Parents have a great deal of influence on their children. ... Parental support, influence, rules, and set expectations in the life of a child are a must, in order for that child to get off on the right track. ... Influence in the right direction is always positive for learning children. If a child finds something that interests them, it cannot hurt for parents to influence them to continue at that interest. ... As long as there is not too much influence, the child should continue to excel at the interest and progress towards something higher. ...

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In college, there were College English Test band 4 and band 6 for students, and this grade influence on their college degree. ... Nowadays, more and more parents prefer to send their kids to west countries, like the United States, Canada and etc. Because of that, parents were paying a lot attention on their kids' English skill. Parents also send their kids to some afterschool English classes to help the kids build their English skill. ... The history of English China also influence on China society which is English become a required skill for multinational corporations, and Chinese people...

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Not only violence can lead to negative actions as kids, watching sex at an early age may influence one to engage in sex at an early age. ... Television is not the only source to blame; actions that are seen around the household can lead to bad influences. ...

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The problem with television is that while we watch it, we forget to socialize with other people; it can have an influence on us, by making un more aggressive or even have a change on our physical, because it can increase the chances of someone becoming obese; and definitely, it makes us procrastinate. ... Television can actually make kids have poor social skills as they grow. ... Here we can see how TV clearly affects social skills of kids. ... Other negative aspect of watching television is that young ones may be so influenced by it; they could start having poor academic results. ... Parents ...

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The Influence of Rap Music Rap music has many negative influences in our culture and society today. ... The criterion to bad rap music is explicit lyrics and negative influences on the youth today. ... When kids see their role models in these acts they copy and try to impersonate the rapper. ... This line influences fans of Cypress Hill to smoke marijuana. ... These are some of the role models in today's society; this is what the kids today have to look up to. ...

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Piggy influenced Ralph to become a good leader. ... Piggy influenced Ralph that the only way to survive on the island is to work together, help each other out. ... When the kids first got on the island they were scared all over, and that's when Piggy and Ralph used the conch shell they found as a horn to check if there was anybody else on the island and soon enough kids started coming out of the forest and running onto the beach towards Piggy and Ralph. ... Jack also tried to make the kids believe that "Ralph is a coward and that if you wanted to survive on this island you should join my...

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Thomas Edison was a big influence on me when I was a kid and is still a big influence on me nowadays. ... I always felt that I wasn't as smart as the other kids, and when I would mess up in front of the class they would laughed at me. But over time it became clear to me that I didn't want to be like all the other kids. ... As a kid I loved to take things apart and put them back together just so I could see how it worked. ... Thomas Edison became even more of an influence on me in my middle school to high school years, when I learned more about him while I did a projects on him. ...

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These kids all at one point fell under the categories of at risk youths. ... There are situations where entire communities have a poor out look at school and this in return influences the children. ... Ron Edmonds started the Effective School System to help disadvantaged kids based on his motto, "all children can learn." ... In addition to this, kids at risk may be those who have a difficult temperament as a child, or childhood depression. ... During the high school years, High school academies where formed to help kids keep up with the rest of their age gro...

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Influence of the Media In today's society parents are not held responsible for raising their children. ... Parents have a lot more influence on their children than the media. ... I believe if you raise a child in this way, then the media won't influence them. ... When their children are a little older the parents think the kids can watch whatever they want, but too much of anything is never good. ... I think that the influence of education and parenting is what matters most. ...

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What influences viewers are the references to fire. ... When cops arrived and asked the kids what they were doing, a teen replied, "They were playing Jackass." ... The sixteen year-old who was supposed to jump over the car, but didn't and was hit, broke both of his legs (""Jackass" Kids"). ... Another show that greatly influenced a young boy was Beavis and Butt-Head. ... In conclusion, there have been many TV shows that have influenced viewers. ...

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"What you see is (influence of media)" In the United States, the media has a great amount of influence over human sexuality. ... On the opposite side, the media also influences how we see ourselves. ... The negative effect this media influence has on us comes in the form of self-imaging. ... (I always wondered how they managed to have kids. ... Though there are many more outlets the media has for influencing our views, their use of this power cannot be denied. ...

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High School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? ... In society today, high school sports have a great influence on the future of students, whether they will or where they go to college. This influence may seem good at the time but later turns into a bad influence, which could end in the student dropping out of school. ... Pressure from parents and siblings cause kids to overexert themselves and injure themselves because of their parents wanting to win more than their kids. ... This rate jumps to ten to fourteen percent when kids hit middle school, which can have the most influence on the chi...

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"The Influence of Music upon Society" Contents: Introduction .. ... So, there's no problem in assuming that our present adult society is built with some of the ideas formed in these early years of modern music (the fifties & sixties to be exact); and that the future adult society will be influenced by the different views of the present teenage society. ... When bands like Led Zeppelin & Jimi Hendrix emerged, even though it wasn't their intention to influence young people to use chemicals or drink tons of alcohol, eventually their...

