...Educators debate extending high school to five years because of increasing demands on students from employers and colleges to participate in extracurricular activities and community service in addition to having high grades. Some educators support extending high school to five years because they think students need more time to achieve all that is expected of them. Other educators do not support extending high school to five years because they think students would lose interest in school and attendance would drop in the fifth year. In your opinion, should high school be extended to five years? In your essay, take a position on this question. You may write about either one of the two points of view given, or you may present a different point of view on this question. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position. Educators debate extending high school to five years because of increasing demands on students from employers and colleges to participate in extracurricular activities and community service in addition to having high grades. Some educators support extending high school to five years because they think students need more time to achieve all that is expected of them. Other educators do not support extending high school to five years because they think students would lose interest in school and attendance would drop in the fifth year. In your opinion, should high school be extended to five years? In your essay, take a position on this question. You may...
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...Extending School Years In this essay I am writing about that school should be extended for five year. I think that school should be extended for five year because it will help you how you are educate. The school for five year will help you a lot when you are doing something. The school for five year could help you in most everything that you are doing. I think that if you go to school for five years you could learn a lot of skills. School could help you out of most anything that you want to do in this world. School could teach you how to be educator. By going to school is a good thing because if you go to school it could help have experience in everything that you are doing. To have experience you to do that thing you do best and how well you do at it. I think that school could teach you how to have experience in everything you are doing. I know that to go to school you have to choice to go to school because nobody can make you go to school. I know that school are not for everyone but I think that every children should go to school because if you don't go to school you will not be educate. I know that when you have an education it is a good thing. School is a place where you could learn a lot of different that you don't know. I know that I learn a lot of thing I didn't know but I know them. By going to school you make new friends, and you see a lot of different people like people that is not from the United States. At school you do classwork and do all type of assignment your...
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...1768 Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell publish what they called a “Dictionary of Arts and Sciences” - Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc (EBI). Its mission was ‘ serving society’s need to know’. By 1815, when the fifth edition was published, the set had ballooned to 20 volumes from earlier 3 volumes. • Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, when the company was purchased by Americans and moved to the U.S., EBI continued to enhance its reputation as the premier source of knowledge. The company recruited notable scientists and scholars, including Thomas Malthus, Sigmund Freud, and Marie Curie, to contribute. It expounded upon such cutting-edge topics as taboos, anarchism, ether, and Darwin’s theory of evolution. As demand mushroomed, it hired a permanent editorial staff and began printing—and updating—annually. • In 1943, William Benton extended the company’s global reach and expanded its product line, acquiring in the process Compton’s Encyclopedia and dictionary publisher G. & C. Merriam. • In 1981, EBI entered the digital age, it offered an electronic version to business users of Lexis-Nexis • In 1989, the company moved further into the electronic age when it published Compton’s Encyclopedia on CD and the target audience was schools and libraries. Still in the same year, the company boasted 2,300 sales. • EBI moved door to door, talking with individuals and families. • By 1990, the company’s sales revenues hit a new high—$650 million, and the 32-volume set remained the...
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...or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (U.S. Constitution. Art VII. Amend. XIV, Sec. 1.). Sooner or later justice was to be made and it did on July 9, 1868. Having said this the freed slaves born in the U.S had the same rights the white citizens had, but newly freed slaves had been denied. This Amendment slaughters any prejudice like the ones the court used against Scott and any slave who fights for his rights and liberty. In conclusion, Dred Scott v. Stanford was the case in which justice was made after many years of unfair treatment and broken dreams. Slavery was finally abolished and the Fifth Amendment was made legal through the fourteen amendment to recognize African Americans as citizens, denied them as property, and outlawed slavery. Justice is always righteous and fair to the people that for years suffered a life in which the slaves did not choose to live, free at...
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...outlined in the Constitution should be closely followed.| C)|the president had sole responsibility for Reconstruction.| D)|the Confederate states, by seceding and making war against the United States, lost their status as states and should now be treated as conquered territories.| 2.|The First Reconstruction Act| A)|recognized the legitimacy of existing southern state governments.| B)|extended federal support for the education of freedmen in the South.| C)|guaranteed freedmen the right to vote.| D)|confiscated large southern plantations and divided them into smaller plots of land.| 3.|The black codes enacted in the South after the Civil War showed that southerners| A)|were willing to allow African Americans equality under law.| B)|sought to return African Americans to a position of servility.| C)|recognized the need for providing basic education for African Americans.| D)|would leave the destiny of African Americans up to African Americans themselves.| 4.|Andrew Johnson's initial plan for Reconstruction| A)|demonstrated an unforgiving hatred of all southerners.| B)|protected the political rights of freed slaves in the South.| C)|attempted, at least temporarily, to deny power to wealthy southern planters.| D)|failed to require the southern states to draft new constitutions.| 5.|After the Civil War, the main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan in the South was to| A)|persecute African Americans.| B)|close integrated schools.| C)|maintain law and order...
