Thursday, May 17, 2007

Annotations 10

"Virgin Territory". Camille Hahn. Ms. Arlington. Fall 2004. Vol. 12, Iss. 3; pg. 54, 3 pgs. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=709147011&sid=5&Fmt=4&clientld=35494&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

This document is a synopsis of a book written in the early 1980s that was made when the conservative ideas and "family values" was important. It talks about the concerns of the political side of sexual education, also. President Bush decided to up the support for the teaching of abstinence. And the such. Overall, this article is about abstinence.

Annotations 9

"Talking About Sex Education: New Generation Of Parents Still Tongue-Tied About Sex". John Richardson. Maine Telegram. May 14,1995. Pp. 1C+. May 7, 1995. http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0059-0-8930&artno=0000013772&t....

This article starts off by discussing how relatives were the way people normally find out what sex is and how they learn about it. Parents find this hard to do, though. This article is basically saying that because of this, teens have no choice but to turn to other places, mainly school, for this information. The majorities of polls done in 1993's national survey show us that teens between 12 and 17 learn from media, school, and other teens before they hear from their parents. There are good arguments as to why the school is good for the educational purposes of sex. There are also strong arguments towards school not being an appropriate place to learn because they are failing to do their job, before they even start. There are arguments towards the importance of marriage as well as abstinence. It is strongly argued throughout this entire article that school replaces the gap that parents and other figures and role models make when they don't talk to their teens about sex.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Outline

INTRODUCTION
- attention getting device:Q&A quote from "About:" station.
- preview of main points:Article on Christians' view on sexual sin. Parent's view on sex ed in school. polls and surveys done on sex issues...
- transition to thesis statement/main question or point of the paper:Does sexual education help or harm students. is it effective? is it working?

BODY
- FIRST PARAGRAPH
- topic sentence about one side of the issue:What constitute as sexual sin? What counts as sex?
- research and quotations from sources to prove the topic sentence is correct: answer to attention getter from intro. Use authors examples. Use Bible topics. use other articles used to research this paper.

- SECOND PARAGRAPH
- topic sentence about one side of the issue: Majority of parents would prefer teaching abstinence
- research and quotations from sources to prove the topic sentence is correct: not only teaching abstinence, but what sex is. and the love, commitment and etc. attached to it. Expand from article. and how they think it should be taught more in depth and give contradictory article opinions and examples.


- THIRD PARAGRAPH
- topic sentence about the other side of the issue: People are not for sex ed because they think there is no difference.
- research and quotations from sources to prove the topic sentence is correct: use the articles I've decided are against sex ed.

- FOURTH PARAGRAPH
- topic sentence about the other side of the issue: start with attention grabber here with a poll research statistic that is shocking.
- research and quotations from sources to prove the topic sentence is correct: Get into how condom use and sexual partners are related.

- FIFTH PARAGRAPH
- topic sentence stating your position on the issue: I am for more sexual education.
- reasons and research that say why you chose this standpoint: There is more proof of it being better and decreasing STD's and the such based off of research.

CONCLUSION
- Re-state thesis: Does sexual education help or harm students. is it effective? is it working?
- Review main points:Article on Christians' view on sexual sin. Parent's view on sex ed in school. polls and surveys done on sex issues...
- Use an attention-getting device to send the reader off in a thought-provoking manner: Just think... how would sexual education have effected YOUR life?.....

In addition, you will need 8-10 sources (minimum 3 SIRS, 3 ProQuest, 1 Internet, 1 Wild Card) and those sources need to be put in MLA style for a Works Cited page that is made into an annotated bibliography.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Annotations 8

"'All These Contraceptives, Videos and That...': Young People Talking About School Sex Education". Alison Woodcock, Karen Stenner, and Roger Ingham. Health Education Research, Vol. 7, No. 4, 517-531, 1992. Oxford University Press. http://her.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/4/517.

In this article it is talking about how sexual education comes too late for teenagers before they've already had their first sexual encounter. Media and peers pressure kids to experience sex earlier than they should be learning about it. Some kids are embarrassed through peer pressure if they haven't done something sexual by age 12. Overall, this article is about how students are pressured into sex at a younger age.

Annotations 7

"Where AIDS Galloped, Lessons in Applying the Reins". Dugger, Celia W. New York Times. May 18, 2006. P. A4. http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0059-0-8930&artno=0000248471&t.

This article starts out by explaining the current issues of HIV and AIDS and the expenses and numbers and percentages in Africa. But, as the article goes on it compares them to the United States. This article highlights the age limits a little more. Under standards here in America, schools can fund programs that educate students 14 and younger. Condom education is not added until 15 years old. This article is also showing that condoms are being less emphasized now than abstinence as a topic of safer health. And because of this, African studies are made better through ours and more effective.

Annotations 6

"Correlates of Condom Use and Number of Sexual Partners Among High School Adolescents". PubMed. February 1993. Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health, Columbia, SC. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=84

This article talks about the use of condoms and the number of sexual partners among teenagers. Right off it states that there is an obvious pattern that there is less condom use and more sex partners. This is most commonly found in White students. And yet again there were surveys made to show the evidence that the sexual activity was a majority of teenagers and the majority of those teens don't use protection. There were many categories and statistics that showed that they affect the teens' sex choices. There is an overall suggestion at the end for focusing more on a teenagers mental and emotional health.

Annotations 5

"Study: Abstinence Classes Don't Stop Sex". Freking, Kevin. Ithaca Journal. Ithaco, New York. April 14, 2007. or according to the page: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/impactabstinence.pdf.

In this article you will find many arguements backed up with statistics. Overall the article is stating that you cannot determine whether there is evidence of that sexual abstinence grew or whether it caused more unsafe sex. The author makes it clear that there is no evidence by stating several issues that have different factor to it to determine it as a whole. For example, the survey used in this experiment was whether the program used affected teens for less and/or protected sex more or not. Some studies showed that it did, but they were in different circumstances. But it also stated results being the same between small town and big cities. There were also the different types of programs that could have been in effect.