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Essays 1981 - 2010

Development During Middle Childhood

and Carelli agree with the Healthy People 2020 definition of middle childhood and identify it as encompassing ages 6-12, these exp...

Past, Present, Future/Evaluating Learning

should adapt the following example answer to reflect the reality of the students past personal experience. On entering the degre...

School Bullying/The Effect on Bullies and Victims

(Ahmed, 2008). Witnesses may participate in bullying, either by providing verbal support for the bully; remaining silent and tryin...

Concussions in High School Football

Protocols should be in place to assure that students do not go back to playing ball soon after a concussion is experienced. In fa...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

Usage of Cell Phones in Secondary and Elementary Schools

as such have relented to allowing them on campus, but with strict regulatory policies in place. Many of the arguments against cell...

The Nursing Metaparadigms/Nursing Philosophy

tree is the founding theory of modern nursing, the theory formulated by Florence Nightingale. There are three branches in this ana...

Group Development/Remember the Titans

is based on a true story of a 1971 recently integrated high schools football team, located in Alexandria, Virginia, coping with an...

The French Influence in Quebec City

First established as a fort in 1535 by the French explorer Jacques Cartier, Quebec City is among the oldest European settlements i...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Biblical Stance Toward Food Production

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

Relationship between Censoring Science and Public Policy

that the majority of American parents indicated that they wished their children to be exposed to creationism in school. The proble...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Psychological Well-Being and Islam

The sawm, the fourth pillar, is an annual fast that is held during the month of Ramadan. Again, communal identity is strengthened...

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and the Concept of Leadership

Rico hails from a privileged background, and Heinlein makes it clear that only through Johnnies military indoctrination in Officer...

Bullying: An Article Analysis

jails and violent inmates. But violence of a different kind is becoming distressingly prevalent in society: bullying. This paper a...

Teaching in New York High-Need Schools

hire qualified teachers for these difficult schools (Boyd et al., 2008). The findings are somewhat surprising. First, the researc...

High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

Schools and the Value of Knowledge

school the least stressful (Mangione and Speth, 1998). Children do much better in their studies when they have achieved a smooth t...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

Economic Theories of John Maynard Keynes

accept lower wages during times of decline, and quit their jobs (1939). This jeopardizes the beautifully constructed, but admitte...

Nutrition and Children

* Child poverty is highest among black families, 30 percent, then, among Hispanic families, 29 percent; it is 13 percent among whi...

International Conflict, Realism v. Constructivism

when the threat that caused their creation no longer exists. The Constructivists, in contrast, contend that alliances exist becau...

Work or Graduate School?

scholarship may be gained for some or all of the education costs. On top of this there are also the lost wages whilst at graduate ...

Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

Comparison of Gestalt and Behaviorism

(1969 as Overskeid, 1995) states: "Behavior which is exclusively shaped by ... contingencies is perhaps the closest one can come t...

Safety Concerns in Educational Facilities

concern in elementary schools (Thompson and Hudson, 1998). Proper supervision is crucial, as it is believed that more than 40 per...

Lack of Planning Time for Middle School Teachers

between and among teachers (The National Forum to Accelerate Middle School Reform, nd). It is a given that teachers will offer a s...

Colonialism in the Works of Chinua Achebe and Kojima Nobuo

of American reaction to Japans surrender is wrong. While undoubtedly many Americans stationed in Japan still hated the Japanese be...

Instances of Abuse in The Mushkegowuk Cree of Fort Albany, Ontario and Canada's Aboriginal Residential Schools

only be accused of hundreds of cases of physical and sexual abuse but was also known for its use of a home-made electric chair wit...