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- 1101: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony Number Five
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony Number Five Ralph Vaughan Williams, descended from the famous Wedgwood and Darwin families, was born at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire in 1872. In 1890 he entered the Royal College of Music, and in 1892 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the greatest of the British composers, a prolific writer of music, folksong collector, and champion of British cultural heritage, he died aged 85 in 1958. His ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey ...
- 1102: Adults Of The Bell Jar
- ... very limiting. Jay Cee is portrayed as hyper, abrupt and she speaks, waspishly (29). She is smart and talented but she is ugly. Philomena Guinea, on the other hand, says that she was stupid at college and is always described as being surrounded by beautiful things. The beauty that Esther sees as the binary opposite of ugly seems to have been acquired through her millions and millions of dollars (38). Jay ... appreciation for Philomena is when she uses her money to get fitted . It is then that Esther feels that Philomena buys her her freedom when actually she buys Esther s freedom many times over with college scholarships and proper treatment from Dr. Nolan, for instance. Esther rarely refers to Philomena directly, preferring instead to mention her car, her hat, her letters, objects around her, actions of Philomena to other people, but ...
- 1103: Schools And Tests
- ... Dick Williams assumes that high school graduates have only the choice of the SAT or ACT exams. Not all high school graduates take the SAT or the ACT. Some take entrance exams give by a college or whatever entrance exam or assignment a college will require for admission. So there are other alternatives to the SAT and ACT exams. The last point the author makes in concluding his article is directed towards the future of testing of the countries ...
- 1104: John Maynard Keynes
- ... Keynes was the son of an eminent English economists, Jon Neville Keynes, ho was a lecturer in economics and logic at Cambridge University. John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England and educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. There Keynes was educated on mathematics and probability theory, but he chose the field of economics to pursue. He chose economics when he accepted a lectureship in economics at the University of ... a decades time. Within that decade he made his two million fortune by speculating in international currencies, stocks and commodities. In addition to his newly made fortune Keynes served as a trustee of King's College and built it's endowment from 30,000 to 380,000 pounds. Keynes went on to write other books like “Treaties on Probability” in 1921 and “The Treaties on Money” in 1930. (Lekachman/Miller). Being ...
- 1105: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and ...
- 1106: A Separate Peace And A Real Wa
- ... Fraziska Lynne. "The Theme of Freedom in A Separate Peace." English Journal (NCTE), vol. 56, no. 9, December 1967, pp. 1269-1272. Halio, Jay L. "John Knowles's Short Novels." Studies in Short Fiction (Newberry College), vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1964, pp. 107-112. McDonald, James L. "The Novels of John Knowles." Arizona Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter1967, pp. 335-342. Raven, Simon. "No Time for War." The Spectator, vol. 212, no. 6827, May 1, 1959. p. 630. Weber, Ronald. "Narrative Method in A Separate Peace." Studies in Short Fiction (Newberry College), vol. 3, no. 1, Fall 1965, pp. 63-72. Witherington, Paul. "A Separate Peace: A Study in Structural Ambiguity." English Journal (NCTE), vol. 54, no. 9, December 1965, pp. 795-800. Wolfe, Peter. "The Impact ...
- 1107: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Religion as Repression Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In his essay ... autobiography, I feel called upon to see Joyce's schoolfellows in two ways at once. They are characters in a novel, bigger than life, and they are real people like me and my school and college pals. (280) The Catholic religion is a significant and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Though brought up in the church, several major events lead Stephen ...
- 1108: Behind the Doors
- ... they were a judgmental and condemning group. In June of 1961 he graduated from George Washington High School. He didn’t even go pick up his diploma. His parents felt he should go on to college so they enrolled him in St. Petersburg Junior College without his permission. He returned to Clearwater and lived with his grandparents while he attended school. The next fall he decided to enroll in Florida State University. In the spring of 1964 he took money ...
- 1109: Bridging Technology And Academe
- ... utilization in the classrooms of the future. Many colleges and universities are even exploring an information skill literacy curriculum integrated into the core or major curriculum and/or requiring a working knowledge of technology for college graduation. For faculty, NITs will realistically change the classroom experience, with or without their actual use. Faculty must develop an awareness of the research and communication techniques that will enter their classrooms either by their ... is coded in HTML, it is transferred to a Web server, usually at an academic institution, or via an Internet service provider. Usually, this simply involves giving the materials to the Web Master at a college or university who will place them on the Web server, or following a set of instructions for transferring the files to the Web server via the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). A course Web page can ...
- 1110: Is Einstein About To Be Dethro
- ... Universe has existed. To some, it remains anathema. "It took us a year to get the first paper published in Physical Review," says Dr Joâo Magueijo, a young Portuguese physicist, now a lecturer at Imperial College in London. "The scientists who were asked to comment just couldn't accept it. Finally the editor stepped in and it appeared." At the age of 11, Dr Magueijo was inspired by The Evolution of Physics, a slim volume by Einstein and Leopold Infeld. A dog-eared copy, in Portuguese, lies on his desk at Imperial College. "The best book ever written about physics," as he calls it, set him on a course that took him to the University of Lisbon, then Cambridge as a research fellow at St John's, and ...
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