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- 301: Their Eyes Are Watching God
- ... Morgan Academy, now called Morgan State University, from which she graduated in June of 1918. She then enrolled in the Howard Prep School followed by later enrollment in Howard University. In 1928 Hurston attended Barnard College where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas. After she graduated, Zora returned to Eatonville to begin work on anthropology. Four years after Hurston received her B.A. from Barnard she enrolled in Columbia University to ... s trials built the basis for her best work. Therefore, the work that has denoted her as one of the twentieth century’’s most influential authors did not come until after she had graduated from college. However, the literature she composed in college was by no means inferior. She was a defiant free-spirit even during her early college career. While working on an anthropological study for her mentor, Franz Boas, she was exposed to voo doo, ...
- 302: The Higher Education Act Is Unfair To Students
- The Higher Education Act Is Unfair To Students. The Higher Education Act passed by congress in 1998 has affected college students across the United States. Students are being denied federally funded financial aid and grants for being convicted of various drug-related offenses. This new law prevents anyone convicted of a drug-related offense from ... offenders solve their problems instead of causing the student more trouble. The statement this law makes is unreal. If you go by this law, convicted murderers, rapist and even drunk drivers could receive aid for college. No other criminal offenses deny students the right to receive aid for their education. Congress is using this law directed at non-violent drug offenders to show that congress is tough on drugs. This must ... thieves right to receive financial aid. On December 15th, 1998 James Wolf was convicted of possession of less than one gram of marijuana. This conviction caused the former Western Carolina University student to withdraw from college because he could not afford to pay tuition and book fees without federal aid. In February of 1999 James Wolf was convicted of delivery of one kilogram of cocaine. When asked why he was ...
- 303: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
- ... Professor Gunning (the father in the family) got him enrolled at the Athenaeum in Amsterdam, which meant Wilhelm had to part with the Gunnings. That forced Wilhelm to bunk with another student going to his college, because back then they didn t have dormitories for students. On March 17, 1865 a fraternity called Placet hic requiescere Musis (May the Muses rest here) selected him as a member of their fraternity. Then ... the man he had lived with in the past. People tried to find the real author but all they could find were the initials W.C.R. Wilhelm would later go to school in another college called Swiss Federal Technical School in Zurich, Switzerland. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy on June 22, 1869. While he was attending the Swiss Federal Technical School, he met the beautiful Anna Bertha Ludwig ... some of his friends. There, he met one of his old professors, Professor Kundt, who suggested he should work in the field of physics. Three years later, Wilhelm found himself a job at the Agricultural College in Hohenmeim, Germany as a professor of physics and mathematics. It was a small college where his physics laboratory had only one room. After a year, Professor Roentgen received a call from his old ...
- 304: The Town of El Dorado Springs
- ... Swager, the teacher who worked at the Blue Springs campus and lived in El Dorado Springs. I called her and introduced myself. "Ms. Swager, my name is Pamela Yeager, a student at Penn Valley Community College; my English teacher gave me your name. I'm doing an English research paper on the town of El Dorado Springs and I was hoping you could give me some information on the town." "I ... to myself, "it's either now or never," so I got out of the car and walked toward them. I introduced myself to the young lady and told her I was doing research for a college paper. "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" "About what?" "Well, in my research about the town, I found that no blacks lived here and I was surprised to see the gentleman ... you. Does he live here in town?" She looked at me for a moment and asked, "Did you say you were from a newspaper?" "No, I said I was doing a research paper for a college class." She was silent for a minute and then almost whispered her answer, "Yes, he lives here in town in a group home." Paused and then even softer she said, "He's the only ...
- 305: Comparitive Essay Between Perc
- ... said, Nothing new, no time saving devices, -simply old time glorified methods of delving the Truth, and searching the hidden beauties of life, and learning the good of living. The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the trivium and quadrivium, and is to-day laid before the freemens’s sons by Atlanta University. And ... student pursues in an education seriously, they would be able to move ahead in life and get off the “beaten track” predestined for them by society. Du Bois stated that, “The function of the Negro college [is to provide]...the rich and bitter depth of their experience, the unknown treasures of their inner life, the strange rendings of nature they have seen, may give the world new points of view and ... in learning is lost. Percy sees that as a “simple tourists” characteristic. Like my parents, Du Bois suggests that education provide a successful future. The black students who have not had the chance to experience college should view education as getting off the “beaten track”, but slavery, and hard labor which is their daily life is the “beaten track” that most follow. To Percy, I am “simple” because some of ...
