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- 2971: The Dress Code
- ... they build class unity, increase our image in the community, and dress the students for business, not play. Magnolia Heights needs to continue this vital dress code and hair restrictions for the future. Having a school full of students wearing the same clothes and hairstyles helps build an attachment within the class. Students that wear many different styles of clothes all come together wearing similar pants, shirts, ties, and shoes. A ... will always be more trusting with people who fit that image. Within everyone s life, there is a time for fun and a time for business. While some people wait until they are well-passed high school before they prepare for business, Magnolia Heights is in the forefront preparing students now. This preparation stems from the dress code and hair restrictions that are enforced by Magnolia Heights. When a coat and ...
- 2972: Argument-based Homicide In Ame
- Argument-based Homicide in America Feeling alienated by fellow classmates, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO who referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Mafia went on a rampant killing spree which took the lives of themselves, twelve other students and one teacher (Obmascik 1). This incident caused ... no matter where one is from. Works Cited Cohen, Dov. "Culture, Social Organization, and Patterns of Violence." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, Vol. 75, No. 2. 408-419. Obmascik, Mark. "Massacre at Columbine High: Bloodbath leaves 15 dead, 28 hurt." The Denver Post. 21 April 1999.
- 2973: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer: Biography of R. L. Stine
- ... as a Writer: Biography of R. L. Stine R.L. Stine was born October 8, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio and was named Robert Lawrence Stine. R.L. Stine's first house was three story's high, with a garage. His dog named Whitey (“half collie, half husky, half elephant”) spent his days and nights there because he was so big he knocked everything over if he was allowed in the house ... Norm; he meet him at day camp when he was about 10. His first book was The Giggle Book it was really magazine, which he wrote it in 6th grade. When Mr. Stine got into high school, he became a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the last one was named Stories and Gags. R.L. ...
- 2974: Soccer: An Utopia Sport
- ... this year. Their road to the World Cup was not an easy one. They tied a very good Mexico team 1-1. They also had to beat Canada, and El Salvador. The team has very high hopes and a good chance to do well. Soccer has entrenched itself well in America, not only among men but among women also. The first women's teams were formed in England in the 1880 ... women's team won the gold medal. Now more programs are being started for young girls to have their own soccer team to play on. These "feeder" programs help increase the level of play in high school and college. This in turn helps the sport’s popularity. We have all seen it, heard it, and read it. Soccer isn't a "real" sport. Soccer is boring. Soccer is only for geeky, ...
- 2975: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- ... and Today and Tomorrow I can remember as a child in the 1950’s and early sixties, the air-raid sirens, and everyone getting under their desk, or going to the ground floor of the school building and curling up with our faces against the wall. It was a game. It was like a fire drill, a chance to get out for a few minutes, out of our studies, out of ... son Dennis was getting ready for bed one night. He was sobbing inconsolably. I believe he was in the 7th grade at the time. He had seen parts of the movie “The Day After” in school about 5 years after it aired. I know for a fact he did not view that movie when it first cam out. It was hyped with many warning statements as to the content. I found ... It was later learned the projectile actually carried equipment for meteorological research. The Washington Post observed, “These may have been the most dangerous moments of the nuclear age. They offer a glimpse of how the high-alert nuclear-launch mechanism of the Cold War remains in place, and how it could go disastrously wrong, even though the great super-power rivalry has ended.” The treaty signed after the Berlin Wall ...
- 2976: Ben Franklin
- ... important concepts of his experiments were the existence of positive and negative electricity, the fluidity of electricized particles and the identity of lightning and electricity (Cohen 48). The experiment with the kite is taught in school to nearly every American child. It sparked the birth of lightning rods. The rods kept people's homes from getting hit by lightning and catching fire. House fires caused by lightning were one of the ... distinguished accomplishments. Some of Franklin's other inventions were the copying press, a musical instrument called the armonica, a rocking chair that fanned itself as it rocked, a long arm device for moving books on high library shelves, a combination footstool-ladder, a clock with internal workings, the odometer to calculate mileage, a combination chair-table which is now used as a school chair, bifocals, a rubber catheter, and a candle made of whale oil that gave a clean white light. All of these inventions became solutions to ordinary, everyday problems and needs. Franklin was not only ...
- 2977: Jack London(biography)
- ... maternal figure while the boy grew up. Late in 1876, Flora married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran. The family moved around the Bay area before settling in Oakland, where Jack completed grade school. Though the family was working class, it was not so impoverished as London's later accounts claimed. As an adolescent, London worked at various hard labor jobs, pirated for oysters on San Francisco Bay, served on a fish patrol to capture poachers, sailed the Pacific on a sealing ship, joined Kelly's Army of unemployed working men, hoboed around the country, and returned to attend high school at age 19. In the process, he became acquainted with socialism and was known as the Boy Socialist of Oakland for his street corner oratory, and would run unsuccessfully several times on the socialist ...
- 2978: Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... desire to write instead of play sports like the stereotypical boy should. Tennessee was able to receive support from his mother who encouraged him to write. He attended the University of Missouri where he received high honors in all his courses except for ROTC which he failed. After school, he worked in a shoe factory and wrote during the night until 1934 when he had a nervous breakdown and had to quit his job in order to recuperate. In 1938, he attended the University ... that she is not as together as she would like people to believe. As the play progresses, her mental instability becomes more apparent. She is constantly needing reassurance on her appearance and her nerves are high. “She’s [Blanche] soaking in a hot tub to quiet her nerves. She’s terribly upset.”(Williams, “Streetcar..”, 32). It is also revealed that she is highly dependent on fantasy and illusion. In scene ...
- 2979: Immigration
- ... unemployed immigrants in the U.S. In addition to the economic problems that arise with immigration, there are also many social issues as well. Some of these issues include education, communication, and assimilation. The public school systems of the U.S. today are inadequate enough, without the hassle of trying to cope with immigrants. Assuming that the immigrant children are bilingual(most of which are not), they will still have much ... to coach all immigrants through their troubles, and set aside extra class time to the soul purpose of further explaining matters to the ignorant immigrants. A large percentage of these immigrants will drop out of high school, about 33.1% of recent immigrants. Many immigrants are also criminals. Almost eighty percent of all aliens in prison were incarcerated for drug charges. Another problem that arises from immigration is racism. "The melting ...
- 2980: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... parents in Bozeman, Mont., he could not afford a college education and anticipated a career constructing floor molds for engine castings at a foundry in Portland, Ore., where he went to work in 1942, after high school. But in 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps and was stationed in the central Pacific as an airplane armorer and gunner. After the war, the G.I. Bill offered him ... and soon was winning awards, including top honors at the 1950 National Ceramic Exhibition at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, in New York. Encouraged, he chose ceramics as a course of study in graduate school at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, from which he graduated with a master's degree in 1952. Around the same time, he married Margaret Cone and had a daughter, Pier. ...
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