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- 651: Student Protest
- ... on a trip through my mind and my opinions. As for student protest I am all for it. I would take it to the highest degree if it has to go that far. I see school as a place to come and socialize. The stuff that is taught is all boring to me. It always seems as if I already know what is going to be said. So what is the ... sarcasm of the student. As for the protesting part of protest, there are many things that I would love to protest against but a protest doesn’t work when its one person against the entire school. Numbers are very important. The more people that show the better your chance to achieve what you want. The main thing that I would protest is the right of a student to be able to smoke cigarettes at school during their lunch break. The fact is that today almost half of the teen population smoke. More than half of them are already addicted. Those whom are addicted no what it is like to ...
- 652: “The Slippery Slope of Pizza Money": The Money Scheme
- ... with the controversial issue of athletic scholarships given out by the NCAA at the collegiate level. This article states the new idea that college athletes on scholarship can now have jobs as well as attending school during their competitive seasons and earn up to $2,000 a school year. Douglas S. Looney does an excellent job in persuading me, the reader, in why this is an unfair and illegal thing to do. According to Looney, this new rule set up by the NCAA ... males playing football and basketball – so it has given up”(1). What this all means is that the NCAA can’t find a way to figure out how the athletes are getting money while attending school. Instead of trying further to figure out how the athletes are earning money they have made a new rule so that it appears as though the athletes are making money by having jobs outside ...
- 653: The Simpsons: The History
- ... embarrass Marge at an opera together. ("Toreador, oh don't spit on the floor. Use the cuspidor. That's what it's for." Bart sings along with the opera Carmen.) Soon at Bart's old school, Springfield Elementary School, Bart's graffiti is roped off and tagged, "The Principal. By Bart Simpson. IQ 216." Bart's friends no longer like him, they refer to him as Poindexter. The kids at his new school trick him into giving up his lunch. In fact, Bart is miserable. Then, after turning himself green in an uneducated science experiment, Bart reveals to his new principal that he cheated on the test. ...
- 654: Behind the Doors
- ... a genius, says James Riordan and Jerry Prockinicky in their book Break On Through: The Life and Times of Jim Morrison. In December 1958 they moved back to Washington DC. Jim attended George Washington High School. He often told his girlfriends what to do and was very jealous. They stayed with him because he was so sweet. Jim was very rebellious but often did everything possible to get his parent’s approval. He and Andy grew very close and together challenged their parent’s authority. While in high school Jim was not in any clubs nor did he play sports. All it said under his picture in the yearbook was, “Honor Roll.” He enjoyed being the center of attention in school. Throughout high school he kept a journal of what he did that day and any thoughts he had. After graduation he destroyed them. During the evenings he would walk across town to blues clubs. ...
- 655: Poetry: Not Me
- ... and tall. His family was poor, though they had money His dad owned a business, always on call. He lived in a small town in the Northwest. He was told that he was disadvantaged. His school was bad, but his teachers the best. The classrooms were old, the textbooks were damaged He didn't excel, although a bright student. Teachers called him an underachiever. He didn't notice a quarter-life ... world. "Why not study?" said his mom, cooking the stew. He thought of that during supper and hurled. His mother soon tired of the grades he brought home. She made him study each day after school. He was grounded from TV, and from the phone. He was shut in his room and force-fed gruel. His grades slowly improved, thanks to his mom. Although he didn't thank her at the ... s motivation, He came home on his own and went straight to his room. Reading Provided some mental relaxation. He even read during lunch in the afternoon. Still not an A student, he struggles in school. Once it was easy for him to get A's. Now the hard work makes him feel like a fool. The work has caught up to him and his ways. Now tired of school, ...
- 656: Neil Postman
- ... scientists for example. Their entire career is based on asking questions, stating a hypothesis, and furthermore, answering them by conducting experiments. Postman calls for the art of question asking to be infused with the current school curriculum, because to often students do not ask questions. When a student arrives at school on the first day they often notice many changes. Although welcome, these changes sometimes make a student wonder why he or she was not asked if they would prefer them. This is the perfect example of how one phrases a question wrong. Although a student might voice their opinion by saying, "I would like a better school" they don’t imply in which way they would like to achieve that. Although it was a noteworthy concept, I found it to have many flaws. Postman believes that this concept be put on ...
- 657: John F. Kennedy
- ... fights with Joe. "The boys enjoyed playing touch football."(The World Book Encyclopedia, 261). His childhood was full of sports, fun and activity. This all ended when he grew up old enough to leave for school. Kennedy attended elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale. "In 1930, when he was 13 years old, his father sent him to the Canterbury School in New Milford, Conn." (The World Book Encyclopedia, 261). One year later, he transferred to Choate Academy in Wallingford, Coon. He graduated from Choate in 1935 at the age of 18. He was promised a ... the rest of the summer trying to recover. He was not entirely well when he started Princeton, several weeks later in the fall of 1935. The jaundice returned and he had to drop out of school. Before the next school year began, he told his father he wanted to go to Harvard. He entered Harvard University in 1936. There he majored in government and international relations. At Harvard, he tried ...
- 658: Christmas Is A Good Holiday For Many Reasons
- ... a wonderful time of year. Millions of people around the world will agree that Christmas is one of the most fun and exciting holidays. Christmas is a good holiday because students get a vacation from school, people get to exchange gifts with friends and family, and people get to spend time with their families. Those three reasons, among others, help to make Christmas one of the best holidays. First of all, Christmas is a good holiday because students get a vacation from school. While not in school, students have no homework. That really helps to make the holidays more enjoyable. With no school, students have no reason to get up early so they can stay out late and sleep late in ...
- 659: ADHD On Child Intelligence
- ... were identified with low intelligence and ADHD were found to have more behavioral and emotional problems in their adolescence. Long term studies have found that the outcome of these children was continued academic problems and school failures (Aman et al., 1996). However, there is suggestion ADHD children show greater artistic ability when writing or drawing slowly and precisely (Morgan, 1997). Testing the intelligence of ADHD involves a number of measures. Psychoeducational ... affected. The Greene et al. (1995) study, argues that family size is of no significance. Conversely, when investigating parental style and family influence on ADHD IQ levels, Naussbaum (1990) reports that little evidence exists. Poor school achievement for ADHD children is also associated with the need for immediate reinforcement. These children have been shown to perform as well as others in situations where consistent, immediate and positive reinforcement is in place ... techniques include; token economies, class rules, attention to positive behavior, as well as time out and response cost programs. Suggested to compliment and further increase probability of improvement is the alliance of parents, patient and school with the consideration of individual needs for the student and subsequently accommodating the environment to these needs. Scales such as the Academic Performance Rating Scale or daily report cards (due to necessity of immediate ...
- 660: Should The Ten Commandments Be Posted In Public Schools?
- Should The Ten Commandments Be Posted In Public Schools? October 1st, 1997—A 16-year-old in Pearl Mississippi is accused of going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die. Dec 1st, 1997—Three students are killed and five injured as a 14-year-old opens fire at s prayer circle in the hallway at Heat High School, West Paducah Kentucky. March 24th 1998—Four students and a teacher shot to death during a false fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Arkansas. April 20th, 1999—15 people die in the largest school shooting ever students Eric Harris Dylan Klebold shoot fellow students and themselves. With all these catastrophes occurring our confused nation questions ...
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