...Setting Our Children Up for an Unhealthy Lifestyle Raymond S. Jackson Professor: Gabriel Smith ENG 215 31 August, 2012 The United States is facing a growing obesity epidemic. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Obesity now affects 17% of all children and adolescents in the United States - triple the rate from just on generation ago” (CDC.gov 2012). Is it the children’s fault? No! The fault lies with our society, its leaders, mentors, adults, and parents. It is up to the older generation, to properly teach our children the rights and wrongs of life, and today, we are teaching them the wrong way to eat. Public School Lunch Programs are teaching them that processed foods, high sugar drinks and snacks, are part of a balanced diet, and this is setting up our children for a lifetime of health issues, and adding to an already elevated obesity problem in the United States. Our society, public school system, and parents themselves are setting up our children for an unhealthy lifestyle and a future of health problems by teaching them unhealthy eating habits and feeding them unhealthy food. The days are long gone of the “Farm to Table” cooking methods in our schools that our older generations depended on. Today, we rely on processed foods that are full of additives, fats and sugars. The National School Lunch Program was created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), when President Harry S. Truman signed the National......
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...makes this situation an ethical dilemma? If we choose to keep the book then we are violating P-1.1(Above all, we shall not harm children. We shall not participate in practices that are emotionally damaging, physically harmful, disrespectful, degrading, dangerous, exploitive or intimidating to children) and if we choose to not accept this book to our classroom it would violate I-1.10. (To ensure that each child’s culture, language, ethnicity, and family structure are recognized and valued in the program) They contradict each other and this makes it an ethical dilemma. 2. What values are involved? * Appreciate and support the bond between the child and the family. * Recognize that children are best understood and supported in the context of family, culture, community and society. * To ensure that each child’s culture, language, ethnicity, and family structure are recognized and valued in this program. * First and foremost: Above all, we shall not harm children. We shall not participate in practices that are emotionally damaging, physically harmful, disrespectful, degrading, dangerous, exploitive or intimidating to children. * We need to follow the rules and regulations that have been established to keep the children safe. 3. Who is involved and who will be influenced by the dilemma (for example, children, parents, staff, community, etc.)? Note that the agreed upon course of action in the end may require varying actions by......
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...Through many generations, there’s always a group that is shunned upon and misunderstood, the children. I’m sure you’ve heard your parents say things about this generation being worse than the past and your grandparents saying your generation is even WORSE than your parent’s. This is a never-ending cycle due to technologic and commodity increase over the years. You’ve obviously heard your dad tell you in his days he had to read books or newspapers to get information, and brag about you having it so easy and how it makes you lazy. Sadly, this current generation will most certainly fall on the same path as the previous ones, yes you will tell your children that back in your days things were different, yes you will get mad at their behavior, and yes things will remain the same forever. Now, there are always people collectively saying these previous things are legitimate and that child behavior has been progressively worse(which would mean we should be demons by now), this same exaggeration is the one that makes it FEEL like children have gotten progressively worse. We as human beings notice things, and we are bound to pay more attention to the bad than to the good, reason being that we were made to solve problems. This also comes at a cost though, since we are very observant to problems this means there will undoubtedly be problems we just can’t or are hard to fix. If we can’t fix something we feel disgusted, we feel mad; these feelings are what makes us have to take those......
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...involved music. Both the boys and the girls of the middle class were learning how to read and write. Middle class children had a lot of toys also. Their toys were wooden or porcelain dolls that were made into animals.. The houses of middle class families had furniture and fire places. Only one family lived in the house some families may had a nanny to take care of the children when they were home. In the 19th century working class children were most likely working in factories and even on farms. The families though it was more important that the children bring home money rather than getting an education. The children had dangerous working conditions and long hours. Children were cheaper to pay than adults, and it was easier to work with the children. Many of the children had started working from the age eight to thirtheen. The house of the working class children were awful. It was basically the opposite of the middle class. No furniture no nanny to take care of kids when parents were at work which left them unsupervised. The similarity between the middle class and the working class is that they are both committed to their family and communities. Both of the classes can have a solid work ethic how they approach their jobs. Also the risk that both of them had when they had went to work in the 19th century. Even though both classes tried to get education for the children both classes had the limited access to education....
