance, Barrett, S. and Fudge, C. (1981) provide a lead...
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Underage teenagers increased drinking habits replicate the destruction of a tornado. As winds of addiction hollow out teenager’s humanity, parents continue to supply this all-consuming commodity. Alcohol is society’s deadliest poison, it is everywhere, a dangerous cocktail of destruction. Perceived as the ultimate social inclusion device, it comes as no surprise that alcohol has been ingrained as a societal norm with an insidious grasp. Delusional parents are obsessed with the idea of being ‘cool’ rather than maintaining the innocence of...
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The most intensive killing during the holocaust happened on September 28th, 1941 at the Babi Yar Ravine outside of Kier, Ukraine. During the two-day span more than 33, these Jews were killed using the same method Moishe the beetle warns Elie of. In the book and movie, we see similar acts of violence towards the Jew race. ‘Night’ is a true story told in the first-person narrative by Elie Wiesel a persecuted Jew who visits many concentration camps on his...
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Texts have the ability to determine numerous human experiences, both individually and collective, in order to create unique understanding into human’s radical perspectives. Both ‘The Crucible’, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, and ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’, directed by Mark Herman in 2008, manage to represent the struggles and understanding of individual and collective human experiences. We gain clear realization of how these works manage to sculpt an image of human sensation, aspiration and drive which is apparent...
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In the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, the main character Andy Dufresne is accused of the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy’s wife was having an affair with another man. Andy is sentenced 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Andy is put into one of the worst prisons at the time, Shawshank. The life Andy lives at Shawshank is a life no person could imagine. The first day, Andy was sent to Shawshank on...
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My early exposure to cinema was not unlike that of most American children. At the age of eleven, I still watched the movies that premiered on the Disney Channel and still felt slightly rebellious when watching any movie with a PG-13 rating. My parents had, for the most part, done a thorough job in shielding me from all the evils of the world. However, my older siblings were equally determined in their job to corrupt me. When they suggested we...
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I recently completed the Clifton Strengths Survey, and I learned that focus is my first strength where I follow my path in a right direction. I always focus on the things I want and be on track. My second strength is relator. I get satisfaction working with team members and enjoy building strong relation with others. Communication is my third strength. I never feel shy to express my feelings and experiences with others. My fourth strength is responsibility. I believe...
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Jazz and contemporary classical music are a like in many ways, while also being very different. Music culture in itself is something that is developed slowly over a great deal of time, with constant study and rehearsal in the given genre. Each music culture having its own set of ‘rules’ of dos and don’ts. The better you know these rules, the better understanding of a genre you will have. First let’s start with a definition of the two genres. Jazz...
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The term ‘eyewitness’ is a legal term that refers to an account by people of an event that has been witnessed. The testimony is slowly being treated less and less credible because DNA evidence is becoming more accessible and accurate memory testing reveals the errors of your memory. The eyewitness testimony involving criminal justice is being questioned and becoming a controversial topic because the human brain can only hold so much memory. Recalling information can be very difficult as well,...
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My study plan hopes to assist me to analyze my strength and weakness and show me how develop my skills and knowledge. During this program, I have experienced many things; sometimes everything went perfect but sometimes I came across with difficulties. All of the tasks I was given assisted me to analyze my strength and weaknesses. My weakness is that I procrastinate due to my self-esteem and tend to take things easy. I always believe I can do my work...
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I had an educational tour of Cebu and Bohol which are 2 of the biggest tourist areas in the Philippines. My college SLU organized our trip with the goal of sharing us to visit and gather knowledge of what it is like to experience ourselves about tourism, and to observe the common traits related to HRM which consists of work that involves lodging and food service that is most important in the hospitality industry. The outing is regarded to be...
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In our fourth week of Entertainment History since 1945, we have decided to cover a topic which personally a favorite subject of mine called ‘Beatlemania’. The term Beatlemania was described to be showing a segment of idolization by commonly many young female enthusiasts towards the popular English pop group called ‘The Beatles’ on whenever they had their concert performance and band travels back in the 1960s. First of all, the Beatles’ fame began in the United Kingdom first throughout 1963...
