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- 691: National Honor Society - Vice President Speech
- ... great idea. These are just a couple of ideas I have for raising money. As far as ideas for activities for the club, I think it would be beneficial for an admissions counselor from a college to come and speak. That way, we could get some pointers on how to prepare for college. We could also tutor students that needed a little extra help after school. There are just so many things that the National Honor Society could do. I think I would make an excellent Vice-President ...
- 692: Jim Morrison
- ... an exception. According to one of his professors, "Jim read as much and probably more than any other student in the class. His work was excellent. But everything he read was so completely offbeat." In college, Morrison's writing went even further due to a deeper an more mature mental perspective, sometimes with the help of LSD or other mind-altering substances. Morrison was a living example of a hedonist. He lived on a whim, doing what he wanted whenever he wanted to. Morrison attended St. Petersburg Junior College in the fall of 1961 while living with his grandparents, Paul and Caroline Morrison. Here, Morrison enrolled in general education classes and led a fairly dull life with the exception of a trip to California ...
- 693: History Of The Original Teddy
- ... his professors so much that one bellowed during his lecture in medias res, 'Now look here, Roosevelt, let me talk. I'm running this course!' On his twenty-second birthday, in 1880, Teddy married his college sweetheart Alice Hathaway Lee. However, February 14, 1884, just two days after the birth of a daughter, devastation ensconced Theodore. Labor complications ceased Alice Roosevelt's life; that same day typhoid murdered Theodore's mother ... therefore graced him with positive publicity so that public opinion favored the man as well. Before T.R.'s presidency, he headed the Rough Riders which were a volunteer calvary regiment compiled mostly of former college athletes and Western cowboys. February 15, 1898 during the Spanish American War, the U.S. battleship Maine fulminated in the Havanna harbor; two months later on April 25, the United States declared war on Spain ...
- 694: Marie Curie and Her Discovery of Radium and Polonium
- ... completion of medical school. This enabled Marie to enroll at the University of Paris and begin her own dream of becoming a university student. Marie studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry. It was upon enrollment in college when she changed her first name from Manya to Marie. After three years of her education at college, she graduated top of her class and earned her degrees in physics and mathematics. The year that Marie graduated with honors from the University of Paris, she met Pierre Curie, who also studied and later ...
- 695: Macintosh vs. IBM
- ... desktop computers. While IBM was just getting started in the personal computer market, Apple was also just getting on its feet. It was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. They were both college drop outs, Steve Jobs out of Reed College in Oregon and Steve Wozniak from the University of Colorado. They ended up in Silicon Valley, which is located in northern California near San Francisco. Wozniak was the person with the brains and Jobs was ...
- 696: Heros Essay
- ... baby? Would I be such a fan of sports or play basketball if my father hadn't been a state champion in track and field in high school and a Division I soccer player in college? If he hadn't introduced athletics to me, helped me with them, let me develop in them at my own pace, and shown me that one must work in order to achieve and perform better ... through a rediscovery of religion and a warning from his girlfriend, comes back, slowly abandoning the drugs that had plagued him and taken over his body like a festering malignancy. Enrique Rivas enrolled in a college, got married, and has his life back on track. To take such a voyage through purgatory and into hell and to come back a better person than when he went in is inspirational enough to ...
- 697: Black Art Expo: Julian Ritter
- ... The one artist that grasped my attention was an artist named Julian Ritter. Julian Ritter is a native from Detroit, Michigan. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Center for Creative Studies College of Art and Design. His father died while Julian was in college. This inspired many of his paintings objective, to convey both visually and poetically the importance of fatherhood, the family unit and purpose. In the program he said It is my endeavor to contribute to the ...
- 698: Affermative Action
- ... or accepting, but to expand employment and educational opportunities for minority groups (22). Therefore, Affirmative Action is legitimate because it does reduce discrimination in the work place and related areas such as University acceptance of college students. In the end, it should in no way be abolished. Scott2 However, Affirmative action is highly controversial. Right now Proposition 209, in California which bans all programs involving race and sex preferences run by ... the University of Scott3 Texas Law School was banned from using race at all in their admitting. Attorney General Dan Morales of Texas has understood the ruling as banning Affirmative Action in admissions, scholarships and college recruiting programs. This ruling is now being applied to almost all Texas colleges (Applebome a14). As Peter Applebome puts it Texas and California have become laboratories for a world without Affirmative Action (a14). So far ...
- 699: Serial Killer: Ted Bundy
- ... a shy introverted person. He became focused again, but in a more aggressive, dominant way. He was driven to prove himself to the world, and maybe more importantly, to Stephanie Brooks. He re-enrolled in college to study psychology. Bundy excelled this time around, becoming an honors student and well liked by his professors. Also around this time, Bundy met another women. Meg Anders, a young secretary and single mother, fell ... 30 women in 2 years time. I also found it interesting that he was such a productive part of society. This was not a seedy man from the wrong side of town. He was a college graduate, participated in local politics, and even volunteered on a crisis line in his spare time. He was an attractive man whom police thought posed little harm. Five people called to turn Ted Bundys ...
- 700: The Superstring Theory
- ... implications of this discovery. Notice: This research paper approaches the subject of Superstrings from a quantitative viewpoint due to the lack of breadth of mind (of the author). Meaning, the author does not have the college graduate education to grasp the quantitative mathematics behind the phenomenon of Superstrings. Additionally, since the nature of Superstrings is purely theoretical, the essence of it is rightly in its impact to the Physics community regardless ... of this problem, data has yet to be seen. (14) One might then ask why do people not use technology or tangible means to ameliorate this? Ger! ardus D. Bouw, Ph.D. of Baldwin Wallace College edifies the particle accelerator untaught in that: It only takes about 10 volts to tear a molecule apart while it takes about 100 volts to strip an atom of its electrons. It takes 10 million ...
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