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...Feral children are individuals who have grown up with little to no human contact. Most do not have an ability to interact with humans. When they are discovered, they are unable to react to contact. They live without human care, social contact, love, and human language. They are isolated from the human world - often as an effect of neglect, or from growing up alongside wild animals. One would believe that all humans, no matter what age, have the ability to conform to a society regardless of their past circumstances. Feral children, on the other hand, are nearly, if not completely incapable of conforming to a society due to the fact that they have transformed into beings that are, for the most part, incapable of interacting with others in a ‘normal’ society. The majority of these children will never have the ability to learn the human language. Ivan Mishukov is a citizen in Russia who was raised by dogs only from ages four to six. In another case, Natasha Mikhailova grew up with the animals in her house. She was treated like one of the many dogs and cats that her family cared for in their small home in Chita, Siberia. A very recent case takes place in Florida where Dani Lierow was rescued and now lives with her adoptive parents in Fort Myers Beach. Science suggests that each of these wild children will forever be unable to speak a human language. Treatment is available to them, but there is only so much that can be done. In 1996, four-year-old Ivan Mishukov left his home in...
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...Feral Children I. Introduction A. What is a Feral Child B. Thesis Statement: Isolation and severe abuse influences the development or lack of development in feral children. II. Explain what happens to a child’s language development when extreme neglect or isolation occurs. A. Humans do not speak just because they are human; they speak because other people around them encourage them to do the same. B. Children generally begin to talk in the sensorimotor stage of life, but do not understand what they are saying and cannot put the words together in sentences because they are only imitating those around them. III. Explain whether feral children can be redeveloped. A. Feral Children have been worked with for periods of year with no success. 1. Victor of Aveyron, was found in the 1800s and was worked with for 7 years and became no more human than a well trained animal. 2. Girls from India found at the age of 3 and 5 were put in an orphanage and worked with for years. Neither one ever learned more than approximately 30 words and neither one would stop barring their teeth and howling at night. B. Does a feral child actually end up being mentally impaired? 1. The Critical Period Hypothesis indicates it is not actually retardation, that though the mind is fully intact, it simply is not capable of a full functioning as it did not get the critical socialization necessary for full development. 2. Scientists connect......
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...Feral Children By: Austin Arndt The video I choose to watch about feral children was about a boy named Sujit that was raised by chickens. He was raised by chickens because as a young child his parents became annoyed and frustrated with him so they locked him in the chicken coop for a lot of his childhood, because of this Sujit never learned any of the basic skills that we all know how to do like read, write, speak and other daily tasks. I think what Sujit’s parents did to him was terrible. I think that Sujit’s parents are terrible people for doing what they did to him. In the video they show Sujit when they first meet him. He cannot do anything or he can't understand anything that anyone is trying to tell him. Since he was raised by chickens he ate like a chicken and acted like a chicken, he even tried to speak with people the way chickens talk to each other. After they found Sujit they put him in a nursing home where they chained him up to a wall where he could only lay on his bed. I felt terrible for Sujit. No one tried to help him learn new things or how to talk. After a couple of years people took Sujit out of the nursing home where he was treated terrible and some very nice people brought him in where they devote almost every day to help Sujit learn basic skills that we use everyday. They are trying to teach him how to speak and read and write. He is making progress but since he learned the way of the chickens basically developed his brain they are pretty sure......
