...Tanya Perez Dr. Dreyer English 1213 25 January 2014 To Be or Not To Be….A Child Child Abuse is most commonly known as physical maltreatment (neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse or neglect ) of a child. Lasting scars are left by neglect and child abuse. Physical scars can be present from spanking, slapping, beating, burning and any other negative physical contact a victim may have endured. However, it is the emotional scars that have the longest lasting effects on children. According to a yearly report, done by the Child Welfare Information Gatewat (CWIG), 686,000 children are victims of neglect and abuse. CWIG states for every 1,000 children, 9 are victims of abuse. Children are mostly abused by their parents, accounting for four-fifths of the victims. Two-fifths of that was mom acting alone, one-fifth of dad acting alone and one-fifth mom and dad acting together. (Child Welfare Information Gateway). If you can’t trust mom and dad, who can you trust? The remaining one-fifth of abuse was done by a non-parent. Parents have used excuses such as that they were abused as children, stress, financial problems and drug/alcohol abuse for the abuse they inflict. Lack of trust is a big effect these children will encounter in their lives. They can shy away from strangers, becoming withdrawn and afraid. This hinders progress in school and work. Children may fear being controlled. Constantly being told you are bad, stupid and worthless can eat at...
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...‘No Child Left Behind Act’ Leaves A lot Behind Abstract Elementary school students deserve a good education. During the first six years of their education, children learn important information. After reaching fifth grade, all further education is built upon what was learned during those first years. ‘No Child Left Behind Act’ was an attempt to improve this educational system, unfortunately, because of this act, students do not receive a quality education. ‘No Child Left Behind Act’ Leaves A Lot Behind All students deserve a good education, especially in their elementary school years. A child’s education during first grade through fifth grade is the most important education a child will ever receive. After fifth grade, the information a student learns is built upon what was learned during the first through fifth grades. If students miss a part of this important education, they will most likely struggle throughout the rest of their school years. Therefore, it stands to reason that every attempt should be made for students to get as much as they can out of their learning experience. In an attempt to improve the educational system during these early grades, Congress passed an act which has inadvertently created the opposite of the intended outcome. Students do not to receive a quality education as result of the ‘No Child Left Behind Act.’ In order to provide students with the materials needed for learning, schools must have funding. Without adequate funding, schools are...
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...Pennsylvania (The Daily Item, 2012). News about this particular virus hit the headlines of a locally circulated newspaper, The Daily Item. This has alerted the schools and hospitals in the area. The CDC calls this illness ‘fifth disease’ and there had been five cases of outbreak in the local schools. The virus occurs typically among children and is relatively well-tolerated. When it infects adults who are immune-compromised, however, it commonly causes complications. This virus is highly transmissible but usually disappears without any treatment. The viral infection is caused by the human parvovirus B19, which commonly affects children between ages five and fifteen. B19 virus causes a childhood rash called fifth disease or erythema infectiosum which is commonly called slapped cheek syndrome (CDC, 2012). The virus was discovered by chance in 1975 by Australian virologist Yvonne Cossart (Reamy and Hodge, 2007). At the onset of the infection, the virus-infected person will be observed with a low-grade fever and symptoms resembling those of a mild cold. When the child begins to look well and after the fever and other symptoms have subsided, bright red rashes will spread like a lace across the child’s face and torso. The appearance of rashes indicates that the child can attend school again because the disease is no longer transmissible or contagious. Since parvovirus B19 infects only humans, a person cannot catch the virus from a dog or cat. Also, a cat or dog cannot catch parvovirus...
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...When it comes to post-partum depression and psychosis Andrea Yates is one of the most infamous names known. Andrea Yates was a mother of five who went into severe depression after having her fifth child and because of her illness she was found guilty of first degree murder for drowning all five of her children in the bathtub. After court appeals the decision was reversed and she was found insane. Prior to June 2001 when she drown her five children she was treated for post-partum depression and psychosis in 1999 because the illness ran in her family. After the birth of her fifth child and the passing of her father the severe depression set in and was forced into Devereux-Texas Treatment Network (The Biography Channel website, 2013). While being treated she was given a series of psychiatric drugs for treatment. He also quickly stopped prescribing the antipsychotic Haldol, which is the medication that helped Andrea recover in 1999 ("The Atlantic", 2013). Andrea Yates started having psychological issues after she gave birth to her fourth child and she tried to commit suicide. Shortly after the birth of her fifth child she tried to commit suicide again and was hospitalized twice. Both times after trying to commit suicide she was released from the hospital while she was still ill and eventually the post-partum psychosis took over and that is when she drowned all of her children. After she drowned her children she recognized that it was a horrible thing to do and she was not in...
