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- 2571: The College Scandal
- ... their article for Sports Illustrated “Big Problem, Small Victory” that “The NCAA has estimated that more then 70% of major-college football and basketball players are contacted by agents while the athletes are still in school” (21). Agents are not supposed to be in any contact with college athletes until the athlete is out of college or getting ready to go in to a professional draft. By college athletes having agents ... booster Eddie Martin violated NCAA rules by giving Michigan players’ cash and gifts (19). When booster clubs of universities give gifts to their athletes, many do not know the consequences that will happen to their school, their athletes, and even themselves. The booster club is designed to give money to each athletic program equally. Still, equally does not always come into fair play. Eligibility is of tremendous importance to all college ... they do not realize is that if playing sports at the college level was easy, then everyone would do it. In an article written for US News &World Report, Josh Chetwynd states “The stakes are high: Teenagers who impress can win scholarships worth more than $40,000” (83). When an athlete can impress a coach to win them a scholarship they must be doing something right. Everyone has tried at ...
- 2572: Explaining The Twenties
- ... By 1925, states across the South had passed laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in classrooms. The controversy between the evolutionists and the creationists reached its peak during the trial of John T. Scopes, a high school teacher in the Dayton public school system of Tennessee. John T. Scopes was accused of violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. The Scopes Trial was broadcast around the country, with the old Populist, William Jennings Bryan, acting ...
- 2573: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... gives this book the biggest merit is "The Kid Nobody Could Handle". The music teacher, Helmholtz is appalled to find that Jim Donnini, a juvenile delinquent from the streets of Chicago, has been vandalizing Lincoln High School. Filled with compassion and desperation Helmholtz offers him his most prized possession, John Philip Sousa'a trumpet. When the boy initially shows no interest, Helmholtz hammers the instrument against a coat tree and mutter that "Life is no damn good" ; and only then does Donnini show any interest in Helmholtz. With the start of a new school semester, Jim Donnini takes the last seat of the worst trumpet section of the "C" band. As Helmholtz tells him and the rest of the band "Our aim is to make the world more ...
- 2574: Liberia
- ... is 350 miles long. It is broken by lagoons and mangrove swamps. It gives way to a low rolling plain about 20 miles wide. Further inland, foothills ranging in height from 600 to 1000 feet high are found. They become mountains in the north and east. The highest point in the country is Mt. Wutuvi which rises to 4,531 feet. Land area of the country is 43,000 square miles ... 000 in 1984. Education was formerly provided by Christian missions but most schools are now government operated. Although education is free and required between the ages of 6 and 16, less than half of the school-age children attend, partly because of a teacher shortage. The University of Liberia was founded in 1862. It is located in the capitol city of Monrovia. ECONOMY Most of Liberia's workers work in farming ... United States constitution. With a House of representatives, senate, President, vice President, and Cabinet. Until it was overthrown. Monrovia, the capital is the industrial port for liberia. It is displaced. It has shays next to high rise buildings. It was named after one of the presidents of the United States, James Monroe. Liberia is an interesting country and it is fighting to have peace in it country and counties to ...
- 2575: Television Violence Related To Children
- ... performed their study by separating nine to thirteen year old children of both sexes into groups, and then they had the different groups of children watch different television episodes. One group watched shows with a high amount of violence, while another group watched shows with little or no violence. Robinson and Bechman then presented different situations to the children and recorded how each child reacted. In one situation, for example, the ... aggressive behavior among those children who watch it. A study was also performed by the Fleming County FCH Chapter, which surveyed one hundred second grade students on what type of television programs they watch after school. Most of the children watched the more violent programs than they did the more subtle, non-violent programs (see attached graphic). Today, there is a tendency for parents to use the television as a “babysitter ... easier for them to learn and repeat unwanted behaviors. What type of unwanted behaviors are children learning from television? Children view about five acts of violence pre hour, and by the time they finish elementary school they will have viewed 8,000 murders (Walsh). By viewing these programs children are exposed to violent activities. As you can now see, television is and can be used as an educational device for ...