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...Joshua French Professor Erika Burgess BI101 25 July 2012 Feral Pigs and the Negative Effects on Humans It is not every day that someone sits down and thoroughly thinks about the food that they consume. For that matter they do not even think about the animals that they touch, to include feral pigs. Feral pigs are, by definition, a pig that is not kept or bred in a holding (www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Feral+pig). In Eastern North Carolina these feral pigs are causing an uproar and uneasiness about them. The feral pigs are being accused of carrying a nasty bacteria that can be transmitted to humans, through a variety of different ways. Not only can they transmit a nasty bacteria, but also can do damage to farmers’ crops and land that in turn affects the way that the crops are harvested and how the ecosystem changes due to the damage that these feral pigs do. Wild pigs (also known as wild hogs or feral pigs) are an Old World species and are not native to the Americas. The first wild pigs in the United States originated solely from domestic stock brought to North America by early European explorers and settlers. Many years later, Eurasian wild boar were introduced into parts of the United States for hunting purposes. In areas where domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boar were found together in the wild, interbreeding occurred. Today, many hybrid populations exist throughout the wild pig’s range. Pigs were first introduced in the 1500’s to what is now the......
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...Children learn so quickly and even when they are exposed to a second language just once a week they still learn a lot. Within the first term they are able to recognise, understand and repeat what they have learnt. Three ways to support children learning a second language in the classroom: Use pictures or real objects when introducing new vocabulary words or concepts to help make connections in two different languages (example English and Spanish). Have a “show and tell” time when children bring favorite things from home. Use these opportunities to learn about what interests each child and what happens at home. Build on this knowledge to introduce new words and expand the child’s understandings. Be consistent and try to use the same words to say the same thing each time. Use a number of strategies, involving both verbal and non-verbal skills. Two ways to support the families of children learning a second language; I would assist the students in class with making flashcards to use at home. For many flashcards, visual aids such as pictures from magazines, drawings or even printed clip art can enhance comprehension and memory. Second I would get information from the community that they live in that would also support families. One example of a resource you can use to help plan for children learning a second language, with a summary and justification of your choice: ESL resources for English teachers can be found here, including printable flashcards, worksheets, lesson plan......
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...Feral Horses in the U.S. – Indigenous or Invasive Feral horse (mustang) herds roaming the Great American Plains are a well-known symbol of American history. Yet few are acquainted with their convoluted history and the socio-political and environmental conflicts they are involved in. The horses of today originated in North America but went extinct in prehistoric times due to unclear reasons. They disseminated to other continents and were reintroduced to North America by Columbus’ men. The period of the horses’ historical absence from North America has sparked debates as to their official status. Some horse advocates and environmentalists argue that feral horses are native to the continent and as such should be protected and given free space to roam. Their main arguments are that horses originated on and inhabited the continent long before humans started populating it, and that the feral horses of the Wild West are a national symbol of history and pride. Others, mainly farmers and agriculturalists, push for population control and limiting the mustangs’ area because they are an invasive non-native species that harms natural ecosystems and competes with livestock for resources. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is responsible for implementing policies concerning feral horses. Currently, following the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, the Bureau captures feral horses and gives them away for adoption. The main issue facing the Bureau is the legal and......
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...Kati Wall Greenbaum English 1102 24 September 2014 Feeling Feral Upon reading “St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves” by Karen Russell one might take the story at face value and say that this is simply a fantastic story of young werewolves, but the observant reader might find themselves begging the question “Are these young girls, or are they young wolves?”. The answer lies in a reader’s perception. In the story we meet a group of sisters whose parents are werewolves. The girls behave as wild animals initially, like biting, digging, growling, barking, scratching, flea bitten wolves! They come to live with nuns and begin the process of learning to behave like socially acceptable young women. To this reader it seems that the question is not “girls or wolves”, but “What is it that Karen Russell wants a reader to feel when they are immersed in this story?” I am of the opinion that the wolves are metaphoric, and that there is a deeper message being conveyed. When reading this story we are supposed to feel the sensation of being dropped into a strange culture: overwhelming otherness, fear, desperation, and isolation. Think back to what your life was like as a child. Imagine being taken from your family, friends, home, and everything you have ever known and sent to another country with an entirely different culture, (Think India, Russia, China, etc…) I think you would feel similarly to Claudette and her sisters. Near the beginning of the story, in stage 2, Claudette’s...
