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- 371: Going To College As A Freshmen
- ... be severely mind boggling and frustrating, though at the same time can be an enjoyable experience. Going to college and making the right decisions are often extremely difficult for freshmen. Many students coming out of high school are accustomed to having everything done for them, so the first year in college is usually a "Reality Check". Choosing the right college, registering for the right courses, and preparing oneself as a freshman can ... a college is whether or not the college has a degree plan to help prepare one for their career. For example, if one's aspiration is to become a registered nurse, one should choose a school with a highly recognized nursing program. Many times students choose schools because their friends and family have gone to a certain school. Instead, they should choose a school that will help them achieve their ...
- 372: Vivisection
- ... including scientists and doctors, are questioning the suffering and killing of animals for the sake of human beings. Is it morally correct to dissect a frog or a worm for the purpose of educating a high school student? On the other hand, must "We study life to protect life" (1:131) The issue of killing animals for the use of biomedical research, education, and cosmetics can be referred as "vivisection". Twenty-five ... 107). Animals are also used to teach human concepts at all levels of education, to instruct students in biology, to teach certain skills, and to train the next generation of scientists (1:40). For example, high school students have been conducting frog dissections for the past fifty years. In some schools it is part of the curriculum. A fifteen year old, Jennifer Graham, refused to take part in the dissection ...
- 373: Winning for Zorich
- ... mother was babysitting other kids in the neighborhood. She would read to him and help with his homework and make sure his hand-me-down clothes were clean. chris's stuttering problem tortured him in school. In class one day he had to read an essay he wrote in front of the class. When he started to stutter he heard the kids starting to laugh he stopped half way through and sat down at his seat with anger inside him. When he got home that night he told his mom what happened and she helped him with the problem. At the end of the school year he wanted to read his essay to the class. When he got in front of the class he read through the poem and mumbled just a bit. When Zora was told she had severe ... mother went to very low extremes. Chris would got to bed at 6 p.m. so he would not be hungry at night time. He knew he would awake to a nice warm breakfast at school. When Chris was accepted to Chicago Vocational High School in 1983 the football coach asked him, if he wanted to be on the football squad. He started attending the afterschool football practice and enjoyed ...
- 374: Birth Control at Schools
- Birth Control at Schools Living in a society where birth rates among young adults are steadily rising, passing out condoms in high schools can be a very effective way to promote safe sex. Although passing out free condoms in schools has become a very controversial issue, this is a great way to start educating and promoting the ... safe sex. On the other hand, many parents and children think that passing out free birth control is only promoting and supporting children to have sex at an early age. The distribution of condoms at high schools may be very offensive to some parents and children. Although most children are required to take a sex education course at the high school level, some parents strongly believe that it is not the school's responsibility to teach their children about sex and birth control. Also, parents believe that there should be a heavier influence on ...
- 375: Creative Writing: The Chase
- Creative Writing: The Chase Alan and Dan lived in a small western town. They were good friends and had been for some time. The two high school seniors spent most weekends together. It was, however, a small town that they lived in, leaving them with nothing to do on a Friday night when there wasn't a party or sporting event. Saturday ... no plans for the evening. They drove back and forth, each suggesting who might be having a party tonight or what girls might be home. They were hardly lucky enough to find a girl from school home on a Saturday night. They were even less lucky when it came to the matter of getting a girl to ride with them. Mostly because when she would ask: what are we doing ...
- 376: Trench Coat Mafia And Society
- ... Opinion MANY FACTORS CAUSED OUTBURST OF VIOLENCE There is no single factor that caused the outburst of violence on 20th April 1999, in Littleton, Colorado. Blaming a single factor as the cause of the Columbine High School massacre is as ludicrous as a nation blaming an economic crisis on one person alone. There were many contributing factors that led to this massacre, and with that, an array of warning signs, all of which were ignored by most people. If people were searching for a sole factor to blame, it would be most appropriate to blame the lack of awareness of the Columbine High School community. The killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, talked about their love of guns openly at school and wrote death poetry during their English classes. Can t anyone see that such behaviour can ...
- 377: The Unemployment Rate
- The Unemployment Rate Introduction The unemployment rate became a hot topic in the past few months when it rose to 3.5 per cent, a recent high for almost 10 years. The jobless rate was higher than the 3.2 per cent unemployment rate recorded in the May to July period. The underemployment rate in the June to August period rose to ... a large number of employees have been laid off in the retail and restaurant businesses. Unemployment has spilled over to the service sector from manufacturing sector. Hong Kong is facing a prolonged economic downturn. The high unemployment rate has raised many social and economic problems. For example, the number of people who commit suicide is increased. It is because more people had lost their jobs for a long time. It is a serious threat to the lives of the poor. The unemployed people may also feel that it is unmeaningful to live. As a result, they will commit suicide to solve the problem. Moreover, the high unemployment rate results in the increase of the rate of crime. There was an unemployed man who stole rice because he was too hungry and he did not have money to even buy food! ...
- 378: Australia
- ... members also elected by popular vote, but for a six year term. One half of the Senate is elected every three years. Voting is compulsory at 18. Supreme federal judicial power is vested in the High Court of Australia in the federal courts, and in the state courts invested by Parliament with federal jurisdiction. The High Court consists of seven justices, appointed by the Governor-General in Council. Each of the state has its own judicial system. The Constitution This document was drawn up in constitutional conventions in the 1890s and ... by the Australian Information Industry Association estimates that they could rise too more than $8 billion by 2000. Strong export growth in services has significantly lowered the deficit in the national services account. Running as high as 1.6 per cent of GDP in the 1970s, it had dropped to 0.3 per cent by 1993-94 and a continuation of present trends would bring it into surplus by 1995- ...
- 379: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... the university of Virginia. The university had opened the year before, after, what was said, forty years of planning, and now had 177 students. Edgar was proud to attend to the University and he had high ambitions in language. He took ancient languages taught by George Long, and modern languages taught by George Blaettermann. Edgar was an excellent student and his translations were remembered as "precisely correct". He studied French, Italian ... age for attending the university was about nineteen years back in 1830, while Edgar was only a month past seventeen. The student life was chaotic and at times even dangerous. During a riot in the school's first year, masked students threw bricks and bottles at the professors. During Edgar's year, seven students were expelled or suspended for high-stakes gambling. The violence and chaos took up much room in the surviving letters Edgar sent to John Allan. In the letters it could be read that one time a student was struck on ...
- 380: A Separate Peace And A Real War
- ... Gene appears to omnisciently understand the reality of war and how it effects people. Throughout the entire story Gene is used to bring in the destructive reality of war into the everyday life at Devon High School where there is an attempt to create, and exist in, a separate peace. There is however quite an opposition to this reality-known by Gene-that is headed by Genes best friend Finny. Finny ... a force that is indomitable. The first game Finny invents is "The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session." This game consists of jumping of the limb of a tree into the river by Devon High School. As the game is invented both Finny and Gene agree to get it started they must jump out of the tree and in to the river first. Finny allows Gene to jump first. ...
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