...School Bullies Editor: Maureen Downey, Reporter AJC.com Editor Title: Is the intense focus on bullying in schools changing kids or overloading them? Student: English 135 Letter to the editor 7/9/14 School Bullies I’m writing in reply to Maureen Downey’s “Is the intense focus on bullying in schools changing kids or overloading them?” feature of the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s guest blog. Lately parents have to worry about their children safety while they’re in school, tell me this, what good are the administrations, if they can’t do a simple thing, like protecting the students? Bukhari definition of bullying, “Bullying is an abuse of power that takes the form of ongoing aggression involving words or actions by individuals or groups. And directed towards particular victims who are unable to defend themselves”. From my point of view as a victim I think that there should be more penalty toward school bullies. Their victims suffer a lot of humiliation and there got to be an end to this misery. I strongly agree with you when said “No child should have to live with daily harassment or torment at school”. Bullying is becoming widespread within the school systems all over the world. First, is Bullying is becoming widespread within the school systems? Children are afraid of attending school because they are afraid of being beat, tease, and humiliated. Should they be going through these trial and tribulation or should be enjoying their youthful years in a stress...
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...Bullying: When Does Harmless Teasing Cross the Line? A Study on Bullying Leslie Babcock National American University Technical Communication May 2, 2012 Letter of Transmittal Date: May 2, 2012 To: From: Dr. Mauer Leslie Babcock 328 W. Grand Avenue 1400 East Kay Haysville, KS 67060 Haysville, Ks 67060 USD 261 Superintendents Dear Dr. Mauer: Enclosed you will find the results of the questionnaire distributed last month, and my recommendations on the topic; Bullying: When Harmless Teasing Crosses the Line. I have learned a lot about bullying in your school district from the parents, students, administrators and staff. I am convinced that the information that has been gathered will help you in putting together some anti-bullying programs for the students in your district. Thank you for your support through this process, and for allowing me to hand out the questionnaire and conduct interviews with you and your staff. Although some of the results vary greatly between the parents and students, and administrators and staff, I believe that if everyone works together on this topic, we could accomplish a lot. I would be willing to work with you on setting up programs to help the bullies and the bullied, and I would also be willing to volunteer my time to help students. I appreciate all the time you have put into helping me, and have learned a lot while gathering all the evidence that follows. Please feel free to contact me about...
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...07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period,)2 Wilde’s own mother fostered a love for poetry and supported the campaign of Irish independence. The family was situated in moderate luxury, Wilde’s father being a successful surgeon and his mother a well noted poet. One can only surmise that Oscar, of course, was well exposed to a sense of Irish pride—given his mother’s ideals of Irish independence and his father’s notable works on folklore pertaining to his native Éire. Given his family’s position, Oscar Wilde seemed to have a various number of doors opened for him; Wilde left home and Portora Royal School with both a scholarship under his belt and mastery of both French and German (though this was thanks to both his father’s nurse and governess.) Quickly he attended Trinity College in Dublin from 1871 to 1874. Trinity College, even to this day, is a renowned school of classical endeavors, leaving Oscar to study various subjects such as the Greek stories, which would serve as one of Wilde’s primary sources of inspiration throughout his life. After his tenure as a student at Trinity College, Wilde moved on to Magdalen College in Oxford, from 1874 to 1878. At Magdalen, Wilde would become noted for both his role in the Apollo Masonic Lodge and later his roles in the aesthetic and decadent movements (both which can be seen quite vividly throughout his works.) With almost his entire youth consumed by education, Wilde made his initial debut into society as a revered student...
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...Unit 10 The Teacher Who Changed My Life Warm-up I. The pictures below show three of the world’s great teachers. Match each picture with the right name and description. |( ( ( | |[pic] [pic] [pic] | 1. Confucius 2. Anne Sullivan Macy 3. Socrates A B C |Helen Keller’s teacher, who taught |A philosopher and Plato’s teacher, who |A philosopher and a teacher, who believed | |Keller how to spell and read, and thus|encouraged his students to think and responded |that education should be available to | |made Keller long for learning. |to their questions by asking more questions. |everyone and who adopted various teaching | | | |methods to inspire his students. | II. To you, which of the three is the greatest? Share your opinion with the class. Reading ( Reading Tip: What did the teacher do that changed the author’s life? The person who set the course of my life was a schoolteacher named Marjorie Hurd. When I stepped off a ship in New York Harbor in 1949, I was a nine-year-old war refugee, who had lost his mother and was coming...
