Opting out Essays

  • Issue Analysis Strengths And Weaknesses

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    Issue Analysis • What are some of the strengths associated with the Pro side of the issue?  What are some of the weaknesses?            The Pro side of the issue gives women the encouragement to make the decision for “opting out” of their careers because of the commitments to childrearing and family. The most beneficial strengths of the Pro side of this issue are that children and one’s family benefit because otherwise children would spend the hours during which the parents are working away from

  • Pamela Stone Opting Out Summary

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    Being Shut Out From a distance, it may seem that the professional women in this study are opting to trade out their high powered corporate jobs for the role of motherhood. Many of them even professed that leaving their workplace to return home was their own choice. However, what Pamela Stone discovered in her research, which is presented as Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, was that women lacked the options to truly choose the life of a homemaker. Rather, they faced what Stone

  • Opting Out Of Standardized Test Rizga Summary

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    have been used to see how much a child has learned over a certain period of time. These tests have been a highly debated issue with many parents and just people in general. In the article “Opting out of standardized tests? Wrong answer,” the author Michelle Rhee argues that people should not be trying to opt out of standardized tests because it allows the country to see how much a child has learned and the things they need to improve. On the other hand, in the article “Everything You’ve Heard About

  • Ilr 30 Case Study

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    course of work, working 5 night shifts out of 15 shifts. The worker is still protected as a night worker even if they work some days and some nights. Adult workers who work throughout the night are given extra protection due to the health and safety issues. Under regulation 2, a night worker’s shifts shouldn’t be less than 7 hours and they must work the period from 12pm to 5am to be class it as a night shift. Under regulation 6, a night-worker’s hours is maxed out at 8 hours a night during the reference

  • A Digital Nation

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    nation revolves around the use of computers. Can you go through a normal day without using something computer related? I don't think so. Many everyday things that you take for granted are computer based, such as: ATM's, credit cards, grocery check outs, and gas stations to name a few. I support Jon Katz's article The Netizen: Birth of a Digital Nation. Our nation would be a totally different place today if the computer was never invented. Computers have evolved incredibly in the past few years

  • The Fire That Burns Within

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    line I became interested in science, and now I want to become a doctor. From looking back on my past all I can figure out is that my interest in science grew the more I learned. I see it as this burning fire that started out as a spark when I went to my first science fair in second grade and saw all those experiments written out and displayed on tri-folded poster board cut-outs. Now I try to feed that flaming fire of curiosity by learning as much as possible about everything, yet I also need to

  • The Ins and Outs of the Computer

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    The Ins and Outs of the Computer Abstract The computer that we use in our homes and places of business usually consists of a box containing the computer, a mouse, a couple of disks with drivers, a monitor for output and a keyboard for input. We may connect the computer to any number of local or remote peripherals of other computers, but here is the foundation of the computer. It is here that everything starts, and here is where all of the innovations and ideas of the present day have been started

  • What I have Learned about Myself

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    I can remember sitting in class, feeling eyes burning through me, dodging inquisitive glances from all sides, and anxiously awaiting the bell to ring for lunchtime. As most people know, lunch is the most dreaded part of the first day at a new school. First day of school memories are still fairly vivid for me; my father was in the JAG corps in the Army and my family moved with biannual regularity. In fact, I even attended three different high schools. While this may seem highly undesirable to some

  • Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

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    attempt to shock and titillate; certainly, the poem does both of these, but they are not the primary purpose of the work. For one thing, social context needs to be considered; Billy lived in the "Wild West", a time associated with range wars, shoot-outs and great train robberies. The entire legend of Billy the Kid has been built around his criminal activities and notorious reputation; indeed, the more popular this myth becomes, the more people he is accused of having murdered. If anything, it was

  • Apollo 13

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    patience and he deserves credit for that. Ken Mattingly might not have made it to space, but his extensive knowledge of the ins and outs of the spacecraft saved the lives of his friends when they had a power crisis. 2. One particular problem during the Apollo 13 mission was a build up of carbon dioxide in the spacecraft. The CO2 scrubbers designed to filter out the gas weren’t working properly and as time progressed and the astronauts breathed more the situation worsened. To solve this problem

