...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 kids learn. For parents, to...
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...I really did try though. After second grade I would try again and again. It wasn't until middle school came along that I stopped trying. From kindergarten till my high school graduation, I was one of the kids who got free lunch. Transitioning from elementary school to middle school was hard. I had to wake up earlier, since middle schoolers started half an hour earlier; Most of the time I would end up skipping breakfast. Then going to lunch, the only vegetarian option a lot of the time would be salads. These could not even be called salads. They were iceberg lettuce with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers. Salads did not look as appetizing as burgers or pepperoni pizza when I was going on sixteen hours of no food. Especially during this period in my life I was not healthy. I wasn't the happiest; My grades weren't the best they could've been. Now reflecting back on it, I should have been more health cautious. Maybe I would've done better on MCAS or gotten better grades in math if I had payed attention more to what I was eating, and what my body was telling me. Once high school came around I started to think differently about eating meat again. The summer going into my senior year I reduced the amount of meat I ate, and what kind of meat I would eat. I stopped eating pork and beef because I started to do my own research on animals and the cruelty they faced everyday. Learning the horrors that a poor pig has to go through in their short...
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...Leopold II brings in Stanley to help claim his kingdom and build a stronger kingdom such as England’s. Immediately into the story the author makes Stanley’s story clear and the reader could tell Stanley had a troubled background but respected those who helped him, enough to change his name to his boss’ name and “experimented with the middle names, using Morley, Morelake, and Moreland before finally settling on Morton.” Between the 1880 and 1920, there were many...
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...In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, we are lead through the events of Scout’s life and we see how those events change her. In the beginning she is just a young child who doesn’t quite understand what is going on around her, but as she watches and experiences some of the cruelty of mankind, she begins to understand the good and the evil of the world. She is an intelligent little girl who becomes somewhat insecure as she works to figure out who she is and matures greatly through her experiences. Scout is a very intelligent girl. On her first day of school, she surprises her teacher, Miss Caroline, with her incredible literacy. After having Scout read several different things, Miss Caroline realizes that Scout has already learned to read. Miss Caroline looked at Scout “with more than faint distaste” (Lee 22) because of this. Miss Caroline tells Scout that her father may no longer teach her because it will interfere with her reading, but Scout insists that her father hasn’t taught her anything. Miss Caroline refuses to believe that she...
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...date coming in my attempts to overcome the language barrier. Coming to America with little to no experience with speaking English was very challenging. Especially when Middle Easterners are frowned upon constantly because of terrorism. Being a Middle Easterner is always a battle within daily life and school. I developed into American culture, but my beginning was difficult. When I first came to America, I never learned about American culture and history. In Lebanon, they mainly taught us about Lebanese history, so I had no knowledge about American customs. As I first started my first year in middle school, it was very tough because I didn’t know how to speak English and couldn’t talk to other kids in my class. People didn’t feel comfortable to be around me because of my race. I was forced to keep my feelings inside and deal...
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...Cyber-bullying among juveniles is a growing and severely dangerous problem that most are unaware of. Many educators and legislators are afraid to cross the line of right and wrong and will not punish these children as they should be. Unsurprisingly these juveniles are doing this when the parents are not present. Surprisingly though most of these children are in elementary school and are not even old enough to have a Facebook or other social network sites. “The incidence of cyber-bullying increases during elementary school, peaks in middle school and decreases in high school.”(Snakenborg, Van Acker, Gable page 90). This goes to show that parents need to be more aware and more controlling over what their children are doing and who they are hanging out with. Cyber-bullying also has a different outcome when looking at the aspects of males and females. During face to face bullying, “males are the primary instigators and victims.” (Snakenborg, Van Acker and Gable. Page 90.) When cyber-bullying females are “25% more likely victims.”(Snakenborg, Van Aker and Gable. Page 90). This increases the one that is bullying’s control over the situation because they believe that they are reaming anonymous. Having a sense of control can heighten a juvenile’s belief that they fit in and can be with friends with a certain crowd of people. A juvenile’s behavior is a major factor into why they would bully another peer on through electronic devices. This depends on the motivation which varies from...
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...Censorship is a major topic in schools today whether it is of books, movies, or another source. These works that are being written may be very provocative or have violence in them. People often pose the question: Should we have these writings in schools, or are they unacceptable for the school environment? This question can be interpreted in two very opposite ways. The question can either be taken from the perspective that parents have the final say in what their kids learn or it can be taken from the perspective that the school curriculum and the school system knows what is best for the child's learning experience. Schools need permission from parents in order to show any book no matter how old or outdated the provocative information may be. Many parents believe that literature in schools today should be censored by them. Permission slips are sometimes given out when one may be...
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...During the Middle Ages (10th-13th Century) Aries (1960) argued that ‘the idea of childhood did not exist.’ He used works of art as evidence to show that children of that time appeared without ‘any of the characteristics of childhood; they have simply been depicted on a smaller scale.’ Children were in effect ‘mini-adults’ with the same rights, duties and skills as adults. They even dressed the same and carried out the same work. However from the 13th Century on Aries said ‘the notions of childhood were gradually emerging’ changes were beginning. Schools were specialising in purely education for children. There was a growing distinction between children’s and adults clothing. By the 18th Century, hand books were being made on rearing children, there was a sign of growing child centeredness of family life at least among the middle class. Then in the 18th-20th Century major changes happened. Laws were made restricting child labour and excluding children from work. This change was made in order to stop children from carrying out all types of labour but most importantly to stop intense or dangerous labour e.g. young boys working in mines and chimneys. Compulsory schooling was introduced 1880. The growth in industry meant that a more educated workforce was required so children went to school as they were going to be the next generation following on into this industrialised workforce.Child protection and welfare acts came into order e.g. (1889) Prevention of Cruelty to Children...
