Jose Vivero Coding Classes in Grade School I recently watched a video that struck my interest. It was a video created and funded by a foundation named Code.org. The basic premise of this video is to show how important coding was for several founders of multi-million dollar companies such as Microsoft (Bill Gates) and Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg)‚ and how coding is not taught in grade school. Because coding is a specialized skill and requires specific instruction‚ it is not a course that would
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higher chance to develop PTSD in contrast to those who have not experienced combat based trauma. Ron Kovic‚ a Vietnam War veteran who sacrificed much in his service in Southeast Asia wrote the novel Born on the Fourth of July‚ it states‚ "July fourth‚ nineteen forty-six. I was born on the Fourth of July. I can’t feel...” (Kovic‚ 1976). Like many veterans‚ Kovic is haunted by mentioning of the war that reminds him of the experience and cannot feel the same about talking to one about Southeast Asia to
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Hypocrisy is defined as the practice of claiming to have moral standards to which one’s own behavior does not exhibit. In 10th grade Stockbridge High School English‚ you claim to do something but actually don’t. Just like joy‚ pain‚ anger‚ and sorrow; hypocrisy is inevitable in the world we live in today. When I read the essay “Politics and the English Language”‚ I automatically thought of Pastor Eddie Long. I know your thinking‚ “What in the world is he talking about?”‚ but Orwell and Pastor Long
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A Study on Grade Inflation: The Inflation of Grades in American Educational Institutions An epidemic is what one might call the trend of the slowly increasing average in the grades of colleges all across America. It is a particularly subtle ascension‚ albeit a troublesome one. Grade inflation is a major issue in the American educational institutions it affects- data reveals the various causes that lead to the inflation of grades- caused both by students and their instructors‚ which in turn has many
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The fourth observation is the benefit of pleading guilty instead of going to trial. As I have stated before all of the defendants I observed all pleaded guilty and this made it difficult to actually describe how a trial of minor traffic offence is conducted. The first benefit of pleading guilty is the person’s socio-economic status. In the courtroom mostly all of the individuals were middle-class wearing casual attire but a few that were not dressed appropriately for court. In the adversary system
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At the start of Descartes fourth meditation‚ there are three certainties that Descartes has so far concluded. The first being that god exists. The second that god is not a deceiver. And third that god created him and is therefore responsible for all of his faculties (which includes his faculty of judgment). The first two convictions seem sound enough to Descartes yet the third convict evokes some conflict within him. Descartes speaks about how‚ if everything within him comes from god‚ and God did
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Should we have the 7 habits in 8th grade? By: Jayla Rewoldt In American History we are currently studying the concept of sectionalism. Sectionalism is division within a country based in regional beliefs and interests. In the early to mid 1800’s sectionalism in america grew as slavery divided the nation. Slavery was ignored‚ comprised‚ and argued about by the states until the conflict drove our country into the Civil War. Although regional differences are not as distant these days‚ many issues
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“Fourth of July” September 16‚ 2011; September 19‚ 2011 Audre Lorde recalls her first experience of Washington D.C. in Fourth of July; she is transformed from an innocent naïve child to a serious adult who is discriminated against when the “realities of race in america and american racism” (line 30) is explicitly shown proving that her ideal land of the free does not exist. Throughout the entire passage‚ Lorde is convinced that she needs to mature and become realistic since America is filled
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Fifth Grade Lesson “I got a letter” Objective: 1) Students will be able to sing I got a letter on pitch 2) Students will become visually and aurally familiar with syncopation 3) Students will be able to identify words/syllables from rhythms National Standards 1. Singing‚ alone and with others‚ a varied repertoire of music 2. Performing on instruments‚ alone and with others‚ a varied repertoire of music Sunshine State Standards MU.5.S.1.4: Sing or play simple melodic patterns
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Moral Hypocrisy is Affected by Everyone In the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets‚ the author Stephen Crane portrays hypocrisy throughout the story. The protagonist in the book is a young woman‚ Maggie Johnson‚ who has many responsibilities and is forced to make many difficult decisions. The story takes place in an urban city in the slums of New York‚ the Bowery. During the 1890s many people lived with hardships financially‚ emotionally and economically. Crane is a naturalist author; therefore
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