An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! ... School is the first impression children get of organized society. ... Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. ... I think this creates alienation between the school and learners who don't fit into the social profile of what the school expects a good learner to be. ... However, educators, government, and businesses are making it more difficult for non-qualified people to get jobs...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But her parents were more convinced with the advice given to them by the Scottish church's Pro-Life Initiative, a program that offers alternatives to abortion. ... Pap smears, contraception, STD's and abortion should all be addressed at school and this should all be re-inforced by the parents at home. ...

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Animal rights activist say that there are alternatives to animal use in the medical and educational industry. ... If schools would use this method then there would be fewer animals killed for experimentation. ...

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The recruiting base is from the Ox-bridge connection, which is Oxford and Cambridge, which is very narrow, only the elite go to these schools. ... The recruitment base of the House of Commons is very wide, more than half of the members attended regular state schools, thus reducing class differences, and being open for almost anyone. ... They do not have any policy-making powers, but the recruitment is a narrow-base, mainly the upper-class, that went to the exclusive, best schools. ...

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"The assimilation of the British business classes to the social pattern of the gentry and aristocracy had proceeded very rapidly from the mid nineteenth century, the period when so many of the so called ` public schools ` were founded, or reformed by finally excluding the poor for whom they had originally been intended. ... Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors of the new middle class were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude from higher e...

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The father of the new objective school was the great Leopold von Ranke. ... This German school made history writing into a profession and founded the formal academic study of history, though they fell short of their ideal of writing about the past "as it actually happened."" ... Motley, and Francis Parkman were followed by such brilliant and questioning men as Henry Adams. 12 The broader interest in the philosophy of history had not died, and the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had created a school of idealistic historians. ... The theories of Karl Marx not only set in motion ...

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Question What led to the "Industrial Revolution"? Is this term correct, or might it be a misnomer? Why? Response Historians consider the industrial revolution as the most significant period in the history of humanity. The Oxford English dictionary describes the industrial revolution as a rapid ind...

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1) Introduction Stress has been with us since the inception of man and the world. When confronted with a wild animal, the Fight or Flight syndrome would be evident. In modern day Britain we are not likely to be confronted with wild animals, but still have events in our lives which can cause the same effects. Stress has been defined as the condition that results when personal or environmental transactions lead the individual to perceive a discrepancy between the demands of a situation and the resources of their biological, psychological and social emotional systems (Stress Management Trainin...

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For fans and enthusiasts, popular music can be a leisure-time pursuit occurring on evenings or weekends; alternatively, it can constitute a lifestyle, or way of life (e.g., Deadheads-a group of fans of the American band Grateful Dead who saw the band at as many gigs and festivals as possible from the 1970s onward). ... Theodor Adorno, a critical theorist and leading member of the Frankfurt school in Germany, coined the term culture industry in his critique of mass culture that made specific reference to popular music. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Violence against the person was 37.8 per 1000 population compared with 11.4 nationally; In 1998 only 11 of the 488 schools with more than 35 per cent of pupils on free school meals attained the national average level of GCSE passes; During 1999, 26 per cent more people died from coronary heart disease in the 20 per cent most deprived Health Authorities than in the country as a whole; 43 per cent of all housing in the 10 per cent most deprived wards is not in a decent state, compared with 29 per cent elsewhere, and 19 per cent of all homes in the 10 per cent most deprived wards are in areas suf...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate