... Professor: Jamie Pacton Student: Valeriya Zakreski Violence is a physical action to injure people or property. We can read a lot of information and watch news about violence. We can say that violence is a part of our life and he human condition. But the worst fact that today, our children are involved to this part of human condition. From child abuse to murder, to school-yard bullying, violence takes its toll, often with children being the innocent. But what can cause the violence between the children? Today we can hear a lot of information about it, as: toy guns and video games affect on the children’s health and behavior, violent homes lead children to the crime. “More than 1,000 studies on the effects of television and film violence have been done over the past 40 years. The majority of these studies reach the same conclusion: television and film violence leads to real-world violence. By age 18 an American child will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence.” Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Utah, Chairman Committee on the Judiciary. September 14,1999. Children, Violence, And the Media. A report for Parents and Policy Makers (http://ratemyschoolboard.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/children-violence-and-the-media/) The idea about that video games and movies can affect people is not confirmed; however, children’s behavior can be changed by introducing in their life the violent toys, video games, violent environment. All arguments...
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...During the plotline of this book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus defends a colored man, Tom Robinson. This decision will not only change Tom’s life, but Atticus's life, the lives of his children, and the view of the town. However, was it a good idea for Atticus to defend Tom Robinson? Yes, it was a step in the right direction getting away from discrimination and towards equal treatment. Being a moral man it gave him the right lessons to teach his children of right and wrong. Even though the real world at that time was racist and dangerous for those that didn’t share the common view. To begin with, even in today’s society we are a far way away from a perfect non discrimination society. What Atticus did by defending Tom Robinson was one step in a journey of a thousands...
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...because it defines different stereotypes, bad and good ones. Schools are still reading To Kill a Mockingbird. According to, Why Does 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Still Have Such An Impact, “Every year, students come when I teach this course, they want to work on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird. This proves that everybody is interested in To Kill A Mockingbird. As you can see To Kill A Mockingbird is still relevant to schools. Kids learn from the book To Kill a Mockingbird. “The narrator, Scout, is a delight”. “She has an ironic view of life but at the same time, is innocent”. She is also a strong female role model. It teaches kids about “discrimination, racism, cruelty” and growing up. To Kill A Mockingbird has topics that teenagers can connect with. Others might say that To Kill a Mockingbird is not relevant. “A source stated that Harper Lee doesn’t really measure up to the others in literary talent, but we like to pretend she does.” The characters are stereotypes especially Atticus Finch, Bob Ewell and Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was the brave stereotype, Bob Ewell was the bully and liar stereotype, and Atticus Finch was the brave, forgiving and kind stereotype. As you can see in To Kill A Mockingbird...
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...truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his"-Wes Moore (author). Wes Moore is an author who wrote a book about himself and someone else he knows who is coincidentally also named Wes Moore. The book is called The Other Wes Moore, and it takes place from 1982 to 2000. Currently, the other Wes Moore is in jail for murder of a police officer, robbery, and drug-dealing. The lives of both Wes Moores were affected by role models. The author Wes's role model was a military school sergeant; the other Wes's role model was a drug-dealer. The role models people choose will affect them later on in life. One example of how role models affected the other Wes's life is when...
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...educational system. It can hinder their thought process and they rely on technology more than they do their own personal ability. In theory it does not help the students in the long run, because the more they rely on technology the more they will not be able to go on ad live by themselves. Candace Gilmore and Charles Halcomb state that over the last ten years technology has been increasing in the classrooms dramatically. With the increasing technology teachers have to learn how to use them correctly and teach the students the same. “The fear that students will become lazy and rely on the technology at hand is not a big concern for many people” states Halcomb. The parents of the students see this as an opportunity to grow in their knowledge. What the parents do not know is that the students will come out to find the advantages of having technology and use it in the wrong way. They will slack off in class with texting, Facebook, and twitter. These few things are all apps on an iPod, iPhone, or any other smartphone. The teachers do not appreciate the usage of the cellphone in class. Diane Ravitch states that “We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically without a quite a lot of knowledge to think about.” Ravitch is a research professor of education at New York University (303). Professor Ravitch has published numerous books such as The Language Police: How Pressure Groups restrict what...
