Most Broadcasted Murdered Students

An Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong was murdered in Tokyo after attending from Nicki Minaj concert. Two of her newly found friends were charged with quasi forcible indecency, as they were being held by the law enforcement for interrogation. Nicola Furlong is a 21-year-old Business and Language student at Dublin City University; she had been studying overseas for one-year exchange programme at the Takasaki City University of Economics. According to Japan's Mainichi reports, "An autopsy says that Furlong was likely strangled on May 24th." The investigation of Nicola Furlong's murder still continues.

There are more other related stories of murdered students that were garnered great media coverage throughout the world. Let’s take a look of other undergraduates who were bump off to death.
 

Dru Sjodin
Suspect: Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr.
She was born on September 26, 1981; Dru Katrina Siodin is a student of the University of North Dakota (UND). She’s a Gamma Phi Beta sorority member. A 50-year-old suspect Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr., a registered level 3 sex offender, was under arrest due to Siodin’s disappearance. The UND undergraduate’s body was discovered on April 17, 2004. Her body was found partially unclothed, stabbed, sexually assailed, and had several slashes on neck.
 

Brooke Wilberger
Suspect: Joel Patrick Courtney
A student from the State of Oregon was kidnapped and later murdered by Joel Patrick Courtney. Brooke Carol Wilberger’s disappearance was reported by the national media. The suspect kept Brook Carol alive throughout the night of May 24, 2004 before sexually attacking her the following day. Joel Patrick smacked her to death when she attempted to fight off. Wilberger’s case was one of the most broadcasted murder investigations in Oregon history.
 

Taylor Behl
Suspect: Benjamin Fawley
She was a 17 year- old first year college student from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Taylor Marie Behl disappeared about two weeks later on Labor Day. VCU authorities found her remains on a rural area in Mathews County, Virginia. The police narrowed down the track of the suspect Benjamin Fawley through a social media called MySpace. It also steered the crime squad to Behl’s body.
 

Michelle Gardner-Quinn
Suspect: Brian Rooney
Michelle Gardner-Quinn was abducted on October 7, 2006. She was an undergraduate student of University of Vermonth. A surveillance camera captured her and Brian Rooney heading north on Richmond.  A week after her disappearance, an examination revealed that she had been sexually assailed, beaten and strangled. Her dead body placed along the highway in the nearby town of Richmond.
 

Morgan Dana Harrington
Suspect: Unknown
Her death remains mystery and unresolved, Morgan Dana’s body was found after three months of her disappearance.  She was a 20 year-old Virginia Tech undergraduate who went missing from a Metallica concert. She’s wearing a Pantera tee when she was discovered outside of an apartment building not far away from the showground of the concert. 

Most Scandalous Teacher-Student Relationships

As a decree in academe, lecturers should discipline students. A great educator inspires his or her students in a right and proper approach in demonstrating wisdom and optimism, by means of awakening the minds of each individual in classroom.
 
On the contrary, in pocketbooks and novels that deviating school policies, there are customarily tales encompassing “teachers and students relationship”. Fabricated romantic stories surrounding instructors who take advantage the innocence of his/her pupil and so forth…

In real life, there are much more head-in-the-clouds fairytales arising in lecture halls. There’s a recent news item about an 18-year-old junior high school student in Manhattan Theater Lab High School named Eric Arty who was caught in camcorder lip-locking his 26-year-old Global Studies instructor Julie Warning in a park in New York. The high-school senior was videotaped and made headlines on tabloids while kissing his sexy teacher. He explained that he just won a bet with four of his pals, a stake to get bang and hook up first with their scorching hot mentor.

 
The appalling teacher will not face any immoral charges for the reason that Eric Arty (the teacher’s pet) is not a minor as he’s over the age of consent.  However, the student contends that Julie Warning wasn’t the lady he was photographed with in daily journal’s front page.

It seems like this teacher-student romance is somewhat rampant these days. But not all issues are for short term bond, just like the love affair in in Manhattan Theater Lab High School, there were more starry-eyed Teacher-Student stories indicated below that will certainly ruminate everyone whether it’s apt or not.
 

 
Christopher James Hooker and Jordan Powers
Christopher James Hooker left his family to go out with his former business class student Jordan Powers. The 41-year-old ex-teacher was arrested and charged sexually assaulting other student in 1998, aside from the 18-year-old Jordan Powers. Their inappropriate affair began in late-night phone calls and sweet text messages, which arose before the young lass turned 18. Hooker appeared on national TV programs and leading broadsheets to profess his admiration to Powers.
 

 
Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau
A 43-year old schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau joined in matrimony with her student 22-year-old Vili Fualaau after 7 years in jail for having an illicit affair with a minor. Their sexual relationship started when Letourneau was 34 year old while Fualaau was 13. The blond-haired ruggedly built lad claimed that they had sex 300 to 400 times throughout the school year, and this scandal has shattered tremors among their families and friends, and also the whole nation.
 

