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i-have-too-much-time · 3 months

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Ask game

@themultifanshipper tagged me

Do you make your bed?

Absolutely not, I don't have a chair in my room so all of my time is on the bed so there really isn't a point

Favorite number?

9! it's great on it's own but also a combo of 7 and 2

What's your job?

no job currently. used to work at Walmart and just passed my German A2 class today!

If you could go back to school would you?

I had my German classes 4/week for 3 hours and it was a lot lmao. I have no desire to go to uni cause idk what I'd study

Can you parallel park?

yes but not very well and I avoid it whenever possible

Do you think aliens are real?

for sure! I don't think they'd be like movies but I don't think Earth has the only life in the universe

Can you drive a manual car?

I've tried before and stalled it many times but got like a mile before my dad let me stop trying

Guilty pleasures?

I am very open about everything lol, I love f1, Cars (the movies/series), Pokemon, stuffed animals, shitty music etc etc

Tattoos?

many! I have 11 currently and want to get more. plus 14 piercings (counting the ear lobes as 2 since I have first/second/third pierced on each side)

Favorite color?

GREEN!! All different shades and hues and saturations

Favorite type of music?

pop punk, German rap but almost only Alligatoah, folk punk, f1 remixes

Do you like puzzles?

hell yea, not great at them but I still enjoy them

Favorite childhood sport?

I played afterschool floor hockey but I used to love watching our local ice hockey team

Do you talk to yourself?

not vocally but mentally it's all the time

Tea or coffee?

I prefer coffee, if I go to a cafe I order a melange but at home it's just with powdered creamer

First thing you wanted to be when you grew up?

my mom tells me I wanted to be a ballerina-doctor, but once I had to actually start thinking about it I decided and still would ideally work overnight shift at a gas station

What movies do you adore?

POKEMON RANGER AND THE TEMPLE OF THE SEA PLUS BONUS DVD PIKACHU'S ISLAND ADVENTURE, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star Wars A New Hope, Tangled

tagging (feel free to or not) @caspiansrecovery @moxvachina @vivwritesfics

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piracytheorist · 3 years

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I assumed bc you are from Greece that ppl over there don't know English and for some odd reason, love pasta and wine

Oh, we know a lot of English. Most kids go to afterschool English classes (which of course we pay for) because our economy is in fucking shambles, we're ridiculously dependent on tourism, so having even a basic English degree on your resume opens up a wide variety of jobs you can get (not that they're easy... I mean, I worked 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, at a meat factory, but something tells me it wouldn't be much easier to work six or seven days a week in a tourist-laden hotel/restaurant/whatever).

Like, I've visited some places in Italy, and I was struggling to understand in most of them. Italians working in tourism can afford not speaking English because a) tourism will still continue anyway because the places and the cuisine are fucking exquisite and b) they are much better off than us and don't depend on tourism as much as we do.

In Greece, most people under sixty can at least understand some basic English, it's few of those who cannot understand a word. Like, most of the time, if you ask for some directions, or how much something costs, or where you can buy groceries and stuff, people will be able to help you. They'll probably have a thick accent, but they can communicate. Not that that makes all of them nice. There are many instances of people tricking tourists and taking more money than what their service is worth.

But anyway, yeah, we do speak a lot of English, and that has made my expectations of other countries speaking English very high. And it's even so inconsistent, like, in Germany and the Netherlands I had no problem communicating in English (most Germans even speak with a clear accent!). In Italy people outright refused to say a word in English, especially in Rome and Palermo. And I've heard the same about France and even Spain. And in one random small town I visited in Portugal, I went to a fast food restaurant and the guy working there could not translate a single word from the menu, he had to resort to asking a local who was dining there. In Greece, though some locals may not find it super easy to translate some stuff, they can definitely and will try to understand and be understood. Unless they're assholes.

That was a rant, lol. I have a lot of feelings about how horribly we're handling the economy and how much we depend on tourism that we feel worthless if we don't get degrees of proficiency in English.

Now, for pasta, we do like it, pasta dishes are quite common and a favourite of children, but we do not love it. Like, I may be mad at Italians not speaking English but boy do they make THE pasta. If Italians love pasta, Greeks are just pasta's friendly neighbor. I even think most Italians would cringe at the way we cook it, lol.

Wine we do love. Even I, who don't like alcohol in general, will drink a glass if the company is all having some. My first and only time getting drunk was with a bottle of red wine, even. We may not be the big three (Italy, France and Spain) in wine production in Europe, but along with ouzo/tsipouro, wine is the most common alcoholic drink. If you go to the taverna, you'll probably drink wine. If you go to a restaurant, you'll probably drink wine. If you are celebrating something, either at home or anywhere else, you'll probably crack open a bottle of wine. And most of the time we drink it in glasses like that one on the left, and it's served in pitchers like the ones on the right:

Though we do also use the classic wine glasses, probably just as much as that one above. I don't think any non-fancy/non-gourmet restaurant actually serves foreign wine. We have a lot of production, for ourselves, at least.

So yeah, wrong assumption, right-ish assumption, right assumption 😁

#thank you for sending in!#I love sharing random stuff about my country :D #feel free to send any other assumptions you may make about us and I'll let you know if you got it right #nette speaks #food cw #anonymous #ask and ye shall receive

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sirxelots-anime-land · 5 years

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Manga Recommandations ...

Yeah, I am finally doing what nobody asked for. I am gonna give ya’ll a list of Manga that I think aren’t that well known but are great and worth a read (at least in my opinion), Sounds Good? Alrighty let’s get this going them!

Groundless - Sekigan no Sogekihei

Now that is one Manga that I would really like to continue and release chapters in english faster. But it seems like no one really bothers to translate it atm wich is sad :( Anyway, Groundless is set on an island in a somewhat modern fantasy world with a civil war rumbling on said island. The main character is Sophia who lost her husband and daughter after their arms shop got set up with a hughe order from the colonel of the army stationed there. All she has left is a sniper rifle her husband hid for her to sell in case something bad happens. Instead of selling it she decides to seek revenge and joins the local militia as a sniper.

It’s got some pretty cool charakters, it’s brutal (not over the top brutal though) and the art is pretty good.

