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- 481: Senseless Lawsuits
- ... was about the money and not who killed their children, if that was the case they would work with OJ to find out who the real killers are. Recently a lawsuit was filed against a college for a computer course that was too hard. Twelve students failed the course and decided to sue the college because the corse was not as easy as perceived by the school. If I were the judge on this case I would throw it out of court on the basis of the Senseless Lawsuit Act. Is this going to be a way for college students too pay for their education by failing a course or two and then suing the school for the money or even a diploma? Finally there was some justice done on a case involving ...
- 482: Oliver Cromwell
- ... Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother and sisters but it is believed that he studies at Lincoln's Inn in London, where gentlemen could acquire a smattering ... profited from the destruction of the monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII, and they probably influenced their son in his religious upbringing. Both his schoolmaster in Huntingdon and the Master of Sidney Sussex College were enthusiastic Calvinists and strongly anti-Catholic. In his youth Cromwell was not very studious, since he enjoyed outdoor sports, such as hunting; but he was an avid reader of the Bible, and he admired ... maintained high standards of conduct. In spite of resistance from some members of his council Cromwell readmitted Jews into the country. He concerned himself with education, was an excellent chancellor of Oxford University, founded a college at Durham, and made sure that grammar schools flourished. (Smith, 1991) In 1654 Cromwell ended the Anglo-Dutch War, which he had always disliked. The question then arose of how best to employ his ...
- 483: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... the incident he/she might not remember it. A cover story in the "Time"3 presents a report about a man called Doug McCray, then 32. He had a reasonable education after dropping out of college one and a half years later to enlist in the army. He was given a medical discharge seventeen months later.He married and went back to college. But his marriage didn't last long and he dropped out of college again and turned to alcohol. Sometime between October 13 and 15, 1973 a woman was raped and beaten to death. He was arrested and charged with murder because he was drunk and could not ...
- 484: Date Rape
- ... rapes are committed by people who know their victims. When intercourse is unwanted and forced upon by someone you know, it is known as date rape. It occurs daily and is prevalent on virtually all college campuses across the nation and in cities all over the world. Date rape generally occurs when a man is alone with a woman. Although it has been reported that men have been raped by women ... acts in a friendly manner towards him. The presence of drugs and alcohol are also a contributing factor to the occurrence of date rape. An example of date rape that occurs commonly, especially within a college campus, is when both the man and women are drunk. In an environment such as a college or university, parties are commonplace for students. It is a place where friends can gather, listen to loud music, and get loaded. Typically, a man will coerce a woman back to his apartment or ...
- 485: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... the incident he/she might not remember it. A cover story in the "Time"3 presents a report about a man called Doug McCray, then 32. He had a reasonable education after dropping out of college one and a half years later to enlist in the army. He was given a medical discharge seventeen months later.He married and went back to college. But his marriage didn't last long and he dropped out of college again and turned to alcohol. Sometime between October 13 and 15, 1973 a woman was raped and beaten to death. He was arrested and charged with murder because he was drunk and could not ...
- 486: Under Age Drinking : The Problems It Creates
- ... and as long as your 18 your in. And since the bouncers will stamp nearly anyone they know or like the number of kids is always high. It dosn't help that Dillon is a college town and ther are many under age college kids there. Now lets imagine another party where kids are drinking. The bonfire is roaring, Bubba just decided that singeing everyone's eyebrows off by throwing some gasoline on the fire would be fun. Of ... that this is a worst case scenario. I also know kids who drink just a little, they know their limits, and don't try to break them. Now here's another worst case scenario. A college kid has been studying for a few hours, you can feel the boredom in the room. He decides to take a few minutes off and cracks open a beer to relieve the tension. The ...
- 487: Of Mice And Men - Theme
- ... feels the need to tell others how great she could have been and the hopes and dreams she may someday have. She shows her feelings of hope in life. This can relate to everyday students. College guys love to tell stories from the long weekends in college. It makes a person feel good when they can tell a story filled with sarcasm and excitement to make others get a feeling of admiration. Humans live for this type of self-fulfillment. Loneliness is ... you" (Steinbeck 87-8). She feels that she should be able to talk to a variety of people. One person does not satisfy her social standards for communication. Loneliness is also widely taken with misconceptions. College students often believe that loneliness is a "sign of weakness, or immaturity" (Loneliness 2). Other students believe, "theres something wrong with me, these are supposed to be the best years of my life" ...
- 488: Lord Byron
- ... be tempted, to seduce and to fall, about whom there was but one certainty, that he was irreclaimable." John Murray wrote this in part b ause of the extravagant lifestyle Byron led. While at Trinity College in Cambridge he ran up large debts and it was rumored he kept a pet bear in his room. Also while at Cambridge, he developed a great fondness for a choirboy named John Edlestone. Af r college, he resided at various places, including the family home at Newstead Abbey. It was here that the alleged "wild parties" took place at which Byron would make toasts with and drink from a skull cup ... of a monk. He polished it up and added silver plates. The cup was "secretly buried" by a later owner of the property. Scrope Davies, Charles Matthews and John Cam Hobhouse were Byrons closest college friends. They took p t in the wild house parties that had established Byrons reputation as a living embodiment of the gothic ideal- a young and handsome Lord living in a decaying abbey ...
- 489: Eating Right And For The Right Reasons
- Eating Right And For The Right Reasons BACKGROUND My study was done on two white females that both attend college and are both 22 years old. They are both in the same social scene by being in sororities and they both come from middle to upper class lifestyles. Female A is from Sacramento, CA, she ... He supports himself and is just an average guy. He is 511 and weighs 250lbs.. HYPOTHESIS My hypothesis was that both girls would act and eat the same because of their social scene in college right now, and that they would be careful as to what their body consumed and how fit they kept themselves. I also thought that both of the males, although coming from two extremely different backgrounds ... B also has the convenience of money, but also has the pressures of other girls to work out and eat better that is why she is at a good weight. Male A shows the typical college male that pretty much eats anything that he wants and then works-out in return to look and feel good. Male B is the result of being a male, eating anything that he desires, ...
- 490: Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
- Invisible Man is a story told through the eyes of the narrator, a Black man struggling in a White culture. The narrative starts during his college days where he works hard and earns respect from the administration. Dr. Bledsoe, the prominent Black administrator of his school, becomes his mentor. Dr. Bledsoe has achieved success in the White culture which becomes the ... goals which the narrator seeks to achieve. The narrator's hard work culminates in him being given the privilege of taking Mr. Norton, a White benefactor to the school, on a car ride around the college area. After much persuasion and against his better judgement, the narrator takes Mr. Norton to a run down Black neighborhood. When Dr. Bledsoe found out about the trip the narrator was kicked out of school ... of his identity which he regained by escaping and establishing himself in the Brotherhood. The chain becomes a symbol between the narrator and Brother Tarp because the chain also symbolizes the narrator's experience in college, where he was not physically chained down, but he was restricted to living according to Dr. Bledsoe's rules. He feels that he too escaped, in order to establish himself again (386). The narrator ...
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