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- 981: Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- ... effectively passing on the genes to their son. While growing up he learned many things, his parents were extremely social and intellectual and they pushed him to achieve the highest of statuses. He went to college at Harvard University and then moved to London to go to Oxford. He then became a citizen of England in 1915. While in England Eliot held many jobs to keep the payments on his 5th floor English apartment and his college tuition. Eliot quickly became popular with Britain and was known as a great poet and a literal critic. Eliot is best known for two of his works: The Waste Land (1922) and The Love Song ...
- 982: Be True To Thyself
- ... good fight (Ellison16). Following this he was always doing what was right and was considered an example of desired conduct just as [his] grandfather had been (Ellison 17). Once the invisible man goes off to college he begins to act in a manner to please Mr. Norton. Not only does Mr. Norton not identify with the invisible man racially, he views blacks as a mark on the scoreboard of [his] achievement ... has always been (Ellison 566) and that his life was merely a farce. He realizes that other people controlled his whole life: from his grandfather s death; to driving Mr. Norton; to being expelled from college by Dr. Bledsoe; to being a member of The Brotherhood . He understands that he was never given a chance to think for himself and develop an identity befitting him: My problem was that I always ...
- 983: Violence And Pornography
- ... game to other males at the party who want to have sex with her too, whether she wants to or not (Burt 217). Pauline Bart reports that studies held simultaneously at UCLA and St. Xavier College on students, demonstrate that pornography does positively reinforce the rape myth. Men and women were exposed to over four hours of exotic video (of varying types; i.e. soft, hard core, etc.) and then asked ... on Pornography. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. Nicols, Mark. Viewers and Victims. Newsweek. 10 Aug. 1983: 60. Russell, Diana E.H., ed. Making Violence Sexy: Feminist View on Pornography. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994. Websters Dictionary. Miami Florida. P.S.I. & Associates. 1987: 286. Weisz, Monica G., and Christopher M. Earls. The Effects of Exposure to Filmed Sexual Violence on Attitudes Toward Rape. Journal of Interpersonal ...
- 984: Robert Frost 2
- ... went to Lawrence High School, where he wrote the words to the school hymn, and graduated as co-valedictorian. Frost read rabidly of Dickens, Tennyson, Longfellow, and many others. Frost was then sent to Dartmouth college by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place for him to train to become a businessman. Frost read even more in college, and learned that he loved poetry. His poetry had little success getting published, and he had to work various jobs to make a living, such as a shoemaker, a country schoolteacher, and a farmer. In ...
- 985: A Breif History Of Comics
- ... allow to be published. One of these featured, as the punchline, a puppy being thrown into a pit of hungry lions. The school counselor took a special interest in him after that. Amend attended Amhurst College where he majored in physics. After graduating college, he decided to pursue cartooning. He held a few small jobs in animation, and even a job with Industrial Light and Magic, until he erased a lead animator's work. After many rejections, Amend submitted ...
- 986: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... Thomas 1743 -- 1826 Third U.S. president; born in Albermarle County, Va. Son of a surveyor-landowner and a mother who was a member of the distinguished Randolph family of Virginia, he graduated from the College of William and Mary (1762) and read law under George Wythe. After several years of law practice, Jefferson was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses (1769--75) and sided with the revolutionary faction, writing ... four troubled years in that position (1797--1801), he beat Adams and, barely, Aaron Burr for the presidency, thanks in large part to the fact that his arch rival, Hamilton, supported him when the Electoral College vote was tied. Among the events of his triumphant first term (1801--05) were the successful war against Barbary pirates, the Louisiana Purchase (which more than doubled the size of the U.S.A.), and ...
- 987: Creative Writing: Stanley
- ... need of months of physical therapy. He and Donna spent all of their time in the hospital together. Kyle and Stan began to run the bowling alley, with another man named Pat. Pat was a college drop-out, about 24 years of age. His only flaws were that he needed to get laid, quit drinking, and quit gambling, because at work, he had the maturity of an infant. Kyle, who was ... and Stan was approaching his twenty-first birthday. All this meant to him really was that he didn't have to drive a friend to the store to buy beer. It was too late for college, he failed out two years ago, so all he had was his weed and his work. His car was shitty, his friends were flunking out of school left and right, and he hadn't got ...
- 988: Personal Writing: Significant Experience That Has Special Meaning
- ... when she realized that she would no longer be receiving the royal treatment anymore, she began to have second thoughts. She would no longer be a princess anymore, but instead, a mere speck in the college environment. After seventeen years of life, she finally began to realize how much she had taken for granted all of those years. She also began to understand that she would soon be taking on the ... most challanging task of her life so far. Princess Lauren was very hesitant, and scared, but at the same time, she was also very motivated, and excited. The day of Princess Lauren's departure for college is now quickly approaching. She's learning that the hardest days of her life are soon to come, as she enters, what her parents had always called, "the real world." And that will be a ...
- 989: Personal Writing: Going to School in the United States
- ... the oldest one in my family, all the responsibility of taking care of my brothers and cousins was carried upon my obligations. The expectation of graduating from high school and pursuing on to a prestige college came all suddenly crushing down upon my life. With this pressure at home in the United States, the most significant event that I had to deal with was my parents unhappily marriage. Receiving the news ... advice and speaking with my parents, I came to accept reality that I had to start growing up and stop being a baby. The idea of striving to work harder and better at my community college, Rio Hondo was to fulfill my dream of transferring into an university. I was determined to pursue this goal and to set an example on my brothers. If you set you mind to do something ...
- 990: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... a fellow seminarian student exclaimed, Good I hope the SOB dies following the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. He came to realize he could never escape being Black. While enrolled at Holy Cross College, the first in his family to attend college, he became an activist. He became interested in the Black Panther Party; he also founded the Black Student Union in 1971 at Holy Cross. He also states he believes in the American dream, because he ...
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