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- 971: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse for two and a half years until he had enough money to pay for his first year at the University of Michigan. He finished college with the financial aid of the National Youth Administration supplemented by his salary as night editor on the Michigan Daily newspaper. Before his graduation with a BA degree in 1938, he had written a number ... a basic question and demanding an answer. From the beginning though he presented his question as a subtle message that was awaiting an answer. His first thirty plays were more for entertainment written for strictly college, radio, and amateur performance, almost a dozen of his full-length plays were never produced. In a sense Millers characters represent his history as well his convictions. In his plays he tries to draw ...
- 972: Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
- ... contributions to the basic design of the computer through this Analytical machine. Babbage's book Economy of Machines and Manufactures (1832) initiated the field of study known as operational research. In 1810 Babbage Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1814 he graduated Peterhouse and received his MA from Cambridge in 1817. In 1820 he founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 through ... Green Cemetery. The Royal Society printed no obituary, and the Times ridiculed him. The parts of the Difference Engine that had seemed possible of completion in 1830 gathered dust in the Museum of King's College. In 1878 The Cayley committee told the government not to bother constructing Babbage's Analytical Engine. The 1880s knew Babbage primarily for his reform of mathematics at Cambridge. In 1899 the magazine Temple Bar ...
- 973: Causes Of Civil War
- ... of Secretary of State, but James Madison did not allow it. It was then taken to the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Marshall said the Supreme Court do not have control over such matters. Dartmounth College vs. Woodward case was about New Hampshire wanting to turn Dartmounth College from a private to a state unversity. The case was thrown into the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Marshall ruled that the state did not have the right to change the school from private to ...
- 974: Apathy 2
- ... 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 ...
- 975: Democracy -- Good Or Bad
- ... sacred. Any resemblance of traditionality or the old-fashioned ways is shunned as terribly wrong. "No weapons were involved. [It was a] traffic stop, just [a] traffic stop. It just so happens [he was a] college graduate. No drugs. No guns. Nobody stole anything. Something is terrible wrong." The article also goes into some detail about his college football accomplishments. How does that concern someone trying to disarm a police officer? This is similar to the story of Euphiletos and his trial of murder. By law, Euphiletos clearly did the correct thing. However ...
- 976: Thomas P. O'Neill
- ... was the case. Student kept badgering him with questions of his support of the foreign policy of Dean Rusk, the secretary of state. Finally a student got him with a question. A student at Boston College, Tip's alma matter, said, "Sen. O'Neill you have told the public about your many briefings of the war by General Westmoreland, Robert McNamara, the CIA, and even President Johnson but have you ever ... do. All his political colleagues and constituents were lost. Every one. Tip was getting the squeeze from his voters and the democratic party. His approval rate went from around eighty percent to about fifteen. Rioting college students were referred to Tip's kids. Tip was infuriated at being blamed for their actions. The Boston Globe printed a headline in response to riots that said," O'Neill is Dove, academic community influence ...
- 977: Education
- ... publics denials, and the educational system, provides for students. To support these denials DeMott gives us some assumptions of the general public s beliefs on education. The first assumption is about intelligence, an individual is college material, intellectual because he/she was born smart and it s up them to take advantage of it, and that teachers see this genetic trait. According to your intellectual level the school system will see ... when schools begin to do their job they didn t allow lower class students to achieve their highest intellectual ability. Well off students with weak academic records was still far off more likely to attend college than poor students with strong academic grades. The idea that only for minorities school was seen as an alien culture. This approach of fairness had an education problem. Public education institutions are largely attended by ...
- 978: Drunk Driving
- ... 000 of the nations 12 million current undergraduates will ultimately die from alcohol-related causes, more than the number that will get MA s and PhD s combined. While more than one-third of the college students surveyed claimed to have driven under the influence, only 1.7% said they were arrested. During a typical weekend, an average of one teenager dies each hour in a car crash. And, nearly fifty ... it is true that most people who are arrested for drunk driving do have very high BAC levels. But for that few people who are arrested for low BAC levels, hundreds of lives are saved. College kids are known to go bar hopping from one bar to another and get drinks from each bar. When they leave from their first bar after a couple of drinks they may have a low ...
- 979: A Modest Essay
- A Modest Essay ESSAY: IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU ... cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis. But I have not yet gone to college.
- 980: Alexander Hamilton
- ... gain his education was provided by family friends. Seizing this, Hamilton arrived the grammar school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey in the autumn of 1772. One year later, in 1774, Hamilton graduated and entered King's College in New York City. There, Hamilton obtained a bachelor's of arts degree in just one year. As the War of Independence began, Hamilton took a trip to Boston, which seems to have solidified his ... an Anglican clergyman, Samuel Seabury, denounced the first Continental Congress in several Westchester Farmer letters, Hamilton replied with two powerful pamphlets. His military aspirations also flowered with a series on early accomplishments. At King's College he joined a patriot volunteer band known as the "Corsicans" and drilled every morning before classes. In August of 1775, the "Corsicans" participated in a raid to seize the cannon from the Battery. On March ...
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