When it comes to home schooling, parents need all of the resources they can muster. Designing curricula, scheduling field trips, and tailoring lesson plans to children in different grade levels can be challenging. Using children’s literature to enrich the curriculum you teach in the home learning environment can be rewarding to both you and your […]
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The Day after the Memorial Day
“We are, meanwhile, going to erect befitting memorial tombs with beautiful flowers on them for our fallen soldiers. And inscribe their names on their tombstones in letters of gold, with our national flag flying overhead. For they did not die in vain. They fought and died for the empire. And we hope that many more […]
The Effects of Televised Sexual Content on Adolescents
According to a September 2004 study by the RAND Corporation, “Adolescents who watch large amounts of television containing sexual content are twice as likely to begin engaging in sexual intercourse in the following year as their peers who watch little such TV.” In addition, the National Institutes of Health-funded study found that these children’s sexual […]
The Happy Jar — How Little Things Can Mean a Lot
I just delivered a free speech. I am a great believer in free speech, but an even greater believer in paid speech. However, there are good reasons why someone like me would deliver free speeches. For instance, to support a charity or a cause I believe in. Or if the audience is full of people […]