As a student who has passed through every grade level of the Texas public education system, I find the need to challenge public high schools to implement effective sex education courses which will accomplish three things: teach students how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, teach students how to properly use contraceptives, and teach students how to access resources regarding their sexual health. Students need to know how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, which are becoming more common, every year, in students from age 15 to 19. ... The emphasis...

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It encourages and provokes alterations, whether they are progressive or oppressive. ... Bush has claimed in the past that it was the revelation of God that encouraged him to commence his controversial invasion of Iraq in 2003. ... Such a potential action not only limits a student's understanding of our world, but also constricts the religious worldview of those who are educated in a creationist view from a singular religion. A powerful tool of change within society, education is able to broaden the mindset of a nation, encouraging acceptance and provoking open-thought. ... Education has p...

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After his defence, recorded by his students Plato and Xenophon, Socrates was sentenced to death for his crimes; however, many primary source accounts encourage a secondary, insidious reason for why Socrates was really executed. ... The trail of Socrates and the consequential theories and recounts assisted in the development of the initial hypothesis and encouraged the further continuation of the subjective nature of societies constructs such as a unanimous moral compass. ...

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This process would naturally encourage movement along this status continuum, optimally reaching the achieved status, where adolescents have progressively shown commitment to a specific identity. ... Rotheram-Borus (1989) examined 330 Caucasian, African-American, Puerto Rican and Filipino students in an integrated USA high school. Caucasian students in senior grades showed significantly higher moratorium scores and perceived themselves as more likely to have explored and be committed to their ethnic role than the other minority groups. ...

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The knowledge that young individuals have about health and the skills they retain enables them to act in ways to encourage better health. ... Due to education, it will allow students to learn about the consequences and allow it be conducive that individuals will be influenced positively to improve their knowledge about mental health. ...

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Anti-Muslim hate crimes have incrementally increased; these vicious attacks have an ample spectrum, anything from street harassment to murder - with the most recent and devastating atrocity being the murder of 3 college Muslim students, by a crazed terrorist homegrown in the USA. ... "Building Blocks" is a kindergarten through fourth grade level program designed to educate students in an age-appropriate fashion about "diverse religious traditions" and teach "the skills necessary to live in a pluralistic...society" (5). ... Globally, educators have the authoritative ability to el...

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American society then perpetuates a standard of learning that is disguised as "proper" or "correct" but in reality, students are learning the "white way" submerging them into the dominant dialect in hopes of gaining social or economic prestige or acceptance (Villanueva 40). ... Through Villanueva's narrative discourse in stride with theoretical exposition, he illustrates how a rhetoric reform and our understanding of social oppression can expose a new way of thinking that does not encourage a form of hybridity or the a shedding of one's identity....

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