Zero Tolerance In the article entitled “No Mercy,” Malcolm Gladwell writes on the zero tolerance policies in our schools. The essay is an argument against zero-tolerance and a return for discretionary justice. He gives different examples to identify his position such as a Cambridge University student that attempted to poison his tutor, and a football quarterback that was cut from the team for being overpaid on his job. The author’s main point is whether zero tolerance policy is appropriate when disciplining students in the school system. Gladwell’s argument draws your attention to the fact that at some point in life children will be children and make stupid mistakes.
Bi-polar disorder is characterized by a variety of symptoms: Manic (excessive highs), hopelessness with periods of normality in between. Manic episodes are characterized by discrete periods of: increased energy, activity, restlessness, euphoric feelings, euphoric feelings and one may be easily distracted. When both unipolar and bipolar symptoms occur at the same time, it is called a mixed episode. According to the biological model for unipolar depression, people with a family history of unipolar disorders are at a higher risk to develop this disorder. Low levels of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and serotonin are believed to play a role in this disorder as well as the endocrine system (Comer, 2005).
DALLAS, Ga. — Class president accused of vandalism loses appeal A senior class president accused of vandalizing his school will not be allowed to return. The Paulding County School Board decided Tuesday night to deny Jacob Zimmerman’s suspension appeal. He will not be allowed to attend East Paulding High School and will finish his high school education at an alternative school. The 17-year-old had wanted to be able to attend the school for at least part of his day to attend several AP classes, but the school board ruled against him. “It just really hurts.
Leah Hardy Kidder English 9 Honors 20 March 2013 A question commonly asked by frustrated parents to their teenagers: why don’t you just grow up and start acting like an adult? Although it is a rhetorical question, there is an answer. Research has shown that the human brain does not reach full development until people are in their 20s. Teenage brains are strikingly unlike adults’, explaining their often rash, immature behavior exemplified in Mary E. Pearson’s novel The Adoration of Jenna Fox and William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. In The Adoration of Jenna Fox, 17 year old Jenna Fox struggles to recover from an 18 month-long coma that left her with complete amnesia.
Crabbe lies about why he is skipping out on class because he needs to go have another drink to calm himself down. “Wasn’t feeling well sir. Thought I’d get dressed and take it easy.” (Bell, 24). Alcoholics will tend to hide their drinks and both empty and full bottles because they know that alcoholism is socially
At the conclusion of the meeting, Spilman told the group that the Board rejected the four demands and that the selection of Zinser stood” (Gannon). When the student body learned that there conditions where rejected thing started to change within the group a bit. They where basically being told that what they wanted didn’t matter and just needed to suck it up and go home. They weren't buying it, and they didn’t believe that there was no way things could change. The next day[Tuesday] the protesters did release the main campus building but they still protested and boycotted their
Theory and techniques will be applied through the window of the case study of John, in an effort to demonstrate the effectiveness of this model in strengthening an individual’s internal sense of control, thereby changing behaviour. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is based around the notion of thoughts leading to how an individual feels and acts, discounting the external environment into a much less important role. A two-way relationship exists between thinking and behaviour, in that thinking can influence behaviour and behaviour can, in turn, influence thinking. The predominant assumption in CBT is that maladaptive behaviours arise not from a stimulus itself, but from the individual’s evaluation or thoughts and feelings about that stimulus. CBT uses a collaborative relationship between client and therapist in a goal oriented, systematic approach with both parties working together to achieve a solution, based on the
Steroids can be particularly dangerous for adolescents because of bodies are still developing and can cause adulthood before reaching puberty. In this result it can cause premature baldness. It can cause a dramatic increase in bad body cholesterol and a significantly drop in good cholesterol. (Alvin, Virginia, Silverstein 41) These consequences should be enough to let someone think twice before
They do this, either to be protected from over stimulation damage or so the brain may maintain a chemical balance (Sferios, 2002). This is what is known as down-regulation and can lead to longer feelings of depression even after serotonin levels have been restored (Sferios, 2002). People who have taken MDMA for a long period of time have reported depression lasting for up to a year (Ecstasy, 2005). Another negative long term effect of MDMA use is called Neurotoxicity (Ecstasy, 2005). This leads to the oxidation of neurons when dopamine accidentally enters the serotonin axons through reuptake transporters (Sferios, 2002).
Dement brings in a scenario of a teenage death to their parents due to sleep deprivation which had no link to the previous topic and was not expanded on to tie it back to the main idea of the paper (Dement 499). Dement proceeds to explain a message he presented to his students at Stanford about the dangers of sleep deprivation, which does not give credibility to the article and becomes useless information (Dement 499-500). When beginning the section about alcohol and sleep deprivation, the author chose to use a useless example about children being current on their sleep to commence an unrelated idea (Dement 503). Dement attempts to relate