A Futuristic Prom
RING, RING! "Hello, this is Matty337."
"Hey Matty337, it's Zinc451, what's up?"
"Nothin' much, I am just enjoying my Saturday afternoon home alone."
"Oh, I Just called to ask you a question."
"What is it Zinc? Is something wrong?"
"No, Matty, I was just wondering if... well I know it's kind of short notice, but I was wondering if... you would like to go to the Neptunian Starlight Prom with me."
"Sure Zinc I'd love to go!"
"Yeah, I'll pick you up at 7:30, O.K.?"
"Ya, I'll see you at 7:30, bye!"
"Bye, Matty!"
Finally, he asked me. I've been waiting all my life for Zinc to ask me out on a date. After all, I've only had a crush on him since the year 2149. Just think, the most astronomical guy in school asked me to the Neptunian Starlight prom of the year 2153. It's going to be the best night of my life!
Oh no, I totally spaced it out. The prom is tonight and I don't have a dress. The Mars Mall is too many miles for my spacecraft to fly this afternoon from my galaxy purple house on 95070 Jupiter Street. What will I do? Suddenly, it dawns on me; I can order a dress off of the Universal Wide Web and have it teleported to my own house!
My teleporter is a very complex machine used to make one object disintegrate and appear somewhere else in perfect replica. This is a machine that works on 3-dimensional objects as opposed to 2-dimensional sheets of paper. It looks almost like a fax machine and scans the original object, breaks it up into billions of tiny atoms, scans it to a new location and rearranges it in its perfect form.
I run down stairs as quick as possible, there is no time to waste. I open the office door and plop down in the chair in front of my new 2153 Model Astrocomputer. After turning on the super fast computer and atomic laser printer I begin to work. When the 3-D super pixel screen comes up I immediately click on the blue U for Universal Explorer. I plug in my Interstellar Satellite Modem. I go to the top of the screen where the word DESTINATION: jumps out at me. I suddenly get a rush of excitement all throughout my body. Finally I am going to get the perfect prom dress! I click on the destination box and begin to type- www.
If one looks at the word “Inclusion”, its definition states that the word means being a part of something or the feeling of being part of a whole. By looking at this term, one gets a sense about what inclusion education is all about (Karten p. 2). Inclusion education is the mainstreaming of Special Education students into a regular classroom (Harchik). A school that involves inclusive education makes a commitment to educate each and every student to their highest potential by whatever means necessary (Stout). Their goal is for all children, disabled or not, to be able to attend a typical classroom.
Headed along the yellow brick road towards the registration office, I was intercepted by my malevolent manager, the “Ineffable John” as he was called by my fellow co-workers, and he said unto me, “Michael, you don’t want to go to college, stay here and you shall have bestowed upon your unworthy head all which you need to know. Here, fill up my coffee cup.” With his words still echoing in my mind, I wanted to sprint down the hallway, pole-vault over the cubicle prisons, hurdle the water ration cooler, and dive through the double-paned sliding glass doors. This spectacular display of athletic ability would have been terrific, but the ball and chain still shackled to my ankles would have slightly hindered my escape.
He asks himself if it better be suffer the pains of life or rather just to be asleep forever. He goes over the idea that when we are dreaming what if you have such a bad dream and you cannot do anything to help you get up from it. It is almost as if you are trapped and there is no exit. Hamlet questions if he should suffer his sorrows since he dreads something after death. He claims he is used to suffering his sorrows, but is afraid of the so called unknown. Hamlet believes in the idea that a conscience is bad and its only useful to prove a coward of all people. He looks beyond his thoughts and believes that he is one of high intelligence. Hamlet wonders why we chose to live with so much misery and pain when death is such an easy option. As human beings why we allow ourselves to go through so much when there are so many simple solutions we can take advantage of. If hamlet was truly insane, these thoughts would truly not run through his mind. He is going through a hard time having lost his father and learning that his dearest uncle was behind it. Hamlet is fully cognizant of the world around him, proving he is well witted and understand what he must do. Some characters themselves also come to see that Hamlet is in fact not insane. For instance, Polonius admits that Hamlet’s so called actions have a method to them and seem to be of logical nature.