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...at what the functions the family performs and they therefore say that the nuclear family is best for society. For example functionalists believe that traditional domestic roles (for the male to play an instrumental role as the breadwinner and the female to do the dual-burden) are necessary to ensure that children are socialised correctly with both male and female role models. Functionalists believe that the nuclear family is perfect for bringing up a geographically mobile workforce which allows families to move about for work easily, for example Functionalists believe during the industrial revolution nuclear families became more common as it was easier for families to move to an urban area in search of work than if it was for example an extended family. Conflict theories such as Marxism and Feminism challenge the Functionalism and the consensus of society by taking a more critical view. Social historians such as Laslett and Anderson also criticize the functionalist view of a ‘Functional Fit’ in the family. The main supporters of Functionalism in the family are Murdock, Parsons and Fletcher – each with their own views on how the nuclear family benefits all the members of the family and society as a whole. One of the first functionalist sociologists was G.P Murdock (1897-1985). He believed that the nuclear family provided sheer practicality to meet the needs of each member. He conducted his studies...
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...propose a system for evaluating teacher performance at the elementary school level based on state test scores. Teachers will be placed into one of four categories based on their students’ educational growth: top performing tier, high performing tier, medium performing tier, or lowest performing tier. Teachers performing in the top tiers will be rewarded with public praise and annual bonuses, while teachers in the bottom tiers will be placed on probation which includes performance improvement courses. Teachers who are unable to improve their performance will be fired. The tactics to sell this plan to the Spring Branch Independent School District board will be based on consistency, intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, emotion, and the Expectancy Chain. Convincing the school board to fire underperforming teachers will challenge the educational status quo, but will improve the quality of education given to students. Reforming Education: Firing and Motivating Teachers Public education is failing in Texas. Texas ranks forty-first out of fifty states in high school graduation rates. “The research shows that kids who have two, three, or four strong teachers in a row will eventually excel, no matter what their background, while kids who have even two weak teachers in a row will never recover," says Kati Haycock of the Education Trust. To improve the quality of our educational system in Spring Branch Independent School District, particularly at the elementary grade levels, we need...
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... February 24, 2014 2ASN2 Confucian Philosophy of Man More than a million years ago, primitive human beings lived on a land known as China. China is recognized as one of the four greatest ancient civilizations of the world, together with ancient Egypt, Babylon, and India. It is known for its rich history based on the written records that were found nearly 5,000 years ago. From 475 BC to the end of the 19th century, China went through a long feudal period. It experienced two seemingly contradictory and paradoxical phenomena. Knowing that it was the most violent and chaotic period in ancient Chinese history due to the conflict between the collapse of the traditional Chinese culture and the establishment of a universal empire, it was also considered to be the most creative and innovative one since it was indeed an age wherein philosophers tried to give their personal opinions regarding the world and attempted to contribute something in the history of Chinese philosophy. All the competing Chinese philosophical traditions – Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism and Mohism, among others – trace their origins back to this period which is closely identified with the wellspring of Chinese philosophical, political, and social thought. The battle of ideas among the fabled numerous masters and hundred schools of thought that lasted for more than three centuries, was fought, but at the same time, the moral, political, and social order – presided...
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...More than five hundred years have passed since the beginning of colonization, and for over three hundred years United States southern territories from Florida to California belong to the Spanish speaking population until 1848 when the war between the United States and Mexico concluded and the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty was written. After the war, the US government had guaranteed that the former Mexicans would have all the rights of the American citizens, maintaining their properties and religion (Crawford 1992). The Mexican population was even able to keep their language, but not for a long time. In 1855, the English language was declared the official language of the country, and was the only language to be use for academic instructions and publications...
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...health care costs advance practice nurses (APRN) need to be playing a larger role in the health care system, both delivering and decision making about health care. APRN’s need to be working from health promotion to disease prevention. States may need to streamline scope of practice regulations that reflect the full extent of the APRN educational level. The Federal government is well suited to reform changes at the states level and offer incentives for adopting best care practices. The IOM’s Report also recommendations changes need to occur within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Congress needs to ensure that nurses practice at their educational level (IOM, October 2010) The Need to Transform Education As health care advances so should nurses. Nurses need to be encouraged at the educational to be lifelong learners. As patients present with more complex problems nurses need to have the most up to date education and training available. Nursing education needs to be updated and adaptive enough to change with patients changing needs. Nurses need to have the most up to date technology and science so that quality evidenced based care can be provided. Facilities need to allow and even promote advancement. There need to be educational...
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...Universidad De Oriente Teacher: Brenda Jiménez Student: Perla Olivares Hernández Subject: English IV Essay: Amazing people…Tony Melendez INTRODUCTION Amazing people? I thought I’d talk about people with weird and fantastic abilities, but then I remembered someone who I went to see like 7 years ago at the World Trade Center. This man who made me feel goose bumps, because he showed me that sometimes we complain a lot about our issues, material needs and even our low self-esteem, and sometimes we can’t see that we have all we need to succeed. Tony was born without arms due to the ravages of a drug prescribed by a doctor's order to his mother during pregnancy. The drug "Thalidomide" should calm the effects of nausea in the first half of pregnancy, but its effects left a terrible result, thousands of children are born with deformities, no arms, no feet or lacking both. As a child, Tony saw his dad play guitar and felt a great desire for it to be playing well, until one day his dad put the guitar on the floor. "Tony," he said, "Go wash your feet." They were washed and sat down to play guitar for the first time. Never let it discourage physical condition, and with much effort and practice, learned to play skillfully with his toes. Amazing People… Tony Melendez. José Antonio Melendez Rodríguez was born on January 9, 1962, in Rivas, Nicaragua, is a Nicaraguan American guitar player, composer, singer, and songwriter who was born without arms. Tony was born without...
