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- 1191: Hitler
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good grades in most of his classes. However, in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only passed in Gym and Drawing. He dropped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one of his dreams was to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show, but he never showed any originality or creative ...
- 1192: Sponsors and Sports
- ... up steam because companies are realizing that they could make money on women too. These shoe wars have trickled down to the collegiate level, where companies pay schools to wear their sneakers, and even the high school level where basketball camps held yearly bring in the newest and best talent available. A positive effect that sponsors have on the NBA is that basketball is increasing worldwide. People like and watch the game ... see their heroes and dream of playing basketball because companies give basketball a good image. A negative effect though is that these shoe wars sometimes lead to too much control. Players at the college and high school levels know that if they are good enough, jumping to the NBA is first on their list because of the money being offered. Nike and Reebok and the other companies give more money ...
- 1193: Engineers: The Builders of Tomorrow
- ... to life magazine, We have taken the computer and made it everyone's tool. (Life, 32) The computer went from being under the control of a very privileged group to being available to everyone. Today, High School kids have more computer power than some of the most elite three decades ago. Says Ted Hoffman to Life magazine. (qtd in Life, 32) Even today's cars cannot run without this silicon marvels embedded ... sociable and articulate. They're the front line troops in the battlefield for the environment and market share. (Alpert, 87) We have always viewed engineers as nerds and geekazoids who never had a date in high school, college or ever in their life. Now, they are the ones that are making this world better for us to live in. Engineering is a way of expressing ones creativeness. Such as in ...
- 1194: The Chocolate War: Comparison Between Book and Movie
- ... Brother Leon is an adult and Archie is just a teenager, they both have many common qualities. Archie and Brother Leon are both leaders in there own way. Brother Leon is the leader of a school, and Archie is the head of the Vigils. They are both very mean males. And they both have the power of getting people to do what they want. Jerry is a Freshman in high school, which has a tradition in which the eldest kids pick on the newcomers. And in Jerry's case there is a high school "Gang," who chooses freshman and make them do things that would ...
- 1195: Causes Of Civil War
- ... to turn Dartmounth College from a private to a state unversity. The case was thrown into the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Marshall ruled that the state did not have the right to change the school from private to state university. McCulloch vs. Maryland centered around the State of Maryland taxing the Bank of the United States. Worester vs. Georgia was where Georgia wanted to extend their jurisdiction into the tribal lands of the Native Americans. The "Midnight Judges" was where John Adams, who was the President of the United States, appointed many of his party members into high powered positions just before midnight of his last term as President. The Alien and Seditions Acts was o change the school from private to state university. McCulloch vs. Maryland centered around the State of Maryland taxing the Bank of the United States. Worester vs. Georgia was where Georgia wanted to extend their jurisdiction into the ...
- 1196: Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader of Germany
- ... bench that resembled the swastika, which was later used to symbolize the Nazi party. Adolf was a fairly good student. He received good grades in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed mathematics and German. He dropped out of school at the age of 16, spending only ten years in school. From childhood it was Adolphs dream to become an artist. He was a fairly good artist, as some of his surviving paintings and drawings show but he really didnt have any originality. ...
- 1197: The Owls Are Not What They See
- ... or helpless, especially if they are sexually active (George 110)? Twin Peaks feeds off of the lust of society to see women in these situations, which can be seen as simply a means to receive high viewer ratings (which it did). There are few, if any, strong women in the town of Twin Peaks. The only strong women to exist are Nadine (who is only physically strong), Catherine, Denise, and Norma ... of a male character for support. Nadine, who after attempting suicide, becomes physically strong due to an excessive adrenaline production. She is, at this point, also insane, thinking she is eighteen years old and in high school. Even though she is strong, she is still treated as an object by high school student Mike, who only dates her for the sexual gratification that only a woman as strong as Nadine could ...
- 1198: Violence: Children Who Own The Streets
- ... and hostile people only had hands and fists and knives to attack people, surely, only a small percentage of the current 24,000 gun homicides would actually occur. The five children killed in Stockton, California, school yard by Patrik Purdy, or the massacre of 22 people killed at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, would not have happened if guns were not available. It is estimated that about one half of ... getting killed, Some of the violence happens in the schools and this is one story. A dozen teenagers watched as a fifteen year old student shot and killed a seventeen year old classmate at Reseda High School in February of 1993. ( California ). Robert Heard, a Reseda High football player, confronted Michael Shean Ensley in a corridor during midmorning snack break. He fired once, hitting Ensley in the chest. Ensley staggered outside ...
- 1199: Creative Story: Concussion
- Creative Story: Concussion " Ding , Ding, Ding." School had just ended. My butt had been just freed from the oppression of that chair for the rest of my life. Never again was I planning to sit down in Mr. Dicksons room again. But ... trails?" I asked. "to the bike trails" they replied. We had been going to the bike trails for weeks now. Every day we came back for another thrill. So, with haste we sped away from school. Our first stop was my house. " going to the bike trails , Mom" I said while grabbing a box of little debbie snacks. "O.K., be home for supper" she said. This was in code it ... steed while sucking down as much sugar as possible. We finally arrived at the bike trails. We then Infiltrated the left over food that we bought from Dons Deli. We were all on a sugar high, it's now time to ride. We did the usual. Had jump contests, fix jumps, and practiced new tricks. I had a good day, my jumps were perfect. And we would soon would move ...
- 1200: Causes Of Civil War
- ... to turn Dartmounth College from a private to a state unversity. The case was thrown into the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Marshall ruled that the state did not have the right to change the school from private to state university. McCulloch vs. Maryland centered around the State of Maryland taxing the Bank of the United States. Worester vs. Georgia was where Georgia wanted to extend their jurisdiction into the tribal lands of the Native Americans. The "Midnight Judges" was where John Adams, who was the President of the United States, appointed many of his party members into high powered positions just before midnight of his last term as President. The Alien and Seditions Acts was o change the school from private to state university. McCulloch vs. Maryland centered around the State of Maryland taxing the Bank of the United States. Worester vs. Georgia was where Georgia wanted to extend their jurisdiction into the ...
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