...Outline of “Letters to the Editor” There are two letters one from each side of two different views on filming children left alone, making their own decisions on living life, and then broadcasting it. There is one pro the idea and one against it. The letter pro the idea comes from Andrew Mackenzie, head of factual entertainment and he writes that every show that is broadcasted had to follow Ofcoms’ guidelines. That means that the children were in good hands throughout the whole program. The parent was always nearby and had the opportunity to intervene whenever they wanted, and withdraw their kid from the program. This gave the parents the insight on their kids’ behaviour when they are not around. The opposite letter was written by Dr Richard House, Senior lecturer in psychotherapy from Roehampton University. He makes it clear in his letter that it is impossible to secure the inner environments for any people no matter who you are, especially children. The psyche of children is very fragile, and is not to be toyed with. Andrew Mackenzie also states that all of the children participating were carefully casted and screened by experts so that the children could cope the whole situation and experience. The parents had access to advice and support at any time needed, and all safety measures were taken care of. The children’s wellbeing were at all time the top priority. As an answer to that Dr Richard House states that it is simply impossible to select and pick out children that...
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...Statutory Rape Laws Patronizing To Girls and Discriminatory To Boys Cover letter The purpose of the essay was to show that there is discrimination in the statutory laws where the boys are the ones who suffer. When there is sex between two teenagers below the age of 16, the girl I protected while the boy is charged. Charging the boy alone while they are both supposed to be protected by the same law is discriminatory. The essay seeks to show this using the case of a 14-year-old boy and three girls. From completing the topic, I learn more about statutory rape and the legal age of consent to sex. I learnt that statutory rape was initially meant for protecting girls from older male advances. However, with the advocacy of equal rights for both sexes, all children must be protected. During the research, I encountered several problems especially with finding relevant sources for information. Most scholarly articles addressed statutory laws without considering discrimination of boys. Therefore, finding the relation between statutory rape and discrimination of boys was challenging. Additionally it was hard to find materials relating to young boys since most statutory rape cases focused on older mature offenders with minors. I enjoyed learning about the statutory law and its consideration for boys in the current are. In addition, I enjoyed learning about the arguments posed by both sides, despite supporting the claim that it discriminated boys. The topic was interesting and enjoyable...
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...Reality TV shows on children “Boys and girls alone” is a reality show aired in England in 2009. The protagonists, twenty boys and girls aged 8-11, live alone in two villages (one for the boys and one for the girls) without parents, and have to cook, clean, manage money, etc.,by themselves. In the texts I have been given to read, I am presented to three points of view about the show, from: Andrew Mackenzie, Head of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4, and one of the responsible for the making of “Boys and Girls Alone”. Dr. Richard House, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy. Audrey Scott, the mother of one of the kids in the show. In the first one, A. Mackenzie defends the show from criticism and explains that the children were “carefully chosen and screened by experts” and that they lived in a “protected environment with around-the-clock security during production”. He also claims that parents were allowed to withdraw their child at any time.All in all, he can only see positivity about the show. In the second one, Dr. R. House criticizes the show, and calls it “prurient Lord of the Flies sensationalism”. He disapproves of the whole concept, and goes as far as saying the show is equal child cruelty. He also urges Channel 4 to reveal the identity of the “experts” who chose and screened the children before going to the show, so they can enter into a public dialog. He is very critical about the culture in general as well, which he means to be superficial celebrity-obsessed...
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...Plot Overview As an ambulance arrives for the body of Mary Lisbon, the final Lisbon suicide, a group of neighborhood boys recalls the events of the past thirteen months. It is June in suburbia, school is out, and summer has begun. Cecilia Lisbon, who at thirteen is the youngest of five cherubic Lisbon sisters slits her wrists while taking a bath. Her life is saved, but the hospital psychiatrist recommends that she be given a social outlet outside of school. Mr. Lisbon and Mrs. Lisbon allow the girls to throw a chaperoned party, at which Cecilia seems oblivious to her sisters and to the neighborhood boys who come as guests. Just as the party's awkwardness begins to abate, Cecilia asks to be excused. Ascending to her bedroom, she jumps out the window onto the fence below, and dies instantly. Since the local cemetery workers are on strike, Cecilia cannot be buried, but is given last rites and taken to the mortuary freezer. The shocked community tries to come to terms with her death, the first death in the boys' lifetime. The tragedy only makes the remaining Lisbon sisters more fascinating to the boys, who manage to obtain Cecilia's surprisingly mundane diary and read it aloud obsessively to each other, imagining themselves into the girls' lives. Yet they can neither find nor intuit a ready explanation for her death. Unsure of how to console the reclusive Lisbons, the neighborhood women send flowers, while the men organize to remove the fence on which Cecilia landed...
