...Hazel Treumann March 2, 2018 Period 9 Argumentative Essay: Breaking Stalin’s Nose Quickly pacing through the hallway, Sasha tries to protect the dominant banner. Slamming the banner into the statue, Sasha was suddenly filled with fear. Because he was given the great honor of carrying the statue, Sasha knew he was in deep trouble. The purpose of historical fiction books is to educate the reader about the past while using fictional characters. Breaking Stalin’s Nose achieves that goal as well as many other purposes of the genre. Above all, this book highlights perspectives of people and events less represented. When Sasha, the main character, witnesses his dad getting arrested by the Secret Police in the middle of the night,...
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...daily, whether it happens at school, the babysitter, or sports practice. There needs to be more awareness on bullying; at times it seems to be swept under the rug, ignore it and it will get better. This seams to be the best way to deal with anything that is not understood, get rid of the evidence and everything will be better. But it is not getting better, daily you hear of a child losing their life due to the effects of bullying, whether it be from death, or depression. No child should have to feel the effects of this, or have to live this daily because it is easier to ignore the situation than to find a solution. Hurtful words and actions taking place in the schools are unfortunate not only for the victim but also the bully and the bystanders; Bullying is out of hand and needs to be stopped. Children and young adults who are bullied tend to have a low self-esteem, and little to no confidence which can make them dread going to school. The effects of bullying are many, it starts with low self-esteem and according to researchers serious cases of bullying can end in suicide or murder. This is not only hard on the victim and the bully, but it is also hard on the parents, teachers and administration. There is not a cut and dry answer on how to stop bullying and most cases are different than the last. This is what makes it so hard to control, because it takes time and energy to evaluate the case and find an answer. Martin Greer wrote the blog “Why Don't Students Report Being Bullied”...
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...Socrates and his interlocutors discuss how to educate children. Is it right to keep them censored, or should they be allowed to study all and every subject(s). The education of children is very important because they are the future of the society. They are the possible rulers, philosophers, guardians, and so on. So, it is important to shape them wisely. This concept is no different than what shapes our society today. It is well known that one of the many qualifications of a good leader is that who can improve the country's educational system. Why?, because the youth are our future leaders and teachers. A parent would rather pick a private school over a public school, and a job interviewer would look more highly on a private school graduate over a public school graduate. You can say that education is important in today's society, as well as Plato's society. The youth can be educated in many different ways, either by keeping them in the shadows, or exposing them to the light. this means that the future of the society can be either ruled by a person who is oblivious to the society's past, or by a person who has been fully exposed to the society's history. If a person is censored from education, then they love their life as a perfect world. this is best described when Socrates says that a Guardian should be a person who "must be gentle to their own people and harsh to the enemy." (375b-c). Socrates wants to educate these Guardians to be noble, righteous, and tentative...
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...community, much less if they were being oppressed or not. I never thought that they were oppressed for being Deaf, something which isn’t wrong, just like racism and sexism. The word disability is socially constructed, and that we should stop using it because putting labels on people isn’t right or morally correct. Before reading this article I didn’t even know about the word Audism. To be fair, a lot of hearing people are quite ignorant on the subject they think one thing but they won’t try to understand or educate themselves....
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...The title of the article “What do test scores really tell us?” explains it all as to what Gary Gutting is going to focus on in the artifact I found. It goes on to address a variety of people, the main targets however are school board officials, parents, and even students. Gutting’s main thesis explains how we should be finding a reason as to why students do bad on standardized tests and how schools shouldn’t be so hasty to make changes because every students test differently from each other and one drastic change won’t necessarily fix the problems. Even though I agree with the point he is trying to get across, there are points in his argument where I don’t wholeheartedly agree with and that are weak and could use more substantial evidence. He often contradicts himself and statements he makes are opinionated. Not to mention that the examples he refutes, like the survey he included, are unreliable which goes back to where his argument is weak. There are a couple areas up for improvement, regarding the weak areas and contradicting statements. “What do test scores tell us” begins with telling how standardized testing isn’t used to benefit students, but that it’s used more as an evaluation for teachers and the school system. It then goes on explaining how bad test scores cause “educational reform”, supporting this with evidence...
