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    Gender Inequality within the context of Education in Turkey Since the invention of writing, the humankind has needed to be educated for different contexts. Education has taken a prominent place in human life in upcoming years and the societies have interiorized education as a permanent part of their life long process. By the time of progress, education has been evolved into a system that was diversified based on the societies and so, there has occurred some deficiencies in this system due to…

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    Criminal law; I told my students that I teach in the Human Rights Education module that ‘refugees are like people like us’. A student in the class stated ‘if he was in a position of a refugee he would see noway out and would commit crime’. I feel the same way about criminals. I am interested in criminal law as I have compassion for the ‘Criminal’, guilty or not. I believe I feel like this as I have experience with a ‘dark side of life’ and I believe there should be no hierarchy of people in…

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    Indigenous Health Issues

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    initiatives created with the purpose of addressing the health inequalities such as; Closing the Gap, Aboriginal Life!, Better Living Diabetes Program by Australian Indigenous Health info Net and many more. To be able to fully understand the relationship between socioeconomic status and the health status of individuals, particularly the Indigenous community, it is important to know what a socioeconomic status us. The socioeconomic status may be defined as a social standing of hierarchal class,…

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    Music Education In Schools

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    on Drug and Alcohol Abuse organization said, “Secondary students who participated in band or orchestra reported the lowest lifetime and current use of all substances (alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs)”. Music not only helps students with music but with becoming a person of character. It took a lot of work to get music education into schools and it will take a lot of work to keep it there however it is essential for a student’s education. Music Education is not something that appeared from thin…

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    Should one’s zip code determine their access to the American dream? Is the US constitution’s “equal protection” something society knows in theory but has yet to implement within all school systems? The Improvement of public education is something that has been fought, challenged, and protected for many years and no child’s outcome/opportunity of education should be determined by the neighborhood in which they grew up, rather than his or her abilities. The No Child Left behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)…

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    humble beginning of the United States (US) healthcare system. According to Niles (2015), when the practice of medicine first begun in the United States (US) tradesmen like barbers can practice as physicians (p. 1). The red and white striped poles outside their shops represented blood and bandages because barbers at that time were also considered as surgeons (Starr, 1982 as cited in Niles, 2015, p. 3). For this week’s module, I will be discussing the US healthcare system. The U.S.…

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    As we grow up from babies into adults, we speculate what the world has to offer to us through our parents, friends, schooling and media. With Mann and Moore, there’s a generation gap and the educational system has grew from the time of the 1800s to the 2000s. According to Mann, “The health of the race is dependent upon the conduct of the race.”(111). In contrast with Moore, he states from hearing Chomsky, “was to find a way to make politics as gripping and engaging as sports.”(122). I fall…

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    hold a significant weight over the future of many Americans, youths in particular. The debate over free community college education has been one dissected by politicians, educators, and concerned citizens to weigh out the benefits and challenges that reshaping an entire educational system entails. The process of transitioning our community colleges into offering free post-secondary learning has to include a well thought out program that addresses government spending and subsidies, state…

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    In the past education was considered a great equalizer, being able to lift the poor from poverty and allowing them to have a better economic future. The access to education in the past was easier. Today the less fortunate have a harder time acquiring an education. People are told that if they are well educated, they will have a bright future and succeed in their lives. The main reason why people attend college is not just to gain knowledge but to make money. The children from rich families tend…

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    explanations of education processes used within schools and the division and separation of social-economic classes. The problematic public school system is a result of the curriculums being based on the career of the child’s parents. This decreases opportunity for the child to become greater or wealthier than the parent resulting in an economic cycle to begin. This economic cycle causes individuals in lower social-economic classes to be subject to an invaluable, worthless education resulting in…

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