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Sex Education Types Essay Draft #1

2010-10-14T21:34:00.001-07:00

ESLF 080-03

Instructor: Corey Muench

Altug Ozturk

Draft #1

Thesis Statement: There are three types of sex education which are taught to students in the USA: Abstinence-Only (AO), Abstinence-Plus (A+) and Comprehensive (COMP). Of these, Comprehensive education provides the most information and that is why it is more convenient to teach to students.

Two of the three sex education types are abstinence-based (AB): Abstinence-Only (AO), Abstinence-Plus (A+). Both of the programs teach students to say no to sex until marriage because of religious beliefs. AO programs are usually run by the conservative organizations and A+ by liberal organizations. AO doesn’t teach about contraception. In fact, they teach more of the negative side of contraception. This results in students not believing in condom usage or not knowing how to use them and possibly getting a sexually transmitted disease or having a child while still being a teenager. On the other hand, A+ teaches students how contraception works. That is the major difference between AO and A+. The reason why AO doesn’t teach about contraception is because AO supporters think that it sends a mixed message. Telling students not to engage in sexual intercourse and to teach them how to protect themselves if they do so, is a bad idea for the AO supporters. Although both programs teach differently about contraception, the main idea is abstinence from sex. Both programs usually ask students to take a “virginity pledge”, to promise themselves not to have sex until marriage.

Other than AB programs, another type of sex education program is comprehensive sex education. Different than AO and A+ it is a non-religious program. To teach the description of comprehensive sex education, most schools use hands on experience. That is because COMP education includes teaching the process on how to use a condom all the way to how to use birth control. One of the reasons why it is different from Abstinence-based programs is that COMP does not tell students that abstinence is the only way. COMP teaches that waiting to be sexually active is a good thing to do, but it also leaves the choice to the students. Learning about contraception and knowing what could be the consequences plays a big role in the program. Because students get to learn everything about sex, they become more open minded about sex. Usually the students who learn COMP education are more likely to wait until marriage than the ones who learn abstinence-based programs.

There are several errors about the Abstinence-only program: meagre amounts of information about contraception and defective virginity pledges. Students who learn AO usually get negative or no information about contraception. That makes every thing harder for the students to maintain their physical health. If a student doesn’t know much about how to use a condom or to use birth control, what are they going to do when they find themselves in the situation? Perhaps they will not use contraception and have an unintended pregnancy or STD. Moreover, this is what usually happens with the teenagers who learn AO. Teachers tell the students to take virginity pledges and sooner or later most of the students break their promises. What happens next is clueless students have to face the consequences. These results often happen and that is because of the strict religious ideology. AO supporters do not believe that it is okay to have sex before marriage, but they do not include the chance of a student being involved with sexual intercourse. The worst part is students are forced to take pledges and they often break the promise. This situation is like the forbidden fruit story. God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, but they disobey god and eat the fruit. If a person is forced not to do something there is a big chance that the person will do it.

On the other hand, comprehensive sex education is more enlightening. It provides plenty of information about contraception. COMP teachers show students how to use a condom, how to take birth control and even how to say no to an inquiry about sex. Students are excited to learn about sex because it has always been an awkward thing to talk about. Even still, in some cultures it is a weird topic to discuss. Students like the idea of learning about contraception because it is useful. Some students can’t talk to their parents or friends about it. After learning in class, it gives them the courage to explore and know what sex is all about and how to be aware of the dangers of it. COMP education teachers also say that it is good to wait until marriage but it is the student’s choice. That makes everything even easier for both sides. Students learn what they should do in various types of situations and can make the choices for themselves. COMP teachers teach what they should and they see the outcome being very healthy, physically and mentally. This is why COMP education is more effective than AB programs and is more popular to teach in schools.

Unknown True Facts!!!

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Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.

The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain.

The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.

Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.

Some Useful Quotations!

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*You can buy the physical beauty but you can't afford to buy inner beauty!
Alvaro Luis Figo

*Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Jason Mcgovern

*Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.

Christian Morgenstern

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison S. Marden

Emotions are naught to be tormented, for they can kill a person in more ways than one.

David Garrison

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

Example is always more effacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Ingersoll

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James ['Principles of Psychology', 1890]

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley 1928

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Thoms Hobbes ['Leviathan', 1651]

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse ['Demian', 1919]

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.

William Heisenberg

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Napoleon Hill

Patience and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

George Allen

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

Tom J. Connelly

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.

C.C. Colton

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.

Benjamin Franklin

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Goethe

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William M. Thackeray

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Kahlil Gibran

50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE

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1. Set foot on each of the seven continents. Antarctica might be a tough one, but once you’ve reached all seven you can truly call yourself a world traveler.

2. Cross a country on a bicycle. A bicycle tour takes some planning, but it beats being separated from a country though a passenger-side window.

3. Ride something bigger than a horse. Trekking through the jungle on the back of a two story tall elephant will surely be something you remember forever.

4. Live like a local for a month. The experience of visiting native peoples will give you way more insight into another way of life than two years hopping from one backpacker ghetto to the next.

