Juhee Lee Professor Clark DEVR 0320 21 January 2013 Attitude Before I read the short essay “ATTITUDE” by Charles Swindoll‚ attitude means mere a physical position or a manner to me. As a non-native English speaker‚ I just consider the word “attitude” as a way to show one’s posture toward something. However‚ I could not help admitting that my concept of attitude was totally wrong right after meeting Swindoll’s essay. I always thought that someone’s success depends on his gift or intelligence
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Is School Bad for Children? Education has always been an intense topic of discussion among many cultures and different groups of people. For many years it was believed that without formal structured education‚ academic success couldn’t be achieved. Today that idea has been challenged and proved invalid by homeschooling‚ online classes and alternative learning of all sorts. In the article‚”School is Bad for Children‚” American author and educator John Holt talks about the failures and flaws
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Can you imagine the amount of knowledge that is driven away by students throughout summer break? Lately‚ the Union City Board of Education has been considering that it may be necessary to switch from the traditional school year to having year round school in order to properly educate the students in this area. In my personal opinion‚ I most likely agree with the Union City Board of Education do to the following reasons. First of all‚ more time would be spent on teaching new material in opposed to
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appropriateness for young readers in schools. Much of the controversy roots from religious groups‚ parents‚ and school administrators who all find different aspects of the novels to be untruthful to their personal morals. In many schools‚ parents have challenged the content of the series to be immoral. Learning about wizards‚ although fictional‚ still goes against the thoughts of conservative‚ religious people. This debated series should be allowed in schools because of its strong example of true
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For most high school students‚ Monday mornings can be a real drag and some may say it’s like that every morning. Every weekday students are getting up before 6 a.m. so they have enough time to get ready for school. For a lot of teens‚ it is hard to function properly at this early of a time. If schools would start just an hour later‚ students would have a better chance of getting the recommended amount of sleep each night. Waking up from a good night’s sleep will always have a positive effect on one’s
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School is stressful enough with all the school work‚ plus needing to take care of responsibilities at home. Adding more hours would be agitating for kids. I strongly believe adding hours to school would be completely pointless. To begin with‚ kids have chores at home to do. They are responsible for completing them as well as homework. Also‚ children can be severely stressed and overwhelmed of all the school work. Finally‚ if the school board adds more hours to a school day‚ kids will have less time
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Why Gum Chewing Should Be Allowed In School Some would have you believe that gum chewing is a nasty habit and that it should be banned from schools. At SAS it is banned--- just like it is banned in all of Singapore. However‚ chewing gum should be allowed--- promoted in fact--- because of the many significant benefits of gum chewing. Not only does it improve oral hygiene‚ but it also improves concentration and mental ability. In addition‚ through expecting students to not abuse gum chewing by
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There are many things people are looking forward in the high school weather it be the classes or the teachers. There are many things to look forward to. The number one thing I’m looking forward to is the many freedoms and for many reasons. There are a lot more freedoms in the high school‚ including a more expansive BYOD program‚ or the ability to chew gum during class. I am looking forward to those many freedoms because they will make me more willing to come to class‚ help me focus‚ and in the
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clocks so that waking up and going to sleep early are difficult. When I go to school every morning I have to wake up at six o’ clock to get on the bus at seven. Then I have to go to school for eight hours. By the time I get home I be too tired to do anything else. I don’t go to sleep until ten or eleven o ‘clock. School starts at eight a.m. and doesn’t end until three p.m. some kids have jobs they have to go to after school. sometimes their shift doesn’t end until ten or eleven p.m. So when they
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India go Nuclear Should India Go Nuclear for Energy Solution [pic] Nuclear power plants perhaps can provide solutions to India’s horrible power shortages and outages too. With the US assistance envisaged in recent Indo-US joint statement India plans to take its nuclear power generation capability closer to the goal of 20‚000 MW by 2020. The high cost of nuclear power may be one deterrent for its choice or preference. In 80s and 90s many nuclear power projects even in US got cancelled or deferred
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