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- 121: The Different Types of Students
- The Different Types of Students As I walk through the Paradiso arch everyday on my way in to school only to notice the students that attend my school. Everyday I realize that our school is divided into many different cliques in other words groups. From the 1,800 students that attend our school many are involved in a variety of activities that our school has to offer but ...
- 122: Indian Boarding School
- ... emotions revealed effectively. A poem of that story would be like the inside of the shell. It personifies situations, and symbolizes and compares emotions with other things in life. Louise Erdrich's poem Indian Boarding School puts the emotions of a person or group of people in a setting around a railroad track. The feelings experienced are compared to things from the setting, which takes on human characteristics. Louise Erdrich was born part German, part American Indian. Since the title and other references in the poem refer to Indian people, it is most likely that this poem was very personal to her. The boarding school may have been a real place she went to, or where mistreatment of her people was not uncommon, or it could simply be a tool she used to express racism towards them in general. With ... physical in nature. Train tracks on a face are hard to imagine, so it leads us to believe it has some deeper meaning. This reveals that the children want to run away from the boarding school for more serious matters than just good old home-sickness. The "old lacerations" may represent wounds on their own faces, internal or external. Visually, train tracks look like wounds that were stitched and scarred. ...
- 123: Prayer In Schools
- ... deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."(Matthew 6:9-13- Bible 1427) This is the sound that filled classrooms across the nation, beginning each school day in 1960. Since then, prayer has been banned from the public schools. Although prayer in any religion promotes peace and abstinence and gives students a peaceful start on their day, it is still considered ... diverging from God and is perishing in iniquity. The prayer issue has rapidly changed in the past three decades. For numerous years, after the ringing of the bell, the Lord's Prayer, or a short school written prayer, was recited throughout the classrooms by all students, teachers, and administrators. Students learned their alphabet by quoting scripture. "A" was not for "apple"; "A" was for "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Proverbs 15:1-Bible 983). However, in 1960, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an atheist, started to fight against the school prayers in public schools (Merritt 1C). She believed that making students pray was a violation of the first amendment. In 1962, prayer in public schools was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (1C). It ...
- 124: HITLER, MUSSOLINI, STALIN
- ... of six, two important incidents occurred in the life of the young Hitler. One was that the unrestrained, lighthearted days he enjoyed up to now had come to an end. Hitler had entered a primary school. The second occurrence was that his father retired on a annual support from the Austrian civil service. This meant that young Adolf had been under the watchful eyes of both his teacher at school and his father at home. His father, Alois, was used to giving orders and having them obeyed from his kids because of his occupation in the civil service. Therefore, he was very strict. Alois Hitler never had a pleasant relationship with any of his children. Hitler was said to have a really good singing voice and took part in his school's choir. He also was a very smart boy, doing well in school. Hitler was very religious, idolizing his priests. At age nine, he was caught smoking a cigarette by one of his priests ...
- 125: My Autobiography
- ... my Mom, John and I because he had to begin work right away and we didnt have a place to stay in Virginia yet. In September of 1987 I began kindergarten at Waterloo Elementary school. On October 1st my Mom had a doctors appointment in York because my second baby brother was on his way. I went with my Mom because my Dad had to work and wouldnt be ... baby brother, Scott was born on October 22, 1987. Finally after coming back to Virginia after being here for about 10 months before going to York for Moms doctors appointment and only being in school about a few days, I returned back to school after missing it for a month. I did just fine and moved on to the first grade after having a great summer vacation. During summer break I was riding my big wheel around my ...
- 126: The American Classroom: Making it work for the Native American
- ... multicultural education in order to meet the needs of students to survive in the 21st Century. It is estimated that nearly 2% of the American population is Native American, and of that approximately 35% are school-aged adolescents. Unfortunately many schools are failing when it comes to meeting the needs of these students. In order to provide the best education for a Native American student an understanding of Native American culture ... of predicaments that other ethnic minorities do. Native Americans continue to have one of the highest dropout rates of any ethnic group. According to a 1983 study Native American students tend to drop out of school for four different reasons: "(1) an uneven application of school rules; (2) factors pertaining to teacher student relationships, for example teachers not caring about students and not providing sufficient assistance; (3) disagreements with teachers; and (4) the content of schooling, what the students perceive ...
- 127: Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work," these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott those businesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in Northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment of black children. The black protest activities of the 1930s were encouraged by the expanding role of government in the economy and society. During the administration of ... black rights. As early as 1938, the courts displayed a new attitude toward black rights; that year the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri was obligated to provide access to a public law school for blacks just as it provided for whites-a new emphasis on the equal part of the Plessy doctrine. Blacks sensed that the national government might again be their ally, as it had been during ... in the North and West used their economic and political influence to support civil rights for Southern blacks. Blacks continued to work against discrimination during the war, challenging voting registrars in Southern courthouses and suing school boards for equal educational provisions. The membership of the NAACP grew from 50,000 to about 500,000. In 1944 the NAACP won a major victory in Smith v. Allwright, which outlawed the white ...
- 128: Newfoundland
- ... and a mother who encouraged her to study. Stella began teaching at the age of 17, but the massive poverty she encountered led her to reconsider her career. In 1922, she attended Methodist National Training School for Missionaries and Deaconesses in Toronto, majoring in social work. Returning to St. John's in 1938, she worked with the United Church developing programs in social welfare, including a community centre for domestic workers ... that of the arts. Newfoundland women have a deep history in the islands cultural heritage. One such example is that of Dora Russell. Dora Russell was born in Change Islands, educated at Bishop Spencer School and studied for two years at Teacher's Summer School after Grade 11. She began teaching in St. Mary's Anglican School in the West End of St. John's in 1933, but resigned when she married in 1935. For the next ten years, ...
- 129: Under The Influence
- ... at least one half year of kindergarten. Sister Candida would not accept Celestine because she hadn t attended kindergarten. Then there were Celestine s encounters with Mrs. Hoffman at the Church of Christ United Separate School (C.C.U.). Mrs. Hoffman disliked Indians, perhaps, because her husband had had an affair with one. She heard about it and left her husband for a couple of weeks. Celestine had arrived late to ... Fire builded in Celestine as she struck Mrs. Hoffman on the cheek and slashed her ear. As Mrs. Hoffman cried out, Celestine fled. This resulted in Celestine s expulsion from the C.C.U. Separate School. Later, Celestine, her mother Mona Lafluer, and her grandmother, Bella Deer, had planned to see the principal, Martine Sorenson. Mona went to a lawyer to get a legalized view on the situation. The lawyer said that the Human Rights Act did not apply to personal school clashes. It also stated that the principal could only expel those whom they considered to be unmanageable. This discouraged Bella and Mona but they were still determined to help Celestine. Being rejected for first ...
- 130: Single Sex Education
- Single Sex Education? Why would anyone want to go to an all girls' school? This is a question I have often pondered. Can you imagine school without the obnoxious comments from boys, football games, and gossiping about boys? This doesn't sound like a lot of fun, does it? You girls may think about this and decide there are no advantages to an all girls' school, but in reality, all girls' schools have many. Believe it or not, having boys around is not the most important factor in our education. In fact, boys in the classroom are actually a setback. ...
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