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- 1591: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... sister, Ruth.1 His love for art began on the farm. Since he was too young to work on the farm, he drew the animals. When he was seven, he and his sister began attending school, but in 1917 his family returned to Chicago.2 In Chicago he took a summer job on a railroad. When he began at McKinley High School, he took the money he earned to pay for art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross ...
- 1592: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, ...
- 1593: John Keats
- ... His father was a livery-stable owner, however he was killed in a riding accident when Keats was only nine and his mother died six years later of tuberculosis. Keats was educated at the Clarke School, in Enfield, and at the age of 15 was apprenticed to a surgeon. Subsequently, from 1814 to 1816, Keats studied medicine in London hospitals; in 1816 he became a licensed apothecary (druggist) but never practiced ... the moon goddess, it was attacked by two of the most influential critical magazines of the time, the Quarterly Review and Blackwood's Magazine. Calling the romantic verse of Hunt's literary circle "the Cockney school of poetry," Blackwood's declared Endymion to be nonsense and recommended that Keats give up poetry. Last Works In 1820 Keats became ill with tuberculosis. The illness may have been aggravated by the emotional strain ... 1795-1821) WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE 1 When I have fears that I may cease to be 2 Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, 3 Before high-piled books, in charactery, 4 Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; 5 When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, 6 Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, 7 ...
- 1594: Bob Dylan
- ... his own bands, The Golden Chords, The Shadow Blasters, and Elston Gunn & The Rock Boppers. His fellow students were shocked to hear such a voice come from the small kid, when he sang at a high school talent show. After high school graduation in 1959, Dylan enrolled in the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced ...
- 1595: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... a variety of other jobs to contribute to household expenses (2, Ambrose). Dwight, often nicknamed Little Ike to distinguish him from Big Ike , his brother Edgar, impressed his fellow students. Predictions that appeared in their high school yearbook saw Dwight becoming a history professor and Edgar, interestingly, President of the United States (146, Richardson). After high school, Dwight worked full-time at the creamery and helped pay for some of Edgar s college expenses (12, Ambrose). Dwight never thought about a higher education until a friend persuaded him to apply ...
- 1596: The Internet
- ... 70's, the ARPANET is a success from the very beginning. Although originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, email quickly becomes the most popular application. The ARPANET becomes a high-speed digital post office as people use it to collaborate on research projects and discuss topics of various interests. The word was slowly getting out about this remarkable new way of communication. Later in the ... historical footnotes. There are approximately 40 million people are connected to the Internet. More than $1 billion per year changes hands at internet shopping malls, and internet related companies like Netscape are the darlings of high-tech investors. The "Age of the Internet" had arrived. Included at the end of the paper is a timeline that shows the progress of the internet starting in 1968.* One might think that the Internet ... how student involvement with online friends and projects helps create a unique style of learning that emphasizes resources, relationships, and exploration. Two Arctic adventurers who were crossing Northern Canada joined students from Leo Ussak Elementary School in the Canadian Arctic and children in Hawaii by dogsled for an online discussion of events and conditions in their respective countries. A transcript of their IRC 'chat' is available from their school web ...
- 1597: Violence on Television: Violence is Everywhere
- ... whole life seems to revolve around violence. There are so many channels on TV that advocate violence on a daily basis. Sports that we see every Sunday stir up aggressiveness and bring anger to a high level. Around school conflicts seem to occur frequently. We get excited whenever we come across these situations and sometimes don't know what caused the ordeal in the first place but nevertheless it grabs us and we become ... the crowd is louder over the thirty second fight than they are during the rest of the game. For those who think violence is only restricted to TV Land, well there is violence in our high school as well(shocker, huh?). Well every once in a while we get to witness a lovely fist-fight between two or more students, and the occasional unwilling faculty member. Those brawls aren't ...
- 1598: Anti -semitism
- ... you some background information on him. He was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. His father was a minor customs official and his mother was a peasant girl. He never completed high school and was a poor student. He twice applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but was not accepted for lack of talent. He read large amounts of books which helped him develop an ... There was an increase in the number of Nazi s between the years of 1929 and 1930. Hitler was then appointed Chancellor of Germany. Hitler started a campaign to destroy world Jewry. He met with high ranking officials and created the final solution to the Jewish problem, and in 1933 the first of many German concentration camps was built. This one was at Osthofen. A concentration camp is a place ...
- 1599: Scoliosis
- ... 1996). The infantile form, or earliest form, of structural scoliosis occurs during the first three years of life; it usually resolves with time. The juvenile form occurs up to the age nine, and has a high familial relation. It can often be a progressive scoliosis. The adolescent form occurs from age nine to fifteen years, and the most severe cases involve females. Most curves will not worsen during adolescence, and worsening ... the likelihood that children with significant curvature will be found early (Scoliosis: A sensible approach. 1997). The Scoliosis Research Society and the have promoted these campaigns. Pediatricians now routinely screen children on a regular basis. School screening programs are almost universal across the United States. The majority of children screened are school children between the ages of twelve to fifteen. When progressive scoliosis is discovered in its early stages of a growing adolescent, appropriate treatment can be instituted that will lessen the need for surgical intervention ( ...
- 1600: Bring Back Flogging
- ... offenders to jail. Jacoby then goes on to ridicule our current penal system by estimating the cost to cage criminals at about thirty thousand per inmate per year. Jacoby believes that prison is a graduate school of criminal studies, that they emerge more ruthless and savvy then when they entered. Also for many of them, prison is a sign of manhood or even a status symbol. In 1994 the Globe reported ... a time as opposed to flogging them in public only to release them back on the street with an intensified vengeance. Studies have shown that many criminals better themselves in prison such as getting a high school, college diploma ,or even trade degrees. To say that a stint in prison is a sign of manhood or a status symbol for many inmates is a matter of opinion. Jacoby’s report about ...
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