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- 531: Americans Take Their Education For Granted
- ... With seventeen years of formal education, a person can do almost anything he or she wants to do. Yet many in America take this for granted. Some American students today would rather not be in school. They would be much happier at home or going someplace with their friends. Once in school, many students forget why they are thereto get an education. Instead of going to classes, students might cut class or not even show up to school at all. I think our decreasing status as an economic super power can be attributed in part to the effects of this attitude. I believe there are two reasons behind this attitude--the lack ...
- 532: Abortion
- ... not to have a baby if she doesnt chooses not to have one. In some cases, abortions can save the life of the mother. Poor families greatly benefit from abortions. For those still in school, abortions give teenagers a normal life, and would help them succeed in school. These are reasons why abortions are good for the American Society. Abortions can save the life of the woman because a baby could cause a great health risk to the mother. This risk involves death ... children. Teenagers are more affected by having a baby these days than it would have been 100 years ago. There are more responsibilities for the average teenager, they have to study, work, and go to school for an entire day. This leaves almost no time to take care of a child. Also, the teenager would have to most likely support the child by herself. This alone is a greater responsibility ...
- 533: Alcohol An Issue Within Colleg
- Alcohol: An Issue within College Society Do you remember graduating high school? Remember all the questions you had to ask yourself. What are you going to do now? Do you want to work? Do you want to go to school again for another four years? These questions are eventually answered and some choose to find a job, and others figure out that going to college is probably a good thing. Now you have realized that ... constant drinking. It obviously has serious physical and mental effects on a person. According to Louis Joylon West, M.D., a professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine, the attributes that define an addiction, in this case alcohol, include craving, tolerance and withdrawal phenomena (West, 28). This is a problem that exists among men and women of all ages. Alcohol ...
- 534: The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
- ... commented in an interview that was published by People magazine (September, 1990) that the show was "the dumbest thing I've ever seen." In 1992, a group of parents in Greenwood, South Carolina, protested the school board's approval of the name "Springfield Elementary" for a new school being built there. ("Springfield" is the name of the Simpson's hometown.) The school board supervising Greenwood had sponsored a creative writing contest that would ultimately allow local students to choose the new school's name. The concerned parents group decried the choice saying that the character of ...
- 535: A Separate Peace: Finny How Things Change
- A Separate Peace: Finny How Things Change In the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a boy named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace. While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Gene's best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. Phineas, or Finny as he was sometimes called, was the most popular boy in school. He was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. Gene, on the other hand, was a lonely, self-sufficient intellectual. Somehow the two became good friends, or so Finny thought. Gene, unfortunately, was bitten by the ...
- 536: Affirmative Action
- ... of achievement with a culture of entitlement. The feeling of the absence of enthusiasm for achievement is illustrated by John O'Sulllivan editor of the National Review hen he said, "Restoring high standards in high school will take time; but it will not even begin until the corrupting influence of racial preference is removed". By not admitting under qualified minority students to America's premier universities, for example Stanford, hey have ... can. Studies done at the department of education how that Hispanics will leave college early due to scholastic pressure at a 2:1 ratio compared to Asian American and whites. Admitting students with lower high school grades and SAT scores decreases the chance of acceptance by better qualified applicants. The admittance of laws qualified students produces anger and frustration among students who have worked hard to uphold demanding standards and except ... obsolete. After 4 years of college the students should have a chance to catch up. Although antiquated, affirmative action is still predominant in acceptance to medical and law schools. The competition for acceptance to medical school is fierce. Students who ere a product of affirmative action were admitted with college grades below a 3.0 and MCAT scores under the 16th percentile. Caucasian or Asian American students with the same ...
- 537: Hate Crimes
- ... another occurrence where a hate crime took place against a man who was homosexual. The attack happened on July 7, 1984, when a man named Charlie Howard was chased down by a group of high school boys who were yelling at him, saying "Hey, fag!" As Charlie was being chased, he accidentally tripped over the curb and fell down onto the sidewalk. The high school boys caught up to him and started to kick and punch him. They then grabbed him and threw him over the side of a bridge into a stream. The next morning rescue divers discovered Charlie ... Prevention Act of 1998. This Act was put into legislation to "to prohibit intentional interference, by force or threat of force, with the enjoyment of a federal right or benefit (such as voting, going to school or employment) on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin." All of these Acts were put into legislation to prevent any type of hate crime. I believe that the tragedy that recently ...
- 538: Stephon Marbury
- ... In CYO ball he woofed at opposing coaches: I'm just killing your guards. Get someone out here who can stop me(Wolff, 62). By the time that Mr. Marbury was a Sophomore in high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, he had changed his act. He learned to treat everybody with respect and to be a professional person. He had also tattooed a panther onto his right arm. He said: "A panther is ... the American Broadcasting Company, "Nightline", profiled him. Mr. Marbury says: It's real hard for people to understand if they don't come from New York, I was scrutinized for every little thing. In high school, I was like what Michael Jordan is to the NBA. I had to be on top of my game every day. Everybody was gunning for me(Ryan, 54). Mr. Marbury met another high school ...
- 539: Basketball Needs to Be Fixed
- ... downfall of once great basketball programs. This is how it happens, colleges recruit players based on what their needs are or what they will need shortly in the future. So let us say that one school has a great core of sophomore and junior players for an upcoming season. The coaches do not have the need or the room for many new top notch players. So all of the top recruits ... let us say that the great core of players leaves for the NBA, leaving the team with mediocre players and a horrible season to look forward to. By the next recruiting period comes around, the school's reputation has been hurt, and so has their chances of landing the top recruits. This continues until the school's once proud basketball tradition is a thing of the past. This situation is not only hypothetical, schools like UNLV, Georgetown, Seton Hall, and Houston have all gone through this process and now find ...
- 540: ... from since a child, she knew she wanted to be a writer. She submitted her first story to a magazine at the age of 10 and made her first sale at 13. Throughout her high-school years, she wrote as a regular author for young people's publications, particularly the well known Seventeen Magazine. Duncan is best known for her suspenseful novels. She was drawn to this type of writing because ...
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