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...American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition style examples APA style is an author-date citation style. It was developed mainly for use in psychology, but has also been adopted by other disciplines. There are two major components to the APA author-date style – the in-text author-date citation at the appropriate place within the text of the document, e.g. (Smith, 2010), and the detailed reference list at the end of the document. All in-text citations must have a corresponding reference list entry, and the converse applies for reference list entries. Use the following instructions and examples as guide for your own referencing using the APA style. This guide is based on more detailed information in: • American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington D.C.: Author. In text citing: General notes • Insert an in-text citation: o When your work has been influenced by someone else’s work, for example: When you directly quote someone else’s work When you paraphrase someone else’s work The in-text citation consists of: o author surname(s) (in the order that they appear on the actual publication), followed by the year of publication of the source that you are citing. o Include page or paragraph numbers for direct quotes, and for paraphrasing where appropriate The in-text citation is placed immediately after the text which refers to the source being cited If quoting or citing a source which is cited...
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...BOB7024 Organizational Behavior & Design, Stephen P. Robbins & Timothy A. Judge, Organizational Behavior, 14th edition, 2011, Pearson Education Chapter 1 Case Incident 1: “Data Will Set You Free” Ford CEO Alan Mulally is known for starting meetings by saying “Data will set you free” and for trying to change Ford’s culture to one that is based on increased accountability, more information sharing, and hard metrics. “You can’t manage a secret,” he is also fond of saying. Although it’s not clear whether Mulally’s approach will work at Ford, which is known for its self-contained fiefdoms where little information is shared, some companies have found that managing people according to hard metrics has paid off. Consider Freescale Semiconductor, a computer chip manufacturer based in Austin, Texas. Freescale has discovered that in order to have the right people at the right time to do the right job, it needs an extensive and elaborate set of metrics to manage its 24,000 employees in 30 countries. Of particular concern to Freescale is retention. “There’s no greater cost than human capital, especially in the technology industry,” says Jignasha Patel, Freescale’s director of global talent sourcing and inclusion. “When you’ve got a tenured employee that decides to walk out the door, it’s not just one person leaving, it’s that person’s knowledge and network and skills.” To manage talent and prevent turnover, Freescale holds line managers accountable for recruiting, hiring, and...
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...Communication Monographs Vol. 73, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 406 Á433 Take This Job and . . . : Quitting and Other Forms of Resistance to Workplace Bullying Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik Adult bullying at work is an unbelievable and, at times, shattering experience, both for those targeted as well as for witnessing colleagues. This study examines the narratives of 30 workers, some of whom where targeted and all of whom saw others bullied. Their responses paint a complex picture of power in bullying situations that reframe the ‘‘power-deficient target’’ into agents who galvanize a variety of resources on their own or others’ behalf but also place them at considerable risk. In some cases, employees evaluate the abusive situation and quickly resign. Others protest but, if resistance fails to stop abuse, they also leave organizations. The paths of resistance, case outcomes, and dialectic nature of resistance and control are discussed. Keywords: Workplace Bullying; Verbal Aggression; Organizational Communication; Resistance; Power Adult bullying at work is a shocking, frightening, and at times shattering experience, both for those targeted and for onlookers. Workplace bullying, mobbing, and emotional abuse*essentially synonymous phenomena*are persistent, verbal, and nonverbal aggression at work that include personal attacks, social ostracism, and a multitude of other painful messages and hostile interactions. Because this phenomenon is perpetrated by and through communication, and because...
