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- 1421: Defining Reality
- ... meanings". By "placing particular symbols and particular strains (or interests) side by side" literature can "mirror or forward" social reality (207). A person's reality can be limited through using cultural symbols or language and teaching the person to conform to social norms. Restriction of literacy binds the rest of the world on a one track thought process that leads to a limited mind. A person's reality is created through ...
- 1422: Angel Island
- ... formed in Los Angeles and lynched every Chinese they could find. White men even had their ten year old kids hang a Chinese boy. Throughout the three hour massacre, the local police did nothing. By teaching ones kids to hate, the prejudice and discrimination continued on throughout generations. During the early 1860s, Crocker advertised in Ireland newspapers to come to America and escape the depression their homeland was going through. These ...
- 1423: African Psychology
- Black Consciousness has been defined as an attitude of the mind and a way of life. Therefore, the purpose of teaching Black Consciousness was to conquer feelings of black inferiority and replace it with a new solid social identity which encouraged black pride and independence from white oppression. Africans should reject the myths from which Apartheid ...
- 1424: Are You Ready For Some Footbal
- ... to be a team player, how to interact with others and is a good source of physical activity. In specific, football utilizes all of these aspects of sports and its a great source of teaching self-restraint and perseverance. Some may say that football is a violent sport or its not beneficial in any way, but in reality it gives a person the basic tools needed not only for ...
- 1425: African Women
- ... then the neighbor would teach their neighbor and so on. If we do this more and more women will get out of poverty, less and less women will live in poverty and finally we are teaching women a skill that that will be able to use. The S.O.F.A.W. is going to set up meetings with counties all over Africa. In our meetings we will try to coax ...
- 1426: American Families
- ... to spend quality time with their parents. What's more, Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon says, "Middle-and upper-income people who don't spend a lot of time with their kids are not teaching how members of a community live together and respect each other's rights. When parents put personal goals ahead of family, how will kids learn the opposite?" Families are the institution in which character is ...
- 1427: Are Smaller Classes Beneficial
- ... to be reduced. All will be right with the world when there isn't a numb arm in any classroom again! Works Cited Page Cooper, Richard T. "Education; A Call to Focus on Techniques of Teaching." Los Angeles Times 22 Sept. 1999: B2+ Wasserman, Joanne. "No Room to Improve." New York Daily News 4 Oct. 1999: A6+
- 1428: Abolishing Grades
- ... solely on letters or numbers. Individuality and creativity were pushed aside so colleges, universities, graduate schools and employers would be able to judge their candidates. In the text, Celebrating Diversity, a short segment called, " Add Teaching To High-Risk Jobs," writes, "You can have an 'A'." Students' minds are generally focused on getting an "A," so they usually don't think about learning, rather they constantly render on the "A." Many ...
- 1429: Child Abuse
- ... behavior might find parenting a difficult responsibility and might retort to physical punishment as a mean to control a child. A father might find hitting his child against the wall as a good form of teaching because his father taught him in the same manner. One wonders who would do such a thing to a child? It would be so simple if there was an abuser profile so we would know ...
- 1430: Child Labor
- ... right to be children and not breadwinners. Lewis Hine, a schoolteacher and photographer, was one of those early reformers. He felt so strongly about the use of children as industrial workers that he quit his teaching job to become an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Hine carrying a simple box camera traveled back and forth across the country, from sardine canneries of Maine to the cotton fields ...
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