Inclusion is one of the very controversial topics concerning the education of students in today's society. It is the effort to put children with disabilities into the general education classes. The main purpose is to ensure that every child receives the best education possible by placing them in the best learning environment possible. Inclusion is a very beneficial idea, supported by law that promotes a well-rounded education while also teaching acceptance of others.
The story Hamlet was composed by the playwright William Shakespeare, and is regarded as a timeless piece in both literature and theatre. Now, over four hundred years after Hamlet was written, society still continues to analyze its complex characterization (Reiss 769). In a Psychiatric Times article, twentieth century physician Alan Stone says, “Even today in our era of cultural diversity, Shakespeare remains the greatest figure of world literature, performed on every continent, surviving translation” (Allan 20). The protagonist Hamlet is a particularly multifaceted character. He is an intelligent being who appears to have been overcome by self-conflict due to the sudden murder of his father, the King of Denmark. The transgressions of the murderer, his uncle Claudius, drive Hamlet to a point of questionable sanity. It is Hamlet’s psyche which is a large topic of scholarly debate concerning the play. “Shakespeare’s understanding of the human condition miraculously transcends his culture and place,” says Stone (Allan 20). Shakespeare had a particular interest in the human mind, mental conditions, and nosology. Upon evaluation of Hamlet’s sanity, it becomes apparent that these subjects are present in the play. The subject of Hamlet’s sanity is a vastly complex but not necessarily unexplainable topic. There is arguably evidence to support the protagonist’s sanity with: the seven soliloquies, the psychoanalysis of Hamlet’s character, and the utterance Hamlet makes in Act III.
This Article discusses more than just Hamlet’s story and character but it does tell the reader about Hamlet’s madness. It tells them that Hamlet’s emotional characteristics make him do what he does which is becoming mad or pretending to be mad. It talks about how his ideas are affected by the inner conscience and its neuroscience. Basically this article tries to prove that nothing can be done without emotions and his madness is caused by his emotions. In this source, the author goes about showing how mad hamlet was by picking at his strategy of trying to expose Claudius of murdering his father through the “Mouse Trap” play. This source argues that Hamlet’s grief can be blamed on many occurrences that happened within the play, the biggest influence being the death of his father. Other influences that this source states are the fact that his newly widowed mother marries his uncle only a month or so after his father’s death and the fact that Ophelia let her brother and father influence her love for hamlet Another interesting theory was that nobody gave hamlet any sympathy in his time of grief when he really needed it resulting to his madness.
In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the main character experiences many puzzling emotions. Readers usually ponder on who this man is and what exactly is going on inside his baffling mind. One of the most common debates is whether Hamlet was truly insane or just putting up a façade. Although the door may swing both ways, there is much evidence in the play to support that Hamlet deliberately feigned his insanity in order to bewilder the king and his attendants.
The idea of madness is common among many literary pieces, including 1 Samuel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Odyssey and Hamlet in which feigning madness portrays the sanity of the characters. The play, “Hamlet,” by playwright William Shakespeare, demonstrates the tragic story of the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who may or may not be insane. His overall change in behaviour was caused due to the murder of his late father, King Hamlet, by his uncle who is the current king and his mother’s second husband, King Claudius. Ophelia’s lack of affection and attention also affected his sanity. Throughout the play, Hamlet puts on an act to be mad around certain people to show that he is not a threat and to demonstrate his capability to elaborate and execute
"If she did then why did you have to almost force her to go with you. I think you are taking this cool thing a little to far."
