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- 1091: Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
- ... paintings were done in water colors and mostly of landscapes. He was painting even after the year of 1919 when politics became his overwhelming concern. Hitler was an extremely bright child. He even said, "The school work was ridiculously easy, leaving me so much free time that the sun saw more of me than my room...". Although as he got older his marks started to slip and the teachers began to ... going well for young Adolf. After a year of living without dad the Hitler family moved to Hafeld where Alois Sr. had purchased a house. A month after his arrival Hitler entered the little county school at Fischlam bei Lambach on May 1, 1895. On June 25, 1895 Alois retired at 58 to a life of leisure and beekeeping. Now Alois could devote more of his time to disciplining Adolf, so poor little Adolf's life became a rigid order between home and school. The only escape Hitler had was playing in the open countryside at cowboys and Indians and soldiers. On January 21, 1896 Klara gave birth to a daughter Paula, so Hitler was "thereby pushed farther ...
- 1092: Martha Graham
- ... about people's actions (Pratt 13). Dr. Graham then took his daughter to a performance of Ruth St. Denis in 1911 where she was mesmerized by the dancers (Harmon et al. 182). Martha entered Cumnock School of Expression after graduating from high school. There she trained in dance, drama, and self-expressions. Martha's love to study people's actions was incredibly strong. After Graham graduated from the junior college in 1916, she then enrolled in Denishawn ...
- 1093: The First Amendment
- ... effective means for people to use their freedoms effectively to bring about change from the government. Freedom of speech is constantly being challenged as is evidenced in a recent court case where a Gloucester County school district censored reviews of two R-rated movies from a school newspaper. Superior Court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students' rights because it limits editorial control of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. A newly proposed bill (A-557) would prevent school officials from controlling the content of student publications. Critics of the bill ...
- 1094: Business 2
- ... Be patient. This will help a company in a big way. You want to create a climate that encourages upward communication. Have the people below at the bottom give ideas and partisapate in some meets. High Tech communication is a big part on keeping in touch with employees virual offices , Telecommuting , and E-mail. There are four diffenerent communication styles, the 1st one is, Emotive Style, 2nd one is Director Style, 3rd one is Reflective Style, and the 4th one is Supportive Style. The upper-right-hand quadrant combines high sociavillity and high dominance. This is characteristic of emotive style of communication (Figure out of the book 3.6) An example of the emotive type of person is comedian Jay Leno. Roise O Donnell also projects an ...
- 1095: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- ... love,” from Maria his mother. (Dictionary of Scientific Biography. p. 291.) As Dmitri grew older, it became apparent to everyone that Dmitri understood complex topics better than others did. When Dmitri turned 14 and entered school in Tobolsk, a second major family tragedy occurred-his mother’s glass factory burned down to the ground. The family had no money to rebuild the factory, except for the money that Dmitri’s mother ... had saved for him to attend a university. Maria wasn’t about to give up her dreams that she had for her son and she knew that Dmitri’s only hope to go on to school was to win a scholarship. Maria constantly pushed Dmitri to improve his grades and prepare for his entrance exams. At a very young age, Dmitri had already known that he wanted to study science and ... family and moved to St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg was in the same state as Moscow, but the family found an old friend of Dmitri’s father working at the Pedagogical Institute, his father’s old school. After a little persuasion, Dmitri was allowed to take the exams and passed with grades that landed him a full scholarship. Dmitri entered the university’s science teacher training program in the fall of ...
- 1096: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
- ... Wilhelm and his family moved to Apeldoorn, Nederland. His father owned a thriving cloth business so he was pretty well off. He lived right next to the Kostschool of Martinus Hermanus van Doorn, a boarding school with around eighty students, which he attended. He was expected after he graduated to go into his father s business and eventually inherit it. At sixteen, he finished van Doorn s school. His parents thought he was too young to start working, and he had a strong desire to learn, so a few years later, he ended up at the University of Utrecht. There was one problem ... the name of the man he had lived with in the past. People tried to find the real author but all they could find were the initials W.C.R. Wilhelm would later go to school in another college called Swiss Federal Technical School in Zurich, Switzerland. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy on June 22, 1869. While he was attending the Swiss Federal Technical School, he met the ...
- 1097: Greek Daily Living
- Some people believe that no civilization has ever been able to compete with today's western culture and lifestyle. However, the ancient Greeks with their amazing ingenuity were able to develop an amazingly high standard of living for their time. Although the Greeks had little technology, they had a creativity that enabled them to live much in the same way as current civilizations founded over a thousand years later ... third birthday. At a spring festival the toddlers were given miniature wine jugs to symbolize the end of their babyhood (Schofield 24). Education was very important to each of the Greek city-states. Boys attended school from age seven to age fifteen, and the rich employed slaves as private tutors. The Greeks taught the Illiad and the Oddysey to the children along with reading, writing, music, and physical education (Poulton 58 ... the bride was led to her new home by her husband along with a procession of friends who showered the couple with fruit and grain for good luck (Purves 16). Women were not held in high regard in Ancient Greece. Women were not allowed to vote or take part in public affairs (Purves 7). Women's power was limited to day-to-day household matters. They spent most of their ...
- 1098: Margaret Sanger
- ... and, consequently, the stone cutting commissions that kept the family fed were often lacking. The children did not fair much better than their father in terms of public ridicule. The Higgins children would arrive to school to chants of "Children of the Devil". One day, her teacher saw to it that Margaret was made the brunt of the torment in class, at which point she simply picked up her things and left the schoolhouse vowing never to return. Margaret was exceptionally bright in school and her father pleaded with her to go back. Margaret refused. Margaret's two older sisters, Mary and Nan, offered to pay for the cost of a private school out of their paychecks if Margaret agreed to wait tables for her room and board. So, in 1896 Margaret ended up at Claverack, one of the first coeducational schools in the East. It was ...
- 1099: A Discussion On Multimedia
- ... with spectacular multimedia effects, drawing surfers in young and old. Advertising on the internet is relatively cheap (compared to television) and is very specialized and often more effective. Companies can choose to advertise on certain high hit rate sites that pertain to that company's field. This makes the advertisement seen by more of it's target audience, and as a result, the advertisement will be more effective. The explosive growth ... will play a much more significant role in the future. Since their introduction in schools in the early 1980s computers and computer software have been increasingly accessible to students and teachers--in classrooms, computer labs, school libraries, and outside of school. By the mid-1990s there were about 4.5 million computers in elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States. Schools buy Macintosh and IBM-compatible computers almost exclusively (though mostly Macs, dang it!!), ...
- 1100: Albert Einstein 3
- Around 1886 Albert Einstein began his school career in Munich. As well as his violin lessons, which he had from age six to age thirteen, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, in particular the calculus, beginning around 1891. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan but Einstein remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to ... be stateless for a number of years. He did not even apply for Swiss citizenship until 1899, citizenship being granted in 1901. Following the failing of the entrance exam to the ETH, Einstein attended secondary school at Aarau planning to use this route to enter the ETH in Zurich. While at Aarau he wrote an essay (for which was only given a little above half marks!) in which he wrote ...
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