In his article‚ he recounts his shock at hearing one of his African-American students blatantly say‚ “Everyone knows that black people are bad. That’s the way we are” (Elrich 12). His shock was furthered as he realized that his student’s statements were widely accepted
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In their contribution to the academic journal‚ the American Educator (Winter 2010-2011)‚ William Schmidt‚ Leland Cogan‚ and Curtis McKnight shed light on their explanation of how to acquire equality of educational opportunity. The authors ask readers to consider the affects of equal content coverage in the classroom‚ and how enabling this‚ would create equal opportunities for individual students‚ “no matter the equality in other resources provided” (p. 13). In addition‚ one must consider factors
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decisions are made. One of the major concerns in the juvenile justice system is the over representation of minorities. This is due to prejudice and bias people in higher power that make the decisions regarding juvenile sentencing. In the first empirical article “Contexts of Decision Making…” the authors briefly discuss how earlier people often used Conflict Theory to explain why minorities are over represented in the juvenile system. Criminologist have discovered that sometimes there was intentional prejudice
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determining how to best handle that exposure (investorwords.com). Since companies are concerned with profitability‚ the risk can further be defined as what is the financial cost vs. the financial benefit of implementing a drug screening policy. In the article "Employer Drug Testing Has Pitfalls" by Lee Fletcher (Fletcher‚ 2000‚ 1-2)‚ he interviews 5 different companies about the downside to drug screening.
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An article titled Counseling Anytime‚ Anyplace written by Jake New and published on Inside Higher Ed the need for mental health services expansion. Students at Skidmore College were experiencing wait times of up to a week to meet with a counselor if the student didn’t report themselves as suicidal. In response to the need for greater availability for mental health counselors two Skidmore students started an online petition asking for three additions to the Skidmore counseling center’s offerings
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An article analysis “The Eternal Coffee Break” The headline of the article is “The Eternal Coffee Break”. The topic of the given article is about the idea that the office of the future may become more like home due to computers and electronic communications. The first paragraph deals with the advice from Frank Becker‚ a professor at Cornell University who studies the pattern of office work. His advice is connected with the idea that companies need to devote more office space to creating places
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In this article‚ “Predicting early adolescent gang involvement from middle school adaptation”‚ authors‚ Thomas J. Dishion‚ Sarah E. Nelson‚ and Miwa Yasui’s purpose of the study were to understand the role of peers in the development of antisocial behavior. This study set out to examine the role of adaptation in the first year of middle school (grade6‚ age 11) to affiliation with gangs by the last year of middle school (grades 8‚ age13). The sample and method included multiethnic and urban youth
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acknowledges that our love affair with pets has gone out of control. He is telling us that we have gone overboard on spending amounts for our pets. I agree that our love affair with pets have gone out of hand. My experience from reading Bilger’s article‚ “The Last Meow”‚ confirms this statement. I agree with Bilger because people have been spending nineteen billion dollars on veterinary care for their pets. The Leverings spent more than half of their annual income on a surgery for their cat
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with the genetic test on patient with a drug called warfarin‚ which is a blood-thinning drug. The FDA wanted to figure out the best dosage for each and every individual to be more efficient. We are all hoping for someday when just a simple genetic analysis could tell an individual their best diet possible to live a long life. One of the possibilities of achieving nutrigenetics is at the gene that sits at the one end of the chromosome 1. An enzyme called MTHFR (Methylene Hydrofolate Reductase)
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hold access to more knowledge than ever could have fit in the famed Library of Alexandria. Yet we also live in one of the most Bible illiterate times. People know less about the Word of God today than ever before. Dr. Albert Mohler points out in his article‚ “The Scandal of Bible Illiteracy: It’s Our Problem‚” that less than half can list the four gospels. This is elementary‚ this is basic. Matthew‚ Mark‚ Luke‚ and John. Less than half can do that. So‚ how can the majority then claim to understand the
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