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- 1751: Tobacco
- ... smoking." Between 1979 and 1989, the number of teens aged 15 to 19 who smoked at least occasionally was halved to 23%. In contrast U.S. efforts have been a huge disappointment. Some 30% of high school seniors smoked through the 80's and now there is an alarming increase. Clinton's program doesn't include a stiff tax increase and experts say that is where Canada's progress stemmed from. The ... smokes smuggled in from the U.S. A pack of 25 now sells for around $2.50 in Ontario, down almost 44% from 1993. Now, a University of Toronto survey found a third of Junior High School are puffing more. Moreover the number of teens smoke occasionally jumped to 27.8% in 1994 from 22% in 1991. Clinton's program includes Prohibition of sales to minors. Canada has found such ...
- 1752: The Effects Of Rap On Inner Cities
- ... is that of the 60% of teen-age mothers living in inner-cities or slums, much like many of the rap artists’. 21% of the women who have babies are forced to drop out of school, and raise their children. This takes them out of the work force, and hard working citizens are forced to pay higher taxes, with welfare rates going up. The rap artists’ are not only effecting the ... s response was “Oh hell yeah, why you think that you see peeps walkin’ around with glocks tucked under their belts?” Billy P at the time was 15 years old, and had dropped out of school at the age of 13 ˝. On the tour to Chicago, Tabitha this time spoke with a concerned mother who was concerned about her son Rodney, who had been “gang banging” since the age of 14 ... Rodney could go to jail at anytime, or even die before going to jail due to extensive gang activity. This mother stated that her son only 17 years old, had been expelled from 3 different high-schools for pulling guns on other students, and her son was arrested more than 3 times for possession of marijuana. She also told Tabitha that two of his best friends, who were with the ...
- 1753: Goals and Accomplishing Your Dreams
- Goals and Accomplishing Your Dreams For many years jobs such as doctors, accountants, and corporate executives were considered high profile . In the last decade, careers in the field of law have become more important due to the increasing number of lawsuits. One of my many long term goals is to become a tax lawyer ... we choose to be drug addicts, alcoholics, or thieves will change the way people treat us and look at us. I know that things such as drugs will only hurt me, and my performance in school. That is why I have made up my mind to never compromise my life or values due to peer pressure. There is only one way for me to get where I'm going and that is through hard word and determination. I must get my high school diploma as well as go to college. The truth of the matter is that good people sometimes fail. But if they really care, they will not go down without a fight. Many times ...
- 1754: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... inability to keep a job, forced the family to be extremely dependent on the wealth of his grandfather's estate. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy as a child. In 1911 he entered the Newman School in Hackensack, NJ. Growing up with a father who was out of work and who relied on his wife's inheritance gave Fitzgerald a mixed feeling of guilt and shame and yet he felt love ... of his career in life before he knew how to handle success. He made a masterpiece from his struggles and problems. Fitzgerald's life was spent trying to accomplish two things; being part of the high society and writing a book that would make him famous. He accomplished one for the ability to do the other. It destroyed him to see his wife losing her mind for the sake of his ... his work and their desire to interpret Fitzgerald's work line the shelves of libraries. The Great Gatsby is a Great American Classic in which hundreds of thousands of copies are sold each year to high school and college students every where. Much of his work has been translated into 35 languages. It's ironic that more of Fitzgerald's books are sold every year than were sold during his ...
- 1755: Betsy Ross
- ... and friends, she was the eighth of seventeen children born to Rebecca and Samuel Griscom. They lived in Philadelphia. Being staunch Quakers, they were very conservative. Betsy was entirely educated at a friend's Quaker school. It was in this Quaker school that she learned how to upholster. With her parents permission Betsy became an apprentice in the upholstery shop of John Ross. Betsy soon fell in love with John Ross and they eloped on November 4th ... widowed in 1817. Betsy continued making flags for the government for many years. She would live with one of her daughters until she died on January 30, 1836. The flags that she made would fly high over forts and other government buildings. As the Civil War approached, the flag would come to serve as reminder of what some felt should be no more. By the end of the war, it ...
- 1756: Film and Book Review of I Know What You Did Last Summer
- ... weather reporter for the channel five news. She lived in a nice apartment complex and was getting a taste of the good life. As a teenager her parents were poor and she dropped out of high school. Julie was on the cheerleading squad and was a straight A student. When she went to college her grades started slipping and she was miserable most of the time. After high school Ray went to the east coast to work on boats. Barry went to a local college to play football and lived in the dorms there. When a year had passed, Julie went home ...
- 1757: Red Grange
- ... was good at all sports, but chose to concentrate on football and a good choice that was Red Grange is now known as the best open field runner of all time. When Grange was in High School his sophomore year he started at left end until the game where a quarter back of the opposing team said Grange look at that airplane because airplanes were so rare Grange looked and the quarterback scored to his side. So from that time on Grange started in the backfield of Wheaton High School. But I think that one of the biggest impacts that the red head had on his community was all of the dedication that he had toward children and elder people he has given ...
- 1758: The Color Purple
- ... of who she was. she was just a person who cooked and cleaned and took care of the children without any consideration given to her. She is uneducated because her father took her out off school as a result of her pregnancies. Celie is raised in an environment where she wasn't allow to have a mind of her own because her father dominated and controlled all her actions. For example ... pretty and smart"(10). She has always been told how ugly and stupid she was by her stepfather. "She is ugly. . ."(9). "She ain't smart either. . . "(9). "You are too dumb to go to school"(11). Celie is also influenced by her environment in the sense that her father and husband both mistreat her, she learns to fear men. This will be a big factor in Celie's sexuality in ... and husband she was able to overcome it with the help of Nettie. Nettie who later in the book serves as a silent confidante to Celie, taught her that education was important in developing a high self-esteem. "helping me with spelling and everything else she think I need to know"(17). , ". . . try to teach me what go on in the world"(17). Sofia is the one that teaches Celie ...
- 1759: Virtual Reality
- ... home is confusing, and the people that fundlarge projects would like to be able to see what they arepaying for before it is constructed. An example which isfascinating would be that of designing an elementary school.Designers could walk in the school from a child's perspective to gain insight on how high that water fountainis, or how narrow the halls are. Product designers couldalso use VR in similar ways to test their products.NASA and other aerospace facilities are concentratingresearch on such things as human factors ...
- 1760: Biography of Roger Maris
- Biography of Roger Maris Roger Maris was the main character in this biography. He lived a life of love and caring and he also was a great sportsman. In high school he played football and baseball. He and his brother were the star players on the football team and Roger was a lone star on the baseball team. After high school Roger was offered a fully paid scholarship to play football at the University of Alabama, but he turned it down to play professional baseball. Although Roger Maris had a lot of accomplishments his ...
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