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...The World of Cybercrimes Cybercrimes are one of the most dangerous threats to our Nation. There are no boundaries when it comes to cybercrimes. A cybercrime is one of the fastest growing crime types of the century and includes criminal activity involving computers and the internet. Hacking a computer is not the only thing considered a cybercrime. Downloading movies and music illegally is also a cybercrime. Once thought as something that only the military or other government officials had to worry about, it is now on the rise since everyone has a computer and it is easy to find out how to hack into computer systems. With the rise of internet usage among businesses and private users, the risk of being a victim of cybercrime is huge. The Security Tracking Study performed by the Pomemon Institute states that 83 percent of multinational companies feel that within the past 12 months they have been a target of a cybercrime. Price Water House Coopers states that the number of businesses having a security breach is more along the lines of 92 percent. Cybercrimes are attacks on computer hardware and software, downloading illegal movies and music, online fraud involving financial crimes and corruption with an organization, crimes against children and the elderly, cyber bullying and fraudulent telemarketing events for charitable donations. What was once something only “hackers” did is now something anyone can do. The term hacker was originally described as “any technical effort...
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...he 1964 world première of “Mary Poppins” was held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and it was the kind of spectacle for which the Disney organization had become famous. Throngs of screaming fans were greeted by Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Snow White and the dwarfs, as well as by entertainers who gestured toward the movie’s Edwardian setting: a twelve-piece pearly band, chimney-sweep dancers, valets dressed as bobbies, and a bevy of pretty Disneyland hostesses, whose traditional uniforms (kilts and black velvet riding helmets) suggested a general Englishness. Hollywood luminaries arrived in chauffeured automobiles, the women in ball gowns and mink stoles (Angie Dickinson, Maureen O’Hara, Suzanne Pleshette), the men wearing dinner jackets (Edward G. Robinson, Cesar Romero, Buddy Ebsen). The arrival of the movie’s principals aroused muted excitement: Julie Andrews, who played Mary Poppins, had never appeared in a movie before, and Dick Van Dyke—the chimney sweep Bert—became much better known after the film’s release. Then Walt Disney himself arrived, stepping out of a stretch limousine and gallantly reaching a hand into the car to help his wife, Lillian, onto the pavement. Disney was by then immensely famous, appearing on his own television show every Sunday night. He had carefully engineered his entrance: when his car pulled up, the Disney characters mobbed it, and soon afterward clouds of balloons were released into the air. Inside the packed twelve-hundred-seat theatre...
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...ChangeThis Save to disk [ help ] Hide/Show menus Beyond Snobbery: Grammar Need Not Be Cruel to Be Cool By June Casagrande No 28.04 U x + Not using Adobe Acrobat? Please go to http://changethis.com/content/reader next ChangeThis It’s another radio station in another city in the overwhelming and terrifying process known as a book tour. I’m a first-time author on a very controversial subject—grammar snobbery—just beginning to realize I’m in way over my head. The radio show host wants to know my thoughts on all those people out there who don’t even try to use or to learn proper grammar. Everything about my host tells me that he is, by nature, a democratic and diplomatic kind of guy. But between the lines I think I catch the scent of something else—the passion of the people who see my grammar column in their local newspapers and send me e-mails saying, “As a fellow grammar and usage Nazi …” or, “Keep fighting against abuse of the language!” In my columns, I don’t fight abuse at all. I don’t bemoan others’ crimes against English or wail about how it’s going into the crapper. I’m not a grammar or usage Nazi. I’m not a snob, a snoot or even a stickler. I’m not “fellow” anything to them at all. Just because I write a column offering help to people who want to use better English doesn’t mean that I would impose good grammar on others. Short of coughing and fanning the air in the presence of a cigarette smoker, grammar provides the easiest way for an American...
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...The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore's presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels, short stories, and essays are very widely read, and the songs he composed reverberate around the eastern part of India and throughout In contrast, in the rest of the world, especially in Europe and America, the excitement that Tagore's writings created in the early years of the twentieth century has largely vanished. The enthusiasm with which his work was once greeted was quite remarkable. Gitanjali, a selection of his poetry for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, was published in English translation in London in March of that year, and had been reprinted ten times by November, when the award was announced. But he is not much read now in the West, and already by 1937, Graham Greene was able to say: "As for Rabindranath Tagore, I cannot believe that anyone but Mr. Yeats can still take his poems very seriously." The Mystic The contrast between Tagore's commanding presence in Bengali literature and culture, and his near-total eclipse in the rest of the world, is perhaps less interesting than the distinction between the view of Tagore...
