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The science and engineering professors' job is to educate. They are placed in the position of authority and told to educate the people. The people, are the students of the University of Rhode Island. When the school is broken down by gender I imagine that there equal if not greater numbers of females than males. But when the individual colleges are examined there are great imbalances.
Is it their fault that there are not that many females/males in there section? No. They are not to blame, but can they do something about it? Yes. The point that they take is that it is because of the education or lack of education at younger ages that is at fault and should be looked at. True that could be a reason, but is turning your back going to help? No.
I believe that they are correct to say that the practices that went on in primary schools when today's college students were there did not promote women in these fields. It may have changed since then, but today's females have either no interest in these fields or are not capable of entering them. I know that they (females) can do the work but there may be glass walls preventing them from entering.
I don't believe that it is a 'fruitless' effort to engage in a way that would promote women in these fields. Since I have been in college I have change my major 3 times. Most of my friends have ...
Music is prominent in adolescent lives: teenagers spend between 4 and 5 hours a day listening to music and watching music videos 1 and name music listening as their preferred non-school activity. 2 Therefore, it is not surprising that government officials, researchers and parents alike are concerned about the impact of music on tee...
In the world today there are many things that we may call an injustice, but few realize that it exists in most homes. This can be said because ignorance hurts those around you and even one's self. One of the biggest problems that humans have is that if something becomes routine than it also generally accepted. This in turn leaves what can be pot...
All of us, at one time or another, have felt unsure of ourselves, feared rejection, and have felt disconnected from everything, including ourselves. However, adopted persons are faced with an even tougher problem that sets them apart from everyone else - they were raised by an adopted family. can cause feelings of rejection, despair, and extreme l...
I believe that is a terrible thing to do and will hurt you in the long run. When you cheat on a homework assignment, quiz, or test, you are only yourself. You should be honorable enough to take a bad grade and admit that you don't know everything. When you cheat in school, you are just getting by, you aren't actually learning. Later in life,...
We see them as a crowd, a collective entity; we call them the homeless, as if that defines who they are, but we neglect to add the unspoken word in that title: people. People whom with social disabilities or financial problems usually will be abandoned by the society and become homelessness along the streets. ?During the past year...
