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- 1461: Introduction to Human Services
- ... her life. If we combine resources of therapy, job training, supervision, and community involvement, maybe we would see some positive changes. It certainly wouldn't hurt to be more open minded. 3 Children in grade school used to say I was weird. I eventually realized that my way of thinking is different from that of many people. In high school I would verbally express my thoughts and people would say to me with amazement, "I have never met a person like you." I guess some of my ideas and thoughts were quite creative and ...
- 1462: John Dos Passos
- ... with France began when he was very young, and his knowledge of the language was quite thorough. Much of his French expertise is showed off in his works, including Manhattan Transfer. Dos Passos first attended school in the District of Colombia. As he grew up, he spent some of his childhood in Tidewater Virginia. He began attending Choate School where his first published writings were articles for the Choate School News. Upon completing Choate School at the age of fifteen, he entered Harvard University in 1912. At Harvard, he continued his journalism by joining the Harvard Monthly. While at Harvard, he developed a close, ...
- 1463: What Role Will Poetry Play In
- ... is something I read on the back of a poetry book recently; poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. Poetry means the something different to almost everyone from the window cleaner who left school at fourteen to the highly educated head of English at Malvern College. Poetry is whatever you want to be, whatever it means to you personally and whatever it means to the poet. I have interviewed ... are exposed to nursery rhymes like ; 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldn t put Humpty together again.' Then at school we learn to spell difficult words like difficulty through rhyme. 'Mrs D Mrs I Mrs F F I Mrs C Mrs U Mrs L T Y!' Later at GCSE we almost all study poems by ... to study English Literature at university and look at poetry in much greater detail. However the rest of us are still exposed to poetry every day, when we listen to the radio, walk down the high street or send someone a valentines card. Some people love poetry for poetry sake, e.g when I asked one lady if I could question her about poetry she said Oh yes please! I ...
- 1464: Robert Frost - Use Of Everyday Items In His Poetry
- ... was 12 years old. Frost was born a year after his parents had gotten married. After Frost's father had died in 1885, he moved with his family to New England where he attended Lawrence High School. "Frost had published several poems in the school magazine and was named class poet." (Bloom p.12) "He graduated in 1892, sharing valedictorian honors with Elinor White, to whom he became engaged." (Bloom p. 12) Frost then went onto Dartmouth College, he ...
- 1465: Sociology: The Comparative Method
- ... men that slept with men. For example, it was considered quite an honor for a family with a young boy under the age of 10, to be given the privilege on an older man of high society taking their son into his house. The young boy would go and live with this older man. The older man would have sex with the young boy on a regular basis until the boy ... an example I refer to my lecture notes. Our professor gave us a fine example of a cross-class comparison involving his own life. He was from a middle-class family and attended a public school where he got involved with various kids from the middle and lower class. He grew up in this type of environment and accepted it as the his life as the way society was. To him, there was not another lifestyle. This was life. Several events occurred and because of these events our professor was moved, by his parents, to a private school. This private school and the 'new' society that accompanied it resulted in a form of culture shock for him. All of a sudden he was placed in a new world, a world that he ...
- 1466: Teen Drinking
- ... that teens today use and abuse alcohol. Pressure from their peers can overwhelm them into using alcohol. In todays society many people are unaware of how important social status can be to a teen. School has become a popularity contest and unfortunately the majority of the popular kids drink. This leads the less popular kids to believe they must also drink if they wish to be popular also. We find ... just to fit in, even though they dislike the effects of alcohol. Social pressure may lead to serious stress. Many kids become extremely stressed out because of pressure from their families to do well in school. When mom and dad expect their child to get an A and they get a B, things can get pretty tense around the home front. If a kid does not have any way of blowing ... loose and relieve some tension. Many of todays role models drink. I will use the example of the most popular movie of the summer, I Know What You Did Last Summer." Kids see the high school kids in this movie drinking and having fun. How can you blame them for wanting to drink? Everybody looks up to somebody, and if you are a teen and that somebody drinks chances ...
- 1467: Social Darwinism
- ... views and erroneous grounds of opinion of Lamarck. Nevertheless, Erasamus may have unconsciously influenced Darwin in preparing the way for evolution by natural selection. In 1818, at the age of 9, Darwin entered the Shrewsbury school, which was run by Dr. Butler. Darwin later recalled that nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. He was removed from the school in 1825, and was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine. There he studied for two years before ...
- 1468: Sexuality and Gender Role
- ... the gender of X to X's parents, they said just "X'. No one could know X's gender except X's parents and some scientists. About 5 years later, X became the age for school. X's parents and scientists considered the appearance of X. They cut X's hair. It was little bit longer than other boys, but shorter than other girls. X put the girl's upper garment and the boy's pants. It was so hard to distinguish the X's gender by X's appearance. At school, X was adapted well. X could play the soccer as well as the other boys and could play the rope jumping as well as the other girls. I don't remember the next stories. However ... that. When I read this, I perceived that the gender role is made by the society even though we were born with own sexuality. The other story is about my classmate when I was in high school. About 2 years ago, I saw him on the newspaper. The reporter interviewed him because he was the president of the group of homosexual in his college. That group was not formal group ...
- 1469: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... that of children" (Shlapentokh, 1988, 34). Another negative aspect of the decline in family life is the rising incidence of divorce which is said to be caused by sexual incompatibility, inadequate housing, infidelity and a high rate of alcoholism (Traver, 1989, 64/65). These all leave the child confused, feeling alone and angry at society. He then looks for ways to express himself and usually finds it in a youth group ... and Lutheran are recognized by the Russian government, they are under strict control. They see attendance at church and religious rituals as politically disloyal acts (Shlapentokh, 1988, 124/25). Schools advocate parental attendance in after-school lectures encouraging atheism. Schools publish atheist magazines which mock religion and say that "religion is poison". History classes teach that Christianity started wars, killed millions and oppressed the masses. The young are taught that religion ... often subjected to humiliating interference in their private affairs. One student was humiliated in front of the whole class for having a "modern" hair-cut. Another, although pregnant, wanted to continue her studies at night school. She was treated like a delinquent and reprimanded for "loose behaviour" (Wilson, 1988, 47/48). Russian schools often cover up scandals to preserve their good name. In one instance Sasha Traskin was so badly ...
- 1470: Australia
- ... British, American, and their own phraseology and spelling. Because Australia is one of the most multicultural nations in the world it is possible to find vibrant ethnic communities using almost every other world language.Australian school children have the highest rate of learning Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Chinese, of any industrialized western nation - in recognition of their future as a member of the Asia-Pacific region. Labor force is 8 ... can have a big impact on the economy. The government is pushing for increased exports of manufactured goods, but competition in international markets continues to be severe. Australia has suffered from the low growth and high unemployment characterizing the OECD countries in the early 1990s. In 1992- 93 the economy recovered slowly from the prolonged recession of 1990-91, a major restraining factor being weak world demand for Australia's exports ... supported the November 1994 Bogor Declaration, in which APEC leaders set the goal of free trade in the region by the year 2020. The challenge the government will face in 1995 is to maintain moderately high real growth and reduce unemployment without causing a revival of inflation and a massive increase in the current account deficit (by virtue of the impact growth has on the demand for imports). Many economists ...
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