...Stella Anderson Persuasive Essay Speech Class 11/19/2014 Bullying: Real Harm Deserves Real Consequences During the school year, children go off to school to get an education. Unfortunately for some, getting a good education can feel almost impossible. Imagine a child not wanting to go to school because they are afraid to. Imagine the child’s grades dropping because they cannot concentrate. Most would agree that they would want to do everything they can for their children to be comfortable going to school and feeling safe. The ongoing and growing problem that is causing such disturbance is bullying. Bullying is a social interaction where a more dominant individual, who is the bully, exhibits aggressive behavior that is intended to, and does, in fact, cause distress to a less dominant individual which is the victim. The aggressive behavior can be direct physical contact and/or a verbal attack that can be direct or indirect (Bullying). Bullying includes harassment, intimidation to varying degrees, taunting and ridicule (Ferrell-Smith). About 50% of high school students said they have bullied someone in the past year. Forty seven percent said they had been bullied, teased or taunted in a way that seriously upset them in the past year. Nearly 40% of bullied girls and 46% of bullied boys in grades 3 through 12 have been bullied a year or longer, yet fewer than 50% of bullied students have told a parent (Billitteri). Many students that are being bullied are suffering silently...
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...The Evolving Role of Government in Education In society today, education is mainly funded by the government and almost govern by the government’s body or by a non-profit institution. The federal government has little to do with the operating of public school. Although when they intervene, a great change is made for the best in education. The government makes sure that a free education is provided for all children even if there may be a disability problem. The Federal Government role is not to get too involved with the public education, but it does assist public schools through a list of legislative actions. According to (Moore 2001), the first interaction of IDEA, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act, passed more than 35 years ago, had several positive elements. Regardless of the level of disability, a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) is available for all children. In order to meet the needs of students with disabilities, an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) was established. Some students have different levels of disabilities that may require the 504 Plan. Students who qualify for this plan may not be listed as a special education student. Never the less they still may have some other type of disability they have trouble doing without some assistance. The 504 Plan should be developed by a committee that consists on the student, parent, teacher, counselor, and the 504 coordinator. In 2002, Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)...
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...Born in Alabama in 1891, the prestigious Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the greatest writers of twentieth- century African American literature. As a leader in the Harlem Renaissance Hurston was credited for protecting the rights of African Americans through her folk writing style. However, one of the books I read by her quickly changed my perspective of her and I soon realized that she was not only a proud supporter of African American rights, but women`s rights as well. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston uses character Janie Crawford to speak out against the unjust treatment of women in their marriages. Zora Neale Hurston is an inspiring figure to me because she taught me the importance of self-reliance and how to...
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...This is evidence is backed by “The Annenberg School of Cultural Communicators Project which found that between the years of 1969 to 1978 only 2.5% of primetime television characters were Hispanic”. The reason why this figure means is so significant is because that figure is behind other minorities like the African American population who are comprised of 8.5% of primetime television characters. There was another study that was conducted by “The...
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...Canyon University: NRS-430V January 10, 2016 Controversy over the entry level educational requirements to the nursing profession has been on-going since the inception of the two-year degree program by Mildred Montag in 1952. This educational model was meant to be a temporary solution to a critical nursing shortage post WWII but became a mainstay of nursing education to present day. Therefore, the debate between various state educational programs, nursing organizations, and other interest groups has continued for over half a century without formal resolution (Mahaffey, E. 2002). Additionally the reality that both associate degree (ADN) and baccalaureate degree (BSN) prepared nurses gain the title of RN by passing the same board examination only increases the confusion surrounding these two program levels of nursing education. Examination of these different educational preparation pathways in the level of nurses’ competencies requires discussion for the nursing profession to evolve while continuing to utilize both ADN and BSN prepared nurses. The primary educational focus for an ADN is hands-on bedside care of patients. The BSN educational focus encompasses the ADN model along with public and community health care, and leadership development within the nursing field. The different degree levels is advantageous because ADN programs provide a population source for BSN programs. Associate program graduates continuing their education to complete additional nursing related degrees...