 
Brenton Wuchae and Windy Hager
Meanwhile in North Carolina, a 16 year old South Brunswick HS student Windy Hager get hitched with her 40 year old former coach Brenton Wuchae. The latter couldn’t find any reasons to terminate him as a trainer; he shortly quitted his position and married the sophomore student Hager who is also the one of the top runners in South Brunswick.
 

 

Natasha Finley, 16, attests in courtroom that she desires to be with Robert Swalstad, 31, far right, her spouse and former instructor.

Robert M. Swalstad and Natasha Finley
Ex-teacher Robert M. Swalstad, 31, was jailed for six months after having a forbidden relationship with a 15 year-old Columbia High School freshmen student Natasha Finley. He was convicted to a single gross misdemeanor charge of communication with a minor for immoral purposes and should enlist as a sex offender. Swalstad and Finley got married after the teenager became pregnant with their first child.
 

 
Lorraine Belmont and Matthew Clark
Science teacher Lorraine Belmont (33) and second year student Matthew Clark (16) have allegedly started off an affair sexually. Some eyewitnesses have defined it as being a bit congenial and undeniably pleasing to watch. According to some campus officials, their clandestine romance is the greatest thing for both of them.

7 Famous Fictional Teachers in Movies

Teachers are the main providers of knowledge and scholarly skills carried out chiefly in academes. They are professional educators of life; needless to say, apart from our biological parents and guardians. Most of them are depicted on literary books, college essays, cinema theaters and TV series. 

Definitely, this shortlist is about the most remarkable fictional instructors in movies who completed our day truly enlightened, inspired as well as feeling dorky because of certain lead roles flanking with their hasty teaching antics. One way or another we want them to be real given that they are the coolest people whom every student should have known before putting their names down on the enrollment form.
 

 
Dewey Finn
School of Rock (2003)
Actor: Jack Black

Dewey Finn:
“It’s gonna be a really tough project, you're gonna have to use your head, your brain and your mind too.”

Perhaps, I’d also like to attend on his music class even though Dewey Finn is just a substitute teacher. It will surely make my childhood memories really great. He will jam my grade school nostalgias with loud and good rhythms as he took advantage us for his personal achievement by materializing a rock band for competition. But then again, I guess it feels incredibly momentous to attend on his energizing lectures.


Ms. Sharon Norbury
Mean Girls (2004)
Actress: Tina Fey

Ms. Norbury:
“ I know having a boyfriend might seem like the only thing important to you right now, but you don't have to dumb yourself down in order for a guy to like you. “

"Ok, so we're all here 'cause of this book, right? Well, I don't know who wrote this book, but you all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it ok for guys to call you sluts and whores."

Tina Fey as the pretty fed-up high school math instructor of Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) handles to resolve the conflict concerning the group of “plastics” headed by Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Her efforts to eliminate the “whores and sluts” disputes in the university turn out to be successful and the math brainiacs did a magnificent job during the competition. FYI: Tina Fey wrote the script shrewdly!


Mr. John Kimble
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Detective John Kimble:
“We're going to play a wonderful game called... "Who is my daddy and what does he do?”

A hard-knock urbane investigator John Kimble is designated to be a kindergarten teacher to find out a hoary battle with a perilous drug mogul. For the moment as he executed his task, Detective Kimble bangs the legal action and put the criminal to jail. Eventually he discovers his quasi-occupation is so worthwhile that he abandons the law enforcement agency to continue edifying kids. If there’s a former Mr. Universe in the class, I would definitely hit the attendance record perfectly!
 

 
Glenn Holland
Mr. Holland's Opus (1996)
Actor: Richard Dreyfuss

Glenn Holland:
“Playing music is supposed to be fun. It's about heart, it's about feelings, moving people, and something beautiful, and it's not about notes on a page. I can teach you notes on a page, I can't teach you that other stuff. “

Glenn Holland has a spare time to accept a teaching job en route for achieving his dreams. He's a starving artist who strives accomplishing his ambition to make a remarkable orchestral music composition. Mr. Holland shares his contagious thirst for music and to mold the hearts of his students with his passion.
 

 
Professor Severus Snape
Harry Potter film series
Actor: Alan Rickman

Professor Severus Snape:
"I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death."

Half-blood wizard Professor Severus Snape is the head of Slytherin and Death Eater, he began teaching at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since 1981. He did everything to protect the scarhead Potter against powerful dark wizards in lieu of his undying love for Lily Evans, the mother of Harry. The potion master is one of the best characters in the J.K. Rowling's bestselling series beyond his complexity for being nasty and mean yet brilliant sorcerer.



Charles Xavier (Professor X)
X-Men (2000)
Actor: Patrick Stewart

Prof. Charles Francis  Xavier:
“Give me a chance. I might be able to help you find some answers. “

Among the Marvel's superhero Professor X is one of the most positive inspirations in Marvel superheroes. Before he became the founder of X-men training site "Xavier Institute for Higher Learning", formerly Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester County, he loses all of his hair at the age of sixteen. Xavier was admitted into Oxford University in England and later chosen as an affiliated professor at Columbia University. He utilized his apprentices to function their innate superpowers in the mutant world. His genius-level intellect and mental powers touched the mind of his original group of students namely Scott Summers (Cyclops), Bobby Drake (Iceman), Warren Worthington III (Angel), Henry McCoy (Beast) and Jean Grey (Phoenix) to master their special abilities.
 

