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Teaching Diverse Students
Number of words: 1147 - Number of pages: 5.... only know about their own cultures and it is imperative to their futures that they are educated about the other students around them. Children need to grow up in a world without having any prejudice towards others.
Teaching which disregards diversity places students at a disadvantage by reducing their capacity to learn. An inclusive curriculum which acknowledges, respects and responds appropriately to student diversity, can contribute to:
enhanced learning outcomes for a greater number of students
validation of student experiences and world views
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Challenging The Traditional Cl
Number of words: 558 - Number of pages: 3.... have been able to go through the plays willingly, and with enthusiasm. Instead, I read it because I had to, for fear of getting a bad grade. On the contrary, Rodriguez actually enjoyed schoolwork. He tells us, “…. any book they (teachers) told me to read, I read –then waited for them to tell me which books I enjoyed. Their every casual opinion I came to adopt and to trumpet when I returned home…”. He approached academics with an eagerness that left everything else behind, including his family and culture. As Rodriguez became more involved with his academics he drifted further .....
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Affecting How We Think
Number of words: 940 - Number of pages: 4.... the value system of a society?
The media is so pervasive it is hard to believe they do not have important effects on society. Yet, many people do not believe that the media have personally influenced them or have harmed them. However, to attempt to understand how the media may shape the attitudes of individuals, and how they may shape culture itself, requires that we stand back from our personal experiences in order to analyze the arguments presented on each side of the debate.
For example, some believe that it is very important to report serious, society-threatening news with total ob .....
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Phaedo
Number of words: 570 - Number of pages: 3.... after death, reminding us again of the separation of body and soul.
Socrates then, has proven to Simmias and Cebes two things. First that the body is inferior to the soul because of its finite age, and secondly that it is harmful to the soul's purpose of gaining the true forms. These two points lead to a third and final point, digressing into the difference between the philosophical life and the life of the commoner: People either spend their lives caring for the body and its immediate needs, or caring for the soul and furthering the success of the distant afterlife.
Differing f .....
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Sports And Society
Number of words: 514 - Number of pages: 2.... the blazes.
At a baseball game between Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma fans from both sides were extremely rude and obnoxious towards each other. "Schools should support one another... and fans should support their team and represent their school with class (Cudd, Campus' Voice). The behavior at these events is unacceptable and needs to stop.
In England rowdy fans were arrested after a soccer game. These English hooligans attacked a British journalist and two photographers (Balmer, Reuters). The reason why this behavior occurred was because the English did not li .....
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How Tv Impacts Teens
Number of words: 801 - Number of pages: 3.... school party where teens are having fun while drinking beer. So what are teenagers going to think? They will think that if they drink beer they will have as much as the teens in the commercial. As a result of adolescents
drinking there will be violence.
Where do teens learn the concept of violence? Where else but TV. There is definitely way too much violence on television. For example on cable networks such as HBO or Showtime, there are shows that are built around violence. Shows such as OZ. This show is about prisoners who fight and kill for the sake of fighting and killing. These kinds o .....
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Book Report On 1984 By George
Number of words: 1968 - Number of pages: 8.... telescreen could not be turned off. If you are heard thinking of something the Big Brother does not want you to think then you will be punished by the Thought Police. This punishment could be death or a sentence of 25 years in a forced labor camp. You had to keep your feelings to yourself and try to hide them from the Thought Police. “Your worst enemy is your own nervous system,” (page 67) this is something you hear all the time from criminals who say their self conscious got to them.
There are three slogans of the party, theses slogans are War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and I .....
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Contrasting Apollo & Dionysus
Number of words: 552 - Number of pages: 3.... Rex. The Oracle was there to bestow knowledge from Apollo onto those who
came to it. Another reason people looked to Apollo was to help heal the sick and
the dying, because he is associated with medicine, probably because of his vast
knowledge.
Dionysus, on the other hand, represents the Play side of life. He is the
god of emotions, the god of wine, and also the god of fertility. Some things
attributed to Dionysus are the dithyrambs, or choral hymns, sung for him but the
people. This was how they praised him. Drama is also directly associated with
him. Being the god of wine a .....
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The American Museum Of Natural History: Anthropology
Number of words: 1847 - Number of pages: 7.... whether it was a big sculpture or a little skeleton. There was
also films that could have been seen for a small price, but if one has the time
it is very educational and worth seeing.
In the hall of Asian Peoples the most intriguing exhibits was the
Chinese Wedding. It was very interesting to see how a different culture gets
married. In this wedding the Chinese bride sits in this beautiful bridal chair
from the groom's family that had carried her from her home. The bride now says
her good-byes to her own family because in the Chinese culture she is now part
of the grooms family. " H .....
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Adapting New Culture
Number of words: 888 - Number of pages: 4.... person can be a private ownership. Therefore, it may be easier for those people to adapt a new culture or a new environment.
For example, in "The Plane Reservation," Massud Farzan states that he has stayed in the United States for a long time before he visited his family in Iran. When he arrived in Iran, he found a lot of changes. It can be understood that the writer didn't like his country and his culture before he left to the United States. When he lived in the United States, he found the right place for him that made it very easy for him to adapt to the American culture. Therefor .....
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