Approximately 1,500 Los Angeles County foster children and their volunteer mentors attended the ninth annual Day of the Child for a day of fun on Sunday at Pierce College. Day of the Child is an event designed to bring awareness and support for the needs of children who are living in foster care, residential facilities and homeless shelters.
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Students can’t find their place in the world:
English, history, mathematics and science are all required subjects of study in grades one through 12 in the United States. In many other countries, one other subject is also weighed as equally important– geography. Many Americans may be unable to locate these other countries on a globe.
Mothering and Mathematics semantics
Sheri Lehavi is happy to spend her mornings teaching math at Pierce College. It is now 6:40 a.m. The grass outside is soaked with a cool morning dew as the sun yawns and stretches its arms to the sky, still groggy from yet another good night’s sleep. Inside the Math Building, in Room 1416, Lehavi and her Elementary Algebra students are solving algebraic inequalities and graphing x and y axes.
Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some
Festival Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some Family Fun at the Harvest Festival is Far From Frightening Haunted Happenings At Pierce Fall was definitely in the air on a chilly Friday night at Pierce College, where the bright lights and banjo music coming from the corner of De Soto Avenue and Victory Boulevard were a sure sign that the third annual Halloween Harvest Festival had commenced.
Haunting Happenings & Mystifying Mazes
Fall was definitely in the air on a chilly Friday night at Pierce College, where the bright lights and banjo music coming from the corner of De Soto Avenue and Victory Boulevard were a sure sign that the third annual Halloween Harvest Festival had commenced.
$$Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some
Festival Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some Family Fun at the Harvest Festival is Far From Frightening Haunted Happenings At Pierce For good, clean, family-oriented fun, or for a festive trip to the dark side this Halloween season,” the Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College is the place to be.
English should be taught, but should not be legislated
The fact that making English the official language of the United States has become a hot topic of the presidential primary debates really shows where our priorities lie. Don’t get me wrong. I really do think that all new immigrants should be encouraged to learn English because it makes communications easier.
Fall dance concert auditions Sunday
The annual Fall Dance Concert is around the corner and the auditions for dancers will begin Sunday, Oct. 21 in the Dance Studio, North Gym room 5601. Every year, dance instructor Marian Weiser holds the Fall Dance Concert, which is comprised of various dances from around the world.
‘Kingdom,’ a Foxx in Sheep’s Clothing
“The Kingdom”, directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, is by no means your typical action movie. The trailers for the film are so full explosions that one would think that’s all there was to the film. However, there is much more than expensive stunts and gunshots to this movie.
Unexpected loss to West L.A.
It was supposed to be an easy win for Pierce College football, but they lost to West Los Angeles College 31-25 on Saturday. The Brahmas traveled to face the winless Oilers, who had lost their first five games, including a 49-point blowout lost at College of the Canyons on Sept.