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...In the chapter "Junior Polatkin's Wild West Show", Junior attend an university that was founded in the nineteenth century to convert and "re-educate" Native Americans. In class, we watched several video about how Europeans force Native American children to change their language and habits, sent them to European family and let them to attend “re-educate” school. In the chapter “Amusements”, they found the Dirty Joe drunk. Usually, they let him sleep in peace, but leaving him at a white event makes them uncomfortable. When Victor and Sadi tend to be Dirty Joe, the white revelers laugh at them and made Indians get out of there. The scene reminded me of our discussions in class. When blacks entered the white community, whites began to flee. They regard black...
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...Many students think that school lunch is nasty and boring. That is why most students either bring their own lunch or throw away school lunch .The cafeteria wonder why children do this.Teenagers would be much more satisfied if fast food restaurants , provided food for school. This would resolve problems for parents going out to buy lunch for their child. Schools serving fast food would be great. Students would stop throwing away their lunch.Also parents wouldn’t have to go out and buy lunch that is more expensive than school lunch.Nutrition is important it helps our bodies and brains grow and develop into the way that they need to be.Our school doesn't provide the healthiest food choices for the students. For example they tell us our food...
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...to describe this type of violence, such as internet harassment, and internet bullying. The term to best describe this media violence is cyberbullying. It is important to educate ourselves on the causes, effects, and preventions of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is affecting a shocking amount of children and teenagers each year, but what causes this type of violence? According to Hoff and Mitchell, (2009) “…91 percent of the causes of cyber bullying are due to relationship issues and 9 percent are causes not related to relationship issues” (p.655). This explains why cyber bullying is always the solution for those who cannot handle social tensions due to relationship issues. It is said that those who bully are either being bullied themselves or have issues at home that affect their self-esteem. Being that they get bullied themselves they bully others in order to make themselves feel better and make you feel just as bad as they do. Parents who mentally and physically abuse their children do not realize how much it can affect their child’s life and others. Being cyber bullied can lead to serious medical issues, such as depression, anxiety, or even suicide. According to Burnett, Yozwiak, and Omar (2013) “Cyber bullying victims typically obtain less sleep and eat less than non-victims.”(p.6) Performance in school decreases which results in low grades, increase absences, unable to concentrate, and an increase in behavior issues in...
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...around the country would not benefit from this intitiave because, it was make the government worry about non violent or drug related crimes. While reading these passages, I had a couple flash backs to when I was in middle school, and in high school. I remember in middle school they taught us a lesson on how much left over food from families was thrown away annualy. The school came up with there own method on how to throw away our school lunches. We would all line up, where we would have four buckets to throw away our lunch in. The first bucket was for left over milk in the cartin so we wouldnt stink up the recycle with moldy milk. The second bucket was compost for food we didn't finish. The third bucket was for plastic, like straw wrappers or sandwhich bags. The last bucket or bag was for all of our cardboard trays which would at the end of the day get tossed into the recycle. My point here is that a great way to reduce or stop the ammount of stuff that is being thrown away that shouldn't, is to educate the younger generation on the effect it causes our enviroment, and economy....
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...Aim to educate yourself. Keep in mind an education isn't the junk you are forced to do in school for diplomas and degrees; it's an understanding of the world around you. People who are naturally curious for some reason begin to stop asking questions the moment they hit school. The truly brilliant mind however, always questions their world and tries to make sense of it. That is the secret to "genius". Work on your vocabulary. Use a few definitions from the dictionary each day, or subscribe to a "word-of-the-day" service online. You can also take the vocabulary tests in Readers Digest or buy a book on increasing your working vocabulary. Read the dictionary one letter at a time. This will take you at least a year but you will grow intellectually. Read a variety of books. Reading a lot is often described as the secret to intelligence. The smartest people in the world tend to read every single day. You may not always enjoy it, but reading will open up your mind to a variety of new ideas and experiences. Keep your reading diverse by reading books of all genres including non-fiction. Educate yourself about the world around you. Cultivate an interest in subjects like current events, interesting facts, funny and inspiring quotations, good books and movies, scientific studies and interesting inventions. Educational television, like PBS, is a great way to learn. Learning to think critically about the world around you by being aware of cause and effect in events will make you much...