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...policy intervention point. The foods schools sell and the physical activity environments they foster can influence dietary behaviors and overall physical activity. Using secondary data from a nationally representative sample of children from the kindergarten class of 1998-1999 and nonexperimental methods, this study examines the associations between the food and physical activity environments in school and body mass index (BMI) for low-income boys and girls in the 8th grade during 2007. Results reveal that participating in school sports is associated with a 0.55 lower BMI score for boys. For low-income girls, eating the school breakfast is associated with a 0.70 higher BMI score and eating the school lunch is associated with a 0.65 higher BMI score. Each hour spent on homework is associated with a 0.02 higher BMI score for low-income girls. These findings suggest that schools may influence adolescent BMI and that there is room for improvement in school food and physical activity environments to promote healthier weights for lowincome boys and girls. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2014;114:250-256. Keywords: School food environment School physical activity environment Competitive food and beverages Body mass index (BMI) Copyright ª 2014 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2212-2672/$36.00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2013.07.046 BESITY, A LEVEL OF BODY FATNESS ASSOCIATED with poor health outcomes, has become a serious public health concern in the...
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...policy intervention point. The foods schools sell and the physical activity environments they foster can influence dietary behaviors and overall physical activity. Using secondary data from a nationally representative sample of children from the kindergarten class of 1998-1999 and nonexperimental methods, this study examines the associations between the food and physical activity environments in school and body mass index (BMI) for low-income boys and girls in the 8th grade during 2007. Results reveal that participating in school sports is associated with a 0.55 lower BMI score for boys. For low-income girls, eating the school breakfast is associated with a 0.70 higher BMI score and eating the school lunch is associated with a 0.65 higher BMI score. Each hour spent on homework is associated with a 0.02 higher BMI score for low-income girls. These findings suggest that schools may influence adolescent BMI and that there is room for improvement in school food and physical activity environments to promote healthier weights for lowincome boys and girls. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2014;114:250-256. Keywords: School food environment School physical activity environment Competitive food and beverages Body mass index (BMI) Copyright ª 2014 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2212-2672/$36.00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2013.07.046 BESITY, A LEVEL OF BODY FATNESS ASSOCIATED with poor health outcomes, has become a serious public health concern in the...
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...William Stafford’s short story The Osage Orange Tree. William Strafford was born in Kansas in 1914. He dealt with adolescence during the Great Depression in the 1930s - just as the boy in The Osage Orange Tree. Osage Orange Tree tells the story about a boy who starts the year in high school in a small prairie town. On that very first day, he notices a girl who’s keeping to her self and for some reason - he wants to talk to her. But he doesn’t. He meets her, though, by an Osage orange tree near her house when he’s selling papers. Her name is Evangeline and she tells him that her father might want to buy the papers, and therefore he returns to the Osage orange tree everyday to bring them to her. Nevertheless, he doesn’t have the courage to talk to her at school so they only meet and talk by the Osage orange tree. When graduation day comes, the girl isn’t at school and the boy feels the need to see her. He finds the janitor at school who happens to be Evangeline’s older brother, who tells the boy, that Evangeline stole the money for her new graduation dress and that’s why she isn’t at school. The boy hurries to her house but doesn’t find her there. He returns to the tree, but finds all the papers he ever sold her, thrown under the bridge on the path between her house and the tree. The narrator is the boy, which the story revolves around. At first he’s quite reluctant to talk to people, because he believes that “In a strange town, if you’re quiet, no one notices, and some may like...
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...A shy boys’ first year at camp turns into a real life horror story when he’s brutally bullied and decides to seek revenge. . BRIEF SYNOPSIS: In 1964, HARMON HEATH (14) runs away from Camp Kinasaka. He sifts through the black swamp where a disembodied arm reaches out from beneath the water. Harmon wanders to Happy House, a home for the mentally unfit. He’s found by two orderlies and taken in. They believe he’s from the summer camp. Harmon tells the orderlies that he had to kill them. In 1969, Heath (now 20) escapes from the Happy House. He returns to the camp and hides in cabin 2. Kids sit around a campfire telling horror stories about camp, including the story about Harmon Heath, SHERMAN a boy found dead in cabin 2, and a little girl GEORGIA HINES (7), who went missing near cabin 2....
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...Compare and Contrast Has it ever been hard to be yourself? Well in the article Skinny Tomboy Kid and Bad Boy they both had a hard time being themselves. They both had similar challenges and they both had different challenges. In Skinny Tomboy Kid the character was a girl and liked what boys like and in Bad Boy the kid was a boy and liked what girls like. There were a lot of similarities between the two articles. One similarity is that both of the kids liked what the opposite gender liked. The second similarity that I noticed between the two characters is that that both had no friends and were lonely. The third similarity I noticed is that they think it’s ok to be themselves and they continue to do what they like to do. The fourth similarity...
