A Prom Divided Analysis

Since Lucinda has a curvy body type, she was told that her skirts were “technically acceptable” yet they were still too short for her to wear. Ventimiglia was suggested to follow a dress code with longer hem requirements… The student was kicked out of her own prom by a chaperone who said that a group of dads were staring at her, even though she was following all of the dress code rules. She says, “I’m not responsible for some perverted 45-year old dad lusting after me because i have a sparkly dress on and a big ass for a teenager… and if you think i am, then maybe you’re part of the problem.” When i saw read this, i was disgusted by the fact that grown men would be gawking over a 16 year old at her junior prom because her dress complimented her butt. Not only is this disrespectful, it’s disgusting. As men, they should know better than to be treating a young lady as a sexual object; that student could’ve been one of their child’s friends, how gross is that? This is teaching girls to feel uncomfortable in their own skin; we should all be proud of our

One click on High School Musical, one flip on Seventeen Magazine, and one walk at a school hallway are all it takes to make a student be aware of how hell it feels like to be stared at and insulted by the other students if he/she wears this humongous thick glasses, knee-high socks, and clothes repeated last week. Media has influenced a lot of today’s trends and ideologies. Adolescents, being on the psychological level of self-identification, bring this perspective of fashion and social classes at school. The problem comes when this trend affects the performance of students and their personal lives. No, this is not the media’s fault. It is the social discrimination in school done by the students themselves and the administrators not helping

I agree with few school dress code standards such as “less competition, pressure or other distractions from academics” and uniformity, though many public school districts take advantage of the authority they have over the young mindsets (OCadiz). While having influence over young minds, administrators have suppressed one group, allowing another group to have more freedom than ever. Discriminating against a young woman’s rights to express herself simply because she is a “distraction” is disconcerting. We often wonder why some men grow to be cruel to women, but have you ever thought this behavior could have been recognized while in their primary and secondary schooling? Administrators also argue that school is for learning and not expressing oneself, but where do children spend the majority of their time? If children can not express themselves in school, where else can they?

I don’t feel that students gang up in cliques based off of color to cause trouble. Most teens get in groups based off of being comfortable with each other. Another piece of information that I found bias information was about school uniforms. Just because you make students wear school uniforms doesn’t mean that it’s going to change students from being disrespecting each other. For one school uniforms come in all different brands so one student would have about seven two hundred dollar school shirts while another less fortunate student has two five dollar shirts. The less fortunate student can’t afford to wash his school shirts every time they get dirty so everyone knows when the shirts have been worn for more than two consecutive days. Also there is bias in wanting to have single sex classes meaning all boy or all girl classes. If you put all boys in one class that will soon cause a lot of hostility. Most guys try to impress females by putting them in an all-male class there will be many problems in establishing who is the more dominant male in the class. Going to school is something everyone should be able to do without anyone constantly picking on them for their

Chapter 25 discusses the United States and the Second World War from 1939-1945. The United States wanted to stay out of international affairs but the newly elected Roosevelt advocated for an active role in it. Though he wanted a role in this, his priority was to attack the domestic causes of the depression which appealed to many poor Americans who were suffering from the Great Depression and had just lost everything. During this time, fascist governments threatened military aggression and the rise of Hitler created a controversial and war-like atmosphere. Hitler had a goal to avenge the defeat of WW1 which lead to the accusations of Jews, and the eventual full-blown Holocaust. Neutrality acts were put into place during this time to prohibit the exchange of arms to nations during the war.

The right to have children is understood in very different ways and people’s ethics and values are put to the test each and everyday when they find out they not only must take care of themselves but the lives of another human being. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted this statement regarding the right to bear children “men and women of full age, without any limitations to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and found a family”[1]. This concept has been viewed in multiple ways and according to ethical theorists; they agree that no rights are absolute. However, it is said that for women at least, there is a fundamental privilege to have children. The right to

To separate [Black students] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

