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- 861: Upton Sinclair, Jr. And The Ju
- ... into a political reality factor. Historians also see The Jungle as one of the world's best expressions of fury over man's cruelty to other men. Upton Junior began his writing career as a college student. Before he was graduated from the City College of New York in 1897, he had already sold many jokes and stories to newspapers and magazines. By the time he left graduate study at Columbia University in 1900, he had published ninety stories for ...
- 862: Body Modification in Today’s Society
- ... that people won’t 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 ...
- 863: Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
- ... in both personality and social behavior. Combining information from several studies and articles, this paper discusses the possible reasons and results of the psychological destructiveness of fame. Fame is, as described by The Random House College Dictionary(1982), "widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character," and also gives the synonym, "celebrity." In a study done by Mark Schaller(1997) three famous people were investigated. One of these people was Kurt Cobain ... Non-Generalized Social Anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 22, #5. Schaller, Mark(1997). The Psychological Consequences of Fame: Three Tests of the Self-Consciousness Hypothesis. Journal of Personality, 65, #2. Stein, Jess, The Random House College Dictionary, Random House, Inc., New York, 1982.
- 864: Analysis Of Sexual Harassment
- ... of power over the other; or when a woman has an untraditional job such as a police officer, factory worker, business executive, or any other traditionally male job. Typical victims of harassment are young, single, college-educated, members of a minority racial or ethnic group (if male), in a trainee position (or office/ clerical positions if male), or have an immediate supervisor of the opposite sex. (Cq researcher 542) Presently, it ... Moderate sexual behavior is not socially acceptable, reasonable people would want it stopped. * Severe sexual behavior is never acceptable. (Swisher 28) Sexual harassment is a major problem in public schools, colleges, and universities. Surveys on college campuses show the number of respondents reporting to have been sexually harassed ranging from 40-70 percent. Only two percent of campus harassment cases involve a professor demanding sex in return for a good grade ...
- 865: The Vietnam War
- ... the anger and frustration of one man given too much power? William L. Calley Jr., born 1944, grew up in Miami Florida. He attended grammar and high school there, and in 1963 flunked out of college after earning four F's. He became very uptight, and began smoking up to four packs of cigarettes a day. After leaving college, Calley became a switchman for the East Coast Railway. In 1964 he made local headlines when he was arrested for allowing a forty-seven car freight train to block rush-hour traffic for thirty minutes ...
- 866: Racism
- ... wrong to separate cultures, we should try to work out our differences and live together in peace. Signs of anti-Semitism growing amongst blacks. In November 1993, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, made a speech at Kean College in Union, New Jersey. He accused Jews of e ffb xploiting black tenants. He shamed Jewish participation in the civil rights movement. *He accused the Jews of "sucking the blood from the black community". Regarding ... working for less pay. One of the most important people in the history of the struggle for equality is Martin Luther King Jr. He was born in Atlanta, on January 15, 1929. He entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen and was ordained a Baptist Minister at the age of seventeen. He believed in solving problems without violence. In the year 1955, King organized a bus boycott to protest enforced ...
- 867: Botany
- ... you have probably found one that appeals to you. But how should you prepare for your new career in the wonderful world of botany? Well, first you should keep in mind that four years of college and a Bachelor’s degree are the bare essentials for most of the careers aforementioned. If you have these requirements, careers as laboratory technicians or technical assistants in education, industry, government, museums, parks and botanical ... and research positions in universities and colleges, a Ph.D. is vital. For those of you still in high school, its never too early to plan ahead. When selecting your courses be sure to include college preparatory classes including English, mathematics, foreign language, physics, chemistry, biology, social studies and humanities. You should also participate in science fairs and clubs. Try getting summer jobs and/or internships having to do with biology ...
- 868: Bill Clinton
- ... would attend a band camp in the Ozark Mountains. His hard work paid off when he became top saxophone player at his school and won first chair in state band. Bill Clinton recognized that although college would be expensive, it would give him the education he needed to accomplish his goals. His hard work in school, combined with his music ability, earned him many academic and music scholarships. With the aid ... program and it was located in the nations capital. He earned is Bachelor of Science Degree in International Affairs and worked an intern in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. He then continued college in Oxford University in England and Yale University. At Yale, he maintained his interest in government by campaigning for a Senator candidate in Connecticut. He also met Hillary Rodham, whom he would later marry on ...
- 869: Dna Replication
- ... Watson was already very interested in science, particularly in birds. He was born in 1928 from the city Chicago. Watson’s interest in DNA grew out of desire, first picked up as a seniour in college, to learn about the gene. By the first time he got into graduate school at Indiana University, he decided that if he was going to understand genes, he needed to understand the simplest form of ... growing up in England, he received a children’s encyclopedia from his parents, which exposed him to the world of science. His fascination with this world has continued throughout his whole life. He received his college degree in physics and was starting graduate school when the World War II began. During the war, Crick worked on weapons for the British Admiralty. He was in his late 20’s by the time ...
- 870: The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What a Change!
- ... to illustrate the conflict between the desire to confess and the necessity of self-concealment. Hawthorne grew up with his two sisters and their widowed mother, and an uncle saw to his education at Bowdoin College. In 1852, Hawthorne wrote the campaign biography of Franklin Pierce, an old college friend. The best of Hawthorn's early fiction was gathered in Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Snow-Image. These capture the complexity's of the New England Puritan heritage. Hawthorne ...
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