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...Keesha Coaxum Ashford University PPA699: Policy Development Professor Pantaleo February 14, 2014 The American Welfare Reform is no stranger to society; rather Welfare has been a topic of controversy for many years. Many believe that the state of Welfare has become a dependency catalyzed by government; others may differ in this controversy. This paper will reflect the controversy of the Welfare Reform Act, its role in public policy, and does it cause recipients of its use to develop a dependency and does government play a part in not producing productive workers in society. The controversy of Welfare is not one that government has found to be an ethical issue. Democrats see its needs for American families in need and Republicans see it as a state of dependency brought on by the Democrats. Welfare is not only a federal issue but rather a federal and state issue collectively. Although its funding comes from federal government, it’s allocated to states where welfare is implemented. America’s welfare system for cash assistance has been the support system for mothers and children for decades. Welfare has become a dependency for families who have lost their jobs, are disabled, or cannot get employment due to America’s poor economic system. It has become a “shrunken piece of America’s social safety net” (Goldstein, 2010). Being dependent on welfare is not healthy. Welfare is a dependency because families are provided financial...
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...COMMUNITY | Strengths | Charitable Giving | The company has consistently given over 1.5% of trailing three-year net earnings before taxes (NEBT) to charity, or has otherwise been notably generous in its giving. | Support for Housing | The company is a prominent participant in public/private partnerships that support housing initiatives for the economically disadvantaged, e.g., the National Equity Fund or the Enterprise Foundation. | Support for Education | The company has either been notably innovative in its support for primary or secondary school education, particularly for those programs that benefit the economically disadvantaged, or the company has prominently supported job-training programs for youth. | Indigenous Peoples Relations | The company has established relations with indigenous peoples in the areas of its proposed or current operations that respect the sovereignty, land, culture, human rights, and intellectual property of the indigenous peoples. KLD began assigning this strength in 2000. In 2002 KLD moved this strength rating into the Human Rights area. | Non-US Charitable Giving | The company has established substantial, innovative charitable giving programs outside the U.S. In 2002 KLD stopped assigning strengths for Non-U.S. charitable giving in the Non-U.S. category, companies with exemplary giving programs outside the U.S. are tracked in the Community area. | Other Strength | The company has an exceptionally strong volunteer program, in-kind...
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...Year in Review The 111th Congress met for the last time this week, leaving in its wake a year of education highs and lows. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is grappling with how to sell its education reform agenda—outlined over the course of this past year—to an increasingly divided Congress. Here’s ASCD’s take on the nation’s main policy accomplishments (and failures) related to education during the past year, and our quick look at what’s in store when the 112th Congress takes over in January. ESEA Déjà Vu The congressional year ends essentially where it began with regard to the most significant piece of federal education legislation, which is more than three years beyond its expiration date. That isn’t for a complete lack of trying. The past year saw increasing clarity from the Obama administration about its education reform priorities. The March release of A Blueprint for Reform (PDF) outlined the president’s vision for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization, from ensuring that all students are college and career ready to providing great teachers and leaders in every school. Congress responded by scheduling hearings on ESEA reauthorization, including a Senate hearing that focused on how to support the whole child. Clare Struck, a guidance counselor from Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls, Iowa (the 2010 Whole Child Vision in Action winner), testified at this hearing on ASCD's behalf. Late in the summer, the House and Senate...
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...Clearly few things rile people up more than religion and politics. These controversial topics fascinate and titillate the best of us including William H. Jennings, author of Storms over Genesis and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Muhlenberg College. His investigative work into the interpretations of the first three chapters of the most famous book in the world, the Bible, gives the reader insight into the environmentalist views, feminist views, and those of creationists. By seeking clarification of the various creation stories, Jennings tries to illuminate the current scholarly views of this ancient text including the origin and timeline of the Earth. The Earth has been in existence for quite some time. Just how long is still unknown, but scientists, especially environmental Darwinists, estimate the Earth is 4.55 billion years old (Jennings 86). But the date of Earth’s origin and the presence of man are two separate questions depending on if one relies on biblical references or stories, creationism, which put the age of the world, the beginning of creation between 6,000-10,000 years (77) or modern science. A Gallup poll found supporters of each side to be fairly split, forty-six percent towards creationism and thirty-six percent pointing to Darwinism as the correct derivation (88). Why is the question of Earth’s origin so germane? According to many, because Genesis only deals with God’s creation of man in His image, and science can prove the existence of “pre-Adam” man dating...
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...According to marijuana Addiction Treatment, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reports that nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population above the age of 12 has used marijuana at some point (2011). The statistics of using marijuana was shocking for me and it made me get interested in various drug issues and the drug policy in America. When I was searching for the drugs, I realized that legalization of marijuana is the hottest issue recently in America. So, I want to discuss about the legalization of marijuana by exploring its history why marijuana became illegal, how media describe marijuana and its impact on community. Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in America. It has been used for thousands of years. Government prohibited marijuana because it is really addictive and it contains chemicals that can change how the brain works. However, there is a hidden fact behind the reason why marijuana was banned. Marijuana was prohibited not based on scientific and medical evidence, but on racism, personal career advancement and greed. Harry J. Anslinger became the first head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and he declared war on drugs in 1930. He banned opium and cocaine, but he thought prohibiting these two drugs are not enough to collect high budget. So, he decided to add marijuana to the list in order to build his career and his agency. And he also said “Marijuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eyes, step on white men’s shadows and look...