Afterschool War Activities

Alright, technically this is not quite a manga since it is a Webtoon but I like it and it is pretty cool ... yea. Set in a South Korean Highschool, the daily lifes of our class are dissrupted when strange things appear in the sky (strange and deadly). highschoolers and university students have to fill up the military ranks to fight this strange enemy off.

It has a lot of interesting characters in the school class we follow around and it gives a pretty good impression on the emotional stress and trauma the situation brings with it.

Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad

Let’s switch our guns out for something different now ... how about a guitar. Beck is one of my favourite Anime and Manga out there and I’d say everybody should give it a try because it is so good. First of, the Anime ends around Chapter 29 of the Manga and it sticks pretty closely to it. So if you want to watch the anime instead for the first quarter of the Story, there you go :P Since I don’t really know how I should summarize the story of Beck without going on for the next ten minutes I’ll make it short. Yukio Tanaka gets into playing the guitar and starts to set his sights on becomming a rock star (the absolute breakdown version of it). It has a lot of good drama, is super fun and has pretty good music (Anime Only :( ). The only thing that might put you off on the anime at least is the animations. They can be a bit whacky in normal situations. The manga however looks gorgeous all the time. Two last words: JUST READ IT GOD DAMN IT’S SO DAMN GOOD OMG

In This Corner of the World

Oh yeah baby, we’re back with the War stuff. Though this time we don’t really see anything of the fighting itself.

Rather we’re following a typical japanese family through their daily lifes during the second world war. Sound glum and boring? Don’t worry thanks our somewhat clumsy but loveable main charakter and a wonderfull cast in general it won’t be that glum mos.. well ... not all the time. And if the cast isn’t enough, the art of it is also very beautifull and you learn a lot about how live was during that time in japan (there is a whole vocabulary list at the end of each volume explaining certain words and phrases in the context of the war).

But wait that is not all, if you don’t necessarily want to read through the 3 Volumes of it you can watch the movie on Netfilx. It will definitly be worth your time (maybe don’t watch it when you want something happy go lucky though).

Maria: The Virgin Witch

I know it might seem like I only read stuff that is set during some kind of war but I promise you that that is not the case and just a coincidence. This time the story is set in the Hundred Years’ War. Maria our young and ambitious witch wants to stop the war with her sex appeal... Do I need to say more to convince you? Yes? Well alright. She herself is still a virgin so she sends her domestic deamon to do the sexy time part for her. God on the other hand doesn’t really like the idea that Maria wants to end the war wich leads to our little conflict between our cute little witch and an arch angel.

With only three Volumes it’s a nice and quick read and a very fun one at that. Or you know... you could watch the anime wich is also decent.

Black Rock Shooter: Innocent Soul

Alright, now we’re really done with the War stuff i promise :D So you might’ve already heard of Black Rock Shooter and you might have watched the anime/ short movie ova thing. BRS IS takes the charakters of Black Roch Shooter and puts them in a alternate story that has nothing to do with the anime stuff.

Set in Hazama, a world between heaven and earth where souls land that are not worthy of going to heaven nor hell, we follow a girl called rock who is a Black Star whose job it is to keep order. Again a very short manga with three volumes it has a nice story (though it get’s a bit hard to follow in the very last bit from what I remember right now) and a very beautifull art style. Also it has some super funny moments in it thanks to the great dynamic between our main protaganist and her side kick.

Prophecy

Another three volume Manga comming right up. Prophecy. A man uploads videos on definitly not youtube Mr. Copyright man, where he promises revenge for crimes that didn’t get punished hard enough (and pulls through with them). Meanwhile a special divison of the police force specialized in cybercrime tries to catch the man. It’s a nice cat and mouse detective criminal story with an interesting take on social media and social injustice. It can feel a bit silly at the beginning when they talk about the internet but that might just be the german translation in my case :P If you have a thing for some good crime stories definitly check it out.

Aion

One of my favorite and first manga. A manga I would really like to see as an anime but probably never will. I kinda don’t wanna say to much about it here because I probably wouldn’t find an end. So basically mermaids are real and they try to F up humanity with worms that control them. Our main protagonist meets the girl who has her sights set out to kill all the mermaids. It’s a really cool story and unique (as far as I remember it ... I need to read it again) with some nice characters and I also did a drawing of one f the characters that turned out pretty dope ... ok that last part is probably not that convincing to you so just check the manga out ok? Good.

Boku Girl

Ok, you’re almost done by now. To end this list I have something with a bit more bare skin that is also a bit weird and a 100% hillarious and caused me to cry of laughter more than the number of it’s chapters. And it develops into a cute little love story aswell.

Out main character is Suzushiro Mizuki who is far from a a very masculine guy, In fact he get’s mistaken for a girl more than he’d like to. Even his crush thinks of him more as one of the girls. Meanwhile, Loki the Trickster god get’s bored with playing tricks on other gods so he plays one on Mizuki ... (also Loki is a girl ... in this one at least). I guess you might be able to figure out what happens to poor Mizuki with this prank and if you don’t mind that stuff, you most likely will have a blast with it (I hope at least because I definitly had). And I dont’t think I have more to add to that :D

OH WAIT ... IT HAS SUPER CUTE MOMENTS ... that’s all

The Afterword

Aight. that concludes my short list of manga that I want you to read cuz I like them and you better like them too OR ELSE ...

Mind you I did this whole text in one sitting and it was very spontaneous and late at night. So if you can’t make sense out of my gibberish and eventuall spelling/grammatik errors, I am sorry. I didn’t really prepare this as much as I could have and it’s been a while since I wrote a longer text in english.

I hope you enjoyed this list anyways and some of the Manga aswell. I might or might not do stuff like this again in the future, maybe a bit more prepared.

If you most definitly would like to see me stuff like this more, let me know :D

Have a good one folks.

#text post #text #list #afterschool war activities #manga #manga list #in this corner of the world #aion #boku girl #prohpecy #black rock shooter #black roch shooter innocent soul #maria the virgin witch #beck #beck mongolian chop squad #mongolian chop squad #groundless #sekigan no sogekihei

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supercalifragilisticexpia · 5 years

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I want to found a high school in the Bronx that's similar to LaGuardia High School.

