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- 1791: Enders Game--enders Empathic A
- ... of a genius, Ender Wiggin, whom the Government takes from home at an early age to mold into a military commander. From his turbulent childhood, to his days at the physically and psychologically taxing Battle School, to his conquest of the buggers and ultimate colonization of their world, the most essential and useful aspect of Ender's prodigious genius is his incredible empathic ability. From the portrayal of his early childhood in the novel's first chapters, it seems that Ender developed this empathic ability as both a physical and psychological defense against the many truculent characters in his life, such as his enemy in school, Stilson, and his older brother, Peter. The usefulness and necessity of Ender's empathy manifest themselves again at the battle school, where it helps Ender immeasurably to defeat his enemies, both in and out of the game room. Lastly, towards the novel's end, Ender's empathy takes on a much more universal significance when ...
- 1792: Staples' “Just Walk On By”: Prejudice and Intimidation
- ... toes.” All this was a common day to day occurrence for me while growing up in my predominantly white neighborhood. As a matter of fact, there were only about five black kids in my grade school. Don’t get me wrong, my Grandfather was never violent toward black people (they actually scared him) and he was never a “white supremacist,” but words were constantly said. My teenage years changed how I ... viewed the world. I can wholeheartedly agree with the Staples essay when in it he describes what makes a thug. My family and I had moved into a different neighborhood by the time I started high school. This fact proved very helpful in aiding me to pick out the thugs of the world. The thugs I grew up near were known as “power junkies.” A power junky is a person who ...
- 1793: Sigmund Freud
- ... the point of running himself into debt at various bookstores. Among his favorite authors were Goethe, Shakespeare, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche. To avoid disruption of his studies, he often ate in his room. After medical school, Freud began a private practice, specializing in nervous disorders. He was soon faced with patients whose disorders made no neurological sense. For example, a patient might have lost feeling in his foot with no evidence ... seeping out in dream symbols and slips of the tongue. 2. Regression - retreating to an earlier, more infantile stage of development where some psychic energy still fixates. Thus, when facing the anxious first days of school, a child may regress to the oral comfort of thumb sucking. 3. In reaction formation, the ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites. En route to unconsciousness, the unacceptable proposition of "I hate ... fail to adequately resolve the developmental task. Delving further into these differences, Erikson contended that each stage of life has its own psychosocial task. Young children wrestle with issues of trust, then autonomy, then initiative. School-age children develop competence, the sense that they are able and productive human beings. In adolescence, the task is to synthesize past, present, and future possibilities into a clearer sense of self. Adolescents wonder: " ...
- 1794: Electrical Engineering
- ... and at their desks (Kunz 14). Engineers who are involved in research and design also work in specially developed laboratories where they can conduct experiments and test their products. These laboratories have a lot of high tech equipment that allow engineers to create a new product and test it so that it could be used for a solution in real world problems. Engineers who are involved in production spend most of ... finish a contracting job, I may spend 10 to 20 hours on the weekend to finish it and get it right (Michael Smith). The wages that electronic engineers vary greatly depending on the amount of school one has obtained, and the amount of experience you have had. In 1994, the entry-level electronics engineer with a bachelor s degree earned about $40,000 a year (Cosgrove, 753). Those with a Master ... of college campuses, hold job affairs, and trade shows (128). Companies also advertise positions where interested applicants can apply directly to the company (128). Technology The technology that is used in electronic engineering is very high tech. Electronic engineers need that most advanced and up to date equipment that is out today to help them create enhanced electronics, and improve on old products. Electronic engineers deal with equipment such as ...
