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Question

Can anyone give me some ideas i can do for Social Studies?? I have to do 2 current events every week. I don't know what to do!! It has to effect a lot of people. Can anyone help me please?!?!?!

Answer 1

seek out the key stories from the evening news. do one local and one international story. check google and yahoo in the news sections do a serious and a humorous. Humor will get you points to. we all need humour. What about the lady that lit her fart on fire with matches and they had to ground the plane.

Answer 2

Maybe you could do a paper on how woman roles have changed in our society. then maybe you could do another on the changes that has taken place in our educational system in the last 20 yrs, for example. You could do another on abuse (women, children) and the consicences. You might be able to do two papers on this suggestions. I hope this will help you.

Answer 3

I used to get my local news paper, pick out an article or two each day, then write about those...the front page is the best, because it is usually worldwide news.

Answer 4

Try finding a way to stop childhood trauma and child abuse.

Answer 5

I suggest you to do a study on the increasing numbers of cases related to 'Female Bullies'.Here's something to start with...

Girl Bullies

Most research about bullying has to do with boys, because boys are three times more likely to bully other children than girls. Since boys bully with physical intimidation that often leads to real fights with injuries, teachers and parents have traditionally been more concerned with it.

Recently, however, there’s been more recent interest in girls’ bullying. This is because girls are increasingly committing violent crimes, and because two high profile cases of female bullying made the news, the movies and the Oprah show.

Before 14-year-old Dawn Marie Wesley killed herself, she wrote a note that she was in despair because three girls were picking on her. These girls had to stand trial for criminal harassment, and one was convicted. Dawn’s story was made into a movie called “Rats and Bullies.”

In another case, this time in Long Island , New York , parents won an $11.2 million settlement against their daughter’s school, where she suffered permanent brain damage after female classmates beat her.

Two best sellers came out in 2003 about girls and bullying: Odd Girl Out and Queen Bees and Wannabes, which was made into a movie called “Mean Girls.”

These books and a lot of new research back up the common sense notion that girls rarely bully each other physically. Their weapons of choice are words, gossip, and exclusion from cliques. Girls bully verbally in groups; boys bully physically and one on one. As expert Charol Shakeshaft writes, “Boys bully in your face. Girls bully behind your back.”

However, what’s new in the research is the knowledge that the damage girls inflict can be deep and long-term. As author Rachel Simmons writes, a woman may not remember her wedding night but she’ll remember every detail about the popular girl who tortured her.

Most girls have a “best friend” with whom they share their most intimate secrets. These one-on-one friendships (called dyads by researchers) are intense and exclusive. A girl will guard her dyad against any girl who “tries to take my friend away.” The good thing is that girls learn to share, support and nurture each other within such deep friendships. Many medical experts believe that may be a reason why women outlive men.

The negative aspect is that as girls try to live up to their role as nurturers, they can only express aggression indirectly. As Simmons writes: “Most of the behaviors mapped out in my book-nonverbal gesturing, ganging up, behind-the-back talking, rumor spreading, the Survivor-like exiling of cliques, note passing, the silent treatment, nice-in-private and mean-in-public friends-are fueled by the lack of face-to-face confrontations.”

Dyads usually operate within female cliques that do the actual bullying and exclude girls to maintain their social status. The leader of the clique or “Queen Bee” is often constantly on the phone or Internet, communicating gossip and other information about the girls in her clique and outsiders to order to maintain her status. When a dyad within a clique breaks up, one friend will use her intimate knowledge of the other to hurt her former friend within the clique.

By the way, although the “Queen Bee” appears to be popular and admired by other girls, the truth is that she is often lost inside and has a poor sense of self, because her day is spent living up to others’ expectations of her.

In co-ed schools, most students and school staffers are more concerned about boys bullying girls, rather than girls picking on other girls. Research by Shannon Casey-Cannon indicates that half of all girls say they are bullied, with boys doing the bullying two-thirds of the time.

Often boys bully girls right in front of teachers, who usually only discipline the bullies who use physical aggression. In their very sad research called “Boys Call Me Cow,” professors studied 1000 middle to high school students in Long Island, New York, over the course of three years. They found that girls who matured early had to put up with boys making mooing sounds and comments like “You make me hard” repeated many times over one school day. Boys picked on unattractive, unstylish and fat girls in particular, often calling them names like “cow” or “dog” to their faces.

In co-ed settings the dominant social group is male, and girls form cliques to maintain alliances of power that enable them to attract male attention. They exclude girls considered unattractive by boys. In a Canadian study called “Understanding Aggressive Girls,” professors at the University of Victoria found that the most violent females in the cliques –the biggest female bullies-- have the lowest sense of the value of females. They seek validation through men but do not compete with them. Contrary to the common sense notion that female violence and bullying is an expression of feminism, the Canadian study indicates just the opposite.