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- 1001: Down With Community Service
- Down With Community Service Dear Editor, I have recently read an article in the newspaper that concerned young people doing community service after they graduate high school. It stated that they should do two years of community service. I disagree with the article for many reasons. Many people will agree with me about the community service matter. I recently spoke to the counselor of my school about the subject of community service. He said that most young people mainly think about going to college and getting a job after they graduate; therefore, they would not have any extra time to do ... been doing a survey about the subject matter for a few days, and I have come up with some interesting results. It seems that eight out of ten students that are about to graduate high school are planning to go to college after they graduate. I also asked them about doing community service. Most of them said that they would be getting a job, and they would not have time ...
- 1002: Things Fall Apart
- ... carved elephant tusk, which was a sign of great dignity and rank” (pg.179) by Akunna. With this earned admiration he was able to open not only a town store, but a hospital and a school as well. He pleaded for the clan to send their children and all others who wanted to, to attend his school. At first everyone was reluctant to explore this new option for education. Those that chose to attend Mr. Brown’s school would not only learn how to read and write, but they would also learn how to fight back against those that would come in and try to conquer them. With this insight and the ...
- 1003: Red Dress
- The short story "Red Dress" by Alice Munro is about a young girl's first high school dance. Her home and school environment determined her attitude towards the dance. This girl's home life was bad. She was constantly put down mentally by her mother, even in front of her friend Lonnie, to the point that the ... her attitude towards the dance understandable. When Mason Williams comes to dance with her, she describes dancing with a 'nobody' like her was "as offensive to him as having to memorize Shakespeare." The narrator's school life was just as bad if not worse. She would never be sure of herself when she is called up to the blackboard. Her "hands became slippery with sweat when they were required to ...
- 1004: Calamitatum Of The Individual
- ... war." (p. 58, ll. 7-9). This is remarkable for the son of a soldier to make such a choice - even renouncing his inheritance - and pursue only intellectual advancement. Leaving home, he traveled off to school in Paris. He was welcomed for a short while, but soon found disfavor with his teacher Champeaux, the grand master of dialectic at the time, by refuting his arguments and proving himself several times to ... his individuality. One of his intellectual rank finds it hard to conform to others' standards, and naturally becomes a spectacle when showing his skills. This early conflict caused Abelard to leave and start his own school. Unfortunately, he could not maintain it and had to return home. Years later he was teaching in Paris again, he tells us how pupils flocked to him from every country in Europe, a statement which ... present calling, but I did not wholly abandon the instruction of the profane arts in which I was better practiced." (P. 77, l.31) - "This aroused the envy and hatred of the other heads of school against me." (P.78, l.5) It would seem that Abelard's extreme individuality led him into trouble no matter where he turned, or what endeavour he undertook. When he did apply himself to ...
- 1005: Benjamin H. Latrobe
- Benjamin H. Latrobe was born in 1764 in Fulneck, England. He was raised in England. As a young man Latrobe was taught at the Morvian school in Fulneck. This was where Latrobe received a base for his further education. After Morvian, he transferred to Nieski school in Germany. There he received an impressive education. Which was composed of a broad curriculum. He was taught in all the liberal arts and also classical and modern languages. Latrobe started his career training under ... three architects were very influential. They all helped mold and create Latrobe's architectural style. During this advancing time period in architecture there were mainly three distinct styles of architecture. The first style was Old school. This style was strict Palladianism which was inspired by Palladio himself. The second school was Roman in origin and had a lot of functional space and had a lot of decorative detail. Latrobe found ...
- 1006: Teen Pregnancy
- ... what they want to prevent arguments. The teens sometimes have no parental supervision and have the home all to themselves for hours at a time. Teens are able to take boyfriends or girlfriends home after school and do as they please. They even let their friends bring their girlfriend or boyfriend over. Parents can prevent their teens from having sex for a little while(teen sexuality 20). Birth rates are continuously ... up. After the baby was born and adopted the teen would then go back home from "vacation" and never tell her friends or anyone else (pregnant too soon 23). Now teen moms show up at school to show off their new babies (preventing teen pregnancy 3). Now if teens get pregnant and their parents don't want them in the house or there is just no one there, teens have somewhere ... t make a right. Teens generally are going to argue and may live in poverty. This is not always for the best (preventing teen pregnancy 1). Teen moms that get married usually drop out of school and stay home with the baby. Some may have another child in the future and may eventually get divorced. Many teenage girls are left with no diploma, no job skills and the babies (pregnant ...
