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- 1021: Womens Rights In 3rd World Cou
- ... front of me. He was a shopkeeper. It was nine o'clock at night. They came to our house and told him they had orders to kill him because he allowed me to go to school. The Mujahideen had already stopped me from going to school, but that was not enough. They then came and killed my father. I cannot describe what they did to me after killing my father." (15-year-old girl, p. 10) This is the story of a 15 year old girl who was repeatedly raped in her house by armed guards after they had killed her father for allowing her to go to school. Afghanistan's women do not have many rights at all. All women in Afghanistan are totally deprived of the right to education; Afghanistan has closed down all schools for girls! Women are also not ...
- 1022: Pain
- ... many things go wrong, or if one major thing in someone s life goes wrong. These things are meaningful and the misery involved is optional. An example of this could be someone who goes to school, but doesn t work, fails, and consequently ends up without a job, and feels miserable. This situation could have been avoided, if the person had worked hard at school. This demonstrates the fact that misery can be due to major losses or failures. Therefore even though insignificant causes of pain are inevitable, the things that mean the most can be maintained, and misery is ... If one makes dinner they may get burned, but food is needed for the person s survival. People take risks all the time and pain is somewhat inevitable at different degrees. Some people have a high tolerance for pain and seem to take more risks. Others are more cautious, but the element of pain is always a factor. Generally people are more susceptible to smaller sources of pain, because they ...
- 1023: William McKinley
- William McKinley Twenty-Fifth President 1897-1901 Born: 1/29/1843 Birthplace: Niles, Ohio William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio, on Jan. 29, 1843. He taught school, then served in the Civil War, rising from the ranks to become a major. McKinley opened a law office in Canton, Ohio, and in 1871 married Ida Saxton. Elected to Congress in 1876, he served ... Niles. William attended a one-room schoolhouse that stood on the site of this memorial. The family moved to Poland, Ohio when he was nine years old so that the children could attend a private school there called the Poland Academy. In school William enjoyed reading, debating, and public speaking. In fact, he was the president of the school’s first debate club. When he was 16 he attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, for a short ...
- 1024: Serial Killers
- ... court found that he wasn't. "The Night Stalker" would kill just because he liked to. Jerry Brudos Jerry Brudos was known as the Shoe Fetish Slayer. At age five Jerry found a pair of high heel shoes in the dump and became fascinated by them. Jerry took them home and wore them around until his mother found out, Jerry was severely punished. When Jerry was 16, he dug a tunnel hoping to capture a girl in it so he could make her do anything that he wanted. Still enchanted by the high heeled shoes, Jerry started to burglarize houses, stealing their high heeled shoes and sometimes lingerie. After stealing the items, Jerry would go home and try them on. In 1956 Jerry was arrested for assaulting a little girl and trying to rip her clothes off. ...
- 1025: ADHD On Child Intelligence
- ... tasks, than boys or control girls (Seidman et al., 1997). There is also significant findings that the level of intelligence affects ADHD children in different ways. More specifically, those with both ADHD and normal to high intelligence are more prone to accidents, and have a smaller number of steady friends. Children who were identified with low intelligence and ADHD were found to have more behavioral and emotional problems in their adolescence. Long term studies have found that the outcome of these children was continued academic problems and school failures (Aman et al., 1996). However, there is suggestion ADHD children show greater artistic ability when writing or drawing slowly and precisely (Morgan, 1997). Testing the intelligence of ADHD involves a number of measures. Psychoeducational ... affected. The Greene et al. (1995) study, argues that family size is of no significance. Conversely, when investigating parental style and family influence on ADHD IQ levels, Naussbaum (1990) reports that little evidence exists. Poor school achievement for ADHD children is also associated with the need for immediate reinforcement. These children have been shown to perform as well as others in situations where consistent, immediate and positive reinforcement is in ...
