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- 761: Paradise Lost
- ... great Adamite3 work. John Milton (1608-74), was an English poet, the son of a composer of some distinction. The preparation for his life's work included attendance at St. Paul's School, Christ's College and Cambridge for several years. His reputation as a poet preceded him as addressed to the conscience of Europe. As fame through his work augmented so with it did his political career. 'The theme of ... great Adamite3 work. John Milton (1608-74), was an English poet, the son of a composer of some distinction. The preparation for his life's work included attendance at St. Paul's School, Christ's College and Cambridge for several years. His reputation as a poet preceded him as addressed to the conscience of Europe. As fame through his work augmented so with it did his political career. 'The theme of ...
- 762: Humiliation for Humbleness?
- ... from making the wrong choice? Jacoby also mentions another added weight on incarceration, the price. "
a common estimate is $30,000 per inmate per year." While prisoners can receive full "federal funding," students that attend college have headaches trying to acquire federal funding for their college fees. "A humiliating and painful paddling can be applied to the rear end of a crook for a lot less than $30,000 - and prove a lot more educational than ten years' worth of prison ...
- 763: Apathy
- ... time. One of the larger reasons is that most candidates are much older then those 18-25. This would put the generation gap in between candidates and the youthful voters. A 19 year old Trinity College student remarks about Bob Dole, I think he is making himself look older by speaking about certain issues we (young people) can not relate to. When asked to give an example the student stated, "he ... a older generation. Thomas Banks, a 19 year old student, when asked why he was not watching the 1996 Presidential Debates responded, "I guess because I don't really see what's going on at college. I feel pretty isolated. It doesn't seem as important to me as studying. I guess". Although not in a career yet, the life of a student is proving to be just as busy as ...
- 764: Jackie Robinson 4
- ... life better. Jackie was a great influence to the American public. To over came diversity and succeed is a great accomplishment. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, January 31 1919. He went to college at the University of UCLA. Where he was a star in four sports basketball, baseball, football, and track. He is the only bruin to letter in four sports. After college he went to pursue a career in the Army. He soon became a lieutenant. He was put on honorable discharge for seating in a white person seat in the Army bus. In 1947, he joined ...
- 765: Jane Addams 2
- ... difficult in her life. In 1881, John Addams the man she so very much loved and admired passed away. Feeling lost and a sense of uncertainty that fall, Jane enrolled at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. For a woman in the 1880's, studying to become a doctor was more unusual than going to college. Her passion for the sciences and medicine had never left her heart. Jane's goal was to provide medical care for the poor. Due to health reasons and lack of ambition for medicine, she withdrew ...
- 766: Parental Pressure within High School Students
- ... from my parents. This pressure was mainly in school and grades, and in high school, the amount of pressure increased dramatically. This is because my parents now realized that everything in high school counts towards college. When I first came to high school, my grades were not as good as they were in middle school. I needed a little time to adapt to high school before I could improve my grades ... stated that they had a lot of pressure relating to school. Some came from parents and some came from themselves. A person answering this survey stated, Most of my pressure about grades and school and college comes from myself. Last year, the pressure was so bad that I made myself sick." According to Garfinkel, 3 of 10 leading causes of stress in adolescents are school related and 1 of 10 suicide ...
- 767: Political Correctness: The Teddy Bear Massacre
- ... please everyone all the time still needs to be learned. Another lesson that needs to be learned is to meet offensive language head on instead of hiding from it. This cannot happen, however, if the college is sheltering us from it. It is the duty of the university to teach us how to live in the real world. How are they going to protect us from what we do not want ... problem with this argument is there are many things in life that are distracting. The best way to cope is to learn how to survive the hurtful speech and offensive actions. Gwen Thomas, a community college administrator, says in Clarks book that we have to teach students how to deal with adversarial situations and how to survive offensive speech they find wounding and hurtful. [393] It may be distracting, but ...
- 768: Civil Rights
- ... developed strong ties to the ministers of wealthy, influential Protestant congregations in the North. King would preach to them and they would donate money to the SCLC. Sit Ins On February 1, 1960 four black college students began protesting racial segregation in restaurants by sitting at "white-only" lunch counters and waiting to be served. Soon the sit-ins spread throughout North Carolina, and within weeks they were taking place in ... of his home. In 64 SNCC workers organized the Mississippi Summer Project to register blacks to vote in that state. SNCC leaders also hoped to focus national attention on Mississippi's racism. They recruited Northern college both black and white students, teachers, artists, and clergy to work on the project. The project did receive national attention, especially after three participants, two of whom were white, disappeared in June and were later ...
- 769: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... eighteen. A custody battle began over David. Some months later, Lionel remarried. Whatever Lionel missed about Jeff's alcoholism, his new wife Shari did not. Lionel and Shari convinced him to try the idea of college. In the fall of 1978, they drove him to Ohio State University, but he stayed drunk the whole semester and flunked out. By this time, his drinking problem was well understood, but he would not ... enough to save my son. There was something missing in Jeff...We call it a "conscience"...that had either died or had never been alive in the first place." Dr. James Fox, dean of the College of Criminal Justice at North-eastern University in Boston and recognised expert on serial killers claims, "there was nothing we could do to predict this [tragedy] ahead of time, no matter how bizarre the behaviour ...
- 770: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... in the family's peanut farm. In the year of 1941, Jimmy graduated from high school, which wasn't common for a farm boy at the time. He then spent a year at Georgia Southwestern College, then left for another year at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After his college education, Jimmy started his career in the military. In1943, Jimmy enrolled in the United States Naval Academy. He continued at that school for three years, and then became a commissioned officer. He also married Eleanor ...
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