9/13/13 The Best Family Vacation Ever “Finally,” I said as I fell onto my bed. “My own bed.” I had not slept in my own bed for two weeks. Why? I had just returned from the biggest adventure of my life. My family, including my dad, my step-mom, both of my little brothers, my aunt, two of my cousins, my grandmother, and I, had all rented a fifty foot RV and traveled out west. But let me back up about two months. It was
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It was going to be a perfect vacation. The Smith Family was going to Aruba, for the first time ever, during spring break. Nothing was going to ruin their vacation. Two weeks before they left, Jimmy fell off his bike and hit his head, leading to a concussion. Jacklyn sprained her ankle at soccer practice, and Johnny ran into a fence, leading to stitches. Everyone stayed calm and hoped to get better soon. After that week went by, Jimmy’s concussion healed, Jacklyn’s ankle healed, and Johnny got his
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Schedules Better Than Having a Long Summer? Have you ever wondered what year-round education schedules do for students? Year-round schooling is not better for students than a long summer vacation. Parents may have schedules that don’t work with the year-round schedule, the schedule may get in the way of traditional vacations, and there is not much evidence supporting better grades in year-round schools. Student’s parents may have long work schedules that don’t work with frequent breaks. Andrew Warner says
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Why do Americans like to vacation at the beach? Many people go to the beach to relax and enjoy the warm sun. People also like to swim at the beach and get fresh air. Many people go fishing in the ocean. It is clear that Americans like to vacation at the beach. A study found out that 75% of Americans say that when they vacation the most important thing is resting and relaxing. When people go to the beach they like to lay back in the warm sun and just relax. Americans like to go to the beach to rest
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thing. Many people have different opinions. There are many pros and cons to a year round school. Kids are wanting a break after the long academic pressures of school. Its also harder for schools to run a year round schedule. Lastly, families need a vacation. Year-round school is an issue and is ruining our American tradition of a summer break. The first reason for kids to have a Summer break is because many kids feel they need a long break to recover from the academic and social pressures
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East Coast Vacation By Ben Orlando The thing I want my parents to do is to take my family and go to the East Coast for a road trip. I want to do this because I have never visited the East Coast. I think it would be fun and interesting to explore there. The first reason I want to go to the East Coast is because it would be fun to explore the East Coast of the U.S. I am interested in the aquatic life there and what it is like to experience the East Coast. Some things I want to do are walk
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Year-round school is when students “attend classes for anywhere from six to nine weeks in a row, broken up by two- to four-week vacations.” “The idea of year-round school began to gain momentum in the 1970s” but only recently became a major topic of discussion by “educators, parents and social scientists.” “The National Association for Year-Round Education states that the number of students in year-round schools has tripled in the last ten years. By 2001, there were about 3,000 year-round schools”
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Did you know summer vacation began 120 years ago? Summer vacation has been around for a long time, we would not want to ruin this tradition with year round school, would we? Year-round school is only operated on 4% of public schools. Kids deserve to have a big break to rest and have fun! During the summer kids can get jobs to have money to spend, kids can play with friends and make new friends outside of school, but with year-round school they will have to be around with the same kids all the time
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Challenging Vacation Family vacations bring to mind wonderful summer time activities spent with those you love, unless there are challenges to over come in the family circle. National Lampoon’s Family Vacation adventures provide us with other types of family vacation time and social dysfunctions. A father and son plan a vacation to Florida, which puts to test their relationship. The father and son while having a distant relationship were brought together by the vacation which included riding
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Secrets of Cruise Line Ads Sunny beaches, white sand, pristine waters. Smiling, laughing, having fun. Family, friends, yourself. These are all details that vacation companies show their potential customers to get them to choose their product. Several companies use pictures or words to draw the reader’s attention and appeal to their emotions. Whenever a company makes an ad or a commercial, they try to use rhetorical appeals and fallacies. These devices better grab the reader’s attention and better