The majors it would have are:

• Visual Arts (Ceramics, Printmaking, Sculpture, Architecture, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Fashion Design, Illustration, Jewelry Design, Fibers and Textile Arts (Knitting, Crocheting, Weaving, Embroidery, Macramé) , Mural Painting, Painting, Pen and Ink, Anatomy, Art History, Sequential Art, Cosmetology)

• Theatre (Performing)

• Technical Theatre

• Music (Vocal)

• Music (Instrumental)

• Dance (Tap, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Pole Dancing, Theatre Dancing, Dance History)

• Creative Writing (Fiction, Playwrighting, Screenwriting, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction)

• Motion Picture Arts (Filmmaking, Animation)

I want for the students to have access to after school programs that give them the chance to make connections outside of school:

• Renaissance

• Manhattan Neighborhood Network (Youth Media Center)

• BronxArtSpace

• Bronx Museum of Arts

• ArtsConnection

• 92Y

There would be a wide range of afterschool clubs and sports:

• Gymnastics - Winter

• Basketball - Winter

• Indoor Track - Winter

• Bowling - Winter

• Fencing - Spring

• Baseball - Spring

• Swimming - Spring

• Outdoor Track - Spring

• Tennis - Fall

• Volleyball - Fall

• Soccer - Fall

• Cross Country - Fall

I want for students to have access to counseling for when they need it:

• Drama, art, dance, writing and music therapy

• Individual Counseling

• Group Counseling

• Family & Community Counseling

I want specific things LaGuardia didn't have that I wish it did:

• A lounge for the students (perhaps on each floor); a stationary bike in each lounge; a few desktop computers; games (board & card); book shelves; plants; mural in each lounge*; dry-erase boards; a TV; inspirational quotes; college information books; flyers;

• The school's own summer program that gets the community involved in the arts

• Healthy cafeteria food options

• Big brother/sister mentors

• Sex Ed that includes information for LGBTQ+ students

• Visitors professional in the field for EACH major to come in and give their story, advice and information.

• Workshops (i.e. resumé, building your online presence, cover letters, interviews, portfolio development, etc.)

• Scholarships

• A garden, a greenhouse and/or a rooftop garden (possibly growing ingredients needed for cooking classes)

• An open field for the students to run in/hang out in w a track (trees and nature around like that one track I saw beyond the grass park near st. Mary's)

• Volunteer Opportunities (clubs)

• Information and Programs for Homeless Youth

• Information and Programs for Youth in Abusive Households

• Information for Jobs, Internships & Programs (especially for the summer)

• Mandatory classes on how to cook healthy meals so they can prepare them on their own in the future ---> students can receive a Food Handler Certification

• Colorful interior design

• Junior/Senior visual art sale

• "Learning Center" in the library for tutoring in each subject

• Seminar for each grade to help students prepare for college and other future stuff; I would like freshmen to take the MBTI for them to get an idea of who they are and how they can contribute to society. I would encourage them to retake it as many times as they'd like every so often to see if anything's changed or not. A "myplan" for them.

• Mandatory classes on money management and how to do taxes and such.

• Study Abroad Opportunities

• Similar to how LoGrasso in SUNY Fredonia has that open space in the middle of it to sit outside, I'd like for an open space just like that available for students

• Most, if not all, of the spaces in the school HAS to have natural light coming in (i.e. hallways, the library, classrooms, offices, the caferteria)

• Building has to be accessible all around for people with permanent/short term disabilities

• A computer lab on every other floor if not each floor(?)

• Health classes with natural hair-care as part of the curriculum

• Students can double major and/or minor

• A slam team that the poetry students are strongly encouraged to be in

• Students are given slideshows of what the courses consist of so they wouldn't walk in the class not knowing what to expect

• SAT + ACT Prep classes

• Health class is every day, and each day is a different topic. Monday - Mental Health; Tuesday - Physical Health; Wednesday - Environmental Health; Thursday - Social Health; Friday - Cooking

• Senior art & motion picture arts students make their own business cards

Convenience

• escalators

Language Courses:

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• French

• German

• Russian

• Mandarin

• Arabic

• Swahili

• ASL

Physical Education:

• Swimming

• Weight Training

• Yoga

• Zumba

• Kickboxing

• Stage Combat

• Pole Dancing

• Sport team training

Events I'd love for the school to have:

• Visual art shows

• Seasonal theatre shows (obviously)

• Seasonal and/or annual dance shows

• Seasonal and/or annual music (instrumental + vocal) shows

• Poetry festivals

• Film festivals

• Performances created and run by the students

• Cooking Competitions

• Evening Events for the Parents

• General talent show

• NYC High School Honors Music Festival

• Fashion Shows

• Career Day

• Spirit Week

*Mural Artists for Lounges

• Louise Chen (OUIZI)

• Sam Kirk

• Molly Rose Freeman

• Lela Brunet

• Juuri

• Kiptoe

• Jessica Sabogal

• Thomas "Detour" Evans

• El Mac

• Helice Wen

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krishnaiyer04-blog · 5 years

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The Case for Holding Students Accountable

Some of the time it appears as though we've had a go at everything in our endeavors to change government funded instruction, yet nothing has attempted to help understudy accomplishment at scale. What's more, notwithstanding the majority of our change endeavors, we have disregarded one of the most encouraging impetuses for understudy achievement.

What is this enchanted, subtle factor?

Understudy exertion.

As training business analysts John H. Priest and Ludger Woessmann have put it, "Understudy exertion is likely the most significant contribution to the training procedure."

The guideline is basic: when understudies work more enthusiastically, they find out additional. In the United States, however, we don't anticipate that most children should buckle down, and they don't. For the majority of the discussion about "raising measures" and actualizing "high stakes testing," the United States is an anomaly among created countries with regards to considering understudies themselves answerable, and connecting certifiable results to scholastic accomplishment or the deficiency in that department.

In this article, we take a gander at the proof that outside inspiration can energize center school and secondary school understudies to work more earnestly and find out additional. We at that point distinguish various state and nearby strategies that could put helpful weight on understudies to apply exertion in their scholastics. Such strategies incorporate founding outer, an educational program based tests connected to certifiable ramifications for children; keeping up exclusive requirements for winning decent evaluations, and exploring different avenues regarding great structured money motivating force programs. We finish up by thinking about how understudy responsibility and understudy office may join for a significantly progressively powerful methodology later on.

