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- 2101: Miles Davis
- ... a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school bandand playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis went to New York to study at Juilliard but spend much more time hanging out on 52nd Street and eventually dropped out of school. He moved from his home in East St. Louis to New York primarily to enter school but also to locate his musical idol, Charlie Parker. He played with Parker live and in recordings from ...
- 2102: Affirmative Action
- ... five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they can accept a more diverse group of students. This solution is ridiculous, simply because everyone has a chance to do good. It is just a matter of effort. If a ... should raise their own standards in order to improve our society. For example, the University of California in Berkeley has a diverse student body with a majority of Asians. An Asian student coming out of high school with a 4.0 GPA, and a list of extra curricular activities would not be accepted simply because of his ethnicity. Instead the school would rather accept a Mexican student with a 3.0 ...
- 2103: National Honor Society - Vice President Speech
- National Honor Society - Vice President Speech I would like to be the Vice-President of the Huntington High School National Honor Society. The main reason I chose to run for Vice-President instead of running for President is because I have several extracurricular activities that would prevent me from giving my undivided attention to ... paper goods and chips. Charbroils are very good fundraisers to do. Parents always volunteer to cook the chickens and help to organize things, at least mine do anyway. If we wanted to do an in school fundraiser, the best thing to do is sell candy. Students will buy candy as if it were going out of style. As long as we get permission from Mr. Dilworth, selling candy would be ...
- 2104: Helen Keller
- ... She had lost her own sight when she was five and had been thrown into the poor house when her family broke up. Eventually she was lucky enough to get a place at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. Here she earned the nickname 'Spitfire' because of her rudeness and bad behaviour. Fortunately the director realised that if she could learn to behave she would be one of his ... her ambition of going to college. In 1888 they both went to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Here Anne continued to teach Helen but with the equipment and books provided by the school. Then in 1894 they went to the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York. Anne attended the lessons with Helen and acted as her interpreter. She tapped out what the teachers said into Helen's hand and transcribed book after book into ...
- 2105: Acid Rain
- ... into the atmosphere and combine with the moisture in the air to form acid rain. The main chemicals in air pollution that creates acid rain are sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Acid rain usually forms high in the clouds where sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides react with water, oxygen, and oxidants. This forms a mild solution of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. Sunlight increases the rate of most of these reactions ... alone. This mixing process is called acid deposition. The chemical reactions that change air pollution to acid rain can take from several hours to several days. Years ago, when smokestacks were only a few stories high, pollution from smokestacks usually stayed near the ground and settled on land nearby. This caused unhealthy conditions for plants and animals near the smokestacks. To reduce this pollution, the government passed a law permitting the construction of very tall smokestacks. At that time, people thought that if the pollution were sent high into the air it would no longer be a problem. Scientists now know that this is incorrect. Sending pollution high into the sky increases the time that the pollution stays in the air. The ...
- 2106: The Slippery Slope of Pizza Money": The Money Scheme
- ... with the controversial issue of athletic scholarships given out by the NCAA at the collegiate level. This article states the new idea that college athletes on scholarship can now have jobs as well as attending school during their competitive seasons and earn up to $2,000 a school year. Douglas S. Looney does an excellent job in persuading me, the reader, in why this is an unfair and illegal thing to do. According to Looney, this new rule set up by the NCAA ... males playing football and basketball so it has given up(1). What this all means is that the NCAA cant find a way to figure out how the athletes are getting money while attending school. Instead of trying further to figure out how the athletes are earning money they have made a new rule so that it appears as though the athletes are making money by having jobs outside ...
- 2107: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow 2
- The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod Crane was a school master in a small town called Sleepy Hollow. He was greatly amazed by the tale of a ghost called The headless Horseman . It was a ghost that roamed the small valley of Sleepy Hollow. Then ... far from that village lied a valley called Sleepy Hollow. A quiet place it was. The land had something that anyone that went there felt drowsy. Some said that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor during the early days of settlement. The spirit that was said roamed this land was a figure on a horse back, without a head. It was said to be the ghost of a ... was tall and very skinny with narrow shoulders and very long arms and legs. His head was small and flattened on top. He had huge ears, large green eyes and a long snipe nose. His school house was a low building of one large room. It was made of logs. The sounds of children s low voices could be heard on drowsy summer days, like the sound of bees in ...
- 2108: Consumer Appeal
- ... time it actually airs, but they tape it to watch later. Because of the time it airs, the viewers are very select: children under the age of ten are presumably in bed, junior and senior high schoolers are out, and anyone out of high school and under the age of twenty-five is either out or working. This leaves a majority of the older crowds watching the program. According to Gloria Steinem, the target of the television show will ...
- 2109: Cartoons: Land of Imagination
- ... cartoon, represent what life may be like. In the cartoon, families live above the stratosphere of the earth due to enormous pollution created by thousands of years of human habitation. Houses are built on long high rise poles with platforms at the top. The surface of the earth is no longer used for any practical purpose. Shopping centers, restaurants, schools, offices, etc., are left free floating in the sky. "Scooby-Doo ... trusted dog galloping across the country in their purple and green van solving mysteries of all sort and in the process, meeting all kinds of interesting people. The truth, however, is that they were four high-school dropouts, who with their sentient dog ride around the country in their psychedelic love machine, earning their way by selling drugs. Occasionally, they solve a mystery. Shaggy for example, is obviously a marijuana smoker. ...
- 2110: Macintosh vs. IBM
- ... With this Apple needed to get developers to make applications made to run specifically for the RISC chip. IBM decided to team up with Motorola because they were not equipped to put out chips in high volume like Apple needed. Apple had already been creating a mother board based on the Motorola chip design, so with IBM and Motorola teaming up they did not have to redesign their mother boards. So ... it basically turns your monitor into a touch screen. As well as hand held ones that move the cursor based on the position of your hand. The Apple computer has usually always appealed to the school systems. With the IBM-compatible computers going more towards businesses and personal use. The main reasons behind this are that the Apple had many types of software directed towards children and helping them learn. They were also easier to use so that appealed to the school system, for they would be able to have children that are five years old be able to use a computer with no problem. The IBM computer went more with businesses, because of its ability ...
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