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...ffirmative Action Cannot Erase Years of Oppression For forty years the issue of affirmative action has been subject to a tremendous amount of debate and controversy. When President Kennedy proposed the idea of preferential treatment in 1961, the nation was in the midst of radical changes regarding civil liberties. It was a time when the injustices imposed upon minorities were beginning to be recongnized, and people wanted to make up for the years of oppression that served as a barrier for the advancement of minorities in America. At the time, the idea was morally justified and socially appropriate. While it is still a morally commendable effort today, the system has become an attempt to atone for the sins of our country's past, and a double standard that threatens every citizen's liberties. The first problem with affirmative action is the obvious fact that it is an attempt to end discrimination with discrimination. When a company or university discriminates against a white male for the sake of bettering the outcome of another racial group, an injustice occurs. Affirmative action is the governmental legislation of the active discrimination of one person over another—an unacceptable and dangerous double standard. Secondly, affirmative action seeks to reconcile the injustices of the past. The horrible atrocities of the past, including slavery and the refusal to grant women and minorities the right to vote, cast an ugly shadow on the history of our nation. But affirmative...
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...Deborah Hastings SEC 501 February 24, 2016 Mr. M Analyzing Changes in Education We’ve come a long way, baby! Over the past 100 years of public education in the great state of Alabama, changes in education have been literally fought for by blood, sweat and tears. However, with the desegregation issues from 1964 closed for the past 50 years, state legislatures still find plenty of arguments concerning public education reforms. Most of these arguments, though, are essentially concerns about federal control over state. Thanks to several federal acts, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 the students of Alabama schools are all getting a better education. Just by these two acts, eyes have been opened. A common interest of community stakeholders demands a higher standard of education for all students. These acts lead to major changes in Alabama schools such as anti-discrimination in schools, Common Core Standards and actually teaching evolution and climate change in Science classes! Anti-Discrimination in Schools If anybody knows anything about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they should know that the state of Alabama fought hard to keep schools segregated. Even after the 1954 Supreme Court’s ruling of Brown v. Board Education of Topeka that was supposed to end school segregation, Alabama continued for the next ten years to keep schools segregated (Hall, J. para.8) The African-Americans fought hard for integration into...
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...Analyzing the DREAM Act Controversy Immigration reform has become a topic of a lot of debate among United States’ politicians in the past few years. Ever since its introduction in the Senate on August 1, 2001, the DREAM Act has been in the center of a lot of disputes. Every year, 65,000 teenagers who arrived at the United States illegally graduate from American high schools. Boys and girls that were brought into the United States by their parents at an early age, and who see this country as their home. However, most of these students will be denied a college education, as well as a fair chance to pursue their goals and ambitions, all because they are undocumented citizens. The DREAM Act aims to change this, but it has and will continue to...
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...Nayar: The Misunderstood Society The Nayar of India is made up of numerous castes of a society still based off of many old traditions. This specific society has drawn much attention and controversy over issues of marriage and kinship. However there are other intriguing aspects of their culture such as descendant lineage, religious beliefs, and methods of healing. Most recently studied aspects of social and economic organization further fascinates anthropologists to attempt to answer “who are the Nayar?” There are many different ways in which a society can structure itself in order to ensure its’ survival. In past times, the Nayar would be described as being foragers, that is, people who hunt animals and gather plant life for subsidence. As time went on, populations grew which resulted in a change in social structure. With a need for increased food and resources, many foragers turned into horticulturists. Permanent settlements were established and plants were intentionally grown through the use of agricultural activities. Like many other societies, the Nayar followed a path similar to this which led to the formation of a state. As defined, “a state is a polity with a centralized government and the power to collect taxes, draft men for labor and work, and make and enforce laws for communities within its territorial borders” (Carneiro, 1970). But that doesn’t completely explain why the Nayar are considered a state. To do this, we can look at specific traits that can be...
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...nothing but living in order to reduce poverty and help people survive. There are many controversies in the universal basic income debate: politicians cannot decide what the basic income should be, if it could be achievable, and if it could truly benefit everyone. The first problem politicians face when looking into UBI is the question of what the basic income would...
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