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- 421: Date Rape
- ... a house, or downstairs in a house. The mix of drugs and alcohol are significant factors of date rape. They compromise your ability to make responsible decisions. Drinking has become a popular social activity amongst college students and has been seen throughout society as setting the mood for romance. After a few drinks a woman’s judgment is altered, and it is often difficult to push away sexual advances. Women can ... say that when alcohol is in their system, it disables your vision, allowing other people to become more appealing to the eye. This could be one of the reasons why date rape often occurs on college campuses at fraternity houses or bars. Between a woman’s lowered inhibitions and delayed reactions and a man’s raised confidence, it is often difficult to resist some sexual advances. Sometimes a woman will pass ... loosening of sexual standards. The birth control pill and condoms have made many people engage in sex at a much earlier age, thinking they will not get pregnant or get a sexually transmitted disease. Many college men think sex is a given after dating a female a few times. Sometimes women may share the same expectation, but then again she may not. "Many men need to educate themselves about what ...
- 422: Yamamoto
- ... to quit the navy, but his mother would not let him. In August, 1912, Isoroku's mother died. In 1913, Isoroku's career moved into high gear. He received an appointment to the Naval Staff College at Tsukiji. In 1915, Isoroku was promoted to lieutenant commander. Graduation from this college was required if you wanted to hold a staff position in the Japanese navy and in 1916, he graduated from the Naval Staff College. Also in 1916, there were some personal changes in Isoroku's life. First and Foremost, as mentioned previously, Isoroku dropped his last name Takano and changed it to Yamamoto. Also, Yamamoto realized the time ...
- 423: Living In A Residence Hall
- ... benefits to residential life including a felling of community and a chance to grow as you experience the learning that comes from living and learning with other people. Residential life also helps you adjust to college life and develop skills that attribute to academic success. One of the most attractive things to me about living in a residence hall is meeting new people and making new friends. Living with others gives ... nice. I also noticed that everyone in the halls were very respectful of each others privacy and possessions. I think living in a residence hall would be a very positive influence on my success in college. I've talked to many people that have encouraged me to live in a residence hall my first year saying such things as "It was the best decision I made my first year, I met so many people and had so fun," and "You meet a lot of people and have the opportunity to make friendships that last through college and the rest of your life."
- 424: Maria Mithchell
- ... the public in the fall of 1836. At the Atheneum she taught herself astronomy by reading books on mathematics and science. At night she regularly studied the sky through her father's telesscope. For her college education even Harvard couldn't have given her a better education than she received at home and at that time astronomy in America was very behind as of today. She kept studying at the Atheneum ... paint her portrait, and people recognized her achievements. Maria s status as a respected astronomer also gave her new opportunities for employment. In 1865 Mitchell was appointed professor of astronomy at the newly opened Vassar College (one of the first colleges for women) in Poughkeepsie, New York, and director of the observatory there. In 1873 she helped found the Association for the Advancement of Women. Later she was also a pioneer ... also the first woman admitted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and to the American Philosophical Society (founded by her distant relative Benjamin Franklin. She received honorary degrees, including one from Columbia College. A crater on the moon was named after her. After her death, Maria was given still more honors. A tablet inscribed with her name was put in the New York University Hall of Fame ...
- 425: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- ... passport to assured employment. Margaret chose science specifically, chemistry. At the age of seventeen, a year younger than most candidates, she took the examinations one had to pass to gain admittance to Oxford's Sommerville College. She did well and scored high marks in all categories, she tied for first in the competitive exam. This exam was given to candidates to decide which would win the one scholarship the college had to offer. But Somerville officials decided to give the scholarship to the other top-scoring candidate, an older girl who had been waiting a year longer than Margaret to get into Oxford. Margaret was ... Thatcher announced after the election that "he and the defeated candidate were engaged to be married." (Mayer, 1979) A few months before they were to be married Margaret began law courses at a special tutorial college. Mrs. Thatcher's ambition was to become a barrister, which is the "gowned and wigged advocates who present all cases in court. The barristers in Great Britain are the more exclusive and the most ...
