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HELLO! BUENOS DIAS (GOOD MORNING!)OR BUENAS TARDES (GOOD AFTER NOON!) OR BUENAS NOCHES (GOOD EVENING)!...

My name is Rocky Escobedo. My formal first name is Rogelio. I was born in Eagle Pass, Texas. It is a city on the United States-Mexico border across from

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Education > High School Math & Sciences Why it is important to study math in high school: 1 of 16

My eighth grade math teacher told me once, when it was my turn to work general math problems on the blackboard, "If you can count to ten, you can do math, if you can walk and chew gum at the same time, you can do math, if you can come to school and find your way home, you can do math now work this problem pachuco!" (The term...
Education > Educational Philosophy Is it better for schools to be rigorous or nurturing?: 7 of 32

TO BE OR NOT TO BE To be or not to be is the question. Let me see, where have I heard these words before? Oh yea! These words are implied in the category that I this article is about: to be rigorous or not to be rigorous or to nurture or not to nurture. Here is what I think: if a student demonstrates a joy (affective domain)...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory "What if" poverty were eliminated?: 1 of 3

THE POOR WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU J.C. FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE, MORE WILL BE GIVEN, AND THEY WILL HAVE AND ABUNDANCE; BUT FROM THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING, EVEN WHAT THEY HAVE SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY J.C. These two powerful quotes should tell you that povery will never be eliminated. However in the interest of making a comment related ...
Education > Secondary School Issues The problem with public education: 19 of 43

One of the most serious problems in public education is that a lot of students are getting too much power over the teacher. There are several forces that are involved in the whole educational enterprise in our country: industry, the federal government, the state, the local school boards, the administrators, the teachers, the...
Education > Reading & Writing Skills Teaching Sight Words as an instructional strategy: 3 of 6

It has been said that a picture tells a thousand words in our brain and the same thousand words form the same picture. If this is the case, "Johnny Student" should be able to read, listen, speak, and write whether he learns by sight words or any other strategy. But what if it isn't? What if a picture tells a thousand words, ...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Wrongly convicted and 'doing time': 1 of 2

Can a person or persons be arrested, tried, found guilty, and thrown into prison, in our United States of America in this day and age? You bet! It has happened several times. This article is not about someone who was wrongfully convicted and doing time, but it is about two deputy sheriffs who were falsely accused, arrested, ...
Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology How both the Democrats and Republicans hate the middle class and love corporate America: 1 of 1

WHY REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS HATE THE MIDDLE CLASS: I do not agree with the premises that the republicans and democrats hate the middle class and love corporate America. (Both parties love the middle class, only during election time!) It does not make sense since most of the power that it takes to control the rules related ...
Politics, News & Issues > US Leaders US elections 2008: The appeal of John McCain: 7 of 12

The main difference between Democrats and Republicans is the manner that they serve the needs of the American people. The democrats favor from the bottom up while the republicans favor from the top down based on the trickle-down philosophy. This is the essence of the struggle for power in politics. One of the main principles...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Education: 8 of 13

My Favorite School Year MY FAVORITE SCHOOL YEAR DURING MY SCHOOL DAYS WAS THE EIGHTH GRADE...I LIKED IT SO MUCH I STAYED THEIR TWICE! This is what I tell my students, parents, and other groups when I have an opportunity to speak before them. It was because I missed out on most of the material during that year since I spent m...
Politics, News & Issues > Soldiers & Veterans Political misuse of the military: The dangers of military adventurisim: 6 of 9

Back in the days of the draft when you did not have the draft lottery, we had to serve in the U.S Army if we were certified as fit for military duty. We had no choice. I received my letter of notification instructing me to the local draft board for examination and induction into the Army. I new I was going to be drafted. I d...