- 1007: Adorno And Horkhiemers Dialect
- ... becomes mechanized. They also assert that class domination is a direct and inevitable consequence of the attempt to dominate nature, and is therefore inescapable. Background to the text. Adorno and Horkheimer, members of the Frankfurt school in Germany, wrote DoE (which was completed in 1944) while Fascism, a kind of barbarism never seen before, was threatening Europe. They viewed this as the epitome of the self-destructive nature of enlightenment, the ... philosophy to discard even the last vestiges of innocence in regard to the habits and tendencies of the spirit of the age (p.xi), hence the intensity of their critique. Being part of the Frankfurt school, Adorno and Horkheimer were influenced by Marxist theory. Their critique can be seen as a generalization of the Marxist critique of capitalism to the whole of civilization#. Stalinist Russia, the Fascist threat in Europe and ... of criticism that follows from the negative dialectic. It is briefly dealt with on p.24 of DoE. # I should mention that Habermas, who was a student of Adorno s and member of the Frankfurt school, does not accept Adorno s solution. He believes Adorno is being too nihilistic in [continued next page] allowing no way to escape instrumental rationality. Habermas s main philosophical project has been to resolve this ...
- 1008: Peer Pressure
- ... they are around every day, and often in order to fit in with a group they do things that they know are wrong, mean and dangerous. This may include vandalism, bullying a fellow teen at school, or getting into a vehicle with a drunk driver.3 Three of the most common peer pressures teenagers are faced with, are drugs/alcohol, smoking, and bullying fellow teenagers. All of these are difficult to ... of people around Goodsoil smoke, because they think it will make them seem cool, older and mature. The third most common form of peer pressure is bullying, and I see it almost every day at school. Bullying is when someone says or does something mean to a fellow person on purpose, usually in order to boost their own self esteem. Sometimes it’s just little things, like making fun of an ... lives have been ruined. Recently, reading a YM magazine, I found an example of the different kinds of peer pressure, all mixed into one. It told the story of a young girl, Laura. All throughout school, she remembers being teased and constantly bullied by her peers at school. When she was in grade nine, she began hanging around with a girl, Donna. Laura thought Donna was really cool, and she ...
- 1009: The War on...Dress Codes
- ... freedom of speech, a freedom granted to all citizens by the 1st Amendment. This is just one of the many reasons why students should be able to dress almost any way they want to in school. Expression of one’s self is very important in all of our lives. Lots of us want to color our hair green or blue and get showing body piercings and tattoos. Many schools all over the country allow this type of fashion in their classrooms and they have very few problems associated with it. So if it’s not causing a problem at those schools, why doesn’t our school allow it? Some say that it would be a distraction to the students’ education. In reality, that probably wouldn’t be true. If everyone was allowed to dress anyway they wanted to, the student body would get used to see that sort of clothing and it would become just another part of going to school. Actually, most of the time, any problems caused due to clothing are usually due to someone stealing someone else’s expensive clothes, such as Tommy Hilfiger, which we are allowed to wear. Numerous students ...
- 1010: Negative Effects of Television on Today’s Youth
- ... supported by field studieswhich have shown the long-range effects of televised violence. A study at the University of Illinois found that children who watched many hours of television violence when they were in elementary school tended to also show a higher level of aggression when they became teenagers. By observing these youngsters until they reached the age of thirty, it was found that the ones who had watched a lot of television when they were in school were more likely to be arrested or prosecuted for criminal acts as adults (Feshbach 233). The number of children that have access to these violent acts is astonishing. In 1950, only 10% of American homes ... spend more time learning about life through media than than through any other manner. The average child spends about twenty eight hours a week watching television, which is twice as much as they spend in school (Boyatizis 98). One of the most mind-boggling facts is that the average American child will witness over 200,000 acts of violence on television, including 16,000 murders, before the age of 18 ( ...
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