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...took this book to heart. This book took me through the unthinkable as if I were there. This adrenaline rushed science fiction made me think and feel for the women and children in the middle east. The reader will read the historical fiction of 9/11 when the horrific tragedy of the Twin Towers falling and how Afghans felt. This story is about two women who were told that they will have to endure to survive and now are actually having to do so. The reader will see two totally different life stories come together in the end. The war battles, mistreatment, cruelty, and unfairness of life are...
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...as Larry. His father was Jack Sutin, and both parents were Holocaust survivors who battled in Poland throughout World War ll. The couple married on Dec. 31, 1942, in an underground bunker in the middle of the war and lasted a deeply loving and devoted couple for sixty-eight years until her death in 2010. Rochelle’s and Jack’s lives were captured in a book and play and was told numerous times through speeches and articles. Lawrence was the author along with his father, Jack Suitn and his mother Rochelle Sutin of the memoir Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance, which was admired in the New York Times, won the Minnesota Book Award, and is quoted in teaching materials on Jewish armed resistance published by the United States Holocaust Museum. Lawrence has led a rather successful life. After he graduated from St. Louis Park High School in Minnesota, he then went on to the University of Michigan to receive an undergraduate degree in psychology and English. As risky...
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...29 April 2013 Going Vegetarian In today’s fast-paced, modern and practical society people are becoming more health conscious. This includes trying to choose the best available options for a beneficial lifestyle. They are becoming more concerned these days about the increasing health risks of a meat-based diet. On the other hand, others have taken a step further and believed that animal cruelty involved in killing animals and using them for their products is inhumane and should be outlawed. Vegetarianism used to be an unusual lifestyle choice. Today it is becoming more common and accepted by mainstream society. While there are many reasons for choosing a vegetarian diet, the most important are health reasons, environmental and economic reasons, and, above all, ethical reasons. Well as my sustainability project, a lifestyle change that is good for me and good for the planet, I decided to go vegetarian for a week meaning no meat, no gelatin, or fish. I knew I wasn’t going to have any trouble with fish because I don’t like seafood but meat, I didn’t know if I could last a whole week. March 11 was the first day I started the experiment and of course I had no trouble at all since it was the first day. I actually felt really good going into this and … It felt like nothing on the second day also and found myself just getting another César salad. From the looks of it, I thought I might actually be able to do this and accomplish my goal by not eating any meat. But I spoke too...
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...a social construction. However the traditional view for a long time is that children were essentially little adults and the most famous proponent of this theory was a French historian named Philippe Aries he wrote a controversial book called the centuries of childhood. His view was that the crucial point in the construction or invention of childhood is something that happened, especially in the 18th and the early nineteenth century, however since 1985 and 1990 there have been a vast amount of theories which have criticised Aries concepts on childhood. Aries tapped into a common belief about the middle ages, which is if the Middle Ages generally was different than it must have been different in terms of children too, so they must not have loved their children and they must not have taken good care of them. Thus taking us to the centre of the argument, being that people in the middle ages and early modern Europe had a lot of children as a sort of self defence mechanism to not invest as much in their children because they knew that half of their children would die before they reached adolescents or adulthood . For example the naming practices used, often when one child would die, the subsequent child would be given the same name as the previous one. On the other hand a number of sources have been become available through out a number of years that teach that suggest the deep emotional anguish that parents suffered at the death of their children. Although this is a speculative...
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...Hazing and Its Consequences Iliana Ng DeVry University June 25, 2014 Hazing and Its Consequences Over the years, there have been many stories published and movies made about the harmful and sometimes deadly consequences of the hazing rituals being performed by university and high school students, military personnel, professional athletes and most recently by middle school students. These rituals have affected the life of the people involve in hazing, whether is on the receiving end or on the delivering end. Educators along with the communities have confronted practical jokes, physical abuse, excessive consumption of alcohol and other humiliating and harmful events. To better understand these rituals, we look at the dictionary definition for hazing. Hazing as defined in the Marrian-Webster Dictionary is “the practice of playing unpleasant tricks on someone or forcing someone to do unpleasant things.” Others definitions found and “they typically include two main elements: (1) the initiation of new members of a particular group by more senior members and (2) activities that result in physical, psychological, and/or emotional harm” (Finley, 2011, p. 225). As noted, these unfriendly acts may sometimes be cruel jokes that sometimes lead to more serious injuries even death. Hazing dates back to Plato’s academy in 387 B.C. and it was known as pennalism. Plato associated hazing acts to those of wild animals and criticized the “practical jokes played by unruly young men...
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...Three. Two. Four. These numbers represent my frequent shifts, travels, and experiences in my life to date and to be entirely honest, I would not prefer my past differently. Three Elementary Schools. Two Middle Schools. Four High Schools. Throughout my educational career, my life appeared as though it lacked structure and consistency. Even I cannot deny that my history resembles unorthodox methods, still I remain thankful for its irregularity because it has crafted me into the insatiably curious and persistently determined person that I have become. The root of my growth and self-discovery can be found in every unique interaction and situation I have experienced from constantly moving schools. Up until this past year, I had reluctantly parted...
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...In sixth grade I entered middle school, the four different elementary schools combined so there were a lot of new people to meet. I tried to make friends with a girl by complimenting her hair, later I heard her talking to her friend about how weird I was and that I must be a lesbian because I liked her hair. The next day I casually mentioned that her nose was the ugliest thing Id ever seen with all the casualness of small talk about the weather, my friends justified my action, because she had it coming. After that I became cautious when it came to giving compliments. Later that year I noticed girls would always be putting themselves down, so that others would tell them how great they were and then they would act all annoyed and tell whoever complimented them to stop lying. This seemed like...
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