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- 3421: America and Affirmative Action
- ... force people to hire unqualified minorities? No. But affirmative action programs should cause us as a society to re-evaluate how we access qualifications and how we measure merit. Let us become tenure Harvard Law School professors for just a moment. Suppose we have two applicants for an open associate professor position. The first candidate is White, a Harvard Law School graduate, has impressive board scores, served as editor of the Law Review, etc..., but has never practiced law before. The other candidate is Black, a Harvard Law School graduate, average board scores, has excellent person skills, and practiced law as the county defendant in an inner-city neighborhood. Under the traditional system of merit, the White Harvard graduate gets the appointment hands ...
- 3422: Ritalin
- Ritalin The parents of six year old James Patrick Smith receive a phone call from the school guidance counselor informing them of their child's recent hyperactive behavior. After a short conference, the guidance counselor suggests to the parents a solution for young James' problem; as a result, the family visits their ... is limited and abuse of the drug hinders the number of pills on the legal market (Bailey 2). Hancock alerts that one of the most common places of illegal sell of Ritalin lies on the school yards of America; enterprising children see the opportunity to make some money and neglect their parents' waste of money every time a prescription is written (56). Even government regulations cannot control Ritalin with policemen on ... what the drug actually effects and who requires the drug for healthier living and better focus on life.Hopkins 3 The parents of six year old James Patrick Smith receive a phone call from the school guidance counselor informing them of their child's recent hyperactive behavior. After a short conference, the guidance counselor suggests to the parents a solution for young James' problem; as a result, the family visits ...
- 3423: Juvenile Delinquency
- ... delinquency, rather than on the way individuals become delinquents. A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems. Social scientists have also studied the influence of other youngsters on those who commit delinquencies. For example, ...
- 3424: ASTM Pros
- ... 34.26 kg of Coarse Aggregate (14 mm stone) 26.1 kg of Fine Aggregate (sand) 11.0 kg of cement (various: Lafarge) 4.67 L of water The admixtures were each tested at a high and a low dosage listed below: Admixture Low Dosage (mL/kg of cement) Mix Dose(ml/batch) High Dosage(ml/kg of cement) Mix dose(mL/batch) 25-XL 3.25 35.75 4.50 49.50 200-N 2.50 27.50 3.25 35.75 220-N 1.65 18.15 ... C 143-89). In this program a slump of 80-110 cm was desired. This meant that every mix was aimed to achieved a 100 cm slump however an low of 80 cm and a high of 110 cm was acceptable. During the mix time an experienced eye must determine whether or not the wet concrete has achieved the 100 cm slump or the mix is invalid. This is done ...
- 3425: Whats Normal Whats A Freak
- ... talk to them. When I was in seventh grade I met someone that changed my life. They were smart and nice to be around. Everything I wanted to be. They didn t go to our school; in fact they weren t allowed to go to school. She, was one of my neighbors grandkids, I haven t told many people this because she was something I always wanted to be. She looked at people and saw who they were not what they ... others a gods sake, it s the truth about everyone. We are all a like in more then one way. We share something in common; we go through the same life experiences, walking, talking, and school. Normal, freak, they re words most of us use every day, but we don t truly know what they mean. Look at the people beside you, what would you call them? You would call ...
- 3426: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who shared the dream of being a lawyer with Martin Luther King, Malcolm Xs anger and disillusionment caused him to drop out of school. He started to use cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm Xs hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his ... about getting this equality through a non-violent way. Kings popularity was more than any other black leaders popularity. King urged blacks to win their rightful place in society by gaining self-respect, high moral standards, hard work and leadership. He also urged blacks to do this in a non-violent matter, (pg. 255, Reflecting Black) The difference is in Malcolm X and Martin Luther Kings backgrounds had ...
- 3427: Louis Leakey
- ... of ancient Africans, truly links to the past, Leakey knew that the rest of his life would be devoted towards discovering the secrets of the prehistoric ancestors of humankind. Despite not being accustomed to the school structure back in England and the accompanying problems he had in public school, Leakey was accepted into Cambridge in 1922. However, blows to the head sustained during rugby games resulted in epilepsy and headaches for Leakey, and he had to leave school in 1923. This, however, was a blessing in disguise, for Leakey landed a job as an African expert on an archaeological mission to Tendaguru in what is now Tanzania. He was to accompany the ...
- 3428: Lizzie Borden 2
- ... an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster- daughter, charged with parricide, the murder of parents, a crime worthy of Classical Greek tragedy. This is a murder case in which the accused is found not guilty for the violent and ... by hanging. The trial was set for June 5, 1893. This was the Victorian era, when women were "certainly not capable of killing anyone." You must remember that Lizzie was of a wealthy family of high status. After only an hour, the 12 jury members declared Lizzie to be not guilty. It is said that it only took 15 minutes to decide, but out of respect for the prosecution, they waited ...
- 3429: Ray Bradbury
- ... as a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California. Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to ...
- 3430: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, a town on the Ohio River near Cincinatti. In 1823, the Grant family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where Ulysses attended school until he was 14. He then spent one year at an acadamy in Maysville, Kentucky and in 1838 he entered an academy in Ripley, Ohio. In 1839, Ulysses's father, Jesse, found out that a ... neighbor's son had been dismissed from West Point. Jesse asked his congressman to appoint Ulysses as a replacement, and the congressman agreed. Grant was an average student at West Point, although he did rank high in mathematics and horsemanship. He graduated from West Point on July 1, 1843 and was promoted in the Army to second lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, stationed near St. Louis. There he met Julia ...
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