Students as Stakeholders

It may appear glaringly evident that understudies have the greatest stake in their scholarly achievement. Training corresponds with future pay and significant proportions of personal satisfaction, and it is simply the understudies who will, in the long run, receive the rewards of their endeavors in school—or the expenses of their aloofness. Be that as it may, the employable word here is in the long run. To numerous youths, the grown-up future feels far away, unsure, and for the most part random to acing variable based math, understanding the phases of mitosis, or recognizing dangling participles.

At the point when even grown-ups banter the adjustments of scholastic learning, it ought to be nothing unexpected that numerous understudies don't see "this present reality" pertinence of their homework. However, notwithstanding when they trust in the estimation of scholastics, young people may even now like to spend their vitality on the more-convincing exercises viewing for their consideration—companions, sports, afterschool occupations, Snapchat, computer games, also less-healthy interests. Postponing satisfaction is hard for most anybody, yet specialists have demonstrated that youngsters are particularly present-engaged, unwilling to making arrangements for the more drawn out term and attempting to defeat the drive to dawdle. The instruction framework sets understudies in a place where, as Alexandra Usher and Nancy Kober of the Center on Education Policy communicated it, the "costs are forthcoming . . . while the advantages are deferred and now and then hard to get a handle on."

The inquiry is, what may be done to persuade juvenile understudies to work more enthusiastically? The idealistic—one may state ridiculous—the answer is to make schools so captivating, and the understudy instructor relationship so strong, that teenagers will be naturally persuaded to buckle down, regardless of different requests on their time and consideration, and in spite of the social costs they may pay.

However, it's hard for policymakers, for example, governors, officials, and even educational committee individuals to move the needle on understudies' inborn inspiration. They can attempt to do as such in a roundabout way, by means of activities to select and hold skilled educators, to execute top-notch educational programs, or to incorporate proportions of understudy commitment in school responsibility frameworks. In any case, those are all bank shots, best case scenario.

Another methodology—one that we accept is progressively sensible—is to consider understudies themselves responsible for their presentation by guaranteeing that their work is attached to genuine outcomes. This methodology is situated in research and utilized all through a great part of the world. By giving understudies a more noteworthy and increasingly quick stake in their homework and their adapting, such understudy responsibility arrangements could overcome any issues among exertion and reward.

Responsibility Boosts Effort

Notwithstanding when they have confidence in the estimation of scholastics, youngsters may even now like to spend their vitality on the more-convincing exercises viewing for their consideration—companions, sports, afterschool employments, Snapchat, computer games, also less-healthy interests.

The case for considering understudies responsible for their homework and their learning has been undermined by the pervasive conviction that impetuses and other "outward" inspirations really decline understudy exertion by disintegrating understudies' inborn want to learn. Clinicians during the 1970s found how extraneous sparks could once in a while undermine natural drive, and this thought has been broadly promoted, most broadly by Alfie Kohn's 1993 book Punished by Rewards. Kohn and other training journalists showed how motivations can blowback, and they supported their cases with paramount stories of daffy motivator activities, for example, a Denver Planned Parenthood program's idea to pay high school young ladies a dollar daily not to get pregnant.

However, these scholars exaggerated the body of evidence against outside helpers. The brain science writing never upheld their sweeping cases that "impetus plans can't work," as Kohn place it in the Harvard Business Review, and the conditions under which outside helpers reverse discharge are, as indicated by a 1996 meta-investigation on the subject, "constrained and effectively cured." The proof that outer responsibility brings down understudy inspiration is blended. Analysts found that outer tests in Germany made understudies work more enthusiastically, expanded their presentation, and made understudies bound to need a vocation including math, however, the scientists additionally discovered that tests contrarily influenced understudies' pleasure in math and sentiments of capability. At the point when Bishop inspected the impacts of secondary school leave tests, one conventional type of outside responsibility, on characteristic inspiration by contrasting whether understudies oppressed with this methodology occupied with less perusing for joy or were bound to connect learning with repetition retention, he found no proof that responsibility undermined normal interest and even discovered some proof of the inverse. The rationale of Bishop's finding is that frameworks that boost understudies to ace scholastic material may in certainty increment natural drive, an obvious outcome for those of us who consider figuring out how to be engaging.

Another way responsibility can help inherent inspiration is by supporting genius scholarly standards. As James Coleman saw as ahead of schedule as 1959, understudies regularly posse up to single out the "bend raiser": when understudies are reviewed on a bend with respect to each other, the individuals who buckle down and raise the class normal make things hard for different understudies, who should then work harder for their evaluations (see "The Adolescent Society," highlights, Winter 2006). This circumstance has been investigated all the more as of late by other social researchers, who have discovered that it can prompt social standards under which "geeks" are irritated and studious understudies of shading are blamed by their friends for "acting white" (see "'Acting White,'" highlights, Winter 2006).

Savvy understudy responsibility frameworks can help take care of this issue—by setting high scholarly norms and, most vitally, by utilizing outer appraisals to assess understudy advance. This implies policymakers may decidedly impact characteristic inspiration by streamlining understudy motivations, bringing about increasingly master scholarly social standards just as expanded understudy intrigue and ability. In later years, social business analysts have utilized exploratory strategies to all the more likely comprehend the associations between outside inspiration and human conduct and stay away from the traps Kohn and others have hailed. We talk about this further beneath, however, conduct financial matters has given new trial proof that policymakers should be touchy to the planning of responsibility, guarantee that positive impetuses are not very little, and target understudies at the correct ages.

What's more, paying little mind to the connection with characteristic drive, outside inspirations can have ground-breaking beneficial outcomes on understudy learning in their own right.

External Exams

Significant proof for the impact of understudy responsibility on exertion and accomplishment originates from the writing on an educational plan based outside appraisals. A few investigations from the late 1990s and mid-2000s help a technique of utilizing such outer tests, demonstrating that nations, Canadian areas, and American and German states utilizing content-based outside tests for understudy responsibility outflanked examination wards, no doubt in light of the fact that expanded understudy stakes prompted more prominent understudy exertion. However such outer tests have numerous structures and have not been similarly effective in all specific circumstances.

