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The great philosopher, and noted atheist and cynic, Frederick Nietzsche once stated that he "would believe only in a God that knows how to dance." Decades later, the renowned thinker and scientist Albert Einstein echoed such a sentiment when he noted that "Dancers are the athletes of God." While both of these statements note the reverence and importance of dancing, the almost supernatural and spiritual qualities of this base movement and action, a third quote even better describes the desire and passion of a dancer. The great choreographer George Balanchine, the man who bridged the gap between classical and modern dance, once said that he did not "want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance."

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"The great philosopher, and noted atheist and cynic, Frederick Nietzsche once stated that he "would believe only in a God that knows how to dance." Decades later, the renowned thinker and scientist Albert Einstein echoed such a sentiment when he noted that "Dancers are the athletes of God." While both of these statements note the reverence and importance of dancing, the almost supernatural and spiritual qualities of this base movement and action, a third quote even better describes the desire and passion of a dancer. The great choreographer George Balanchine, the man who bridged the gap between classical and modern dance, once said that he..."

Tags:describe, myself, mba

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This is a book review of Steve Yarbrough's 'The End of California'. The writer discusses that the novel is the author's third to be set in the small town of Loring, Mississippi, and this prompts comparisons with the great William Faulkner, who set almost his entire corpus in an imaginary country in Mississippi. The review outlines the basic setting of the story, showing how Dr. Peter Barrington is driven from California to the town where he grew up and had an affair with the mother of a high school classmate, who remains bitter over the success that Barrington has enjoyed. The review reports that this is a finely drawn novel, filled with tension and twists as the old classmate tries to move toward some revenge for past wrongs.

Tags:review, novel, southern

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This paper explains that nurses who work with adolescents require specialized knowledge regarding the special needs of teens in a crisis or tragedy situation, especially in today's high school traumatic environment. The author points out that trauma in the school setting is generally defined as a sudden or unexpected occurrence, which may result in fear, such as the loss of a parent due to death or divorce, the death of a classmate from a motor vehicle accident or a suicide, or the real threat of physical harm within the school setting. The paper states that the best the school nurse can hope to provide is a mental health patch-up and the identification of those children who will need more in-depth counseling or those who are at risk for the development of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

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"Making an unofficial survey of other schools in my district, I realized that many of the other schools were functioning and responding to school tragedy in much the same way that we did. The teens appeared to really need to be with peers at a time of tragedy, and this appears to stem from a need to normalize their feelings as well as maintain a sense of identity within the peer group. In speaking to my peers I was also able to find out that the older the child is, the more likely they are to be able to actually discuss the bereavement."

Tags:divorce, shootings, identification, patch-up, powerlessness

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In this article, the writer notes that the United States claims equality and tolerance as part of its national policy. The writer points out that while this has been somewhat challenged since the 9/11 attacks, many Americans still feel that the country advocates the values of humanity over those of racial or ethnic segregation. It is therefore tragic when racial conflicts and hatred attacks occur, particularly among the young. The writer discusses that one example of racial conflict is the "Jena Six" controversy. The writer explains that the case involves six black high school students who were arrested on charges of allegedly trying to beat a white classmate to death. The writer also provides her personal opinion on the incident and how it was treated by the justice system.

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"Being racial in nature, the case has also attracted the attention of civil rights activists, bloggers and black radio hosts. Many of these persons criticized the events leading to the court case and conviction, citing unequal justice as their opinion on the matter. Indeed, even the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been inspired to fight for justice until all the charges against the Jena 6 are dropped, and the American Civil Liberties Union is investigating the case for possible evidence of racial disparity. Kovach cites studies finding that African-Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. Many reasons are cited for this, including the poverty level of certain ethnic groups, as well as the assumption of criminality that is associated not only with the poverty level, but also with the specific ethnic group."

Tags:black, white, murder, hatred

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This paper examines how academic dishonesty has existed as long as organized schooling, whether in the form of glancing at a neighboring student's examination, copying a classmate's homework, or plagiarizing source material in written assignments. It looks at how academic dishonesty has increased dramatically over the last several years due to the Internet and recent technological advances in communication technology, which have enabled students to devise clever new strategies to facilitate cheating during in-class examinations.

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"Instructors have recently begun addressing the problem by availing themselves of Internet services such as Turnitin.com, a subscription service that compares submitted portions of student papers to Internet material and alerts to any suspected instances of inappropriate similarity (Slobogin). Professor Donald M. McCabe of Duke University is an expert on academic dishonesty who founded the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of two hundred colleges and universities dedicated to preserving academic integrity. According to McCabe, one of the most important tools in the fight against academic dishonesty (and plagiarism in particular) is well-informed instructors who are equally adept with the relatively new Internet medium as their students."

Tags:plagiarism, examinations

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A study which shows that there has been a vast increase in the use of computer support technology at the college level. It explains how, in the field of composition, this has dove-tailed with an increase in the use of peer editing and collaborative writing projects as a means to improve the quality of student learning. This project explores the question of whether computer technologies facilitate quality student learning through collaborative writing and what process best supports this goal.

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"Peer editing and collaborative writing as processes have emerged from the post-modernist tradition. This tradition is focused more on the text itself and its construction than on truth claims that the author has portrayed the real world. There is also an emphasis on the relationship between the reader and text, including who reads particular kinds of texts and what happens during that reading process. The reader participates in the construction of the text, which means that the reader, and groups or types of readers, participation in the construction of the consensus concept of reality (Barthes and Howard, 1991). Falch (1994) emphasized that point in his discussion of post-modernism and collaborative writing. For him, language arises specifically from embodiment, or the material nature of human existence. Language helps people to locate their identities in relationship to the physical world. The collaboration is between human physicality and human consciousness, expressed in language. This creates a perception of, and concepts about, reality. Collaborative writing is simply a more conscious, and explicit, process of creating consensus reality."

Tags:language, computer, technology, text

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The first part of this paper examines the current research investigating predictors of suicide in young people. To this end, three categories of suicide predictor research are examined: studies using clinical samples; studies using non-clinical samples; and studies comparing predictors of clinical and non-clinical samples. The second part of this paper examines both one tragic youth who committed suicide in front of his classmates as well as the issues faced by youth suicide in one major county. The review ends with the formulation of several conclusions concerning factors that assist in predicting suicide risk in young people.

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"What variables place children and adolescents at risk for suicide? Some researchers have searched for the answer to this question by investigating clinical samples. In one such study, Lipschitz, Winegar, Nicholoau, Hartnick, Wolfson and Southwick (1999) assessed suicide risk in 34 boys and 37 girls who were inpatients in psychiatric hospitals.
About 51 percent of sample patients had attempted suicide. Findings of the study indicated that those who had attempted suicide were significantly more likely to be female, to report sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, and to, themselves, endorse emotional neglect as a method of rearing children. In an effort to determine the magnitude of the different effects exerted by predictor variables, Lipschitz et. al (1999) conducted a multivariate analysis, which revealed that female gender, sexual abuse, and emotional neglect remained significant predictors of both self-mutilation behavior and suicidal ideation. Based on these findings, Lipschitz and associates concluded that emotional neglect was one of the more powerful predictors of suicidal behavior in hospitalized adolescents than physical abuse, emotional abuse, and physical neglect."

Tags:abuse, tragic, depression, violence

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Of the 300,000 people who attempt suicide every year in the United States, about 10 percent succeed. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in children under 15 years of age; and about one in every ten teenagers will attempt to commit suicide before they finish high school.
Moreover, since 1950, suicide among young people has increased by 250 percent and the number is climbing. In Los Angeles county alone in one year, youth suicide climbed 80 percent. These alarming statistics highlight the importance of the need to fully understand the factors that contribute to suicide among youth. The first part of this paper examines the current research investigating predictors of suicide in young people. To this end, three categories of suicide predictor research are examined: Studies using clinical samples; studies using non-clinical samples and studies comparing predictors of clinical and non-clinical samples. The second part of this paper examines the story of one tragic youth who committed suicide in front of his classmates, as well as the issues faced by youth suicide in one major county. The review ends with the formulation of several conclusions concerning factors that assist in predicting suicide risk in young people.

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"Hutchings (1998) has suggested that another factor that may place children and adolescents at higher risk of suicide is if they witness domestic violence in their homes. In her study of a small sample of adolescents, Hutchings observed that adolescents who witness violence in the home are at an increased risk of trying to handle their own problems using violent methods; probably because their parents have modeled this behavior. Being at increased risk of using violence as a mechanism for coping, Hutchings feels that these teens could well be at increased risk of handling pain via suicide."

Tags:psychiatric, depression, adolescents

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In Jonesboro, AR, two boys, ages 11 and 13, set off their school's fire alarm and shot classmates and teachers as they emptied into the schoolyard. Four were killed and 11 wounded. In Springfield, OR, a 15-year-old opened fire in his school cafeteria, killing two and injuring 23.

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"Causes of Violence in Schools

In Jonesboro, AR, two boys, ages 11 and 13, set off their school's fire alarm and shot classmates and teachers as they emptied into the schoolyard. Four were killed and 11 wounded. In Springfield, OR, a 15-year-old opened fire in his school cafeteria, killing two and injuring 23. His parents were found dead at home. In Pearl, MS, a 16-year-old killed his mother with a butcher knife and then headed off to school where he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and another female student. In Paducah, KY, a 14-year-old opened fire on his school prayer group, killing three female students and wounding five others.

This spate of killings has struck horror in the hearts of ..."

Abstract
Examines predictive factors. Increase of suicide in young people. Current studies and research into predictors of suicide. Factors that place youth at-risk. Profille of a child or adolescent most likely to commit suicide. Also examines one teenager who committed suicide in front of his classmates & issues of youth suicide in Los Angeles County, 1998-1999.

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"Suicide in Children: Predictive Factors


Introduction
According to Hill (1998), of the 300,000 people who attempt suicide every year, about 10 percent succeed. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in kids under 15 years of age; and about one in every ten teenagers will attempt to commit suicide before they finish high school.


Moreover, since 1950 suicide among young people has increased by 250 percent and is showing signs of continuing to increase (Hill, 1998). In Los Angeles county alone in one year, youth suicide climbed 80 percent (Rivera 2001). These alarming statistics highlight the importance of the need to fully understand the factors that contribute to suicide among youth.


The first part of this paper examines the current research..."