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- 371: Factors Of Second Language
- ... accent than that of lateralization. The second factor related to age is the learner s cognitive ability. One interesting difference between child and adult language learners is that adults seem to respond better to the teaching of grammar and rules. This has been attributed the level of cognitive development of learner. Jean Piaget refers to the stage reached near puberty as the formal operational stage which accounts for a person's ... English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States. Schools should provide the language classes our immigrants and their families need, as long as their purpose is the teaching of English . . . But we must stop the practice of multilingual education as a means of instilling ethnic pride or as therapy for low self -esteem or out of elitist guilt over a culture built on ...
- 372: William James: The Later Years
- ... Principles, which had been an almost intolerable burden to him. Principles was a big success, and had a lasting effect on the development of American psychology. By 1892, when James completed Jimmy, he had been teaching and writing about psychology for seventeen years, and grown tired of it. From then on he turned his creative efforts toward other things such as education , the practical results of different kinds of religious experience ... chronic heart trouble. His health gradually worsened; he resigned from Harvard in 1907 and died in 1910, at sixty-eight. Jamess influenced psychology in two ways. One his suggested applications of psychological principles to teaching became the core of educational psychology. The other in 1909, James, as an executive committee member of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, was largely responsible for getting the Rockefeller Foundation and similar groups to ...
- 373: Confucius in the Chinese History
- ... he was a young man, but fell out in a short period of time. His personal goal was to restore peace followed the old political system but he retired from public life to concentrate on teaching and studying in his later life. As his students praised his talent for brilliant teaching and recorded them, we can read his words from the Analects. Confucius died at 72. His birthday September 24th is celebrated in his hometown Qufu in recent years. Many scholars all around the world, such ...
- 374: Aristotle- Thoughts And Philosophies
- ... theories in modern day psychologists like Maslow. In his theory of hierarchy, Maslow places self-actualization as the last achievement before reaching true happiness. At heart, Aristotle was a teacher. He believed that knowledge and teaching went hand in hand, and regarded teaching as the proper manifestation of knowledge. The Lyceum is where Aristotle spent most of his time reading his lecture notes to students anxious for self-realization. He spoke both to the chosen students and the ...
- 375: Birth Control at Schools
- ... high school level, some parents strongly believe that it is not the school's responsibility to teach their children about sex and birth control. Also, parents believe that there should be a heavier influence on teaching the students about birth control products and sex education, instead of distributing free condoms. Passing out free condoms at high schools may have a negative effect on the way young adults view sex. In high ... with sex and birth control methods. Free birth control in public schools may have a short term negative effect on the way some students view sex, but overall the outcome will be a positive one. Teaching young adults about sex education at a young age is very beneficial. Being more eduacted about the use of condoms will enable students to make better decesions when having sex. Passing out free condoms in ...
- 376: Birth Control at Schools
- ... high school level, some parents strongly believe that it is not the school's responsibility to teach their children about sex and birth control. Also, parents believe that there should be a heavier influence on teaching the students about birth control products and sex education, instead of distributing free condoms. Passing out free condoms at high schools may have a negative effect on the way young adults view sex. In high ... with sex and birth control methods. Free birth control in public schools may have a short term negative effect on the way some students view sex, but overall the outcome will be a positive one. Teaching young adults about sex education at a young age is very beneficial. Being more eduacted about the use of condoms will enable students to make better decesions when having sex. Passing out free condoms in ...
- 377: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His ... Will enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H.; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval (1916); and to embark on a long career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). He was lauded again for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the years ...
- 378: Bruce Lee
- ... Kung-Fu school. Bruces friend Taky Kimura, took over as lead instructor. Two months later he moved back to Seattle to marry Linda Elmery, they soon moved back to Oakland. After several months of teaching students, Bruce was challenged by a leading Kung-Fu practitioner in the Chinatown Community. If Bruce were to lose he was either to close his school or put an end to his teaching to non-Chinese. Bruce won the fight but was mad because it took to long to defeat his opponent. During this time Bruce had an idea to change his style of Kung-Fu and created ...
- 379: Is Ritalin Over Prescribed?
- ... has gone undetected (Graham 2). Should a child really be put on daily medication when all they may have to do is stop eating a certain food? A teacher could also try to change her teaching style for a particular child and see if any changes occur. There are an unlimited amount of reasons that a child may be having difficulties and society has to learn how to deal with children ... other problems, such as depression, aren't being treated with the wrong medication. References Cooter, Robert B. " Ritalin and Reading: A Reaction to Mick." Intervention In School and Clinic 26 (1991): 305-205. Fachin, Katharina. " Teaching Tommy." Phi Delta Kappan Feb. 1996: 437-441. Graham, Janis. (1999 March). Is It ADHD? [Online]. Available: http://www.parentline.com/adhd/ Runnhein, Veronica A., and William R. Frankenberger. " Medicating Students with Emothional and Behavioral ...
- 380: The Spread of AIDS
- ... percent of drug users are HIV-infected, show that providing clean needles isn't enough to stem infection. Even given free disposable needles, many drug abusers preferred the camaraderie of shared equipment. Only with added teaching programs and free condom offers, are educational efforts likely to pay off. In New Jersey, offering free treatment coupons plus AIDS education brought 86 percent of local drug users to classes. A San Francisco program ... future?: -------------------- Many virologists believe that since antibiotics became available in the late 1940s we have become too complacent about viral infections, no longer take communicable disease seriously, and have modern medical schools which devote few teaching hours to anti-infective strategies. In fact, we still know little about retroviruses such as HIV. Perhaps special virology research centres, like the Virus Research Institute proposed for the University of Toronto, will help to ...
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