Although the United States is not the only society that places a high regard on being on time, Americans in particular it would seem have been criticized in the past for being a highly time-oriented people, and some other cultures may not place the same level of importance on being punctual as exists in the United States today. ... As Galatzer-Levy and Cohler (1999) point out, "The central importance of being on time to many middle-aged people is manifest in their relations to their adolescent children. ... For instance, Galatzer-Levy and Cohler add that, "The importance of being on time incre...

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Steroids, Illegal or Not, a Quick Fix for Some Athletes Issues of cheating or winning at any cost, are becoming more and more common among athletes of all ages and levels of ability. ... After its initial use in bodybuilding the drug spread like wildfire thought the rest of the sports world, ranging from sports in high school to professional athletes in the Olympic Games. ... It has been estimated that at least 1 in 15 male, high school sports athletes have used steroids, which means more than a half-million high school athletes have used steroids. ... A "NIDA" funded survey of drug abuse...

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Even they lose their jobs, they receive high amount of money which is enough to provide the 16000 people who were suffering from unemployment. The continuation of the impacts of the Great Recession will affect not just the people who are now in prime age, but also the new generation, who will have to work in the future generation. ... According to Pew research, the United States has seen an increasing concentration of wealth to the detriment of the middle class and the poor with the younger generations being especially affected. The middle class dropped from 61% of the population in 1971 to 51...

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In Ashkenazi communities in the Middle Ages girls were married off very young in the Jewish community. ... In Mali, the female:male ratio of marriage before age 18 is 72:1; in Kenya, 21:1 The various UN-commissioned reports indicate that in many Sub-Saharan countries, there is a high incidence of marriage among girls younger than 15. ... In parts of Ethiopia and Nigeria numerous girls are married before the age of 15, some as young as the age of 7. ... According to UNICEF's "State of the World's Children-2009" report, 47% of India's women aged 20–24 were married befo...

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"Teen Mom " and "The Secret Life of the American Teenager " are examples of common TV shows focusing on teen pregnancy, typically watched by viewers from age 12 to 34. The age of viewers also tends to be very similar the range of age when females are most likely to become pregnant which are the ages 18-35. ... According to the Guttmacher Institute's Facts on American Teen's Sexual and Reproductive Health it is stated that 82 percent of teen pregnancies are unplanned, an astonishingly high percentage which accounts for around one fifth of the unplanned pregnancies each year. ... Betwe...

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It is now a known fact that majority of high school aged boys and girls would have engaged in some sort of sexual activity by the time they graduate high school. "50% of girls and women aged 15 to 19 told the National Center for Health Statistics they had had sex, [ ] 55% of single males ages 15 to 19 have had sex" (Maggie Gallagher). Also alarming, is the growing rate of children having sexual intercourse before they are of the age of thirteen. ... "This bill not only pushes New Jersey back to the Victorian era, it hurls the state all the way back into the Middle Ages, when chastity belts wer...

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Topic Through the years the age that a person becomes sexually active has decreased rapidly and it is not uncommon to now see a fifteen year old who is no longer a virgin. ... This paper will be based off of statistics, testimony, and a variety of examples as to why having condoms available to high school students would produce a positive outcome. Problematic Nature of This Issue This issue has become problematic because far more teenage students are becoming sexually active during middle school and high school and not using protection. ... I believe that if the school board saw it th...

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To compound our naturally competitive natures, Americans often impose various forms of contest into everyday life from a very early age. Whether its identifying the "gifted" children in middle school, or placing students on "slow" academic tracks in high school, our society has permanently institutionalized inequality. ...

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Phillips is widely acknowledged as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century. "The Second Gilded Age" has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. ... He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usual...

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Progressivism appealed to middle and lower class Americans who felt helpless against industrial giants like Andrew Carnegie and John D. ... At the same time, over 1.7 million children under age sixteen worked in factories or fields. Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. ... Monopolies caused the workers and citizens of America to suffer extremely high prices. ...

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Many high schools have some form of this: often, there are 3tracks:? ... Many educators believe that a student's biological age is more important than his or her intellectual age, and that students should develop among peers that exhibit similar social, emotional, and physical development. Conversely, there are teachers and other professionals who support the belief that the intellectual readiness of a student outweighs biological age. ... These include: a flexible thought process, high levels of language development, accelerated pace of thought, unusual sensitivity to the expectations an...

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Physical therapy now provides services to people of all ages and ailments. ... Cultural diversity within the profession of physical therapy is highly valued because physical therapists interact with patients and families who are of various ages, races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds. ... When he isn't working at one of his two physical therapy clinics, he is acting as the athletic trainer for Celina High School. ...

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Nationwide, high schools and elementary schools are forced to balance the budget given to them for education and the art courses are often the first to be cut. ... In fact, these studies have shown that high school students who are actively involved in art courses have higher standardized test scores than those who had little to no involvement in art courses. ... "Through arts study, middle school students improved in their ability to turn barriers into opportunities and persist in completing tasks, and the mastery of art skills at the high school level was found to encourage further mot...

