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Savage Inequalities: Children In America's Schools
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... under-staffed and unfit for teaching. Employing and keeping young teachers is a struggle because of lower salaries than what is offered at schools in the suburbs. Kozol points out that politics play an important role in how monies are distributed. He states that: "In Illinois, as elsewhere in America, local funds for education raised from poverty taxes are supplemented by state contributions and by federal funds, although the federal contribution is extremely small, constituting only 6 percent of the total school expenditures" (Kozol 56). Children living in the poorer districts, usually minor ...
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Conformity And Obedience
Number of Words: 937 / Number of Pages: 4
... and Philip Zimbardo conducted to explain .
Solomon Asch’s experiment in “Opinions and Social Pressure” studied a subject’s ability to yield to social pressure when placed within a group of strangers. His research helped illustrate how groups encourage conformity. During a typical experiment, members of the group were asked by the experimenter to claim two obvious mismatched lines were identical. The single individual who was not privy to this information was the focal point of the experiment. Twelve out of eighteen times the unsuspecting individual went along with the majority, dispelling his bel ...
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How To Make Money Selling Item
Number of Words: 1459 / Number of Pages: 6
... are great to sell to make some extra money, but they are a one time sale item, meaning once they are sold, they are gone and so is the chance at a recurring income. The second category of items that can be sold is a set of products that I create or buy in order to sell them. These can be a great source of income, things as simple as my mother’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies, an information disk, or book about Beanie Babies. These types of items are things I can sell over and over again. They may not bring in as much money per item as other items, but I can sell them in a great quantity. I want to ...
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The Voice Of Generation X
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... or that the majority of people will vote for the same candidates that have been elected again and again by their name recognition alone. We as Generation X need to elect people that can associate themselves with the issues that affect the people today, and the new issues that will arise tomorrow in order to change the politics in this country.
These types of situations make it hard for X’ers to take a stand and voice their opinions. What we need is a new political dialogue that will enable our generation to control more political power in this country.
This new political dialogue can only ...
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Homosexuality
Number of Words: 1832 / Number of Pages: 7
... would then require all facets of society, including religious communities, to welcome the marriages, adoptions, and families of homosexuals as though they were in no way different from heterosexual ones. It seems unreasonable that such an authority be involved in legislating the acceptance of an identifiable group that behaves in a manner unbecoming of any moral, decent, and even moderately religious human being, when our society itself can offer no consensus on such a moral issue.
In order to conclude that the government is wrong by legislating, it must be shown that is wrong as well. Many feel ...
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Sibling Rivalry
Number of Words: 2261 / Number of Pages: 9
... and so on would generally halt most relationships before they even get a chance to start, but siblings with most or all of these differences still manage to relate on an equal level. Siblings also have a common history of shared and non-shared experiences again strengthening the bond between them.
Bill Cosby once said, "You aren't really a parent until you've had your second child." Parents of one child won't really understand this. Parents of two or more children will relate to this statement immediately. He was referring to the seemingly constant bickering and fighting between brothers and sis ...
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Imagine Being A Swinger Of Bir
Number of Words: 3024 / Number of Pages: 11
... tree can no longer go any higher, it brings us back down to earth so that we may be perceive a different earth in the third stanza. It can be seen that reality and the understanding of reality also follow this same trip on the birches. The reality that everyone faces everyday is introduced in the first stanza and reality is broken in with a rampage of imagination in the second stanza. Finally a newer and more enlightened reality can be seen by the end of the trip down on earth.
The word "truth" has to be defined to understand what Frost is really saying about the choices he has to make. Webster's New W ...
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A Study In Contrast The Views
Number of Words: 1501 / Number of Pages: 6
... believed as a character.” This is no truer than at the hospital after Catherine informs Frederic (Tenente), that she is pregnant her only concern becomes his happiness despite his constant pleas that he is in fact happy about the pregnancy. This is only overshadowed by her constant reassurances that she will be a “good girl”, never failing to apologize hastily for any momentary lapse in judgement. In fact, Catherine never fails to support Frederic for any of the risks he takes with his health, through drinking or the operation. While this submissive support for Frederic may seem surreal, it actually ...
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Christmas Traditions Around Th
Number of Words: 1168 / Number of Pages: 5
... 12 days. Burning incense or leaving a peace offering is supposed offer some protection against the elves. Most families decorate a small wooden cross with basil and dip it into a shallow bowl of water. This is believed to give the water holy powers. The water is then sprinkled throughout the house to keep the mischievous spirits away.
In Russia After the Russian Revolution of 1917, authorities of the newly formed USSR prohibited the practice of all religions. After the USSR broke up in 1991, the Russian Orthodox Church revived Christmas rituals. Like the Greeks, some Russians fast during a period bef ...
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Silent Spring
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... part of the quote is describing this. “The sedge is withr’d from the lake” is
another way of showing the destroying of plants. The sedge that was withr’d in the quote has
been stripped of its natural beauty. This was caused by chemicals used along this lake to kill the
plants that were unattractive to the eye according to the land owner. The second part of the
quote “and no birds sing” is describing the consequence of killing those plants. Once there were
animal life along this lake. Birds sang and took baths in it. When chemicals were used, the lake
became contaminated and along with that the ...
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