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- 721: Fordham University
- ... good academic program. However, following my recent visit to the campus, I am now certain that Fordham is the perfect school for me. During my senior year of high school, I could not decide which college I wanted to attend. Since I placed so much importance on my college education, I did not want to just pick any school and live there for four years of my life; instead, I enrolled in a two-year school. Hoping to gauge my interests and the type ...
- 722: History of The Internet
- ... top, each country has at least one public backbone network. Backbone networks are made of high speed lines that connect to other backbones. There are thousands of service providers and networks that connect home or college users to the backbone networks. Today, there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more than one-hundred countries worldwide. However, it all started with one network. In the early 1960's the Cold War ... the Internet. In 1985, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began a program to establish Internet access centered on its six powerful supercomputer stations across the United States. They created a backbone called NSFNET to connect college campuses via regional networks to its supercomputer centers. ARPANET officially expired in 1989. Most of the networks were gained by NSFNET. The others became parts of smaller networks. The Defense Communications Agency shut down ARPANET ...
- 723: Leadership
- ... are the people that never take a leadership role in any activity. However leaders are the ones that use their leadership skills to make a difference in this world, such as presidents, teachers, or even college graduates. Leadership is not something you can learn from a book, but you have to gain this skill through experiences such as holding an office, organizing an event, speaking in front of people, or participating in a leadership program. This is one of the reasons I want to be part of College's Leadership program. I want to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make a different in my school, my community, my county, and even my world. This program will give me the information so ...
- 724: Women and Equality in the Workforce
- ... qualifications are equivalent, do women or men have a better shot at landing a job? Is there now a discrimination against men for no other reason except the fear of not hiring a woman? Do college males have the same chance of being hired as college females in and around the campus? Perhaps the women are working so hard and fast, that the men are actually being discriminated against because there is an extra bonus to hiring females. By hiring women ...
- 725: Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
- ... first half of the century, when the modernist movement began to progress, and both are symbolic of surrealism because they make the audience develop their own interpretation of the work. According to the Random House College Dictionary, Surrealism is a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects... I find ... a much easier depiction of Dali's mood, as well as the narcissist portrayed. Footnotes: 1.) Tansey, Richard G. and Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Book 2, Tenth Edition; Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996, New York. P. 1076
- 726: Lincoln And His Generals
- Book Report: Lincoln and His Generals Harry T. Williams was born on May 19, 1909. When in college, he was encouraged by a professor to study history. This professors main interest was the Civil War era and had a great effect on Williams. He attended Platteville State Teachers College (later Wisconsin State University at Platteville) where he received a B.Ed in 1931. Williams continued education into graduate school was mainly due to the lack of work during the Great Depression. He went on ...
- 727: Lincoln, Nebraska
- ... regional headquarters of the Veterans Administration and the United States Department of Agriculture. The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1869. The city is also the home of Nebraska Wesleyan University and Union College. The State Capitol, designed by the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and completed in 1932, has a central tower that rises 400 feet (120 meters) from a massive two-story base and is considered a showpiece ... in American politics, lived in Lincoln from 1887 to 1921. His home, Fairview, has been restored with original furnishings and memorabilia. Between the years 1926 and 1930 Lincoln annexed the towns of Havelock, University Place, College View, and Belmont. The city has a mayor-council form of government. Lincoln owns its water and electric systems.
- 728: Ireland
- ... past that age group of 6-15, are run by the state and are private. The national universities include Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Maynooth. The university of Dublin was founded in 1592 and has one college, being Trinity College of Dublin. Financial assistance for health purposes, is given by the government on the basis of economic need by the patient. There are enough hospitals, but strangely enough, the doctor-patient ratio is 1 to ...
- 729: Japan
- ... three years. To enter senior high school the students must pass an entrance examination. Classes include many of the same subjects studied in junior high school. Senior schools also offer courses to prepare students for college or to train them for jobs. About 95% of junior high school leavers go to senior high school. Higher Education Japan has about 460 Universities and about 600 junior and technical colleges. The largest University ... and the University of Kyoto--have exceptionally high reputations. Highly regarded private universities include Doshisha University in Kyoto and Keio University and Waseda University in Tokyo Senior high school graduates who want to attend a college or university must pass the entrance examination given by the school of their choice. Large numbers of students compete for admission to the top Japanese universities. About 38% of senior high school graduates go to ...
- 730: Aldous Huxley
- ... of the transience of human happiness” and “he felt that heredity made each individual unique, and uniqueness of the individual was essential to freedom” (Aldous Huxley-Biography). From 1908 until 1913, Huxley studied at Eton College (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). While at Eton, Huxley developed a condition of near blindness that plagued him until his death (Philosopher’s Corner Presents: Aldous Huxley). After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English at Balliol College, Oxford, Huxley worked in the War Office in London and taught at Eton and Repton (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). While at Oxford, Huxley was introduced to the literary world and became good friends with D.H ...
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