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- 1911: Off Campus Essay
- ... would have an excessive amount of in-school absences. This could lead to parent conferences and suspension, and possibly expulsion in some cases. When a student misses or skips a class, the information taught that day would not be accessible in the same format which others have learned. One’s academic grades can be effected from lack of information by truancy. Irresponsible students who choose to take the risk of leaving their school after lunch for the remainder of the day will not have this opportunity if an open campus is kept closed. Local businesses and neighborhoods can be disturbed if open campuses are permitted during the lunch hour. When groups of students are on their ... to many people doing work in their homes and offices, and this can be disrupted by groups of students walking around creating a stir. Lunch is possibly one of the most praised recesses in a day because it is the longest break between work. Students who drive often go to their favorite restaurants and diners for lunch. They can lead to an increase in traffic in the school and neighborhood ...
- 1912: Overpopulation
- ... to the earth nowadays. What will happened if there are 10 people in a single bed? Everybody can think about the result of too many people in a small place. The world population is increasing day by day but the side of the earth stills the same. There will be too many people on earth and people will be run out of resources, water, space and food. How and where can the next ... Brazil, and Southeast Asia, roughly 70 percent of primate species face extinction." from Losing Strands in the Web of Life: Vertebrate Declines and the Conservation of Biological Diversity by John Tuxhill, Worldwatch Institute. And one day on the earth there will be no animals, no trees and the ocean is fulfilled with waste and dust. People cause all of those things by the over of population by the over use ...
- 1913: Ty Cobb
- ... joke. He fought back with his fists, refused to speak to his tormentors, developed ulcers, took to sleeping with a revolver under his pillow, and soon began to display an obsessive animosity toward blacks. One day when a black groundskeeper tried to shake his hand, Cobb slapped him, chased him into the dugout and then tried to strangle the man's wife when she came to his aid (Ward and Burns ... exonerated all parties involved, stating the case to be "rather old" and sensing overwhelming public support for Cobb and Tris Speaker, another Hall-of-Famer involved in the incident ("The Cobb Gambling Scandal" 20). One day, after a crippled New York heckler called Cobb "a half-nigger" in 1912, he climbed into the stands and savagely beat the man. When an onlooker pleaded that the heckler had no hands, Cobb replied ... the league, and on October 9, 1910, he found out just how much. Cobb and Cleveland's Nap Lajoie were in a dead-heat tie for the American League batting title. Cobb sat out that day's doubleheader. His teammates were angry at him, knowing he was just trying to keep his average high by sitting out. Nearly all players in the league were rooting for Lajoie to win. The ...
- 1914: Character Change Brought On By
- ... actually wants to gain something from, not another weekend warrior journey, trying to conquer the natural world. Ed leaves his house in hope for friends, music, sport, a little drinking and a detachment from his day to day life. Right from the start, Ed begins his transformation, however it is only the first of two. Ed's first transformation is ongoing. The little sensations he receives from the river and it's surrounding ... us with something we liked. Not all of us, but so many. Simply by walking up and shaking a set of chitterlings or a well-boiled hog maw at them during the clear light of day! (Ellison 264-5) In this passage, I.M. begins to disassociate from his educated ways and ideals. He is reverting back to being a member of a black community, not some group of "educated" ...
- 1915: The Scarlet Letter: Mr. Dimmsdale
- ... him, "Will you stand up on the scaffold with us tomorrow?" (134), Later, she asks, "Will you go hand and hand with us out of the forest?" (185) And he replies that only on judgement day they will go hand in hand together. He is so afraid that if anyone finds out about his sin, he will be destroyed because he is a "holy" man. If anyone found out, then they would look down on him and he would be shunned like Hester. When the three of them were on the scaffold together and he told God of his sin, he felt better the next day because he got the sin off his chest, but not the letter though, even though he didn't tell anyone. At the end of the book, Hester, Pearl, and Dimmsdale decide to move to another country and start a new life. This is Dimmsdale's way of avoiding and getting away from his sin. On the last day of his life, the day before they are to leave, Dimmsdale is to walk in a parade and then give an election sermon. He knows that his health is fading, so he writes the ...