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...more always try to push kids to read, because that way they will be a smarter person in the future. These adults usually start by introducing Curious George, Dr. Seuss, and maybe The Hunger Caterpillar, so on. These books are funny and easy to read, also, teach how to rhyme, use and even learn a little lesson. Children later on of course without possibility of stopping the process become young adults, oh those teenagers that think they understand everything in the world, and sometimes they do. High school becomes a time to teach and assign them...
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...It is very apparent that today’s generation has changed greatly since generation of the “baby boomers”. Children in the current generation are coming into a completely different world than it was just 30 years ago. From almost every kid owning a cell phone, televisions being flat, and social networking, it is obvious this isn’t the same world that our grandparents, and even our parents were raised in. Looking back at the generation of the “baby boomers”, it’s hard to even imagine what life would have been like. The book starts out with the notion that kids these days are taught to be their selves and not care what others think. Parents of the generation me children teach their kids to do whatever makes them happy, and giving them the idea that “your way is the right way”. Also a main focus that parents and teachers both focus on is teaching the children to love themselves for who they are and have a high self-esteem. Generation me kids took these idea and ran with it. Kids these days are more individualistic than any other generation in the past. From infants, children are taught to make their own decisions, and even have an influence on the decisions made by their family. Parents and mentors of the children want them to express their selves in any way they want to and be whatever they want to be. They believe that as long their child is expresses themselves as they want, and get what they want, than that will raise the child’s self-esteem. But with children having a higher...
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...Avineet Nanjappa Fletcher English Language Arts 5th 2 March, 2016 Standardized Tests in a Better World It is March 31st and it is also STAAR day. Everyone has their study guides out, and there is free breakfast in the cafeteria. Your heart is pumping so hard you can feel it pulsing throughout your body. Students complain to their parents about having way too much studying to do. Parents across America have been complaining about their kids taking standardized tests. Teachers have been complaining about how standardized tests judge their teaching skills. Standardized tests should be abolished because it puts stress on school, and it wastes a lot of class time. Standardized tests have been around since the 1900s. In World War I, generals...
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...100328555 Critique- Violent Media is Good For Kids by Gerrard Jones In “Violent Media is Good for Kids” by Gerard Jones, Jones stated that violent media has a positive effect on children. Jones uses his own experience with his son and some other’s to show and support that violence is a good thing for kids. When a violent act occurs, the first thing people do is to place the blame on violent media; such as movies, television shows, video games, and comic books. People direct their attention to murderous, gruesome, horrific acts that occur in those types of media. They only want to blame certain media outlets because it is easier to find a reason. Gerrard Jones thinks quite the opposite. He tries to persuade the audience that in spite of all the people’s negative intensions about violent media and things they say about its effect on society, violent media is actually beneficial for the younger ones. His main argument to support his thesis is that violent media has certain benefits and positives that most people outlook. His thesis expresses that violent media is not a bad influence on children, but it does however; allow them to better express themselves. The purpose of his argument is to show the benefits of exposing our children to violent content. Violence helps mould children into an individual who can control their rage better and can even become well rounded individuals. He deems superheroes as acceptable forms of violence because they give kids the idea of powering through hurdles...
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...How many of you love a good laugh? Well for many of you SpongeBobSquare pants can provide you with a good laugh. I’ve been watching SpongeBob since I was eight sadly I have never met the voice of SpongeBob. Even if you have a bad day SpongeBob can turn that frown upside down. First, I’ll discuss who is the voice of SpongeBob, who is SpongeBob, and who made SpongeBob. I am going to start by discussing the voice of SpongeBob. Most have heard the voice of SpongeBob in other T.V. shows but could never find out who he is, it is Tom Kenny! Before becoming the voice of SpongeBob Tom was in stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. Tom Kenny was also in the show “The Dennis Miller Show.” Tom does the voice of the Ice King from Adventure Time; also the voice of Mayor in the Powerpuff Girls and the voice of Scoutmaster Lumpus from Camp Lazlo....
