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- 2011: Violence on TV
- Violence on TV What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a major source of violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the ... viewer into a hypnotized nonthinker (Langone 48). As you can see, television violence can disrupt a child's learning and thinking ability which will cause life long problems. If a child cannot do well in school, his or her whole future is at stake. Why do children like the violence that they see on television? "Since media violence is much more vicious than that which children normally experience, real-life aggression ... and television violence has been conducted. All of the results seem to point in the same direction. There are undeniable correlations between violent television and aggression. This result was obtained in a survey of London school children in 1975. Greensberg found a significant relationship between violence viewing and aggression (Dorr 160), In Israel 74 children from farms were tested as well as 112 schoolchildren from the city of Tel Aviv. ...
- 2012: Character Change, Illustrated
- ... M. as he eats the yam, "You right, but everything what looks good ain't necessarily good," he said. "But these is." (Ellison 264) For I.M. this is nothing but the absolute truth. The school and the founder and Bledsoe, who all seemed to be nothing but the good were all masks of deception. I.M.'s yam however is good. It reminds him of who he is and where he came from. It also makes him think of the people at the school collectively. Stating how he would like to smear the faces of his school mates with the peel of his yam, he also show how they would react to simply being confronted with a stereotype that was actually true. What a group of people we were, I though. ...
- 2013: An Asian American In America
- ... have a future, an education and a good job. After years of hard work, I am on my way to achieving my goals and in the process, my parent’s goals. I graduated from High School and I am a freshman in the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in the College Now program. I am planning to major in Business Administration in accounting and hopefully succeed in that. I am planning ... anything to achieve it. I have a strong sense that I can accomplish what ever is set forth on me and accomplish it well to. At the moment I am running for the office of School Committee in Fall River, a position I felt that I could excel in. I decided to run because I am sick of complaining about how schools are not making the right decisions for the students ... this time I am also going to take night courses because I want to earn my Master Degree. Since I will owe a lot of money I will be working full-time and going to school part time. I will probably go to finish my master in Business and Administration in Northeastern University or Boston University.
- 2014: Social Class Action Research
- ... of this is given in the Jean Anyon article on Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work. The article deals with different social class schools ranging from the working class, middle class, affluent professional school and executive elite. The article is a good example of the types of social classes. I felt the students in the working class schools are not given near the opportunity as the students in the professional and executive elite schools. The teachers seem to be more like drill sergeants in the working class schools, whereas, the teachers in the elite schools gave the students an opportunity to challenge themselves. “School experience in the sample of schools differed qualitatively by social class. These differences may not only contribute to the development in the children in each social class of certain types of economically significant relationships and ... know and understand the American social classes. I feel most of us learn our own social class from family and peers. It is clear that social class enters into almost every aspect of our lives, school, marriage, business, and even government. References Anyon, J. (1980, Winter). Social class and the hidden curriculum of work. Journal of education, 162, No. 1, p. 225. Golden, M. (1996). The big connection. In J. ...
- 2015: Just Trying to Help
- ... not just the members of my family, but for any person, or group of people, that is discriminated against, led to a problem I encountered a few years ago during my sophomore year in high school. My high school is predominantly white, with a few Asians, and very few black students. One of the few black students, Kaasa, happened to be in my phy-ed class during the first semester of my sophomore year ... believe he needed me to stand up for him. At the time I didn’t agree with how Kaasa reacted, but now I understand why he was upset. Kaasa just wanted the people in our school to respect him as a person, rather than one of the black kids. He thought that I only did what I did because he was black. He asked me if I would have done ...
- 2016: Popular Guy
- ... season, after all it was our homecoming game. As I got into my car, my watch read 7:53 and I had to pick up Thomas at his house at 7:55 to go to school. When I arrived at his house he looked at me in a harsh way. We drove almost half way then Thomas started to speak out. “Hey man I can’t believe it today is the ... is the biggest rivalry west of the Mississippi. Anyway the point was to treat it just like any other game, and not let the massive crowds get to you. As I was driving around the school Thomas was looking for a parking spot, we saw the girls over in the corner looking at us like we were gods. “You know why they are looking at us right” busted out Thomas. Yeah ... over. We lost! That buzzer rang in my ears the entire bus ride back home. That next morning I woke up like I did everyday and I drove to pick up Thomas. We drove to school and something felt different there were no girls all around us and people didn’t look at us the same way. “It’s gone man” “What is?” “The power” “What power?” “You know the ...
- 2017: Beloved: Sethe's Motivation For Killing Her Baby
- ... that her show of mercy is also murder. Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the stubburn nature of her actions. Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. I wasn't going back there[Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead"(Morrison 42). Sethe's words suggest that she has made a stand by her refusal to allow ... saying is that's a selfish pleasure I never had before. I couldn't let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn't let her or any of em live under School Teacher. That was out"(163). Sethe's love for her children is apparent, yet she still shifts the burden of responsibility away from herself. She acknowledges that it was a "selfish pleasure" to make something ... was clean.”(251) Sethe's words suggest that the only part of herself that she cares for is her children. Indeed, the only reason that she killed her daughter is because Sethe refused to let School Teacher or any other white person "dirty" her children as Sethe herself had been dirtied. Sethe's nobility, however irrationally predicated, is apparent. She loves her children to much to let them be tarnished ...
- 2018: Brave New World Summary
- ... little Polish boy who lived with his "father" and "mother," two words that hit the students' ears with much more force than obscene words hit your ears today. Would you be shocked if your high school principal, a middle-aged gentleman who spoke correct English with a proper accent, used a carefully enunciated obscene word during a school assembly? That's how the students feel when the Director utters those unmentionable words. In the Director's story, little Reuben Rabinovitch discovered hypnopaedia by hearing in his sleep a broadcast by George Bernard Shaw ... a virtue. Some of them surely thought promiscuity meant happiness, as Huxley's characters do, but they had grown up with the idea that it was wicked. Today, many teachers and clergymen claim that high school and college students are promiscuous, but Time magazine says that Americans in general are becoming less so. "Promiscuous" is a word that can make you feel a connection between the real world and Brave ...
- 2019: Relations Between Canada and Japan
- ... were closed to Japanese Canadians. Therefore, many Japanese turned to agriculture as the only industry which was open to them. With the severe discrimination many Issei (second generation of Japanese Canadians) sent their children to school in Japan, but for those who could not afford this luxury, Japanese language schools were established in many communities in BC. Over time the as the Japanese communities grew, the Nisei (third generation of Japanese ... sent to a concentration camp in Angler, Ontario. One hundred percent civilians, guilty of no offense against national security, they are put behind barbed wire, subjected to forced labour and required to wear special issue uniforms-the circles on the men's backs are targets in case of escape attempts. By July, 1942, the BC Security Commission decides to allow evacuation by family units and married men are allowed to rejoin ...
- 2020: My Friend T.W.
- My Friend T.W. T.W. Gerron and I met in the fifth grade when I first came to Cooper High School. We weren’t in the same home room, but we were friends from the get go. I met him on the soccer field my first morning. I will never forget it because he outran me ... last ten years of our relationship, all in one short paragraph. We were, as I said, the best of friends pretty much throughout elementary and junior high. We started running with different crowds in high school, but still remained friends. Our senior year arrived and T.W.’s parents had just gone through a divorce. T.W. became a little less conformist and a little more rebellious which made us running ... thousand and one stories that I could tell, and even more that I can’t. It’s not to hard to imagine what it was like being seventeen and the only two kids in high school to have their own place. A lot of partying, a little studying, and a whole lot of financial difficulties pretty much sums it up. God, those were the days. T.W. now is a ...
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