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    Educators need to be aware of contextual factors present in their school’s community in order to guide planning and implementation of their lessons. In this paper this author will evaluate the effect of some of these factors present in my host community, district and school. My host school was Timberland High School which is one of three high schools in the Wentzville School District located in St. Charles County, Missouri. The district serves a population of seventy-five thousand people from

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    Luthar, S. S., & Becker, B. E. (2002). Privileged but pressured? A study of affluent youth. Child Development, 73(5), 1593-1610. Luthar, S. S., & D'Avanzo, K. (1999). Contextual factors in substance use: A study of suburban and inner-city adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 11(04), 845-867. In one of the first empirical studies to examine the counterintuitive notion that affluent youth are more “at-risk” than normative populations for psychological maladjustment, Luthar and D’Avanzo (1999)

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    website has advertisements everywhere and on every page. The advertisements include formats such as billboard, filmstrip, portrait and slider. In addition, there are ads everywhere in between articles when you scroll down. The advertisements are all contextual advertisements and pertain to the fitness niche. There are also call to action buttons on the top of the website where the main ads are. The advertisements include everything from fat burners and protein powders to an instructional video series

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    My understanding of contextual considerations in To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, developed through the interactive oral as it shed light on other people's perspectives on the novel. My ideas were consolidated by what was said during the group discussion, however, there were also very different perspectives that I had not considered. Our group discussed a range of contextual considerations in the book, but the standout ones were historical and biographical. My understanding of what

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    According to Dror et al. (2006), contextual information is defined as, information that provides an understanding of the context of an event or issue. Contextual information unknowingly affects how opinions and perceptions are made; it is human nature to associate information with future perceptions, as a way to achieve a sense of security and predictability (Houck & Siegel, 2015). In forensic investigations, contextual information affects most areas of forensic science, from blood pattern analysis

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    I will apply the information drawn from this article in a church counseling scenario. The client signed the consents require to conduct the counseling session prior to beginning the first session. Intake: A fellow Christian (female) is seeking help due to a past traumatic experience of physical spousal abuse. As a consequence, succeeding relationships have failed due to client inability to trust and let go of her prior experience. The client has confessed that she has not been able to forgive her

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    The topic of sexual education has been controversial for a while now. There are many stances that are taken to defend the course of education, but there are also many positions that are completely opposed to this idea. One side of the spectrum simply doesn’t trust anybody to teach their children about this act. There lays an authoritative issue underneath the opinion of not allowing a professional teacher to inform their children of what would happen if one were to partake in this sexual activity

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    Contextual Information on Asexuality Asexuality has been an elusive and intriguing subject in American society. Dr. Alfred Kinsey published reports on human sexuality where “category X” was mentioned (Asexual History, 2015). This category was used to describe individuals with a lack of sexual relationships and reactions (Asexual History 2015). In 1979, Michael Storms came up with a model of erotic orientation and this model included asexuality (Asexual History, 2015). Paula Nurius published a study

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    This interactive oral touched on a number of different topics that helped further my cultural and contextual understanding of The Thief and the Dogs. Although all of the topics discussed by this group connected to the novel, I found the most connections within the topic explaining the Egyptian views on marriages and divorce in the 1950s. I learned that Egyptian laws tend to discriminate against women in terms of divorce and adultery. However, women are allowed to divorce their husbands so long as

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    1.1.1: Community, District, School Contextual Factors That Influence Instruction a. One community factor I would address is the diversity. In the contextual factors chart I reported that the area of these students come from are not diverse at all and is predominantly white. My chart state that there are 85% white that attend this school. To teach my classroom about diversity I will use this knowledge to have some lessons about diversity. Since they are preschoolers it will not be as easy getting

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