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...How to Bully-Proof Young Girls Bullying and nasty cliques start as early as elementary school. By observing the social situation, connecting with the child and guiding the child to the point that she is supported in her actions. Some of young girls were enmeshed long struggle with a friend. They felt so alone and isolated that didn't talk about it with anyone, but she took that to heart as being her problem and really was silent for a while. This problem began influencing their future life. Common misperception that is only happens when light in middle school and high school. The reality is that the roots are all in elementary school. Girls as young as kindergarten are facing significant social challenges without the resources, without the tools and most important, without the support to best manage them. Many girls are facing friendship struggles alone and various degrees of social cruelty. Parents think that use their own way to solve problem. But the problem is, for the girls themselves; it's isolating them further, because it's basically saying to them, "This is your problem to figure out by yourself. Among young kids, bully case is more common among girls compare with boy, because girls more often use social power to have influence over their peers, and boys more often use physical intimidation to have power over their peers. Teachers, guidance counselors, principals, social workers — there are a slew of people in these school districts whose purpose is to help...
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...Females are more likely to involve their emotion when reacting to things where males tend to react and then think. Twenty Seven percent of young females made up the juvenile arrests in 1999 and only rose one percent in 2000. Young females are less likely to commit a crime that causes harm to others, yet they are more likely to commit a crime that causes harm to themselves. (Einstein Law, 2008). When a child is born they way they are treated and trained depends on their gender, boys are taught to be more dependent and leave the home when they get older to see the world, where girls are taught more of a dependency since they are more likely to be a victim of crime. Trying to keep a girl safe a parent may decide to keep the girl from experience the world as fast as they would a boy. Because of this, boys are more likely to commit a crime than a girl is. The way a child is socialized can determine the way they will react to things, as they get older. Girls are socialized to be feminine and more subdued where a boy is...
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...I think this week discussion is very hard to tell because no sport shouldn’t be segregated it doesn’t matter if boy or girl, adult, and children. I feel that sport should be a fun and healthy activities for anybody without being segregated. For example, When I was in elementary and high school boy and girl play together it doesn’t matter what type of sport activity in PE it was just for fun. I never experience when a boy would play rough during sport activity with girl. We always get alone and care for each other enjoy playing kickball or flag football. There might be other reason why sport is sex-segregated for young children, teens, and adult there might be conflict like there a certain sport boy are good and girl not. Another point that...
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...They know that the cops are going to come after them, so they seek Dally out for help. Dally gives the boys $50, a gun, and suggest that they go to a hideout he knows about. The boys escape on a freight train and Dally takes them to an abandoned church, were they changed their appearances and, hideout until the situation wears down. They pass their time by playing cards, talking about life, and ponyboy reads “Gone with the wind” because enjoys reading. Cherry goes to testify for Johnny and states that Bob was in a drunken state and Johnny killed him in a self defense act. Johnny hears the news and wants to turn himself in, he believes that the cops will see that it was a self defense act and give him some slack. While gone to DQ with Dally, a group of young kids on a field trip go into the aboned house and it catches on fire from a cigarette. The boys run to go save the kids and successfully get the kids out, but Johnny gets caught inside the house fire and Ponyboy gets his leg broken. The boys are forced to go back to their hometown. While in the hospital Johnny dies of his burn injuries leaving the gang in...
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...ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This research project would not have been possible without the support of many people. The authors wish to express their gratitude to the following individuals who generously offered help, invaluable assistance, support and guidance: The Almighty God, for giving the researchers the strength, courage and good health to carry out this study. Parents of the researchers, for their never-ending all out support morally and financially, for the encouragement that made the completion of this work possible; Mr. Paul Sherwind Belciña, the adviser, for being there, guiding the researcher and sharing his expertise and knowledge; Dr. Imelda Lagrito, the Chairman for the Social Behavioral Sciences, for assisting and permitting the researchers to conduct this study in the Department’s Psychotherapy Laboratory and for being one of the respectable panelists, for her intellectual advice and support in pursuing this research to its completion; Dr. Arlene Sotelo, the researcher’s thesis coordinator for her patience and understanding towards blemishes. To the panel members; Miss Najie B. Responte, Dr. Virginia P. Mollaneda, Dr. Araceli P. Villacarlos, and Dr. Louise Anne D. Librando for their valuable suggestions and intellectual advice for the refinement of this study; Dr. Leovigildo Manalo, the researcher’s statistician for sharing his knowledge and skills with the statistical procedure needed for the study. Dr. Renita Calago, Principal for the Elementary Department...
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...remember that a person’s sex is different than a person’s gender. “Gender is learned. Gender is what people think about being boys or girls growing into men and women. These attitudes and behaviors are learned from society and the culture that people live in. Gender is not what we “are” but what we “do” ”. Society as a whole, teachers , and parents collectively and respectively “teach” gender roles in many different ways. There are many problems if children learn that boys and girls can do only certain things. Those children may not get a chance to use their talents. It is not fair for some children to be able to do things when others cannot. Everyone can help children to use all their talents. Society, teachers and parents can help girls learn to do active things and also quite things. They can teach boys to be gentle and also compete. Children do not need to worry about whether activities are “boy things” or “girl things. “Children who don’t worry about gender roles seem to feel better about themselves. They learn who they are more quickly than other children. They learn to be good at being children, not just being boys or girls.” 1. IMPACT OF WORD USAGE ON GIRLS AND BOYS The impact of feminine words such as passive, sympathetic, cautious, and intuitive all on girls by saying things like “ Let me show you how girls...
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