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- 511: House On Mango Street 2
- ... her family lives in a run down house on Mango Street, but most likely the best place they have ever lived. Esperanza had to get a job in order to go to a private Catholic high school. Catholics do not attend public high schools. Also Esperanza s father said, Nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad. (53). Esperanza s job was at a photo shop that her Aunt had once worked at. ...
- 512: A Critical Look At The Foster Care System
- ... They are often defined by the system whose door they happen to enter: a welfare child if he comes through that door; a juvenile justice child if he happens to come through that system; a school system child; or a mental health child." Once that label is attached, however, the funding stream may continue to flow, even after a child leaves one system for another. The former Governor testified that when ... of floor space; children hogtied in State juvenile training schools in Florida -- wrists handcuffed, ankles handcuffed, then placed stomach down on the floor, and wrists and ankles joined together behind their backs. In the training school in Oregon children were put in filthy, roach-infested isolation cells for weeks at a time. In the Idaho training school, children were punished by being put in strait jackets, and being hung, upside down, by their ankles.[2] Children continue to be assigned labels arbitrarily, and often on a bed-available basis. A recent ...
- 513: Sex Discrimination
- ... they are sixty five. Sex discrimination is not only present within the older generation but is also evident throughout the entire age range. Before legislation was passed in the 1960's most young girls left school after O-levels to receive a strong social message that their careers where already setup for them as marriage and motherhood (Pascall 1995: 2). The only jobs they would be getting were tedious low paid ... as the hierarchy of management positions increases, the amount of women in these positions decreases. This quite clearly means that woman do not hold the prestige and influence that men do, as their sector of high ranking jobs is so small. We've all heard men say at some point, "I just don't understand women", yet there are only 5 woman High Court Judges out of 91 men and 28 women circuit judges out of 496 men in the Judiciary in 1993 (Pascall 1995: 2). Thanks to media attention women do have access to careers. In ...
- 514: The Bulgarian and Soviet Virus Factories
- ... too) to pay the good programmers well... Besides MURPHY, these two virus writers have created another virus, called SENTINEL (5 variants). The only unusual thing with this virus is that it is written in a high--level programming language (Turbo PASCAL), but is not an overwriting or a companion virus as most HLL viruses are. It is able to infect COM and EXE files by appending itself to them and by ... according to his own words. He is currently writing anti--virus programs --- and rather good ones. 2.6) The two guys from Varna. ----------------------------- They are two pupils (V.P. and S.K.) from the Mathematical High School in Varna (a town on the Black Sea). They have developed several viruses and continue to do so, producing more and more sophisticated ones. Furthermore, they intentionally spread their viruses, usually releasing them on ...
- 515: ADOLF HITLER
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative ...
- 516: Teens and Smoking
- ... a personal choice, and usually exploratory in nature. Typically, it takes place in rather young people and is largely dependent on: first, the availability of opportunity to engage in the behavior, second, having a fairly high degree of curiosity about the effects of the behavior; third, in finding it a way of expressing either conformity to the behavior or others (such as parents, older siblings or peers), forth, as in "Miller ... nation's health objectives, particularly a smoking prevalence of no more than 15% by the year 2000. When comparing the use of alcohol, cigarettes, and other drugs, only cigarette use did not decline substantially among high school senior among 1981 to 1991. In contrast studies performed by "household survey" by the NIDA and the CDC, (Centers for Disease Control) in 1991 and 92 respectively, suggested that the strongest influence on teenage ...
- 517: The Blind And Deaf
- ... cannot distinguish one color from another. Congenital blindness means that someone is born blind. Everyone else who is blind gets it from disease or injury. Disease causes about 95% of all blindness. There are a high number of diseases that can cause blindness. Some of these are as follows: Cataracts, Diabetic, Glaucoma, Macular degeneration, Amblyopia, Corneal opacity, and Trachomia just to name a few of the many that exist. many kinds ... a sonar device that is in a pair of glasses. These glasses send out sonar that reflects back sound. There are also many other types of glasses made to help the partially blind. The first school for the blind opened in 1784. Today more that 60% of blind children go to regular day school. Some go to special classes and others go to seeing classes. Many blind students go to college. There are many institutes that will educate blind people and even help them find jobs in the ...
- 518: Should Steroids Be Banned From Society?
- ... These substance's teenagers use are a toxin produced by the plants to keep animals, and humans, from eating them. Though steroids are a form of the natural male hormone testosterone, they are far more high in concentration then what are bodies produce naturally. This high concentration is no doubt toxic to our bodies, and can result in harmful side effects. At an early age, anything such as drugs are going to have an increased effect. Most teenagers are unaware of ... 235). Neil Carolan warns us, "Even a brief period of abuse on a child whose body and brain chemistry are still developing is extremely harmful and possibly permanent." The deaths related to steroids of several high school athletes each year is more than adequate cause to ban steroids. Consequently, if professional athletes are taking steroids, then a young high school athlete may go under the misconception that steroids are harmless. ...
- 519: Memoirs of a Mountain High
- Memoirs of a Mountain High It was the summer of 94 when I took a Wilderness Leadership Semester from the Colorado Outward Bound School . Needless to say that it was the most emotional, challenging, and rewarding experience that I have had in all of my 19 ears of existence. One week spent running the Upper Green River in western\Colorado and northern Utah. Through The Gates of the Ladour Canyon and Dinosaur National Monument, we floated to end where the Green meets the Colorado River just beyond Echo Canyon. The high desert canyons echoed with rapids ovarious classes; Hells Half Mile and Disaster Falls were the most memorable. Upon completion we headed to climbing camp in Wyoming at a place called Vedauwoo (va-da-vu). ...
- 520: Gender Inbalances In School
- Gender Inbalances In School The science and engineering professors job is to educate. They are placed in the position of authority and told to educate the people. The people, are the students of the University of Rhode Island. When the school is broken down by gender I imagine that there equal if not greater numbers of females than males. But when the individual colleges are examined there are great imbalances. Is it their fault that there ... been many women scientist maybe their attitudes would change. If female students are not encouraged at a young are like theyre male counterparts then they my loose interest. If teachers at the grammar and high school level increased support then there attitudes may change. As we have talked in class, the types of computer games that kids play effects the way they learn. Females respond differently than males do ...
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