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- 3261: Native Son (Summary)
- ... could fly a plane if I had the chance," Bigger said with Gus replying, "If you wasn't black and if you had some money and if they'd let you go to that aviation school, you could fly a plane." During this conversation the two boys imply the impossibility of achievement in a world dominated by whites. Then later Bigger responds by saying, "Maybe they right in not wanting us ... a result of this, I believe the characters in the novel accented its integrity, therefore I believe teh strong point of the book to be the characterization. ( If you are a student at Garrett High School don't use this because I attend there also and have already used it. The teacher WILL know!)
- 3262: Censorship
- ... upset with her parents for raising her in such a sheltered environment. When she went away to college, she got a taste of what the real world was really like. These days, an average elementary school student knows many things. They are influenced by a wide range of sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and school, to their personality and background. What they read does not necessarily mean that they will follow it. Literature is a valued source of knowledge for these children, and should not be held back. So rather ...
- 3263: The Involvement of Computers in Future Jobs
- ... on computers as early as possible, as the younger you are the more simple it is to learn something unfarmiliar. Because of this computers are being taught in schooling as early as elementary levels. High school would be the latest starting point, if offered, to begin computer friendliness. High school courses mainly are compossed of programming languages which not only is excellent in providing one with the basic knowledge to enter the programming field, but also gain a better understanding of the computer and its ...
- 3264: Under Age Drinking : The Problems It Creates
- ... or more than a few, drinks. A select few are really drunk or passed out. Now lets step outside and take a look at a different type of drinking, drinking at an early age. High school and junior high kids are at a party drinking. Like the adults, some are just having a few, but quite a few are having more than that and are stumbling around. These kids have been ... the test and knows he failed, this the fifth test he has failed so far and his GPA is way below par. Two days later he gets a letter saying that he is out of school for breaking academic probation, again this is a worst case scenario. My last scenario is a person at around thirty or forty. You can see an old beat-up pickup drive in and park in ...
- 3265: Counterfeiting: We're In The Money
- ... of more than $19 million in counterfeit cash, and the Canadian authorities; seizure of than $129 million in counterfeit U.S. currency." (Gomez, Bertha. "Officials Say..") In a small town north of Chicago, two high school seniors were arrested for the use of counterfeit bills. With the use of the internet and a color printer, these two teenagers were able to create and pass their counterfeit twenty dollar bills through the high school cafeteria but were later arrest by police after trying to use their money at a local Taco Bell. If teenagers are finding ways to counterfeit money, that should tell someone that we need to do ...
- 3266: Should Gambling Be Legalized?
- ... gambling community is the changing percentage of women and young people who are becoming problem gamblers. At this time gambling is called "the fastest-growing teenage addiction, with the rate of pathological gambling among high-school and college-age youth about twice that of adults." In Atlantic City, the lure of gambling is so strong that over thirty thousand underage people are either thrown out, or stopped from entering the casino ... gambling community is the changing percentage of women and young people who are becoming problem gamblers. At this time gambling is called "the fastest-growing teenage addiction, with the rate of pathological gambling among high-school and college-age youth about twice that of adults." In Atlantic City, the lure of gambling is so strong that over thirty thousand underage people are either thrown out, or stopped from entering the casino ...
- 3267: Peter the Great
- ... Russian alphabet and introduced Arabic numerals. He started Russian academies for higher education. For the Boyards he made the college aged people to go out of the country for five years to study at a school in a Western European school. For the first time in Russian history there were the publishing of newspapers. He also changed the calendar to agree with the current calendar, the Gregorian. Peter next best accomplishment was that he expanded the ...
- 3268: Piercings
- ... McCullough said (Howard, Dylan 2). "Because people in their ordinary states of minds obtain body piercing, we may suppose that common sense prevails in the face of something that seems to contradict common sense" (High School Piercings In The 90s 1). "People who are logically challenged are far more likely to refuse that which they cannot understand." So I guess we are left with: Piercing is an intelligent thing (Monohan, Roger ... society accepts it. I hope this essay has convinced you to open your mind to tongue piercing. Bibliography 1. Cecilia and Denise. "Interchange on Piercing." (1996): 10 pages. Online. Internet. 12 Dec. 1998 2. "High School Piercing In The 90s." Radford Complex Student Global News Network (1998): 1 page. Online. Internet. 6 Dec. 1998 3. Howard, Dylan. "Holier than Thou Nipples, Noses, Eyebrows " The Yale Daily News (1995): 3 pages. Online ...
- 3269: Drugs: A Major Problem In Canadian Society
- ... million in 1992) mainly to the prevention, education and treatment of drug use, while 30 per cent of this money was intended for the traditional area of law enforcement. The goal of education within the school system should be to support those students who are non-users with recognition and social activities that will encourage them to remain non-users and to facilitate a belief and value system that incorporates concern ... risks associated with the use of alcohol and illicit drugs, standards of conduct that clearly prohibit the unlawful possession, use, or distribution of alcohol and illicit, and a description of the applicable legal sanctions under school, local, state, or federal law for the unlawful possession, use, or distribution of alcohol and illicit drugs. These examples, along with the use of fear, should provide a very effective method of deterring students from ...
- 3270: DARE
- ... have Dare a chance to find out that there's stuff you can do for your self like stay physically fit & staying off drugs. I have also learned that not many kids in Cutler Middle School don't do drugs.I always thought that when I got into middle school,everybody is going to force me to do drugs. I should avoid violence because I could have a risk,depending on the situation,of getting myself killed! There's another big thing. Consquences. Conquences are ...
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