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- 201: History Of Womans Education
- ... she first attended, then eventually taught at several "girls academies" which were finishing schools. In 1809 at the age of twenty two, she married Dr. John Willard. It was at this time she stopped her teaching and focused on being a wife and mother to John's children and her own baby. Soon Emma Hart Willard got her fire back. This occured when she began reading the books John's eldest ... additional income and partly to satisfy herself Emma asked John if she could open a school for young women in their own home. John hesitated at first, but he then approved her plan. She began teaching girls "higher" subjects, mostly mathematics, which had not been introduced to women before this time. She formulated her ideas in to a draft called, "A Plan for Improving Female Education" which she revised many times ...
- 202: The Arts Should Be A Part of The School Curriculum
- ... our children because it increases their ability to communicate and is a common method of communication for cultures worldwide. All over the news, people hear about how many school districts are attempting to eliminate the teaching of the arts from the schools. These include music, art, theater, and orchestral classes. Many districts believe that an education can be provided by concentrating on the basic academic courses other than the arts. They ... musical arts are a major part of living and communication. You can find music everywhere. It is on the radio and the television. The majority of people listen or watch these everyday. Without the proper teaching of music in the schools, children will not understand the concept of music and will not relate it to life. With a further understanding of the arts, people can relate to foreigners also. Within the ...
- 203: Sports And Culture Do Sports H
- ... to learn about fair play, sport activities must be designed to facilitate cooperation rather than just competition. One of the best ways that participation in sport can teach our children about fair play is through teaching the rules of the game and, more importantly, abiding by the rules during competition (Yiannakis and NASSS 2-3). Participation in sport extends the learning of social competence by teaching children to cooperate with their teammates and opponents as well as abide by the rules. Otherwise the sport will not continue which indirectly shows them the importance of morality (Yiannakis and NASSS 2-3). Since ...
- 204: Eli Whitney
- ... this time, he seemed almost middle-aged to his classmates. After he graduated with his degree in 1792, he found that no jobs were available to a man with his talents. He eventually settled for teaching, and accepted a job as a tutor in South Carolina, his salary was promised to be one hundred guineas a year. He sailed on a small coasting packet with only a few passengers, among whom ... in Savannah after the war. When Whitney arrived in South Carolina, he found that the promised salary was going to be halved. He not only refused to take the position, but decided to give up teaching all together. Coming to his aid, Mrs. Greene invited him to her plantation where he could read law, and also help out the plantation manager, Phineas Miller. Miller, a few years older than Whitney, was ...
- 205: Hazing A Benefit Or Burden
- ... military. Hazing is used to bring a group of people together as a unit and teach them a great deal of information in a short amount of time. Hazing is designed as a consequence based teaching method where a mistake leads to harassment of some sort. This harassment may include physical or mental discomfort, embarrassment, ridicule, paddling or other forms of physical abuse, excessive fatigue, psychological shocks, chores, involuntary road trips ... The bond that is built can not be explained nor comprehended unless it has been experienced. Hazing done to maximize a person’s potential, not to endanger them, can be an extremely effective method in teaching and molding an individual into a model of what is expected. Thirty people have died as a result of hazing since 1980, and it is these cases that give hazing a poor reputation. Admittedly, organizations ...
- 206: Heroin
- ... programs available to people. Centers across the country are helping to reduce the addicts by preventing children from starting to use any drug. Programs such as D.A.R.E. and Star Raiders help by teaching kids the danger of using drugs and also by teaching them how to say “No”. On the other end of the spectrum are the treatment centers, these help addicts by helping them to quit using heroin. Some of the methods used by these centers are ...
- 207: Higher Education
- ... sent on her way. A civilization cannot further advance at any kind of distance without researching its misjudgments in the past and correcting them. Woolf's situation is a prime example in the controversy of teaching the nation about former traditional values. If a person demonstrates that something in the days of yore did not work, then we can benefit from that mistake and construct a more appropriate world to live in. There are those who also believe in teaching a university curriculum, based on the Great Books approach, is a worthy inspiration. That is not likely supported by Allan Bloom. Bloom believes that a college is in existence for a student to assimilate as ...
- 208: Polygamy
- ... of the practice of polygamy--" "I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples ... in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." "Wilford Woodruff" "President ...
- 209: Social Deviance
- ... to think differently than the norms, and by setting the foundation for later change in the collective consciousness. To show this Durkheim uses the example of the Greek philosopher Socrates. Socrates used a method of teaching called the Socratic method. While in discussion with his students, Socrates would react to the answers of their questions by creating new questions. This was seen to be criminal by the Athenian leaders, and Socrates ... control. Marx saw social control as “solidifying the advantages of the powerful.” Using the same example that Durkheim used, we can use to support the Marxian perspective. If Socrates had been using his method of teaching on people who were powerful in both the economic and political areas, then Socrates may have been embraced as brilliant, rather than being executed. The Marxian perspective is centralized around the idea of social change ...
- 210: Developing An Effective Sales Training Program
- ... know: real-world information that they can apply directly and immediately. You want your people to learn from those who are continually seeing action in the field, who are constantly using the skills they’re teaching, and who are learning more about these skills every day. The best trainer has excellent presentation and communication skills, but also the sales background and practical knowledge that only real-world experience can provide. When ... of which have a negative impact on an organization’s profit” (Anderson, Hair, and Bush, pp. 7-4). On the other hand, a benefit to running a mentoring program is that the mentor learns by teaching; he or she is constantly retrained. This paper will focus on an examination of the impact of new and experienced salespeople’s training programs, a measure of how effective the training is perceived to be ...
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