- 306: The Town of El Dorado Springs
- ... Swager, the teacher who worked at the Blue Springs campus and lived in El Dorado Springs. I called her and introduced myself. "Ms. Swager, my name is Pamela Yeager, a student at Penn Valley Community College; my English teacher gave me your name. I'm doing an English research paper on the town of El Dorado Springs and I was hoping you could give me some information on the town." "I ... to myself, "it's either now or never," so I got out of the car and walked toward them. I introduced myself to the young lady and told her I was doing research for a college paper. "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" "About what?" "Well, in my research about the town, I found that no blacks lived here and I was surprised to see the gentleman ... you. Does he live here in town?" She looked at me for a moment and asked, "Did you say you were from a newspaper?" "No, I said I was doing a research paper for a college class." She was silent for a minute and then almost whispered her answer, "Yes, he lives here in town in a group home." Paused and then even softer she said, "He's the only ...
- 307: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... Film (1952; repr. 1972). Porter, Cole -------------------------------- Cole Porter, b. Peru, Ind., June 9, 1892, d. Oct. 15, 1964, was an American lyricist and composer of popular songs for stage and screen. A graduate of Yale College, he attended Harvard School of Arts and Sciences for 2 years and later studied under the French composer Vincent d'Indy. Both his lyrics and music have a witty sophistication, technical virtuosity, and exquisite sense ... Metropolitan Museum, New York City). In 1875 he painted a far more ambitious picture, now accepted as his masterpiece, a large portrait of the eminent surgeon Dr. Samuel Gross, The Gross Clinic (1875; Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia). Gross is shown scalpel in hand, lecturing to his students about the operation he is performing, the details of which, including an open incision, are clearly depicted. The painting's bold realism appropriately reflects ... as well as the anthropomorphic robots R2- D2 and C-3PO, the trilogy spawned a multibillion dollar industry of Star Wars-related products, including video games, dolls, toys, books, and clothing.^After attending Modesto Junior College, Lucas studied film at the University of Southern California, where a film he made won first prize in the Third National Student Film Festival (1965). Lucas reworked that film, a science-fiction fantasy that ...
- 308: Oscar Wilde
- ... in flowers and sunsets. He was extremely passionate about anything that had to do with ancient Greece and with Classics. Wilde during school years In 1871, he was awarded a Royal School Scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin and received many awards and earned the highest honor the college offered to an undergraduate, the Foundation Scholarship. In 1874, he also won the College’s Berkley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a Demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford, Oscar moved to London with his friend Frank Miles, a well-known portrait painter of ...
- 309: The Inter(esting)net
- ... visited happened to be down in Australia, another up in Canada! From there, I now know that Broomball leagues can be found all over Canada, and that Broomball was first invented in 1981. Millions of college student's lives have be effected because of the Internet. To college students, the Internet is a twenty-four hour library that can be accessed through various computer labs across campuses. To others, it is a way of electronically sending in homework, or sending a letter to a friend who is enrolled to a different college. It is also an exciting, growing spot to visit when boredom casts over. From obtaining information to Emailing, uses of the Internet can be endless for students. With my personal computer set up with ...
- 310: The Advantages Of Wealth
- ... school at wish to attend university the gap between them will grow. With good grades, the child of the wealthy family will have the advantage of being funded by his family while he attends the college of its choice. Meanwhile, the poorer child will fight for financial aid packages and have to go where the money is provided, and while attending this college a part time job will probably be necessary to pay for living expenses. By being able to accept at a variety of universities, the first child will open further opportunities for itself while the second child will watch as these same doors open only for a moment before slamming home as his community college education will not cut it in many of the 21st century job places. Once they exit college with degrees the child of poorer heritage will not have the funds to support himself during an ...
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