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- 231: Gender
- ... wanted to win over her father’s approval. But since she was the only daughter, she was thought of as very highly by her father. When she told her father she wanted to go to college, they both had different visions. She wanted to go to college to become a writer but her father wanted her to go to college to meet a husband. Her father his sons to go to college to become masters with their hands. The sons in Sandra’s family have the advantage because they are going to college for ...
- 232: Computer Systems Analyst
- ... true. Many people think that you need a Bachelors degree to at least star out somewhere. This is not true. Through research, it a known fact that you don't really have to go to college to ever make it. In this particular field, a college education would be helpful to impress the employer, but for a basic analyst job, the only proof really needed to go somewhere is the Quality Assurance Institute. This awards the designation Certified Quality Analyst (CQA ... and endorse a code of ethics. (“Computer Scientists” 95) Linda Williams found a technical analyst at the Toledo Hospital, who went to the Total Technical Institute near Cleveland and earned his CQA. (11 -13) However, college is the best bet and a bachelors is the best reward to have after achieving the CQA. Employers almost always seek college graduates for analyst positions. Many however, have some prior experience. Many rookies ...
- 233: Diversity On Campus
- ... various backgrounds". Diversity is a word used in describing everyone's differences. A variety of different people, or people from different backgrounds is the type of diversity this paper is focusing on. Diversity on a college campus is great, and the variations of people is vast. Giving college students an excellent opportunity for acquiring, learning, and understanding others skills. These skills and values are important to the future of our planet and universe. The focus on these understanding and attitudes are to be used by everyone, but not forced on everyone. The differences on a college campus vary greatly. And some differences are easier to accept, and others are more challenging. These differences are a great source for learning, but should not be the only primary focus. Between some people ...
- 234: Isaac Newton
- ... weaker.Realizing that her son was simply not suited to farm life, Newton's mother sent him back to Kings School. He graduated in 1661. When he was 18 years old, Newton went to Trinity College in Cambridge University. He quickly proved to his teachers that he was no ordinary student. He read all the books he could get, especially those on mathematics and physics. These interested him the most. His ... Newton was only 25 years old, he worked out a basic formula in Mathematics that has been used ever since. Today it is called the Binomial Theroem. That same year, 1665, Isaac graduated from Trinity College. He wanted to stay on at the university to continue his studies. But the plague, the Black Death, had broken out in England. The university was closed and the students sent home, for the fear ... such as that on Mount Palomar in California, are based on Newton's telescope. In recognition of his work in mathematics and optics (the science of light) Newton was appointed professor of Mathematics at Trinity College in 1669. Early in 1672 he was elected a member of the Royal Society. Although Newton experimented mostly with optics during these years at Trinity College, his mind always return to the question of ...
- 235: Law Enforcement
- ... the 1920's came the prophetic leadership of Chief August Vollmer at Berkeley; he advertised in the University of California's student newspaper for young men to serve on the police department while obtaining their college education. Vollmer's criteria for selection were simple and direct: "High intelligence, sound nerves, good physique, sterling character, fast reaction time, good memory, and the ability to make accurate observations and correct dicisions"(3). According ... in high school to prepare for a career in law enforcement is to get involved with his community and try to improve it. He must understand what the community needs. Most departments are looking for college degrees. Several states including New York, New Jersey, North Dakota, Iowa, and some municipalities require applicants to have a two or four year college degree. More and more junior colleges are offering programs in law enforcement. In 1970 less than 5 percent of police officers had a college degree, today about a quarter of them have a college ...
- 236: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... rest of his childhood in Raymond, Maine, hunting, fishing, and enjoying the outdoors. He returned to Salem for schooling and worked as a bookkeeper for his Uncle s stagecoach line (Martin 17). He entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1821. He made some very impressive acquaintances during college, meeting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Bridge, and Franklin Pierce. These friends will prove to be beneficial to Nathaniel in his authorial career. During college, Nathaniel added the w to his last name (Shepherd vi). About three years after Hawthorne graduates from college, he publishes his first book. Fanshawe is a romance novel. Out of dissatisfaction with the novel, ...
- 237: African Americans
- ... of these had been started in the years immediately following the Civil War as a joint effort of blacks, Northern church groups, and the Freedmen's Bureau. Among these were Fisk University, Atlanta University, Talladega College, Morehouse College, and Spelman College. Late in the 19th century Tuskegee Institute was founded by Booker T. Washington, and a number of colleges were established by black church groups. Almost all blacks who received a college education before 1940 ...
- 238: Arthur Kornberg
- ... in over twenty years of teaching that a student of his had gotten a perfect grade. Arthur was a brilliant student who graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. He enrolled in City College in uptown Manhattan. Competition among a large body of bright and highly motivated students was fierce in all subjects. His high school interest in chemistry carried over into college. After receiving his B.S. degree in biology and chemistry in 1937, and since City College offered no graduate studies or research laboratories at that time, he became one of two hundred pre-med students at the University of Rochester. All through college he worked as a salesman in his ...
- 239: Vietnam War
- ... students playing leading roles. These teach-ins were mass public demonstrations, usually held in the spring and fall seasons. By 1968, protesters numbered almost seven million with more than half being white youths in the college. The teach-in movement was at first, a gentle approach to the antiwar activity. Although, it faded when the college students went home during the summer of 1965, other types of protest that grew through 1971 soon replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people ... boycotted its Thanksgiving Day dinner (Schlight, 45). One problem of the antiwar movement was the difficulty of finding ways to move beyond protest and symbolic acts to deeds that would actually impede the war. Unlike college students and other civilians, the troops in Vietnam had no such problem. Individual acts of rebellion, raging from desertion to killing officers who ordered search-and-destroy missions, merged into mutinies and large-scale ...
- 240: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... son was not the type that is good at farm life, Newton's mother sent him back to Kings School. Newton graduated in 1661. When he was 18 years old, he then went to Trinity College in Cambridge University. He quickly showed his teachers that he was no average student. He read all the books he could get his hands on, especially those on mathematics and physics. These pleased him the ... 25 years old, he worked out a basic formula in Mathematics that has been used again and again ever since. Today it is called the Binomial Theroem. That same year, 1665, Isaac graduated from Trinity College. He wanted to stay at the university to continue his studies. But the plague, the Black Death, had broken out in England and it was striking many people. The university had been shut down and ... that on Mount Palomar in California, are based on Newton's telescope. In credit of his work in mathematics and optics (the science of light) Newton was chosen to be professor of Mathematics at Trinity College in 1669. Early in 1672 he was elected a member of the Royal Society. Although Newton worked mostly with optics during these years at Trinity College, his mind always went back to the question ...
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