DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF GHANA THE READING HABIT AMONG ADULTS STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF KOFI ANNAN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING TRAINING CENTRE (KAIPTC) LIBRARY BY BELLA AYELE EKUE (10326063) A LONG ESSAY SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION STUDIES‚ UNIVERSITY OF GHANA‚ LEGON‚ IN PARTIAL FULLFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN INFORMATION STUDIES LEGON JUNE 2013 DECLARATION I Bella Ayele Ekue‚ do hereby
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In my opinion‚ cursive shouldn’t be taught in schools. It’s harder for kids to understand the letters in the alphabet. Did you know over $92 million tax funds were canceled because of cursive? Cursive is a waste of time and it can cause a lot of problems for people. Some people may say that cursive is important and it can take kids back to the older generations‚ but I don’t think that’s true‚ some kids can’t read cursive so they don’t understand it. Cursive hard to teach and to use‚ if cursive wasn’t
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“To be or not to be? That is the Question” ( Shakespeare). Should Shakespeare be taught in school curriculums or not? There are numerous reasons to keep Shakespeare in the school curriculum and plenty of other reasons to give him the boot. Shakespeare was an English playwright‚ poet‚ and actor. He lived from 1564- 1616. His work is still well known today‚ even after 450 years. Shakespeare has written 38 plays‚ poems‚ and sonnets. His works have been translated into 75 different languages‚
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Cursive should not be taught In 41 states there are cursive taught reading and writing. In my opinion‚ I believe that cursive should not be taught because it confuses kids‚ student are used to regular writing‚ there’s no time for cursive. The percent of parents who recommended cursive is 35%. First of all‚ I think cursive should not be taught because it confuses kids. You may think that kids like cursive because it’s so fancy but in reality kids hate it. It takes away
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Kids grow up reading books like Cat In The Hat‚ to Dork Diaries‚ to The Hunger Games‚ and so on. One of the highest levels you with reading is high school. High school can also be the area where students will decide they do not like reading‚ making it the downfall of their reading. If teachers want to stop this from happening‚ reading more mature books is a great solution. In this case‚ teachers should be able to teach questionable books because students learn about these subjects‚ either way‚ these
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Evolution Theory should be taught at schools.Whenever various debates have taken place in parts of the country regarding whether evolution should be taught in schools‚ I have always observed the situation with a degree of skeptism; the education I received never attempted to dissuade us from learning about evolution‚ and while none of my classes ever taught evolution with as much depth as Ernst Mayr attempted to convey in What Evolution Is‚ both systems taught it as a fact – one that we took for
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Should the Study of Creationism be Permitted to be Taught in Public Schools? Being the United States of America‚ people say this is supposed to be “The Land of the Free‚” but why is there are rules on what should be allowed to be taught in the public school system? According to the United States Constitution‚ here in America we have the right to practice any religion that is best suited for what we believe in. Clearly this means that any man‚ woman‚ or child could worship what they seem fit for
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develop one side of your brain that is not developed by basic reading and writing skills. And kids need to be writing by hand more often because‚ when they wright by hand there brain is absorbing more info than if they were typing on the computer. If teaching cursive is eliminated from schools‚ children will miss out on having there brain learn something new. The world is becoming more and more technology dependent. Cursive should be taught in schools not on computers. Because cursive writing requires
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There are many reasons why I believe cursive writing should still be taught today. For example‚ handwriting is 50% of literacy. First‚ cursive helps with your body. For example‚ your hands brain‚ etc. Next‚ for school purposes‚ students can read documents from the past. Moreover‚ what about life skills? Such as a simple signature‚ you need a signature for when you pay for something at the store with a credit or debit card. Those three little things requires cursive. First‚ cursive writing helps with
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Some people think that to kill a mocking bird should/should not be taught in classrooms ‚ Many schools teach To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee as part of their curriculum; however‚ some people think that this book is inappropriate for use in schools to teach this novel ‚ it is important because It helps students understand how life was in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird; the book (should not/should) be taught in schools because bad language‚ you can learn from it‚ and it teaches not to hate
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