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...2011 Fifth Business: Origin, Nature and Burden of Guilt In Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business, the concept of guilt is an important component in the development of many major characters within the novel. Guilt is defined as a feeling of responsibility for some offense or crime. Throughout the novel, Robertson Davies utilizes the motif of guilt in order to express the feelings of certain characters. He also employs the logic behind their decision-making. The concept of guilt influences many characters, especially in the lives of Percy Staunton, Paul Dempster, and Dunstable Ramsay. The way in which these characters cope with the guilt they have combined in their lives, is also an essential part in their rebirths. In Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business, the concept of guilt directly influences the events, characterizations, decisions, and transformations of Percy Staunton, Dunstable Ramsay and Paul Dempster. The element of guilt proves to be properly portrayed through the description of Percy Staunton. Percy Staunton is an important figure in emphasizing the importance of guilt within the novel. It is also a prime example in showing how guilt influences a person’s decision-making process. During the first stages of the book, guilt is introduced when Percy throws a snowball at Dunny, which ends up hitting Mrs. Dempster. This shows the reader the moral values and methods of Percy dealing with guilt, which he develops as a child. When Dunny talks...
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...Behavioral Observations I will start out with B.F. Skinners belief in behaviorism, which states that human beings respond predictably to stimuli, and those who control those stimuli control the person. Basically this means that if you reward positive actions and punish negative actions then eventually the positive behavior will become habit. In his theory there is no free will only response to positive and negative stimuli. In essence the child is being conditioned or trained. I saw a few of these behaviors at the elementary school. When the children were brought into the gym they had been trained to find their spot on the floor and to line up on it and wait to be told to sit down. The funny part of this to me was that the kindergartners and the fifth graders acted a lot alike while doing this but for different reasons. The kindergartners wandered a bit as if not exactly sure what they were supposed to do while the fifth graders wandered also but it was because of their attitudes not confusion. It seemed to me that they were testing the teacher. When the gym teacher took control of the class all that came to an end. She was stern but not demanding with the students and they respected her authority and behaved accordingly. The age group that we dealt with fell into the second and third stage of Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development. Stage two is preoperational thought, what this means is that children 2-7 years old start to think conceptually and can solve physical...
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...Both Sides of Child Abuse When someone intentionally inflicts moral, sexual pain, physical pain on a child is committing child abuse. When a child is abuse it is typical that they were abused as a child themselves. Life struggle can contribute to some abuse due to unemployment, stress, and poverty. When a child is abused it is usually people that have the need to feel power over something. Disabled children are more than likely to be abused children with special needs can cause a great deal of stress. Children are often the target of abuse they are less powerful than the abuser. Does child abuse damage children to become damaged adults? Sexual abuse has been involved in cases of neglect on children (Bottoms, B., & Epstein, M., 1998). Around eighty percent of children that were abused as kids will grow up to be abusers especially the ones that have been sexually abused. Most parents that abuse actually believe it is their right as a parent. Abusers really think this teaches children a lesson, it does it teaches children not to trust. Abuse is higher in families of mixed races and mixed religion (Bottoms, B., & Epstein, M., 1998). Abusers have a very short temper they explode at the slightest little things. Jobless or part-time working parents are the likely abusers (Bottoms, B., & Epstein, M., 1998). Retired people are the least likely to abuse a child. However someone that sexually abuses a child is one difficult human to figure out. Most child abusers have both...
