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- 2731: Rebellious, Risk-Taking Youth
- By: Katie Illidge E-mail: blinkchick1513@excite.com Results of a recent study suggest that rebellious, risk-taking kids as young as 11 are more likely to smoke by the time they reach high school. According to the report, children who demonstrate these personality traits in the 5th grade are most likely to smoke in the 12th grade. Targeting smoking in high school students is important since studies have shown that adolescents who smoke daily in the 12th grade are likely to become established smokers as adults. Results of the study, published in the March issue of Preventive ...
- 2732: Compare And Contrast Essay Of
- ... lazy by doing nothing, and by no other way. You were not born lazy. Habit gradually forms our character. For Mill can also show us a sensitivity to moral experience when distinguishing between the inductive school (which asserts that the first principles of morals are to be established through the use of observation and experience) and the intuitive schools (without appeal to experience). It becomes obvious that Mill agrees with the inductive school of morality because he spoke of the need for a social reform, particularly an educational reform, so people can begin to habitually appreciate the mental and higher good. In this, both Aristotle and Mill mean ...
- 2733: Sexism
- ... is everywhere. But man have always been superior and I think it will stay this way for a while. I see more sexism than I thought ever existed. If u look in colleges in law school or doctor school there is a very low number of woman and high percentage of men. I think people see it as this "business world doesn't need women". In my generation, there arise the same sexist beliefs ...
- 2734: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... and received a musical education. Later, Bell and his two brothers assisted their father in public demonstrations in Visible Speech, beginning in 1862. He also enrolled as a student-teacher at Weston House, a boys' school, where he taught music and speech in exchange for instructions in other subjects. Bell became a full-time teacher after studying for a year at the University of Edinburgh. He also studied at the University ... became his father's partner in London in the following year. He specialized in the anatomy of the vocal apparatus at University College in London at the same time. In 1872, Alexander opened his own school for teachers of the deaf in Boston. The following year, he became a professor at Boston University. Bell won the friendship of Gardiner Green Hubbard, a Boston attorney at this time. Hubbard's daughter, Mabel ...
- 2735: Education: Equal Opportunity?
- ... help, and develop the capalist order in society. Education was used provided to train people with knowledge of information in a fast growing capitalist society. Making the people knowledgeable enough, to apply skills learned from school into the capitalist order. The second reason why education was mandated was because many different races and social background would provide fittings of the varied economic opportunity in society. Creating equal opportunity in education would ... at an early age to help support their families. They simply do not have the time to attend higher education. The issue on IQ does not dramatically affect how long an individual will stay in school. Based on the data by Samuel and Valerie Nelson, on the Educational attainments of people with childhood IQs and socioeconomic background. The data concluded that family socioeconomic class does influence greater years of schooling. IQs ...
- 2736: Catcher In The Rye - Boys Will Be Boys
- ... digested, though" (51). In taking the independent route, Holden does not look for sympathy or help from either of his parents. He feels that he can deal with his situation by waiting until the next school year in order to apply himself a little better. Another characteristic of a teenager, usually of the male gender, would be the widespread subject of sex. As everyone knows, during and after puberty, males have ... problems that they face day to day, and in the novel it is apparent that Holden is drinking so that he can stop thinking about the fact that he has gotten expelled from yet another school" (Barr 93). Drinking is a major issue in the world today with such dangers of binge drinking and drinking and driving. Holden, like the typical teenager is also curious about drinking. The media clearly exploits ...
- 2737: Gangs
- ... not concerned with the blood, but rather with the pain the victim must feel. A young mind does not make this connection. Thus, a gore fascination is formed and has been seen in every elementary school across America. In a study conducted in the Cleveland Ohio school district, teachers found that students become more attentive as blood and gore are introduced. Unfortunately kids raised with this sort of television end up growing up with a stronger propensity to becoming a violent gang ...
- 2738: The Hype: Television
- ... than they were for their ancestors. Why? What has changed so much over the last fifty years that have driven families apart and crippled the American Dream? The answer is obvious. It is obvious at school, at work, and at home. Consumerism. In the last twenty years, there has been a rapidly increasing trend towards mass consumption. We are no longer a nation that places our families ahead of other priorities ... destiny. We have the power, the remote control, to stop the spread of "stuff." One way is to teach the young not to watch television, but specific programs. Another way is to develop classes for school students to show them how television is not real and should not control their lives. We are the creators, but we are not in control. The responsibility is ours to correct the situation. If not ...
- 2739: Should The Internet Be Censore
- ... make a bomb, how to hi-jack a car, and how to use a gun, as well as almost anything and everything imaginable. This can lead to serious or deadly results. Rebecca Fairweather, a high school graduate of 1999, does not agree with this. In the Detroit News she wrote that Rather than trying to prevent these actions, adults must try to keep youth from feeling desperate enough to commit such ... a way to get what they want no matter what obstacles adults put up against them. (Fairweather) Many schools still are required to use a filtering program to censor the research that students do in school. The Board of Education in New York City has installed a filter on its computer system that blocks students from gaining access to any web sites that include categories like news and sex education. Even ...
- 2740: Edward James Hughes
- ... earned a reputation of a prolific, original and skilful poet, which he maintained to the present day. Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in Yorkshire into a family of a carpenter. After graduating from Grammar School he went up to Cambridge to study English, but later changed to Archaeology and Anthropology. At Cambridge he met Sylvia Plath, whom he married in 1956. His first collection of poems Hawk in the Rain ... other critics find some of Hughes' poems being under Heidegger's influence (ibid.). I. Varnaite also notes that the poet's worldoutlook is a complex one and cannot be one-sidedly simplified to one philosophical school. Among possible influences she mentions folklore, myths and religions other than Christianity. However, drawing parallels between Hughes's work and Schopenhauers's philosophy, she writes that, to both of them, animate and inanimate nature have ...
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