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  • School

    School

    Being in high school to me is hell, like being stuck in a box that you can’t get out of… and that deeply irritates me. My middle name is Ru Hong, which means big bird of luck which is kind of embarrassing when my friends ask me what it means; sure it’s funny but humiliating at the same time. I received that middle name from my grandparents who live in Taiwan who are very old.

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    Essay Length: 340 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Steve
  • Senior Year of School

    Senior Year of School

    The senior year of high school, what a pivotal time in a person’s life. Jim Swarthow was a senior as average as any other of his time. He grew up in an average sized town in Tennessee, and attended a high school with the population of 1,200 students. As a student he made fair grades, yet never cracked a book when he left the doors of school heading home. School was not very important to

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    Essay Length: 1,301 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Anna
  • Religion in Public Schools

    Religion in Public Schools

    Religion in Public Schools Are you religious? Do you have children? What kind of environment would you like your child in while he/she is in school? A century ago, most of America’s public schools were religious schools. Over time the state has redesigned schools in order to make schools for all children and not alienate any students. The Supreme Court then accelerated the movement in 1962 when it declared that prayer in public schools was

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    Essay Length: 632 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Anna
  • School Uniforms

    School Uniforms

    What are you wearing today? Does it reflect your personality, your heritage, your style, anything? What if you were told that you could never wear those clothes again? Would it be for the better or for the worse? Different people have different opinions about school uniforms. School uniforms create unity within a school, consequently reducing conflicts, bullying, and crime. The uniforms eliminate a source of distraction and differences among students. Families also save money by

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Top
  • Teaching World Religion in the Public School System

    Teaching World Religion in the Public School System

    Teaching World Religion In America, the idea of teaching world religion inside the public schools is often seen as reprehensible. This, unfortunately, is caused by the many different interpretations of the separation of church and state in the Constitution of America. This program of study has helped many children in other nations to have a greater awareness and understanding of the religions that surround them in the world. We believe that the teaching of world

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    Essay Length: 1,119 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: July
  • School Play

    School Play

    Characters: June: Main character, well spoken and smart (Asian) Hailey: June’s best friend, also well spoken and smart (Australian) Ali: The big and macho character that likes June (Middle Eastern) Alana: Hailey’s friend, June’s enemy Dominic: One of people in the play who is just plain funny Mr Milletti: The teacher Setting: This play is set in Picnic Point, Sydney. The school that is mentioned in the play is Picnic Point High School. SCENE 1:

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    Essay Length: 1,245 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Artur
  • Ancient Maya

    Ancient Maya

    The ancient Maya occupied a broad territory roughly the size of the state of New Mexico. This area is located in the southeastern parts of Mexico including the Yucatan Peninsula and most of the modern states of Chiapas and Tabasco, much of northwestern Central America, and including the nations of Guatemala and Belize and the western parts of Honduras and El Salvador. The earliest known villages appeared along the seacoasts (6000-2000 B.C) where there was

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    Essay Length: 2,182 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • How Holden Caufield Would Respond to High School

    How Holden Caufield Would Respond to High School

    “How Holden Caulfield Would Respond To High School” A high school is a very informative learning environment, albeit a very interesting one. The school presents a wide variety of people in a wide variety of surroundings. Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher In The Rye, would not be unreasonably out of place in high school, but a few peculiarities would stick out. Holden Caulfield would be teed off middle scholars

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    Essay Length: 557 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Why Is Violence in Our Children’s Schools Increasing?

    Why Is Violence in Our Children’s Schools Increasing?

    Why is violence in our children's schools increasing? Our society wonders what the child that opens fire against his or her classmates are feeling or what's on their mind. I believe that the lack of parental involvement in the student's life may cause violence. Media violence can also be looked at as a potential cause for the increase in school violence. With the divorce rates skyrocketing, children spend less time with their parents, and the

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    Essay Length: 373 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: regina
  • School Uniforms

    School Uniforms

    School Uniforms Does a school uniform make your child safer? In studies done by several well know psychologists it is overwhelming the difference that a school uniform can make. Children are less violent, more aware of their studies and less likely to steal. School uniforms can make for a safer and more productive learning environment for your children. In the first example we are showing public schools without uniforms. This produces more violent behavior in

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    Essay Length: 435 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Andrew
  • School Uniforms

    School Uniforms

    An on going debate continues currently in America regarding uniform policy suggested to public and private schools. Thinking about this issue has led me to believe that making school uniforms mandatory would help improve schools in this country in many ways. First and most important, school uniforms would eliminate the pressure of fitting in and relieve the tensions between the new students and those who are already there. A dress code will expedite the process

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    Essay Length: 253 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Huck Finn Book Banning Project. Why It Should Be Banned from Public School Curriculum.

    Huck Finn Book Banning Project. Why It Should Be Banned from Public School Curriculum.

    Book Banning Project 'Huck Finn' a masterpiece -- or an insult Renton High revisits teaching of book after objections raised Wednesday, November 26, 2003 By GREGORY ROBERTS SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/149979_huck26.html 'It's not just a word' "Huckleberry Finn," first published in 1885, chronicles the journey of a rough-hewn, 13-year-old white boy and a runaway slave down the Mississippi River on a raft through the antebellum South. What's wrong with the book, Clark, Phair and

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    Essay Length: 1,660 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Edward
  • School Uniforms Dont Stop School in Violence

    School Uniforms Dont Stop School in Violence

    What's more, it's still unproved to many that having Johnny wear a tie to school, and Susie a plaid skirt, will help them learn better. And critics of uniforms point out that most policies have been adopted at the elementary school level, which is not where the serious problems of violence and gang activity have flared. In fact, when uniforms were tried at Forestville High School in Prince George's a few years ago, ''the

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    Essay Length: 510 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Ice Girls Finish First

    Ice Girls Finish First

    Nice Girls Finish First Gender roles are how society defines men and women. There are many different categories. Some women are “homemakers,” others are “rebels,” some are “bookworms,” and some are “brilliant.” In Edith Wharton’s short story, “Roman Fever,” the females begin as two different stereotypes and end as something unexpected. Even the title, “Roman Fever” has an unforeseen meaning, proving that things are not always what they seem. Even the most sheepish woman can

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    Essay Length: 1,213 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Jon
  • Identifying Problems and Issues in Developing and Implementing 504 Plans and I.E.P. Plans in South Carolina Schools to Ensure Appropriate Education for Exceptional Children.