The American Public Health Association (APHA) is made up of 31 basic sections which represent key public health disciplines. Through these sections, members with mutual interests are able to combine efforts and develop scientific program content as well as policy papers in their areas of practice or areas where they are interested. In addition, these basic sections provide for social and professional networking, mentoring and career development. The sections are APHA’s key professional units and they help in promoting the mission and fulfilling the Association’s goals. Through these sections, a variety of opportunities for the involvement of the members, thus making a richer experience for the professionals who decide on interacting with the Association’s primary sections. In order to become an active member in this section, a person ought to be a current member of the Association and any professional who is already a member of the Association may become a section member (American Public Health

It is important to make sure the service user has finished because some people are slower eaters and others are maybe taking a breather and it is important to monitor the individual because they may not be consuming enough. Always ask if the individual has finished eating before taking the plate away because it could leave the resident hungry or thirsty this could upset or distress them.

Racism. It 's been going on for hundreds of years and is still going on in our everyday life, even if you can’t see it. Not long ago there was a movement around the African american community, the Civil Right’s Movement. The Civil Right’s Movement was the movement when African Americans fought for their freedom to be the same as white folks and have the same rights and be able to do the same thing than any other white person could do. Saying this, you could imagine what the schools would be like, Segregated. Schools all over the south and mainly the south were segregated. This pretty much means that one school in the community would be an all African american school while another school would be the same thing, just filled with all whites. Furthermore comes talking about the real life events of Melba Pattillo and her posse of nine. Melba Pattillo was a 15 year old girl when her state Governor said that Little Rock High School in Little Rock, Arkansas would be integrated. And saying this, leads us to the wonderful and true movie, “Remember The Titans” written by Gregory Allen Howard. This movie tells the story of a newly integrated high school football team. In Virginia, Alexandria the local school board had to integrate an all black

Have you ever been driving down the road and have something bad happen to you that you have to slam on the breaks? If you have, then maybe you can relate to the following commercial. Even if you have never had this happen to you, you still might be able to relate to it. The basic idea of the commercial is that no matter what happens in life, that you should always be prepared for what to do next.

There have been cases of parents here in this State having closed door parties for graduation and proms. Those parties caused a lot of controversy. The parents were there to supervise in most cases, but there were a couple of cases of no supervision. Those parents argued that as long as they were there to oversee what was going on, there shouldn’t have been such an outrage. Those that argued against it felt that they were being enablers.

The students ignored the rule for dress code, because they thought they were being sexist. “ High school boys wearing dresses strike a pose with big smiles on their faces. They know they’re breaking school rules, but they hope their gender-defying outfits will spark change”. A high school boy on a cheerleading team in Ohio was denied lunch in early February for wearing a bow in his hair. Boys at West High School in Columbus, Ohio, then wore bows in their hair to show their solidarity for him”. The students think that the school is telling the students what to wear even though they probably represent as a different gender. The world is changing so the students think that the school policies should too. “ With changing times, students are fighting to express their identity freely. Nineteen percent of the 7,800 students surveyed in middle and high school across the country said they were prevented from wearing clothing deemed, “inappropriate” based on their gender, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s 2013 National School Climate Survey, Teens are asking their schools to update policies to reflect the changing norms in society”. With the changing world the policies and dress code rules need to be updated to this world society. Girls ignored the rules for the dress code, because it was focusing more on girls and not teaching the boys

I think we should do more games to bond and not all be in our own bubbles. Yes, the games make everyone uncomfortable at first and sometimes we all get a little closer than we want to (knot game), but in the end I believe that games would help more with the division in the class. What I think also needs to be changed isn’t something a teacher can fix, but instead the students themselves have to fix personally. We have to step out of our own little world and see someone else’s point of view on things. When all the racial events happened and we would discuss them in class it always turned into a racial things. It ALWAYS turned into the white people vs. black people. That’s not how a leadership class should handle situations like that. We all need to listen and respect each others opinions on subjects like that. Of course not everyone is going to agree, but everyone’s opinion should be heard and nobody should be afraid to speak up about their opinion in fear of them just getting degraded for

When thinking of a controversial issue to write about many ideas had come to mind like the question of whether or not abortion is right, however, a discussion in class that had to do with whether or not the school dress code discriminated against females sparked my constant interest in gender equality. I have thus decided to write about how our school’s dress code is a blatant form of discrimination against women.