Significant proof from around the globe has connected secondary school leave tests to expanded adapting, yet in the United States, where political weights to loosen up-graduation prerequisites have constantly kept the passing bar low, the proof for their advantage has been uncertain. Studies have differently discovered little constructive outcomes, little negative impacts, or, frequently, no impacts. American specialists have additionally centered around whether such tests may incite understudies to drop out, with a few investigations finding more noteworthy dropout rates following the reception of the tests.

However such breeze through or-bomb tests is not by any means the only method to utilize outer evaluations to advance understudy responsibility. In an ongoing paper, Anne Hyslop presents a defense against the utilization of leave tests however contends that outside evaluations can be utilized in different approaches to advance understudy responsibility. In the previous 20 years, numerous states have started to require outside finish of-co

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flairchild · 7 years

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This ones short and sweet - leave a comment if you enjoy :) @vicbertsource

Vicbert Fanfic Challenge

Day Seven: secretadmirer!au

It was a normal monday in November, or so Victoria thought. She had a slow start to the morning but made it to school and got through her classes without much fault. It wasn't until lunchtime that the day turned abnormal. She reached into her bag for food and pulled out a paper bag instead. Inside she found a white flower and a note.

My favourite flower for my favourite person, from your secret admirer.

Surprised but flattered, Victoria looked around for who could have given her that gift. Seeing no one out of the ordinary she slotted the flower into her bun and continued on with her day.

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The next day Victoria had forgotten about her secret admirer. That was until her third class French, when a paper bag sat on her chair. She opened it to find a necklace with a mini spaniel dog on it.

A beloved pet for my beloved, from your secret admirer.

Victoria could barely contain her amazement. She adored her spaniel, Dash, and the fact that someone had gone to the trouble of getting a necklace of him was beyond believable. Victoria strung it around her neck happily, touching it every so often during the lesson. She couldnt help but wonder who this secret admirer could be. The fact that they new about Dash certainly narrowed things down. She had only told a few people about him. Unsure of what to do, she decided to discuss with her closest friend William Melbourne afterschool.

William made his opinion quite clear. "This person is creepy Victoria! They've obviously been stalking you to find out this information." But Victoria found she couldn't agree...the secret admirer thing was rather sweet. She went home awaiting next days parcel.

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On wednesday Victoria was eager for her gift. It came in her drama class, hidden between props in the storage room. She huddled in there away from classmates and opened it up. It was a piece of sheet music from Mendelssohn, her favourite composer.

A beautiful symphony for my beautiful darling, from your secret admirer.

He heart swelled at the gift - this person was so thoughtful. But this secret admirer was going to be caught, because she knew only two other pianists who would play this sorr of music in the school - the Coburg brothers.

So at break she approached Ernest eagerly. "Hey!" She greeted him with a smile. "I've been looking for some new piano composers and was wondering if you had any recommendations."

He narrowed his eyes at her suspiciously but still replied. "Chopin without a doubt." Victoria thanked him, but couldnt help but delight in his answer. Now there was no doubt who her admirer was. She thought about him for the rest of that day - Albert, the elusive german exchange student and her long time crush.

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As much as Victoria wanted another gift, she wanted to uncover Albert as soon as possible. So she waited for history, a class they both had before approaching him at the end as students filtered out.

"Hey Albert" she smiled, sliding into the desk alongside him. "I couldn't help but notice a paper bag under your chair. It looks exactly like one I was expecting to receive." She knew she was forward, but after those notes she didn't intend to be subtle. He liked her and she liked him - it was as simple as that.

"Oh I dunno what you mean" he mumbled, cheeks reddening as he bowed his head. His curls fell in front of his face endearingly.

"I think you do" she said firmly. Victoria reached over and titled up his chin. He met her gaze, face apprehensive and nervous. Man he's cute, Victoria thought, leaning over and planting a kiss on his lips. It was short and sweet, but left a long lasting impact on both people involved. Albert looked happily stunned while Victoria grinned at his reaction.

"Thanks for the bag, see you at lunch." She picked up the bag and almost skipped out of class. That meetup at lunch was to be the start of something special.

#vicbertffch #queen victoria #victoria itv #vicbert #victoria and albert #itv victoria #albert and victoria #lord melbourne #prince albert

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NORTHLAKE HIGH TASK 001 : WHO AM I ?

‘‘ wait is this like an interview thing ? do i get to miss class or whatever ? okay, please make this last long so i don’t have to sleep through mrs. wenworth class again. i swear, that woman might be old, but i bet if she could, she’d roll up a newspaper and beat me to death with it. just tell her i’m doing important stuff, she’ll understand. okay, maybe she won’t, but who the fuck cares ? i don’t. oh, that’s not how it works ? fine, can we just get this over with ? ‘‘

basic information

full name: ethan thomas abernathy

nickname(s): abernathy, eth.

age: 18

date of birth: august 5th 1999.

hometown: northlake, wisconsin.

current location: northlake, wisconsin.

ethnicity: caucasian.

nationality: american.

gender: cis-male.

pronouns: he/him.

orientation: pansexual.

religion: non-practicing catholic.

political affiliation: liberal libertarian

occupation: high school student.

living arrangements: in a very big house, almost mansion-like, with his parents and two sisters in the ‘‘wealthier’‘ side of northlake.

language(s) spoken: english, a little bit of french and german.

accent: american from ‘’new york’’

physical appearance

face claim: nick robinson.

hair colour: brown.

eye colour: light brown almost hazel.

height: 1,88m (6 ft 2).

weight: 78kg (172lbs).

build: ectomorph (long and lean) with a little bit more muscle in the abdominal, biceps and trapezius areas. equally distributed in the other parts of the body.

tattoos: none yet.

piercings: none yet.

clothing style: very casual. he doesn’t wear many motifs, but likes to layer. has a style comparable to the ‘‘skater boy’‘ one.

usual expression: a boyish grin showing all his teeth and a hint of amusement in his brown hues.

distinguishing characteristics: owns more than a few beauty marks.

family

father: anthony james abernathy, 53 years old, lawyer and owner of a law firm.

mother: theresa grace abernathy, 44 years old, lawyer and owner of a law firm.

sibling(s): has two sisters, he is the middle child.

children: none that he’s aware of.

pet(s): small ginger kitten named cracker.

family’s financial status: wealthy.

