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- 891: An Introduction To Greekdom
- ... express purpose of catering to and providing support for black college students who had no actual support system of their own at their institution. The fact that this organization was founded at an Ivy League school should not be overlooked, rather emphasized. Within the next 18 years, seven other black greek organizations would begin, forming what is now known as the "Elite Eight." They are (in order of founding date): Alpha ... just the media as the executioners. Teenagers are creating clubs in their high schools and calling them fraternities in an attempt to get to that point all the sooner. Even when I was in high school, I was in a club called the Nasty Boys, and we had a mock pledge process. I even remember during that process willing to go through with what we did because I knew I would ... do the same thing in college when I pledged a fraternity. What we did then was nothing like what some of these kids are doing today. It has all gotten out of hand. These high school clubs are using paddles, doing real brutal things that either they heard about on the news, or heard from someone who was in a fraternity or sorority. To give you an idea of just ...
- 892: American Families
- Changing American Families The children are leaving for school just as father grabs his briefcase and is off to work. Meanwhile, mother finishes clearing the breakfast dishes and embarks on her day filled with PTA responsibilities, household chores, and preparation of a well-balanced ... white children whose parents remarry will see the second marriage dissolve during their adolescence. (Hamburg, 1996) With all of this, family matters get complicated very fast. Let's take the instance of Paul, a high-school student. Paul's parents, Mary and John get a divorce. John moves in with Sally who already has two boys. Mary meets Jack, who is divorced and has three girls. When Mary and Jack get ... decreased from more than four people (2 parents and 2 children) in the 1940's to a little over two in the 1980s. A recent long-term study conducted by Princeton University found that elementary school children from divorced families, especially boys, on average scored lower on reading and math tests, were absent more often, were more anxious, hostile, withdrawn, and were less popular with their peers than their classmates ...
- 893: African Women
- ... their brother because he getting an education is more important than her getting one. Lindy Mieza once said, "If you look at our country, it is the women who are the first to dropped at school to give places to their brothers." Girls in Africa get a second class education. Many girls have dropped out of school because they were raped and need to take care of their babies that have no fathers. "I once went to school, but then I was raped and had a baby." A fourteen year old girl told a reporter. Women should be able to go to school just like men but, "Only the wealthiest girls are ...
- 894: Condoms A Good Idea
- ... of their actions. Tatum assumes that one of the areas, in which teens are most likely to waver in the common sense department, is in sex. The Committee on Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics believes: School condom availability programs, whether as part of comprehensive health services provided at the school site, or in the context of a school based HIV infection/AIDS prevention program, can help remove barriers to contraceptive use by teenagers and can help establish condom use as a norm for expected responsible behavior, thus encouraging both peer and cultural ...
- 895: Islam Mosques
- Mosques A mosque is a Muslim s house of prayer. Mosques are not only the center of religious prayer among Muslims but also the center of the Muslim community in the area. However, Muslims feel it is not necessary to pray in mosques, Mohammed taught that Prayer can be held anywhere to Allah. Muhammad also taught that whoever builds a mosque will go directly to heaven because it pleases Allah greatly. Mosques usually contain a place for washing and enriching oneself, ...
- 896: Pay For Student Athletes
- ... is the issue of whether student athletes should be paid or receive any form of monetary compensation. The NCAA rules committee has stood strong on its stand that athletes who receive scholarships should go to school and should not need any more money to support themselves. But students and some coaches think their rules are to harsh and the NCAA should pay student athletes or let them find ways to make ... College athletes should not be paid the extravagant amount of money that the professionals are paid. They are amateurs and should be treated as so. But small amounts of money to help them through the school year should be allowed. It would be too much to ask of athletes to hold jobs, go to school full-time and play college athletics. By paying them they would help them out greatly. People argue that by paying college athletes, it would blur the line between professional sports and amateur sports. But ...
- 897: A Public Relations Proposal Fo
- ... is something that needs to be avoided and prevented. It is important to note that the promotion to this public will be done in an educational capacity, and will be accomplished with the assistance of school officials. The 65 plus audience is a minor public for this campaign. Although they are not an audience that the campaign is directly targeting, the 65 plus audience can nonetheless benefit from the information they ... reference, recipes and safety procedures to handle eggs. *Educating in the schools - information kits on healthy eating, good/bad cholesterol with an emphases on the eggs will be sent to U.S. schools, educators and school nutritionists. School nutritionists will be encouraged to plan meals that include more egg dishes. Schools will also be encouraged to include information on the health benefits of the eggs when lecturing students. This strategy will be ...
- 898: Learning Disabilities
- ... disciplinary team that utilizes a variety of standardized instruments, informal tasks, and observation is an important part of verifying the existence of learning disabilities. 3. Why do some learning disabilities not show up until high school? A student with a high-average or superior intellectual level may maintain grade level performance in elementary school, but develop academic problems in higher grades. Some professionals feel baffled because if a child doesn't show early academic problems, it seems unlikely that LD is the reason for later problems. Other professionals suggest that a capable student may develop sufficient compensations in the easy school years to make acceptable grades, but become unable to manage when faced with the note taking, longer reading assignments, foreign language requirements, and similar demands in secondary and post-secondary schools. 4. List 10 ...
- 899: Pain
- ... many things go wrong, or if one major thing in someone s life goes wrong. These things are meaningful and the misery involved is optional. An example of this could be someone who goes to school, but doesn t work, fails, and consequently ends up without a job, and feels miserable. This situation could have been avoided, if the person had worked hard at school. This demonstrates the fact that misery can be due to major losses or failures. Therefore even though insignificant causes of pain are inevitable, the things that mean the most can be maintained, and misery is ... usually occurs when something that means a lot to someone goes wrong or sometimes never materializes. A good example of this would be the example of someone who felt miserable because they dropped out of school and ended up jobless. To avoid this misery they could have stayed in school. In this case the person had an option, but it would have meant working hard and enduring some pain or ...
- 900: Pay For Student Athletes
- ... is the issue of whether student athletes should be paid or receive any form of monetary compensation. The NCAA rules committee has stood strong on its stand that athletes who receive scholarships should go to school and should not need any more money to support themselves. But students and some coaches think their rules are to harsh and the NCAA should pay student athletes or let them find ways to make ... College athletes should not be paid the extravagant amount of money that the professionals are paid. They are amateurs and should be treated as so. But small amounts of money to help them through the school year should be allowed. It would be too much to ask of athletes to hold jobs, go to school full-time and play college athletics. By paying them they would help them out greatly. People argue that by paying college athletes, it would blur the line between professional sports and amateur sports. But ...
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