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- 2741: Seatbelts and Airbags: They Save Lives!!!
- ... yet we still do not wear them because they are uncomfortable. We don't think about what can and will happen if we don't wear them. Seatbelts should be worn at all times. On school buses that seat more than 24, however, seatbelts are not present. They should be!!! Even though the seats are high and they look like they will stop someone from flying forward, the passengers on the ... the amount of people per seat but wouldn't you rather have people to fill the seat with seatbelts than to fill a seat without seatbelts? I think so! We don't need airbags on school buses. The idea seems impractical for two reasons: #1. The seat in front of you slows you down in the first place. #2. Where would you put them? Why can't we just accept the ...
- 2742: Things Aren't Always What They Seem
- ... but also from Hispanics. People tend to open up in front of me, because some of them think I am Anglo- Saxon and do not know Spanish. I can recall the first day of summer school, my first day of work, and the time that Anglos' stare at my girlfriend wondering why I left their race for a hispanic girl. My first day of summer school was a day I will never forget. As I walked into my class the students just looked up at me and stared as if I was a portrait. In a polite manner, the teacher told ...
- 2743: Teen Smoking
- ... retired in 1997, after it was used for a bad example for cigarette marketing aimed at children by critics, including President Bill Clinton. I had a recent interview with a student at Worth County High School. His name is Scott Ferguson. He was a former classmate and a friend. He smoked while I was in high school. I asked him did he still smoke, and he said that he did. I asked him for how long and he said that he had been smoking since he was thirteen. I asked him what ...
- 2744: Norms
- ... time I was needing something different. I did not want to be called normal, and I did not want anyone to look at me as normal. However, when everyone else in Junior High and High School are trying not to be normal, the norm becomes what we are trying to make it not be. That didn't bother us any because we thought we were different. We did not look like ... mores and folkways, and sanctions. Formal norms are what is written down and often take the form of laws. Formal norms were not what we were out to change in Junior High, but in High School we tried to do a lot of that. There were informal norms which told us it is not right to call names, but you won't get thrown into jail simply for violating an informal ...
- 2745: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, and Violence
- ... so he does. Then the rest of them follow." In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year. In the novel, Holden Caulfield ... an early age so that kids won't make any bad or harsh mistake which they will regret when they are older. Sexual education is something that either the young person will learn about in school, on their own or their parnets will discuss the matter with them. Remember, ignorance is not the key in this matter, as mentioned earlier. Violence is something that will always be around. There is no ...
- 2746: The Bluest Eye 2
- ... the actual story but there is also an omniscient narrator who tells us about the character's lives. The book starts in the fall of 1940 and Claudia and Frieda have just gone back to school. Their family is having some troubles paying the bills so they rent a room out to Mr. Henry but then find out that they will have another guest soon because Pecola Breedlove is going to ... of all the other students and teachers. Claudia, Frieda and Maureen are walking home together, even though Claudia and Frieda don't like her, when they see Pecola getting harassed by some boys in the school yard and they rescue her. Maureen tries to befriend Pecola but only to torture her some more. Frieda stands up for Pecola but then Maureen makes a comment on how the girls are black and ...
- 2747: Education Through The Television
- Education Through The Television "TV is justly called `the boob tube'." I disagree, in my opinion, television has many positive and informational uses. Television is now being used more in school because it is proven that students remember and comprehend better than from a regular class lecture. Television has always been good for spreading the news of current world events but it is now being used for more educational and informational documentaries. Television is becoming more and more an educational essential for children. Before they start school, children learn many basic and fundamental tools from television. Most kids learn the alphabet and how to count from shows like Sesame Street and Barney. As children get older there are many story-telling shows ...
- 2748: Richard Marcinko
- ... s top installations. Richard Marcinko was the ultimate rogue warrior. First, born Thanksgiving Day, 1940, Marcinko was from a poor, broken home. He was always very independent, having a paper route at five and cutting school classes regularly. At the age of fifteen, he got a job at a local restaurant. At the age of seventeen, he quit school and joined the Navy. After two years as a teletype clerk, he convinced his Commanding Officer to send him to UDT, Underwater Demolition Team, training. Later, in June 1966, he joined Seal Team Two and ...
- 2749: Robert E. Lee
- ... He was fortunate in becoming a Cadet at the Institution at a time when the Superintendent was Major Sylvanus Thayer, the man who started West Point on its way to fame as a military training school. He was the second to graduate in a class of 46. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Engineering Corps, a division of the Army which at that time received only ... he was ensured his connection with the college would not injure it in any way. Lee's friends and relatives were shocked at the idea that Lee would accept a position at such a small school. He had received offers from many bigger and wealthier places. Lee, on the other hand, saw far beyond the title and looked on this as an opportunity to help rebuild the South by educating it ...
- 2750: Trying Juviniles As Adults
- ... assaulted, twice as likely to be beaten by staff, and 50 percent more likely to be attacked with a weapon than those confined in a juvenile facility¡¨ (Justice). Sources state that, adult facilities are a school for more crimes that a juvenile may learn while incarcerated (Landau 96). Placing our children in facilities in which they are being sexually abused, beaten or even killed is cruel punishment. Does the public know ... enforcement from ranches, to boot camps even holding the parents responsible for the parents responsible for their children¡¦s crime (Landau 97). It is stated that students should be taught at a young age in school that if ¡§you do the crime you serve the time¡¨ it also states that a society won¡¦t rest until we are crime free (Garcetti 179). Additional problems with the system consist of the educating ...
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