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- 251: Order In The Classroom
- Order In The Classroom When my friends and I look back at our four years in high school we remember many fond memories. They range from athletic achievements to good grades in certain classes. But one of the memories that we always come back to is about teachers that we always harassed. When ... honestly say that I felt sorry for all of our victims over the years. And that if I could do it over again I wouldn't. I recently went back to visit one of my high school teachers. It was amazing the amount noise and chaos coming from some of the rooms. It seemed as if the kids had a tension span of about 30 seconds before they felt that ...
- 252: Tinker vs. Des Moines
- Tinker vs. Des Moines My representation is the defense of Des Moines, Iowa. 1. On a cold, brisk December morning in 1965 five students, and their parents of Des Moines high school made an extremely poor decision by wearing dark, filthy black, inappropriate material representing non- existent peace in a thriving nation. Earlier that week the principal of the high school warned the students and the parents that the armbands would create a nuisance and disrupt the learning environment making the educational atmosphere discontent. They wore the armbands anyway and when they refused to ...
- 253: Jackie Robinson
- ... s things and the family boarded a train to California. They bought a house on Pepper Street in Pasadena. As child, Jackie enjoyed sports as much as the next kid did. Just before he started school, he became ill with Diphtheria and almost died! He was an average student at his school, in the playground he realized that his amazing talent in sports made him stand made him stand out. More than once he came home with a pocket full of change or an extra lunch, because ... was amazing at basketball. He also had some immigrant friends who called themselves "The Pepper Street Gang". Together they challenged white groups in sports for money. Jack’s skills bloomed all the way through grade school and into high school. At Washington Junior High Scholl, he played basketball, baseball, football, and track, leading his team for each sport. They made it to many of the championships to. Jack’s significant ...
- 254: Dead End: Teenage Suicide
- ... those who commit suicide are really crying out for help. They want the unhappiness and strains in their live to end, but they really do not want their lives to end. When I was in High School at the age of fifteen, I tried to commit suicide. I was looking for a way out of my sad, impoverish, lonely, single-parent life. I thought that the easiest and most convenient way out was to commit suicide. That way I would no longer have to deal with the pressures of home and school. In the end I survive the overdose and went on to live a regrettable, happy productive life. If only I would have known that there was help out there for me, somebody I could ...
- 255: Marijuana Should Be Legalized
- ... marijuana. Hashish is another form of cannabis that is found on the top of the cannabis plant. It has effects similar to marijuana (Grolier). Marijuana is a hallucinogenic drug. Doses can range from a simple "high" to effects similar to being intoxicated in alcohol. Users may develop tolerance, but it has yet to be proven that marijuana is physically addicting (Grolier). Marijuana use became a concern in the United States during ... the public is not against marijuana; 18 million people use it once a month despite drug laws, and large amounts if people think it is acceptable (Marshall 89). Also, users are willing to pay the high prices to get the drug (Marshall 89). The amount of THC needed to kill a person is 40,000 times the amount needed to get high, whereas the amount of alcohol can be as low as 4 to 1 (Sam). Alcohol is thought to kill 30,000 people, directly, a year, either by poisoning or liver damage. Alcohol is also ...
- 256: Tinker vs. Des Moines
- Tinker vs. Des Moines 1. On a cold, brisk December morning in 1965 five students, and their parents of Des Moines high school made an extremely poor decision by wearing dark, filthy black, inappropriate material representing non- existent peace in a thriving nation. Earlier that week the principal of the high school warned the students and the parents that the armbands would create a nuisance and disrupt the learning environment making the educational atmosphere discontent. They wore the armbands anyway and when they refused to ...
- 257: B.F. Skinner and His Influence in Psychology
- ... was one of the most famous of the American psychologists. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1904. Skinner was the father of modern behaviorism. Skinner did not get into psychology until he was in graduate school at Harvard. He was driven to Psychology after reading about the experiments of Watson and Pavlov. He received his doctoral degree in three years and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of ... system. Another was Walden Two. This book describes a utopian society that functions on positive reinforcement. Skinner was a very productive person until his death in 1990 at the age of 86. Behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology that is interested in observable behavior. Skinner said, “Behaviorism is not the science of human behavior; it is the philosophy of that science”(Skinner, 1974). There are various types of behavior ... lizards, and snakes. He trained pigeons to do tricks after he saw them performing one year at a fair. Training the pigeons probably was where he got his ideas of operant conditioning. He attended Susquehanna High School just like his mother and father. In his graduating class there were only eight people including him. He was a very intellectual boy. He reported that he really enjoyed school. Over the four ...
- 258: Censorship of Books: Freedom of What?
- ... might offend one person may not offend another person, and it is unjust to prohibit someone from reading or seeing “inappropriate” material based on the opinion of someone else. Censorship occurs quite frequently in the school system. Books are banned from libraries and literature teachers constantly have to change the material covered in their course as a result of complaining parents. If a child goes home and discusses a topic they learned in school and their parents don't like it, many parents automatically go ballistic. Many try to get rid of it before they have even taken the time to read it. If a parent feels that certain ... means that we can access any of these materials. It doesn't mean we have the freedom to control what others access, that would be referred to as communism. In Triverton, Rhode Island a middle school class was assigned to read a book called Go Ask Alice. The book portrays a fifteen-year-old girl who is trying to overcome a drug addiction. It is written as a series of ...
- 259: Demanding Greatness: Steroid Use
- ... or she puts into it. If one would push themselves real hard and fail, they could end up with some problems. They could drive so hard as to cause or worsen injuries. They might ignore school, friends, family or work just to train on winning. They develop an aggressive training style which would lead to drugs such as steroids.3 “There are many reasons why people use steroids. But the two main ones are to excel in athletic competition and to look more like one’s ideal of a perfect body.”4 Many athletes are representing their school, state, or territory they come from at the competitions they are involved with. Most of these competitors don’t want to let down their fans in fear of rejection of being classified as a loser ... gym’s biggest builder. They don’t want to stop until they look like him. Firemen, bouncers, or police officers are using steroids to increase their physical strength in order to do their jobs.6 High school athletes also feel they need to take them in order to secure a spot on a college team or for a scholarship.7 The word steroids was hardly heard in the news until ...
- 260: Danger in the Air At North Intermmediate School in Wilmington?
- Danger in the Air At North Intermmediate School in Wilmington? Is there danger in the air at the North Intermediate School in Wilmington? Apparently carbon dioxide levels have been found to be above acceptable levels in some class rooms. According to a report dated Dec. 9, 1996, by ATC Associations, an independent consulting firm hired by the Town of Wilmington to conduct Indoor Air Quality and Microbiological testing at the school. “All indoor air quality parameters were within normal guideline ranges with the exception of consistently elevated levels of carbon dioxide and low relative humidity levels throughout the school,” said the report. High levels of ...
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