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- 2701: Critique on the Concept of Intelligence
- ... has obtained up to a certain point in his or her life. If a particular person score is above the average for his or her age, then that person is considered to be of a high IQ. There has to be a better way. A person that has not learned a certain amount of information by a certain age is not a stupid person, they are just ignorant to some information that has not been presented to them. This can be determined by several different factors. It can be due to the school a person went to, the upbringing a person had, or even a disability that did not allow this person to have the same advantages that others had. None of these three factors make a person stupid. Yet an IQ test is based on what people know, so according to traditional IQ tests if Mary, age 12 went to a better school than Suzy age 12, and was taught more information that happened to appear on an IQ, Mary would be considered the smarter one. But when presented with the same opportunity Suzy scored the same ...
- 2702: Seatbelts and Airbags: They Save Lives!!!
- ... yet we still do not wear them because they are uncomfortable. We don't think about what can and will happen if we don't wear them. Seatbelts should be worn at all times. On school buses that seat more than 24, however, seatbelts are not present. They should be!!! Even though the seats are high and they look like they will stop someone from flying forward, the passengers on the bus can still be injured in an accident, especially passengers that are standing on the buses. Seatbelts would prevent passengers ... the amount of people per seat but wouldn't you rather have people to fill the seat with seatbelts than to fill a seat without seatbelts? I think so! We don't need airbags on school buses. The idea seems impractical for two reasons: #1. The seat in front of you slows you down in the first place. #2. Where would you put them? Why can't we just accept ...
- 2703: Concerns Facing the United States in the 1990s: Crime, Education, and Employment
- ... was passed in 1994 which has put more police on the streets, increased drug enforcement, border patrols, and crime prevention programs. Another concern we deal with as Americans is education. Many students drop out of school early. Many of the rest graduate knowing less math, science, and history than other industrialized nations. Illiteracy rates are high, and more and more students are graduating from school even if they have been absent more days than allowed. To improve this, committees have been organized will develop voluntary national and state standards for education and authorize grants to develop model programs to ...
- 2704: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... social program, the New Deal, designed to counter the Great Depression of the 1930s. He also led the nation through most of its participation in the global struggle of World War II. Roosevelt attended a high-class high school and later graduated from Harvard in 1903. He quickly gained recognition by his leadership of upstate New York Democrats in a fight against Tammany Hall's nominee for the U.S. Senate. At the ...
- 2705: Teenage Love
- ... don’ t say them. - and finally, by threatening revenge like, showing up with another girl at a party, physical violence, etc. A personal example of this is a friend who we’ll call Christine. When school started, Christine was dating Tom who eventually left her to date their mutual friend, Megan. Christine was extremely upset and she told Tom she would get back at him. She told him she would tell ... and unanswered questions. If you see an ex too soon, you risk triggering those unresolved feelings and fantasies, which will prevent you from moving on. This may not be easy if you attend the same school. In which case you should try your best to avoid the places you know s/he’ll be and don’t purposely meet up with them. But when the time is right, such reunions can ... got a boyfriend and when a breakup occurs, it plummets down and they lose control of their emotions. This is when the “ wrong moves” come into play. If there was only a way to ensure high self- esteem in all of today’s teenagers we wouldn’t have to worry about teen’s being pushed to the limit by their overwhelming emotions.
- 2706: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... small town called Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway was brought up in a somewhat conservative household by his parents who pushed the value of politeness and religion. It wasn't until he began English classes in school that his writing talent began to shine. After he graduated from high school Hemingway turned his back on university and he decided to move to Kansas City. It was there where he got his first job as a writer. He was a reporter for the Kansas City ...
- 2707: Supporting A Condom-Nation
- ... that condoms be distributed in schools, to promote the idea of safe sex. On the other hand, there are those who persist that the only type of safe sex, is no sex at all. However, high school students have a tendency to oppose the opinions and beliefs held by authority figures, namely teachers and parents. This sometimes leads to sexual experimentation, and without proper protection, there can be devastating results. The distribution ... an invitation for students to engage in sexual activities (Limbaugh 426). While his arguments and rationalizations are humorous and intriguing, they are extremely pessimistic and narrow-minded. Limbaugh also mentions a few instances in which school boards have denounced educating students on the topic of abstinence. Unfortunately, this has been the case in a minority of regions. It is not, however, taken seriously in the majority of the nation. He ...
- 2708: Casinos
- ... is by far not the only problem for compulsive gamblers. In the same two years the bankruptcy increased in South Dakota, the number of divorces increased nearly 6 percent. Also, child abuse and neglect are high among the crimes that compulsive gamblers commit. A study of the impact of casino gambling on Atlantic City and surrounding areas found that not only did crime spill over to surrounding areas which were easily ... poor and minorities. Studies indicated poor and working people spend a disproportionate part of their incomes of gambling. Some researchers have called gambling the fastest-growing teenage addiction, with the rate of pathological gambling among high school in college age youth about twice that of adults. In Atlantic City, the lure of gambling is so strong the over 30,000 underage people are either thrown out, or stopped from entering a ...
- 2709: Daycares
- ... learning process. A good daycare is a key to a child's development. They are structured to encourage a child to mix with others but also to acquire skills that will be useful in elementary school. Many parents believe that their child will get ahead start by forcing them to learn faster, which can set up unreal expectations. The most important aspect of daycare is that the child may acquire social ... daycare centres, are teaching the basics of reading and math to preschoolers. But many other centres reject this approach, since they feel that this puts too much pressure on the child and turn her off school altogether. For all ages, materials and toys should be on low, open shelves so children can decide for themselves what to use. Better still is evidence that children are incorporating materials into creative projects. Family ... tasks. It is important that the staff enjoys being with the children Parents should ask how long the teachers have been working at a centre and how much they are paid, because low pay means high turnover among daycare workers. It is also important to notice how the teachers interact with the children and how discipline is handled. Safety is a major concern for parents when choosing daycare. Best is ...
- 2710: Knowledge Building And Corpora
- ... to Knowledge Management studies. These are: ? Disparity in Work Benefit. Where there are differences in contribution leading to differences in cost and benefit in using the collaboration tool. As such where the cost are too high and benefit remote the collaboration is not likely to succeed. ? Critical Mass and the Prisoner's Dilemma problems. Meaning collaboration will not succeed until there is a critical mass of people using the toll. Also ... is rarely available. Solution. Deliotte and Touche, a management-consulting firm, developed an expert system. The major objective of the system is to provide advice on trade opportunities and licensing requirement s for medium to high technology products. The system started as an advisory service to the company s consultants. Now it is marketed for a fee to potential traders. Also the ES deals with export licensing requirements and provides a ... W. & H. Rittel, Issues as elements of information systems. Working paper No 131, Institute of urban and regional development, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. 13. Leonard Barton, Well Springs of Knowledge, p 119, Harvard Business School Press, 1995. 14. Lyn Griffen, P 4, An Exploration of Computer Supported Knowledge Sharing, University of Canberra, June 1998. 15. McGee J. V., Prusak L., Managing Information Strategically, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1993. 16. ...
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