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- 1621: 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 ...
- 1622: Hate Crimes
- ... and drinking on a Saturday night. John William King, 23, was the trios unofficial leader, a foul-mouthed convicted burglar whose prison nickname was Possum. Shawn Allen Berry, also 23, was Kings former high school classmate and partner in crime. Lawrence Russell Brewer, 31, had served seven years on a cocaine conviction, released on condition he be treated for an undisclosed mental illness. All three had tattoos or personal items ... the activities of hate groups, the three men who murdered Byrd match the stereotype of perpetrators of hate crimes. All three were going through tough times struggling to stay afloat: King, Brewer, and Berry were high school dropouts unable to hold a steady job, working variously as yard workers and lumber company employees, and they were about to be evicted from the apartment they shared (Pressley A9). According to the ...
- 1623: Network Security And Firewalls
- ... time on the computer. The difficulty lies in having the computers timed perfectly to each other so that the receiving computer knows it should accept the incoming password at this time. A second type of high security password system is a challenge-response system. This system makes the users memorize a set of rules to convert a challenge issued by the computer into the correct response (Net Security, 2). The drawback ... hacker would have to spend a considerable amount of time and money to attempt such a feat, and probably get arrested trying. These agencies, like our FBI and CIA, can spend millions of dollars on high tech applications, retinal and voice verification systems, and physical barriers to keep anyone they want off of the systems. As technology gets cheaper, though, more and more every-day companies and eventually you and I ... that day comes however, we need to rely on what we have. When all is said and done there are a few simple rules that we and anyone should follow to keep our company and school networks safe. It all boils down to you. Use good passwords, ones that are not easily guessed. Change your password a couple times a year. For God's sake, don't tell anyone your ...
- 1624: A Computer For All Students
- ... All Students--Revisited The introduction of the graphing calculator has changed the structure of teaching and learning mathematics. This made it possible for everybody to receive the benefits of a computer-generated visualization without the high cost of a computer. These graphing calculators over the years have lowered in cost, became easier to use, and are more portable. The next generation of graphing computers has arrived with the recent introduction of the Texas Instrument TI-92. This relative inexpensive calculator will allow more high school teachers to teach an area mostly untouched, computer symbolic algebra and computer interactive geometry, because it has not been practical or possible. The TI-92 is merely the beginning of the new revolution of ...
- 1625: Defending Pro-wrestling
- ... that it is not real and it is stupid. Two years ago I thought the same thing about professional wrestling, in fact I refused to watch it. During the summer of my junior year in high school my boyfriend and I made a deal - he would watch The Little Mermaid with me if I would watch wrestling, so I agreed. We watched wrestling first and to my surprise it was not as ... the moves they perform ,and that they really are not that strong. After watching wrestling for so long I have learned a lot about the wrestlers and their backgrounds. Many of the professional wrestlers played high school and college football. A prime example of this is my favorite wrestler The Rock, he played football for the Miami Hurricanes and was an All-American player. The skill required to perform these ...
- 1626: Homlessness And Education
- Homlessness and Education In the two studies I reviewed, both pertained to school aged homeless children. Both studies were conducted to determine the need for a better education for these children. The first study I reviewed was called, Sheltered homeless children: Their eligibility and unmet need for special ... have a higher rate of learning disabilities. There is also a higher need to assess children who might be eligible for special education services. The findings of the first study imply that there is a high level of unmet need for special education evaluations for homeless children. There should be more procedures conducted to determine one's eligibility for special education services for the homeless. Also, interventions should be provided for school-aged homeless children from special education professionals, general health care providers, and housing services. The second study suggests that there needs to be more of an effort to educate those that are homeless by ...
- 1627: Bar Kochba Revolt
- ... Jews to restart in, but as a Pagan city sanctified to the Pagan G-d Jupiter. He was going to put an alter where the Jews asenv ,hc once stood. Hadrian was to be the high priest. What once was called Jerusalem would now be called Aelia Capitolina. This was a mockery to the Jews. The Jews waited sixty years from the destruction of the Second asenv ,hc for Rome to ... 212, 380 2. Rabbi Dr. Raphael Posner, eds. Junior Judaica, Encyclopedia Judaica for Youth, (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House Jerusalem LTD., 1982) s.v. Bar Kokhba pages. 106-107 3. Suri Cohen, Mashiach, Mashiach, Mashiach. 1996 (?), School Booklet. Shevach High School, New York. pages. 13-18 4. Naomi Ben-Asher and Hayim Leaf, The Junior Jewish Encyclopedia (New York City: Sheng Old Publishers Inc, 1967) s.v. Bar Kokhba, Simeon page. 53 5. Encyclopedia ...
- 1628: Comparison: Journey To The Center of The Earth & The Time Machine
- ... and dinosaurs. They also discovered a human skull. The length of the jawbones identified that it belonged to the Quaternary Period. The Professor also discovered "a forest of mushrooms," there were white nearly forty feet high, and with tops of equal dimensions. In the book The Time Machine the Time Traveler made no discoveries of any significance. Second of all, in the book Journey to the Center of the Earth the ... lot of very big words that many people would not understand without a dictionary. The Time Machine was not as difficult to read. I would recommend Journey to the Center of the Earth only to high school students and above, but The Time Machine I would recommend to middle school students. These were the similarities and differences between the two books Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne ...
- 1629: Death Of A Salesmen
- ... may be achieved through hard work. To Charley, the American Dream is having a comfortable life and putting his son Bernard through college. Charely worked consistently throughout his life, never trying to shoot for too high hopes. Because of this, Charley later in life, had a steady enough income to live comfortably and put his son through college. He even had money to spare so that he could loan it to ... through his hard work in his younger days while Biff just played around. Bernard is successful in that he is making a good living and is doing what he wants with his life. Back in high school Biff took the easy way out by copying all of Bernard's work. Bernard thoughed it out, worked hard, and succeeded where Biff failed. Bernard was making a good life by getting through school ...
- 1630: Animal Rights Protests
- ... after Peter Singer's watershed treatise was first published, dozens of animal rights groups had sprung up and were starting to savor their first successes. In 1994 Paul Shapiro, then a student at Georgetown Day School, didn't feel these non-profits were agitating aggressively enough for the cause. He founded Compassion Over Killing to mobilize animal rights activists in the Washington metropolitan area and "throw animal exploiters out of business ... animals caught in the wild. In addition, the demonstration called for the release of several Animal Liberation Front (ALF) members imprisoned for vandalizing property and liberating animals from research labs and factory farms. Several dozen high school and college students turned out for the event, but the protest attracted a handful of thirtysomethings and an elderly woman as well. Most of the young people there seemed to dress in a similar ...
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