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...and it has a total area of 8,511,965 square kilometers (Brazil Facts) making it the fifth largest country in the world behind the U.S. Brazil has a distinctive topography, in the north and west you can find the Amazon Basin with tropical-like weathers. Brazil is also facing deforestation losing about 52,000 square miles of amazon each year. In the south east of the country you will find its highlands and plateaus. Brazil also has a distinctive climate. The climate is generally classified into five subtypes: equatorial, tropical, semiarid, highland tropical and subtropical but 90% of the country is mostly considered tropical. (Climates of Brazil) Social Economic and Cultural Factors As for being the fifth largest country in the world land wise, Brazil is also the fifth largest country when it comes to population. According to the CIA Brazil’s population in 2012 was over two hundred million. 26.2% of the population in 2011 is between 0-14 years of age, 67% of the population in 2011 is between 15-64 years of age, and 6.7% of the population in 2011 is 65+ years of age.(CIA Fact book) Because Brazil was colonized by the Portuguese the primary language in this country is surprisingly Portuguese! Other slightly common languages you might also hear are Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, and English. Both female and male citizens of Brazil generally average to have a school life expectancy of 14 years and most can read and write by the age of 15. The unemployment rate for citizens between...
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... It lasted through the American Revolution, even after Thomas Jefferson scripted his famous lines in the Declaration of Independence, "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Clearly, slaves were not part of this included in Jefferson's words. When it came time to write the Constitution, the word "slavery" was never used. Instead, the framers chose to use the term "other people." These other people were counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of representation in Congress according to the Three-Fifths Compromise (RN). This compromise kept slavery in the United States unharmed. The framers also decided not to do anything about the issue of slavery for twenty years. Prior to the American Civil War, many different compromises were made in an attempt to hinder the growing disagreements. However, this only extended the unavoidable events that would occur. The differences between North and South were far to great and compromise did not stand a chance at preventing the imminent conflict. This was most clearly shown in the ways in which the two main compromises: the Compromise of 1820, also known as the Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850 failed. In 1820 Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state. Prior to this decision, the Panic of 1819 and its three main causes: inflation, public debt from the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase...
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...to have a healthy workforce? 2 Vocabulary Match the following words to their correct definition: 1.|absenteeism|a.|a long walk for pleasure or exercise, usually in the countryside or mountains| 2.|well-being|b.|an organisation which provides money or help to people in need (e.g. ill or poor| |||people)| 3.|charity|c.|the state of feeling healthy and happy| 4.|temptation|d.|the substances that influence your health, which you take into your body as food| 5.|hike|e.|the way in which a person stands, sits or walks| 6.|eyestrain|f.|tired or painful eyes as a result of too much reading, looking at a computer| |||screen, etc.| 7.|nutrition|g.|wanting to have something that you know you should not have| 8.|posture|h.|when employees are not at work when they should be| 3 Reading Read the article `Corporate well-being' about the different health initiatives that the UK company i-to-i has experimented with. Answer the following questions: 1. Why is a healthy workforce good for business? 2. What happens on `Fruity Friday'? Is this initiative a complete success? Why/why not? 3. What did i-to-i give its staff as a reward? Why did they stop it? 4. Why did the firm cancel the Tai Chi classes? 5. What was the `Caledonian Challenge'? 6. Why was the 14-mile hike more popular than the Caledonian Challenge? 7. Which key areas does the firm want to focus its health initiatives on? Corporate well-being A firm that offers...
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...Administration (FMCSA). This proposal interests me because when I was in middle school my cousin was hit by a driver which ended her life. After extensive investigation they found that the driver fell asleep behind the wheel due to him working two days straight. This proposal will not affect me or the business in which I am working in but it will give me peace of mind if passed because no one should have to lose their loved one in such a tragic way. The proposal is to help promote safety and to protect driver health, FMCSA proposes to revise the regulations for hours of service for drivers of property-carrying commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). To achieve these goals, the proposed rule would provide flexibility for drivers to take breaks when needed and would reduce safety and health risks associated with long hours. The proposed rule would make seven changes from current requirements. The proposed rule would make seven changes from current requirements. First, the proposed rule would limit drivers to either 10 or 11 hours of driving time following a period of at least 10 consecutive hours off duty; on the basis of all relevant considerations, FMCSA currently favors a 10-hour limit, but its ultimate decision will include a careful consideration of comments and any additional data received. Second, it would limit the standard ``driving window'' to 14 hours, while allowing that number to be extended to 16 hours twice a week. Third, actual duty time within the driving window would...
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