- 426: An Anaysis Of Sexism Against The Female In Athletics
- ... epitome of sports for all people, male, female, as well as color, and ethnicity from around the world. Title IX was supposed to change the world, and it has: the number of women participating in college sports has jumped up considerable since the law was enacted twenty-five years ago. But the world changes slowly. U.S.A. Today surveyed 303 Division I schools to see where Title IX has taken ... I-A school. Since then, the Equity In Athletics Disclosure Act, requires all colleges to report data on men and women’s athletics. The Federal law took effect April 1, 1997. To ensure that A college is in compliance with Title IX, The Department of Education office for Civil Rights, uses a three-pronged test to decide. A school is in compliance if it passes a single prong. One prong asks ... sports have been added for women this year: soccer, and softball. For the first time U.S.A. basketball put women under professional contract for a year to train an Olympic team rather than gather college all stars at the last minute. In Track and Field, the 5,000 meter run has replaced its 3,000 for women and the triple jump has been added for women, to look more ...
- 427: Japan: Social Customs
- ... school when they are about three. At six, they begin elementary school at twelve, middle school. Any student who has completed middle school may enroll in high school, which offers either a technical or a college preparatory course of instruction. Japanese students, especially those who plan to attend college, take entrance examinations in order to qualify for the best middle schools. Severe study at one of the top schools helps the student prepare for the extremely difficult college entrance examinations. If a high school senior fails the entrance examination for the university of his choice, he may study furiously at a special cram school during the following year. Despite the examination system, ...
- 428: Steve Jobs
- ... blue Box" that allowed them to get free long distance calls from pay phones. Jobs helped "Woz" to sell a number of "blue boxes". In 1972 Steve graduated from high school and registered at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After dropping out of Reed after one semester he hung around the campus for a year taking classes in philosophy and immersing himself in the counter culture. In 1974, Steve Jobs took ... Atari, Inc., a pioneer in electronic arcade recreation. After a few months he saved enough money to go to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with Dan Kottke, a friend from Reed College. In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and started attending meetings of "Woz’s" "Homebrew Computer Club". Woz like most of the clubs members, was happy with the creation of electronics. Steve wasn ... many changes to the company. People that he has worked with are afraid of being "Steved" if they don’t work hard enough; that means fired by Steve. In conclusion, Steve Jobs who was a college dropout, experimented with drugs and Eastern religions before turning to computers, is a very strange man. He continues to lead Apple and his sub companies into the 21st century by carrying the lead in ...
- 429: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... were: A. Lines proceeding from or around New York, including Columbia University and Madison Avenue, the Lower East Side, and Ginsberg's apartment. B. Lines relating to the "break of life between the womb of college days and the shock and alienation entering the world, making a crippled living outside of family and academic shelter--this motif accounting vocational failure or readjustment, leaving the city, or nervous breakdown, typical post-college crisis." (Schumacher 226) C. Lines "grouping together personal apocalypsis, estrangement, breakthrough to social solitude, disaster or triumph, mixed illumination and/or madness, travel, unthinkable dramas, comedies and tragedies of maturation--arrest, hospitalization, outcast status--degradation ... photographs and a recordlCD of his poetry-jazz album, The Lion for Real, appeared in 1989. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and is a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College and a member of the Executive Board of PEN American Center. A practicing Buddhist, Alien cofounded Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. In 1997 the Beat Generation lost ...
- 430: Serial Killers, the Minds, the Methods, the Madness
- ... genuine lady-killers - in more ways than one. Dr. H. H. Holmes was a dapper, smooth talking sociopath, who had no trouble working his seductive charms on young women. Ted Bundy was a clean-cut college type. Bundy was so attractive and charming to young women that they would, meeting him for the first time, climb into his car without hesitation. What is unfortunate is the death these women met, trusting ... spent profiling the serial killer, time is also spent profiling the victims. The serial killer usually chooses one type of victim. The homosexual preys on young boys. The lady-killer may prey on prostitutes or college women. What the FBI looks for is the common theme in the victims. Many times a string of victims will all have one or more common characteristics, such as long dark hair, or they may ... has been named as stranger killings. Though there are different victims, most remain anonymous to the killer. Most killers look for their “perfect” victim, searching the night for the prostitute, the young boy or the college girl. Others, however, only kill at random. Coral Watts, one of the few African American serial killers, did not usually plan the murders but killed whenever he saw the opportunity. These can also be ...
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