Working Later In The Day Is Better

Working later in the day is better than in the morning. Mornings are usually very busy and tiring. Afternoons are not. Working later in the day is better because people are not sleepy anymore, they think better after lunch and they don’t see time pass by.

People are not sleepy anymore when they work later in the day. They can sleep more when their night is longer and there is no need to wake up early. So one is able to rest more and not feel tired. People usually have more dispositions to work later in the day.

People think better after lunch. When people eat, they feel satisfied. People feel stronger after eating. Lunch meals are more energizing than others meals. When you have more energy, the brain works better and you work better.

When people work later in the day they don’t see the time pass by. In the afternoon there is no worry because many were made things in the morning. People don’t worry about others activities that were already accomplished. They feel free to work in the afternoon.

Working later in the day is better because people are not sleepy anymore, they think better after a good meal and they don’t feel the time pass by. Try to have a good night sleep and work later in the day and see you work improve.

Maria Ely

Small Cities, Big Idea

Small Cities, Big Idea

Living in a small city is a big idea!  The word today is: improve lifestyle!. Moving to big cities and capitals could be an answer to find what the heart desires. However, it is in small cities where it is possible find the basic elements for a happy life.  Living in small cities has  greater advantages than living in big cities such as more space, more peace and a general better environment that boasts big innovative ideas.

Living in small cities allows for more space.  The lack of space in big cities is upsetting. Small cities are less inhabited therefore there is a place for everyone. There is no need to rush early in the morning to find a place to park your car or to wait in a line to be served in a favorite restaurant. Even though big cities are, as the word says, big, they are usually crowded with people, and shops. There is a competition for parking spots, doctor appointments and a place in line.

 In addition to having plenty of space, small cities are known for being a place with a lot of peace. They are very different from big cities that are often noisy and stressful.  The world is too demanding nowadays. It is hard to find a place to breath, free of worries. Small cities offer all of that for free. The countryside is perfect to escape the pressure from living in a big city. That pressure is rarely present in small cities. Small cities are a place to look for and find the peace that is wished for.

 At last but not least, living in small cities offers a better general environment that boats big ideas whereas in big cities there is a lot of pressure that inhibit  creativity. Many great minds where born on the countryside such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Jung. It is in this lack of practical resources from small towns that great creativity emerges. The need to progress fosters thinking while in big cities this need does not exist, pruning minds. Small cities offer an environment suitable for thinking. Nature plays a big role inspiring human minds to come up with great ideas. Most of the inventions come from observing nature such as the airplane.

 Living in small cities offer a  greater number of advantages than living in big cities such as more space, more peace and a better environment to foster creative thinking. Much of what is looked for in big cities is ready available in small cities. Why look so high and big when it is possible to have a great life in a small place? Living in small cities could be a great idea for those who want to escape the pressure of living in big cities and live big in style.

 

Snowmen Cycle

Snowmen Cycle

A snowman has a similar cycle just like a human being. Even though it is similar in many ways, it is also very different in other ways. It is similar because the snowman is born, lives and dies like people. His birth, life and death are in different ways because he’s born with ice, lives with nature objects, and dies with the sun. The life of a snowman has birth, life and death.

When snow comes, children decide to make snowmen. First, they usually make a large ball. Then, they make a medium ball and put it on the top of the large one. For the ending, they make a small ball to put on the top of the medium that is already on the top of the large one. Second, they put accessories, such as a carrot nose, a rock mouth, rock eyes, and buttons for his belly - made out of rock too! For the final touch they put a scarf and a hat, and two stick arms. ‘There are many types of snowmen: fat, skinny, big, small, happy and sad ones.

From the first second until the last one, he is stuck to the ground and smiles to everyone. He never changes his smile, no matter what happens. He does not have legs to move and his arms do not move either. However, he is always waiting for a hug since the first second he was made. Every time they are offering a hug, it is very tempting to hug them because it is hard to see them so lonely.

When summer comes, he gets so nervous that he heats up. He melts just like an ice scream but the difference is that he doesn’t have a flavor and he is full of accessories. That’s the only time he moves, losing his shape. We cannot recognize the patient and smiling snowman anymore.

The life of a snowman has birth, life, and death. When he is born, he can have many types of shape. He can even look upside down. In his life, he is very lonely but sometimes he has company of birds and other winter animals. When summer comes he think he will die but he just melts and goes back to where he was born waiting for the next cycle. Depending on when he is born, his life will be long or short. Next winter will bring many types of snowmen.

Ana Laura, 12 years old

God help the outcasts

ESMERELDA:
I don't know if You can hear me
Or if You're even there
I don't know if You would listen
To a gypsy's prayer
Yes, I know I'm just an outcast
I shouldn't speak to you
Still I see Your face and wonder
Were You once an outcast too?

