Case Study: Counts vs. Cedarville School District Situation The Counts v. Cedarville School District court case was about the Harry Potter book series. After receiving a complaint from a parent, the Cedarville School Board voted 3-2 to remove all of the books from the Harry Potter series from the open shelves of public school libraries. Students who wished to read or check out these books could do so only with written parental permission. Several students and their parents filed suit, seeking the return of the books to the open shelves. In the course of discovery, the School Board members who voted to remove the books acknowledged that they had not read many of the books and that they removed them because they exposed students to the "religion of witchcraft."
According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, during the 2011-12 school year more than 13,700 kids, aged 5 to 18, were treated for backpack-related injuries. This means textbooks and school are jeopardizing your health. Tablets only weight approximately 1-2 pounds. Tablets can hold hundreds of textbooks on one device, plus homework, quizzes, and other files, eliminating the need for physical storage of books and classroom materials. The average tablet contains anywhere from 8 to 64 gigabytes (GB) of storage space.
Glendale, California is home to the second largest population of Armenian people in the United States. There are enough students of Armenian descent in the Glendale Unified School District that the schools are closed on January 6th in honor of Little Christmas which is also known as the Epiphany or Little Christmas which is a religious holiday celebrating the birth of Christ (Kasbarian, p. 88. 1998). They do not exchange presents on that day. New Year Celebration For the Armenian diasphora, New Year is a big deal.
It isn’t just parents giving their children soda, it’s also the school districts providing more unhealthy choices and minimal nutritional items, such as milk or water, and fruits and vegetables. From 1985 to 1997, school districts decreased the amount of milk they bought by nearly thirty percent and increased purchases of soda by one-thousand and one-hundred percent. (Roberts) About fifty-six to eighty-five percent of school age children consume at least one soft drink daily. (Roberts) Children these days are not getting enough calcium, mainly because of the large consumption of soft drinks. Instead of grabbing a glass of milk, most kids, teens and adults would rather drink soda.
In addition, this movie shows the ways schools are affecting obesity in their students. Vending machines with pop are one of the main reasons. Some schools have banned soda vending machines and even prohibited students from bringing soda. Furthermore, Super-Size Me gives awareness about the consumption of fast food. Forty percent of American meals are eaten out of the house; that is about 121,623,890 people!
Production of their new caffeinated malt beverage was outsourced to the same contract brewery that makes Mike’s Hard Lemonade. The initial run was financed in part by a $100,000 investment from parents and friends, and by $50,000 in credit card debt. Identifying problems – The mixture of alcohol and caffeine. In September 2010, New Jersey's Ramapo College banned the drink After a Four Loko- infused bender sickened 17 students and six visitors. The next month, Nine students at Central Washington University were hospitalized after mixing excessive amounts of Four Loko with other alcohols.
In the Hispanic community there are individuals that are U.S. citizens, residents, and illegal immigrants, only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote in elections. For example, in California there are 12 municipalities that 50% of their population is illegal immigrants; these individuals are hardworking people that pay taxes and send their children to public schools. (Bedolla 2009) However, they are not allowed to participate in political elections. Many non-citizens have problems learning the English language and that serves as a barrier for them to participate in campaigns, rallies, or public meetings since they are all conducted in the English language. We can conclude that in our unit of analysis when comparing non-citizenship with U.S. citizens, there is a relation that affects the Hispanic political participation.
Starbucks Behind the Veil In 2008 there were reports that Starbucks was wasting millions of water in the United Kingdom each day. This was due to the companies’ policy of keeping faucet taps running non-stop at thousands of stores around the world. The Sun estimated that Starbucks wasted 6.2 million gallons of water daily and the staff was instructed not to turn off the water in order to keep germs from breeding inside the taps. In my opinion that does not make any sense. I could see I there were scientific facts or data that would confirm that statement to be true and that by running the water it prevented germs but nothing has been issued to the media outlets such as the TV news stations with this type of comment to my knowledge.
There are many reasons and facts that are in favor of lowering the drinking age. Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe the legal age should be lowered. As a great professor once said “today we are repeating history and making the same mistakes. Prohibition did not work then and prohibition for the young people under the age of 21 is not working now.” (web; Indiana.edu). In other words restricting the American people from alcoholic beverages in the past was unsuccessful and a way was found to break that law.
Both the companies are a non-profit company they make more of a profit then most. In the same article by fairtest.org states that “The fact that these companies are allowed to be the only game in town for admissions testing into institutions of higher education is a travesty when looking at big corporations like chevron and ATT they are not allowed to take over all of the gas companies in America and ATT is not allowed to take over all the cell phone companies in the united states because it would destroy our economy and this needs to be challenged by administrators at the school themselves if we ever hope to have true reform in the testing industry” was said by the same article on fairtest.org. “When a student or a parent clicks on the internet to sign up for AP and SAT tests they type in collegeboard.org not .com but .org because its suppose to be a non profit organization that is suppose to not collect money for their own profits and benefits” said in the same article by