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...Davis English 100-45 November 9, 2005 Punishment and discipline is the most effective on children today. Some people think that discipline and punishment is the same thing, but there not. Discipline is helping children develop self- control and sets limits and corrects misbehavior. Punishment is physical hitting, yelling, holding back rewards, and penalizing a child. “Not all children respond to discipline and punishment in the same manner” (Moore). Why do parent’s discipline there children. The most know reason is because parents want there children to act in a certain way that allows them to function on a day to day basis (Frazier). Discipline should teach a child to think about there behavior and why it was inappropriate. Discipline is effective because the child learns to take responsibility for his or her behavior .Discipline is one of the biggest problems that every parent faces. It also can help a child get alone with the family and friend. Punishment is usually used on a child because it is quick and easy punishment shows adult power and it vents adult frustration. There are many methods parents can use to discipline and punish there child, such as spanking, time out and taking privileges away. These methods will help a child build mutual respect, accountability, responsibility, self-discipline and problem solving. Studies show that the majority of parents who spank their children wish they didn’t (Moore). One of the least effective ways of punishing a child......
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... * Nell’s mother was found dead one day by the man who was bringing her groceries. That same man found Nell after she made a noise in the back room. He went back to town and told the policeman about her. The doctor (Lovell) followed the policeman and then met Nell. * Genie was found after her mother escaped her house and found the police and brought them back to the house. They found her sitting on a potty chair. * Why were they isolated? * Nell’s mother isolated her and her sister because she was raped when she was younger, and didn’t want her girls to grow up in the same terrible, hateful world that she grew up in. She wanted her girls to be safe. * Genie was isolated because her father thought she was mentally disabled. He didn’t want people to know about her, so he locked her up. * Nell’s mother was found dead one day by the man who was bringing her groceries. That same man found Nell after she made a noise in the back room. He went back to town and told the policeman about her. The doctor (Lovell) followed the policeman and then met Nell. * Genie was found after her mother escaped her house and found the police and brought them back to the house. They found her sitting on a potty chair. * Why were they isolated? * Nell’s mother isolated her and her sister because she was raped when she was younger, and didn’t want her girls to grow up in the same terrible, hateful world that she grew up in. She wanted her girls to be safe. ...
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...elementary school. This paper presents disruptive behavior in young behaviors in young children which includes Attention Deficit Disorder that consist of being hyper all day whether they in school or they are at home. The new method that they find out if a child has a behavior problem is to distinct between normative behavior and a typical behavior during their growth years. During their growth years while they are in preschool years they act out their developmental period that they starting to develop autonomy. A big deal of different behavior changes that fall under the Rubric outgoing behavior. Some children have Attention Deficit Disorder and don’t even know it until they are tested by their Physician. Most children in preschool mock other children and they pick up everything that other children are doing and also what they have learned to speak. Parents always asked themselves can you teach a young child or children to manage to manage their own behavior. According to (McDavis,2007) you can teach them self-management to pay attention to the oneself behavior and also to complete activities using effective appropriate behavior. You basically have to ask yourself like I did when I had preschoolers and elementary school age children. Is the child able to make different accurate self –assessments to her or his behavior then you need to ask yourself is the child’s current level of self-managing. Most children who are treated for acting out for having behavior problems are......
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...The Importance of Socialization One of the most common methods used to illustrate the importance of socialization is to draw upon the few unfortunate cases of children who were, through neglect, misfortune, or wilful abuse, not socialized by adults while they were growing up. Such children are called "feral" or wild. Some feral children have been confined by people (usually their own parents); in some cases this child abandonment was due to the parents' rejection of a child's severe intellectual or physical impairment. Feral children may have experienced severe child abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. Others are alleged to have been brought up by animals; some are said to have lived in the wild on their own. When completely brought up by non-human animals, the feral child exhibits behaviors (within physical limits) almost entirely like those of the particular care-animal, such as its fear of or indifference to humans. Feral children lack the basic social skills which are normally learned in the process of socialization. For example, they may be unable to learn to use a toilet, have trouble learning to walk upright and display a complete lack of interest in the human activity around them. They often seem mentally impaired and have almost insurmountable trouble learning a human language. The impaired ability to learn language after having been isolated for so many years is often attributed to the existence of a critical period for language learning, and...
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