Picture yourself for a moment in an area where there's double-digit unemployment. You just lost your job, and even though you have a college degree, nobody's hiring except Wal-Mart and McDonalds "if you're lucky, you might find a job for $6 or $7 an hour. But after graduating college last year, you went out and bought a new car and townhouse after landing your first good job. Somehow you have to manage a $300 car payment and a $700 mortgage that pays maybe $900/month after taxes.
Here's another scenario for you: Imagine you have kids in elementary school, and your children's 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms are thirty or more students large run by inexperienced teachers with little professional training or mentoring and no assistance from teacher aides. Besides for that, playground equipment is falling apart, and you have two computers in the whole school. Your special ed son doesn't receive the services he needs to allow him to succeed, and your gifted daughter is frustrated, bored, and acting out because she isn't challenged through any sort of enrichment program.
These scenarios aren't too unlikely to happen if our legislature doesn't quickly tackle the state's budget crisis, sporting a $1 billion deficit, even after $800 million in cuts, including over $300 million from k-12 education and almost $200 million from higher education funds, according to the State of Indiana's Office of the Budget and Governor Frank O'Bannon's office.
The purpose of my speech today is to persuade you that the Indiana General Assembly, by failing to meaningfully address Indiana's budget crisis, has laid the groundwork for the rapid deterioration of the state's economy, basic social services, and education system.
I am studying the poems Charge of the light brigade', Exposure' and Disabled'. Wilfred Owen wrote Exposure' and Disabled', during World War 1 and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote Charge of the light brigade' during the Crimean War. All of the poems have something in common; they all portray the...
God's blanket-fabric that was an unfathomable deep blue with intricate patterns of sequins sewn in-was pulled across the horizon as he nestled deep beneath the duvets, soon to call it a day. ... The chaos seemed so far behind now as the steady hum of my ride became distinctively audible in the pin-prick silence. ...
She used the crime sewn into the scarlet letter to allow her to pay penance and to suffer punishment. ... As the guilt of his silence slowly ate away at him, his physical health abandoned him, and he grew weaker with every day that passed. ...
The tests range from a monkey's eyes being sewn shut for long periods of times, to a dog's eyes getting burned by radiation, and even so far as to subject fully conscience cats and dogs to surgery with no anesthetic. ... Often times, animals such as dogs and cats are silenced through a grotesque procedure. This process which consists of cutting the animals vocal chords to silence the specimen. ...
Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...
Wilfred Owen is a famous poet who wrote during the First World War. He led a short life due to his death fighting in the war. People say that if he had survived the war, he would have become one of the great poets along with Louis Caroll and Shakespeare. I have chosen to study three poems: "Dulce ...