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...In Robertson Davies novel Fifth Business the main character Dunstable (Dunstan) Ramsay struggles to understand his unconscious mind, thus having trouble being an individual. This novel outlines his journey for self-knowledge, happiness, and fulfilling his role as Fifth Business. Throughout the novel, Dunstan begins discover and understand himself. He does this through his interactions with the people he meets upon his travels. From a young child, Dunstan has trouble truly understanding who he is but as he grows older he matures and becomes his own person, as he is psychologically reborn. The person that Dunstan meets that makes the biggest contribution to help him start to understand himself is Liesl. Liesl works as part of a traveling circus as a ‘Truth Teller’, also modernly known as a fortuneteller. Dunstan describes Liesl as “the ugliest human creature” (Davies,196) he has ever seen, she wears mans clothing, has short hair and has a “huge, jutting jaw” (Davies,196). On the contrary he explains that she has a beautiful voice and she speaks very intelligently, due to this, Dunstan felt very comfortable with her, which is what allowed him to open up to Liesl. This is the first way Liesl helps Dunstan begin to understand himself, allowing Dunstan to open up for the first time in a long time released a lot of bottled up emotions. Dunstan describes Liesl as “a gargoyle! And yet never have I known such deep delight or such an aftermath of healing tenderness!” (Davies,218)...
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...Hellenic culture. In ancient Greece, play (paidia) was intrinsically associated with children (paides). However, both children and play assumed a greater cultural significance as literacy—and, consequently, education (paideia)— developed during the classical age of 500–300 BCE. Uniquely among ancient thinkers, Plato recognized that play influenced the way children developed as adults, and he proposed to regulate play for social ends. But Plato’s attitude toward play was ambivalent. Inclined to consider play an unworthy activity for adults, he seemed to suggest that intellectual play in some form, as demonstrated in the dialectical banter of Socrates, could provide a stimulus to understanding. Key words: education in ancient Greece; play and child development; play and education; play and Plato; Socratic dialectic Among various plausible misquotations that surface from time to time is a piece of popular wisdom attributed to Plato to the effect that “you can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” It was quoted by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in 2009, who took it from a popular American cookbook; the ultimate source may be a seventeenth-century treatise on etiquette by one Richard Lindgard (who does not attribute the quote to Plato). While the great philosopher’s ideas on play were by his own reckoning groundbreaking for his time, his writings offer no indication that he would have entertained this particular notion. His...
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...School Profile Jeanny Martial-Knights Grand Canyon University: EDA-575 May 7, 2014 School Profile In 2001, the government developed the No Child Left Behind Act to provide equitable education to low-income schools. Its provisions include schools receiving Title I funds must evaluate students annually to demonstrate school’s progress to improving academics. However, opponents argue that provisions provided by this act does not provide enough funding to cover the cost of programs related to enhancing learning in low-income schools (“LeftBehind: Low-Income”, 2008, 591). Despite the failings of the NCLB Act, it still provides assistance to Avery Elementary. Many of the services provided due to the NCLB Act are free and reduced lunch, technological programs, assessments tools, and other support personnel to assist educators. These services in some cases have enabled this school to make some progress towards improving test scores. With the available resources provided, Avery Elementary strives to improve student achievement. Due to the NCLB Act Avery Elementary has made some progress based on the programs, resources, support, and performance; it has made some progress towards achieving higher learning. About Avery Elementary The Vision of Avery Elementary is to consistently develop young minds and self-esteem through an academically enriched environment. The goal is to bring teachers and educators together so that each learner can reach their potential to compete...
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...Is Yearly Schooling Beneficial to Students? Among Schoolchildren, by Tracy Kidder, could not be summed up by describing a fifth grade classroom in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Kidder has underlying messages about education that is placed in the characters experiences throughout the book. The author does not only show how the teacher interacts with the students, but how she reacts to different situations she encounters throughout the school year. Whether the encounters are horrible or joyful, Mrs. Zajac, the fifth grade school teacher, comes in everyday ready to teach her students. Although Kidder did not write this book to say what should or what should not be implicated into public schools, but readers can understand that he is devising questions about public education and what it does and does not accomplish. Year-round schooling is an important factor in an elementary school child’s success. Choosing year-round schooling for students can increase individual achievement, but also promotes stability in a child’s life, allows for remediation when called for, and increases retention rates. In the United States, the school systems are operated on a 10-month program. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees that the 10-month system is efficient for every student. Many believe that the only way to get results from students is for them to be in school for a longer period of time. Having a year-round system, schools are in session for 180 days within the year and have shorter breaks. Allowing...
