The Pros and Cons of Home Birth The demand for natural child birth and giving birth outside of the hospital setting is increasing in the United States. However it is a topic that remains controversial. There is no shortage of glowing stories from happy mothers of safely home birthed babies‚ but there are horror stories as well. Planned home births are generally considered safe for healthy women with low risk pregnancies being attended by certified nurse midwifes with a good system in place for
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BIRTH OF MY SON Jeanine Highbaugh Ivy Tech Community College Birth of My Son The day my life changed was ten years ago when I found out that I was pregnant at the age of nineteen. I was pregnant with my first born‚ a baby boy that came in this world peeing on the nurses. I named him a biblical name‚ Emmanuel‚ which means “God is with us”. My son is so awesome‚ and he’s my miracle son because he was preemie weighing only two pounds and ten ounces‚ and he was fourteen inches long.
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“Birth Control in schools” Birth Control in Schools Schools are the one institution in our society regularly attended by most young people-nearly 95% of all youth aged 5 to 17 years are enrolled in elementary or secondary schools (National Center for Education Statistics‚ 1993). Large percentage of youth attend schools for years before they encounter sexual risk-taking behaviors and a majority is enrolled at the time they initiate intercourse. Just as
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baby factories‚ one woman took a stand for every woman ’s rights as a human being. In the late 1800s birth control‚ a term coined by Margaret Sanger in her newspaper‚ Women Rebel‚ in 1914‚ was considered to be immoral by most religious groups. Sanger pleaded with society to implement some form of birth control so as to give aid to her fellow women who were looked on as nothing more than objects that would bend to the will of man. The birth control pill was the brainchild of Margaret Sanger and Katherine
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the American education system. Some claim its a lack of funding‚ and if we just throw money at the problem the problem of a sub-par education system will just go away. Others claim we need to get back to basics or have more stringent certification procedures. The excuses are abundant. Carl Singleton offers more radical advice. He claims what we need more is more F’s. Singleton believes F’s would virtually overnight save our education system. Will more F’s save the American education system? The
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Allen EGL 101-018/035 Fall 2010 Compulsory Voting in America: Against Our Civil Rights The United States of America is supposed to be a land of freedom where one can exercise the right to have various liberties that are not found in many other countries around the world. Among these liberties is the right to vote in a democratic government. Voting is a privilege in the United States that should not be taken for granted; many countries do not have the luxury of choosing who they want to
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history that changed our society to what it is today was The Women’s Right Movement‚ which began in 1848. At the time the U.S. was founded‚ it’s female citizens didn’t have many rights‚ especially compared to what the men had at the time. No women had the right to vote‚ married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money‚ even if they earned it. Women were also expected to focus on housework and motherhood‚ not politics or jobs. One of the biggest rights women wanted and had
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Birth Control is the Best Way to Fight with Teenage Pregnancy Teen pregnancy is frequently discussed all over the country and the efforts have not reduced the numbers‚ as teens continue to have unsafe sex which eventually leads to pregnancy. These developments led different experts to consider the issue of abstinence‚ abortion‚ and general sex education in order to reduce the rates of pregnancy among teens. The average teen will be curious about sex when he or she starts puberty and begins to be
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In the essay‚ “What Our Education System Needs is More F’s”‚ Singleton suggests that educators should embrace the grade letter F instead of adopting a system of leniency that allows a student to not fully master his assignments and still obtain the opportunity to pass his grade level. The author feels that by adopting a black and white grading system‚ awarding students who meet academic standards and presenting F’s to those who don’t‚ will call the attention of students‚ parents‚ and teachers. He
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Amber Whitt Dr. Schoer FYS 11 October‚ 2012 In a recent survey conducted by freshmen college students‚ at Converse College‚ a variety of results emerged. The survey was created on the media portrayal of teachers. During this survey‚ college students‚ college professors‚ family members‚ high school teachers‚ and high school students were questioned. The survey consisted of 15 questions regarding how the media manifests teaching. In one comparison‚ high school teachers and their students agreed
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