Some years ago, young
people in the USA didn’t want to be teachers because of poor pay and
even less respect. Government and the public openly questioned
teachers’ competency. Kids in school were angry, even violent.
Lots of school teachers quit the profession within the first year.
Many of these problems
remain now. But nevertheless, there are some changes. Teaching is
back. Salaries now are decent or better in most places.
Teachers say they feel more respect. Why is it so?
1. I try to study, but there iswhat I have to put up with.
My sister plays the piano - not too good. My other sister plays the flute worse. Sometimes they play together, but most of the time they are fitting. Then I get into a fight trying to get them to be quiet. My mother says that I should just study and mind my business. How can I study?
2. I consider myself a good student. I’m on the hockey team in winter and basketball team in spring. I am also good enough to be in our school’s Student Tutors Program. We help younger kids with their work. My problem is I never seem to have time to study. I am tired after practice and game, and the younger kids take up a lot of time I need to study myself. My grades are slipping. I don’t want to give up sports. And I like helping the little kids. What should I do?
Television now plays an
important role
in our life. Of course it influences the way people look at the world
and
share their views. There are advantages and disadvantages on
television.
Television in our country
offers us
about 18 channels so the programmes are various. We can say the same
about
British television, but in Britain there are more people who have
satellite
television. There are special channels on it: sport channel, music
channel,
news, cartoons, children's channel and even special channel for
animals.
Beauty
is a difficult question for discussion, because so many people - so many
opinions. Beauty can be in all things that surrounds us and all it depends
from us, but many people can't see it.
Beauty
is in art, music, architecture, painting, in people, in nature and in other
things.
Let's
take human's beauty. Women and man can be beauty. There are special
performances about them. We must distinguish beautiful and attractive people.
Not only appearance is important (cool and modern clothes), but also good
traits of character. I mean the beauty of the inner world.
Comparative analysis of anti-globalization in the USA, the UK, Russia
If
all remains so as it is anti-globalists' movement will become the same
threat
to freedom as communism and fascism.
Eugeny
Triphonov
Anti-globalization movement is a new thing (event) but nevertheless it
is
becoming a serious public force and it can be seen literally with the
naked
eye (see appendix 8) cruel collisions made by activists of movements
in
Seattle, Gotteborg, and Vienna are only the part of a big iceberg
under name,
"anti-globalization" moving along the New and Old Worlds. Under
movement's
banners in Europe one can see those who are against "the new world
order",
those who are against globalization of the world economics, those who
consider
it to be an instrument with the purpose to submit our Planet to
interests of
the USA, those who are against violence of transnational corporations
and for
doing a bigger service to the developing countries and for
nullification of
all their debts in the West states and banks.
From
time
to time governments make bad laws. One possible way to get a bad law
changed
is for lots of people to deliberately disobey the law in a public way.
This is
called civil disobedience.
History of Mass Nonviolent Action
The
use
of nonviolence runs throughout history. There have been numerous
instances of
people courageously and nonviolently refusing cooperation with
injustice.
However, the fusion of organized mass struggle and nonviolence is
relatively
new. It originated largely with Mohandas Gandhi in 1906 at the onset
of the
South African campaign for Indian rights. Later, the Indian struggle
for
complete independence from the British Empire included a number of
spectacular
nonviolent campaigns. Perhaps the most notable was the year-long Salt
campaign
in which 100,000 Indians were jailed for deliberately violating the
Salt Laws.
Dehumanization is the process
whereby
opponents view each other as less than human and thus not deserving of
humane
treatment or what are generally accepted as fundamental human rights.
It is
necessary, psychologically, to so categorize the enemy if it is to be
possible
to engage in warfare or otherwise violate the generally accepted norms
of
behavior regarding one's fellow man.
Dehumanization is actually an
extension of a less intense process of developing an "enemy image" of
the
opponent. An enemy image is a stereotype - a negative
oversimplification -
which usually views the opposing group as evil, in contrast to one's
own side,
which is seen as entirely well. Enemy images are usually black and
white.
Shades of gray (meaning one's own faults or one's enemies' values) are
usually
discounted, denied, or ignored.
