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- 1041: The Bell Jar
- ... work she wanted to do. Therefore, Esther did not have the self assurance to fulfill her aspirations in life. Esther had submitted an essay in order to get into a writing course at a particular college. "... you didn't make that writing course... I had expected it." (Sylvia Plath page 93) After finding out that she had not made the writing course, Esther thought to herself; that even before entering the essay, she knew she would not make the course. Proving that even before entering her essay for the college, she had no confidence in being accepted. After building confidence within herself, Esther decided to write an autobiography using herself as the heroine but she felt that she could not write a novel based on ...
- 1042: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... equilibrium" theory (a.k.a. the "hopeful monster" theory) that there were sudden massive genetic changes which produced new species. Indeed, some fossils thought to be transitional have been proven otherwise. When I was in college we were taught that man evolved from Australopithecus. Now, if the Leakeys are to be believed, we find that Australopithecus and Homo were alive at the same time. The January 1998 issue of Scientific American ... it does not change them. The book even shares another little secret of evolution: "Evolutionists are forever dividing and subdividing into schismatic sects." (231). This is what began to make me personally doubt evolution in college. The Anthropology, Biology, and Sociology classes all taught it, but they didn't agree on much and even criticized the others' interpretation of it. There was no common ground except a materialist bias. It did ...
- 1043: Emily Dickinson 4
- ... was a grand figure in Amherst. In his letters, he comes across as a remarkably ambitious man a typical success-oriented, work-oriented citizen of expansionist America, in Richard Sewall s characterization. Educated at Amherst College and Yale, he soon became the leading lawyer in town. For thirty-seven years he was the treasurer of the college that his father helped establish in 1821. Besides this, Edward had accomplished much success in his life but biographers of Emily s life believe that he paid for his public success through his emotional destitution ...
- 1044: Oscar Wilde
- ... As a youngster, Wilde was exposed to the brilliant literary talk of the day at his mother's Dublin salon. In 1864 Wilde entered the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen, and in 1871 entered Trinity College in Dublin. In 1874 he left Ireland and went to England to attend Magdalen College at Oxford. As a student there, he excelled in classics, wrote poetry, and incorporated the Bohemian life style of his youth into a unique way of life. He came under the influence of aesthetic innovators ...
- 1045: Basketball
- ... of the ball must shoot within a certain time period: 24 seconds in professional games. History Basketball was invented by James Naismith, a Canadian, who was a physical education instructor at what is now Springfield College (Massachusetts). The first game was played 1891, and the first formal rules were set out 1892. It rapidly became popular, especially in the E USA, and the first college and professional games were played before 1900. Today, the premier professional league is the National Basketball Association (NBA), formed 1949. Perhaps the most famous professional team is the Harlem Globetrotters, an independent team founded 1927 ...
- 1046: Isaac Asimov
- ... places where Asimov began to learn about printing. Also it was here that Asimov learned good business and self-discipline skills (Bloom, 251). Asimov attended school and was a very bright student. He went to college at Columbia University. He graduated from there with his master’s degree in Chemistry in 1941. His career was cut short though because in 1942 he moved to Philadelphia Naval Yard to work for the ... societies, which Asimov belonged to that influenced some of his stories (10). At the young age of eleven years old Asimov began writing. With his first attempt at writing he began The Greenville Chums at College. This was a story based on the lives of 3 young boys living in a small town. At first Asimov gave up writing, for he did not think he knew what he was doing. However ...
- 1047: The Drinking Age
- ... of its “mystique” among young people. We can not necessarily expect kids to learn to drink responsibly on their twenty-first birthday. They have a tendency to act like kids in a candy store. Most college students who drink binge drink. It seems to be because they have not had any exposure to it or if they have had any it has been very slight. It seems to be that they ... lost time. For most drinking is not the problem, but drinking excessively is. Another upside to this matter is that doctors are now saying that moderate alcohol intake is good for the heart. Fact: American college students drink excessively. Fact: Most drinkers are underage. Fiction: Drinking age laws prevent adolescents form drinking. The bottom line is that exposure works. Not just things like exposure and education make this issue stronger, but ...
- 1048: Death Of A Salesmen
- Through the character Charley, Arthur Miller illustrates how the American Dream may be achieved through hard work. To Charley, the American Dream is having a comfortable life and putting his son Bernard through college. Charely worked consistently throughout his life, never trying to shoot for too high hopes. Because of this, Charley later in life, had a steady enough income to live comfortably and put his son through college. He even had money to spare so that he could loan it to the needing Willy Loman. Charley placed good ethics on Bernard, like working hard to become successful. By the later part of Charley ...
- 1049: How To Play Asshole
- To all you incoming college freshman that don’t want to make a fool of yourself at college parties, learn this drinking game. Perhaps the King of all drinking games, Asshole is a true American classic. Asshole is a game that tests one’s ability to concentrate, as well as one’s threshold ...
- 1050: Robert Frost: Biography and Review
- ... only eleven Frost’s father passed away. Soon after his death the family left California to settle in Massachusetts. As young Frost grew-up he attended high school in that state, later would enter Dartmouth College, but would remain there less that one semester. Later he returned to Massachusetts where he would be a school teacher along with two other jobs he held as a mill worker and a newspaper reporter. Then in 1895 Frost married Elinor White whom he had been co-valedictorians with in high school. Then between 1897 and 1899 Frost felt the need to go back to college he attended Harvard as a special student only to leave without a degree. Over the next ten years he would write more poetry. Frost would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire ...
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