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- 2791: Creative Story: My Golden Age
- ... that. If I were to come up with my own Golden Age, this is what I would do. I would start with my present standing in life. That would be a tenth grade student in high school. Then to make it dream like, I would analyze to see what I could do to make my life better. I would find out what things were important to me at that time and what things I could change to make my future life better. For example, I would probably start out with school, since that is very important to most people at my age. There are pretty much two things that are important to kids around my age, the social aspect and the academic aspect. I would ...
- 2792: Personal Writing: History of Pete Dalberg Family
- ... in Bovil. Merle was born in 1911 and is now deceased. Erma was born about 1914 or 1915 and lives in Spokane Washington. Anna divorced Frank Hayes and moved to Spokane when Merle was in high school. Merle actually lived with us for a year when we were in Nez Perce Idaho. Later Anna married Joe Colverson and had a daughter, Donna Colverson born about 1930 Donna is now deceased. One time ... brim off. Grandma then took and cut off the rest of the brim and made him wear it. You can imagine how funny he looked. Also one year when he was suppose to go to school. They only wen
- 2793: Creative Story: Everything Ends
- ... silent sinister hand of sleep had stricken her. She dreamed about the past; how she got here. She relived all the major milestones that happened in her life. She dreamt that when she was in high school, her mother got into a car accident and died, in October. She dreamt her father exploding and being constantly angry, in October. She dreamt of after not being able to deal with her father, dropping out of school, in October. She dreamt of running away from home, in October. She dreamt of the termination of her career as a lounge singer after being signed by a major record company, in October. She ...
- 2794: India's Economic Success
- ... one's country, India has exploded in schools and enrollment in these schools. As we can see by page 2, both chart's, the difference in a little more then 10 years is considerable. Both school enrollment and the number of educational institutions have increased by an average of 63%, however do not get fooled by these numbers. The Indian's school system are extremely overcrowded and many children drop out to get a job to help support their families. This problem with India's educational system falls in two parts, the first being that children who ... in number and size. This is in part again from the government forcing economic changes but also in part from the expanding wealth of India. The problem of India is that the poverty is a high factor however this country has a large GNP. Although this value can not be compared to America since because if its large population they have one of the lowest per capita GNP's. This ...
- 2795: Questioning The Constitutional
- ... establishment clause into the 14th Amendment which states that "the State shall not deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws and due process. After this trial, people began to question whether school prayer was constitutional (pg. 93-94, Klinker). T he "creche case," Lynch vs. Donnelly, came from Rhode Island in 1980. In this case, the city offical included a creche, or nativity scene, in their city ... government's impremature approval on the particular religion's beliefs exemplified by the creche." They argued that it clearly violated the First Amendment (p. 99, Witt). These cases demonstrate a pattern of Constitutional thought by high courts prohibiting the promotion of particular religious ideas, and the spending of tax dollars on events that promote particular religious views. A logical extension of this pattern can be made to the spending of tax ... religious meaning. Using tax money to decorate for a religious holiday not celebrated by everyone is unconstitutional because these symbols support one religion over no religion. The First Amendment prohibits this. We understand that public school prayer discriminates against some religious views so it is prohibited in public schools. Similarly, Christmas concerts play a role similar to the teaching of creationism and prayer. The Christmas concerts subconsiously influence students toward ...
- 2796: Ellis Island
- ... to receive ferry boats, new docks and buildings had to be built. The main building made of Georgia pine at a cost of $500,000 was opened on January 1, 1892. It was two stories high about 400 feet wide and it looked like a Victorian seaside resort hotel.Baggage rooms filled the ground level. The great inspection hall was upstairs. Nearby on the grounds were hospital buildings, doctors quarters, a ... were often penniless and were unable to travel any farther than the already crowded cities where their ships first docked. Crossing the North Atlantic on ship with hundreds of people was harsh. Wind, rain, and high seas gave a pitching movement. Immigrants lied cramped in narrow bunks surrounded by the smell of unwashed bodies, oders of seasickness, and the smells of old food. They were often separated from family and friends ... Ragtime Band" and "Easter Parade". The great Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne arrived in 1893 from Norway. A year later Felix Frankfuter arrived from Vienna. He later became a professor at the Harvard Law School and was a justice of the United States Supreme Court. Samuel Goldwyn and Spyros Skouras were two giants of the Hollywood movie industry. Also Elia Kazan, a film and play director arrived in 1913. ...