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...SPM ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1119 SMART MODULE 2 2011 [pic] SPM ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1119 SMART MODULE 2 2011 Patron En. Mansor bin Lat Director of Kedah Education Department Advisor Tn. Hj. Asmee bin Haji Tajuddin Head of the Academic Sector Coordinator Pn. Hjh. Zaliha bt Ahmad The Principal Assistant Director (English Language) Committee Members Pn. Wan Aisyah bt Haris (Assistant District Language Officer for Language, Kota Setar) Pn. Hjh. Fadzillah bt Selamat (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Kubang Pasu) En. Yong Kooi Hin (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Baling Sik) En. Nordin bin Mohd. Noor (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Padang Terap) En. Azmi bin Othman (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Kuala Muda Yan) En. Nagaiah Velu (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Langkawi) En. Md. Zahir bin Husin (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Kulim Bandar Baharu) Pn. Nadia Normala Vimala bt Abdullah (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Pendang) Cik Farha bt Sobry (Assistant District Language Officer for English (Secondary), Kuala Muda Yan En. Oslan bin Yum (Assistant District Language Officer for English (Secondary), Kubang Pasu Panel of Smart Module 2 2011 (SPM 1119) 1. Pn. Farah Ikhmar bt Jafri (SMK Sik) 2. En. Lim Swee Teong (SMK Simpang Kuala) ...
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...www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Learn to Program Second Edition Chris Pine The Pragmatic Bookshelf Raleigh, North Carolina Dallas, Texas www.it-ebooks.info Pragmatic Bookshelf Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial capital letters or in all capitals. The Pragmatic Starter Kit, The Pragmatic Programmer, Pragmatic Programming, Pragmatic Bookshelf and the linking g device are trademarks of The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC. Every precaution was taken in the preparation of this book. However, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages that may result from the use of information (including program listings) contained herein. Our Pragmatic courses, workshops, and other products can help you and your team create better software and have more fun. For more information, as well as the latest Pragmatic titles, please visit us at http://www.pragprog.com Copyright © 2009 Chris Pine. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN-10: 0-9766940-4-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-934356-36-4...
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...A Passage to India E. M. Forster Online Information For the online version of BookRags' A Passage to India Premium Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide−passageindia/ Copyright Information ©2000−2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical Context, Critical Overview, Criticism and Critical Essays, Media Adaptations, Topics for Further Study, Compare &Contrast, What Do I Read Next?, For Further Study, and Sources. ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: "Social Concerns", "Thematic Overview", "Techniques", "Literary Precedents", "Key Questions", "Related Titles", "Adaptations", "Related Web Sites". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults: "About the Author", "Overview", "Setting", "Literary Qualities", "Social Sensitivity", "Topics for Discussion", "Ideas for Reports and Papers". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. All other...
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...Administrative Division BELEN V. FORTU Chief, Budget & Fiscal Division JOSE C. DAYRIT Chief, Research & Publications Division AVELINA M. CASTAÑEDA Chief, Special & Commemorative Events Division ROSAURO G. UNTIVERO Historical Researcher & Editor EULOGIO M. LEAÑO Chief Historical Writer-Translator & Publications Officer GENEROSO M. ILANO Auditor JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896) THE FIRST FILIPINO A Biography of José Rizal by LEÓN Ma. GUERRERO with an introduction by CARLOS QUI R INO ( Awarded First Prize in the Rizal Biography Contest held under the auspices of the José Rizal National Centennial Commission in 1961) NATIONAL HISTORICAL COMMISSION Manila 1974 First Printing 1963 Second Printing 1965 Third Printing 1969 Fourth Printing 1971 Fifth Printing 1974 This Book is dedicated by the Author to the other Filipinos Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice, Shakespeare: °the/Lo. Paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all those roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me. — Oliver Cromwell. Report me and my cause aright. The rest is silence. Shakespeare : OTHELLO PREFACE Like most Filipinos I was told about Rizal as a child, and to me, like to most, he remained only a name. In school I learned only that he had died for our country, shot by the Spaniards. I read his two novels in...
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