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- 3131: Neil Postman
- ... must always be skeptical. He urges teachers of all subjects to break free from traditional teachings as well as "linguistical tyranny" His first principle regards the process of definition. As I sit in an every day classroom I notice several things. Many, if not all student simply nod their heads while a teacher explains, be it a theory in Math, or a formula in Science. Not once have I encountered a ... conducting experiments. Postman calls for the art of question asking to be infused with the current school curriculum, because to often students do not ask questions. When a student arrives at school on the first day they often notice many changes. Although welcome, these changes sometimes make a student wonder why he or she was not asked if they would prefer them. This is the perfect example of how one phrases ... story, or trying to increase the appeal of consumer goods. Postman wants reification to be taught in school so students may see the inner workings of it. Reification is a very potent thing in every day life, and the study of reification in school is an admirable thing. Students should be made wary of advertising gimmicks.
- 3132: Michael Jordan
- ... Fresno by 7:30 that evening for Rod Higgins charity basketball game. That same summer, after the Bulls had been bounced from the playoffs, Jordan took his Father, Shiver, Whitfield and Kearns on a 10-day cross-country trip, which was paid by Jordan. "Once you are friends with him he really works at keeping that friendship and nursing that friendship," Higgins says. Michael is a talented person that has achieved ... it. He was going to test you to the end." (Naughton, 1992, Pg. 41) "Michael was always… testingus." James Jordan told Red Kerr. "If we told him the stove was hot, don’t touch, he’d touch it. If there was a wet-paint sign, he would touch the paint to see if it was wet." (Naughton, 1992, Pg. 42) Jordan wants children to test themselves to prove to that they ...
- 3133: Michael Jordan
- Who Influenced Michael Jordan to Become the Player and Person He is Today? I. Introduction A. Background B. Thesis Statement II. Body A. Childhood of MJ B. MJ the Child Player C. The College Years D. MJ- The Pro Athlete 1. Life in the NBA 2. Life in the MLB E. Back to the NBA 1. Bye, Bye, Bye (Retirement from the Game) III. Conclusion IV. Appendixes A. Charts and Statistics ... family. Family is a vital part of life, and love even more vital. One thing if you don’t see anything else, see not to take advantage or take your family for granted because one day they may not be here. Don’t forget about the people who made you who you are. Never get so full of yourself that you only care about what you do. Basketball is what Mike ...
- 3134: Langston Hughes
- ... on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. Through these experiences a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as "The ... Weary Blues" were penned. He returned to Harlem, in 1924, the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his writing flourished. In 1925 he moved to Washington, D.C., still spending more time in blues and jazz clubs. He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...(these songs) had the pulse beat of the people who ... returned to his beloved Harlem later that year. Langston Hughes received a scholarship to Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. degree in 1929. In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D by his alma mater; a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935 and a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1940. Based on a conversation with a man he knew in a Harlem bar, he created a character know as ...
- 3135: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... experience at Dresden that Vonnegut portrays is his fear of technology. Initially, the intention of the story is for the narrator to write about what the scientists who invented the atomic bomb were doing the day it was dropped on Hiroshima. To this effect, one of the scientists in the story said, "Science has now known sin," to which another replied, "What is sin?" (Vonnegut, Cradle, 21). The focus on technology ... of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. While Vonnegut was in Germany during World War II, his mother became depressed and killed herself with sleeping pills the night before he came home for a Mother's Day visit (Amer. Lit. Bio., 301). He once wrote: [Suicide] has always been a temptation to me, since my mother solved so many problems with it. The child of a suicide will naturally think of death ... General Electric Company in Schenectady (Wakeman, 1494). He used his various experiences as a writer to create the narrator for Cat's Cradle. The narrator is a writer planning to write a book called The Day the World Ended. His research for this book provides a base plot for the story, on which all of the other action happens. He also includes writers in The Sirens of Titan and God ...
- 3136: King Arthur
- ... historian, during the twelfth century, the legendary 'king of England' has been the source of inspiration for kings, poets, artists and dreamers alike. The most famous work is probably Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, completed around 1470, and published in many abridged and complete versions. Malory's work contains in one the legend that had been continually added to over the years by many different writers who introduced ... that of a Celtic god who was said to lay sleeping in a cave on a remote Western Island. This god had once ruled over a peaceful and happy kingdom, but had been overthrown. One day he would rise again and return to rule. There are stories of this ilk that explicitly name Arthur, such as the Wizard of Alderley edge, in which Merlin the magician guards Arthur and his knights ...
- 3137: John Keats
- ... clarity his work expresses. JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE 1 When I have fears that I may cease to be 2 Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, 3 Before high-piled books, in charactery, 4 Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; 5 When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, 6 Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, 7 And think that I may never live to trace 8 Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; 9 And when I feel, fair ...
- 3138: Jim Henson
- ... performing puppets on a local channel’s Saturday morning program. The next year, while studying at the University of Maryland, he was given a five-minute show called Sam and Friends which aired twice a day. This show introduced the first Muppets, marionette puppets. The success of this show led him to many appearances on shows such as The Today Show and The Steve Allen Show. During this time Jim began ... viewed television program in the world. From this show many movies and spin-off television shows have been produced. Jim Henson died in 1990 from pneumonia right after his last project for Muppet Vision 3-D, an attraction for Disney World, and right before he was going to sell his company to Disney Studios. Today his son runs and owns the Henson Company. Jim Henson possessed many lovable qualities about him ...
- 3139: Jasper Daniel AKA Jack Daniel
- ... in 1866. This is a National Historic site that has had its license since 1866. The quality Tennessee Whiskey goes through the same processes that it did when founded by Mr. Jack Daniel. To this day they are sticking by Mr. Jack’s motto: "Each day we make it, we will make it the best we can." To help Mr. Daniel hold down the fort in Lynchburg he introduced the business to his nephew Lem Motlow. Mr. Motlow and Mr. Daniel ... air. To keep the wood from burning up someone controls the flames with a water hose. After charcoal mellowing the Jack Daniel’s whiskey will be placed in barrels made of charred white oak. Every day these barrels of Jack Daniel’s whiskey are rolled up into barrelhouses that are scattered throughout the hills. The whiskey will sleep deep in these hills until it is smooth enough to come out. ...
- 3140: Indira Gandhfemalei
- ... Jayakar 67-68). Motilal’s involvement with the Congress made his home the hub of the freedom movement. It became the place where earnest, khadi-clad men came and went at all hours of the day and night; it became a place that rang with drafts, declarations, and debates. Indira absorbed the tension and excitement of those days and became a quiet, serious child, fired by a sense of mission she ... The death of her son devastated Indira(Sahgal 168). In years to come, there were other indications that Mrs. Gandhi’s famous political instinct was finally leaving her. It was the last was the last day of October 1984. Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, set out to walk the one hundred yards that separated her home from her office. It was just after 9:00 A.M. and Indira had ... bullets, at least eleven which had pierced her chest and stomach. Although she was rushed immediately to the hospital by shaken aides and relatives, she was dead when she arrived(Currimbhoy 5-6). On the day of her death, Indira Gandhi’s dearest wish was fufilled-her son, Rajiv Gandhi, succeeded as her prime minister of India, continuing for the third generation of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty(Currimbhoy 6). I ...
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