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- 861: Ebonics A Bridge To Help Black
- ... also how the Chinese and the Japanese learn English. As a quote from an article writes, The real question is what happened to the good educational philosophy, which states that in order to teach a child you had to start from where the child is. The new Hispanic immigrants understand this and that is why we now have a move going on across this country for BI-lingual education. They demand, and get, teachers who understands Spanish and other Latin American dialects to teach their children English. They know that it does not matter if a child is African American, Chinese, Spanish, or Italian. For a child to learn they know you have to build on what that child knows. Therefore, if the child comes into the room saying 'dis' and ' ...
- 862: The Violent Reality of Gangs
- ... make kids do things that are strongly against their morals. One of the ways that kids morals are bent so that gang violence becomes more acceptable is the influence of television and movies. The average child spends more time at a TV than she/he spends in a classroom. Since nobody can completely turn off their minds, kids must be learning something while watching the TV. Very few hours of television ... shows on television today are extremely violent and are often shown this from a gang’s perspective. A normal adult can see that this is showing how foully that gangs are living. However, to a child this portrays a violent gang existance as acceptable. ‘The Ends Justifies the Means’ mentality is also taught through many shows where the "goody guy" captures the "bad guy" through violence and is then being commended. A young child sees this a perfectly acceptable because he knows that the "bad guy" was wrong but has no idea of what acceptable apprehension techniques are. Gore in television also takes a big part in influencing ...
- 863: Barn Burning By William Faulkn
- ... meat. This is related to the feelings that he cannot express. The smell, referring to the olfactory sense, links the devil image and the blood image to identify the anxiety the father creates in the child's psyche. The permanent reference to blood refers to the past, where you come from, to your origins and your "descendants" (p.165). Tension is created by the blood ("the old fierce of blood." p ... traditions and the father tries to convince his son that their interests are identical. In the second major scene, Mr Snopes leads his son up the slope, away from the family at the campfire. The child looks up at the towering figure of his father "against the stars...of the frockcoat.". He strikes his son "on the side of the head but without heat" (p.166), like he had struck the two mules (p.165) and at times he also speaks "without heat" (p.p. 166 and 169). These images of cold violence and indifference to inflicted pain convey the child's sense of his father emotional frigidity. Mr Snopes' s cold violence is not an expression of hatred or anger: violence is a tool, used upon his son (as upon the mules) to make ...
- 864: Ballad Of Birmingham
- ... wanting to march for freedom. The mother explains how treacherous the march could become showing her fear for her daughters life. The mood swings back and forth until finally the mother's fear overcomes the child's desire and the child is sent to church where it will be safe. The tempo seems to pick up in the last couple of paragraphs to emphasize the mothers distraught on hearing the explosion and finding her child's shoe. The poem also focuses on what life was like in the sixties. It tells of black freedom marches in the South how they effected one family. It told of how our peace ...
- 865: The Use of The Second Amendment In The Home
- ... capable of finding guns than they are given credit for. "Children under the age of 15 suffer approximately one-third of the deaths caused by guns in the ho me" (Cruit, 18). Even if a child is well behaved and listens when they are told not to touch a gun, they may still cecum to peer pressure and let their friends play with a gun. Not only is a gun dangerous to children, but the ammunition is as well. A child could be seriously hurt by an exploding bullet which can be set off by being hit by a rock, a nail, or being thrown into the fireplace. Children are unpredictable and they do not know ... take pills or slit their wrists think better of it before it is too late and ask for help. Alcohol and drugs play a big role in the misuse of firearms. People who have substance abuse problems may play and joke around with a firearm, creating a hazardous situation. "Fifty-two percent of all murderers act under the influence of liquor or drugs" (Cruit, 17). Drinking or doing drugs mix ...
- 866: Indira Gandhfemalei
- Indira Priyadarshini was born on November 19, 1917, she was the only child of Jawaharal Nehru and his wife Kamala in the city of Allahabad in Northern India. The second part of her name Priyadarshini, means"dear to behold." In the Indian tradition, theirs was a joint family ... barristers in his time. With success came wealth, and the Nehru family lived in a sprawling whitewashed villa, surrounded by lawns, tennis courts, and a swimming pool, and attended by numerous servants. Being the only child in this huge household, Indira was pampered and was the center of her grandfather’s attention. Then, when Indira was barely three, the Indian freedom movement entered the Nehru house, changing Indira’s life and ... and went at all hours of the day and night; it became a place that rang with drafts, declarations, and debates. Indira absorbed the tension and excitement of those days and became a quiet, serious child, fired by a sense of mission she did not quite understand(Currimbhoy 31). Even the games Indira played had to do with politics. Her dolls were divided into freedom fighters. who formed picket lines, ...
- 867: Abortion
- ... under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to have an abortion than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. These mothers take the easy way out by having an abortion and ending their child’s life. Another reason why most mothers have abortions are teen pregnancies where a young women made a bad decision and can’t handle the consequences. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely ... of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. An abortion doesn’t allow teens to think about their decision because they have almost no trouble in just having an abortion to end their child’s life so they don’t have to worry about it. The other side to argue why abortion should be legal is rape victims. Rape victims were forced into pregnancy against their will. How can these victims explain to their child why they have no father? How can the mother and child handle this situation? On one side you might say having an abortion would make you no better than the person who raped you. ...
- 868: Alcohol Research Paper
- ... in every day events. The use of alcohol is prominent in, but not limited to three social circles that include students, family groups, and religious gatherings. Experts have much to say about alcohol use and abuse in these three categories, including all of the negative aspects of drinking. Social drinking is a common occurrence around America. Whether it is after work or after a football game, white collar or blue, two ... media, the problems will not stop until society completely understands how alcohol can indeed pose a serious threat to the nations social welfare. Alcohol has an adverse effect on the economy. The consequences of alcohol abuse and dependence cost the nation an estimated $99 billion each year (Gordis, 209). It is tax money that pays for alcoholics who both live on the street and are barely getting by or who are ... people as a whole to take care of the homeless people who have fallen prey to the lure of alcohol related problems. As of 1991, about 14 million Americans met medical diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or alcoholism. There are numerous health problems that are linked to drinking. For instance, if alcohol is consumed during pregnancy, birth defects may result, worse, the baby could be born addicted to alcohol (Kellam, ...
- 869: Symbolism In The Scarlet Latte
- ... in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment and herself the object" (54). This implies that Hester's sin of bearing a child without the presence of a husband will always be remembered. In the middle of the novel there is a transition period where the letter "A" is viewed differently than before. In this section of the ... foreshadows some of the future events that occur later in the novel. Another view of the letter is that it portrays and symbolizes guilt. It portrays the guilt of Dimmesdale, the father of Hester's child. Hester has learned to deal with her punishment and grow stronger from it, but Dimmesdale, who went unpunished and is a respectable man in the Puritan society, must now live with the guilt of having a child "illegally." This guilt causes him to become weaker as the novel continues: "Mr. Dimmesdale was overcome with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his ...
- 870: Lord of the Flies: Animal Instinct
- ... evil at the base of the human nature through the lives of Piggy, Ralph, Roger, and Jack, whom are all young boys trapped on a deserted island in the Pacific. Piggy was a nonathletic, fat child with glasses and asthma. He was the child who was least effected by the evil inside of himself. Piggy was also the most intelligent child on the island, and this intelligence is what kept him from giving in to his evil. This intelligence was also thought by Jack to be a threat. Piggy lived in fear of Jack because ...
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