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- 1361: School Ties
- ... comes to Nazi- captured Poland looking for economic blooming and leaves as a savior of more than 1,100 Jews. Many of our grandparents told us of the stories and we learned about it in school year after year, but to see it put to life was a totally touching experience. Some of us couldn't even bare to look at those gruesome scenes. The movie starts out in a Jewish ...
- 1362: A Separate Peace 2
- A Separate Peace: by John Knowles During World War II in the struggle for peace among nations comes a smaller, but still significant struggle, in a prep school boy becoming a man and waking up to reality. In the book A Separate Peace, the author John Knowles, creates the image of two sixteen-year old boys struggling to keep what little sense of ... Finny). Phineas struggles with the disbelief that he can never be of any use to the war efforts with a busted leg. Gene Forrester, the main character in the book, returns to his old prep school-Devon- that he attended some fifteen years earlier. While there he remembers the incident that changed his life. In the summer of 1942, Gene and his friends stayed at their prep school for the summer session. His best friend in those days was a boy named Phineas, or Finny. During that time World War II was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying ...
- 1363: Ford Motor Company
- ... they can receive quality care and service for their car. Ford is saying once you've purchase a Ford vehicle, you can be assured of receiving the best service from highly trained technicians who use high-tech equipment for the modern electronics in today's cars. The ad also is designed to appeal to our more irrational buying behaviors. In the center of the ad is a reflection of a mother ... assured of Quality Care for any type of maintenance or repair. It's like having a mechanic in the family! Ford not only has the most highly trained technicians, but these technicians are equipped with "high-tech equipment" (and we know how much men love their high- tech equipment!) needed to maintain the modern electronics found in cars today. In other words, if you buy a Ford, not only can you be assured of quality service, but your also buying a ...
- 1364: Learning To Really Learn
- ... the child in sufficient speech production. There are many factors that can contribute to the quality comprehensive listening and speech production in the child depending what he/she may learn in his home environment. When school begins so does the self-consciousness of the child start to be affected; the child may not even know how to express him/her self effectively in an out of home setting. (Children and oral ... one subject, which I have questioned. Annette Louise Depaul, a nurse for 5 years and mother of two daughters one with a grandchild, gave complete useful information for my Research Paper. I questioned her whether school children became socially self aware when they first started school? Her reply was that in today's society kids are getting so violent and there is too much abuse between the children. Then I asked her if kids who knew how to articulate expressions ...
- 1365: A Brief Overview Of Psychedeli
- Education is defined as acquiring skills. There are many different ways to be educated and many subjects that can be studied. School is not the only place or setting in which we can learn or get educated. We usually receive information by seeing, touching, and hearing, but it‘¦s useless unless we think about it. Otto Friedrich ... information and thinking. But, education can‘¦t be complete with only information‘¦s transmittal and without the freedom of thinking. In our society, people who are well educated are those who graduated from a good school with good grades. In my own opinion, a person who has the ability to get good grades from a good school does not equal to a well-educated person. A person who gets good grade has the ability to receive information and fill out the same information on exams as answers, which just accomplished the ...
- 1366: Types of Clouds
- Types of Clouds Clouds can come in all sizes and shapes, and can form near the ground or high in the atmosphere. Clouds are groups of tiny water droplets or ice crystals in the sky. They are associated with different kinds of precipitation depending on the atmosphere's temperature. Cloud types are classified by ... shape depends on the way the air moves around it. If air moves horizontally, clouds form in layers. However, clouds grow upward if air movement is vertical. Clouds are divided into 4 main groups; The high cloud group consists of Cirrus, Cirrostratus, and Cirrocumulus clouds. The middle cloud group consists of Altostratus and Altocumulus clouds. The low cloud group consists of Stratus, Stratocumulus, and Nimbostratus clouds. Clouds with vertical growth include Cumulus and Cumulonimbus clouds. High clouds are made of ice crystals due to the cold air in the upper sky. The base of a high cloud above the surface can be anywhere from 6000-18000m in the tropics to ...
- 1367: Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society
- ... transitions. Carl and Paula Shirley condense their presentation of Bless Me, Ultima by simply mentioning the story line of the book: She (Ultima) is present from the boy's earliest experiences growing up, family conflict, school, religion, evil and death... Much good in this novel, beauty, magic, New Mexico landscape, legends... (Shirley and Shirley, 105). All of this is true, but there is more that they did not mention. The novel ... own future no matter what the consequences are? Talking about his families Antonio says: "I love them both, and yet I am o f neither (Anaya, 38). At he same time, Antonio is going to school across the bridge, to an American school. This is one of the most important aspects of his cultural development as well as our main point in identifying a border culture. There is a two level explanation for this chapter: first, we ...
- 1368: Freedom In America
- ... 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 ...
- 1369: How Do Dixons and Tandy Add Value To The Products They Sell?
- ... and Tandy Add Value To The Products They Sell? How do Dixons and Tandy add value to the products that they sell, and, in doing so, what benefits are passed on to the consumer? Do high street consumer electronics stores offer better value for money than their mail-order counterparts? The raw price figures show that, obviously, the high street stores cost more than the mail-order stores, but are the benefits that the high street stores bring worth the extra price? I took the prices of five types of products, a large stereo, a portable system, a small television, a video recorder, and a computer. The large stereo ...
- 1370: The Legalization of Marijuana for All Purposes
- ... were legalized it is less economical to eat, which is the best way to avoid the harmful smoke; this is because it takes two or three times more marijuana when eaten to produce the same high when smoked.6 The use of marijuana has steadily declined since 1979, and an Addiction Research Foundation survey in 1987 showed that four of every one hundred Canadians between the ages of 18 and 19 ... addictive, but users develop a psychological dependency. Users experience two phases of intoxication: initial stimulation, giddiness, and euphoria, followed by sedation and pleasant tranquillity. When marijuana is smoked the user feels the onset of the "high" within about seven seconds and within about 30 minutes when eaten. The drug brings the user to a relaxed and peaceful state, and sometimes to a euphoric state of mind. Hallucinations can occur when taken in high doses. The effects last between two to four hours after ingested, and the user can be left in a relaxed state for several hours after ingestion. Short term memory is inhibited for the duration ...
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