5. Visit a “real” blues bar in Chicago. What better way to leave music’s commercialism behind and find the soul of the blues?

6. Learn another language. This is definitely a weighty and time-consuming proposition, but there are plenty of resources out there to ease the process.

7. Go heli-skiing. The access to snow and terrain via heli is different (read: better) that anything else you’ll ever experience.

8. Travel India by train. With its extensive rail network, this mode of transport is the best way to see one of the world’s most colorful and diverse countries.

9. Climb one of the world’s Seven Summits. Climbing mountains is not for the faint-hearted, but everyone has had a dream of standing atop one.

10. Dive with a whale shark. Swimming with these gentle giants is among the most powerful wilderness experiences in the world.

11. Participate in a Carnival parade in Brazil. You haven’t had a good night out until you’ve been to the biggest party in a nation of big parties.

12. Dance Tango in Argentina.

13. Surf. It’s not about being a ripper but just catching waves.

14. SCUBA in the Great Barrier Reef. The largest coral reef in the world is a must for dive enthusiasts. It is the world’s most unique aquatic environment.

15. Publish an article about your travels. Part of traveling is sharing your experiences with others. Plus, getting published might be easier than you think.

16. Volunteer abroad for a month.

17. Follow in the footsteps of your favorite travel book. What better guide than a book that inspired you to travel in the first place?

18. Take a bush plane ride into Africa’s interior. These lightly visited regionsare filled with unique cultures and diverse wildlife.

19. Cross a glacier on foot. Traversing these fast-disappearing natural wonders isan adventure that future generations might not be able to experience.

20. Visit the source of one of the world’s great rivers. Great rivers, like the Nile, have humble beginnings.

21. Climb an active volcano.

22. Buy a boat and learn to sail. Before the Brothers Wright, everyone traveled by wind power. It’s still the most sustainable way to travel there is.

23. Follow your food from field to table. Most people in the world still eat what they have picked with their own hands. Why not get back to these basics?

24. Bathe in the Ganges. What better way to experience the spiritual heart of India?

25. Travel around the world. Sure, you could do this without ever setting foot outside of planes and airports, but few people ever truly traverse the entire globe. Round the world ticketsare great for budget-minded wanderers.

26. Photograph an endangered species. Aside from an image you can keep for a lifetime, it will remind you, and others, how fragile life can be.

27. Participate in Burning Man . As they say: “Trying to explain Burning Man to someone who has never been is like trying to explain color to a blind person.”

28. Spend 24 hours alone in the jungle.

29. Learn how to make a national dish. What is the one and only thing that everyone has in common? Eating.

30. Teach English in a foreign country. Sure, it’s a way to fund your travels, but also the experience of a lifetime.

31. Attend a music festival in another country.

32. Cross a country using only public transportation. See a country the way most of its people do: from the window of a bus, train, or ferry.

33. Spend the night in a storied/historic hotel. You might not even have to leave town to experience a night of classic atmosphere.

34. Attend the Olympics. Whatever you say about the commercialism of the Olympic Games, they are one of the biggest events on the planet.

35. Meet your favorite (living) travel writer. They’ve inspired you; now thank them for it.

36. Travel to Germany to experience Love Parade. It’s one of the biggest festivals, attendance-wise, on the planet.

37. Partake in a Japanese Tea Ceremony. This timeless tradition is at the heart ofJapanese culture.

38. Join a caravan in the Sahara. See how people can thrive in one of the world’s harshest environments.

39. Go to Oktoberfest. The meeting of over 6 million beer afficionados and drinking song singers is one of the biggest parties in Europe.

40. Stand at the North or South Pole.

41. Be in the stands when two rival South American club teams play each other in soccer.Soccer (sorry, football) is a passion for most of the world’s population.

42. Visit the birthplace or gravesite of a cultural icon. Could be Che Guevara or Picasso or Levi Strauss or the guy who invented widgets; anyone you think is important.

43. Find your version of “The Beach.” One of the best travel books ever inspired a generation of backpackers. Why not find your own version of untouched paradise?

44. Enjoy a freshly rolled cigar in Cuba. Taste a hand rolled specialty close to its source.

45. Visit every capital city in Europe. The crowded continent is full of beautiful architecture and diverse cultures.

46. Watch an orchestral performance in Vienna.

47. Skydive. It is the ultimate thrill, unless you add a wingsuit, and actually fly.

48. Bike the Pacific Coast Highway.

49. Shake hands with someone who has truly changed a country.

50. Participate in the world’s biggest water fight during Thailand’s New Year’s festivities(Songkran).

The Venus Project

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The Venus Project

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth's ecosystems.

As you will see, The Venus Project is dedicated to confronting all of these problems by actively engaging in the research, development, and application of workable solutions. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=928740787902773398#

2010-04-02T14:13:00.000-07:00

Zeitgeist The Movie

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197#

Zeitgeist Addendum

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#

The links above refers to;

'Zeitgeist, The Movie' and 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' were created as Not-for-Profit expressions
to communicate what the author felt were highly important social understandings which
most humans are generally not aware of. The first film focuses on suppressed
historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while
also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue
their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation.