... show the child the virtues of good judgement by using good judgement in their own life. If a child witnesses an unethical act performed by his parents, he will think that it is okay. The fact is that children who didn't have good parents, generally, don't grow up into very respectable adults. The old saying goes: “Monkey see, monkey do.” It may sound like a cheap cliche, but there is a lot of truth to it. While raising a child, a parent might find that sometimes the child is not learning the morals that the parent is trying to instill in their child. In that case, a parent should discipline him. Discipline shows the importance of values in a whole different w ...

... ruled that all students in the public school system are ‘persons’, lays precedent that all students have constitutional rights to some degree. In the fourteenth amendment it declares, “No [governmental organization] shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any [governmental organization] deprived any person of life, liberty, or property...” This means that the fourth amendment completely applies to a student. The fourth amendment declares that the school cannot search a person or seize his/her property without reasonable cause. Each individual has these rights. This means that if so ...

... part, girls do not like those types of shows. Along with television, children may also be influenced by people they don't know. Although most children are taught not to talk to strangers, we would be surprised how many actually do. Studies have shown that both boys and girls do talk to strangers, but boys are more likely to do what a stranger tells them than girls are. A lot of young boys are easily deceived. Girls, on the other hand, are more cautious. Even when girls are young, they are still weary of trusting people they don't know. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule. Finally, kids are most influenced by their parents and their ...

... seen leaving the body and therefor another sign must be made present. In modern times, death has been thought to occur when the vital functions cease breathing and circulation (as evidence by the beating of the heart). This definition is also supported by the definition of clinical death, which states that death is equated with irreversible coma. This view has been challenged; however, as medical advanced have made it possible to sustain respiration and cardiac functioning through mechanical means. Thus, more recently, the concept of brain death has gained acceptance. In this view, the irreversible loss of brain activity is the sign that death has occurred. By ...

... officer gets the car stopped there are a million possibilities of other reasons to lose their cool and beat the person getting the ticket. In the case of Rodney King this particular suspect was attempting to get away with a drug charge and aggravated the police officers to the point they had to restrain him. In this case the police reacted to a tense situation with force and confidence that what they were doing the right thing. The police that the author talked to said they would have reacted the same way and most of the police officers that were interviewed said that was the right thing to do. Some said they weren't rough enough. What people saw in this case ...

... their magazines on the web when magazines like Time, and Sports Illustrated are allowed? How easy is it to access such magazines? Do people want to have such magazine so accessible to just anyone? What can and is being done and what are the political ramifications? Anyone with access to a computer that is equipped with on-line services can view such magazines with relative ease. Although, studies show Internet pornography only represents a small portion of Internet traffic it still is quite effortless. Basically the only thing one needs to do is select any of the search engines and simply type: sex. This will pull up a host of different sites where one can easi ...

... In the meantime, postal services and moved from being privately to nationally owned, and long distance postal services became an affordable option. For the first time, an ordinary person could correspond with people in other countries. A visual semaphore system was also implemented in both Europe and the United States, providing a way of ‘echoing' messages nationally via large towers placed in strategic positions; however this proved slow as each method had to be verified to ensure message accuracy. Following the discovery and partial understanding of electricity in the 18th Century scientists looked towards a way of relaying messages electroni ...

... love someone when they already have a lover? We can still love someone and still be friends or maybe even best friends. There is nothing wrong in being friendly with someone that already has a lover. Well, what about how can I love someone that I do not know? An easy solution is to get to know society. Just do not have doubt and end up using assumption. Be critical, be open, ask questions, and get to know how peers. Okay, but what if I am a shy person? There is wrong being shy. Everybody is shy of something, but shyness can always be reverse. I used to be shy of something, but then I gave it some thought when I was thinking when life was getting boring. I ...

... as violent acts carried out by persons in a marital, sexual, parental, or care-giving role toward others in reciprocal roles. ‘Spousal abuse’ may apply to couples engaged in a sexual relationship outside of marriage. And ‘child abuse’ may be penetrated by parents, siblings, step-parents, or live-in boyfriends or girlfriends of the abused child’s parent (Rosen 3). Battered women are defined as women that have been Victora 2 physically or emotionally abused by their husbands or families. These women suffer from many different types of domestic violence but the cause is just one— abuse. Abuse happens to many women but most of the time it is not reported to the polic ...

... one finds the joke funny, they laugh. This condition of happiness is the most temporary one, for it only lasts a moment. No one will be affected deeply into their emotions by a joke. It is more like a comical relief. Another way of happiness is when something good happens to someone. Maybe getting a good grade on a test or getting a raise at work. This kind of happiness usually comes from personal accomplishment. One will be happy if they know they did something good. They do not necessarily have to be rewarded to feel happy. For example, some people find happiness in just living a good life, a life of piety. Often, people may find happiness in the simplest ...