 
John Keating
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Actor: Robin Williams

John Keating:
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. “

Robin Williams stars in a 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society as an individualistic English professor in Welton Academy who motivates his students to get keen on poetry as he made their lives inspiringly extraordinary through grasping the day by enjoying their life to the fullest. Everyone is grateful while he gives out his wisdom with new level of philosophical lessons about independence and self confidence.

80’s Yearbook Snapshots that You’ll Get A Kick Out Of

The 80’s was a year of blasts.

This decade was filled mullets, shoulder pads, big hair, and bright colors.  Queen’s, Blondie’s, and Michael Jackson dominated the airwaves.  Ronald Reagan became president. Alfred Hitchcock died. John Lennon died.

Inspite of the deaths of the legends in that era, everything else  was loud and perky and big. People in their high school years sported the trend that now many consider as something they have to defend or just left alone in a time capsule.  ‘The bigger - the better’ was the hair philosophy of many students who braved the dreaded yearbook photo sessions.

And so, in the spirit of the 80’s, I present yearbook photos from this era that even a cold-hearted person would smile about when they see these.

Perils of Giving In to Laziness While Making your Essay

Laziness is one of the many temptresses that students face everyday. From the very moment they wake up, they are tempted to just stay in bed and just sleep all throughout the day. The moment they're in school, they are tempted to just sit and not listen. And when they arrive at home, they are then tempted to just put off tomorrow to start on the essay that was assigned as homework. They give  both reasonable and unreasonable excuses for their laziness, but whatever those reasons are, at the due date, they al,

1. Lose track of time. Students who put off writing essays for another day will end up not realizing the days that have gone by since the essay was assigned. They think that there are still many days left, that they have all the time in the world. Weeks will then turn to days, days to hours - and then the deadline is just 24 hours away. Students then cram to finish or even pay online for college essays when in reality, they can have just prepared and started on it earlier.
2. Crams at the last minute. This is a by-product of losing track of time due to laziness. When you just realize that the essay is due in 12 hours, you drop all the other stuff in your life and work on starting (or finishing to those who are a bit more disciplined)   their essay.  You scramble for words and resources only to arrive at a beaten-around-the-bush work.
3. Work is crap. Basically, an essay produced in let's say, half an hour cannot be at par with essays that were at least worked on for a day or two. A substandard essay will mean low grades and low grades will result to you working for extra credit which might turn to be additional essays.

What is Action Learning?

It is another educational systematic method whereby students work and learn at the same time by discussing real social issues and manifesting it on their actions. Apprentices attain knowledge by means of actual deeds and practice rather than the customary instruction.

Action learning is done while integrating with other learners, in sub-groups referred as action learning sets. It is usually propositioned as in a particular group, as it allows and empowers each person to ponder on and assess the action or deeds they have engaged and the learning points arising, so they can enhance their performance.
With this kind of environment, a student chooses real life encounters by repeatedly performing it with others, and then acquires response and pointers by examining their actions.

For many years, action learning is one of the effective frameworks that have been used for workplace learning in business settings. It is becoming popular nowadays particularly in school, college university and other learning grounds by achieving a dynamic interaction rather than a sheer process.

Benefits of Experiential Learning

Learning from experience, or simply experiential learning builds an opportunity to be involve and to execute applied learning through hands-on experience, while instantaneously understand and gather new useful information about the environment that surrounds them. With this kind of learning, students tend to express their ideas and experiences eagerly in classroom as well on different setting.

Experiential Learning invigorates schoolchildren to create useful findings and experiment with knowledge themselves, as a substitute of grasping the knowledge about different life encounters of other individual.  

And here are sensible viewpoints of three skilled educators in various fields of learning about the advantages of this approach.

Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow, Associate Professor of Classical Studies: "Experiential learning for me means bringing the students into the everyday lives of people who lived and died 2,500 years ago in the world of ancient Greece and Rome. Our collection of 800 ancient objects in the Classical Studies Artifact Research Center makes it possible for students actually to hold classical objects and try to feel what it would have been like in those days. The Romans, for example, did not just make high art, but they also had baby bottles, ordinary drinking cups, tongue depressors and a fantastic sewer system."

Scott Gravina, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies: "Experiential Learning gives students the opportunity to take what they learn in class and apply it to real world situations. Taking their learning beyond the campus provides them with new perspectives and first-hand experience while allowing them to make personal contact with the community and give of themselves in ways they may never have thought possible. Through this practical approach to learning, students gain confidence in their own abilities, discover innovative ways to overcome obstacles and turn a class project into a life experience"

Vardit Ringvald, Professor of Hebrew and Director of the Hebrew and Arabic Languages Program: "Teaching an experiential learning course has required me to explore the issues which the students are curious about, in order to be able to mentor them better. It actually has affected my approach to my discipline. I have become more aware of the “real world” applications of teaching and learning foreign languages, and I incorporate my new understandings in my teaching and in my research."