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- 1871: Monetary/Fiscal Policy
- ... of $100 billion in tax cuts through 2002. These cuts are aimed at giving relief to middle class citizens. A few of his other proposals include: $500.00 child tax credit, tax deduction for post high school education, increasing the limits of individual retirement accounts, and elimination of the capital gains tax. Despite these cuts, he still believes a balanced budget will be achieved by the year 2002. Greenspan, in an effort ... forcing producers to lengthen their workweeks; increase their payrolls, and speed up production. Overall orders so far as the fourth quarter can tell are well above their third quarter average. Orders for capital goods are high as well as durable goods, which include long-lasting items like air-conditioners, microwaves, stoves, and airplanes. This rebound is why the new year looks to be promising. Consumers have a to do with ...
- 1872: The Detrimental Effect Of An Education In A Foreign Language
- ... parents were in California legally but not paying taxes. Even though they were not paying for services such as a police force or fire protection, they still felt entitled to send their children to public school. Since their children did not speak English, they wanted school to be taught only in their native language. However, it remains unjust that people who do not pay taxes have any say in how the educational system is conducted. Fortunately, the ESL plan eliminated all ... the California educational system by incorporating English much earlier in a child's education. Under the old plan, even graduates were not proficient enough to go to college, or even do well in upper-level high school courses because they had little exposure to the English language. For instance, when they took standardized tests or tried to write college application essays, they were simply at a disadvantage. Nationwide, certain statistics ...
- 1873: Things Fall Apart
- ... father, and told himself that he would make a better life for himself and his family. Okonkwo was able to do this, he became very successful in the Ibo tribe and had gained a very high standing in the tribe. It was his goal to become an elder in the tribe, and it looked like he was going to achieve that goal. Okonkwo was banished form the tribe for seven years ... Achebe did a good job a showing that. The book is chronologically organized, starting with Okonkwo as a child and ending with his death. I feel that the audience level for this book would be high school and above. I think that there are a lot of implied messages and ideas that mature readers will pick out easier than younger readers. I feel that the book is not biased, and I ...
- 1874: There Are No Children Here
- ... day to day lives, we, the readers, are also enveloped in the boys' surroundings. We learn about their everyday lives, from how they pick out their clothes, to how they wash them. We go to school with them and we play with them. Throughout the book, we are much like flies on the wall. We see and feel everything the boys' go through at Henry Horner Homes, the project where they ... to never live. He began following in the footsteps of his older brother Terrence. It started with petty theft and shoplifting, stealing candy and the like. Eventually Lafeyette broke into a car. Pharoah succeeded in school. He was an excellent student, he had admirable study skills, and thrived in spelling. He even placed in a spelling bee. Later, Kotlowitz sent and paid for the two brothers to attend a private school called Providence-St. Mel. Pharoah is flourishing there. He enjoys having two hours of homework every night. He started out behind in math and reading and is slowly catching up. His daydreaming and forgetfulness ...
- 1875: William Butler Yeats
- ... artistic influences, due to the fact that his father Jack Butler Yeats was a noted Irish painter. He had no formal education until he was eleven, at that time he started at the Godolphin Grammar School in Hammer*censored*h England and later he enrolled in Erasmus Smith High School in Dublin. Throughout his schooling he was considered disappointing student, his studies were inconsistent, he was prone to day dreaming, and poor at sports. In 1884 Yeats found his way to the Metropolitan School ...
- 1876: Juvenile Crime
- ... situation; for others, it is the reverse, but multiple factors generate crime. Individuals are less likely to offend repetitively when their early childhood is dominated by consistent and caring parenting and troublesome behavior when found school, is met with solutions. Crime tends to be lower in countries where there are more social benefits and fewer children in relative poverty; Crime tends to be higher because of opportunities such as those created ... by 17-68% by improved social control from civilian guards - recruited from the unemployed - and by closed circuit television. Young children will grow up to offend less by 50-80% if provided with adequate pre-school programs and by in home nurse visitations for at-risk children. The young and disadvantaged are 33-71% less likely to be arrested if they are given incentives to complete school, or structured training programs for job skill development. Promoting responsibility can reduce crime between 45-63% by getting potential offenders to repair the damage done and get help, with drug and alcohol treatment programs, ...
- 1877: My Journey
- ... I roll out of bed, only to hear more commands barked out by my mother. Hurry up, youre going to be late, you dont want to be late on your first day of school. I quickly glance at my alarm clock, and frantically rush to put on my new clothes. Im not going to make it! I keep telling myself, Im not going to make it. With ... bag one last time to make sure that I havent forgotten anything. After a quick glance, I jump on my bike and start peddling ferociously. The time is now 7:54 a.m., and school begins promptly at 8:00 a.m. The thought of being late is still in the back of my mind and it makes me peddle even faster. I reach the school with two minutes to spare. As I reach the front doors, the principal who kindly tells me to slow down greets me. I quickly find my seat as the last tone of the bell ...
- 1878: An Asian American In America
- ... to have a future, an education and a good job. After years of hard work, I am on my way to achieving my goals and in the process, my parents goals. I graduated from High School and I am a freshman in the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in the College Now program. I am planning to major in Business Administration in accounting and hopefully succeed in that. I am planning ... anything to achieve it. I have a strong sense that I can accomplish what ever is set forth on me and accomplish it well to. At the moment I am running for the office of School Committee in Fall River, a position I felt that I could excel in. I decided to run because I am sick of complaining about how schools are not making the right decisions for the ...
- 1879: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... Deane In the novel, The Chosen, Chaim Potok successfully captures the strange customs of a Jewish community through wit and satire. Potok's novel focuses on two Jewish boys, who live in a world where high standards of achievement are expected of them by their families. The wish to become an insightful leader in the Jewish community was an always predominant custom of the two families. But with hard work and ... of all the conflicts in the entire novel stem from the differences in family life which are brought on by the discrepancies of religious beliefs. Rueven, who is an Orthodox Jew, goes to a parochial school where Hebrew is taught instead of Yiddish (which would be considered the first Jewish language). Rueven's school is also very integrated with many English speaking classes. But on the other hand, Danny, who attends a yeshiva (also a Jewish school), considers himself a true Jew because he (unlike Rueven) wears the ...
- 1880: Timothy Leary
- ... of Timothy Leary their immediate response is "Turn on, tune in, drop out," his trademark line, although the meaning of it has often been misinterpreted. Playboy Magazine had thought that his message was advocating, "getting high and dropping out of school," (Marwick 311). When asked by the magazine to explain the meaning of the phrase he responded, " Turn on means to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide ... he gave a dose of psilocybin to all of his students except for one that refused. The result of this left him unemployed. In the meantime he published "The Fifth Freedom: The Right to Get High" (Sterns 279). The loss of his job did not discourage his fascination of LSD, but gave him the chance to expand his objective. Before he lost his job in August 1960, Leary said, "[I] ...
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