- 1026: The Catcher in The Rye: Chapter by Chapter Summary
- The Catcher in The Rye: Chapter by Chapter Summary Chapter 1 --------- The story is about Holden Caulfield, who is a boy who has just been kicked out of school. He's walking down a hill, were they are playing football. He's on his way to Mr. Spencer, an old teacher of his. It is cold and much wind. It's winter. So he ... asks him a lot about what subjects he's failed last term. Holden tells him he didn't fail English, but that was only because they had something that he had done before in another school. Mr. Spencer asks Holden to give him the exam paper on top of his chiffonier. He reads the paper out loud to Holden and after that he gives Holden lots of advice, but Holden gets ... has to go to the gym, which is a lie. Chapter 3 --------- Holden thinks by himself that he is a really terrific liar, and notices that this is actually pretty awful. He returns to his school, Pencey Prep. When he's in his room, in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing, he's trying to read a book, but Ackley, a guy that sleeps in the room next door, comes in through ...
- 1027: Santiago Ramon Y Cajal {Famous
- ... year completing this work. This great undertaking led him into many troublesome adventures. Cajal was a boy, who from a young age was not unknown to mischief. He spent most of his time outside of school with his boyhood friends making trouble in the local village. They would spend their idle time trespassing in local gardens, stealing flowers and fruits, or building contraptions to chase animals. Cajal's natural brilliance led ... leader of the group. It may seem funny at first, but Cajal's boyhood mischief was what led him to make his first childhood discovery of significance. As usual he had been in trouble at school, and because he did not respond well to regular punishments, so his strict schoolmasters devised new tortures for him. Cajal's teachers decided that to teach him some manners, they would prevent him from eating throughout the day by locking him in a dark room after school without light until after dinner was over. Although this punishment was severe, Cajal made the best of it. One day after school, as he was in this room, he realized that there was a ...
- 1028: Adolf Hitler's Traits
- ... some in leadership skills. Hitler, having great leadership skills, showed that leadership skills can be more important than brain power. A good education was something that Adolf Hitler did not have. He dropped out of school at the age of sixteen, spending only 10 years in school. Sadly, he didn’t even get into a art academy, even though it was his goal in life to become an artist. Arthur Schlesinger says that “However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school,”(Arthur M. Schlesinger 1985, ...
- 1029: Adolf Hitler
- ... day. Klara Hitler protected young Adolf from her short-tempered husband, Alois. Adolf grew into a thin, dark-haired, blue-eyed boy with an angular face (Twisted 63). At the age of 6, Hitler started school and showed excellent achievement in his classes. Outside of school young Hitler was energetic and had many friends. Adolf’s home life was far less happy. His father ran the household like a military boot camp. When his father was in the same room as ... signs of Adolf’s aggression showed up at the age of 7. Adolf would challenge his tyrannical father and was beaten severely for it. In 1900, at the age of 11, Hitler entered a secondary school that turned out to be disastrous. After entering the school, Adolf’s grades dropped in every subject except drawing. Hitler explains this change in academic performance in his book Mein Kampf. Hitler states that ...
- 1030: ADHD ON INTELLIGENCE
- ... tasks, than boys or control girls (Seidman et al., 1997). There is also significant findings that the level of intelligence affects ADHD children in different ways. More specifically, those with both ADHD and normal to high intelligence are more prone to accidents, and have a smaller number of steady friends. Children who were identified with low intelligence and ADHD were found to have more behavioral and emotional problems in their adolescence. Long term studies have found that the outcome of these children was continued academic problems and school failures (Aman et al., 1996). However, there is suggestion ADHD children show greater artistic ability when writing or drawing slowly and precisely (Morgan, 1997). Testing the intelligence of ADHD involves a number of measures. Psychoeducational ... affected. The Greene et al. (1995) study, argues that family size is of no significance. Conversely, when investigating parental style and family influence on ADHD IQ levels, Naussbaum (1990) reports that little evidence exists. Poor school achievement for ADHD children is also associated with the need for immediate reinforcement. These children have been shown to perform as well as others in situations where consistent, immediate and positive reinforcement is in ...
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