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- 2081: The Arrival Of The Internet
- ... increases human interaction, because of online chat forums and e-mail. A number of precautions can be taken making the Net Relatively safe. Precautions are good, but nothing is totally safe. Children walk home from school everyday, parents struggle through traffic to get home after work. These everyday actions have a certain amount of risk. A child could be abducted on their way home from school. Parents could get into a car accident coming home. The point is, If we were able to make the net 100% safe it would be the first time we ever made anything totally safe. Vehicles ... 1998, October 20) Call of the Web: Internet addicts' lives revolve around their connection. The Detriot News pg. 76-80. * http://www.detriotnews.com* November 17, 1998. Llanos, Miguel (October 21, 1998) Internet Acadamy finds school niche. MSNBC News *http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2152647,00.html* November 11, 1998. Quittner, Joshua. (1994 February 27). Cracks in the Net. TIME pg.. 42-45 *http://cgi.pathfinder. ...
- 2082: Distribution of Condoms is Unnecessary
- Distribution of Condoms is Unnecessary A few of my high school friends, are thinking about having sex with their boyfriends, but are too embarrassed to go to the store and purchase a condom. They think it would be much easier, if the schools just made condoms available on campus. Should schools offer free condoms to high school students? No, they shouldn’t. If schools offered free condoms to high school students, it would legitimize and promote sexual behavior among teenagers. It would also increase the number of teenage girls getting pregnant, as well as the number of teens engaging in sex. Each year, more ...
- 2083: Porn on the Internet
- ... far away from children's reach. Still, there is one thing that many parents do not think about putting away. It is the computer. Although the computer is mostly used for helpful things such as school work and business work, it can be manipulated to show vulgarity. Sites that contain pornography can be linked to with ease. These sites can be seen whether or not the child is purposely or mistakenly ... use for their children by purchasing and installing a program that filters out pornography. Surprisingly, there is an unlimited amount of pornography on the Internet. Search engines that most kids use for gathering information for school projects are the tools that anyone can use to connect to the pornography sites. Some search engines that teachers recommend to studnts are www.yahoo.com, www.aol.com, and www.gateway.com. However, once ... act of sex. Another topic that a child can type into the search box to find links to pornography sites is "farm animals." When a child is assigned a project about farms and animals for school, he or she is most likely to use the computer at home to gather beneficial information. One will wonder how the topic, "farm animals," could associate to pornography. Astonishingly, the links gathered by the ...
- 2084: Machiavellianism
- ... people expressing themselves in any way because it is intimidating to them. People will do whatever they have to do to get rid of individuality. This is why many schools put a policy of mandatory school uniforms into effect. Censorship is simply a way for the government to keep people from standing up against them and getting in their way of gaining power when the time for the inevitable New World Order ...
- 2085: Is Television Good Or Bad?
- ... a resource that is not used to the full extent that it could be. Television programs that educate are scarce and those that do educate are often on during the day when children are at school. Television stations should organise their programs so that the education shows are shown when children get home from school (3:30 - 4:30) so that the children will be able to learn while enjoying themselves at home. Schools often use television as a way of educating students because on television, they can demonstrate many things that cannot be done in the classroom, and often show things that cannot be experienced in the country or area where the school is located. I think that this is an excellent use of television and more use should be made of it in education, because it offers many advantages to classroom teaching. The drama serials on ...
- 2086: Teen Suicide 2
- ... is left of his father's once magnificent flock of sheep. He holds the rifle used to execute the remaining sheep. He thinks of all the pressure on his family and the constant teasing at school. He raises the gun and without thinking fires. When his father finds the young man's body later that day, he is horrified. The farmer thinks to himself, why didn't I know this was ... which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm." Shaun Lukes, a researcher into youth suicide, sites daydreaming, acting as the class clown, hyperactivity and the sudden dislike of school and/or a dramatic fall in school performance as pointers to potential suicidal behaviour. The main risk factors in suicide attempts are heavy alcohol consumption; depression; Aboriginality; previous attempted suicide attempts; significant fall out in a relationship in recent months (a ...
- 2087: Brett Favre
- ... Favre. He also grew up in this small town where he was as the second oldest of his family. His parents were Irvin and Bonita Favre. Both his parents worked at Hancock North Central High school. Irvin, being a teacher, baseball coach and football coach, and Bonita was a special education teacher. Brett loved to play football all his life. In fifth grade he decided which position he wanted to play ... with his brother playing football in college and his father being a coach, he loved the game. He has the same posters, and the same dreams and heroes as most kids of today. In high school he played quarterback as he decided he was going to do when he was young. He not only played football, he also played baseball. He earned five letters in baseball (he led team in batting all five seasons) and three in football at Hancock North Central High School. He went on to college at Southern Miss. He holds 16 records for being a quarter back at this college. A car accident held Brett from finishing his senior year of college football. The ...
- 2088: Alchemy
- ... alchemy was in many ways the predecessor of modern science, especially the science of chemistry. The birthplace of alchemy was ancient Egypt, where, in Alexandria, it began to flourish in the Hellenistic period; simultaneously, a school of alchemy was developing in China. The writings of some of the early Greek philosophers might be considered to contain the first chemical theories; and the theory advanced in the 5th century BC by Empedocles ... an artisan could duplicate this process in the workshop. Efforts toward this goal were empirical and practical at first, but by the 4th century AD, astrology, magic, and ritual had begun to gain prominence. A school of pharmacy flourished in Arabia during the caliphates of the Abbasids from 750 to 1258. The earliest known work of this school is the Summa Perfectionis (Summit of Perfection), attributed to the Arabian scientist and philosopher Geber; the work is consequently the oldest book on chemistry proper in the world and is a collection of all ...
- 2089: Bill Gates
- ... was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. ATrey, as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and mother, a former teacher now on several prestigious boards (Moritz, 238). At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking a computer studies class. After scoring a perfect 800 on the mathematics half of the SAT, he graduated from Lakeside school and enrolled at Harvard University as a pre-law major. As a student Gates was a wonder. He received an A in an economics class without attending and cramming the night before the final exam ... their total retail value amounted to less then $200 million, and the term software had not yet been coined. (Manes, 2) Bill first laid a hand on a computer in 1968 while in junior high school. The computer business was rapidly transforming at this time, and so was Bill Gates. He saw the real profitable side of computers was not their hardware. Rather it was the software end of the ...
- 2090: Hacking
- ... eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world...Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers expain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid ... from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... you bet you ass we're all alike... we've been spoon- fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak.. the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that ...
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