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- 351: First Amendment
- ... effective means for people to use their freedoms effectively to bring about change from the government. Freedom of speech is constantly being challenged as is evidenced in a recent court case where a Gloucester County school district censored reviews of two R-rated movies from a school newspaper. Superior Court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students' rights because it limits editorial control of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. A newly proposed bill (A-557) would prevent school officials from controlling the content of student publications. Critics of the bill ...
- 352: The Life of My Grandfather
- ... eyes open, or twice with their eyes shut. The loser would get the peg out of the ground with their teeth. "I guess that is where the name 'mumble' came from", my grandfather laughed. Starting school when he was around seven, Robert attended a school named Bethal Elementary School. This school was heated by coal, and Robert recalls a time that his brothers were picked to go get the coal from the coal shed. The coal was kept in a shed to keep ...
- 353: School Uniforms
- ... they build class integration, increase our image in the community, and dress the students for business, not play. Jesuit Prep needs to continue this vital dress code and hair restrictions for the future. Having a school full of students wearing the same clothes and hairstyles helps build an integration within the class. Students that wear many different styles of clothes all come together wearing similar pants, shirts, ties, and shoes. Through ... always be more trusting with people who fit that image. Within everyone's life, there is a time for fun and a time for business. While some people wait until they are well passed high school before they prepare for business, Jesuit is in the forefront preparing students now. This preparation stems from the dress code and hair restrictions which are enforced by Jesuit Prep. When a coat and tie are ...
- 354: To Kill A Mockingbird -
- ... is the first to adventure there. He is dared to go up and touch the side of the house. He does that and thus ends chapter 1. After the summer ends, scout has to start school. She meets her teacher, Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline learns that Scout knows how to read. This upsets Miss Caroline because she doesn't want Scout ahead of the others. She tells scout not to read ... Cal tells her that Walter is her guest and no matter what he does, she needs to respect him and keep quite. The story begins to develop in chapter 4. Scout is passing home from school, and sees two oak trees in the yard. She looks, and sees some foil sticking out of the knot hole. She grabs it and finds two pieces of gum. She quickly rams them both in ... when Jem comes home he tells her to spit it out. He said that she doesn't know where they've been. She tells him where she found them and on the last day of school, they both pass by the house and they see more foil. The grab it and run home. When they get home, they open it and see a purple velvet box with a minuet catch. ...
- 355: Education In Developing Countr
- ... country's lack of educated workers. It is no question that much of Africa is still under development, and education is one of its biggest hurdles towards economic growth. Although the percentage of children in school has risen from 25% in 1960 to over 60% now, the number of children not in school is still continuously rising. The two journals from The Economist both agreed that education is the first step towards development and economic growth. Both the World Bank and the IMF has demanded an increase in ... terms of development. With better education, companies will be willing to invest and its skilled workers willing to work at home rather then draining the country's manpower by leaving. Africa In the article "No school, no future" published on March 27th, 1999 in The Economist it states that there has always been a universal belief in education in Africa, that it will provide them and their children a better ...
- 356: Farewell to Manzanar
- Farewell to Manzanar School and gender are two focal points in shaping an individuals' character outside of the home. At school, children see other children and how they look and act, oftentimes, for the first time ever. This is the beginning of peer pressure, kids strive to fit in and be liked by the other kids, which leads to them changing themselves to act in accordance with the majority. Gender roles are another part of fitting in at school. Boys want to fit in with other boys and girls want to fit in with other girls. In most societies, characteristics of boys, generally speaking, are physical strength, athletic ability, and seemingly endless energy. ...
- 357: Bauhaus
- ... the designers of the Bauhaus, this was the beginning of a rewarding struggle" (qtd. Brodie). In 1919 an institution called the Bauhaus was formed in Weimer. Walter Gropius was appointed as the head of the school. He had three goals that he wanted his students to achieve. Artist and craftsmen were accepted into the program in an effort to get them to work collectively to combine all of their skills. Secondly ... architects created affordable and modern housing. The buildings were built from tax money for the workers. Although the workers disliked the new classical form social housing that the Bauhaus had designed. (Jackson). This set the school up for failure in the community. The Weimer community also thought the students were extremely radical in their appearance and behavior. The fact that women were aloud in the school and the classes were not segregated was a very modern step for the school. This influenced the women to wear their hair short and dress modern. They were being viewed as being too radical ...
- 358: Pesticides Are Affecting Our F
- ... persist in dust, and those used on lawns, gardens, and nearby farms end up in soil and are brought into peoples houses by shoes and pets. Pesticides are occasionally used in our childrens schools to contend with cockroaches and ants in cafeterias, classrooms, and rodents in waste storage areas. While at school, children come in contact with dust particles and surfaces such as carpets, books, and plastics that could have pesticide residues. This means that even if pesticides are sprayed after school hours, children are still at great health risk. In the following two cases such an event has become reality. In 1993, chlorpyrifos and dichlorvos were applied for ant control in North Powellhurst School in ...
- 359: Harry Potter And Censorship
- ... minds are banned, then a little part of their education is stolen from them. With every theft of knowledge the future is too robbed of possibility, and these days books are being pulled off of school shelves faster than ever. "From 1991 to 1994 the number of formal demands for the removal of books from public and school libraries has increased by more than fifty percent (Staples, 1)." At this rate America's libraries will soon have devastatingly small children's sections without any real literary content. Without people in our society who ... many libraries across America. While the language in Harry Potter is neither offensive nor harsh, the story about a young wizard and his adventures at Hogwarts is considered satanic and evil by many adults, and school districts. Although the book does in fact deal with wizardry and sorcery of an unearthly nature, it has very clear characterizations of good and evil. Many school districts however do not care about good ...
- 360: Arguments On Desegregation
- ... whites, and initiated on the basis that blacks were inferior and undesirable. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. When blacks allowed themselves to accept their status at the separate school, the effect on their personalities was perpetually worse than any problem they might encounter in an integrated school. This element became a prominent part of the legal case against segregation (Stephan 9). The biggest argument against desegregation was the perception that blacks were not as intelligent as whites. Since the Fourteenth Amendment did not guarantee the right to a quality education, if a school chose not to accept them, there was nothing that could be done legally. Long after the "separate but equal" doctrine became law, it was clear that blacks were indeed separate, but they were not ...
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