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- 851: Pain
- ... many things go wrong, or if one major thing in someone s life goes wrong. These things are meaningful and the misery involved is optional. An example of this could be someone who goes to school, but doesn t work, fails, and consequently ends up without a job, and feels miserable. This situation could have been avoided, if the person had worked hard at school. This demonstrates the fact that misery can be due to major losses or failures. Therefore even though insignificant causes of pain are inevitable, the things that mean the most can be maintained, and misery is ... usually occurs when something that means a lot to someone goes wrong or sometimes never materializes. A good example of this would be the example of someone who felt miserable because they dropped out of school and ended up jobless. To avoid this misery they could have stayed in school. In this case the person had an option, but it would have meant working hard and enduring some pain or ...
- 852: Pay For Student Athletes
- ... is the issue of whether student athletes should be paid or receive any form of monetary compensation. The NCAA rules committee has stood strong on its stand that athletes who receive scholarships should go to school and should not need any more money to support themselves. But students and some coaches think their rules are to harsh and the NCAA should pay student athletes or let them find ways to make ... College athletes should not be paid the extravagant amount of money that the professionals are paid. They are amateurs and should be treated as so. But small amounts of money to help them through the school year should be allowed. It would be too much to ask of athletes to hold jobs, go to school full-time and play college athletics. By paying them they would help them out greatly. People argue that by paying college athletes, it would blur the line between professional sports and amateur sports. But ...
- 853: Standardizing The Mind
- ... s future. One standard set for students is the SAT test. Most Colleges use this single test score along with GPA to determine whether or not a potential student will be allowed enrollment to their school. An SAT test is based in two subjects, mathematics and English. By placing such heavy emphasis on these areas of learning, do we plan to grant the best higher education to those who are gifted ... us as a brain surgeon? I think both can show us great and interesting things, but for now I think that an artist can tell us more about human thought. From as early as grade school we are taught the Scientific Method , when maybe we should spend more time with finger paints and cooperative learning. In my mind the two most important traits an individual can develop are appreciation for individual ... be a hard thing to shake even throughout a lifetime. I used to have the greatest problems with math; as far as I was concerned I was horrible at it. Those feelings came from elementary school where I had a teacher who told me I wasn t good at math and that I probably never would be. Good teachers eventually took time with me and now I consider it a ...
- 854: An Increasing Problem On High
- ... and the McCarthy trials, and compares the mass hysteria surrounding both events, hence the name, "The Crucible." On April 20th 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, opened fire in a suburban Denver high school, killing 13 people, including themselves. What ensued afterward through television analysts and newspaper columns across the nation, was a barrage of people who appeared to know the personal lives of these two boys, and with ... we have advanced in many other areas of life, the psychological trend of blaming other factors of truths for tragedies remains. Back to 1999, everyone has an opinion on why the two boys walked into school that day and opened fire on their classmates. "By the time our children leave school at the start of the summer," announced Handgun Control, Inc. Chair Sarah Brady, "they should know that the lawmakers of this country have done something to protect them from the type of gun violence ...
- 855: Common Problem Faced in First Time College Students
- ... idea in this essay. Perhaps the reason why I the article talking about taking the least obvious point of view is my first choice is because this is something I never did while attending High School. The entire time I was in High School, everything I did was the effortless. I would write whatever the Teacher explained as an example. The grades I received on my essays were never failing. Although they werent my best. I honestly thought ... this opposite side you would receive a better grade. I just think it would be more challenging to attempt to take a distinctly different point of view all of the time. While I was attending school, I usually went through the same routine. I would sit, think, write the first thing that comes to mind, then throw that thought away and start all over again. Thats why I would ...
- 856: Guaranteering Civil Rights
- ... to hear the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The case involved Linda Brown, an eight year old black girl from Topeka. Linda was required to attend an all black school 20 blocks from her home, even though there was an all white school only a few blocks away. With help from the NAACP, Linda's father, Oliver Brown, sued the Topeka Board of Education so that his daughter could attend the nearby all whtie school. NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall challenged the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling and argued that even if seperate black schools were equal to white schools, black children were still suffering great psychological damage. On May 17, ...
- 857: Linking Media with Fitness Perceptions: A Study on the Affect of Media on Fitness and Body Image
- ... Media on Fitness and Body Image Abstract This research examined the media and how it affects fitness and body image. This was assessed by collecting data from surveys taken by three groups of ten high school students, five of each sex. Two of the three groups were exposed to different media packages, one depicted images of unnaturally thin individuals, the other depicted athletic figures, while the third group was exposed to ... regards to themselves and others. Also concern for how a response will reflect upon his/herself may negate an individual expressing his or her true attitudes. This research sought to assess the attitudes of high school students towards fitness and body image in the presence of different physical media icons. By monitoring the individuals response to both a third person scale and a personal scale, true attitudes can be assumed. In ... survey and a specific survey, true attitudes of students towards fitness and body image in the light of society have been recorded. Methods Participants Participants of this study were students of F.J. Brennan High School. For the purposes of this study, 30 participants were randomly chosen, creating 3 groups of 10 with 5 members of each sex. Consent was obtained from the individual before being surveyed. Anonymity of the ...
- 858: Cooper Thompsons A New Vision
- ... are good qualities in both male and female; he insists that boys should learn both qualities and combine them properly to from "new masculinity." Thompson opens the article with his experience in a suburban high school as a guest speaker. In the class discussion, he learns that the most degrading insult for boys is being called a "fag," because the word "fag" explains that he does not have masculine qualities. He indicates that high school students associate masculinity with "stereotypic definition of strength"(77). Yet, he shows that this strength is only a limited definition of strength because this strength is based on dominance by disgracing inferior people. Thompson supports ... will this change in socialization occur?" Thompson mentions that in a boy's first few years, his learning about masculinity comes from the influences of parents, siblings or television. And he points out that competitive school sports are the major problem. School athletics learn to win regardless of the cost to themselves or their opponents. And because school athletics are a "microcosm of the socialization of male value," boys do ...
- 859: Teens and Sex
- Teens and Sex An increasing problem on high school campuses and one of the main concerns of parents, school officials, and the government is teenage sex. It is on the rise, and they are worried that it may get out of control. Teenage sex can be a problem because of the pregnancies and many ... years. There are people who think it would be a good idea and those who think it may worsen the problem rather than solve it. The reason that people want to distribute condoms in high school is to try to prevent teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and (I separate this from the category of STD's because it is so widespread, deadly, important, frightening, etc.) H.I.V infection. The ...
- 860: Gender Inequality
- ... makers set a curriculum which, as shown specifically through textbooks, was sexist and for the most part still is. Textbooks are one of the most important tools used in educating students whether they are elementary school storybooks or university medical textbooks. It is therefore no surprise that these books are some of the most crucial information sources that a student has throughout their schooling. Many studies have been done examining the ... that historical texts show a distorted view of women by portraying them unfairly and inaccurately and neglecting to mention important female figures, instead opting to describe their sometimes less influential male counterparts. Elementary and secondary school textbooks are also guilty of gender bias. In elementary and secondary school textbooks, sexism takes many forms. Boys predominate in stories for children; they outnumber girls 5 to 2. When girls are present in texts, they are almost always younger than the boys they are interacting ...
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