- 1916: A Trip To Panama City
- A Trip To Panama City Day 1: We arrived at Omar Torrijos airport via American Airlines early in the afternoon. We purchased our required tourist cards (3 balboas, as US dollars are called in Panama) at the airport, then caught a ... by a monk who painted it black to disguise it. When we finished touring we returned to our hotel and then ate dinner at El Pez de Ora, one of the city' famous seafood restaurants. Day 2: We woke early and headed out for a morning of shopping at the Mercado Publico. I bought some jewelry and some small wooden figurines as souvenirs, but when I asked “Donde esta los sombreros ... and theater. We ate dinner at an Italian restaurant then went to the Teatro National for a performance of the Folkloric Ballet. The Folkloric Ballet features native folk dances and costumes and was very entertaining. Day 3: We rented a car and left Panama City headed southwest along the Pan American Highway. First we visited the Parque Natural Metropolitana, a zoo on the outskirts of Panama with monkeys, deer, sloths, ...
- 1917: Captain Kidd
- ... William Kidd’s farewell speech: My name was Captain Kidd, when I sailed, when I sailed, And so wickedly I did, God’s laws I did forbid, When I sailed, when I sailed I roam’d from sound to sound, And many a ship I found, And then I sunk or burn’d, When I sail’d. I murder’d William Moore, And laid him in his gore, Not many leagues from shore, When I sail’d. Farewell to young and old, All jolly seamen bold, You’re welcome to my ...
- 1918: Oral Roberts
- ... and the fact that the kids made fun of him. To try and make him feel better his mom would tell him that she gave him to God. He was God’s property and one day he would preach the gospel. His father always said that Oral would have the greatest revivals of his time. Oral tried to put those thoughts out of his mind, but they always remained. His playmates ... The City of Faith was erected next to the university and combined medicine and prayer. By age twenty he was known and effective as a preacher. He was married to Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock on Christmas Day 1938. In 1941 he was elected by the Eastern Oklahoma Conference as a clerical delegate. That same year Oral began to be busy and productive. He conducted revivals all along the East. In such states ... when Oral agreed to be a pastor in North Georgia in the fall. By January the Roberts family was back in Shawnee and Oral had reenrolled in school. Oral received an urgent phone call one day telling him that one of the deacons of the church had dropped a motor on his foot. Oral went to the deacon and placed his hand upon his foot and said "Jesus heal". The ...
- 1919: Euthanasia: The Right to Die
- ... Examples showing why euthanasia is receiving national attention. B. A summary of reasons offered by those opposed to euthanasia is given. C. A summary of reasons offered by those in favor of euthanasia is given. D. Transition into my argument. II. Body A. A person has the right to die with dignity. B. Everything should not be done to prolong life if the patient does not want it. C. Doctors are not always responsible to do everything they can to save somebody. D. Refute the argument that euthanasia is unethical. III. Conclusion A. Thoughts on freedom people have. B. A quote to end with. "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and ... ended with the crash. He can only articulate - only make sounds to convey that he's hungry or wet. If he were to become acutely ill, I would prefer not to try saving him. I'd want to let pneumonia end it for him" (1987, p. 92). I believe that a doctor should do what he can up to a point. If a person is at the point where death ...
- 1920: Cubans
- ... Santeria's also believe that ritual devotions involving musical rhythms, offerings of food and animal sacrifice, divination with fetishes made of bones or shells, trance like seizures, and other rites can reveal the sources of day-to-day problems and suggest solutions to them. The Cuban government has been formally supportive of organized religion. Religious freedom was guaranteed in the 1976 constitution, but it is very difficult to practice one's religion openly ... women publicly stand up for their rights than one might expect. While the extended family remains strong in terms of housing, the families often live together, partly because of the housing shortage. A reliance on day care centers and other public institutions have substantially replaced the traditional Hispanic family pattern, in which children are almost totally cared for by parents or grandparents. The community, neighborhood, church, schools and production cooperative ...
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