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- 1051: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... York. They became involved in anti-slavery activities and held meetings in their house. At this time no medical school had ever accepted a female student, in fact no women had ever been except into college. But Elizabeth set her mind on changing this; she was going to be a doctor. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and within a few months of moving their Mr. Blackwell had died. Then one ... years Elizabeth continued to teach and study books about medicine and at the same time she applied for one medical school after another. Then in October 1847 she received an acceptance letter from Geneva Medical College in New York State. She was very proud of herself. She was able to do it; she reached her goal. The next months and years were the hardest for her. All the teachers hated her ...
- 1052: Hippies
- ... for a perfect life in a perfect country. Many people got married young and had children quickly, moved into suburbs, and found good jobs. They expected nothing else but for their children to go to college and follow in their footsteps. Adults had faith in the American government, and believed that any hard working, dedicated and honest man would succeed, and of course, they thought that their children would conform to ... was the need to be free and a sense of belonging and you could be moving away from home with out guilt. “David Burrin went to Harvard by default. ‘Well I wanted to go to college. I didn’t think about anything else.’ After graduation, he went to study anthropology, then a six month stint as a medical student. After all that, David left his home and conservative girlfriend and caught ...
- 1053: Lafollettes-licensing Of Paren
- ... turned twenty. But that was then, in a time when ones average life span was near 40 years. In today s society it is almost mandatory to have a high school diploma, if not a college diploma. I don t know for sure, but I don t think to many fifteen year old girls with a baby are going to be able to complete high school, much less college, without any help. Unfortunately that help isn t always there for many girls in this situation. Another example where a licensing program would be desirable is in the instance of the crack whore . In many ...
- 1054: Men's Basketball
- ... schools have after school programs offering basketball courts open to the students. Basketball is played in almost every high school in the United States. From here both boys and girls are recruited to play for college. After college few make it to the American and National leauges. Some even find playing in Europe satisfys their love for playing basketball. Mens Basketball has always defined the way basketball was played. In the 1990's ...
- 1055: The Visitor’s Facility At The University of North Caroline at Charlotte
- ... visitors would be professors who travel around the county to do seminars, or work at a university for a semester or a year. The visitor’s facility could also be used for executives whom different college deans are trying to solicit capital from. With the expansion of the university by fifty-six percent in the next five years, the university will need to provide an on-campus visitor housing for these ... be placed on campus in a prime location. Preferably close to all of the academic buildings, while not interfering with the core of the campus. The visitors should not be able to be interrupted by college students, so the structure would need to be away from fraternity/sorority row that are in UNC-Charlotte’s master plan. Also it may be wise to place the structure away from any student housing ...
- 1056: All The Kings Men
- ... Great Sleep that occurs in the novel is a preview to the reader that shows how Jack handles the situations in his life that require responsibility. The second Great Sleep occurs after Jack quits his college education and does not finish his dissertation in American History. This happens after Jack looks into the life of his great-uncle Cass Mastern. Many things contribute to this particular Great Sleep. The first is ... mutual is simply the forces acting in their own unmanageable way. Jack calls himself an idealist early in the novel. He lives by the principle of idealism which he read in a book while in college. Jack describes the principle by saying, "What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real" (30). This is one of the reasons why Jack formulates the Great Twitch theory. He ...
- 1057: An Observation Of Sacred Hoops
- ... for the player and the overall health of the team. He would encourage members to recognize their teammate's pain and embrace him with open arms. This reminded me of Phil's early years at college. In college, before injuring his pitching arm, he had once played baseball. He thought that it was going to be the end to a long-standing dream of playing for the majors. Though he ended up going ...
- 1058: Daniel Webster
- ... born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18, 1782. His parents were farmers so many people didn't know what to expect of him. Even though his parents were farmers, he still graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801. After he learned to be a lawyer, Daniel Webster opened a legal practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807. Webster quickly became an experienced and very good lawyer and a Federalist party leader ... Congress and move to Boston in 1816. Over the next 6 years, Webster won major constitutional cases in front of the Supreme Court making him almost famous. Some of his most notable cases were Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v. Maryland. He made himself the nations leading lawyer and an outstanding skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and ...
- 1059: Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment
- ... love." The character Hannible Lechter, as shown in this clip from the movie Silence of the Lambs explains it best. Rather than punishment, Gilligan said, one proven approach to reducing violence is education, especially a college degree. Several years ago, Gilligan conducted a study in the Massachusetts Prison system in which more than two hundred inmates, including those that were convicted murderers, earned degrees and were released from prison. So far ... is the first item to be cut when an administration 'gets tough on crime'. If our goal is to reduce crime and violence, we would benefit all law abiding members of society if we made college education available in the prisons." Gilligan said he is amazed by how "inarticulate and incoherent" many violent prisoners are. "They have never learned to express themselves. They have never had anyone to listen to them ...
- 1060: William Richardson Davie
- ... Cumberlandshire, England, on June 20, 1756. In 1763 Archibald Davie brought his son William to Waxhaw, SC, where the boy's maternal uncle, William Richardson, a Presbyterian clergyman, adopted him. Davie attended Queen's Museum College in Charlotte, North Carolina, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) in 1776 Davie's law studies in Salisbury, NC, were interrupted by military service, but he won his license to practice before county courts in 1779 and in the superior ...
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