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...Holland Date: Friday October 24th 2014 IN RE: Introduction to the American Legal System Eighth Edition; Schulze, Patterson Upper Saddle River, New Jersey ------------------------------------------------- Assignment: I have been asked to brief a criminal case of my choice. It must be briefed on two headnotes, and one dealing with the Penal Code. The case must be 2010 or newer. The format of the brief needs to be like the Bruni case on pages 313 & 314. CITATIONS: DESORMEAUX v. STATE Cite as 362 S.W.3d 233 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 2012). PARTIES: Leo Thomas DESORMEAUX IV, Appellant here, v. The STATE of Texas Appellee here. OBJECTIVES OF PARTIES: The people want to convict and punish defendant for capital murder and injury to a child. Defendant DESORMEAUX wants to appeal the courts decision. THEORIES OF LITIGATION: 1. TRIAL: The People sought to prosecute and punish DESORMEAUX for the conviction and punishment of both crimes in the same trial. (The legal theory that justifies the bringing of both the conviction and punishment is sought in the same trial. The opinion does not list two separate the two crimes, instead they are keeping them combined for one big punishment as opposed to two.) Because DESORMEAUX is appealing the courts ruling, we can assume that the basis and theory of his case is simply that he did not commit both crimes at the same time. At his trial this will be tried for separate punishments and not stand as one. 2. APPEAL: DESORMEAUX says that the...
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...newspaper. After group members express interest the facilitator should attempt to meet with each potential group member to discuss the purpose of the group, the goals of the individual, obtain personal history information, and discuss ethical and confidentiality issues, then have the individual sign a consent form. I recently used several of the task and skills involved in pre-group planning while assisting a coworker in establishing a group for the Father’s Engagement Program. This was a new services standard that our agency had be awarded this past year and up until this point my coworker was seeing each father individually, although the program was created to be administered in groups. The group members were predetermined by the Department of Child Services as they submitted service referrals for the individuals to take part in the group. Due to the members being predetermined we started with asking each member if they would be interested in a group setting to allow for a support system to be established. After several fathers expressed interest in the group setting we had to take into consideration a central location for the county, how many members should be in each group, what members would be appropriate, and when and how often the group would meet. We found a community center that would allow the group to meet in a meeting room. It was determined each group would consist of five members to allow for each member to have time to speak and in hopes of building positive connections...
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...People and governments involved: Roland Dagenhart, Congress, Supreme Court Laws in question: law was not a regulation of commerce, Tenth Amendment left power of child labor to the states, the Fifth Amendment allowed him to let his kids work in the mill Dates: 1918 Prior court decisions: Supreme Court attempted to regulate production of goods by banning the shipment across state lines of goods made in factories which employed children under the age of 14 Decision: 5 votes for Dagenhart, 4 vote(s) against Who brought the case to the Supreme Court and why? Roland Dagenhart of North Carolina worked at a textile mill with his two teenage sons. He believed the law was unconstitutional and sued, eventually taking his case to the Supreme Court. He made three constitutional arguments. First, he argued that the law was not a regulation of commerce. Secondly, he believed the Tenth Amendment left the power to make rules for child labor to the states. Finally, his liberty and property protected by the Fifth Amendment included the right to allow his children to work. How is the case an issue of federalism? What were the majority and minority opinions of the Supreme Court? Day spoke for the Court majority and found two grounds to invalidate the law. Production was not commerce, and thus outside the power of Congress to regulate. And the regulation of production was reserved...
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...separate a low-income adult to a high-income adult is the education. Education is the easiest way to move up on the social ladder. For all Americans below the poverty line, the main way to get an education is to go to a public school. Education is the direct link to earning more money in this country. One problem that the poor people are facing is that the college tuition has gotten so expensive, so poor children will less likely complete college and get an education. The importance of a four-year college degree cannot be overstated, “Among Americans whose family incomes at birth are in the bottom fifth but who get a four-year degree, 53 percent end up in the middle fifth or higher” (105). With that said, it shows how important an education is, and that is why the college tuitions are kept raising. With the college tuition increase, makes it way harder for the people in the bottom fifth to be able to pay to go to school. A positive thing is if students have good grades in high school, they will receive scholarships to be able to attend college, but to people with bad grades, they will have a harder time to receive an education. In Matthew Hughes essay “Educational inequality”, he states that; families across racial lines tend to value education similarly, children from different racial backgrounds enter school with unequal levels of preparation and schools with widely divergent resources. On average, African American and Latino students lag behind white’s in verbal memory, vocabulary...
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