The tragic play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare follows the main character, Hamlet, and his journey of revenge for his father’s death. In the beginning of the play, Hamlet appears completely sane; however, as the play progresses and after his father dies, he chooses to change from depressed to insane. Hamlet is perceived as mad for different reasons: the revenge for his father’s murder and his love for Ophelia. Hamlet wants revenge for his father’s death because although the death is staged to look like an accident, Hamlet is visited by a ghost who tells Hamlet that his uncle Claudius is actually responsible. Only Horatio, Hamlet’s best friend, truly knows Hamlets motives, and Hamlet acts as if he is mad; he acts this way in order to
Sable has been a special education director since 1985. I know that special education has dramatically changed over the years. I wanted his professional opinion about inclusion in special education. I asked Mr. Sable, what challenges do students with disabilities encounter in inclusive classroom settings? Mr. Sable shared that students with disabilities encounter a variety of problems in the inclusive classrooms. He stated, “Some do not have the basic academic skills to be successful and need remediation in the basic academic skills in a small setting with modified instructional strategies.” Mr. Sable believes that decisions should be made upon the individual's needs and not a predetermined system of belief that one delivery method fits all. Mr. Sable stated that “The primary problem with inclusion is that we resort to an unintentional system similar to tracking. SWD are often in the regular classroom but not in the honors classes, and they often do not aspire or are expected to work towards an Advanced diploma.They do not have access to all the opportunities all children have because of low expectations. Systems often have this false sense of “we put them in with the regular kids” justification, but when you look at the majority of the classes they are in the other students are usually the ones that make up the gap groups that exist. As we all know, the achievement gap between the gap group students and non-gap group students still exist after NCLB. If inclusion can
With technology rapidly changing as fast as we blink our eyes, it is important for people to learn as much as possible about the computer world if they want to maintain a decent lifestyle because the world we live in revolving around those technologies. As McKee points out, “most jobs now require intelligence and technical skill” (1). Each year, there is something either added or modified to computers, which forces people to learn computer literacy at a steady pace. While some love computers, others despise them. When comparing people’s attitudes towards computers, statistics show a gender gap that proves most females’ attitudes are drastically different from the attitudes of males. Several studies prove that women not only lack an interest in technology, but they also chose not to enroll in computer classes. Since computers and technology play an enormous role in the world today, more technology professionals are needed. It is extremely important for more women to become knowledgeable in these areas. Swain and Harvey argue, “This technology gender gap is affecting half our population and causing it to be unprepared to contribute to the demands of a high-tech twenty-first century” (17). While this may not seem like a serious issue to some, it is an issue that will ultimately lead to a bigger problem if not handled immediately. So why are there so few women in the technology field? To answer that question, I must first find out why are there so few women in the technology and computer classes, considering that this atmosphere is the most common place where the interest for computers is born.
For many years now, there has been an increase of interest for the welfare of learning disabled children and their place in the normal classroom setting. The attempt to reintegrate special education students with learning disabilities has been a popular subject among the special education and research community (Shinn, Powell-Smith, Good, & Baker, 1997). The strive to create inclusion programs, however, has not just been a recent issue among these professionals. The movement began in 1975 when the Education of the Handicapped Act (now called The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) was created to develop programs across the United States. It's basic requirements were: (a) to make sure that all handicapped children (in private and public schools) were educated with non handicapped children as much as possible, and (b) that if handicapped children must be removed from the regular education environment, it must only be done if the special education children cannot achieve satisfactorily in the normal classroom with the help of special aides and services that can be provided (Aerfsky, 1995; Brown, 1997). Because of this movement, a growing number of students with moderate learning disabilities are being educated and overcoming their learning disability in general education class...
Inclusion is a viewpoint that involves the commitment to educate each child to the greatest extent possible in the school and classroom the child would attend if he or she were without a disability. The goal of inclusion is to involve all students with disabilities, including severe disabilities, in academic and non-academic activities (Alquraini & Gut, 2012). When reading the literature regarding inclusion, two additional terms are often mentioned: (a) mainstreaming and (b) full inclusion. Mainstreaming has generally been used to refer to the placement of special education students in one or more general education class. Mainstreaming allows for students with disabilities to receive special education services in a separate
It seemed that segregation was an idea that has been obsolete in the United States for more than fifty years. However for Charleston, Mississippi it is another story. Charleston High School originally became an integrated high school in 1970. Since then, the seniors at Charleston High School always have had segregated proms -- a white prom and a black prom. In the documentary you see the students worried about the prom, their parents reactions and their future .In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman, a citizen of Charleston, offered to fund the prom if the school had one integrated prom. His offer was ignored. Ten years later, in 2008, Freeman generously offered again. This is where the story begins.