...Christopher Germino ETH/125 Diversity Organizations Paper The status of women in United States history, The serious studies of women written by amateur women scholars were ignored by the male-dominated history profession until the 1960s, when the first breakthroughs came. The field of women's history exploded dramatically after 1970, along with the growth of the new social history and the acceptance of women into graduate programs in history departments. An important development is to integrate women into the history of race and slavery. A pioneer effort was Deborah Gray White's 'Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985), which helped to open up analysis of race, slavery, abolitionism and feminism, as well as resistance, power, and activism, and themes of violence, sexualities, and the body. A major trend in recent years has been to emphasize a global perspective. The status of women in United States today, women in the U.S. have made big advances in every field. Yet discrimination still exists. Doing "A Man's Job" As women have gradually become leaders in the professions — in medicine, law, and business, for example — they also have taken jobs once regarded as too physically strenuous. Women have become sanitation workers, police officers, fire fighters, and coal miners. Some examples of concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity in society and media are, a man or a woman in our society is not just defined by...
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...THE STUDENT AND TEACHER FACTORS AND THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS IN TECHNOLOGY AND LIVELIHOOD EDUCAION A Baby Thesis Submitted To: DR. ANTONIO L. DEL ROSARIO In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Research Methodology By: GLORIA P. QUILAO June, 2014 DEDICATION I dedicate this paper to my family and many friends. A special feeling of gratitude to my loving parents, Isidro, Jr. and Gloria Principe whose words of encouragement and push for tenacity ring in my ears. My brothers Boots, Chronus and Mickey who have never left my side and are very special. I also dedicate this paper to my many friends who have supported me throughout the process. I will always appreciate all they have done. I dedicate this work and give special thanks to my husband Alex and my wonderful daughters Alyssa and Czykhryx who have been my best cheerleaders. ABSTRACT Academic performance of students is influenced by teacher factors and student factors. Teacher factors are the competencies, age, and gender, teaching position or designation and length of teaching in years. While student factors are the student’s gender as well, academic motivation, and family. The purpose of this thesis is to gain an in depth understanding of exactly which factor is greatly related to academic performance of students. In order to gain the in depth knowledge required for the paper a questionnaire is distributed to 1o teachers and 10 students for each teacher. CHAPTER I:...
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...Differences in vocabulary development and use in early childhood appear to be closely correlated with socioeconomic status. For the purpose of this paper Socioeconomic Status (SES) is going to be defined using the American Psychological Association’s measurement for socioeconomic status which combines education, income, and occupation. Vocabulary development in early childhood is important because vocabulary size upon entry into kindergarten is one of the most important factors in predicting a child’s ability to succeed in school (Rowe, 2012). When children enter Kindergarten there is often a large gap in the amount of words children from high- and low- SES backgrounds know. The same gap that is present in vocabulary size when children enter...
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...and access to resources. It goes without saying that an individual’s ability to obtain a job is influenced by their availabilities and access to resources. This statement is explored in depth through various aspects, which includes age, socioeconomic status, gender, education, disabilities and ethnicity/culture.. Through the understandings of the concepts of each factor, it is distinctive that each factor presents its own positive and negative notions. It is determined that age is an influential factor in accessing resources, which reflects upon their ability to obtain a job. Knowledge and skills are refined once an individual matures as an adult. As individuals age they become more cultured and enlightened leading individuals to develop more skills and dexterity to excel at a specific profession that they are obliged to ascend. This concludes the individual to approach wide varieties of jobs and opportunities. On the other hand, individuals who are young may have low levels of experience preceding the young individual to decrease the levels of gaining jobs or opportunities. Lacking skills and knowledge may lead businesses to run slow and unfulfilled, which leads the business to not reach the preferred acquirements to success. For example, young individuals may have the difficulty to interact with customers with confidence, as they are not excelled within the placement of the job. This leads the business to run slow giving customers a negative impression of the business. Because...
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...Education and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh Nashid Kamal *and K.M Zunaid** *Professor and Head, Department of Population-Environment Independent University, Bangladesh **Graduate student, Sydney 1 Abstract: In Bangladesh the latest BDHS, 2004 finds that only twenty percent women work for cash. Among them only 48 percent are able to spend their money on their own, the rest are dependant upon spouses or other family members to take joint decisions on spending. Defining this variable as a measure of empowerment, this analysis investigates correlates of empowerment using logistic regression analysis. The model finds that marital status is the most significant predictor of empowerment in Bangladesh. Unmarried women are six times more likely to be empowered. Secondary education is another major determinant of empowerment, along with the woman’s mobility and decision making scores. The paper recommends strengthening women’s secondary education in Bangladesh and also taking measures to encourage late marriage for women. 2 INTRODUCTION The participation of women in the labour market in Bangladesh has increased in the recent years. One of the major areas where women have found employment has been the garment sector. This industry employs around 10 million persons directly or indirectly, of which ninety percent are women workers. In the 1993-94 BDHS the percentage of women who reported cash income was only 14.4 percent. After the garment industries were set up in Bangladesh...