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...AP-Human Geography Essay Geography at the moment is not a prevalent subject within the American school system. Some professors believe this is in part at fault for American’s lack of awareness of the world around them. Many believe it is necessary to educate students on geography, so they are able to fully comprehend current events occurring around the globe. Is what we learn by studying geography important enough that we should consider including it more heavily in students curriculums? Geography is the study of the earth, ranging from the land itself and the people who inhabit it. It’s arguable that without knowledge of the geography one can’t fully understand the events of history. Earths geography largely influenced early human civilization in many ways including where humans settled and what people’s occupations were. It also played a large part on the outcome of early wars. Today basic knowledge of geography is necessary to understand many current events. International peace treaties are hard to understand if you don’t know the interest of the countries involved their neighbors, allies, and international ties. The impact that conflicts between countries have on their neighbors is hard to comprehend if you don’t know where these are located. Two articles written by Charles F. Gritzner, a professor of geography at South Dakota State University, emphasize the importance of geography. In both articles the professor discusses how uneducated most Americans are on the...
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...Haley, Brian 924246012 ENGL 1101 Should Sex education be increased in schools in an attempt to curb problems? Sex education should be increased into schools nation wide. This will help stop most of the problems that occur from being uneducated about sexual activities. To complete this goal we need to look at what is going on now in the nation. To many people are getting pregnant, getting infected with curable and incurable STDs. This is because people are not educated about sexual activities. Knowledge will be the power for educating people about Sex. In order to do this we need to find out what is happening now from the current education at hand. Pregnancy is at an all time high with students and young adults. Last the STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) rate is also rising among students and young adults. As of right now most of the schools in the nation have only a basic sex education class. It only presents the most basic of knowledge for our younger generations that are learning about sex education. Most of the material is just what is sex, how babies made or come where babies come from, and sexually transmitted diseases. Students need to be educated more about risk as well as how they can protect their selves from those associated risk. At the end of the day kids are going to have sex no matter what we tell them. Most of all of us have had sex at a young age and being better educated about it will help students make correct choices from events that can even...
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...old. Mother of a 9 yr. old daughter. Siblings and other family members. | | | III. | Family has had several run ins with the law, which is why I wanted to further educate myself with common laws. | | | IV. | My primary reason for picking criminal justice it to help our youth make wise decisions with their life. | | Thesis statement (this contains the three main points of the speech- it contains some idea of the content of the speech):The struggle I have had with the law whether it’s been myself or family, has lead me to educate myself with basic law knowledge then educate and help our youth make wise choices for their future. | I | Reason for choosing Ivy Tech is the class sizes, location, and how the staff involves themselves with the students. "Today, I'll tell you my dream job is to become a youth advocate to help young adults make wise decisions and offer them knowledge of options and opportunities. A. Describe myself B. Introduce family members and friends, specifically troublemakers (Ralphy, Gaby, little Enrique) [now that you know how family oriented I am, I will explain how I reached my decision to study criminal justice] | II | Explain my run in with the law and how my ignorance made me feel. A. My arrest and felony record prevented me from finishing. I was told to wait 5 more years to expunge and attend school. B. Fighting for child custody C. Seeing all the trouble my little brother got into with the law.[now that you know all the...
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...Shapes Our Souls” We can all agree from Michael Novak’s “Television Shapes Our Soul” that television does influence our minds just as books, school and parenting does. A reason why it affects us individually is because of today’s vast variety of different programs on primetime television. All of us want to know what is out there in the world that we are not able to experience in our own regular lives. For example, we want television to inform us and educate. We can retain this valuable information and expect it to be there every time we tune into the specific program or channel. These programs have different paces and speeds to catch the attention of the audience. For example, educational programs are slower in order to be understandable. On the other hand, action programs moves a lot faster to catch attention. Reality TV shows are in today’s primetime now because we want to know how other people interact in different situations. On the contrary in a TV sitcom, Novak sates in his essay “television is simplified and homogenized”. Writers of TV sitcoms control what a whole culture is going to watch and thereby shapes people souls. In other words, they are always keeping the same script. This creates and shapes the mind of the audience to what is socially normal. Different programs have different effects on the audience. This is why some programs are more appealing to me than others. Mystery programs that are fast paced and have serious plots where viewers have to pay close...
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...best choices. However, if we take responsibility for those choices and learn from them; we can improve our lives. In short, our actions determine our future. The most important people in our lives often play a huge part in our personal growth. They do this by teaching us responsibility. Responsibility is not learned in a vacuum but is often taught by those closest to us; our parents. Although responsibility is taught by those closest to us it is not limited to family members. Just think of the first person who made you understand that for every action, there is a reaction. We learn responsibility from a variety of sources; teachers, coaches, and leaders. They all teach us one important thing; life is all about responsibility. Life educates us about our responsibility to society. We do not live alone and every choice we make affects...
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