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- 1431: Computer Communications
- Computer Communications Communications. I could barely spell the word, much less comprehend its meaning. Yet when Mrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at the junior high school, it triggered something in my mind. Two weeks later, during the last month of my eighth grade year, I figured it out. I was rummaging through the basement, and I ran across the little blue box that my dad had brought home from work a year earlier. Could this be a modem? I asked Mrs. Rubin about it the next day at school, and when she verified my expectations, I became the first member of Teleport 2000, the only organization in the city dedicated to introducing students to the information highway. This was when 2400-baud was ...
- 1432: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August 1832 they left to America on a ship. The trip was very hard for them it was like a nightmare. More than 200 people were crowded aboard the ship, and most of ... lucky to survive this trip. In October 1832, the Blackwells settled in a house in New York. They became involved in anti-slavery activities and held meetings in their house. At this time no medical school had ever accepted a female student, in fact no women had ever been except into college. But Elizabeth set her mind on changing this; she was going to be a doctor. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and within a few months of moving their Mr. Blackwell had died. Then one day the family physician decided to show Elizabeth how to apply to a medical school. She learned fast and for the next few years Elizabeth continued to teach and study books about medicine and at the same time she applied for one medical school after another. Then in October ...
- 1433: Creative Writing: Life in Sumitville
- ... can be ordered from home. Sports in Sumitville are excellent. We have two complexes that house a basketball, baseball, football, and hockey team. Education is very important in Sumitville. Children do not have to attend school. They learn from home via the Internet. Software programs made by government officials teach children. When it is time for college. The children got to the two local colleges on public and one private. There ... of the city based on the area codes. The police regulate law in the city. Each part of the city has a different division of cops. The main jail of Sumitville is very small, but high-tech. People have never escaped from the prison. The prison is small because there is very little crime. Punishment for harsh crimes is death at the family’s expense. For small crimes the culprit receives ... she makes dinner using the produce delivered by the local farmers. She then goes to sleep. The Children The two kids wake up in the morning then eat and go to their computers to start school. After two hours of being taught they have a lunch break. Then they go back to their computers for school for two more hours. After school they do their homework. They do not have ...
- 1434: Great Teachers, Bad Students
- ... an idiot ." Students probably have never heard their teachers complaining about them in the halls. In contrast, a person could roam Jefferson and hear conversations about how terrible teachers are from every corner of the school. "I got an F- on the final but it's only because Mr. Doe* is a crappy teacher." This a common attitude among students who fair poorly on a test. It is not bad teaching that causes a student to fail a class, it is bad learning. Laziness, foreign substance abuse, and truancy are a few characteristics of a bad learner. The word "lazy" is frequently used to describe high school students who do not turn in their homework, study for tests and are constantly ill prepared for class. One form of laziness is the dreaded disease that only affects seniors, "Senioritis." The symptoms include ...
- 1435: My Dad's Influence On Me
- ... arbitrary and unfair to me. I did not see the reasoning behind his decisions. This impasse in views led us to have a tense relationship in which there were many fights through my adolescent and high school years. It is only now, when I am so near the time of leaving our house to go to college, that I am starting to understand where my dad has been coming from. When I was learning how to drive, my dad often told me that safety and precaution are more important than anything when driving. He advised me to ask my mom to take me to school when the weather was bad, since my driving skills were not very sharp. As usual, when listening to this I thought that he was trying to take away some of my freedom. I didn’ ...
- 1436: Ronald Wilson Reagan
- ... mother Nelle. John was an alcoholic and was saved from the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration. Reagan was strongly influenced by his mother, who taught him to read at an early age. After High School, Ronald Reagan won a Scholarship to Eureka College in Peoria, Illinois. He was very active at Eureka. He majored in economics, student body president, captain of the swimming team, and was on the football. He ... through congress. The Presidency When Reagan became president he started out in a recession. 11 percent of the work force was unemployed in fall, 1982. This recession reduced inflation significantly, but the interest rates remained high. During the next two years the economic recovery began. The unemployment came down, but thousands of factory jobs disappeared. The new jobs, which were mostly in service industries, paid less, leaving inflation low. Domestic ...
- 1437: Siddhartha
- ... bettering himself through discipline and finding his true self. I have had two crisis experiences that stand out in my recent memories. First, in the eighth grade I made the choice to attend a private school that was 30 miles away from where I lived. This was a school that none of my current friends were going to attend. I chose to leave all my friends and thrust myself into a new experience for my own good. My friends didn’t want me to ... s. The second crisis experience happened four years later when I chose to leave my town and attend college here at the University of Portland. Most of my good friends were staying and going to school in the town that we lived in. These two experiences bear resemblance to Siddhartha’s because they contain similar elements of what makes a crisis. First, the anxiety of leaving friends and starting anew ...
- 1438: The Devastating Effects Of Int
- ... families and churches. The loss of support from our families was very devastating, said my grandmother, Helen Bansley. Looking back on this incident she feels that people should have been more open minded. A Junior High Student can also experience intolerance. Stephanie Johnson said that she faced sexism in her 9th grade PE class. She says that her PE coach would separate the boys from the girls. Then he would send ... boys. Stepanie feels that this event was very judgmental on the coaches part because girls are just as capable as boys. In September 1957 an Arkansas Governor, ordered state-militia troops to a Little Rock School to stop Negro s from entering. The governor, Orval Fabous was defying the new federal law that allowed African -Americans into white schools. This event triggered racial violence and forced a showdown with federal officials. The law was created to counter the devastating effect of segregation to the poorer black only schools. Today blacks can go to school without having to worry about being stopped. An incident in which I was discriminated against. Some boys at my school were making fun of my weight. Sizesism can be very depressing. The long-term ...
- 1439: Davy Crockett
- ... his dealings with his father's customers, Davy must also have learned much about human nature and so refined his natural skills as a leader. While Davy lived there he spent four days at the school of Benjamin Kitchen. He had a fight with a boy at school and left home to escape a "licking" from his dad. He got a job helping to drive cattle to Virginia. In Virginia, he worked for farmers, wagoners and a hatmaker. After two and a half ... target and the best shot won the quarter of beef. Davy's aim became so good that more than once, he won all four quarters of beef. The son of Davy's employer conducted a school near-by, to which, for six months, Davy went four days a week and worked two. Except for the four days he had attended school when he was twelve, this was all the schooling ...
- 1440: Adolescence And Coping
- ... father did it to me, I’ll do it to my kids…), there is also a vicious cycle of poor discipline, which also contributes to the cycle of poverty. Knowledge is power, and a basic school education provides the foundation for every person to gain knowledge. I have also come to firmly believe that parents must take greater responsibility for the education of their child/children. My parents have been a ... styles and methods. During my research in DLT, I was informed of an incident at a parent/teacher night. A parent of a mainstream student demanded an explanation as to why, after three years at school, the student was still exhibiting poor behaviour at school. It was explained to this parent, (who has a reputation as a ‘stirrer’) that her child had spent five years at home before the three years at the school, and perhaps the parent could ...
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