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- 4701: Benin
- ... Benin is composed of male-line descendants of the Aja (Fons, or Dahomey) who had established the early kingdom. Trained for civil service by the French, they are the best educated; literacy is 25% among school-age children. In the N are the nomadic Fulani and the Somba tribe, hunters with no political organization; E are Baribas. 90% of the population is rural, and 65% practices animist religion. French is the ...
- 4702: Public Speaking
- ... dealing with many different topics, but unfortunately, public speaking and/ or communications was not one of them. In fact, the last class that I took even relatively close to this one was in junior high school. In some sense, I guess that this could be thought of as a good thing, because now I can learn at a college level to begin with. My goals for this class are fairly numerous ...
- 4703: Youth In Today
- ... role model is not the best person imitate. Take for example, the movie Ferris Bueller s Day Off, Ferris is a cool, smooth talking, rebellious, popular guy that decides to take a day off of school by deceiving his parents. He winds up going through a series of adventures on his day off and everything works out okay by the end of the day. Lawrence Grossberg states in his essay, Cinema ...
- 4704: Youth Gangs An Overview
- ... gangs. The youth interprets membership in the gang as a common socialization process for himself and the community. All the values that others wish to embody through membership in churches, the military, civic organizations or school clubs are achieved through gang membership. Loyalty, honor, and fellowship are part of gang affiliation. The gang is most often seen as an extension of the family. Especially vulnerable to gang intimidation and membership are ...
- 4705: Young Voters Showing Apathy
- ... have a lost of interest in politics among America's young adults. Most young adults today would rather watch MTV's "The Real World" than the evening news. For many young adults, especially those in school, too many other events are more important than voting. The top priority of most students is to graduate; everything else is on the back burner. Therefore, many students do not take the time necessary to ...
- 4706: Relationships
- ... out the sentence of a murderer who killed a 70-year-old woman with an ax because the prosecuting attorney cited Biblical law in requesting the death penalty. (b) In Decateur, IL, an elementary, public school teacher demanded that her seven-year-old students mark out the word "God" printed in their phonics book. (c) In Oak Park, IL, a private Catholic hospital was not allowed to erect a cross because ...
- 4707: Odysseus A Hero
- ... I had know for my whole schooling showed a movie every week. One week we watched Jason and the Argonaughts . Ever since then I could never get enough Greek mythology. In freshman year of high school we read the annotated text book version of The Odyssey. Lucky for me, I transferred English classes at the semester and I was able to read The Odyssey twice. And since then Odysseus has been ...
- 4708: Xerox
- ... is Roman Catholic. In the urban areas a 93% literacy rate was found, as opposed to a 67% literacy rate in rural areas. This is due to the fact that only five years of primary school are offered in rural areas. This information regarding the population is encouraging. Although the rural population s literacy rate is low, the urban rate is quite high for a Latin American country. This rate leads ...
- 4709: Writing Process
- ... one person likes free write first and another person likes to write a draft first, let them do how they please. The writing process is something that you figure out yourself as you go through school. I personally think that is why they make us take English for so many years. Through the years, I found that some teachers forced you to write certain ways. I believe that this keeps the ...
- 4710: Working Together
- ... team work approach is that people are not accustomed to "group problem-solving" (Harrington-Mackin 137). It is a practice that not only hasn t been learned, but is a difficult one to institute. In school, children are taught to rely on their own resources; to develop their individual capabilities. Deborah Harrington-Mackin cites the example of a fourth grader, who wouldn t be allowed to say, "Hey, Joe, you re ...
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