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Released in 1994, ‘Forrest Gump’ shattered box office records in breakneck speed and bagged 13 Academy Award nominations with a whopping 6 Oscars. It is an American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, and Mykelti Williamson. It has an adapted screenplay (written by Eric Goth) based on a novel written by Winston Groom (1986) that goes by the same name. The film traces the journey of a slow-witted man named Forrest...
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‘A Class Divided’ is a film about a third-grade teacher named Jane Elliott and her class who took part in-class exercise about discrimination. The purpose of the exercise is that she wanted to show her class what discrimination feels like and what it can do to people. The teacher started this exercise right after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. She divided her class by eye color and then told them that the children with brown eyes were smarter,...
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Flannery O’Connor, the author of Gothic short stories, deeply portrays the picture of the rural life of the South. The stories include characters that find themselves in unpleasant situations, where the only way out is through salvation. The author animates religious pathos by including colors with comic touches. At the same time characterizing photographic and grotesque authenticity which she achieves through the last trifle of the realistic description of the everyday life. She often exposes the images of religion, false...
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“Cell One” and “Private Experience” are short stories written by Afro-feminist novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. One interesting point of her style of writing is that she does not believe in writing utopian, ideal fiction novels. She incorporates a number of undesirable events and micro-aggression in a number of perspectives that portray an unfortunate yet real world. Both “Cell One” and “Private Experience” show recurring events of these micro-aggression. Cell One is presumably narrated through the eyes of Adichie. The story...
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Why you should be friends with people who Cuss a lot according to psychologists: Why does using a swear word make people feel better? Is cursing a sin? Nope. It’s just a way to take out your aggression. People who curse tend to be straight shooters who don't care about anything. Psychologists say people who curse a lot possesses some commendable qualities. They are honest, expressive and more intelligent than others. Those who are proficient in curse words are more...
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The common law system is recognized as an older; as well as proficient technique in quite a few countries helping making the system of law a better one. In Canada, common law is used and based on judges past decisions rather than written law (Department of Justice, 2017). The common law system takes past decisions made by judges and uses them in new situations that are similar to the original event - otherwise known as the term “stare decisis,” which...
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What lies within the depths of a minimum wage job? In this investigative journal, A Nickle and Dimed, our protagonist and author Barbara Ehrenreich explores the worst when it comes to low-wage jobs in America in the late 1900s and early 2000s. In the book she goes undercover through different jobs across the country and explains the complications as well as the people she comes across in a low-class setting. In this report we will look at a brief summary...
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The book I chose is “The Canterville Ghost” written by famous English author Oscar Wilde. He was an Irish poet and playwright. It is a short story written in the form of novella about the mansion haunted by a ghost. Its genre is Gothic fiction. The title itself reveals that it is a scary ghost story. But when I read it, I found out that it is a horror-comic. Hiram B. Otis, a well off American, buys Canterville Chase, an...
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Having read and annotated the following article, The Trouble with (the Term) Art, by Carolyn Dean it is safe to say that the main idea of this essay is to address how the term art is not being used when describing object that date back centuries. This mostly has to do with Europeans describing their art as art and non- western artifacts as “primitive” Everything being unearthed is not being considered “art”. They are using a term to exclude these...
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A nurse practitioner is a master’s prepared registered nurse that has received additional training, education, and certification, and is qualified to provide primary patient care (Fitzpatrick et al., 2003) Nurse practitioner is a very challenging, but also a very rewarding profession at the same time. It is a great feeling to do work that helps people to overcome their health issues and stay healthy. However, it is important to remember that being a nurse practitioner is hard work that requires...
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Being born with a death mask is a weird concept. The artist Frida Kahlo made Niña con máscara de Calavera (girl with a death mask) in 1938. The painting was gifted to her friend Dolores del Rio, but right now it's on display at the Nagoya city art museum in Japan. The girl is wearing a day of the dead mask and standing next to a tiger mask in an open field. The artist Frida Kahlo made the painting “girl...
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