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  • School and Me

    School and Me

    Le Yang Professor Anderson English 110 February 24, 2005 School and Me School, to me and among many peers of my age, is not a distant term. I have spent one-third of my life time sitting in classrooms, every week since I was seven years old. After spending this much time in school, many things and experiences that happened there have left their mark in my memory. Some are small incidences while some have had

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • School Shootings : Is a Possible Solution as Simple

    School Shootings : Is a Possible Solution as Simple

    School Shootings : Is a Possible Solution as Simple THESIS: There was a time in this country when everyone could walk around with a gun. We would teach our children how to use them to hunt for food and if need be protect the family and home. Yet with all that access you never heard of a child going into a school and killing everyone. We are suppose to have advanced, gotten wiser and still

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Bred
  • Students Should Not Be Allowed to Bring Mobile Phones to School"

    Students Should Not Be Allowed to Bring Mobile Phones to School"

    In recent times, the number of people owning mobile phones has increased dramatically. Now mobile phones are not just for calling, but you can now text, take and send pictures, record videos, access the internet, play games and much more. The variety of functions has increased dramatically. They have also become a lot cheaper. Thus more and more young people now own a mobile. So should they be allowed to bring them to school? Mobile

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    Essay Length: 516 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Jack
  • Violence in Schools

    Violence in Schools

    Violence in schools is a problem today that needs more attention than it is being given. This doesn’t just mean school shootings. This means other violence like assaults, rapes, robberies, hate crimes, gang violence, as well as violence with weapons. I think that there is not enough being done to prevent violence like these in schools. Violence in schools is a problem that has been going on for a very long time, and this is

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Measuring Competency Levels with Health Education Systems, Inc Exams in Schools of Nursing

    Measuring Competency Levels with Health Education Systems, Inc Exams in Schools of Nursing

    Measuring competency levels with Health Education Systems, Inc Exams in Schools of Nursing Research critique Title and Facts The article that I have chosen to critique is an article that was written by S. Morrison, C. Adamson, A. Nibert, and S. Hsia for who are all PhD, RN licensed. The article is entitled “HESI Exams: An Overview of Reliability and Validity.” The title of this article is appropriate and descriptive in that this article

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Janna
  • Steroids in High School

    Steroids in High School

    November 19, 2007 At the age of 10, I would jump off the couch and chair to be like Superman, I would spin, put my hand in the air and scream to be like Michael Jackson. Nowadays, high school students do much more to be like their idols. Many high school athletes contribute to the steroid epidemic by taking steroids to emulate the abilities of their sports idols, others take steroids to look like the

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    Essay Length: 536 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Max
  • Graduate School Swot

    Graduate School Swot

    Strengths - Graduate school has good regional reputation for certain courses of studies - Substantial autonomy with MSC, along with no responsibility for college overhead - Classes offered to accommodate a variety of schedules - Large population in the metro area - Satellite campus classes held at high-schools where they do not pay rent - CE program growth Weaknesses - Satellite campus draw students from a smaller radius than the main campus - Previous required

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    Essay Length: 277 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Einhard and Charlemagne’s Palace School: A Mechanism for Wealth, Prestige, Power and Success

    Einhard and Charlemagne’s Palace School: A Mechanism for Wealth, Prestige, Power and Success

    Einhard was a courtier in Charlemagne's Frankish Kingdom. During Charlemagne's rule/life (768-824), he dedicated a vast amount of time and energy into supporting the notions of classical learning. He went so far as to start a school comprised of many scholars within his palace. Their role was to educate the nobility, the priesthood and the people, as well as hold counsel with the king. This is where Einhard and Charlemagne first encountered each other. Einhard

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    Essay Length: 1,252 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Steve
  • Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High School

    Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High School

    Shades of White is an ethnographic study of two high schools. One, "Valley Groves High School," was suburban, and the "whitest" high school in the region. Here the student body was comprised of non-Hispanic whites (83 percent), Hispanics (7 percent), Asians (5 percent), Filipinos (2 percent), and African Americans (2 percent). The other, "Clavey High," was metropolitan and more thoroughly multiracial--African American (54 percent), Asian American (23 percent), white (12 percent), Hispanic (8 percent), Filipino

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Purpose of Narrative Form in Orwell and Angelou’s Essyas

    The Purpose of Narrative Form in Orwell and Angelou’s Essyas

    The purpose of the narrative form in Angelou’s and Orwell’s essays Narrative writing is a written account of connected events. Writers choose the narrative form to inform, to explain, or simply to recount events that support a thesis. In Maya Angelou’s essay, Finishing School, and George Orwell’s essay, Shooting an Elephant, both writers use the form of narrative to tell a story yet their purpose is different. In the first, the author relied on dialogue

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    Essay Length: 383 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Historical Foundations and Purposes of School

    The Historical Foundations and Purposes of School

    The Historical Foundations and Purposes of School: Throughout the evolution of American education many ideas and concepts have played a large role in the way we now educate our children. For as long as schooling has been around, equality of education has played one of the most crucial roles in educating all of America's students in a fair and just manner. All schools strive to educate students in a way that they may be successful

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: July
  • Expanding Knowledge to Decrease School Violence

    Expanding Knowledge to Decrease School Violence

    Expanding Knowledge to Decrease School Violence A Make a Difference Project Critical Need: School violence currently exists in the United States educational system. The number of children who are becoming victims of school violence is increasing annually. Since 1992, the term �school violence’ became widely used in describing violent and aggressive acts that are occurring across all school campuses in the United States. Furlong (2000) describes school violence as being “composed of the perpetration of

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    Essay Length: 3,072 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Victor
  • Home School Vs. Public School?