- 2797: Frederick Winslow Taylor: Business Management
- ... be free of value judgement. The Younger Years Frederick W. Taylor was born into a well-to-do family in Philadelphia in 1856 . His family was not wealthy , but they were well exposed to the high culture of the local society. Growing up it was expected that Taylor would study to become an attorney. Taylor attended Phillips-Exeter Academy. He was a devout student, doing very well with his studies. To achieve good grades, Taylor studied many long hours. It was quite unfortunate that Taylor was to miss Harvard Law School due to bad eyes that doctors attrributed to studying in the poor light of a kerosene lamp. In later years it was realized that his eye problem was actually caused by stress, as it improved ... needed to continue his education. He convinced the people at Stevens Institute of Technology to allow him to attend classes long distance. He would study in his spare time in Philadelphia and go to the school in New Jersey to take his exams. In June of 1883, Taylor graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree. He subsequently joined the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Midvale Steel Company The Midvale Steel ...
- 2798: Langston Hughes
- ... second husband (Hughes's grandfather) was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to see the cause of social justice. As a lonely child Hughes turned to reading and writing, publishing his first poems while in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an unhappy year. Even as he worked as a delivery man, a messmate on ships to Africa and Europe, a busboy, and a ... chant of the line, "I've known rivers", serves to emphasize the worldly experience Hughes felt was embodied in the soul of every African-American. Lines five through eight are a miniature primer on the high points of African history, "I bathed in the Euphrates . . . I built my hut near the Congo . . . I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids . . ." The three line gap following these lines is Hughes' ...
- 2799: Apostle Paul
- ... age five to ten he studied under his father, a Jewish Pharisee. His father taught him the scriptures and traditional writing. Paul was sent to Jerusalem at about ten years old to attend the rabbinical school of Gamaliel. Gamaliel was the most famous rabbi who is mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 5:34). Gamaliel soon discovered Saul was an enthusiastic student and expected great things from him. He felt that ... had a real love for learning the scriptures and worship. When Saul was in his mid-twenties he went home to Tarsus. Saul left Jerusalem with the knowledge and experiences he learned from Gamaliel's school. Saul did not believe Jesus was the Messiah because Jesus often denounced the Pharisees and seemed to oppose all their rules. He had once heard that Jesus taught the people to disobey the rabbis and ... true Jews accused Him as enemy of Israel. Saul believed that anyone who followed Jesus should be put to death. With this thought in mind he returned to Jerusalem and offered his service to the high priest to persecute anyone who is opposed to the way of the synagogue. Saul took his job so fiercely that every worshipping assembly feared his name. He had a temper and was merciless. He ...
- 2800: 1920s And 1930s With Reference
- ... home that had festered while America was off at war. Unknown to almost the whole population, a time of despair and darkness was to soon fall upon them. During the 1920’s, the economy was high and generally prosperous for almost all Americans. During this time period, many people were content with their economic lives and there was no large complaint in the area of labor unions and workers complaints. However ... the terms of industry management. The fight for prohibition was aided by America's antagonism for immigrants. (Stein 25) It seemed that Americans were finally achieving their dreams, the economy was at an all time high, however, an event was coming that would drastically shatter the hopes and futures of the American population.The roaring twenties soon led into a time of despair and poverty, the Great Depression. In 1929 it ... old shattered word 'breeding'," (Bruccoli 11) His mother's people were immigrant entrepreneurs who "had the money." His mother nurtured social ambitions in her only son, and Fitzgerald was sent east to a Catholic prep school, and then to Princeton. (Bruccoli 32) At Princeton Fitzgerald courted academic trouble as he pursued success on the parallel tracks which were to mark his career as a writer. He wrote lyrics for shows ...
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