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  • The Mississippi Poet Who Drop Ut of School

    The Mississippi Poet Who Drop Ut of School

    Works Cited Broods, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Fiction. New York: F.S. Crofts, 1943. Pages 409-414. Faulkner, William. Collected Stories of William Faulkner. New York: Random House, 1950. Mack, Mayrard. Ed. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 6th edition. Vol.2. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1992 Millgate, Michael. The Achievement of William Faulkner. New York: Random House, 1966. Minte, David. William Faulkner: His Life and Work. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins UP,

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    Essay Length: 2,832 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Child Care and Pre School

    Child Care and Pre School

    Who: 3.4 years old Josh, black male, about 15 other children What: Observation of Pre-k When: November 5,2008 7:30 until about 8:35 Where: M.O.L. Child care and Pre school Josh attends a preschool while his parents both work. His parents drop him off at the center at 7:30, and pick him up at 4:00. I started my observation with his arrival, but did not stay for the entire day. Instead, I observed Josh for one

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    Essay Length: 1,005 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2009 By: Anna
  • War on Iraq Article in High School Newspaper

    War on Iraq Article in High School Newspaper

    At 7:12PM on Wednesday, March19, 2003, President Bush authorized a full-scale war on Iraq and the Saddam Hussein led regime by uttering just two simple words. "Let's go," President George W. Bush said to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield Wednesday at the close of a nearly four-hour meeting in the Oval Office. The war on Iraq, which has been given the title "Operation: Iraqi Freedom", is the result of months of Hussein's refusal to let United

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    Essay Length: 675 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • How the Use of Drugs and Alcohol Affect High School Achievement

    How the Use of Drugs and Alcohol Affect High School Achievement

    How the Use of Drugs and Alcohol Affect High School Achievement A student at Lakeside High School, called Ann for purposes of privacy, had a grade point average of 3.6 through her sophomore year. During her junior year, she dropped out of extra-curricular activities and became withdrawn from other social activities. As she was introduced to the world of hard drugs, Ann's grades dropped to C's and D's. At her graduation party, she was rushed

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    Essay Length: 3,020 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • School Dress Code

    School Dress Code

    School Dress Codes The following essay will examine what school dress codes are and why many schools are now slowly moving this policy into there schools. School dress codes are set policies enforced by the school or school districts, by making a student wear a certain type of clothing or one basic type such as a uniform. Dress codes in schools began as early as the 50’s and 60’s when schools were on a campaign

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    Essay Length: 536 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • High School Experience

    High School Experience

    Football, to me, is more than just a game. I have probably learned more valuable lessons from it than from school. When I joined the team senior year, I didn’t realize what I was getting into. Even though I had been playing since fourth grade and knew it was hard work, nothing would prepare me for the effort I would put into football that year. We worked all summer in the weight room and ran

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    Essay Length: 428 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Monika
  • Random Drug Testing in Schools

    Random Drug Testing in Schools

    Random Drug Testing in Schools Considering the increasing use of drugs among today’s youth, drug testing in schools has become necessary. The ramifications of using these drugs are detrimental to both the individual and society as a whole. Drug testing is meant to protect students from the harmful effects and has been shown to deter drug use in a large percentage of those on whom it has been practiced. The procedures themselves are non-invasive and

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    Essay Length: 689 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Diagnosis Criteria and the Role of the School Psychologist

    Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Diagnosis Criteria and the Role of the School Psychologist

    Introduction This paper shall examine the field of child psychology in respect to the topic of conduct disorder (CD). In child psychology, conduct disorder is an extremely difficult subject to accurately address and clarify, due primarily to the need to distinguish between normal childhood behaviors and the onset or development of an actual disorder. Once a child matures to the stage where he or she is allowed into the school system, however, it becomes pressing

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    Essay Length: 2,424 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • No School Uniforms

    No School Uniforms

    No School Uniforms Constructive Speech “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin once said this, and I think It applies well to the proposed implementations of a uniform. Today, my worthy opponents try to persuade us to change our school dress code to involve a uniform. We must realize that this would not be a solution to our schools’ problems in Tazewell

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    Essay Length: 1,033 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Compair and Contrast High School Vs. College

    Compair and Contrast High School Vs. College

    High School and college are alike in numerous ways, but they are also very different. Freedom is the main difference between high school, and college, but classes, teachers, social aspects, and cost are other major ways that college differs from high school. High school is mandatory by the state, and usually free if you go to a public school. College is usually completely voluntary, and very expensive. In high school, your teachers tell you what

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    Essay Length: 913 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Advertising in Schools

    Advertising in Schools

    During last weeks class we discussed advertising in schools. I believe this to be a very controversial subject. However, I’m not quite sure on what side of the issue I stand. Advertising in schools for corporations is a positive thing. It allows them to not only leave a lasting impression in the minds of children who may become long-term buyers of their product, but it also allows them to target students directly which is

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    Essay Length: 342 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Decleration of Independence for High School Students

    Decleration of Independence for High School Students

    I have constructed new rules that I wish to be put im place. I hereby state the following as new rules regarding high school students & students attending Livingston High School in Livingston, New Jersey: No more standardized tests. SAT's, Stanfords, GEPA's, HSPA's and any other standardized test no longer will exist. They are in no way a source of seeing how much a student has accomplished and learned throughout education. It only measures how

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    Essay Length: 835 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Anna
  • High School Vs College

    High School Vs College

    High School vs. College As we go on in life we face many challenges and new situations that we deal with. A new situation that most people deal with is college and all the changes that come along with it. What many people don’t realize is that high school, in many ways, is similar and differrent from college. Not only are people changing but the surroundings and work change as well. There are some things

