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- 2191: Street Gangs: A Guide To Community Awareness
- ... child and actively discourage gang association. SIGNS OF GANG ASSOCIATION Parents should be aware of behavior changes in their children. Such changes include; a decline in grades, truancy, graffiti in the youth's room, on school folders or on clothes, wearing of certain style or color of clothes, breaking of curfew, change in friends, drug and/or alcohol use, or possession of money or items that a parent cannot explain. Involvement ... the problem are better equipped to address the issue with their child, as well as not becoming victims of gang crimes. Communities must recognize the problem and work together to solve the problem. Structured after school activities, employment, awards for good grades, community outreach and organized youth activities help lessen gang activity. Working with school and law enforcement officials aid in eliminating the anonymity that allows gangs to grow. Whenever graffiti occurs in your community, report it to law enforcement. Once it is documented, remove it quickly. If you ...
- 2192: To Kill A Mockingbird: Great Quotes by the Characters
- ... Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine I guess. You might here some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep your fists down." Page 80 Chapter 9 Talking to Scout: "Simply because we were licked a hundred years ... you couldn't remember too well, could you?" Page 189 Chapter 18 Talking to Scout: "Most people are (nice), when you finally see them." Page 284 Chapter 31 Talking to Scout: "I never went to school," he said, "but I have a feeling that if you tell Miss Caroline we read every night she'll get after me, and I wouldn't want her after me." Page 36 Chapter 3 Atticus ... Atticus." Page 94 Chapter 10 Scout (talking): "I'm scared.."Scared about Atticus. Somebody might hurt him." Page 149 Chapter 15 Tom Boy Scout (doing): "With this in mind, I faced Cecil Jacobs in the school yard next day: "You're gonna take that back boy?" Page Unknown Scout (doing): "Presently I picked up a comb from Jem's dresser and ran its teeth along the edge." Page 136 Chapter ...
- 2193: Drug Use Among Teenagers
- ... use is peer pressure. I feel that peer pressure does not cause drug use among teens. Most teenagers do not use drugs. Stop This Problem There are many solutions to this problem. Stricter laws, stricter school policies about drugs and alcohol ( a few months ago, a girl was suspended for a long period of time from school for having aspirin with her, a student at Cranston West came into school drunk, threw up, fell on the floor and was only suspended for only 7 days!!! ), crackdown on students that are constantly in trouble with drugs, have a strong faculty and police presence around all ...
- 2194: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huck Finn
- ... boy like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women ... beautiful women- -but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out too late that Tom's adventures are imaginary: that raiding a caravan of "A-rabs" really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday school picnic, that stolen "joolry" is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another ... in front of his face; his skin, Huck says, is white like a fish's belly or like a tree toad's. Pap's savage appearance reflects his feelings as he demands that Huck quit school, stop reading, and avoid church. Huck is able to stay away from Pap for a while, but Pap kidnaps Huck three or four months after Huck starts to live with the Widow and takes ...
- 2195: The Theory Of Education
- ... student is broken. Only hard work and an increased effort will restore the teacher s trust in their student. Schools should become a second home to a student. If a child is afraid of the school building itself, the child will feel intimidated while in the school and not benefit from their teachings as well as they could. The temperature should be comfortable during all seasons, for a classroom, which is either too hot or too cold, can become a distraction for the student. The school should not be too large, and classrooms should not make a student think twice about entering them. Chairs should be comfortable, and the temperature should remain a constant 70 degrees. A pleasant aroma, possibly ...
- 2196: The Hutu Tribe
- ... the Hutu are cooked bananas, maize, and millet. The staple foods of the Tutsis are dairy products, and agricultural foods that are bought from the Hutu. Only a minimal percentage of both tribes go to school. The children that go to school either go to a religious mission or to a public school. The way of life for the Hutu and Tutsi differs from our lifestyle very much. Right now the economy is in shambles because of the devastation of the long enduring civil war between these ...
- 2197: The Simpsons 2 -
- ... deals with middle class situations that the viewers can relate to. The family in the show consists of a middle class family with two parents and three kids. Both of the parents graduated from high school and that is the extent of their education. The dad holds a job at the local nuclear power plant. His wife is a housewife and the two kids attend public elementary school. Many of the problems seen in The Simpsons are similar to those, which occur to middle class suburban families. This would appeal to middle class families because they can identify with problems facing The Simpsons. In one episode Bart the eldest son has problems with school bully. He gets into a fight and is beaten up. Later his parents find out about his problem. His mom tells him to tell on the bully while his dad tells him to fight ...
- 2198: JFK Assasination
- ... on Main Street and then made a right on Houston. The motorcade went one block and then made a left-turn on Elm. On the corner of Elm and Houston was the large, ominous Texas School Book Depository, where the fatal shots were later accused of being fired from. When the Presidents car turned west on Elm and crossed the Depository, three shots were fired at the motorcade. The President ... the President. The 880-page report was submitted to President Johnson on September 24, 1964. The commission concluded that the three shots that killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired from the Texas School Board Depository. It also concluded that the bullet that pierced the throat of the President hit and wounded the Governor, as well. The report implies that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin based on the fact that he was seen carrying the rifle into the Texas School Book Depository and the rifle used to kill Kennedy was owned by Oswald. Also, the shots were fired from a window where Oswald had been seen standing in at the time of the murder. ...
- 2199: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... France had annexed the island. He had 7 brothers and sisters, and his father was a lawyer whose family stemmed from the Florentine nobility. His original nationality was Cursican-Italian. In 1779 Napoleon went to school at Brienne in France. There he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as ... did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him. Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army ...
- 2200: Life In The British Colonies
- ... reading and writing. At age 12 or 13, children might attend special town schools. After that boys went to college in Britain or in the colonies. At age 12 or 13, girls stopped going to school. There were no schools for servants or slaves. I think it must be very hard to work on a plantation beacuse it is hard to keep it running correctly. I am happy our country does not have slaves. I think that the girls should have been able to go to school to.
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