Breaking Open The Box

What do David Foster Wallace's essay on wars over usage and Pico Iyer's comma personification have to do with improving students' academic writing? Everything. For all of the attention supposedly paid to Bloom's Taxonomy-with creativity at the top-educators tend to shy away from encouraging students' creative choices in areas where traditional analysis and the critic's style and tone have reigned. While we do not want our students to write inane or empty verbiage, we unintentionally set them up for this inevitability--or worse. The movement away from children's natural creative impulses in elementary school to a direction in which they literally fit their writing into preconfigured shapes is a gradual one. Although purportedly taught to instill academic structures, these boxes are also designed to facilitate the ease with which student product may be assessed. We need a more creative approach to teaching writing. A methodology incorporating creativity, as modeled by students in this text, demonstrates the kind of progress we are all seeking, offering an exciting challenge for young writers and educators alike.

We have been given the most precious giftlife. What we choose to do with it is ultimately up to us. We are all uniquely created. God has a mission designed for each one of us; that includes you. Break Open Your Box invites you on a journey to better discover yourself and your purpose as you piece your life together. You will be introduced to the secrets of living a meaningful life through seeking God, making connections with others, and finding the right perspective. Once you realize your potential, you will be closer than ever to achieving personal fulfillment. Whats more, with your renewed, infectious spirit, you will blaze a trail for others to follow. A note from the editor: In this work, the author delves into a timeless question, What does it take to achieve happiness and personal fulfillment? Drawing upon life experiences, wisdom from previous generations, and biblical truths, the writer shares the secrets of a meaningful life, encouraging readers to seek God through scripture, listen to those who have traveled lifes road before them, and seek personal connections with those around them while maintaining a positive outlook.

Nineteenth century crime and punishment in Gloucestershire.

"The Finger of Fate" is a romance novel by author Mayne Reid. Nigel and Henry Harding are half-brothers, the sons of Captain Harding, a retired army officer who had previously worked in India. Captain Harding had bought an estate where the family lived a comfortable life. But at length came a cause that tried the temper of the half-brothers towards one another—one before which the strongest fraternal affection has oft changed into bitter hostility. It was love. Both fell in love, and with the same woman, Belle Mainwaring...

The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship between natural history and photography from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and its colonies: Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, India. Coinciding with the rise of the modern museum, photography’s arrival was timely, and it rapidly became an essential technology for recording and publicising rare objects and valuable collections. Also during this period, the medium assumed a more significant role in the professional practices and reputations of naturalists than has been previously recognized, and it figured increasingly within the expanding specialized networks that were central to the production and dissemination of new knowledge. In an interrogation that ranges from the first forays into museum photography and early attempts to document collecting expeditions to the importance of traditional and photographic portraiture for the recognition of scientific discoveries, this book not only recasts the parameters of what we actually identify as natural history photography in the Victorian era but also how we understand the very structure of empire in relation to this genre at that time.