    Identifying Problems and Issues in Developing and Implementing 504 Plans and I.E.P. Plans in South Carolina Schools to Ensure Appropriate Education for Exceptional Children.

    Identifying problems and issues in developing and implementing 504 Plans and I.E.P. Plans in South Carolina schools to ensure appropriate education for exceptional children. December 11, 2005 Abstract Special needs students were identified by Parent/Student Advocates serving Horry, Georgetown and Anderson Counties in South Carolina with the written consent of the parents and students. When appropriate, the files containing 504s and I.E.P.s (Individualized Education Plans), psychological assessments, doctors’ reports, outside assessment by psychologist, neuro-psychologist,

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    Essay Length: 3,782 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Transition to a Magnet School

    Transition to a Magnet School

    Intro a. Genocide happens when a group of people decide or are convinced that it is normal and ok to destroy a race, slavery happens when a group of people decide it is normal or ok to enslave generations of a "sub -human " race. Negative social norms are the single most dangerous conditions found in any community. social norms have existed since the beginning of humanity. A social norm can be defined as a

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    Essay Length: 261 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Top
  • The Value of Critical Thinking Skills Taught in School

    The Value of Critical Thinking Skills Taught in School

    Schools do not place a high value on intellect, we would rather have our children be sociable than scholarly. Schools are places where we send our children to get a practical education, not a place to pursue knowledge. Strange, but true these learning institutions place more value on how popular a child is rather than how much we can teach them to use their brain. Without teaching our children the ability to think critically,

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    Essay Length: 482 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Jon
  • Military Recruiting in School

    Military Recruiting in School

    Military Recruiting in School A teenager in high school is very vulnerable in what lies ahead of them. We make decisions based on instinct and what appeals to us before any thought process happens. And with the military recruiting officers coming to our high schools I think it’s a good attempt on building our Military forces. Do I think this is the right thing to do, well no. It’s an easy way to mislead and

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    Essay Length: 443 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mike
  • High School Experiences

    High School Experiences

    Essay So far, my high school experience has been one of many choices being made. Throughout these past three years I have had to make many choices, many of which have impacted my relationship with my friends, teachers, and coaches. However, no decision was harder than one I made this year in this past soccer season. This decision was not exclusively my own but one I shared with my father. This dilemma involved pulling me,

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    Essay Length: 623 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Graduation by Mya Angelou

    Graduation by Mya Angelou

    Maya Angelou’s The Graduation Throughout life graduation, or the next level of growth, is sometimes known with the circumstance of the grand ceremony, but many times the graduation is not as exciting. In the moving essay, "The Graduation," by Maya Angelou applies three strategies - an expressive voice, illustrative comparison and contrast, and flowing sentences with imagery - to see the truth about humans caught in the line of racial discrimination. In a great

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    Essay Length: 514 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: regina
  • Public Vs. Private Schools

    Public Vs. Private Schools

    Private education and public education both has his similarities and differences. Most educators, parents have bought into a belief that education can be "religion-neutral". They are convinced that teachers can train the mind without shaping attitudes, behavior, or spiritual beliefs. The company goes something like this: the government schools will supply the raw data (the "neutral" facts), and parents can add the value system at home. Even in school is that try their level best

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    Essay Length: 2,727 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Dropping High School

    Dropping High School

    Daniel Medina Due Date: 9/6/2005 English Comp. Writing Assignment #1 Although I've only been alive for twenty years, I have had many experiences that have been significant enough to change the way I am. When we are young we are just learning about life. The definition of young, according to Dictionary.com is as follows; being in an early period of life, development or growth. I think there are a lot of experiences that have helped

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    Essay Length: 669 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens. Easy a for Year 10, High School

    The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens. Easy a for Year 10, High School

    The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens is a pre-20th century short story, written in around 19th century. It is a Gothic story as a genre. A Gothic story is a type of romantic fiction that predominated in English literature. The Gothic novel emphasized mystery and horror and was filled with ghost haunted rooms, underground passages, and secret stairways. These ingredients are essential and crucial for Gothic story in order to create suspense to the readers. In

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: regina
  • High Law School Tuition Prohibits Graduates from Public Service Careers

    High Law School Tuition Prohibits Graduates from Public Service Careers

    Since the early 1970s there has been a steep and persistent rise in the costs of legal education and in the tuitions law schools charge. From 1990 to 2003 the average cost of public education rose 234 percent and the cost of private education rose 118 percent. The average tuition for a public law school is $10,820 for a state resident and $20,171 for a non-resident. The average tuition for a private law school has

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    Essay Length: 1,549 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Vika
  • Bullying in Schools: Causes, Effects and Possible Solutions

    Bullying in Schools: Causes, Effects and Possible Solutions

    Pansy, nerd, drip, and creep: these are just a few of the horrible slurs that schoolyard bullies, and many other popular students, direct toward their ostracized, vulnerable peers in the hallowed halls that form the American public school system. In and of themselves, these malicious words can quickly erode the self-esteem of their victims; however, words are not the only tool employed in the oppression of unpopular students. Violence towards the weak and emotionally

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    Essay Length: 2,028 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Artur

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