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- 801: Young Voters Showing Apathy
- ... population. If the participants are not influenced to be active, the system fails. By educating students and the public about the value of the system, the education system could help combat apathy. The tradition that college graduates were looked upon with more respect than the less educated has ended. How can the so-called higher educated members of society gain any respect when most graduates are unable or unwilling to participate ... forced to listen. For example, financial aid is one of many issues at hand in recent political campaigns. If politicians continue to cut student aid, some young people may not have a chance for a college education. Thus, young adults must have faith in the system and increase the number of young voters. Otherwise, politicians will continue to cater only to the needs of the older generation because that is who ...
- 802: "Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
- "Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon" In school, whether it be at the high school or college levels, there are usually lists of books thought as being essential reading. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--a Pulitzer Prize winning historian--calls this list in his book The Disuniting of America, a "canon" or "canonical ... as if I received this type of education. The teachers encourage students to read not only standard English literature, but also to study the great writers of other ethnicities. My high school is a private college preparatory institution in San Francisco. Some authors whose works we read in our English classes consisted of Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Ovid, Maya Angelou, Chaim Potok, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Chinua Achebe, and C ...
- 803: Madame Bovary: The Origin of Emma And Nora
- ... France to a wealthy surgeon. As a boy he was well aware of the incompetence in the medical profession, and the middle class lip service which he portrayed through Homais in Madame Bovary. In his college years, Flaubert began to despise the middle class even more as he became enthralled in the romantic writings of Hugo, Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott. In Madame Bovary, Emma has a certain romantic ... for Flaubert. In fact, it took him 5 years to write Madame Bovary. I remember hearing that he even made sketches of the characters houses and of the town of Yonville. It was also in college that he fell victim to excessive romantic ideals, such as those portrayed in Emma, and had a failed marriage with an older woman named Elisa Schlesinger. His personal attitudes about love are portrayed through Emma ...
- 804: Clown
- ... in his new career Irwin was named Willy .a whiteface clown. He doesnt wear makeup anymore instead, he uses his facial expressions to show is comedy to people instead of through the visual. Clown College Clowning is a technique which has to be taught over a few years they call it the art of clowning it sounds silly but clowning is a very serious job it starts with the way ... the first time you never will be. But know it is a profession for a lot of peole and if you become good enough you can have a very large profit. Also with the clown college there is more than one kind of clown such as a rodeo clown. He will have to go to school for usually three years which will pay good because it is a high risk job ...
- 805: Prejudice
- ... I don't know how it even was thought of. First of all, Affirmative Action discriminates against people who are smarter than most of the applicants, but don't get the job or acceptance to college because there is a quota for the school acceptance that had to be filled with people from other races. Then there is the fact that your acceptance to a job or college depends primarily on your race. That means right when you are born, you could be set back in life just because of the race you were born with. Getting back to trying to abolish prejudice ...
- 806: A Different Sort Of Segregatio
- ... would be gained simultaneously and lowering the legal drinking age to 18 would erase the discrepancy that now exists. Furthermore the temptation to undermine the law through underage drinking would be greatly decreased. For many college students that fall in between years of legal adulthood and legal drinking age, the desire to drink is spurred by getting away with something they are not supposed to be doing. According to "Dan," an English exchange student, the typical college student would not feel the need to have a binge drinking party if he were allowed into the local bar. The need to throw private drinking parties would no longer be prevalent because the accessibility ...
- 807: Body Modifications
- ... that people wont look upon as a joke. On the upside, I recently read a survey taken concerning the types of people who get pierced. The irony to this is that 83% have attended college, 24% have college degrees, and 33% had gone to postgraduate study. This survey shows that the majority of pierces are well educated contrary to popular belief. Tattooing and body piercing has become a medium through which contemporary youth ...
- 808: Margaret Mead
- ... Margaret Mead, Margaret (1901-78), American anthropologist, widely known for her studies of primitive societies and her contributions to social anthropology.Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901, and was educated at Barnard College and at Columbia University. In 1926 she became assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and she subsequently served as associate curator (1942-64) and as curator ... contemporary cultures at Columbia University from 1948 to 1950 and adjunct professor of anthropology there after 1954. In 1968 she was appointed full professor and head of the social science department in the Liberal Arts College of Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York. She also served on various government and international commissions and was a controversial speaker on modern social issues.Participating in several field expeditions, Mead conducted notable ...
- 809: Diversity Within English
- ... A lawyer and a laborer would not be likely to use the same dialect on the job. Likewise, a person with little education is not likely to use the same style of speech as a college professor. This does not imply that the lawyer and college professor speak a better' variety of English, but because of more exposure to, and familiarity with written English, which is usually Standard English, they tend to speak that way, also. And because many people think ...
- 810: Superman and Batman: The Greatest Superheros of All Time
- ... Batcave. Dick wanted to join Bruce on his missions, and with careful thinking, Bruce let him. Soon after that Dick Grayson became Robin. As soon as Dick graduated from high school, he went on to college. This meant there was no Robin for a while. When Dick came back from college, he set off on his own and took on a new identity as Nightwing. He didn't want to be Robin anymore. He soon made a name for himself as a "young, powerful, and mysterious ...
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