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- 741: Family: Good or Evil?
- Family: Good or Evil? If I were to go and interview 15 elementary school teachers about deviance, I bet at least half would say that the family is the problem behind social deviance. If I would have asked the same question 10 years ago teachers would have said "peers ... society nowadays that experiences over 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, things have definitely changed. Most children live in one of three environments in today's society: single parent, latchkey (they come home from school and nobody is there), or they have both parents. Most probably are in the first category, however, and this is very said. When living in this kind of environment the child only has one role ... s boyfriend. The 15-year-old was not thinking she just wanted to get away from the situation. By running all she did was made the situation worse, because when she returned and went to school everybody started calling her a "hooker." This happens more times than not with these children running it does not solve anything; it just makes the problem five times worse. Any kind of violence or ...
- 742: Animal Cruelty Leads To Human
- ... United States, states that “Researchers, as well as the FBI and other law enforcement agencies nationwide, have linked animal cruelty to domestic violence, child abuse, serial killings, and to the recent rash of killings by school-age children.”(2) I found yet another web page listing some reports from police case files. I was astonished! These are a few excerpts from that page. ***WARNING*** (graphic details) "Russell Weston Jr., tortured and ... as the cat/kitten struggles to free itself as the noose gets tighter with each attempt. Later killed 2 officers at our Nation's Capitol." "Jeffery Dahmer loved to dissect animals (he learned this in school). Later he dissected boys, and kept their body parts in the refrigerator. Murdered 17 men." "On May 21, 1998 in Springfield, Oregon; 15-year-old Kip Kinkel set a live cat on fire and dragged the innocent creature through the main street of town. He walked into his high school cafeteria and opened fire on his classmates. Two classmates were killed and 22 others injured, four critically. Later that day, police found his parents shot to death in their home." "Prior to committing multiple ...
- 743: A Separate Peace: Comparison and Contrast Between Book and Movie
- ... that the movie was a novel before it was a movie, are similar and dissimilar at times. Both take place at Boys Schools, although the air surrounding both schools are not quite the same. One school is dedicated to preparing its students for college and the other was simply a school for boys, a place where mothers sent their sons to be educated without letting them be entangled by the outside world. The climates of the two schools were similar in the fact that they had ... Summer Session, while the members of the Dead Poets Society seemed to prefer the colder climate. Speaking of the SSSS, the time at which the story of Devons students begins is a sort of summer school, while the beginning of the story of the students of Wellton begins on the first day of school. Some of the events that happen between the two schools have similarities, but even in the ...
- 744: I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- ... embarrass Marge at an opera together. ("Toreador, oh don't spit on the floor. Use the cuspidor. That's what it's for." Bart sings along with the opera Carmen.) Soon at Bart's old school, Springfield Elementary School, Bart's graffiti is roped off and tagged, "The Principal. By Bart Simpson. IQ 216." Bart's friend no longer like him, they refer to him as Poindexter. The kids at his new school trick him into giving up his lunch. In frank, Bart is miserable. Then, after turning himself green in an uneducated science experiment, Bart reveals to his new principal that he cheated on the test. ...
- 745: Movie: The Paper Chase
- ... the movie, "The Paper Chase", would have to be when Kingsfield says, "You'll come in here with a scull full of mush and leave thinking like a lawyer." This movie should teach a high school student that going to college demands a lot more than the "easy street" they've been riding in high school. The movie teaches that you need to be able to put up with the arrogance of the rich and uppity people that attend an Ivy League school. They are very expensive and most students come from wealthy families. "The Paper Chase" teaches the viewer that law school is very stressful; it is a way of life not just going to school; ...
- 746: Donald Trump
- ... middle class homes in Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn for GI’s returning from World War II. The Trump family was very wealthy but despite their money, Fred Trump demanded his children’s success in school. Donald’s parents were always teaching them the value of money. Even though they did not have to, all of the children worked. The girls worked in banks and the boys worked with their father ... various construction sites. Donald was not the best student and was a handful for teachers. At the age of thirteen, Donald was not meeting his parent’s expectations so he was sent away to military school. He did Latini 2 well at the military academy, both socially and academically. Trump had become a star baseball player while in school and had also become a student leader for his graduating class. In 1964 Donald graduated from military school and was offered a chance to try out for a major league farm team. Remembering his ...
- 747: American Values of the Freedom of Speech and the Press
- ... Freedom of Speech and the Press American's have many different values they hold close to them. Some of these values are the amount of money they are making, their job status, their popularity in school and in other functions, and a good education. The biggest value Americans have is the Freedom of Speech and the Press. The value we get from the freedom of speech and the press is enormous. It allows us to understand what is happening in the world and to share our feeling's on certain subjects. This statement was tested in one court case about a student in a high school in Pine Forest, North Carolina in 1971. The students name was Charlie Quaterman, his crime was that he published an underground newspaper that he handed out in school. The school suspended him for ten days and had him on probation. He refused to let the school stop him from telling others what he and his classmates thoughts on things. In one of ...
- 748: TLO vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid?
- ... I rule in favor of the petitioner, the state of New Jersey. In this case, I found no reason in the claims made by TLO and her defense. They claimed that the search conducted by school officials was unconstitutional. These officials were searching her purse for cigarettes, which she was caught smoking in the bathroom. During the search for the cigarettes they found the cigarettes, rolling papers used for making joints ... because she was violated of her rights promised in amendment 4, unlawful search and seizure. Yet, the incriminating items were found at the same time as the cigarettes, and given reasonable cause for suspicion, the school does have the legal right to search its students, and finally, the school officials had the right to search her purse because there was a reasonable doubt of her claiming to innocence being true. TLO's 4th amendment rights were however, in fact not violated due to ...
- 749: Censorship
- ... a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school's selections. And in public libraries, parents were once again the single greatest source of challenges to materials. The world is filled with "obscene" things. And it would seem that those parents are just trying to protect their children from the outside world. But does it really help? These day, an average elementary school student knows many things. They are influenced by a wide range of sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and school, their personality and their background. Why they read ...
- 750: The Presidential Election of 2000
- ... is to come. Over the years he has championed the idea of choice in public education, has lobbied for tax credits on money used for tuition and the expansion of charter schools in Minnesota, a school choice program for low-income families in Washington, D.C., and an amendment to the New Hampshire state Constitution to block court imposed tax increases. He supported California's Proposition 227 that gave parents the ... fund to reward states for improving student performance, supports establishing a reward fund that will reward schools that show the greatest improvements in student achievement, supports empowering parents with information by requiring states to publish school-by-school report cards with annual test results. Governor Bush's plan supports increasing choices for parents in the education of their children by allowing federal funds to be used for public and private school choice ...
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