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...EGERTON UNIVERSITY COURSE CODE: PECI 431 COURSE TITLE: RESEARCH PROJECT RESEARCH TITLE: EFFECTS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATTUS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF LEARNERS YEAR: LEVEL 4 BLOCK 3 SUBMITTED BY: MUSINAI JAPHETH APRIL 2016 i ABSTRACT Socioeconomic status has been a major challenge in the support and provision of the necessary resources in the performance of many learners across the globe, thus provision of learning resources, school friendly environment, motivation and achieving higher in academics has become a big challenge. This study was guided by the following objective:- To determine how socioeconomic status and school environment influences learning process, To investigate how socioeconomic status contributes to academic achievement of learners. To find out the level of motivation as a result of family socioeconomic status facilities provision of learning resources. The researcher used case study design. This was chosen because the research involved intensive study to find out factors that explain details the present state. Questionnaires and interviews were used. Data collected was recorded and analyzed inform of tables, graphs and piecharts. ii Contents ABSTRACT.......................................................................................................................................................ii CHAPTER ONE ...............................................................................................................................................
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...moderate income news article fails to discuss the socioeconomic disadvantaged lower class populations face and focus on the politics” (Snell). The quote quantifies the people affected by Planned Parenthood cuts and acknowledges its significance in women’s lives. By incorporating the population affected, the article begins discussing the deeper problems beyond Planned Parenthood, such as the disadvantages faced by the lower socioeconomic status, which the politically-based articles never recognize....
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...Chris Choi English 098 27 October, 2015 Socioeconomic status of Immigrants In the novel, Almost a Woman, there are a lot of distinct differences and problems the author talks about. Distinct differences and problems in that the author, as an immigrant, faces many difficulties and cultural changes from when she migrated to New York City from Puerto Rico. As we go into the book, there are some key aspects of identity that are played in Esmeralda’s family and herself. One aspect of identity is the socioeconomic status of her and her family in the big, well known dynamic city of New York. This aspect of identity is a big concern throughout the book and in real life because it’s what most immigrants have to deal with from their movement from their native country to a foreign country. Socioeconomics is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes. In general it analyzes how societies progress, stagnate, or regress because of their local or regional economy, or the global economy. This is a monumental matter for Esmeralda as she is a middle school student going onto high school and as everyone knows, high school can be four years of highlight or four years of straight torture and since she’s an immigrant with no knowledge of American culture, this is a big concern for Esmeralda. Esmeralda, coming to America at a young age, is flustered with emotions and doesn’t have anyone to talk to because she is limited with who she has....
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...Things in Common." Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 28 July 2015. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. Business Insider’s article by Drake Baer and Rachel Gillet begins with stating that parents who raise successful children have nine traits in common; it then discusses the nine common traits that the parents possess; and it ends with explaining the mindsets that parents create for their children. In the article, most of the qualities that the parents of successful children possess value effort over failure. Some of the qualities that were mentioned include, developing a relationship with their children, having a higher socioeconomic status, and teaching their children social and arithmetic skills. I didn’t agree with all of the traits that the article presented such as having a higher socioeconomic status. The author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, is a perfect example of how this quality doesn’t define success. One-fifth of American children grow up in poverty. Jeannette happened to be a victim of this; however, it’s proven that she is a very successful author and has a family of her own. I also think that in the memoir, the members of the family all have a different view of success. When Rex Walls lets the children each pick out a star, it reveals that he doesn’t value material things instead he values the beauty of nature. Therefore, I agree with the article in some ways but I also think people create and define their own...
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...intelligence does not equal achievement. In order to be successful in life, people need not only intelligence, but to have a good support system beginning at an early age, the ability to interact and communicate with others effectively and to have a higher socioeconomic status. A person’s family background has more to do with success than originally realized. In my opinion, Gladwell’s audience is anyone in the general public who is interested in success, ways how to obtain it and how others went about obtaining it. Not only would this apply to people in the workforce, but also people in school or individuals trying to master a craft. A lot of people go through life wondering why or how certain people achieve things they were not able to. While this book is not a step-by-step approach, it does point out some of the important personality and character traits several highly successful people have, how they have used every opportunity afforded them to the fullest extent and how they continually practiced their craft to become the best they could. The author uses several approaches to address his readers. One of these approaches is using pronouns such as you, we, I and me. By using statements like “Let me give you an example of . . ” (Gladwell 84) makes you feel as if he is talking to you on a personal level. This in turn can trigger an emotional response or make the reader feel the information is more relevant to them. Gladwell also presents statistics in story form to back up...
