Solving High School Problems In the past few years American high school students have a significant amount of struggling. Young people’s struggles come from various sources such as school‚ social class‚ race‚ and gender. The article “Teaching Tolerance in America” by Dudley Erskine Devlin mentions multiple issues about high schools‚ and how students tend to divide up into groups. These divisions among adolescents can either cause social‚ race‚ or gender problem. Likewise‚ Michael Quintanilla
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by other team members as being too skinny ’ or unhealthy. Additionally‚ the adolescent girls that were underweight were made fun of and talked about by other members of the team‚ thus leading them to form their own clique within the drill team. The girls that formed their own clique never confronted the other members of the team but rather kept to themselves. All of these observations and its findings could exhibit signs of eating disorders which is leading to group separation and self isolation
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the bullies even in their own home.This can be very frightening for the victim. Facebook plays a role in how bullies have an easier way to harm their victims. Facebook plays a big role in the low self esteem of school children. Facebook has social cliques where some children do not fit in and that really affects their self esteem‚ because they feel as if they are not good enough. This causes low self
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The Breakfast Club was a movie about five very different characters‚ Claire‚ Andrew‚ Brian‚ Allison‚ and John Bender. Claire was a popular girl‚ Andrew was a wrestler (jock)‚ Brian was intellectually gifted‚ Allison was a basket case‚ and John Bender was a rebel. On the outside they seem like very different people‚ in fact they were all socially opposite‚ but they also shared so much. As the movie starts out‚ the five teenagers are being punished with Saturday detention; their assignment for
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Cinematography in The Breakfast Club This film written and directed by John Hughes follows five students at Shermer High School in Shermer‚ Illinois as they report for Saturday detention in 1984. While not complete strangers‚ the five are all from different cliques‚ there’s John Bender "The Criminal‚" Claire "The Princess‚" Brian "The Brain‚" Andy "The Athlete‚" and Allison "The Basket Case." The school’s disciplinary teacher Mr. Vernon gives them all an assignment to write an essay about "who you think you
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Popular girls "Popular girls" is a short story from 2001 by Karen Shephard. She is born and raised in New York and her work has been published in several papers. The short-story sets in the early 80 ’s where we get some insight in the life of five rich and popular girls. They are self-centered and don ’t have the slightest interest in other people. Their entire life is about maintaining their image as a group. The setting is New York‚ which is the riches city in the US. The city is also known as
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creating this outlandish‚ but somewhat true portrayal of how life is for a typical teenager. These different “social classes” or cliques are all based off of different stereotypes created over the years. On Cady’s second day in a normal high school‚ her friend Janice created a seating chart for the cafeteria categorizing where to sit and where not to sit by the different cliques‚ going anywhere from the “Smart Asians” to the “Overly sexually active band geeks” to the “worst people you’ll ever meet (the
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1. What does Charles Cooley mean by the term “looking-glass” self? * Cooley term “looking-glass” mean that we describe the process by which our identity develops. We develop three stages: We imagine how we appear to others around us‚ we draw general conclusions based on the reactions of others‚ and based on our evaluations of others’ reactions‚ and we develop our sense of personal identity. 2. Describe Goffman’s back stage and front stage behavior. Give an example of “back stage” behavior
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our schools today‚ there are problems that take the focus off education and make it more difficult for a student to learn. These problems include ridicule and discrimination‚ violence‚ expense‚ distractions‚ fashion extremes‚ and the formation of cliques. School uniforms can eliminate the problems that arise and distract students from the main focus of school‚ their education. School uniforms put an end to the "grueling‚ expensive‚ and sometimes violent competition to keep up with the latest fashion
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anymore. Finally‚ the last problem of my school was the students. They oftern formed cliques depended on the personal popularities‚ the finance of student’s family or the similar personalities or hobbies. At the end of the first year in high school‚ we can idenify clearly any groups by looking at them. The groups never let anyone join them unless that person had to be like them and follow the rules of the cliques. However‚ the most terrible thing was that some students involved with drugs such as
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