  • Beth Blue Swadener's Article Children and Familes: At Promise

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    “At Promise”: Children and Families When an individual hears the words, ‘at risk’, they immediately think of all the negative characteristics of terminology: teen pregnancy, troubled teens, gang bangers, drop outs, substance abusers, and so on. I know I sure did. In reading Beth Blue Swadener’s article, “Children and Families “at Promise”: Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk”, I’ve learned that there are so much more to labeling at student ‘at risk’. There is actually a history behind the meaning

  • Novelty Never Lasts

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    movies as much as I used to enjoy them. Probably because I see them all for free now, but mostly because I know exactly how the movie theater works, I no longer experience the same thrill about going to the movies that I once did. I know all the ins and outs of the business I need to, and I am no longer fascinated by the movie theater industry. I find this loss of appreciation unfortunate to say the least, but at least I was making some money in the process. I have also found that novelty can wear off

  • How Can Students be Moviated to Stay in High-school

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    them how being a high-school graduate High-School Drop-Outs How can students be motivated to stay in school? First of all, I think the students should be motivated mainly by their parents and then by their teachers. Parents should motivate their children by telling them how being a high-school graduate will help them in life. The parent may mention how being a high-school graduate helped them or how they were hurt by being a high-school drop-out. Teachers can help motivate students by making school

  • An American Tail Movie project

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    family upon his arrival in New York Harbor. While he’s searching for his family throughout NYC, he discovers that there are cats in America too (his father said there weren't). Fievel meets a variety of friendly and hostile mice, and learns the ins and outs of NYC and how to survive as an immigrant. Eventually he makes friends with a cat named Tiger and together, along with others, Fievel finds his family and lives happily ever after. This is an immigration movie geared towards kids to show and teach

  • Baseball

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    BASEBALL Baseball is a unique sport in many different ways. It is the only major competitive sport that has no time limit. The success of a player is determined on how well he can play as an individual and how well the team plays along with him. There are many rules that determine the success of a player’s performance. A baseball game is played with two teams and each team is permitted 25 players per team; however this is only true for professional teams. There are three parts to baseball: offense

  • Soccer Can't Make the Big Time in the U.S.A.

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    futbol), as it is called by the rest of the world outside the United States — is surely the most popular sport in the world. Every four years, the world championship of soccer, the World Cup, is watched by literally billions all over the world, beating out the United States professional football's Superbowl by far. It is estimated that 1.7 billion television viewers watched the World Cup final between France and Brazil in July of 1998. And it is also a genuine world championship, involving teams from

  • The 5 Best Four Letter Words In Parenting

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    The 5 Best Four Letter Words In Parenting Parenting is one of the most challenging tasks in the world. Unfortunately, more and more parents are opting for the easy way out and not promoting healthy development in their children. More and more parents are focusing on the intellectual development of the children, ignoring the psychological and sociological development. What should parent do in developing their children? Are there enough words to help develop a truly well rounded adult

  • Themes in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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    labyrinth on Crete to contain a monster called the Minotaur, half bull and half man.  Later, for displeasing the king, Daedalus and his son Icarus were both confined in this labyrinth, which was so complex that even its creator could not find his way out.  Instead, Daedalus fashioned wings of wax and feathers so that he and his son could escape.  When Icarus flew too high -- too near the sun -- in spite of his father's warnings, his wings melted, and he fell into the sea and drowned.  His more cautious

  • Double Standards In The Odyssey

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    guard the hearth so that the fire won’t dwindle, but the response he receives is more than unwelcoming. Melantho, a beneficiary of Penelope, spurns him saying:           You must be crazy, punch drunk, you old goat.           Instead of going out to find a smithy—or a tavern bench—you stay           putting your oar in, amid all our men.           Numbskull not to be scared! The wine you drank           has clogged your brain, or are you always this way,           boasting like

  • To Kill A Mockingbird Essay On Violence

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    “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be.” - Scout Finch, Chapter Nine, Page One. Growing up, a child puts up walls, a certain mask that shields them from all the hurt and all the anger that has bottled up inside. These children are taught to use words instead of their fists, taking away the primary instinct to use violence