life at northlake:

who are your best friends at northlake ? say something about each of them: ‘’ well that’s a little discriminating, isn’t it ? anyways, i have to say pris (@priscvla ), one of my closest homies at northlake, she’s a little dreamer but can kickass, or at least pretend to. then there’s el (@elixms ), she’s one of my favourite troublemakers and one of the cutest too. not to make the list too long, i’ll add lil char to the mix (@charlattx ) she’s practically my little sister. they grow so fast. ’‘

who are your worst enemies at northlake ? why ? : ‘‘ enemies ? man, it’s not as if i were clark kent and had villains chasing my ass. but i guess val (@valeriehvdson) rubs me the wrong way. ‘‘

what are your goals for this year: ‘‘ pass my senior year, mostly. maybe make bea ( @bvatrices ) proud while doing so. ‘‘

what are you most looking forward to ? : ‘‘ uh, i don’t know. probably my next meal. ‘‘

what will you miss about northlake when you graduate ? ‘‘ the sleepy teachers surveilling the afterschool detention. ‘‘

what will you do after graduation ? : ‘‘ attend the sickest and wildest party there is. ‘‘

share a fun memory from your time at northlake high: ‘‘ the time where i poured oil all over the hallway and filmed people falling on their ass. the vid got so many views on youtube ! ‘‘

if you could trade places with anybody at northlake for a day, who would you trade with and why ? what would you do in their shoes? : ‘’ trade places with somebody ? that sounds awful. i guess i’d get into ben––jamin’s shoes (@bennkress ). i think i’d want to learn how does he feel about the whole ordeal. a few people here at northlake should try to give at least two shits about ella. i don’t know, i’m not saying it would be necessarily fun, but it would be NECESSARY. i think everyone should try it. ‘’

#norla:task #✧.: °｡ ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵃⁿⁿᵃ ᵇʳᵉᵃᵏ ᵗʰᵉˢᵉ ʷᵃˡˡˢ ᵈᵒʷⁿ「 headcannon. 」#what a nERD

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Exploring the Benefits of Afterschool German Classes at The ABC German School

ABC German School offers a variety of programs that complement the afterschool German curriculum. For younger children, there are Immersion Preschool and Kindergarten programs, which immerse them in the German language through play and interactive activities. Mini-Me classes further build on these foundational skills with age-appropriate, engaging content. For more information please visit: https://medium.com/@germanschoolabc/exploring-the-benefits-of-afterschool-german-classes-at-the-abc-german-school-90e68b3b723e

#afterschool German classes

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evnoweb · 5 years

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Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind

There are a lot of options if you want to bring programmable robots to your classroom. One I discovered this summer and have fallen in love with is Sunburst’s Robo Wunderkind. It is a build-a-robot kit designed to introduce children ages six and up to coding and robotics as well as the fun of problem-solving and creative thinking. The robot starts in about thirty pieces (there are so many, I didn’t really count them). You don’t use all of them in one robot, just pick those that will make your robot do what you want. The completed robot can move around on wheels, make sounds, light up like a flashlight, sense distance and movement, twist and turn, follow a maze, or whatever else your imagination can conjure up.

But don’t be confused. The goal of this kit is as much about building the robot as having fun exploring, experimenting, and tinkering.

What is Robo Wunderkind

Robo Wunderkind is an award-winning robotics kit that lets young children build an interactive robot and then program it to do what they want. It can be used at home, in school, or as an extracurricular tool for teaching STEAM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). The box includes a bunch of color-coded parts, a few instructions, and a whole lot of excitement. The builder’s job is to connect the pieces into the robot of their dreams, program it to do what they need, and then start over.

Fair warning: This robot doesn’t look like the famous humanoid robots of literature–C3PO or Marvin the Paranoid Android (from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), with arms, legs, and a head. It’s more like something you might construct from Lego Mindstorm though easier to set up, build, program, operate, and decode. I’ve used both and hands down would start my younger students with Robo Wunderkind. I agree with Tech Crunch when they say:

“You won’t build a robot as sophisticated as a robot built using Lego Mindstorms. But Robo Wunderkind seems more accessible and a good way to try robotics before switching to Arduino and Raspberry Pi when your kid grows up.

How to get started

If I were to rate myself with robotics, I might be closer to a 5 than a 10. I approach the task of building my own with a small degree of trepidation. I tell you this because, if I can build a robot with this system, any six-year-old (and up) can.

To get started, I needed a mobile device (like an iPhone, Android phone, or an iPad–the latter is recommended), a Bluetooth connection, and a risk-takers mentality. That’s it! No plugs, electricity, logins, registrations, software, or magic codes. The kit I received from Sunburst included all the basic pieces like wheels, sensors, motors, a cable, connectors, and lights.

I started with what’s called the Main Block–a big orange rectangular shape with a battery, CPU, accelerometer, and a speaker. Everything else will be attached to it. Since it needed to be charged, I plugged it in and downloaded the two apps while I waited:

Robo Live

Robo Code

Once the Main Block was fully charged, I activated Robo Live, planning to complete one of its starter projects. The first step was for the app to recognize my Robo, which it didn’t. Turns out, I needed a quick firmware update, delivered via WiFi. That done, I started building the Driver project detailed in the Robo Live Workshop. It couldn’t have been easier. It listed all of the required parts and how to connect them. When I did this properly, the app beeped, like a congratulations. When the project was completed, I could swivel the 3D image and compare it to what I had built.

Spot on.

The process was quick, intuitive, and easy to understand. The connections between the parts are snug–no danger that they will disconnect.

Robot built, I moved on to the first app, Robo Code, where I program my robot to do something clever. Robo Code simplifies this activity by placing all of the coding tools at the bottom of the screen. All I had to do was drag-and-drop, connect them the way I’d like, customize where that was available like changing colors or making a light brighter or dimmer, and then test it with the Go button. When I got stuck (once–really, only once), there was a help button that explained what each icon means and what the underlying choices provide.

After running through a few more sample programs, the concepts snapped into place. From then on, I could build the robot quickly and program it to do a wide variety of simple actions.

Sunburst’s Robo Wunderkind Education Robotics Kit is robust with plenty of projects and robot parts to entertain students. The Advanced Upgrade Kit includes six more parts similar to what is found in the Education Kit–like a light sensor, motion sensor, LED display, and RGB LED. This is perfect for longer robotics programs and/or older students.