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...temper tantrum. Why? I didn’t get a trophy. Participation trophies have become a tradition in recreational sports that spoils and ruins the competition of sports. Recreational sports organizations shouldn’t give out participation trophies because it loses value if everybody gets one, it increases narcissism and selfishness, and it doesn’t teach good work ethic. Trophies are special because they’re for winners. They lose value if everybody gets one. To start, Brenda Iasevoli, from Time for Kids, has a quote in the article “Should Everyone Get a Trophy?” saying, “‘The trophy has to stand for something,’ Dweck told TFK. ‘If we give a trophy to everyone, then the award has no value.’” Trophies are...
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...education is a topic that everyone here should care about. Everybody has heard of the budget cuts, having the dance teachers losing a job to teach students, and to have more space for the dance studio as an outlet. My question for this topic is dance education important to public schools? Dance education is important to public schools, because dance provides benefits for students’ health and well-being. My 3 arguments about dance education are the money from the budget cuts that is ruining our education, having dance teachers losing jobs to teach students, and to have a dance studio for students if there is a problem with teachers, or family members. Dance education needs money for the program to any schools that really want to dance as an art major or minor. It is for people to have jobs as a dance choreographer to teach students how to dance. There wouldn’t be dance education without an outlet for students whether its having stress or family problems. An outlet will be really helpful for the students to do better in their academic classes when they sit down to take a test or a quiz at the classroom, and they’ll be able to dance again by expressing yourself from your body. My first reason why the dance teachers aren’t teaching the students to take dance class seriously, they will give up their jobs, and to lose the arts programs that students need to care about their education. For example, this is where it talks about the public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade...
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...everywhere. Wars define destruction. Not only does it destroy the Earth and whatnot but what a lot of us, naive people do not realise is that it also destroys the pure innocent minds of the little, chaste children. Many of us people misunderstand the concept of opening the minds of the kids to wars. The main reason why we do so is to make sure that the kids would not start any wars and let the peace on Earth sustain. Without realising the consequences, the erroneous thing that people do now is to open the minds of these children to the basic ways of starting a war. Global peace is a personal choice, hour by hour. Ask yourself, "Am I going to add to the fighting in the world? Or offer up something greater?" If you want to obtain peace, then start changing the world by changing the ways you teach these children. They are supposed to be playing hopscotch, filling in colouring books, having pets, playing hide and seek. What happened to that? I no longer see kids doing these things. Based on what I see on the Internet, parents are starting to neglect their responsibilities and instead of teaching their children good things, they are literally teaching them stuff like how to use a gun and how to use army knives. Despite the fact that these kids are still too small to be carrying out these type of activities, they are also too gullible to barely even think about the ramification of learning these stuff. Parents who train their kids to use a gun are obviously out of their minds...
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...The benefits and risks of comics in education by Corey Blake | January 30, 2013 This doesn’t come as a surprise to a lot of us, but a recent study confirms what’s been theorized for years: Comics are a stronger learning tool than text books. It’s gratifying to see for the already-converted, but it should also be a strong signal to publishers and educators that the recent exploration of comics in schools is the right way to go. After all, the brain processes images 60,000 times faster than it processes text. Image-based storytelling is a powerful educational tool. Comics are probably more able to combine story and information simultaneously, more effectively and seamlessly, than almost any other medium. Just look at how easily we superhero fans memorize our favorite character’s power levels, sound effects, costumes and history. I could chronologically sort Cyclops’ outfits over the past 50 years faster than I could list the first 10 presidents of the United States. Why? Because there is a colorful narrative in comics form tied to Cyclops that captured my imagination when I was young. Meanwhile, there was a dry narrative tied to the U.S. presidents, probably more like a litany of facts occasionally brought to life by a good teacher. That doesn’t mean a history comic needs to give George Washington a ruby-quartz visor and Spandex, of course (although that would be pretty awesome!). U.S. history is actually pretty crazy and interesting on its own, but the engagement level will...
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...during a time when not everyone is treated with respect and equality. For a young girl, Scout understands more about things in life because of her father, Atticus, a very wise lawyer who doesn’t believe in racism. Even though she knows more than other kids there are still many things she is yet to learn that cause her to ask questions without any thought about what she’s saying. She’s joined by her older brother Jem who makes sure to keep her under check to stop her from doing anything too...
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