getting detention after detention for being late to class, they’re not doing as well as possible on assignments, and the teachers are having more stressful days. The 2000 Census shows that the population of my hometown, Stafford, Virginia, is said to be 104,823 people (Stafford). It is also stated that of that population, 19,000 are students, and 5,378 of those are in the high schools (Simply Fredericksburg). Data also shows that in the year 2003, there is said to be 24,968 students, and then in
great devotion from directors, teachers and families. It is important to understand that the mainstreaming of children with disabilities should not be implemented according to a certain standard model. This process is an individual one (Daniels, E & Stafford, K. 2001). Mainstreaming of children is based on the belief that education of every child should be individual. This states that every child has their own individual right to go to a normal school if that’s what they would like. Advantages for
Many scientists are very secretive. Carl Djerassi, a world famous scientist, describes this competition in his fictional novel, Cantor's Dilemma. In his novel, he demonstrates the secrecy that competition encourages when two scientists, Cantor and Stafford, complete an important experiment. Cantor does not want to publish the full experimental details right away. He explains, "No, I'd like to string this out a bit. Just a preliminary communication first, without the experimental details, so that nobody
backgrounds and have different perspectives on the usage of the system. There is a support worker working for Leeds Met, a computing student from Huddersfield University, a graphics student from Newcastle University, and an accounting student from Stafford University. This should mean that the overall view we get is a general view. I am using a questionnaire to obtain my data, I have chosen this method, as it is easy for the user to understand and complete and is much less demanding on time and
did. She needed that degree to pursue her career in the medical field, and to have the potential to earn more pay. Throughout the 1980's we moved around a lot. First we moved to Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania in 1985, and then we moved to Stafford, Virginia in 1987. In Sinking Spring we finally owned our own house, and we lived in a wealthier neighborhood than before. We were now neither the richest, nor the poorest, people on the block. The richest people living in the neighborhood
the house seems like a cage to them. They feel like they are in a zoo which makes a child feel like their own identity is absent. Author Jean Stafford went through this kind of situation in her childhood. Stafford’s personal life was often marked by unhappiness and struggle. Her personal life had a great influence in her stories. “In The Zoo” by Jean Stafford shows how impactful childhood is to the adult person by using symbolism and characterization. The author uses the zoo to represent a surrounded
conflicting themes between birth and death, man and nature, and ultimately creation and destruction. It would take several years for a fully grown doe to develop, but it would only take a few seconds for that doe to be killed. Using the tools of the poet, Stafford vividly illustrates a scene in which man has completely destroyed and felt no remorse for a product of nature. This disrespect would only lead the driver to travel through the moral darkness of insensitivity and desecration towards nature. There
fawn. Realizing that life remains in the body he had assumed dead, the traveler hesitates. Finally, he pushes the deer, one dead and the other not yet alive, off the road and into the chasm. While the poem's situation is simple, its theme is not. Stafford appears to be intimating that life is precious and fragile; however, nothing so clearly discloses these attributes of life as confrontation with death. Furthermore, the very confrontations that engender appreciation of life's delicacies force action-all
off the road. He admires the motorcycle and how appealing it looks but finds himself in a predicament: Find the owner of the motorcycle or take it for himself? In this poem, Stafford uses imagery, juxtaposition, characterization to argue that doing the right thing may be difficult, but it is the best option. To start, Stafford uses imagery for his argument to explore the difficulty part of doing the right thing. By describing the motorcycle, he makes the object more appealing to the narrator. The
over the 50 months between January 2005 and March 2009 at Stafford hospital, a small district general hospital in Staffordshire. It is often described as the worst hospital care scandal of recent times. In 2009 Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Healthcare Commission, the regulator of NHS care standards at the time, said it was the most shocking scandal he had investigated. Francis's report that came out in February 2010 into care at Stafford hospital, based on evidence from over 900 patients and
Good of the Stafford Act The Robert T. Stafford Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, or the Stafford Act is by far the most important federal law when it comes to disaster management (Hunter, 2009, p. 189). The purpose of this paper is to provide an argument is support of the Stafford Act. I will address how the Stafford Act has been modified to support large scale devastation, as well as the federal government’s responsibility to reimburse local entities. Additionally, I will discuss how the
William Stafford, Stafford uses tone,idiom, and symbolism to explain why thought his life was like a river. William Stafford uses the river to help him be able to answer any questions people might have for him. William Stafford uses tone to show how he thought his life was like a river. Stafford says, “Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life” (Stafford 1-3). With this being said, he is being honest and calm. William Stafford does not
write, I must do so in a clean, well-organized, and well-lit area. The space must be free from distractions, such as the television or radio, so that I am able to focus and gather my thoughts. I like to begin my writings similar to the way William Stafford says he starts, "To get started I will accept anything that occurs to me." Writing down any thought that will help support and provoke more thoughts and ideas. When my thoughts become cloudy, I like to rise from my seat and walk around speaking out
Do you care about your education? A good school can help you get that. The physical and human geography of Stafford Middle School is very positive. For instance, one of the major physical features is that we share areas with our neighboring high school, also, the culture is diverse, and finally the interaction among the students and teachers are quite engaged. First, one of the major physical features of the school is that we share areas with our neighboring high school. One example is that we share
The Stafford Act is a federal law designed to bring a systematic means of natural disaster assistance to governments at the state and local levels for carrying out aid to their citizens (FEMA, 1988). Thirty-six hours before Hurricane Katrina hit President Bush invoked his right to the Stafford Act. A “state of emergency” for Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. President Bush was called, which imposed federal disaster relief efforts to be ready for the impending disaster. The Stafford Act is what
Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford In his poem, "Traveling Through the Dark," William Stafford presents the reader with the difficulty of one man's choice. Immediately, the scene is set, with the driver, who is "traveling though the dark" (line 1) coming upon a recently killed deer. At first, his decision with what to do with the deer is easy; he knows he must push it off the edge for the safety of other motorists, but then, a closer examination of the deer reveals to the man new
William Stafford in my mind, a visionary seeking to enlighten us through words he wrote in the poem, he talks his travels down a dark road only to find a dead deer on the road. In the poem he talks about how he moved the deer out of the dark road and pushing it down a hill. The poem is great at making you visualize what is happen as you read it. In this essay I will dissect the poem’s deep and dark stanza’s and state what the poem means. William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on
Conflict in The Interior Castle by Jean Stafford The Interior Castle by Jean Stafford is a very disturbing but thought-provoking story of a woman who creates a separate world within her head after being severely injured in a car accident. The conflict of the story is Pansy’s attempted escape from pain. Throughout the story she develops an incredibly intricate world within her own mind. She attempts to run from the pain she feels by retreating into this world in which she has made for herself. After
Poetry Essay Assignment “Traveling Through the Dark” ,by William Stafford, is a poem about a moral dilemma about the nature of death and the sadness that comes of it. The situation intensifies when a man, the driver of this truck, is driving late at night and sees this deer on the side of the road. Pulling over he seeing that’s this deer has recently been hit. Noticing that the doe is pregnant and that her body is getting very stiff but that her belly remains warm with the baby deer waiting to
song. It’s the National Anthem for crying out loud! For those who don’t know the US national song of devotion it is comprised of two sections, verses in light of the Francis Scott Key ballad " Defense of Fort M'Henry" and music composed by John Stafford Smith. “The sonnet was composed in 1812, after Key saw the Battle of Fort McHenry amid the War of 1812, being what it was, it was not set to music and received for authority utilize by the US Navy until 1889”(Accettola, p1). At that point, in 1916