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separate each term. The most popular form of breaks is known as a 45-15 plan. In this plan the students are in school for forty-five days per quarter, and after each quarter there is a fifteen day break. There are also thirty days for a summer vacation, and the usual amount of days off for holiday breaks. There are also 60-20 and 90-30 plans, which both work in similar ways to the 45-15 plan. These plans are also known as a balanced calendar (Research). Standard schooling has approximately eighty-five
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The year-round schedule provides more opportunities for family vacations. This schedule can also save families money because they are able to take vacations during off-peak times.[5] Teachers would also be able to increase their income by teaching days of class on their vacations.[1][2][8] Some teachers also favor Year-Round School, because they can have flexible contracts, as in different vacation times.[3] Students with attention learning disabilities may experience difficulties
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paid vacation pay during the year - he is paid his vacation pay before he takes his vacation time, and his last vacation was in July. a.) What should you do to implement this? Bob would be entitled to his vacation pay based on section 33 of the ESA which states: 33. (1) an employer shall give an employee a vacation of at least two weeks after each vacation entitlement year that he or she completes. 2002, c. 18, Sched. J, s. 3 (18) (Filsinger p. 182). Bob would be receive his vacation pay
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This year I went on vacation with my family to Outer Banks, North Carolina. Going to the Outer Banks has been a tradition on my dad’s side for years. They’ve been going there since the 1940’s. When my family went there to the Outer Banks this year I kept thinking about how generations of my family were here before. It’s strange for me to think about how long my family has been going there. This year, we decided to drive down. We were staying in Duck, which is a city we have stayed in for almost
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The First Koehler-Stauder Ozark Vacation (1951) In 1951, Orval and Mary, with their children, Jerry and Mike, take a vacation with their brother-in-law and daughter, Ralph and Gwen Stauder. For one week, they share a cabin in a resort area called Arcadia. The two families spend a week in a screened in cabin. This is the first of many summer vacations that will be spent in the Ozarks by the two families. Orval is 43-years-old and Mary is 44. Part of the fun for Orval is spending the year sending
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Semana Santa, or Holy Week is celebrated in almost every Spanish city and town beginning on the Sunday before Easter and continuing through Easter Sunday. For a two week vacation period, families visit beaches and take part in rituals celebrating the country’s Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations are a fusion of Christian rituals and native indigenous traditions with a diversity of traditions linked to particular regions and cities. Semana Santa traditions are vibrant celebrations that take place
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Trifecta Vacations are supposed to be a time of joy. A chance to create memories and spend time with family and friends. However, there are certain times when the universe has other plans. That is when vacations become memorable for far worse reasons. Our family vacation to OCrolla, North Carolina in August 2011 was exactly that. What started out a a fantastic relaxing vacation quickly became a family nightmare. In a mere six days we weathered a deadly tornado, a freak earthquake, and a record breaking
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White wrote for several newspapers, including the Seattle Times and the United Press. In 1927, he secured a job as a writer for The New Yorker, an American weekly magazine. However, E.B. White wanted to try something new. Throughout his life, his family members always asked him to tell them stories. In 1945, he began to publish these stories as books. He is best known for his beloved children’s classics, including Stuart
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this type of happiness? Truthfully, it could. All it takes is managing money and spending it wisely on things that are actually beneficial. There are multiple ways to bring happiness into a person’s life with substantial income, such as going on vacations, using money in a pro-social way and seeking needed medical attention. Many people say that happiness can’t be bought over a few dollars. Some may feel this way because when money is being spent, most of the time it’s going towards materialistic
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What would be better, year-round schooling or a longer summer break? Many schools contemplate whether all schools should go to year-round schooling instead to keep kids' minds fresh and ready to learn, rather than having a long summer break, which kids would probably like more, and forget all that they have learned the previous year. While having a longer summer break would make lots of kid’s happier, year-round schooling is the better option to keep kid’s minds fresh for the upcoming school year
