A Pivotal Moment for Social Studies Education and Civic Literacy Social studies and civic education may be on the verge of its greatest moment. After years of being marginalized as a discipline‚ there is a call for from concerned citizens and prominent lawmakers for our schools to do a better job of promoting civic education. In Ohio‚ several laws have been passed recently that emphasize the study of the Founding Documents‚ American history and government‚ world history and civilizations‚ and financial
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Life is a made up of a collection of moments. Some people say that one must learn from obstacles that everyone struggles with. Some people say that every challenge helps to achieve strength of character and self-growth. The most significant change in my life was my elder sister’s battle with cancer. Even though it was a very hurtful experience that has drastically affected both me and my family‚ it helped me know myself better as a person‚ realize that I can appreciate God’s gift of life and good
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A Moment in my Life A personal narrative by Kyle Baldwin-Langrehr The following is the story of a lesson learned by a younger version of myself. My name is Kyle. When I was eight years old‚ I got the chance to experience a thing that more and more lucky children get to see and live each day. This thing is known to many as divorce. Let’s back up a bit further‚ shall we? I was born on a warm California night on June seventeenth‚ in the year of nineteen-hundred and ninety-four. Right around the
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I am tired‚ exhausted if I am being honest. Life has become the equivalent to a sideshow‚ people see the act and cheer loudly only to inspire you to keep it going‚ but behind the scenes the real mess is hidden by a tattered velvet curtain. The phone rings‚ text ding‚ Facebook likes sore‚ and retweets beg for my attention all expecting a witty upbeat remark that I respond with through the filter of my digital self. Everyday I receive perfectly worded digital questions and take my time crafting and
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Forever Changed FOEVER CHANGED Page 2 Earning my CNA’s was the most significant‚ life changing moment I’ve ever had. This journey began as a high school freshman and took four years to achieve. It was the first long-term goal I had ever set for myself at the age of fourteen. What I didn’t see coming was how it would change my life in such a positive way. As a high school teenager I took all the required Health Occupations classes in order to take Allied
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Life Changing Moment Ever since I can remember I spent almost ever y day at my Grandparents house. They live right down the road from my family and me‚ and that is how they got the title “Grandma and Grandpa down the road”. They lived in a small house three bedrooms‚ one bathroom‚ and a small living room with a fire place that can worm the coldest heart. And in their back yard stood a shed filled with old farm equipment and stray cats with their kittens that I would try to catch every day. They
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Embarrassing Moments in My Life I’ve had a great many embarrassing moments in my life. Some of the most embarrassing have occurred while I was attending school. One of these moments happened in high school during my senior year. I remember it well because it made me be the center of attention‚ laughs and embarrassment for quite some time. The scene happened at a physics class‚ we were studying free fall as an experiment we were supposed to let go different kind of objects‚ which had
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“There’s no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.”(Sinbad). People’s defining moment in their life changes their whole personality and changes their point of view in their life.People’s defining moment in their life changes their whole personality and changes their point of view in their life. I never thought that‚ I was going to move to a new country. At 2012 my parents told us that we were moving to America. Dad told me that my mom got hired by a company to work in America as a nurse
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everyone’s mind. Some of these moments are filled with joy‚ and some are filled with pain. The moments impact us in some way. When asked to look at a moment that impacted me. I can only choose one‚ the moment that made the biggest impact‚ when my mom died. That event forced me to think in ways that I never had to before. Our roles changed‚ we became more independent. We looked after ourselves. We kids also help start dinner before dad came home. A role in my first eight years of life I had never had
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Every man in his life faces the ups and downs. Sorrows and pleasures are two parts of life. In fact‚ life is full of bad as well as good incidents. Some of them are forgotten with the passage of time while others leave an everlasting impression on the mind. We do not forget them for the whole of our life. We enjoy the moments of pleasure while the moments of sorrow plunge us into despair. We cherish the moments of pleasure throughout our life. Such a moment came to me last year when I learnt
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