Initial Thread In lesson 3‚ the presenter discussed Neil Postman’s article‚ "The Disappearance of Childhood". I agree that electronic media‚ such as television fails to show children in their place. Children are exhibiting various behaviors that do not represent God and what he wants for his people. The presentation states‚ according to Postman‚ "When literature disappears‚ education disappears. When education disappears‚ shame disappears." Children are no longer shameful of their actions
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Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects children and adolescents. The NSW Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (SPANS) conducted research in 2010 and found that 22.8% of children between 5-17 years of age were classified as overweight or obese (Health NSW‚ 2012). Studies have shown a dramatic rise in the number of obese children in the last few decades and it has been shown that between 1980 and 2000‚ obesity rates doubled among children and tripled among teens
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from by Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health (2007)‚ the researchers found that childhood obesity is both a national and local crises. According to the report‚ “Nationally‚ obesity rates among children have tripled since the late 1970’s‚ and in Los Angeles County‚ more than 1 in 5 students in the fifth‚ seventh‚ and ninth grades are now obese‚ and this continuing epidemic of childhood obesity is jeopardizing the future health and well being of our children.” Obesity poses serious
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write itself Essay on A Childhood Memories I forced the door open and was blinded by sunlight and choked from all of the dust that had settled in the room. As I entered‚ the wooden floors slightly give way. Rusty nails poked out of the floorboards and old water stains have made designs on the walls. Woods were really rusty and at any given day this house would collapse. There was reading table against the wall and top of it there were some seashells setting. Most of the drawing on the wall were
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When I recall my childhood memories‚ there are many stories. Some of them make me happy‚ but others makes me grow up. The first memories made me growing us happened when I was eleven years old. I discovered that life can be choices by myself. Since my parents got divorce‚ so I was brought up by my grandparents. My grandparents‚ having evacuated from main land China‚ decided to settle down in Thailand because they were affected from World War II. I was surrounded with Chinese cultural Chinese language
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NOTHING IN FIVE HUNDRED WORDS It’s Friday afternoon‚ and you have almost survived another week of classes. You are just looking forward dreamily to the weekend when the English instructor says: "For Monday you will turn in a five hundred-word composition on college football." Well‚ that puts a good hole in the weekend. You don’t have any strong views on college football one way or the other. You get rather excited during the season and go to all the home games and find it rather more fun than not
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Childhood memories are special for everyone. I have a very happy memory of my childhood and always reminisce it with nostalgia. I was born and brought up in a small family which included my mother‚ father‚ and my elder sister. I have very fond memories of us sisters playing in our backyard‚ climbing trees to pluck fruits‚ going to parks and beaches and enjoying life in general. My father was a government servant and my mother a housewife. Of all the memories‚ one particular memory is very important
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Childhood Obesity Chimere Vicks ENG 122 Craig Smith January 01‚ 2013 Childhood Obesity The children of our future are facing a many challenges throughout their childhood‚ Childhood obesity is one of the challenges that has caught my interest. Children of different ages are facing this problem. Question is‚ what are we doing‚ as parents‚ to help prevent this problem? Children cannot buy their own food nor do they do not know how important it is to stay active. Parents have a responsibility
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his family’s past that lead into Tracy’s parents contemplating divorce. Tracy is in his middle childhood years. This is the point inn a child’s life where they develop socially and mentally. When children reach this stage they are able to make new friends and gain new skills‚ which will enable them to become more independent and enhance their individuality. This is the stage where children experience more peer pressure than pressure from parents. Tracy may be undergoing a sense of perfection so
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In “The Composition Process: Review of the Literature”‚ Janet Emig uses research evidence to support her perspective on the writing process as unable to be researched scientifically. Using interviews and other data gathered from professional writers‚ Emig highlights the difficulty of narrowing writing processes down to the one superior method that students should learn in composition class. She points out specific errors in the data and accuses them of being “unsystematic”‚ self-contradicting‚ and
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