... use has begun to decline over the last decade(Straus, 1994). According to a recent study done by Straus(1994) 94% of parents approved of spanking in 1968. However, in 1994 approval of spanking has dropped to 68%(Straus, 1994). Several sources suggest negative effects of spanking include disturbance of learning ability, dissruption of a close parent child relationship, parents anger and emotion, negative self-image and possible adverse affects. Ritchie& Ritchie(1981), Straus and Mather(1994) report that corporal punishment creates undesirable effects on education. To understand the effects of corporal punishment on education we need to look further into reasearch. E ...
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... class they are hungover. Often, a party animal's grades are affected by attendance. On the other hand, the sober guy is always on time for class, awake, and without a hangover. The party animal is usually a popular guy. People are always saying hi to him or waving to him on campus. Most of the time he doesn't even remember who they are. The sober guy goes to class and that's it. He usually has the business before pleasure attitude. Once finished with the days studies he will then hang out with his friends. These are just two stereotypes of people on campus. They are almost exact opposites. The party animal doesn't avoid trouble, has poor study habits, ...
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... for the upper class of society. Those minstrels who were not part of a noble's homestead, traveled from town to town providing entertainment not only to noble classes but also to common village folk as well. There were not many forms of entertainment, nor was there a means for people to learn about news events. There was no television or radio in medieval times. Even books were very scarce. Minstrels served to entertain the public. They made up songs, stories, and repeated ballads and folk tales popular during this time. Traveling from town to town minstrels were also a source of news. This would share information with the townspeople of th ...
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... should not change over time even though cultures and social stratifications do, what was morally right three thousand years ago is morally right today and should be morally right three thousand years from now. Only with universal principles can we as collective society discover what is right, what is wrong, and what is best, therefore there exists not modern morality but simply morality. An empirical philosopher, W.T. Stace, argues that if we believe all morals are culturally relative, it is impossible for us to judge what is best. Although admitting he does not know what is best, he concludes that it is the responsibility of man to discover what is. He does ...
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... shorter? No…the same twenty-four hours still constitutes a day. Now no one seems to have time to share, to sit down together as a family and enjoy a meal. Now dinner time is full of interruptions; the sounds of shouting and laughter from the Drew Carry show or a honk for the passing cars at the Sonic. No longer is there assurance in knowing that every member of your family will be present at the designation eating time. Refrigerators where mothers and wives once posted nightly menus describing delicious meals are now covered with marker boards and post it notes informing where each person has gone, all which seem a waste because there is no one there. Does th ...
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... fall in at least one of the following categories: obscenity and violence, religion. What is obscenity? Clearly something hard to talk about constructively. Obscenity is difficult to discuss honestly. After all what makes something obscene? It is something too vague perhaps to be defined. It’s an elusive term we use, but can’t explain. Different people often see things in a different format. Some see obscenity in nude pictures, statues, paintings. While others find less obscenity in these things. So who is the authority to dictate such laws? And most of all are our young adults being affected by it? Though it may be obscene like that individual decide a ...
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... because abuse most commonly occurs when the parent wants the child to comply. "It's a question of trying to determine which type of parent produces which type of child or which type of child elicits which type of parental behaviour," explains Oldershaw. As a result of their work, Walters and Oldershaw have identified distinct categories of abusive parents and their children. 'Harsh/intrusive' mothers are excessively harsh and constantly badger their child to behave. Despite the fact that these mothers humiliate and disapprove of their child, there are times when they hug, kiss or speak to them warmly. This type of mothering produces an aggressive, disobedie ...
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... are being stalked, mobbed by desperate crowds, who each want to get that last glimpse of his or her face. Many celebrities tend to get stressed out by the media and frantic fans, soon to be finding themselves committing suicide do to overdose of drugs and liquor. To that end we the fans must understand that celebrities are just like us, normal everyday citizens. We should all realize that celebrities are actually normal people, trying to earn an honest day’s living, and therefore deserve their privacy rights. Privacy means a lot to them due to the publicity they tend to get, celebrities private lives are being exploited each and every day being that every w ...
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... is a uniform. Clothes send signals and are symbolic to “who we are, what we hold dear to us, and with whom we wish to connect.” (Coles 378) Therefore, in order for society as individuals to feel a sense of belonging it is pertnent we follow the norm. Uniforms in schools especially can have a number of affects on the behavior and how they can be monitored. The number of violent and theft crimes that go on in school will drop tremendously. Fights among students over designer clothing and sneakers will be no more. Children who are more needy then others will not have to feel the competion amongst them if everyone is wearing the same clothes. It will also inst ...
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... we see is that of the linking of the puberty stage and the brain. This however doesn’t link education and the death. It may have been more believing had he shown us more cases were this was the case. Although this article was not convincing to me I was still able to point out strengths and weakness and the one strength that I saw was the way he tried to draw you in by believing that by stating the effects on the reproductive system and the brain. The weakness that I found in this reading was his failure to cite more cases of this so-called “fair chance”. When I say that I mean that maybe if he could have showed us more then maybe we {women} might have seen this as ...
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