Arming Teachers and Students for Protection in a Washington State Classroom © 2013 Sean T. Taeschner‚ M.Ed. Dear Washington State Senator Steve Litzow‚ I do not know who else to turn to regarding the emergent need‚ I believe‚ that exists for teachers in Washington State to be armed with handguns in their classrooms. After the wave of school shootings in the United States in the past sixteen-years‚ with no end in sight to armed intruders taking advantage of what has been deemed ‘a gun-free zone’
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Northern and Southern Dynasties (386 - 589) The Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386 - 589) was a time of division in Chinese history‚ during which the Yellow River watershed of China first experienced a period of cultural transformation under the rule of a minority group. After the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 - 420)‚ four regimes - the Song‚ the Qi‚ the Liang‚ and the Chen appeared one after the other in south China. In north China the Northern Wei‚ the Eastern Wei‚ the Western
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Throughout the semester I was aware I was learning things‚ but it wasn’t until watching my IDEA speech that I realized how much I had truly learned. I thought that maybe I had picked up a few useful tips‚ but I didn’t think that I had really changed much as a speaker. It turns out I was dead wrong. I have clearly learned a tremendous amount. This shows in my improvement from the first speech‚ as well the drastic change in my PRCA-24 score. When I took the PRCA-24 for the first time at the beginning of
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earned a doctorate in law in 1796 at the age of twenty‚ and practiced law for the next ten years. After auditing some courses and studying science on his own‚ Avogadro made a radical career change. In 1806 he became a secondary school science teacher‚ and in 1820 a university physics professor. He married in 1815‚ had seven children‚ and by all accounts‚ led a very happy family life. During his academic career‚ Avogadro’s publications revealed an intense curiosity‚ sharp intuition‚ vivid imagination
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last social science class. I chose Sociology as my new subject. I hadn’t taken the subject before and wanted to experience something new. Sociology was rather a new subject in the ranks of economics‚ political science‚ anthropology and history. That’s what made me go for it. My first day in the class was not how I expected it to be. I was told that the real professor (Prof.Boon) was on leave and that I substitute Professor will fill in for one week. However the class went on pretty well
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This article focused on the phenomenon called teacher burnout. Teacher burnout is described as an occurrence in which a teacher has been undergoing stress and because of that experiences the effects of that. Burnout can cause many problems for teachers and students. Problems such as teacher health decline‚ signs of depression‚ and others; resulting in negative outcomes for the students. Special education teachers are at an even higher risk because of their working conditions‚ and that because of
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I struggled to write my stories when non-fiction meant ‘real life’. I did not know what I wanted to write and how much of my own life I wanted to share. I am not a very open person‚ but I do enjoy sharing anecdotes of adventures in my life. When it came to writing non-fiction‚ I felt like I had to expose who I am and reveal my secrets. In my writing‚ I do not think I could hide anything. The Mixed-Genre class became my sense for self-discovery. I started figuring out who I am as a writer and I realized
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community. By obtaining new skills from this class and pushing myself to improve‚ I can now apply these strategies to future courses that I may take or even carry them with me and continue to improve on them throughout my career. For example‚ while I may not have to take another English course throughout my time in college‚ I can still use the same skills that I learned from this class and apply them to both school and everyday life. Not only was this class about learning skills
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Lies My Teacher Told Me Effect on Me There is a common expression that a lot of us have heard at least one time “don’t believe everything you read”‚ just because a book is written and published does not mean is always accurate. True historical facts can easily be transformed by adding or taking away details in order to see it only from a certain perspective. The textbooks in history classrooms represent many different groups from the perspective of one group‚ usually European. Loewen explores the
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ECONOMIC Impact of business Closure in Claiborne County‚ Mississippi Abstract Historically Claiborne and other counties in the region depended on small-scale agriculture and was an attractive location for light manufacturing. Today‚ many of these advantages have been lost and firms that made up the bulk of the economic activities in the areas are disappearing in large numbers. Hence‚ per capita income falls and people migrate to more prosperous areas‚ leaving the region deeply depressed. Using
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