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- 301: Colin Powell
- ... while in New York not in Jamaica (source 1, page 20, 21). Colin Powell is a smart man. Surprisingly when he was in fourth grade he was in the slow class. When he attended Junior High School, he went to an all male school. He did well academically but he was over looked by his parents because his sister, Marilyn Powell, always did better. He attended Morris High School in 1950. He was good in high school; he ...
- 302: Ben Franklin
- ... of their children, always listened to the guests; he was a very bright child. Benjamin taught himself to read when he was only five years old. His parents wished that they could send Ben to school, but they were very poor. Once three very important men visited Josiah and told him of a new law which said that children must attend school. Josiah sent Ben to the Boston Latin School because the only expenses were books and fire wood. At the Latin School all the children were expected to learn fables by heart. The fables had lessons which the school master thought was an ...
- 303: A Seperate Peace
- In the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a man named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in an attempt to find an inner peace with himself. While attending Devon, his high school, during World War Two, Gene's roommate and best friend Phineas died partially because of an accident involving Gene. Phineas, otherwise known as Finny, was one of the more popular and athletic boys ...
- 304: Violence in Schools
- ... people being injured or killed in schools by guns ,Knives, bombs and other ammunitions, more and more people are getting more weapons to bring in to schools. According, to the survery taken after the in-school shootings nearly half of all males and one-third of all students including females said they could easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to (Glazer 14). The cause of violence can be blamed on ... and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since they came around violence have been increasing steadily. The spread of gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of school youths (Glazer 14). Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes (Apfel 21). Carrying guns and other weapons around schools is becoming more and more popular all around the world. People think that carrying guns ...
- 305: Educating Children About Sexuality
- ... 1. Turns to peers for information 2. Peers give false information C. Sex education is taught in many schools. 1. Quote(Natale 20) 2. Helps prevent several things II. Sex education classes being taught in school is a very controversial issue. A. Majority of parents are for it 1. Teaches abstinence 2. Warn of AIDS and other STDs B. More and more schools have sex ed classes. 1. Quotes(DeCarlo 1 ... 1. Quote(DeCarlo 3) 2. Quote(DeCarlo 3) B. STDs 1. Quote(DeCarlo 1) 2. Quote(Miller) C. Spread of AIDS 1. Quote(DeCarlo 1) 2. Quote(DeCarlo 1) D. With statistics such as these, school officials should demand that sexuality education programs be allowed and kept in their schools. IV. Several different types of school programs educate children about sex. A. Girls, Inc. 1. “Will Power/ Won’t Power” 2. “Taking Care of Business” 3. Prevention of teen pregnancy(Friedman 76) B. Postponing Sexual Involvement(PSI) 1. Teens teaching ...
- 306: Teen Workers
- ... norm and in fact there are many teenagers younger than fifteen who are already working at paying jobs. Some of these students are as young as 12 years old. More than half of the secondary school students have paying jobs. This number grows each grade level the student goes up. The number of hours also rises along with the grade level. The kind of job varies depending on the sex of ... or less seems to be the best and for most teenagers a schedule of 10 hours does not effect their academic performance, in negative ways but in fact seems to help them do better in school shown by improved grades. Those teens working 10 to 15 hours per week are in a toss up situation with some doing well while others struggle. It is at the 15 hour level that things ... at say a fast food restaurant tend to miss more scho ol. It has also been found that working more than 15 hours has not been proven to be a cause of dropping out of high school. Failure at school is the biggest reason for dropping out and the effect of failure at school can be but is not always caused by a student working. Most often the student who ...
- 307: Homeless Youth
- ... out on their own. Separating from parents and gaining independence are two central tasks that teenagers must overcome in order to become adults. Teenagers usually learn how to make this transition through either home or school. Unfortunately, there are some teens today that do not fully develop these two tasks before deciding to leave home. These teens are the teens that we see out on American streets today. Leaving home at ... journal article focuses on the barriers to educating homeless teens and mechanisms that are being created to assist in helping them to survive. Education is severely affected by homelessness. Most homeless adolescents do not attend school because they are unable to make it to school every day. This, in turn, causes teens to fall behind or fail classes. This causes them to end up dropping out of school. Schools are unable to help the homeless teen. Instead, they cause ...
- 308: Brown Vs. Board Of Education
- ... education. There were several events and issues which led up to this critical event. From the 1892 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case, the precedent of "separate but equal" was set. This doctrine effected the school system , in that there were separate schools for white and black children. These schools were constitutional as long as they were equal. In the 1900s, with industrialism in the forefront, the cities went through a process of ghettoization. This concept is crucial because it illustrates that people began to live in ethnic enclaves. These neighborhoods later effected where students would attend school. In turn, the quality of the schools were also effected depending on the area. In 1908, the case of Braya College v. Kentucky attacked the racially mixed school of Braya College in Kentucky. The state mandated that there be separate facilities separated by at least 25 miles. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling and Braya College was segregated. Then in 1931, the ...
- 309: Sleep Deprivation
- Plan: The federal government will provide local school districts with incentives to change the starting time of the secondary schools to a time that fits with adolescents biological need to sleep. Harms: SLEEP DEPRIVATION LOWERS THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS. A. The ... affects more segments of our society than adolescents; however, adolescents appear to be particularly vulnerable and face difficult challenges for obtaining sufficient sleep. Even without the pressure of biological changes, if we combine an early school starting time say 7:30 am., which, with a modest commute, makes 6:15 am the rising time with our knowledge that optimal sleep is 9 hours, we are asking that 16-year-olds go ... very late at night and not feel tired, whereas if they were to lie quietly reading a book, they would fall asleep in minuets. C. Teens need more sleep Mary Carskadon of Brown University's School of Medicine Contrary to popular belief, teenagers do not need less sleep than others. In fact, as they move through their teenage years, adolescents need increasing amounts of sleep. Reports show that teenagers need ...
- 310: Intelligence
- The increasingly difficult life for low IQ people is not caused by high IQ people, but by other factors. Segregation and tension occur across IQ lines by the nature of humanity and not by the implications of high IQ people. Let's face it, life is tough for everyone regardless of his or her placement on the intelligence scale. You're too smart, too stupid, too beautiful, too ugly, too hard, too soft ... may point out that their low level of g has been the cause of problems in life. Intelligence researchers have found strong evidence that suggests a higher success rate for individuals of higher IQ. "A high IQ is an advantage in life because virtually all activities require some reasoning and decision-making. Conversely, a low IQ is often a disadvantage…there are many exceptions, but the odds for success in ...
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