Suggestion: I started on my iPhone but quickly switched to my iPad. The code symbols are a bit small for a smartphone screen and become hidden under the iPhone’s lower coping.

The apps

Two apps are recommended to get started–Robo Code and Robo Live. These can be located quickly in the App Store or Google Play by scanning the QR code included in the instructions:

Go ahead–scan the image above on your smartphone or tablet to get one of the apps. I’ll wait. Done? OK. With these two apps, students can build predesigned projects as well as customized projects that they invent themselves.

Robo Code

Robot Code allows students to code everything from simple to complicated as they bring their robot to life. Its visual drag-and-drop interface, similar to other coding apps students have probably used (like Scratch or Lightbot), makes coding Robo Wunderkind quickly accessible. With this app, students can build a flashlight, a distance meter, a distance alarm, an obstacle avoider, and a driver.

Robo Live

Robo Live lets students control the robot they’ve already built in real time using easy drag and drop functions located on the app’s dashboard.

Robo Wunderkind Curriculum

The Robo Wunderkind Curriculum is fifty+ hours of activities that teach and reinforce core robotics skills. Lessons are each about five hours and cover topics like road safety, math, art, and nature studies. There’s also a separate set of activities for afterschool programs, summer camps, and workshops. The curriculum includes a comprehensive teachers’ guide that trains educators in the Robo Wunderkind robots, the apps, the projects, and the activities. Each lesson is categorized according to its focus and includes the difficulty level, goals, vocabulary, materials required, activity stages, big ideas, age level, steps, and expected learning outcomes. There’s also a helpful Student Journal available so students can take notes, review, quiz themselves, and track their progress.

The Robo Wunderkind Curriculum is aligned with Common Core Math, Reading, Writing, and Speaking and Listening Standards; ISTE; CSTA Computing systems and Algorithms & Programming Standards; and NGSS Standards.

What I really like about Robo Wunderkind

It’s Lego compatible. With Lego adapters (most sold separately), kids can build a hybrid robot of Robo Wunderkind modules and Lego bricks.

It’s not one piece. You build your own robot so each student’s is different.

Module parts are color coded according to their actions so you won’t confuse connectors with sensors.

App instructions are very clear. They show exactly what to put where and the app pings at you when it’s done correctly. The ability to rotate it in 3D–I can’t overstate how useful that is.

The robots aren’t just for play. For example, I made a flashlight–a torch–with a green light, and it works magnificently.

Just to spotlight how intuitive Robo Wunderkind is, some of the projects took me less than five minutes to complete.

It comes in German, Swedish, and English–excellent.

Who will love this robot

kids who love Legos

kids who think outside the box

kids who love fiddling with mobile devices

kids who like remote controlled toys but always want them to do something they aren’t designed to do

teachers looking for clever STEAM and STEM projects

***

If you like Legos but wish your creations moved, talked, and could run through a maze with you, you will love Robo Wunderkind.

Want a little more? Here’s a clever video:

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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corpasa · 5 years

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Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind

But don’t be confused. The goal of this kit is as much about building the robot as having fun exploring, experimenting, and tinkering.

What is Robo Wunderkind

How to get started

Robo Live

Robo Code

Spot on.

The process was quick, intuitive, and easy to understand. The connections between the parts are snug–no danger that they will disconnect.

After running through a few more sample programs, the concepts snapped into place. From then on, I could build the robot quickly and program it to do a wide variety of simple actions.

Suggestion: I started on my iPhone but quickly switched to my iPad. The code symbols are a bit small for a smartphone screen and become hidden under the iPhone’s lower coping.

The apps

Two apps are recommended to get started–Robo Code and Robo Live. These can be located quickly in the App Store or Google Play by scanning the QR code included in the instructions:

Robo Code

Robo Live

Robo Live lets students control the robot they’ve already built in real time using easy drag and drop functions located on the app’s dashboard.

Robo Wunderkind Curriculum

What I really like about Robo Wunderkind

It’s Lego compatible. With Lego adapters (most sold separately), kids can build a hybrid robot of Robo Wunderkind modules and Lego bricks.

It’s not one piece. You build your own robot so each student’s is different.

Module parts are color coded according to their actions so you won’t confuse connectors with sensors.

App instructions are very clear. They show exactly what to put where and the app pings at you when it’s done correctly. The ability to rotate it in 3D–I can’t overstate how useful that is.

The robots aren’t just for play. For example, I made a flashlight–a torch–with a green light, and it works magnificently.

Just to spotlight how intuitive Robo Wunderkind is, some of the projects took me less than five minutes to complete.

It comes in German, Swedish, and English–excellent.

Who will love this robot

kids who love Legos

kids who think outside the box

kids who love fiddling with mobile devices

kids who like remote controlled toys but always want them to do something they aren’t designed to do

teachers looking for clever STEAM and STEM projects

***

If you like Legos but wish your creations moved, talked, and could run through a maze with you, you will love Robo Wunderkind.

Want a little more? Here’s a clever video:

youtube

Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind published first on https://medium.com/@DLBusinessNow

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omnipop-mag-blog · 6 years

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http://time.com/5251981/south-korea-north-korea-summit-students/

History weighs heavy over Friday’s meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea. The talks bring together Kim Jong Un, grandson of North Korea’s founder Kim Il Sung, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the child of refugees who fled the North during the 1950-53 Korean War. The setting is also significant; the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, is a narrow strip of land that has separated the two nations since that Cold War conflict ended in a prickly stalemate.

On one level, this is a summit between two leaders striving to fulfill their forebears’ legacies: Kim’s mission to safeguard his dynastic regime; Moon’s to reunite the riven peninsula. But Pyongyang’s development of a nuclear-armed missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland has hauled Washington into the reckoning, with U.S. President Donald Trump poised to meet with Kim in coming weeks for what would be the first ever meeting between leaders of these longtime adversaries.

Another historic moment, to be sure. But for many younger South Koreans with no recollection of the two nations united, the talks are an irritation piled onto mounting domestic pressures, such as record youth unemployment, an aging and declining population, sluggish growth, and corruption scandals involving the nation’s highest office. “We don’t want North Korea to be part of the agenda,” says Minyong Yoon, 25, a computer science student from the city of Suwon outside Seoul. “Our hands are already full.”

Read more: Can South’s Korea’s Moon Jae-in Pull the World Back From the Brink of War?

