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Gambling
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... so I played. I was ahead in the game, so I decided to cash what I had out. The machine printed out a yellow ticket. I lost the rest of the credits and took the ticket up to the clerk and he told me that it was worth one dollar. I picked a scratch off and won ten dollars. This experience shows there is a difference between being eighteen and being twenty-one. If the machine will physically give you money, then you have to be twenty-one to play that machine. If the machine will give you a voucher or a redeemable ticket, then you only have to be eighteen to play it.
The age of drinking is t ...
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Constructivism
Number of Words: 1863 / Number of Pages: 7
... all we know about reality is our own tentative construction. Trowbridge (1996) relates this general view of to teaching by adding that is a model of teaching in which students construct knowledge by interpreting new experiences in the context of prior knowledge, experiences, episodes and images. Thus, as suggested by Kelly (1995),a constructivist approach to learning does not view learning as the transfer of knowledge to the learner, but rather an active construction of knowledge by the learner. For these reasons it can be concluded that encompasses ‘the learner’ who constructs his or her know ...
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Teenage Suicide
Number of Words: 1350 / Number of Pages: 5
... both in words and actions (Homer 19).
Indications that a person feels depressed, sad, and hopeless-complaints about feeling worthless and useless (Homer 19).
Giving away loved possessions such as a favorite jacket or sweaters. Also, making final arrangements or making a will might be a warning sign (Homer 19).
Changes in sleeping habits-the person who can stop sleep, or falls asleep easily, only of awaken after a short time and then like awake all night. Similarly the person who seems to be sleeping all the time may be at risk (Homer 19).
Changes in eating habits-a major weight loss or gain. In a ...
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Uniforms In Public Schools
Number of Words: 825 / Number of Pages: 3
... clothing. Not worrying about how to dress unique will allow students to develop their individuality and creativity. President Clinton also supports this view, “Young people will learn to evaluate themselves by what they are on the inside instead of what they’re wearing on the outside” (Discount Store News).
Wearing uniforms will produce a sense of belonging that the students will share.
School uniforms are certainly very cost and time efficient for parents. Many department stores, such as Sears and K-Mart, work with the schools to provide the uniforms and to offer discounts.
At Long Beach Un ...
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Media And Society
Number of Words: 1122 / Number of Pages: 5
... in entertainment and in real life. Media violence is especially damaging to young children, age 8 and under, because they cannot tell the difference between real life and fantasy. Violent images on television and in movies may seem real to these children and sometimes viewing these images can even traumatize them with bad dreams and other types of things.
Despite the negative effects media violence has been known to generate, no official changes have been made to deal with this problem that seems to be getting worse every minute. The United States has shown this violence so much, that movies such ...
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Adolescent Egocentrism
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... indestructible. They all seriously thought nothing was going to happen to them. Maybe nothing will, but still they believe that there isn’t even the chance even though it happened before. Drawing on my adolescence, I can remember thinking like that also.
The second example relates to the latter. I mentioned that all the other kids were going to the party and drinking and the other eight teens were going to hang out at the house, watch movies and have fun. They all made such a huge deal that they were a different group and they were not going with the flow. They all kept saying “We are the coo ...
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Domestic Violence
Number of Words: 2336 / Number of Pages: 9
... tends to become more frequent
and severe over time. Oftentimes the abuser is physically violent sporadically,
but uses other controlling tactics on a daily basis. All tactics have profound
effects on the victim.
Perpetrators of domestic violence can be found in all age, racial,
ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, linguistic, educational, occupational and
religious groups. Domestic violence is found in all types of intimate
relationships whether the individuals are of the same or opposite sex, are
married or dating, or are in a current or past intimate relationship. There are
two essential elements ...
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Overpopulation
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... of the world's food supply comes from land, the continous production of adequate food supply is directly dependent on land, water, and energy. As the population increases, so does the amount of resources needed. Even though they are not depleted, they are declining at a significant rate because they are divided by such a large number.
Fertile cropland is also a big concern. The world's cropland per capita has been declining, the shortages of croplands combined with decreasing land productivity is a major reason why there is food shortages and human malnutrition. Fossil energy is another majo ...
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Why Televisions Should Be Unplugged
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... to go vandalizing or attacking innocent people. This is
especially true when speaking of the gang situation that is currently plaguing
our nation. Before the era of the television, crime like the kind we now have
was virtually non-existent.
Obesity is another indirectly related effect of television on our bodies
for people of all ages. The term “couch potato” adequately suits people who
would rather watch Cindy Crawford tone and firm her buns than get off theirs. If
there's a welt in you favorite spot on the couch that is a perfect outline of
your backside, it's a good indicator that you need to get ...
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Bias
Number of Words: 995 / Number of Pages: 4
... a project to collect oral evidence
from former slaves who were still living. Even these interviews could not
be viewed as 100% accurate. One example, is a geographic bias. The people
that were interviewed were only a very small portion of the millions of
freed slaves. Counting the number of slaves interviewed from each state,
it was discovered that there were only 155 interviews from black people
living in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky, which is
about 6% of the total number of published interviews. Twenty-three percent
of the southern slave population lived in those states. ...
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