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- 2881: Mother Teresa
- ... northeast India. On May 24, 1931, she took the name of "Teresa" in honor of St. Teresa of Avila. At first, Mother Teresa was assigned to teach a small Geography class at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. Mother Teresa noticed all the beggars, lepers, and homeless people on the streets of Calcutta. There lives were horrible, living on other peoples scraps and letting babies that they couldn’t support die ... groups is a well known priest by the name of Johann Christoph. These kids love to do what Mother Teresa does best and make many dying people happy in there last days of life. The School that did this was the "Wake Forest University." Or as they prefer to be called the "City of Joy Scholars." The kids spent 18 long days in Calcutta as Mother Teresa’s first help ...
- 2882: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... for the local NAACP. In 1956 on December 21 after more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Montgomery buses are desegregate. In 1957, At a previously all-white Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1,000 paratroopers are called by President Eisenhower to restore order and escort “The Little Rock Nine” to attend school. In 1960, the sit-in protest movement begins in February at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and spreads across the nation. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed at a ... are given to underrepresented minorities. In more resent years, the U.S. Supreme Court outlaws racial quotas in a suit brought by Allan Bakke, a white man who had been turned down by the medical school at University of California, Davis.1989 Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes the nation's first African American to be elected state governor. Four years ago, in 1992, the first racially based riots in years ...
- 2883: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... because death was immanent and "The opposite (of death) is desire" (Williams, 179). She escaped death in her use of desire. However, she could not escape "death" for long. She was a teacher at a high school, and at one point she had intimacies with a seventeen year old student. The superintendent, "Mr. Graves", found out about this and she was fired from her job. Her image was totally destroyed and she ... of calling the play "The Poker Night". In the first four scenes of the play, Blanche plays a good bluff. She tricks everyone into believing that she is a woman of country-girl manners and high moral integrity (Quirino 62). Stanley asks her to "lay her cards on the table", but she continues her bluff (Adler 54). However, Stanley then goes on a quest for the truth. He then discovers ...
- 2884: Anti-Affirmative Action
- ... phrase, I realized that the student, whom I knew and worked with so many times, the one with such a lack of motivational ability, confidence, and ideas, was now occupying my chances towards a preferred school. "Affirmative action", I soon found out, was used by President John F. Kennedy over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin. As a policy ... action is the admission practices at the University of California Berkeley. In the same article by Pasour, it states that while whites or Asian-Americans need at least a 3.7 grade point average through high school to be in consideration for admission in Berkeley, most minorities with much lower standards are automatically admitted. All the preferential treatment may provide a basis for employers, employees, as well as real applicable students ...
- 2885: What is a Luxury?
- ... revolves around his luxuries. Personally, I have been there and experienced this kind of stupor or addiction to a possession of mine. I met Denny Hippchen and Aaron Steinmetz during my first year at Shasta High School and these two young men awakened my interest in computers. A computer has been around me ever since. You could call it a luxury but now I am so used to using the computer that it is now a necessity. All of my homework is done on my computer, and it is one of my many ways of communicating. It provides entertainment, music, school needs, and many other things upon which I depend. In a sense, the computer has become indispensable to me. I am now to the point where I cannot live without a computer. My computer ...
- 2886: Coming of Age in Mississippi
- ... Anne spent her childhood watching her parents (mother mostly) struggle to survive and didn’t quite understand why. At the tender age of 9, Anne had to take on a job as a maid after school to help her now single mother make ends meet after her father left to be with another women. Her mother had more children and married again, but Anne’s relationship with her stepfather was very ... caused a bad relationship with her mother; she wanted Anne to just follow those before her. She began to hear of blacks that were standing up for themselves and about the civil rights movement. By high school Anne was fed up and after graduation Anne went away to college, partly to get away from the increasing acts of racism, mostly to broaden her mind from the small confinements of Wilkinson County. ...
- 2887: The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
- ... Civil Liberties Union as needed. This was not just a book written by Wallace and Mangan, but something that means a great deal to them. Johnathn Wallace is Vice President and General Counsel at a high-tech computer services company based in New York City. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, he practiced computer law for ten years and has authored two books: Syslaw, the Sysops Legal Manual and Understanding Software Law. Mark Mangan works at the same high-tech company where he is a corporate writer. Both of these men are well versed in the area of computers and computer law, and it is evident in this book. Wallace and Mangan do ...
- 2888: Pythagoras
- ... the traditional views. The union of mathematical genius and mysticism is commonly enough. Originally from Samos, Pythagoras founded at Kroton (in southern Italy) a society which was at once a religious community and a scientific school. Such a body was bound to excite jealousy and mistrust, and we hear of many struggles. Pythagoras himself had to flee from Kroton to Metapontion, where he died. It is stated that he was a ... with the senses, Plato argues, remind us of things we knew when the soul was out of the body and could perceive reality directly. There is more difficulty about the cosmology of Pythagoras. Hardly any school ever professed such reverence for its founder's authority as the Pythagoreans. 'The Master said so' was their watchword. On the other hand, few schools have shown so much capacity for progress and for adapting ... s Phaedo (86 b) we are told by Simmias that the Pythagoreans held the body to be strung like an instrument to a certain pitch, hot and cold, wet and dry taking the place of high and low in music. Musical tuning and health are alike means arising from the application of Limit to the Unlimited. It was natural for Pythagoras to look for something of the same kind in ...
- 2889: Michael Jordan
- ... Jordan’s parents are James and Deloris Jordan. James began work as a forklift operator for General Electric, rose to dispatcher and retired as a supervisor. Deloris took a job after her children were in school at a drive-through window for United Carolina Bank. She worked her way up to head teller and retired as chief of Customer Service. Jordan has two brothers and two sisters; James Ronald, Larry, Deloris ... go right back to him just to make the night not so long." (Naughton, 1992, Pg. 22-23) Adolph Shiver was Michael’s summer time playmate at Empire Park in Wilmington, his classmate at Laney High School and began again Chapel Hill. Jordan has a big circle of friends but these were a few of the closet. Beneath this verbal sparring, friends say, is the thoughtful Jordan who has dedicated his ...
- 2890: The Outsiders
- ... it was sold, and still being sold, in many copies as a young adults novel. There was a movie made about it, and today there are still many schools that use this book in junior high and high schools for English classes. The Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits, and the Socs are a group of spoiled rich kids who get everything they want. This novel's theme is very ... and when Johnny dies and it disturbs the Greasers. It is shown that the Greasers and Socs strive for the same goals when Darry, Ponyboy's older brother, tells him that he should succeed in school and make something of himself, and Bob is always trying to make his father happy with him. These examples show that all people, Socs, Greasers, or whatever, all strive to achieve the same goals ...
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