- 2576: Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment
- ... and how many opposed it. My results are shown on this overhead. As you can clearly see, 98% believe in the death penalty. 57% believe that the death penalty is a deterrent for murder. A high of 97% of the people favor capital punishment, where 1% think that our justice system should not be more lenient on death row inmates. Only 89% think that once convicted of murder, an inmate should ... and indecent. How sad that Miller, enjoying his brunch with the president at the Sweet Life Cafi, should lack compassion for the sweet life of others. Executions at U.S. prisons reached a 40- year high last year. There are going to be more executions in the future as these cases are speeded up, as a result of federal and state laws shortening the appeal process. I would now like to ... Director of Mental Health for the Massachusetts prison system, Medical Director of the Bridgewater (Mass.) State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and Director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard University Medical School. A heinous crime occurs and most people ask the inevitable question: Who are these people capable of such inhuman acts? According to Gilligan, they generally are ordinary people who often describe themselves as robots, ...
- 2577: Albert Einstein
- ... even led some teachers to believe he was disabled. Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the school's strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences that caused Einstein to search for knowledge at home. He began not ... he continued his education. At sixteen he attempted to enroll at the Federal Institute of Technology but failed the entrance exam. This forced him to study locally for one year until he finally passed the school's evaluation. The Institute allowed Einstein to meet many other students that shared his curiosity, and It was here that his studies turned mainly to Physics. He quickly learned that while physicists had generally agreed ... allowed Einstein to access an enormous library. It was here that he extended his theory and discussed it with the leading scientists of Europe. In 1912 he chose to accept a job placing him in high authority at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute ...
- 2578: Peter Tchaikovsky
- ... Votkinsk, in the city of Vyatka, Russia, May 7, 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter, to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St. Petersburg and his mother started to drive to another city, he had to be held back while she got into the carriage, and the moment he was free ran and tried to hold ... to hope for anything serious. But all the same, these forces exist. Thus Moussorgsky [Mussorgsky], with all his ugliness, speaks a new idiom. . . .We may reasonably hope that Russia will one day produce a whole school of strong men who will open new paths in art." The first decade of Tchaikovsky's life in Moscow was one of much struggle, intensified by several attacks of the nervous depression and morbid self ... Before the month was out he fled to St. Petersburg, arriving in complete nervous collapse, and was taken to the hotel nearest the station, where he became unconscious for 48 hours and then passed into high fever. Ordered by the doctors to leave Russia, he gradually regained strength at Clarens, a quiet village on Lake Geneva, where he later did some of his best work. Neither partner to this unfortunate ...
- 2579: Irving Penn
- ... century. "Photographing a cake can be art," Irving Penn said when he opened his studio in 1953. Before long he was backing up his statement with a series of advertising illustrations that created a new high standard in the field and established a reputation that has kept him in the top bracket ever since. Penn has won renown as much in editorial photography as in advertising illustration, and his innovations especially ... has been widely recognized and applauded. Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, NJ Educated in public; he enrolled at the age of 18 in a four-year course at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where Alexey Brodovitch taught him advertising design. While training for a career as an art director, Penn worked the last two summers from Harper's Bazaar as an office boy and apprentice artist ... was John Dewey and Alfred Hitchcock. Two series of portraits are especially memorable. One was made during Christmas in Cuzco, Peru, the other in studios in London, Paris, and New York. The first, in 1948 high in the Andes, followed a fashion assignment. With a few days to spend between planes, Penn persuaded the local photographer to rent him his studio. Pushing aside the ancient studio camera and picking up ...
- 2580: Prejudice Child Of Ignorance
- ... they come out looking stubborn, and ignorant. The child's parents may have put him in an environment where everyone is considered acceptable. His parents may have been wealthy, and put him in a private school that only other rich kids can attend. This would be an environment where there may not be racial differences. Because of the way, he was taught and raised, the child has become prejudiced, and the beliefs that his parents once had are now his own. When this child leaves that school, he has not had any contact with anyone from a different lifestyle. He will not know how to react to someone like a homeless person on the street. Like the child, everyone in America has ... the child and Archie Bunker exist. Their beliefs may not be right, but this is not always their fault. A childhood with parents who are prejudiced or a secluded environment with only people that meet high standards is usually the reason a person grows up this way. Nevertheless, this obviously does not make it right. Prejudice is a type of hate, and hate of all kinds is wrong. Prejudice is ...
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