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- 531: The Lords Of Discipline
- The Lords of Discipline Not many of the boys who enter the Carolina Military Institute as freshmen leave the school as graduates. Set in South Carolina, this is a story seen through the eyes of Will McLean, a sensitive, yet rebellious young boy, who aspires to be an "institiute man". He is an intelligent, honest ... caring. Pig and Mark are the "big men" of the group. Will considers them his protectors because of their size and sense of loyality. 0n the surface, the institute apppears to be just another military school engaged in training fine southern men to defend the country during the Vietnam War. But behind the clean walls of the school and the stern faces of the upperclassmen is a horrifying secret. The Lords Of Dicipline is a book about four young men, Will, Pig, Mark and Tradd, who are trying to recieve an education ...
- 532: Random Drug Testing
- ... would like to respond to your recent article concerning random drug testing. I believe that random drug tests violate a students constitutional right to privacy and should not be a mandatory part of the school system. A person should be able to be trusted without constantly being monitored. It is not the job of a school system to be enforcing laws that were not even broken on their property. And if a student is caught with an illegal substance in their body, it should not be grounds to expel that student ... their system. The fourth amendment states that searches should not be performed unless there is a probable cause to do so. Clearly, the concept of random drug testing is in violation of this amendment. In school, pop quizzes are given to ensure that students are doing their homework, putting adequate study time in, and paying attention in class. It is the job of the school to monitor the study habits ...
- 533: Education: Past, Present, and Future
- ... our education system is the best in the world. In the past, Education in America was plain and simple. We've all heard the stories of how our ancestors used to have to walk to school 5 miles in the snow in the heat of summer. These shameless exagerations were meant for us to think that school back in the "good ole days" was very dificult and surpassed the level of difficulty students today have. In reality, school, although most early schools were combonation classes with a variety of age groups as students. Almost each individual was given an equal amount of personal help from the teacher. Also, life wasn't as ...
- 534: Isaac Newton
- ... shortly before Isaac was born. When the boy was three years old, his mother remarried and moved to another town. Isaac stayed on at the farm in Woolsthorpe with his grandmother. After attending small country school, he was sent at the age of twelve to the Kings School in the near by town of Grantham. At first Isaac was a poor student. He cared little for school work, perferring to paint, make kites, write in notebooks, or invent toys. He made no friends. Silent and dreamy, he was at the bottom of his class. Oddly, it was a savage kick by ...
- 535: Harry Shippe Truman
- ... saw a whole new world when he first got the glasses. He would stare for hours just looking at the bright stars. But, Harry's fun with the glasses soon ended when he went to school. The other kids would tease him about the glasses because he was the only one in the class with glasses. The teasing didn't bother him much because the other kids grew up learning not ... mostly adult books. Another one of his favorite books were biographies of the U.S. presidents. Harry read most of the three- thousand books that were in a nearby library. Harry was very good in school because of reading all the books. His mom wanted Harry, his brother Vivian, and Their little sister Mary Jane to enrich their lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the children lessons and ... teacher brought him to the concert and introduced Harry to Ignacy. Ignacy showed Harry how to play his own famous composition Minuet in G. It was a moment Harry never forgot. The kids at his school really started to make fun of him when they saw him going to school with music roles because they thought piano playing was for sissies. But he kept on going and still ignored them. ...
- 536: Does Early Attachment Predict
- ... years of age, and that peers often reacted negatively to those infants who had been anxious or resistant. Waters et al., (1979) classified the attachment relationship of infants at 15 months, in observing them in school at 3 ½ it was found the securely attached infants were now 'social leaders' and initiated activities, they were also found to be more eager to learn and more curious. The insecurely attached were withdrawn, less ... predicted hostile behaviour in preschool. Elizabeth Carlson (1998) expanded on this and examined the consequences of disorganised/ disoriented attachment up until 19 years of age. She found that it predicted behaviour problems in preschool, elementary school and high school, and was related to psychopathology and dissociation in adolescence. She proposes this result is a factor of disorganised/disoriented infants' higher vulnerability to stress, which, when coupled with a traumatic environment, almost certainly leads ...
