The School for Scandal

31). However, when America began to gain more schools during the late nineteenth century, women took many of the new teaching positions that became available, thus leading to a rise in women’s literacy (Dolan and Scariano, 1995, p. 32). In spite of the growing need for teachers, women teachers were paid…

An Indian teenager named Dolly Kumari was only 12 years old when a 25 year old man threw acid at her face because she would not have sex with him. The acid left immense scarring, it damaged her nostrils making it hard to breath, and it also mentally impaired her and ruined her confidence. She did not leave her house for almost a year and when she thinks about her future, she is terrified and worried that no one will want to marry her due to her scars. This terrifying story is an example of the…

Alexander and James Hamilton, Jr.—and education in the church school—because their parents were not legally married. They received individual tutoring and classes in a private school led by a Jewish headmistress. Alexander supplemented his education with a family library of 34 books. In October 1772, he arrived in the colonies and began learning fundamental subjects missing from his education. He attended the Elizabethtown Academy, a grammar school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. In 1773, he…

abort a pregnancy solely based on the sex of the baby. They go on to explain that if she want the abortion don 't bring it up again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6_Nx3f4EU Here is a short Fox News segment about a 15-year-old student who 's school sent her via an ambulance to a planned parenthood. Once there the staff discouraged her from telling her parents by saying if they found out about the abortion they (the parents) would have to pay for the procedure, but if they did not know…

those goals or of having a disinterest in those goals. In the case of Retreatist Adaptation, there is an absence of both socially approved goals and the means to reach them. These people may lead alternative lifestyles (i.e., communal living), quit school or become drug abusers. Retreatists are generally seen as social and psychological outcasts (Shmalleger, Volk, 2014, p.…

Rubbing Off in the 110 I’ve always been involved with marching band most of my time in school starting in 5th grade. I fell in love with it. I consider marching band an art form. The band marches in many different designs or a patterns on the field while playing music, and for the Marching 110, they perform a dance at the end. For the rubbings project, I wanted to celebrate my time here at Ohio University and give thanks to The Most Exciting Band In The Land. The materials I was regular printer…

banned because of cruelty to animals, violence, and graphic sexuality. Banned Book Week is the celebration of being able to have the freedom to read (Crum, 1). It is the ALA’s way of responding to the censorship of books (Monges, 1). Groups such as schools, bookstores, and libraries join together to bring attention to the problem of censorship which they think gets overlooked. Banned Book Week is normally held during the last week of November (Banned, 1). It got its start and kicked off in 1982…

After working at a Christian high school for over two decades it is exciting and to see former students beginning their adult lives with great job prospects from their excellent college education, yet very discouraging to learn that many make the decision to abandon their belief system and leave church behind. Ultimately, one would like to see young adults be more excited about their faith, and the religion in which they were raised. Rather than concentrating on the fact that young adults are…

The concerns of an eight year old are as drastically different from those of an eighteen year old as are the worries of a twenty eight year old are from those of a thirty eight year old; when imagining a person ten years superior to oneself, they often seem detached and un-relatable. In the words of every petulant child to their parent, “you just don’t get it.” When it boils down to it, are the generations really that different? One woman raised conservatively in the 1950s saw unbelievable…

Electoral Dysfunction is a comedic documentary that follows Mo Rocca around the country to see how one of the most confusing voting systems in the world works. On his journey, he discovers voter fraud, photo ID laws, absentee voter controversy, and many political activists working to reform America’s voting laws. The documentary puts a comical twist on something serious and fundamental to our democracy. The documentary almost humoredly attacks the electoral college and our strange…