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Children’s’ wellbeing and adjustment in divorce and marital conflict family setting The society today is quick to warn parents about divorce and the negative implications of divorce for children both short term and long term. However no body tends to be concerned with the influence of marital conflict to the child’s wellbeing or so it seems. Therefore given the negative connotations attached to the child with the parents being divorced, is the child in a significantly better environment just…

anzac day is a totally special and vital one to australians. it is a day wherein all australians can come together to honour and don't forget the anzacs who fought and died for our us of a. most importantly, it is a danger for all australians to reflect on the spirit of the anzac. however, what's this spirit? how did it come about? and why, more than ninety years after gallipoli, do australians keep to bear in mind and embody this anzac spirit with such pleasure and honour? for the young state…

What is life? One can view life as a spec of dust in the vast vacuum of space, or they can view life as dust in the wind. Written by Kerry Livgren and performed by Kansas on their fifth album, Point of Know Return, “Dustv in the Wind captures the unambiguous story of how life is purposeless and no matter how triumphant we are, death will still occur. “Dust in the Wind” was written by Kerry Livgren ,who was the one of the main songwriters in his famous band Kansas. Kansas performed this song…

Since the implementation of Individuals with Disabilites Education Act of 2004, which was created to devolp a better access of public education for students with disabilites, school districts across the nation and other geographical areas have tried to represent it in the classroom. Research has been done to understand the factors in which the transition to inclusion of students with disabilites, which is part of IDEA, have plagued the progress. It appears there may be three common factors;…

law, usually to gain an advantage at something”. Cheating is commonly found in schools all over the country, even from prestigious school like Harvard and Duke. Many cases of academic dishonesty involve international students. According to Denise Simpson, who wrote, “Academic Dishonesty: An International Student Perspective”, the amount of international students coming to the U.S to attend a school has increased dramatically over the years. International students come from places all over the…

Have you ever seen The Simpsons on TV and saw Stephen Hawking in one of the episodes in that show? Believe it or not, one of the most famous physicists of the 20th century was presented on one of the popular animated comedies in America, The Simpsons. His presence on the show was comical but Stephen Hawking was more than a made up animated character, he was an actual person with a brilliant mind. Although Stephen Hawking has a disability of motor neurone disease, he was able to continue his work…

“student as the customer” has led to universities having to inflate grades along with weakening their courses to be able to gain a stronger student or “customer” satisfaction to be competitive in the ever-evolving atmosphere in higher education. Simpson and Siguaw argue that using these evaluations for assessment of teaching and learning actually have no ethical warrant of these two topics. Instead, students value these evaluations as a way to provide ratings on attractiveness, gender, or age…

According to the center on congress at Indiana University, Lee Hamilton, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, states this about government, “no matter how good a policy, if good people aren’t available to carry it out, it will fail.” As democracy puts governmental power into the hands of the people, it is crucial that citizens embody the theory of enlightened self interest where the ideas of common good are above those of the individual. With a mindset that good people…

The article, Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System is written by Paul Butler and in his essay he writes about four major topics describing the racial influence in jury decisions. He also writes about the ways in which we can prevent theses racial based jury decisions. In my essay, I will be summarizing Butler’s article and analysing the way he approaches the criminal cases against African-Americans. Furthermore, I will describe my opinion of the way he…

The Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is the story of a young man named Henry Fleming who enlists with the Union Army in the hopes of becoming a war hero. Shortly after enlisting, the reality of his decision sets in. Instead of becoming a hero immediately, he finds himself waiting most of the time. When he finally has his first battle, he fires into the battle haze, never seeing his enemy. As the next battle approaches, Henry begins to run from the field. Even when…