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...bigger problem yet, is to impose a new national identity on the immigrants to enable them to connect with other citizens of different religions, ethnicities, and backgrounds into “a common democratic culture” (p. 270). He suggests that this could be achieved much like how the “American creed has served to unite new immigrants to the United States” (p. 270). These statements show that Fukuyama fails to recognize the flaws in the immigration assimilation method. Immigrant assimilation is assessed by four benchmarks: socio-economic status, geographic distribution, the attainment of a second language, and intermarriage. Although some immigrants do fulfill the four benchmarks with success, most immigrants do not. Most immigrants face hardships in trying to promote themselves to a higher socioeconomic status. That main underlying reason is because most immigrants arrive to the U.S as low-skilled laborers; the tools they have to elevate their socioeconomic...
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...Society for the Study of Social Problems Social Stratification and Health: Education's Benefit beyond Economic Status and Social Origins Author(s): John R. Reynolds and Catherine E. Ross Source: Social Problems, Vol. 45, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 221-247 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3097245 Accessed: 27/02/2009 14:10 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucal. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For...
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...Considering the Present Tony Camp PSY 202 Professor Henry 7/29/2014 In this paper I will discuss how becoming a father and how being the first in my family to attend college had a profound influence on my life. I will asses the influence of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Theory of each experience. According to (Mossler, 2013) “Urie Bronfenbrenner proposed a theory of ecological systems, which focused on broad, interconnected influences on human development.” (Section 2.6 “Urie Bronfenbrenner and Ecological System Theory,” para. 1). I will also examine how I learned from each of my experiences that are apparent in whom I am today and how these experiences apply to my online learning. There was a time when my wife and I thought we were incapable of having our own children together. Her doctor told her that she would never have children due to a procedure that was done during her early teen years on her cervix. This discouraging news made it seem impossible for us to have own our children. Despite the news, we never stopped trying. One day we finally got our blessing and it was confirmed that my wife was pregnant. I remember feeling like I had just hit the lotto when I got the news. The excitement only grew once the months rolled on. It was an incredible feeling when I got the chance to hear the heart beat for the first time and to find out that we were having a boy during a 3D ultrasound. I was ecstatic about becoming a father. I always wanted my own family and I...
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...THE EFFECT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT A Thesis by Jennifer Barry Bachelor of Arts, Wichita State University, 2005 Submitted to the Department of Sociology And the faculty of the Graduate School of Wichita State University in partial fulfillment of The requirements for the degree of Master of Arts December 2006 THE EFFECT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT I have examined the final copy of this thesis for form and content, and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts with a major in Sociology. ___________________________________ Dr. David Wright, Committee Chair We have read this thesis and recommend its acceptance. ___________________________________ Dr. Kathleen Perez, Committee Member ___________________________________ Dr. Brien Bolin, Committee Member ii ABSTRACT This study addresses the increasing importance of student test scores by examining the different factors that influence test scores. Composite test scores of tenth grade students from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 are examined using a four-part model which includes student role performance, school, family, and peer factors. Ordinary Least Squares analysis indicates that the strongest predictor of student test scores is socioeconomic status, resulting in a statistically significant increase in the standardized coefficient of .224 points. These results support...
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...Intro to Psychology Every day we are developing no matter our age, but it is how we develop children that will tell a tremendous amount an individual. How a child developments is fundamentally important at a young age as it affects all aspect of their lives once the child matures. Throughout the class, we looked at many theorists during the course of the semester. The theorists opened up our minds to a world that we have never seen before and concepts about child development we have never been taught but have seen in the practical work we do every week. What makes humans unique is the ability that we have to interpret the language being used, as Lois Bloom and Margaret Lahey describe in their book Language Development and Language Disorders “language is like a code, it is a means of representation” Although, everyone is able to interpret the use of language some interpret it more than others. This delay in language, we have learned, could be for a variety of reasons. The characteristics of a child will depend on: how they were brought up, who they were brought up by, what kind of condition they were brought up in, what kind of parents the child was brought up by, if was the child brought up in poverty, etc. Language is a key part in anyone’s life as it is a major form of communication. Language is what separates us from other species to be intellectual and to rule society. Language development is important in a child’s life as it will pave the way for successful communication...
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