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Anthony Brandt: Do Kids Need Religion? ... They don't want to force religion on their kids but at the same time don't want to hold them back from it if it is something they wish to pursue. ... What they choose to do with it cannot be influenced by anyone. ...

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In Prussia, school was forced upon kids and was supposedly intentionally made to make sure kids could never grow up. ... Despite the amount of school kids are required to attend each year, the kids say that they are mainly trying to get good grades and not trying to learn the material taught. ... He believes the government wants everyone to learn the same curriculum and wants to control what a student does by influencing his or her choice making. ... School's today have bus systems in place for kids who cannot afford transportation to school or for kids who are not able to get to school ...

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Parents prefer to feed their kids with fast food when they are too busy to cook. ... American fast food has also influenced many different cultures throughout the world. ... Children in China who uptake fast food for a long time can get fatter than kids who don't eat fast food, and it is easy for those kids to face health issues such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, liver disease and asthma. ... This brings a problem which might be considered a lot after those kids get older, that is would Chinese food culture exists in the future since so many kids are "westernized"? ... Fast...

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Advertising influences me and people I know by using bribery, simple solutions, and bandwagon techniques. Bribery is a small factor of how advertising influences me. ... Another factor that influences me and people I know is simple solutions. ... A very big factor on how advertising influences me is the advertising technique bandwagon. ... This is a big factor that influences me because if I see the "popular" group of kids in school wearing something that I don't have it makes me want to buy it. ...

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How historically accurate is the film "Swing Kids" in its portrayal of the actual "Swing Kids" and other elements of Nazi youth? Although Hitler and his Nazi party enforced great control over the German population during World War 2, there were still isolated groups who could not be swayed by the Nazis fearful influence. ... As a result the clothing aspect of the film "Swing Kids" is very historically accurate in its portrayal of Swing Kids and other elements Nazi Youth The behaviour of the Swing Kids in the film "Swing Kids" is not very historically accurate in its portrayal of Swing ...

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Parental reading habits have a major influence on reading habits of children. ... The home environment is an vital setting for the accomplishment of education information since kids have extraordinary proficiency opportunities at home such as observing literacy activities of family members. ... I think that had a huge influence on me growing up. That's probably the reason I had so many books as a kid. ...

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Sports figures can be a positive influence, as kids try to perfect their skills and abilities to be more like them. Characters in the movies however, tend to influence kids to follow their footsteps in an attempt to do the impossible. ... These kids are often called "the teacher's pet". ... The movie had influenced kids to be just like them and to race their cars on cities streets that they see in the movies. ... Movies such as these influence kids in the wrong way, they make doing the thing look cool and dangerous. " kids underestimate their vulnerability to harm-(Panzarine p. 90). ...

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Take a lot of horny, inexperienced kids, put them onto some campus far removed from their parents, strip away all responsibility; nothing else would be on the brain but a lot of sex. ... Nowadays, these kids are coming into college with a lot more sexual experience than they did along time ago. ... And often it's the students being under the influence of either drugs or alcohol, sometimes without condoms or any other form of protection. ...

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Currently, television commercials are filled with advertisements and clever ideas to influence children. ... Advertising is clever in the way it draws children in, but it also brainwashes kid's minds. ... It is smart to influence kids at a young age to desire these items; it makes businesses successful, but it is unethical because they are not mature enough to understand the purpose of money. ... Children see commercials with happy and enjoyable kids that influence them. ... Parents are feeling pain seeing their kids being targeted by advertisers. ...

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She draws on the fact that everyone, no matter if traditionally or spontaneously done, has some form of cruelty or unfairness within themselves and also how society influences the action of out children. ... Finally Jackson showed how society influences the behavior of our children. ... They tell the kids to go ahead and begin the stoning so that they may collect stones. The older kids even involve a little boy who may be no older than five, by passing him stones to throw. The influence of society on the kids is not a good one because it encourages the kids to grow up and remain unfair, cruel...

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Joe men influence gender specific roles in kids. ... In my opinion I don't think toys influence these gender specific roles in children. Although I can see how some kids may see these toys as role models. ... These were the actual people I think who influenced me. ... I feel as though the kids are maybe somewhat pressured to act a certain way. ...

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Mostly influenced by big companies and the media, young people have begun to fall under the influence of television and junk-food more than their own parents. ... Parents usually encourage kids to be mature and to think for themselves, but this article shows how television programs put ideas into kids' heads about how they should live. ... When Brian had "questions about sex " he looked to "an episode of Baywatch to answer them all. " Television programs have a big influence on children and the article criticizes how the media encourages kids to have a bad lifestyle. ... This article also...

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