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When thinking about my vacation to Florida, I feel the soft sand on my feet and the hot sun reflecting on my body. Two weeks ago, I was on a beach in Florida. This vacation was one of the best because I was with my family and we had nothing but laughter the whole trip. I went with my mom, dad, sister, and my beloved grandma. Beautiful ocean waves, magical attractions at Walt Disney World, and the fun activites, made Florida the perfect place to vacation. Visit Florida’s ocean to
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visitors. The ability to accommodate all types of families, couples, and partying teenagers makes Florida a wonderful vacation paradise. Families from all over the United States come to Florida to vacation every year. Florida can accommodate any family. The wealthy families that want the lavish high rise condominium, overlooking an Olympic size pool, and with an ocean view that would make Jacques Cousteau cry from its beauty. Middle class families can relax in an economical motel or hotel with one
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Bobby and Ashley have a family of 3 children. Bobby works for minimum wage as a janitor, Ashley work at a restaurant named Mcdonald’s that doesn’t pay her very much. The money that they make together goes toward rent, food and lights.They would like to go on a family vacation. President Obama wants to increase the amount of money people are paid. He wants to increase from 7.25 to 10.10 an hour. The economic policy estimates an increase of 2.85 in minimum wage would boost wages for about 28 million
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bad lands of South Dakota. It was the summer of 2014. I was thirteen years old. My whole family went on vacation and camped for three days in South Dakota. The vacation was outstandingly fun, I learned a bunch of things, the land was gorgeous, and the vacation was a life changing experience for me. When I went to South Dakota, I did numerous of exciting events. It was outstandingly enjoyable. My family found camp grounds to camp at called the KOA. I camped in tents for three days. When I first
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ever waste hi or her days at. A vacation to Disney World is exciting and special to young children, but what about adults and adolescents? For them, it’s less of a paradise and more of a money and time-consuming tourist trap that will leave wallets empty and people exhausted. The truth, like it or not, is that Disney World is simply not as fun as we once thought as young children. It’s no secret that Disney World is expensive, and in a severe way. A small family of four will end up spending above
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hard working time, the first thing everybody wants to do is relaxing. Travelling is an interesting activity people like to do. It is easy to know that travelling overseas becomes more and more popular nowadays. To be sure that you can have a perfect vacation, you need to prepare. Now, today I will show you guys the three steps of preparing for traveling overseas, these are: decide the place, prepare for your baggage, and make a plan for your travel. So, I will talk about the first step, it is decide
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to us and is worse than traditional schooling, and those reasons are that it costs more money to switch, and because there's not enough time to have family time, and vacation/camps. Shattuck middle school should not not change/switch to year-round schooling and should stick to the traditional school-year (9 months schooling, and 3 months of vacation). My first reason is that it does not improve year-round schooling. According to Professor Van Hippie studies have proved that test scores have improved
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programs." Pros and Cons of Year-Round School pg. 2). The adage of the adage. As a result, you can see that a long summer may hurt the learning of students. Another benefit of year-round schooling is "Decreased need to re-teach skills after long vacations, allowing teachers to use the classroom time more efficiently." Pros and Cons of Year-Round School pg. 2). The adage of the adage. This shows that year-round schooling has many benefits in
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Orlando, Florida for our family vacation I know our family has been dreaming about the ideal vacation. We have talked about several different aspects like where should we go, should it be warm, should there be snow, should there be a beach, how much shopping will we want to do, and what kind of entertainment would work the best for us? We want to make sure that we can organize and plan a vacation that will create the best memories possible, so that our family can have these great memories
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resort and marina in the city of Kapolei. It offers amenities to all ages, but is definitely more known for being a family oriented type of vacation resort. While the Four Season’s Hualalai does offer amenities to all members of the family, it is more well known as a luxury resort name for adults. Hualalai is also based on the Big Island of Hawaii, which is more of an adult friendly vacation island, with less tourism and more serene views of the island, as well as more of a focus of “old Hawaii”. Disney’s
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