    Home School Vs. Public School?

    Home School vs. Public School? Home schooling or public education; which is more affective? Most people do not realize this, but being home schooled is not some type of prison for young people. There is not a student sitting at a window dreaming of the local public school. This same student is not yearning for the mystery-meat debate or the extraordinary amount of peer pressure to fit in. This student is in fact living

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    Essay Length: 592 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Jessica
  • School Voilence

    School Voilence

    School violence is in the headlines again, 6 years after Columbine, the tragic Colorado school shooting in which many students died. Now, sadly, 2 school officials and 6 students have been killed in a shooting at Red Lake High School in Minnesota. As horrible and frightening as incidents like these are, they are rare. Although it may not seem that way, the rate of crime involving physical harm has been declining at U.S. schools since

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Mikki
  • School Violence: The School’s Responsibility?

    School Violence: The School’s Responsibility?

    School Violence: The School’s Responsibility? The focus of American schools these days have so changed from the “basics” of teaching children to read, write and do arithmetic. Instead of just being an academic institution that was entrusted with teaching our children skills that would enable then to be intelligent contributing members of society, the schools are now looked at as “extensions of the community”. Therefore, according to John Dewey, “ schools should share social burdens

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Yan
  • Literacy in Public Schools

    Literacy in Public Schools

    Literacy in Public Schools Public schools currently have problems with children and their ability to read. In the early years of a child’s education he or she may not have the maturity to handle the pressure of the next grade level. Parents, seeing this as a hindrance, ignore any recommendation to hold their child back. Then their child may develop what may seem to be a learning disability. This learning disability can make school much

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Vika
  • Prayer in Public Schools: Should It Be Constitutional

    Prayer in Public Schools: Should It Be Constitutional

    Prayer in Public Schools: Should It Be Constitutional The courts have ruled against prayer in school. Many agree with decision; yet many disagree including myself. Prayer should be allowed in public school because it is already practiced, it prevents immoral acts, and it enhances the learning environment. The issue of prayer in school has been debated in the U.S. since the North West Treaty (1787and 1789) which states: " Religion, morality, and the knowledge being

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: David
  • School Bus Seatbelts; Are They Really a Good Idea?

    School Bus Seatbelts; Are They Really a Good Idea?

    School Bus Seatbelts; Are they really a good idea? School buses today always seem to be upgrading with different safety features. But the question I’m asking is if these features are really as safe as they are said to be. There are many parents worried about the need for seat belts on a school bus and why they are not enforced and required like they are in other vehicles. Seats are higher now, with significantly

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Steve
  • Aids and Schools - Educating the High-Risk

    Aids and Schools - Educating the High-Risk

    AIDS and Schools - Educating the High-Risk The general population of America today is having great difficulty facing a very frightening situation. Unfortunately, rather than seek information which might lessen anxiety about the subject, many people just choose to ignore the problem. Unwillingness to deal with a problem, however, only makes matters worse, and in this case, avoidance often leads to unrestrained disgust and hatred for those members of our society who are directly affected

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Schools and American Society

    Schools and American Society

    After reading about some of the schools that are described in No Excuses I was very impressed with some of the methods that were used to help disadvantaged students. One of the teachers at Hobart Elementary School is one that I was quite impressed with. Rafe Esquith, a 5th grade teacher shows a genuine care about his students. Although school does not start until 7:58, “Esquith opens his classroom doors at 6:30 every morning

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: regina
  • Should Sex Ed. Be offered in Public Schools?

    Should Sex Ed. Be offered in Public Schools?

    Should Sex Ed. Be Offered In Public Schools? By: Jessica Blanton “ Should Sex Education be offered in Public Schools? ” Sex can be traced back as far as Adam and Eve, the first two people on this planet. Today, all age groups encounter things associated with sex, but it is not a problem that concerns everyone. The problem that has been at hand for more than thirty years is should sex education classes be

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Need for School Uniforms

    The Need for School Uniforms

    The Need for School Uniforms A safe and structured learning environment is the first requirement of a good school. Children who feel safe and secure will better learn basic American values. In return they will learn the basis of good citizenship and become better students. In response to growing levels of violence in our schools, many parents, teachers, and school officials have been forced to look toward school uniforms as one potentially positive way to

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Breathalyzer at School Functions

    The Breathalyzer at School Functions

    Recently at Longmeadow High School it became mandatory to pass an “alcohol-screening test” before entering a school dance. This breathalyzer will detect alcohol on one’s breath. No student that has been drinking will be admitted to the event. Longmeadow High School has recently purchased breathalyzers which teacher chaperones administer to all students entering a school function. This issue has brought about much conflict. Many people see it as a positive thing; however, the breathalyzer at

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    Even though we live in a capitalist society, I still cannot help but believe, despite my own cynicism, that people are more motivated to achieve something for personal satisfaction rather than monetary gains. Look at Chekov's short story, "The Bet." A man agrees to sacrifice fifteen years of his life in prison in exchange for a million dollars. Obviously his motivation for such an extreme bet is wealth, but by the end of the prison

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    Essay Length: 972 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • High School Dropouts

    High School Dropouts

    High School Dropouts Entering high school is the beginning of a whole new learning experience. Transitioning from middle school, high school presents more classes, students, and a bigger campus. It brings new expectations and responsibilities to each of us. High school also offers fresh chances to make new friends, try new sports and activities, and really explore who we are as individuals. The goal is to maintain good grades, score high on the SAT test,

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jack

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