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Taidam, but sometimes they don’t know how to pronounce some words or they don’t pronounce them right, but they can hold conversations with their grandparents in Taidam and get by. Nowadays it’s just intermingling of languages” (Baccam). That is called code switching, would you say you and your family switch between languages on a daily basis? “I would say yes, I say somethings in Taidam and English to my wife and kids and it just flows. It’s natural to me now. I would think it’s natural to my…

Ethics play a role in every aspect of decision making, “if you understand that ethics is a set of standardized rules for conducting yourself morally, then its easy to see that ethics is a lot like a tax code. Its a system where people are looking for loopholes and shelters. They 're looking to get away with whatever they can while still staying within the rules” (Pasztor 2015).When we think of Ethics, “we tend to think of corporations like Enron that misrepresented earnings and enriched itself…

Bennett, Paul. "School Uniforms: Do Uniforms Make Schools Better - Or Something Else?". Educhatter 's Blog. N.p., 2013. Web. 12 Feb. 2016. EduChatter contains blog entries from educational consultants that specialize in “raising critical issues” and “tracking emerging trends.” It consists of viewpoints and informed opinions on matters relating to the state of Canadian K-12 education. Their posters tend to be very passionate about what they do, and full of ideas related to the educational reform…

School uniforms are a very controversial issue and continues to be an on going debate among several individuals regarding whether they should or should not be made mandatory in all schools. Many individuals have their reasons as to why school uniforms should not be implemented and made mandatory in the school systems such as taking away from the students right to self-expression, students opposing the idea of school uniforms, and that school uniforms may promote conformity over individuality.…

In The Sexism of School Dress Codes, Li Zhou organizes her article by informing the audience about the negative effects school dress codes may have in females, transgenders, and nonconforming students. Li Zhou strongly believes school 's dress code policies need to be updated since the policies that currently exist are bias and enforced in a way that humiliates the student. The current policies create an expectation that women are responsible for unwanted things that occur to them, when it may…

Since the beginning of time, genomes have been in existence since the -, “so-called big bang theory”. Genomes are the key to life because they are an organism’s complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA is the source in which processes transcription takes place to form a ribonucleic acid (RNA) and is then translated into an amino acid, which is the essential building block of protein to life. For example, hemoglobin, the cells in our bone marrow, churn out a hundred trillion per second of…

School Uniforms – Helpful or Hurtful? Requiring all students to wear school uniforms, including in public schools, became a significant topic of interest after President Bill Clinton gave his opinion on the subject during his 1996 State of the Union Address. Clinton stated, “if it means that teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear school uniforms.” His judgement was strong and his words were effective…

Uniforms have their places where they should be worn; however school is not one of them. Uniforms should only have to be worn at your job and work site, school is an area where children should be allowed to express themselves. Requiring uniforms at school limits the creativity of the students. Due to the lack of allowance for students to wear what they want in private schools their ideals of the world get shaped to fit what the schools want them to believe not how they feel. This is unlike in…

Presenting Needs and Initial Intake: Our holistic work with community members begins with our Direct Service Network. Upon arrival at the Panacea Institute for Equality in Education, families are greeted with a “pre-screen” process to determine their presenting need. At this initial entry point, education challenges supersede all other family challenges. The support staff responsible for the prescreening process will determine the severity of the educational challenge and will determine how…

to problems such as bullying. Not only bullying, but the cost of a child keeping up with the current fashion can end up putting a dent in a parent’s wallet. Yes, freedom of expression is a right that should be upheld, but in schools a uniform dress code should be enforced due to the cost efficiency for the student’s families as well as the sense of community that having a uniform brings to a school. Many students who must follow their schools uniform dress…