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    Essay Length: 1,216 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • Platte Canyon High School Girl Murdered

    Platte Canyon High School Girl Murdered

    On Wednesday a small town was shocked by the murder of a young 16 year old high school student. A 53 year old drifter, named Duane Morrison, entered the Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado. He took six female students into a classroom for nearly four hours. It is reported that he sexually abused some of them and he did not want to negotiate with police. Mr. Morrison claimed he had a bomb

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    Essay Length: 274 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Differences in Japanese and U.S. Schools

    Differences in Japanese and U.S. Schools

    Overhearing a teacher say “Education for Japanese and American students is mostly the same.” got me thinking. Is it really? I did some research on the topic and was shocked at what I found. My research did not support the teacher’s statement. First of all, the schools’ calenders and curriculums are different. In Japanese schools children go to school six days a week from 8:30 to 3:00 for 240 days a year. Compared to

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    Essay Length: 486 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • Prayer in School

    Prayer in School

    An issue that has been constantly debated for years is whether voluntary prayer in public schools should be permitted. A student should be allowed to pray voluntarily at the beginning of each school day based on many reasons. Prayer based on moral beliefs reinforce good citizenship as defined by our forefathers. A daily reminder of a need for the belief of good over evil is a necessary part of this society. Daily voluntary school prayer

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    Essay Length: 1,249 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jon
  • Abington School District Vs. Schempp

    Abington School District Vs. Schempp

    Abington School District vs. Schempp Required School Prayer In 1949, a state-wide law was passed in Pennsylvania that required public school students to read scriptures from the Bible and recite the Lord’s Prayer everyday in class. This law stayed intact until Edward Schempp challenged it nine years later. Pennsylvania wasn’t the first or the only state to enforce law making it mandatory for students to read from the Bible during school. Twenty-five additional states had

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    Essay Length: 765 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jack
  • Uniforms in School

    Uniforms in School

    Uniforms in School In both public and private schools the appeal of school uniforms remains controversial among students, parents and school officials; as a result of this, some schools have abandoned the uniform policy while at the same time other schools have initiated one. Both sides of the debate have reasonable points to their argument. While the pro-uniform side believes that uniforms help to reduce violence and drug use in schools, some research has shown

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    Essay Length: 963 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Ignorance in Your High School Principal; My Trip to His office

    Ignorance in Your High School Principal; My Trip to His office

    I walked into his office. The look on his face was distasteful. He made me feel inferior to him. Not the way you should feel around your high school principal. I didn’t feel welcome, or even accepted. His beady eyes burned holes in my skin. I sat. He gazed into my tired eyes, and he asked me the following, "What’s going on?" How am I supposed to respond to this sort of question? If I

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    Essay Length: 1,361 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Max
  • Should Random Drug Testing in Public Schools Be Allowed?

    Should Random Drug Testing in Public Schools Be Allowed?

    Should random drug testing in public schools be allowed? Pros The main purpose of random school drug testing is not to catch kids using drugs, it to keep them from ever using them. Once their using drugs its harder for them to break their addiction. With many employers drug testing its very important for a kid's future not to use drugs. Drug use is responsible for many crimes. Its worth the inconvenience for all our

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    Essay Length: 416 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Steve
  • Student Chronicles: Tales of a High School Student

    Student Chronicles: Tales of a High School Student

    Student Chronicles: Tales of a High School Student Jan. 8, 2007 A.D. It's a pretty good day, all things considered. School has just started back, I got my schedule, and I have the same classes as last semester, unfortunately, and where still on this ridiculous A day B day schedule. By the way my name is Marquis Harding, but everybody calls me "Slim." I'm in the 12th grade at Stratford high. My story takes place

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    Essay Length: 705 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Jon
  • School Uniform Requirement

    School Uniform Requirement

    It's official -- the largest school district in the U.S. has adopted school uniforms. Over a half-million elementary-school students in New York City will have to adhere to a dress code by the Fall of 1999. The president of the school board said the policy is "important to diminish peer pressure and promote school pride," but that it's not "an act of magic to transform schools overnight....It isn't going to replace good teaching, good principals,

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    Essay Length: 2,842 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mike
  • School Ties

    School Ties

    The movie starts off in World War 2; with a high amount of animosity the main character David Green is a middle class Jewish citizen who lives Scranton, Pennsylvania. He gets a scholarship to a rich school known as St. Mathews Prepatory in Massachusetts. David a Middle class citizen going to rich prep schools causes social class differences. Not only was he a Jew but he was also a middle class citizen, who was looked

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    Essay Length: 482 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Organization and Bureaucracy in Schools

    Organization and Bureaucracy in Schools

    Running Head: Organization and Bureaucratization: Strengths Weaknesses and Risks Organization and Bureaucratization: Strengths, Weaknesses and Risks The organization of schooling in the United States has been a topic of great controversy for many years. We compare ourselves to other nations weighing the pros and cons of alternative organization of education. We see the benefits of the centralized school system used in many developed European and Asian nations, but we are hesitant to move from the

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    Essay Length: 2,778 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Answering the Need for an Art Centered After-School Program

    Answering the Need for an Art Centered After-School Program

    ANSWERING THE NEED FOR AN ART CENTERED AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM Answering the Need for an Art Centered After-School Program Rhonda Bush Program Development HS 33, Kennesaw State University Abstract The need for after-school programming within the city of Marietta was investigated due to a genuine curiosity that was sparked within me while driving one after-noon. The destination that day was to simply arrive at a friend’s house to watch a movie or two. In route, I

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    Essay Length: 308 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Tommy

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