- 1795: Nuclear Energy 2
- ... split more uranium atoms. At the same time, the moderator acts as a coolant. It keep the overall temperature about 300 degrees Celsius. Since the temperature at spots inside the fuel rods may be as high as 1,100 degrees Celsius, enormous amounts of coolant are continually needed to keep the core temperature at the proper level. When the plant must be must be shut down the control rods are lowered ... above the budget of any terrorist group. Many experts feel that it would cost at least five to ten million dollars to purchase enough plutonium to make a nuclear weapon. Others place the estimate as high as twenty or thirty million dollars (2). The problems of obtaining money and scientists are not big. The Soviet Union has left many of its top nuclear scientists without jobs and money. Many would be ... become a stark monument reminding the world of the terrorists' ideology. With more than 100 reactors in the United States alone, if one is successfully destroyed, just threatening additional attacks could instill the sort of high-impact terror which is being sought by a new breed of terrorists. (1) For years, what has caused concern for many observers and several federal oversight committees is a report on the potential for ...
- 1796: American and Chinese Educational Systems
- ... students how to find a job and how to prepare a job interview. Some teachers even introduce some jobs to their students and let their students to get some work experience while they are attending school. Unlike China, American students can talk freely with the professor whenever they have questions in class. Also, they can sit whatever position they like, and even they can have a cup of coffee and a ... systems too. In China, the teachers have much more power than the American teachers do. Chinese teachers can order students to do many things that are not only in classroom, but also are outside the school. In classroom, Chinese teachers have the power to order their students to clean the classroom and blackboard. Some teachers even can order their students to do something that does not related to school, such as helping the teachers to clean their house. Grace Wong, my sister, has been one of the students who was ordered to clean her teacher’s house. Also, in China, only teacher has ...
- 1797: A Seperate Peace
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles A Separate Peace was written by active author John Knowles from his real experiences and personal struggles. Knowles attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive New Hampshire prep school, for two summer sessions in 1943 and 1944. This book vaguely outlines his experiences at Exeter with himself as the main character but under the name of Gene Forrester. Knowles' novel tells the somber story of a young man's struggle to escape from himself and his world; to achieve a special and separate peace. The primary setting of A Separate Peace is at the Devon School. The exact location of this school is not known in terms of a state, but it is identified as being in the South, sitting between a freshwater and a saltwater stream. The bulk of the story takes place in the ...
- 1798: Richard Nixon
- Richard Nixon Richard Millhouse Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California in 1913. His father, Frank Nixon, had many failing businesses that took the family different places. After high school, Nixon attended Duke University. He tried twice to become class president. Finally he succeeded. Soon after his college schooling, Nixon enrolled in the Navy. War broke out and he was sent to fight. He was ... on the US Senate. He defeated the expected senator: Ms. Douglas. Thereafter he wanted more; vice-president was the next goal. He was voted in with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He went through many political high points, such as the Caracas Mob incident, where Nixon was taken hostage. The "Kitchen Debate", noted as a high point for Nixon, where he and the Russian leader discussed issues in a kitchen. With ...
- 1799: The Catcher In The Rye 3
- Sometimes characters can allow a strong feeling or emotion to dominate their lives. Holden allows the strong feelings and emotions of death, society, school and innocence to dominate his life. Holden is a very sensitive boy who can not ignore his problems, instead he dwells on them. These feelings and emotions are dominant because Holden believes strongly in them. The strong negative feelings that Holden has for his school and it s community are present because of it s concern for an image. When students do not put in they are expelled to keep the schools high academic rating, This is represented when Holden says I got the axe. They give guys the axe quite frequently at Pencey. he does not like this as it does not allow students to be ...
- 1800: Political Correctness: The Teddy Bear Massacre
- ... of the bruin was just one of many activities held during the week before the big UCLA game. The idea being that everyone could find something that they could identify with and rally around their school. If the burning was intentionally created to represent or oppress the offended students, the event would have been banned long ago. However, as Matt Hutaff stated in his editorial in the Daily Trojan: "It’s about school pride. It’s love for the things that brought the university to where it is today. It is traditions that define a school; it’s student body and its heritage. Strip the school of its traditions and all you have is a school that isn’t worth rallying behind." [5] In appeasing one group, it seems the ...
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