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- 8901: Drug Education
- ... teach young students about drugs and alcohol before they risk being around them, and they teach older students about drugs while they are around in their daily lives. Are these education programs really necessary? That’s the question many people ask, and also the question I’m going to attempt to answer. The government is usually the group that attempts to educate people about the causes and effects of drugs and alcohol through programs such as D.A.R.E (drug abuse resistance education) or S.M.A.R.T. (Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-Specified objectives). D.A.R.E. tries to educate kids about drugs and alcohol while S.M.A.R.T. conducts studies to see how effective these programs really ...
- 8902: In the Middle of the Night
- ... it a lot easier to fallow than I am the Cheese. The book is about a sixteen-year-old boy named Denny Colbert. Denny wants to be like all other boys his age, except their s one thing different about him. When Denny’s father John Paul was sixteen he was a part-time usher at The Globe Theater. It was Halloween night when a tragedy would change the life of John Paul and the rest of his family ... killed 22 children. John Paul was cleared of all charges involving the collapsing of the balcony, yet still many blamed him for the deaths. Even though that was 25 years ago and people still haven’t forgot. Every year around October a week or two before the anniversary of the accident harassing calls start in the middle of the night. Denny father really only one rule and that is not ...
- 8903: Lord of the Flies Essay
- Lord of the Flies Essay William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a story of young British schoolboys who become stranded on an island somewhere in the tropics. When the boys first arrive on the island, they follow the basic steps for ... eat the fruit that was provided by the island. When the exploration party returned back to the camp, Ralph thought of building a signal fire to attract any ships that could be passing by. “There’s another thing. We can help them find us. If any ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire ... for anyone else is Piggy. Piggy realizes that they have lost Johnny, the little ‘un with the mark on his face. ‘“That little ‘un—‘ gasped Piggy—‘him with the mark on his face. I don’t see him. Where is he now?’” (40) Another reason why the boys are unable to construct an organized society is because they are unable to resolve problems occurring from contrasting personalities and authoritarian personalities, ...
- 8904: Brave New World 3
- ... explored in his novel were not a reality, but merely science-fiction entertainment. Brave New World confronts ideas of totalitarianism, artificial reproduction, anti-individualism, and forever youth- ideas which were not threatening in the 30 s. In the 1930 s, the high ethical standards people maintained and the limited amount of scientific knowledge did not allow for the acceptance of the types of ideas found in Brave New World. These values include abstinance, family structure ... and life-long marriages- issues that had little to no importance in the Brave New World. As we begin the new millenium, our increasing scientific knowledge has taken our curiousity beyond ethical consideration, and Huxley s novel has become much closer to a reality than it was 65 years ago. Today, Huxley s Brave New World parallels current advances in genetical engineering, cloning, the lowering of moral standards held by ...
- 8905: The Bluest Eye 4
- ... character of the story. Many readers can see the book as a story about Claudia MacTeer, who is the main narrator of the book, but most everything she narrates has a direct tie to Pecola s life. From the very start, Claudia describes the home environment in which she lives in. That home environment is linked to how Pecola comes to live with them and what affect the two had on each other. Pecola s presence slightly foreshadows her future longing for blue eyes by showing the great interest she had in Shirley Temple, who was known for being a pretty white girl. Claudia then goes into a series of ... the type of family the Breedloves are. Whether it was Claudia or another unknown third person narrator, a specific situation is described in a brutal manner of exactly what type of environment exists in Pecola s home. The situation was where Cholly and Polly fight each other with little hesitation or thought, and the brief narration ends with how Pecola is affected by such actions. Claudia s experiences are even ...
- 8906: Progresses In Society and Their Outcomes
- Progresses In Society and Their Outcomes As a society progresses certain outcomes occur as a result of this. When society grows new challenges and progressions in human thinking change and with the change society’s future aspects change for the better or/and worst. As this happens certain reminders fall into place in tell the community to be aware of changes or to be aware of different growth. “My body ... to the greater society.” Responsibility is very important and a key essential to make a greater society. To have a greater society, each individual has to accomplish certain goals and ascertain certain unknowns. They don’t just have that responsibility to themselves but to the society. And as the society should progress, it will have to have the individual work hard and responsibly before the society works as a whole. As ... be enjoyed. We should think more and more about our children and their children and their children and even though we have to work hard now, outcomes of our work will show in the society’s finishes. And with this B. Russell says, “One must care about a world one will not see.” When one person gets lazy, everyone gets lazy. This is also the same with many other things. ...
- 8907: Social Deviance
- ... folkways, mores, and laws. Furthermore, deviant behavior will never exist without social control, efforts to help ensure conformity to norms. Social control includes two forms, internal and external. Internal social control is control over one’s behavior that is based on internalized standards, such as not talking while class is in session. External social control is an attempt by other to control ones behavior. In both cases of social control it ... deviant simply because they are bad people and do not have the will to convey to the norms, rather deviance is a part of the society and is needed within all societies. These three don’t tell of why one person is more likely to be deviant than another, but some more contemporary sociologists have attempted to do so in such theories as the Labeling theory, strain theory, and control theory ... have explored deviance through looking at these four ways: our social interactions, our positions within society, the norms and values of subcultures, and our linkages to and bonds with other people. Sociologists use Lawrence Sherman’s labeling theory to look at deviant behavior. “According to labeling theory definitions of deviant behavior develop from social interaction, and the key element in becoming deviant is how others respond to peoples behavior, rather ...
- 8908: Censorship in Public Schools
- ... bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain "obscenities or offensive sexual references" (Berger 59). -A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school board's decision to remove Richard Price's The Wanderers, and to "restrict" the use of Stephen King's Carrie and Patrick Mann's Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the burning of many copies of a textbook that deals with drugs and the sexual ...
- 8909: Fahrenheit 451 - Similarities To Our Society
- ... want them to be quicker. Things such as quicker computers, quicker connections to the internet, better cell phone connections, pagers, cars with more power, voice mail, palm pilots, etc. are in greater demand. People don't want to waste time anymore. We want things done quicker without as much effort. We want things to take less time to do them so we can have more time for other things. Their society ... make it obvious to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet each other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' she said. 'If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed ...
- 8910: The Surprising Aspect Of Sex I
- The Surprising Aspect of Sex in Heller's Catch-22 Joseph Heller's humorist-war novel, Catch-22, has many surprising passages and themes. The part that is most surprising to me in Catch-22 is the amount of sexual connotation in a novel based around World War ... you get a different look into the lives of the soldiers. Their lives are filled with sex, whether it is a quick stop at a whorehouse in Italy or putting a hand up Nurse Duckett's thighs. Catch-22 is about something deeper than the war. It is about personal experiences of soldiers in the eyes of Joseph Heller which brings this book to a different level than what is ...
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