Seoul’s Hanyang University, where TIME met Yoon and a group of his fellow students, occupies a manicured campus befitting its reputation as South Korea’s equivalent of MIT. With a focus on engineering, alumni include current board members of multinationals Samsung, LG and Hyundai, as well as a bevy of politicians, artists and sports stars. But what unites all students is a desire to forge the future — and North Korea is conspicuously absent from their vision.

A survey last year by the government-run Korea Institute for National Unification found that 71.2% of South Koreans in their 20s oppose reunification. Across all age groups, support has dropped to just 57.8% from almost 70% four years prior. “For the younger generation, North Korea is no longer important,” says economics student Somin Yoon, 23, from Seoul, and no relation to Minyong.

These views chafe with a recent flood of ostensibly good news. On Saturday, North Korea announced it would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, dismantle its nuclear test site and prioritize economic growth. In response, South Korea turned off propaganda broadcasts at the DMZ. Kim Jong Un has also suggested that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea wouldn’t be a precondition for nuclear disarmament. President Moon called the move “a significant decision towards total denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”

But Hanyang students are unassuaged, saying too much time has already been sacrificed to the past. All South Korean men between 18-35 must complete two years of national service, which feels like time snatched away while they are in their prime. The training and drills that comprise this obligation fortify the idea that North Korea is an existential enemy.

Students warn of North Korean spies and underground extreme leftist groups that praise Kim Jong Un and encourage protests against the American THAAD anti-missile system that South Korea now hosts. “I’ve actually seen their leaflets scattered around this campus,” says Yu Kin Kim, 23, a business student from the central city of Daejeon. “It worries me a lot.”

While the division of the Koreas is a painful memory for their parents’ generation, Hanyang students mainly feel apathy. Only 2.5 miles of barbwire and minefields divide these lands, but culturally it’s a chasm: K-Pop and cosmetic surgery versus goose-stepping collectivism; bullet train and smartphone versus bullock cart and whip. “In terms of geography, it’s the closest country, but diplomatically it’s the furthest; we cannot just visit North Korea,” says Hanju Kim, 21, from Seoul, and no relation to Yu Kin.

Jung Yeon-Je—AFP/Getty Images A man walks past a military fence covered with ribbons calling for peace and reunification at the Imjingak peace park near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas at the border city of Paju on Jan. 8, 2018.

Compounding matters are the enormous pressures South Korea puts on young people. The school year lasts 11 months and students often spend 16 hours a day in class and afterschool study sessions called hagwons. South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world for children aged 10-19. During Minyong Yoon’s final year of high school, “I slept for only four or five hours a night,” he says.

Japanese and American culture has seeped into South Korean society, while the North remains ossified under Stalinist indoctrination. Interactions with the 32,000 North Koreans who have made the perilous journey to South Korea reinforce the differences. “Having a whole bunch of brainwashed people wandering around the country just isn’t good for us,” says Hanju Kim.

Defectors gain preferential access to university though affirmative action programs, which breeds resentment. Hanju Kim says there are one or two defectors in each grade of his public administration degree course, accounting for about 2% of all students. But they “definitely struggle” because of mandatory English courses, he says, adding, “they also have some problems understanding our professors’ language.”

For many students, the idea of opening the floodgates to North Koreans is almost as unpalatable as war. Reunification would be prohibitively costly for the world’s 11th biggest economy, not to mention the significant social and security problems. North Korea’s GDP is less than 1% of that of the South, meaning uniting the nations would involve many times the burden of binding East and West Germany in 1990. (Even a quarter of a century later, former East German provinces lag behind in most developmental metrics.) “As an economist, I have to weigh the benefits versus the cost allocation,” says Somin Yoon. “And it just doesn’t add up.”

But not all agree. Soojin Oh, a 23-year-old tourism student, favors reunification, though admits it is a minority view within her peer group. “If reunification means we would be linked to Russia and continental Europe then Korea will become truly part of the globe,” she says. “And we would have peace dividends owing to reducing our military costs.”

After Kim and Moon sit down Friday, the next step will be a meeting between the despot and the irascible Trump, who even threatened to “totally destroy North Korea” while speaking at the U.N. Earlier this month, hawkish CIA chief and Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo reportedly met with Kim in Pyongyang to draw up parameters for the meeting with Trump. National Security Adviser John Bolton, who has frequently advocated for preemptive strikes against both North Korea and Iran, joins Pompeo in Trump’s combative new-look inner circle.

Read more: Will Trump Make a Bad Deal With North Korea?

The prospect of the former reality TV star Trump, who came to power bellowing “America First,” dictating South Korea’s future security with a cabal of saber-rattlers is understandably galling. When Trump and Kim exchanged barbs late last year, “It looked like UFC or World Wrestling Entertainment,” says Minyong Yoon. “They just want to show how big and strong they are to their own people.” Hanju Kim agrees: “It was like childish bragging.”

It’s hard not to sympathize. Koreans have rarely held the levers of their own destiny. Since the 13th century, the peninsula has alternated between Chinese and Japanese occupation, and following World War II was split down the 38th parallel. But unlike Germany, which suffered a similar fate in retribution for Nazi aggression, Korea never invaded anywhere — it was scythed apart simply because of the rivalry between Soviet Russia and its erstwhile Western Allies.

Today, the Korean people sit on the frontline as a mercurial U.S. President fires off the occasional 280-characters of vitriol on social media. And despite Trump’s bluster, Hanyang students — who would likely be called upon to fight if conflict broke out — don’t believe the U.S has the stomach to stay the course, pointing to how the hippie movement catalyzed Washington’s withdrawal from the Vietnam War.

“America in all its history has never been bombarded on its own [mainland],” says Yu Kin Kim. “The North Koreans think that were they to land a direct hit on America itself, then just maybe like Vietnam there will be anti-war protests because they’ve never been in the situation of war [in their homeland.]”

It all leaves Yu Kin Kim fatalistic about the future, believing that South Korea waging war on its own terms may be preferential to having its fate decided by an unreliable Washington, or the purgatory of waiting for the next escalation. “Otherwise, it’s like living every day with a big gun to the back of your neck,” he says grimly. “And I really don’t want to live like that.”

— With reporting by Stephen Kim / Seoul

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