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Many children of middle or higher-class families enter school with knowledge of a hidden curriculum such as having basic reading and numeric skills. ... Statistics on educational achievement by race or ethnicity show that white, black and Asian children have better school rediness skills than Hispanics ages 3-6.Inlater education, Asian and white students still achieve higher scores than black and Hispanic students. A pattern of a lack of educational attainment continues with high school dropout rates amongst race. ... Children create their own peer culture, learn the roles of adulthood, and ar...

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"The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out," was written by Clayton M. Christensen, and Henry J. Eyring in 2011. Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School and Eyring is an administrator at BYU-Idaho. In this book, the authors explain to us why ...

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The competitiveness of various nations' manufacturing and trading infrastructures still largely determines where the best high-value-added jobs are found. ... And the United States certainly dominates world markets for information-age products and services. ... The spread of digital technology is giving rise to formidable new competitive challenges to US hegemony in global information-age markets. ... In the Middle East, some Islamic fundamentalist nations will certainly attempt to limit information flow over the Net, much as they have attempted for years to stop the entry of blasph...

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Public debate of the issues surrounding the special needs of the approximately 44 million persons in this country age 60 years and over has heightened national awareness and concern. As a result, public policies relating to issues such as retirement security, affordable long-term care, and quality of life are changing to meet the unique needs of the aging population. ... y, through this study we have learned that: Female elders are abused at a higher rate than males, after accounting for their larger proportion in the aging population. ... The Administration for Children and Families (AC...

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History of culture were not as globalized in the early age as they are now and it was creating a specific culture and definition of what truly is beautiful at the specific culture. ... American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; various polls have revealed that young women see themselves as "too fat" while in fact they are often below standard norms for body size[40]--but fashion has served up the newest ideal of "heroin chic": a fashion industry "look" tha...

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., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century A.D., (6) the Jansenists of France in the 17th century, and (7) the Puritans in England and its American colonies during the 16th and 17th centuries. ... He compulsively categorized such phenomena, and high on his list was sensual pleasure. ... In any event, Humanism survived the fall of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages in the bosom of the Jewish culture, and then it faced its most daunting challenge when it clashed directly with ne...

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A lot of it is directed at us because of our alliances with Israel and other Middle Eastern cultures and governments; and with the general hatred which is so prevalent with the conflict of have vs. have-not groups of people. With the United States as one of the most targeted nations on the face of the earth, it is no wonder that we have become paranoid about the countries that surround the Middle Eastern region of the world. The vast majority of all attacks on the United States originate in the Middle East. ... Unfortunately this is the way of things in this day and age. ... Due to the all...

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Also the poor and middle class people and their families also tend to go without insurance. ... The high amounts of uninsured are accredited to the decrease in employer covered in insurance due to the financial down turn. ... That tax will be compulsory on the high end income earners as well as those of in house tanning. ... The creation of a high risk insurance scheme for an adult who have a known health condition, to qualify for this scheme one must have a known health condition in addition to having been uninsured for at least the past six months. ... Insurance providers will not be allowed...

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The high incidence of gun-deaths for the United States implies one of two things: either the standpoint and strategy taken is incorrect or the application of the standpoint and strategy is poorly enforced. Either way, one must decide on the contributing factor or factors causing the United States" high rate. ... The United States" present stance on gun control positions itself in the middle of the spectrum, where the country accepts the ownership of firearms, but puts many restrictions on them. ... When restricting the person, a limitation can be placed on the age of the individual purchasi...

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Leiss, Kline, Jhally and Botterill state that "this was advertising's golden age, not merely because advertisers had grasped its almost unlimited transformational capabilities, but because society as a whole almost completely agreed with its key premise, that the road to happiness was paved with more goods and services". ... Economic growth post world war created an affluent consumer society where the urban middle class and upper class had more purchasing power than before. ... Modern consumer goods became extremely appealing as they made life much easier and provided high quali...

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Pew Research Center found that in 2013, the "Median net worth of upper-income families was 6.6 times greater than that of middle-income families.... Unlike communism, which has repeatedly failed due solely to corruption in the high ranking government, socialism does not have very specific guidelines at all. ... The age of socialism is around the corner and hopefully will be here to stay. ...

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A report done by the Education Trusts shows that in 2004, 36 states had a funding gap, with a nationwide disparity between high-poverty and low-poverty districts of $1,348 per students (Tavernise, 2012). ... New York City students who are labeled as black or Hispanic have a high chance of being enrolled in one of the city's poorest performing high schools compared to an Asian, white or a non-Hispanic student who will be enrolled in one of the best performing high schools. ... With charter being run on the high amount of accountability, charter schools received more freedom and flexibility...

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