Can Third Culture Kids Save the World? "TCKs are the prototype citizens of the future." -Ted Ward‚ sociologist‚ 1984 https://vimeo.com/41264088 http://tckid.com/what-is-a-tck.html GLOBAL NOMAD / cultural hybrid / GLOBAL CITIZEN / Cross Culture Kids (CCKs) / cultural chameleons / culturally homeless There are over 6800 languages that are used in the world today‚ 350million English Speakers. According to a body of sociological literature devoted to children who spend a portion of their
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The Torturing of Animals Every year there are hundreds of thousands of pets being abused and this must to come to an end. I myself love animals and I would never try to hurt my pets. People take advantage of animals and try to make money off of them by making them fight. In reality‚ this is a type of abuse and it is illegal. There are many different types of abuse that must be stopped. Although animal abuse occurs all over the world with all sorts of animals and people it can and must be put
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spends $14 billion out of their $31 billion annual budget on animal researching(Humane Society International; Conlee; US National Institutes of Health). Animal testing has become a very controversial topic to discuss. Experimenting on animals is cruel because even though there are alternative ways to test people still believe that testing on the animals is a better way to do things. Acts of cruelty against the animals‚ and the fact that animals are different from humans seem to be big issues in the controversy
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Animal Abuse 1. In some circuses‚ wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten‚ whipped‚ poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines! 2. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies. 3. More than 25 million vertebrate animals are used in testing in the United States each year. When invertebrate
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Night of the Scorpion Night of the Scorpion is a poem by ‘Nissim Ezekiel’. It tells the story of a rural boy(the poet)‚whose mother was stung by a scorpion .The illiterate village folk try to curse the poison away & are blinded by their superstitions .The boy’s father is a skeptic‚ rationalist who does not share their views & tries to get his wife cured by more logical techniques(which are‚ however‚ eventually abandoned & he‚ in contrast to his character‚ ends up following a more superstitious/unproved
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between parents and kids can harm their relationships with each other. Many parents don’t realize that their relationship with their kids is really important‚ especially strict parents. Strict parents believe in tough love but that can really harm the relationship between their children and them. This allows kids with strict parents to believe that family can hurt us as much as a stranger can. Both the article Are strict Chinese mothers the best? and Study:’Tiger Parenting’ Tough on Kids talks about strict
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Today we are watching Disney “The Kid”. It’s about a kid named Russell and a guy named Rusty. The guy named Rusty is kind of bossy to Russell‚ but at the end Rusty isn’t bossy to Russell. Rusty always says shut up to Russell too. This movie is starting to get really really FUNNY! My favorite part of the movie is were Rusty and Russell start fighting each other‚ that part is hilarious! I also like the part were Rusty‚ Russell and Amy are at a wedding and the ringbearer is sick so Russell jumps
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McJobs Are Bad for Kids I thought Amitai Etzioni’s article: The Fast-Food Factories: McJobs are Bad for Kids‚” was both accurate and convincing. His assertion that fast food jobs‚ “impart few skills useful in later life‚” and “skew the values of teenagers‚” is correct. At first blush‚ these jobs seem idea for teaching young people responsibility and self-discipline. But‚ when examining issues the author mentions as negatives such as; hours worked‚ appropriate supervision‚ job training‚ opportunity
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The diary of a wimpy kid Have you ever had your own journal and you almost got caught by your older brother? Well Greg has and it almost cost him all his secrets. Greg is an average American boy who always gets embarrassed either by his parents or by his two brothers rodrick and manny. I chose this book because I have read it before‚ and I liked it. It’s a novel comic book with a lot of cartoon drawings. Diary of a Wimpy kid is about Greg Heffley‚ a kid in middle school who has a younger and an
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