I was too young to know if I should be insulted or to take it and a joke. ... Through TV, they had people mimicking us or making crude jokes about us on shows. ... This culture, although sometimes biased, taught me to loosen up and accept some comments as jokes and not to be so uptight. Although the jokes and comments are not as severe as they were before, they still have a tiny part of me that wants to make them stop. Despite the stereotypes, jokes, and other crude humor, the opportunities that have come up for me throughout the years, have been more that a blessing. ...

• Word Count: 774
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"Juveniles are like the rising sun, on whom our hope is placed." This is one of the most familiar aphorisms of the former Chairman of China, Mao. Nevertheless, it turns out to be a provoking sarcasm nowadays whenever we read newspapers - teenage crimes have reached a severely mounting state in Hong...

• Word Count: 385
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs when there is unwelcome sexual conduct such as touching, teasing, name-calling, sexual posters, pictures or jokes, which create an atmosphere that negatively impacts a student's daily routine. ...

• Word Count: 334
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An anonymous author wrote this book because this book is a real young girl's diary. The theme of this book is reality. It talks about a young girl named Alice who moved to a new state and started high school. She meets a friend in her new school but when she goes away for the summer all bad things b...

• Word Count: 383
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In class, since students know each other (most of the times since the 1st grade) there are a lot of jokes and humor during class, but only when appropriate. ... Later on when I become more fluent with English, I could understand the jokes, but I wouldn't laugh at them. ...

• Word Count: 1137
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

If it wasn't for her, I still probably wouldn't care about school, I would just take it as a joke she made me realize how important school is and she is someone who is a great motivator. ...

• Word Count: 576
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Illegeracy is a term which was created by a professor of English at UCLA. The most basic definition of illegeracy is the inability to choose pertaining to law and public acts. The simplest way to think about this term is to consider alliteracy which occurs when a person has the ability to read but...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2

I spent more than half of my life in school, and I had a lot of teachers. Some of them were really good teachers and I will remember them for all my life. However, some of them I didn't like so much and they were my nightmare. Based on my experience, qualities of good teacher is to have knowledge ab...

• Word Count: 540
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Local High School Deputy Principal Not Meeting Student's Needs Today marks the beginning of what could be the most morally contentious event of the Singapore American High School's history: the day a student finally had the balls to bring his case against the local Deputy Principal, David Norcott...

• Word Count: 697
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

My suggestions for ways my school could do a better job in preventing future student problems are being serious about what they say, a lot of staff wonder why students take them as a joke, we do this because they never keep their word about discipline. ...

• Word Count: 775
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Why do they think that uniforms are the right thing for school? What makes them so wonderful that many schools lately have implemented a uniform policy? In my school they were a joke, no body took them seriously. They were just something else to try to bend the rules about. One girl would wear ...

• Word Count: 720
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There is a lot of controversy with school administrations whether cell phones should be allowed in schools by students. Cell phones are not just for calling and texting, but mini-computers with access to information and technology to write documents, reports and even print. Cell phones also provid...

• Word Count: 811
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Ever since I was in sixth grade, I knew I wanted to be an educator. When people would ask what grade I wanted to teach, I would never know what to answer. I love children, no matter the age. Watching them problem solve and watching them find their own ways has always been interesting. From sixth gra...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I"d like to you tell that I"m definitely not for this proposition at all! Sure they have some good reasons for this, but they are definitely outweighed by the bad. The selling of candy and pop in schools does generate a lot of income, and if you look at it in Harlem's scenario we definitely need ...

• Word Count: 734
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"Introduction: Ways of Reading" After reading the introduction of "Ways of Reading" for the first time, an immediate sense of confusion struck. Thus, when contemplating the passage and reading it for a second time, the fog became clear. The introduction to the book "Ways of Reading" is unique in ...

• Word Count: 713
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There are many reasons why I was bullied during my middle school years. My middle school experience was horrible, and it was not easy getting use to the students. My parents separated in year 2005. So, my mother decided to move out in her own place far away from my father. We packed up our things an...

• Word Count: 975
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

When adults think of college students the first words that come to mind are lazy and unmotivated. Adults believe many students spend their time unproductively. According to them, college students spend the majority of their day napping, playing video games, and eating junk food. Adults classify the...

• Word Count: 1211
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Another aspect of the children's behavior that I understand because of this course is the way they want to constantly joke and play with each other as opposed to focusing on their schoolwork or enjoying quiet time. ...

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Does School Kill Creativity, by Sir Ken Robinson, is the most viewed TED Talk; it has garnered 8.5 million views on YouTube and has been downloaded over 200 million times internationally since its premier in February of 2006. On their website, TED states they are, "a nonprofit devoted to spreading i...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Alison Reppy Professor Jim McGrath ENGU111 29 January 2004 Separation through Education It seems that education does more for separating children from their families then teaching them the life lessons they will need later in life. In Richard Rodriguez's excerpt "Achievement of Desire...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

When given a vast amount of material and being told to understand it with a minimal amount of guidance and support, a person may get extremely overwhelmed and not hesitate to consider giving up. In the story "Lives On The Boundary", The author, Mike Rose, talks about his past when he had just starte...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A popular reform movement with the moniker "cultural literacy" has been proposed (and widely published) by E.D.Hirsch, Jr. and collegues. Its approach maintains that for one to be well educated, one must own certain information or facts about our world, i.e., be "culturally literate". His premises (from his 1987 book, Cultural Literacy ) are: • In an anthropological perspective, the basic goal of education is acculturation, the transmission to our children of the specific information shared by the adults of the group or polis. • literate culture has become the common currency f...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate