As a result of economic globalization and the movement of people across borders, most countries are multilingual and multicultural to some extent. Political and economic interactions between language groups in the boardroom, the city council meeting, and over the Internet impose new demands and opportunities for high school students entering the workforce. Students lose out when schools fail to see the urgency of mastering a second language.
According to the Center on Addiction and the Family, approximately one in every four children in the United States is exposed to familial alcohol abuse or dependence before they reach the age of 18. This problem affects their school performance, social success, rate of college attendance, self esteem and general mental health. Not enough is being done to protect children who live in these circumstances.
The performance of students with bad or ineffective teachers can be negatively affected for years, and even worse, their interest in learning can be stifled. Negative performance evaluations of tenured teachers are rare, and the cost of firing a tenured teacher is a significant deterrent for school boards. Students should not pay the price for bad teachers.
Bad teachers, family problems, peer pressure, lack of encouragement and other negative influences can take their toll on a child's education. Younger children may not have enough awareness to see how these factors are affecting the quality of their education, and certainly do not have the power to turn things around. But older students can find the encouragement and guidance through mentors, spend more time hitting the books and doing self-directed research, avoid the influences of negative peer pressure and stay away from drugs and alcohol. Students can learn how to become independent learners by embracing positive influences and opportunities.
Before people can root out the negative effects of intolerance in their school, community, or social networks, they must start with rooting it out in themselves. If individuals find it difficult to self-identify areas where they are intolerant, they can ask close friends and family, work mates, teachers and even people they may have offended in the past to help them see areas for improvement. Feelings of intolerance come from somewhere. Sometimes tracing their origins helps the individual to make a decision not to carry them forward.
In selecting a topic, it's a useful exercise to write down two supporting points for each of the six parts of an oratorical speech: Introduction (hook, importance and relevance); Problem (nature of the risk, threat or impending danger, people affected); Cause (origin of the problem, causal factors); Effect (negative effects); Solution (your innovative ideas and their merits); and Conclusion (restatement, urging change and memorable closing statement).