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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
The Education System
<view this essay>.... to ware
school uniform, but in here the high school student they can wear what ever they
want. Second, there was no choice for us to take those classes that we want we
had to take what was offered, in contrast in US high schools students can take a
lest those classes that they like. Third, the exams in my country was pretty
the same as US system.
First of all, in my county all high students we had to wear uniform.
We had to wear black skirts, white tops, black shoes and black tights. The good
thing about uniform was that it wasn't expensive for parents to get uniform for
their children each year, second, it was good for students to concentrate only
on there .....
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The Internet In Public Schools
<view this essay>.... for the future. But what is the future? No one can say with certainty. But by taking a quick look around us, we can guess that the Internet will play a prominent role in our future. If we look at the stock market, for example, we can see internet and technology stocks skyrocketing beginning their first day on the market. Or, turn on the television and one will surely hear a commercial telling everyone to check out their company's web site for more information on their product. Daily, we can see the Internet becoming more integrated in our lives and in the lives of our youth. Without the internet in our schools, how will teachers instruct students to t .....
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The Blind And Deaf
<view this essay>.... have some sight that can be useful to them for different purposes. Some people are born congenitally blind and others have acquired blindness. Acquired blindness can come from disease or injury. There are other conditions of blindness. Some people have what is called night blindness. They cannot see well when there is limited light. Another blindness is color blindness. In this individuals cannot distinguish one color from another.
Congenital blindness means that someone is born blind. Everyone else who is blind gets it from disease or injury. Disease causes about 95% of all blindness. There are a high number of diseases that can cause blindness. S .....
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Model Train Building And Compu
<view this essay>.... market there are numerous different packages of software that enable hobbyist in the “challenge” of real yard operations on a smaller scale. These programs allow the person to move loads between depots and keep track of your revenues. They allow simulations of operational switches between tracks, multiple train operation, coupling/uncoupling of railcars. But the greatest benefit that they bring is allowing the person to design a layout using an electronic template and ensuring that all measurements in the layout will work before a single piece of track is laid. Many of these software programs even play off on the hype of using a computer for design in the .....
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Fear 2
<view this essay>.... our safety so we lock our doors at night, never walk alone on dark streets, and turn on lots of lights to keep the boogie man away. We fear for our health so we diet, exercise, and eat only healthy foods. Our fears can also help us make wise decisions: where to live, what to do with our money, how to raise our children, even what kind of car to drive and whether or not to drive it.
Our fears may be sudden like when your kid brother jumps out behind you and yells ‘boo’. People’s fears can be built up over a long period of time, for example, during the cold war millions of people thought that at any moment they would be attacked by the Russi .....
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Gangs
<view this essay>.... are joining at younger ages; our current juvenile justice system is no longer adequate for today's hardened young gang members. According to recent studies in demographics the problem is not going away. This problem if ignored is going to lead to the decay of our society.
In many of the articles that I read about gang violence they warned of the impending youth crime crisis. Youth violent crime has been rising dramatically for more than a decade. An upward surge in youthful perpetrators of violence is complemented by an unprecedented growth in youth living with little or no adult supervision. For decades mostly adults drove violent crime, with kids involve .....
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Nurture Plus Nature
<view this essay>.... psychology.
John Broadus Watson, the father of American behaviorism, greatly
reinforced the source of nurture by studying learned and adaptive behavior
patterns in our environmental surroundings (Rathus p.13). During this same time
of revolutionary ideas in psychology, American psychologist, Arnold Gesell
supported the opposite views of Watson. Gesell theorized that "physical and
motor growth and development is monitored and regulated by an automatic natural
process"(Rathus p.13). Each of these ideas has persisted strongly in the world
of psychology from the nineteenth century on into the twentieth, but now a new
and united psychology world acknowledges both .....
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The Only Truth Existing
<view this essay>.... Thinking about our thoughts is an
automatic validation of our self-consciousness. Descartes claims, "But
certainly I should exist, if I were to persuade my self of something." And so,
I should conclude that our existence is a truth, and may be the only truth, that
we should find its certainty.
From the "natural" experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that we find are
our personal truths. From these experiences, we have learned to understand life
with reason and logic; we have established our idea of reality; and we believe
that true perceptions are what we sense and see. But it is our sense of reason
and logic, our idea of reality, and our perceptions .....
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