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Women In Math And Science
Number of Words: 1051 / Number of Pages: 4
... science content appears to have no connection to women's experience, and competition is emphasized over collaboration (Taylor and Sweetnam). So what do the teachers who positively influence young women do that is so different it completely changes women's view about science? In a study of eighty women who became science teachers, they were asked about the teachers they remember and the most influential reasons those teachers made a difference. The three main responses were: "activity-based instructional techniques, instructor relationships, and knowledge and appreciation of science content" (Taylo ...
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Animal Rights
Number of Words: 575 / Number of Pages: 3
... research is an integral part of today's society when
thinking of how much progress we have gained in human health with the use
of animal experimentation. To date some forty-one Nobel prizes have been
awarded to scientists whose achievements depended on laboratory animals.
Vaccines against polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and smallpox
would not have been possible without such experiments. There also would
not be such important techniques such as open heart surgery, brain surgery,
coronary bypass, microsurgery to re-attached limbs, organ transplants, and
correction of congenital heart defect ...
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First Impressions May Be Deceiving
Number of Words: 724 / Number of Pages: 3
... a modern bank. The concrete support pillars not only add strength but also
give the library this impressive look of a bank. These light white-grayish,
square pillars are 2 by 2 ft. and almost half the way up them there are two
engraved lines that run all the way around them about 6 in. from the other.
Concrete, a sign of strength, is also used in the patio around the tower
entrance. This grayish colored concrete was poured in slabs of 3 by 3 ft.
sections. Concrete was also used as dividers between floors. Between each
floor, the redish-brown, 4 by 8 in. bricks are split up by a light grayish
ho ...
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Flappers Such As Clara Bow And Zelda Sayre Represented The Popular And Devilish Women Of The 1920's
Number of Words: 1240 / Number of Pages: 5
... "High necked jumpers of all tints and textures."1 This peaceful figure didn't exist for too long. Eventually, teenagers got bored and wanted to have fun. "It is the effect of the war,"2 was also a frequently used excuse. Since wars influencing the parents distracted them from their maturing children, more and more girls turned to flapperhood. Lack of attention caused the youth to be eccentric. Any young woman with and innovative dressing style and pompous attitude officially earned the name of being a flapper.
A flapper would display, divulge, disclose her body with the clothes she would w ...
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Norms
Number of Words: 630 / Number of Pages: 3
... and location. We were trying not to be normal, but ended up right in the middle of it.
As a freshman at Western Illinois University, I learned a whole new realm in the world of . We were taught about formal and informal , mores and folkways, and sanctions. Formal are what is written down and often take the form of laws. Formal were not what we were out to change in Junior High, but in High School we tried to do a lot of that. There were informal which told us it is not right to call names, but you won't get thrown into jail simply for violating an informal norm.
Mores often will take on th ...
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Society's Restraint To Social Reform
Number of Words: 1599 / Number of Pages: 6
... or death of the family income earner) to the social (racial
prejudice in the job market) and economic (collapse in the market demand for
their often limited skills due to an economic recession or shift in technology).
The Permissive View reveals that all participants in society are deserving of
the unconditional legal right to social security without any relation to the
individual's behaviour. It is believed that any society which can afford to
supply the basic needs of life to every individual of that society but does not,
can be accused of imposing life-long deprivation or death t ...
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Why Teens Are So Stressed Out
Number of Words: 1417 / Number of Pages: 6
... two or three hours of sleep behind them, a teen is very sleepy and aggressive. Most under-rested teens are angered very quickly. School work also leads to a lack of free time. If a teen is always working, he or she will have very little time to do anything else. This leaves desires unfulfilled and hobbies unpracticed. For example, if a teenage girl enjoys playing the piano but does not receive academic credits for playing, she then finds very little time to play after she has completed her required assignments. Then she has this love and talent inside her that is burning to be released, but ...
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Police Brutality: What's Really Going On?
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... tense
situation with force and confidence that what they were doing the right
thing.
The police that the author talked to said they would have reacted
the same way and most of the police officers that were interviewed said
that was the right thing to do. Some said they weren't rough enough.
What people saw in this case was the police officers beating Mr.
King without mercy. I don't think that's what happened I think that's what
people wanted to see. "What people think they see in a police incident is
not always what happens" Sergeant Stacey C. Koon.
Now what the public thinks is a different story. ...
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The Homeless Population
Number of Words: 470 / Number of Pages: 2
... two major trends responsible for the rapid growth of homelessness over the past 15-20 years.
These two trends include the growing shortage of affordable rental housing and a simultaneous increase in poverty. How many people are homeless throughout the world? The number of homeless is made up of 58% African American, 29% Caucasian, 10% Hispanic, 2% Native American, 1% Asian. Who is to blame for homelessness? As much as I would like to blame someone else other than the homeless people, they have a lot to do with it. Most of the homeless are out on the streets due to the loss of jobs and unfinished ...
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Media Violence
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... movies are condoning such actions...." Another counselor from Omaha said, "If a kid hears his dad laughing about having beat somebody up when he was 13, then that father is creating an underlying philosophy in the family." Joseph Stankus, an Omaha psychologist, said, "If sombody doesn't show any regard for the results of violence, then maybe you give it to them" (qtd. in Nelson np).
Watching violence and listening to others talk about violence can lead to aggression. Some places are more admissible of aggression than others. Aggressive behavior was more acceptable in the city, where a child's pop ...
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