- 537: The Life of Mao Zedong
- ... 16 However, at first, he did not seem strongly focused on history or philosophy. During the next ten years, 1909-1918, Mao drifted. In 1909 at the age of 16, he left home to attend school in Hsiang. 17 In 1911, he enlisted in the Army for six months after which he moved to Changsha the capital of Hunan Province where he stayed until 1918. 18 While in Changsha, he tried numerous schools. 19 Finally, he enrolled at the Hunan Normal School, graduating in 1918. 20 Mao's mother's died in 1918, which seemed to be a precipitant factor in his final break with home and in September of that year he traveled to Beijing. Arriving ... 57 This marked the era of the Cultural Revolution. From 1964 to 1969, Chinese society was turned upside down, like the turning over of a giant hourglass. 58 A state of chaos reigned: universities and school were shut down, widespread purges of "rightist elements" forced many former Communist officials into rural re-education camps, children were urged to denounce their parents and teachers, and students formed into Red Guard brigades, ...
- 538: Sigmund Freud
- ... the point of running himself into debt at various bookstores. Among his favorite authors were Goethe, Shakespeare, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche. To avoid disruption of his studies, he often ate in his room. After medical school, Freud began a private practice, specializing in nervous disorders. He was soon faced with patients whose disorders made no neurological sense. For example, a patient might have lost feeling in his foot with no evidence ... seeping out in dream symbols and slips of the tongue. 2. Regression - retreating to an earlier, more infantile stage of development where some psychic energy still fixates. Thus, when facing the anxious first days of school, a child may regress to the oral comfort of thumb sucking. 3. In reaction formation, the ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites. En route to unconsciousness, the unacceptable proposition of "I hate ... fail to adequately resolve the developmental task. Delving further into these differences, Erikson contended that each stage of life has its own psychosocial task. Young children wrestle with issues of trust, then autonomy, then initiative. School-age children develop competence, the sense that they are able and productive human beings. In adolescence, the task is to synthesize past, present, and future possibilities into a clearer sense of self. Adolescents wonder: " ...
- 539: Juvenile Crime
- ... situation; for others, it is the reverse, but multiple factors generate crime. Individuals are less likely to offend repetitively when their early childhood is dominated by consistent and caring parenting and troublesome behavior when found school, is met with solutions. Crime tends to be lower in countries where there are more social benefits and fewer children in relative poverty; Crime tends to be higher because of opportunities such as those created ... by 17-68% by improved social control from civilian guards - recruited from the unemployed - and by closed circuit television. Young children will grow up to offend less by 50-80% if provided with adequate pre-school programs and by in home nurse visitations for at-risk children. The young and disadvantaged are 33-71% less likely to be arrested if they are given incentives to complete school, or structured training programs for job skill development. Promoting responsibility can reduce crime between 45-63% by getting potential offenders to repair the damage done and get help, with drug and alcohol treatment programs, ...
- 540: Narcissim
- ... have been advanced by the psychodynamic perspective and to a lesser extent the Jungian (analytical) perspective. Essentially, both theories cite developmental problems in childhood as leading to the development of the narcissistic disorder. The existential school has also attempted to deal with the narcissistic problem, although the available literature is much smaller. Existentialists postulate that society as a whole can be the crucial factor in the development of narcissism. The final ... many ways the humanistic approach to narcissism echoes the sentiments of the psychodynamic approach. The Psychodynamic Perspective of Narcissism The psychodynamic model of narcissism is dominated by two overlapping schools of thought, the self psychology school and the object relations school. The self psychology school, represented by Kohut, posits that narcissism is a component of everyones psyche. We are all born as narcissists and gradually our infantile narcissism matures into a healthy adult narcissism. ...
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