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- 4131: Underage Drinking: A Problem For Society
- ... this age group.” (Buescher.) Underage drinking not only has devastating effects on those who drink but also on our society. “Young people illegally consume almost 3.6 billion drinks annually-- or 10 million drinks each day.” (http://www.cspinet.org/booze/alcyouth.htm.) Underage drinking has serious social, health, and economic consequences. It is a major factor in crime, violence, mental-health problems, and injuries including both those that are fatal ... by the others around them. Stress is also another reason why teens may feel apt to drink alcohol. Stress causes teenagers to look for a quick escape from the problems which they face in their day-to-day lives. This quick escape can be found in the shape of a bottle. In the eyes of an underage drinker, alcohol is the cure to all problems, a way to forget all of the ...
- 4132: Improving Public Schools
- ... best way to search for a topic would be to use the words that my paper is about. As stated above, I used EbscoHost to conduct my research. EbscoHost is found to be a modern day encyclopedia that discusses topics related to society in general. The article is called, “Absent Without Excuse.” It discusses how elementary education is being deprived that when the student is ready to move on to higher ... longer in the public school curriculum. Instead it has been replaced with skills of freethinking and philosophy. These skills are not needed because elementary school students haven’t been taught the basics. In conclusion, I’d like to say that our public schools better improve. Otherwise we maybe left in the boon dogs as far as out intellect is concerned. This may result to less competitiveness with our neighbor countries of ...
- 4133: Television Violence
- ... and punching him repeatedly till he runs away. This is very unrealistic and very poorly depicted. How many times have you ever heard of an old lady beating up her attacker in real life? I’d have to say never. This showing of violence could give someone the impression to fight back if they were ever put in that situation. That could end up with someone getting severely hurt and possibly ... slot as to allow less kids to see the more violent programs that were on before Caroline in the City came on. From 8 to 10 p.m. was the second half of the two-day showing of the Temptation’s story. Over the two-hour period there were about the same amount of violent acts as in Seinfeld. However this show was later then Seinfeld. So the acts of violence ...
- 4134: Effects of TV on Children
- ... can develop from young children watching too much TV. Many emerging dilemmas are resulting from this concern. When a young child with a maturing brain sits in front of the TV for several hours every day, it can instigate loss of creativity, impatience, and violence further along down the road. The ability to be creative is an important factor in the development of a young child’s mind. By sitting down ... up a hobby. While losing creativity, the child can also gain impatience. By having all the stories and facts plastered clear in front of them, they can easily loose interest sitting in a classroom all day. Even during their favorite TV show, there is a brief change of pace in the story line when a commercial comes on, which is about every seven minutes. Their attention spans are being molded by ... it surprising to many that statistics show television is the number one after school activity for young children? On an average, kids from six to seventeen watch from three to four hours of TV a day. By the time of graduation, it can add up to 15,000 hours of watching TV, compared to only 11,000 hours of being in school. Growing older, it could result in lack of ...
- 4135: The Effects on Children When Both Parents are Employed
- ... their parents. Parents who work present a different image to their children than parents who do not work. In addition, wage earners, including parents, must (in most cases), be absent from the home during the day. When considering these modifications to the family dynamics, there is a considerable basis for the opinion that the increaced household income outweigh the negative effects experienced by offspring in families were both parents are employed ... community responsibility and that they should start treating them as such. (Monsebraaten A1) In the end, the responsibility of choosing the proper type of child care lies with the working parents. Proper research of the day care facilities and employees should include an investigation into the availability of superior care in a quality program where rearing beliefs and practices mirror those of the parents. When both parents feel confident in their day care choices, they will view them as supportive influences rather than intrusive ones. This positive attitude will provide the child with positive feedback because when parents feel good about their lives and decisions, they ...
- 4136: An Anaysis Of Sexism Against The Female In Athletics
- ... and a desire to make contributions to a young person’s life.” The chosen cities chosen for the program are: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, and Washington D.C. The foundation hopes to involve between 100 and 150 mentors and children in each city during the first year. Local coordinators and instructors are being recruited who will conduct a series of clinics. They ... farther, it could cause bodily injury and they would be unable to bear children,” she goes on to say “We are making strides year after year and you know, Rome was not built in a day.” Since the 14th century men have fought to keep women out of the Olympic games. It would not be until the 6th modern Olympics in 1920 in Antwerp that the United States allowed women to ...
- 4137: The Society Is Flawed
- ... and by a radical group called the Young Hegelian, who, at that time was attempting to apply Hegelian ideas tot he movement against organized religion and the Prussian autocracy. In 1841, Marx received his Ph.D. in philosophy and in 1842 became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne, a liberal democratic newspaper, for which he wrote increasingly radical editorials on social and economic issues, and for which the paper was ... oppressing another. The next obvious question is how society is going to make the transition from the current capitalism to Marx’s communism. Of course, the ruling bourgeois are not going to wake up one day and realize that the whole basis of their society is cruel and corrupt and decide to redistribute their wealth. However, Marx believes that is inevitable that the proletariat will realize their situation and their power ...
- 4138: Leadership
- ... in the class. You must always remember about everyone's feelings and be considerate to all. And in return you will receive respect, which is most important in getting things done. Right from the first day you have to show initiative, you must be strict and let them know who's in charge, other wise you will not get the respect and cooperation that is wished for to make the task ... self confidence. Last but not least, it is equally important, to be organized. Being organized is extremely critical in being successful. You must plan before your class in what you are going to do each day, what you are going to accomplish and have the kids preform. Plan what equipment and props you will need in completing your lesson. This helps everything flow nicely and it also shows the kids that you are organized and you have put some time in to planning what will be done each day. These are some of the main keys in being a good leader. If you keep all this in mind while teaching a lesson every thing should be guaranteed to run smoothly, which will end ...
- 4139: Community Policing: The New Policing Concept!
- ... officers from the isolation of the patrol car and the constant demands of the police radio, so that these officers can maintain direct, face-to-face contact with people in the same beat area every day. The new Community Police Officer (CPO) has a mission, which includes new ways to address community concerns using the Community Policing philosophy. The goal is to allow CPOs to own their beat areas, so that ... efforts to address the problems in their neighborhoods. The CPO not only enforces the law, but also supports and supervises community-based efforts aimed at local concerns. The CPO allows people direct input in setting day-to-day local police priorities in exchange for their cooperation and participation in efforts to police themselves. Community Policing provides a new way for the police to provide personalized police service that offers every law-abiding ...
- 4140: Social Norms Are Constantly Changing
- ... drastic. Even this decade has seen some very dramatic changes. One very visible social norm is the style of clothing. Styles rarely stay the same from one year to the next. What is in one day can be completely stupid the next. Just look at the clothes they wore in the eighties. Social norms go deeper than just the style of clothing that you wear. One interviewee described a typical school day that was very different from the ones that we encounter today. She went to school in the late fifties in a one-room schoolhouse that included about fifteen kids ranging from first to sixth grade ... disbelief, she swore it was true. Another interviewee that grew up in the early twenties attended school only through the eighth grade. After that he helped his father on the farm. In the typical school day today, a student has to do a lot more than cheat on a test to get in any real trouble. Some things that get kids in a lot of trouble now include looking up ...
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