God help the outcasts
Hungry from birth
Show them the mercy
They don't find on Earth
God help my people
We look to you still
God help the outcasts
Or nobody will

RICH:
I ask for wealth, I ask for fame
I ask for glory to shine on my name
I ask for love, I can possess
I ask for God and His angels to bless me

ESMERELDA:
I ask for nothing
I can get by
But I know so many
Less lucky than I
Please help my people
The poor and downtrod
I thought we all were
The children of God

God help the outcasts
Children of God

Heidi Mollenhauer

A Prayer for a Cure

Gentle Jesus, who cured the sick and laid a healing hand upon the lame, the blind and the handicapped, look with compassion upon my father in his suffering. If it is not your Will to cure him, then give him strength to bear his burden and offer it up to You. You suffered so much for him. Give him grace to offer his sufferings in union with Your own, in reparation for his sins and those of others, for the needs of this troubled world, and for the release of the souls in purgatory. Mary, compassionate Mother, pray for your weary child. Health of the Sick, Comforter of the Afflicted, pray for him. Amen.

Origin of Daylight Savings Time

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer. For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome's latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes. After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some Mount Athos monasteries and all Jewish ceremonies.

During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.

Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift, and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper. Many publications incorrectly credit DST's invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett, who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer's day. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk. His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later. The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Pearce, who introduced the first Daylight Saving Bill to the House of Commons on 12 February 1908. A select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearce's bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915.

Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I allies were the first to use DST (German: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Homeschooling

Many parents search high and low for the perfect education for their children yet the best answer is right at their arm length: home school. Homeschooling has become increasingly popular around the world according to studies made in the area. Parents are more involved in their children’s education and consequently more aware of the education system and process (Swanson, 2007). Parents feel that many a time their values are in conflict with the values taught in a private or a public school (Jirek, 2011; Haskins, 44)). Parents look to provide their youngster a better learning environment combined with choice education even if that means going against public opinion. Even though many people are against it, homeschooling is an excellent education choice that can provide both good quality moral and academic education, satisfy socialization needs and foster good relationship between parents and children.

Homeschooling is when school age children are educated at home, by their own parents or by a tutor, instead of attending a private or public education system. The practice is quite common in the United States and other English speaking countries. Brazil is yet to know the many benefits of homeschooling and so it is not permitted by law at this time.

People against homeschooling argue that 1) the quality of the content taught by parents is not as good as in recognized schools; 2) children taught at home lack the opportunity to socialize with others from their own age group; 3) home school practice overwhelms parents to the point their relationship gets rough. In order to show that homeschooling is a choice education for children, the following paragraphs will present substantial evidence that rebate the arguments against stated above.

Homeschooling is an excellent education choice that can provide both good quality moral and academic education to children. According to Brian Ray of the National Home Education Institute, homeschooled children score about twenty percent higher on standardized tests an above average on achievement tests. Homeschooled teenagers get to the best colleges and universities. Data from Colorado Commission of Higher Education show that SAT scores from homeschooled children are as good as traditionally educated children. Parents are able to customized lessons and curriculum to best fit their child adapting their personal beliefs and life style to the real life the child lives. For example, farmers, who live away from the city, can adapt the history syllabus curriculum to focus on the life in the country side along the centuries. Such an experience brings confidence to a farmer’s child and, consequently, a confident child is more respectful to others (Rupp, 261). Moral education is always linked to academic education in home school lessons.

Besides being exposed to the best education quality, children who are taught at home are able socialize with other homeschoolers and with many more people than children who go all day to regular school. Homeschoolers socialize with the real world (Klicka, 2007), and not only with their own age group peers, as it happens in a public or private educational school setting. While traditionally educated kids are confined to a classroom, home school kids go around with other homeschoolers and explore real life experiences. They are in constant contact with professionals, adults, younger and older kids. Homeschooled kids have a greater range of different socialization that is not available in such a frequent manner to traditionally educated children.

Finally, home schooling fosters relationship between parents and children. Homeschooling bonds the family together incredibly (Haskins, 33). Parents invest their time and their lives to best educate their youngster. They take part and interest in their education. Parents are present and involved in the child’s every aspect of life. That fact can hardly go unnoticed by their children, who learn by imitation nurturing that relationship that only focus on their progress and well being. Because of the time spent together, family ties are usually closer among homeschooler, their siblings and parents.

Homeschooling provides excellent moral and academic education for children in addition to exposing them to a greater variety of socialization opportunities and fostering parent-child relationship. Home schooling is very popular in America and other English speaking countries. The practice has spread throughout the world. However, in Brazil, homeschooling is not permitted by law yet. Homeschooling would be an excellent choice for young Brazilians and their families. Homeschooling opportunities would help Brazil to overcome many educational, socialization and nurturing problems.