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- 1511: Diane Arbus
- ... Culture schools which were very progressive institutes. This meant an overly protective, overly organized childhood during which she broke the monotony and boredom by being naughty. She defied the security provided by her family and school by doing the don't-do's. Diane's paternal grandfather, Meyer Nemerov left his native Russia after defying his parents' wishes and marrying his sweetheart and not the girl his orthodox Jewish family had picked for him. When Diane was 13 years old she met Allan Arbus, during high school she carried on a secret affair with him against her parent's wishes. They were married less than a month after her eighteenth birthday. He was nineteen. It was Allan Arbus, who introduced Diane ...
- 1512: Pen Pals: Based On X-Files Characters
- ... she let herself into the apartment. Once inside, she set the box wrapped in brown paper down on her dining table and left it there while she hung up her coat and kicked off her high heels. Mulder would be coming over later to discuss the case they were currently working on, but until then, she wanted to relax. She made herself a cup of hot coffee and carried both it ... memories the box did evoke, Dana reverently lifted the lid. It was filled with smudged envelopes with the name "Danni" scribbled on them in a child's handwriting. Danni had been her nickname in elementary school, a name she had gotten through a pen-pal program between her class and a third grade class somewhere in New England. Dana had complained that her pen pal had a boy's name, and ... the top was the last one she had received. A sad smile crept over her face as she remembered what had brought a stop to their correspondence... October 7th, 1971 11:30am - New Ridge Elementary School, Ithaca Naval Base Danni was excited. It was pen pal day, and she was expecting a letter from Sammie. These two girls had become closer than any of the other pen pals in the ...
- 1513: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... time develop the delusion of insects crawling on their skin. That delusion is an hallucination, one of many side effects of mentally enhancing drugs. One instance of the negative effects of amphetamines happened on a high school football field a few years ago. Unaware that the running back was high on amphetamines, the coach sent the running back into the game. The quarter back was then snapped the ball from the center and got ready to hand the running back the ball. The running ...
- 1514: Friendship
- ... the traits shared among those different degrees of friendship, we can establish just cause for ending a friendship, based upon a breach of trust. About 3 years ago I worked as a leader at a high adventure camp that was involved in activities such as rock climbing, repelling, white water rafting, caving, and even a high ropes course. In each of these activities we relied on the trust that was built throughout the week to progress from one event to another. By the time the kids left, they not only believed ... was generally the point at which the trust was cemented in the group or if the group member was dropped trust was lost forever. The same philosophy of trust building that was used at this high adventure camp, to accomplish new goals and reach new heights, can be readily applied to everyday life and is just an exaggerated model of how human nature works. This idea of trust in human ...
- 1515: COMPUTER CRIME Hackers And Security Measures
- ... A few years after the IBM begun marketing its first line of business computers. By the mid-1970s scores of such crimes were being reported every year and yearly losses were estimated to be as high as $300 million [Mandell, 1992]. Computer criminals are active for more than 30 years. At this point it is useful to collocate some past important cases: 1964: Robert F. Hancock attempted to sell $5 million ... opportunity and motivation appears for fraud and hackers. Obviously, these transactions in an economic area tempt criminals for specific reasons. Because the result of the arithmetic operation transferred or processed by computer system are extremely high totals. Electronic money is very easy to be created by the perpetrator. This field of computer area will also be the main area of computer fraud in the future. Table 1: categories of important computer ... of hacking denotes the necessity for new security systems and legislation to protect people and enterprises from these activities. Hacking really came into existence after 1980s as a result of telecommunication growth as well as high computer literacy. Hacking include a broad-range of computer-helped activities. Some of them are legal other unlawful and a lot are unethical. Some experts are saying: hacking is a multifarious phenomenon. At this ...
- 1516: My Participation in the Prince of Wales Robotics Team
- ... task under the constraints of time. As a consequence of team effort and ingenuity, we ranked first in our province of British Columbia at the 1996 National Championships. Another aspect of my participation with this high school club in problem solving was to acquire the neccessary funds in the construction materials, competition fees as well as for personal expenses required for traveling outside the province for competitions. Fund-raising was both stressful and difficult due to the fact that corporate sponsors had limited resources and could not finance to the extent that had been previously predicted. As time progressed, the situation worsened simply because the district school board received financial cuts due to the reduced provincial budget. The problem of convincing sponsors outside of the norm became a task in itself. With this type of experience, I am sure that I ...
- 1517: 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 ...
- 1518: Frosts Use Of Everyday Subjets
- ... was 12 years old. Frost was born a year after his parents had gotten married. After Frost's father had died in 1885, he moved with his family to New England where he attended Lawrence High School. "Frost had published several poems in the school magazine and was named class poet." (Bloom p.12) "He graduated in 1892, sharing valedictorian honors with Elinor White, to whom he became engaged." (Bloom p. 12) Frost then went onto Dartmouth College, he ...
- 1519: Harry S. Truman
- ... a bookworm--a sissy, as he said himself later on, using the dreaded word. 3. Education When Truman was six years old, his family moved to Independence, Missouri, where he attended the Presbyterian Church Sunday school. There he met five-year-old Elizabeth Virginia ( Bess ) Wallace, with whom he was later to fall in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight, and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness. His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading. He got up each day at ... He read four or five histories or biographies a week and acquired an exhaustive knowledge of great military battles and of the lives of the world s greatest leaders. In 1901, when Truman graduated from high school, his future was uncertain. College had been ruled out by his family s financial situation, and appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was eliminated by his poor eyesight. 4. ...
- 1520: October Sky
- ... the accusations of burning and starting a forest fire, Homer and his friends were in deep trouble. After feeling guilty about his father's accident in the coal-mines, Homer decided to drop out of school to help his family out financially by working in the mines. Without enrollment in school, all chances of entering the national science fair to receive a college scholarship would be lost. The main reason why he couldn't enroll back in school was the fact that the boys were arrested for starting a forest fire with dangerous materials. To validate his innocence, Homer decided to prove the officers wrong by using calculus, trigonometry, and as well ...
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