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- 3431: All Good Things
- All Good Things He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, but had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even ... walked back to Mark's desk, removed the tape, and shrugged my shoulders. His first words were, "Than you for correcting me, Sister." At the end of the year, I was asked to teach junior-high math. The years flew by, and before I knew it Mark was in my classroom again. He was more handsome than ever and just as polite. Since he had to listen carefully to my instruction ...
- 3432: Lincoln - The Truth
- ... a buck was to be made, and they knew that it is hard to deny any price in a time of need and haste. Things such as poor quality uniforms were made and sold at high prices. And the War and Treasury Departments overpaid many unworthy characters. While such things look bad on the acting president, none of the corruption on these financial matters ever pointed to Lincoln. This loss of ... been ignoring competitive bidding and had bought objects from middlemen that he personally liked - in some cases, even when the seller had a reputation for being dishonest. What this lead to was the pay of high prices for lesser objects. Some of the acquired objects were large quantities of disintegrating blankets, spoiled pork, diseased or dying horses, and uniforms and knapsacks that fell apart in the rain. For this obvious waste ... eight from the late Confederacy. Throughout the time Lincoln was in office, he repeatedly demonstrated his enormous capacity for growth, which enabled one of the least experienced and most poorly prepared men, ever elected to high office to become a giant in the history of politics. This man, who was passive by nature, was driven to take enormous political risks and he was able to overcome repeated defeats.
- 3433: The Wright Brothers
- ... Wright. Wilbur, the oldest, was born on April 16, 1867 in New Castle, Indiana and Orville was born four years later on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio. (Porter 736) The two dropped out of high school before receiving their diploma and became interested in mechanical devices, (“Wright Brothers”) which after the death of Otto Lilienthal in 1896, led them to pursue flying mechanisms. (“Wright” 60) Between the years of 1900 and ...
- 3434: Benjamin Banneker
- ... from the springs for irrigation. His work was so reliable that the Bannaky’s crops flourished even in dry spells. The family of free blacks raised good tobacco crops all the time. There was no school in the valley for the boys to attend. Then one summer, a Quaker school teacher came to live in the valley and he set up school for the boys. The schoolmaster changed the spelling of Benjamin’s last name to Banneker. He had the equivalent of an eighth-grade education by the time he was fifteen, with much of what ...
- 3435: Tiger Woods
- ... up new doors for the “average person” to get involved in golf. The younger generation and those of other ethnic backgrounds are now represented in the form of Tiger Woods. A classmate I had in high school once told me that golf is a “white man’s sport”. This remark discouraged me for a while, but the presence Tiger Woods inspired me to ignore that comment and go after my goal of ...
- 3436: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in times before, his perfectionism and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his friends the wrong way, and he was caught up in a number of quarrels during his short stay. In 1707, at the age of ... was a demanding one; he had to compose cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conduct the choirs, oversee the musical activities of numerous churches, and teach Latin in the St. Thomas choir school. He had to get along with the Leipzig church authorities, which proved to be difficult. But he persisted, polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds ...
- 3437: Influence Of Influenza
- ... InFLUence of the Influenza" The patient Terry B. (Case no.19), has acquired the microbial agent Pneumonia Influenza. The patient is a three year old white male with a headache, lethargy and was running a high fever of 39.7 degrees Celsius. He has suffered from a previous illness of infection of the upper respiratory. Due to the fever, he had a systolic of 110 over 75 diastolic; pulse of racy 100. The fever also accounted for abnormal nasal discharge. A viral agent was concluded by the highly irregular hematology. The WBC (white blood count) was at a high for compensation in immunity. A normal WBC is nine-thousand five-hundred, the patient had a total count of twenty-one thousand. The Monocyte count, normally of 7, was at a low 1. The remaining ... and B virus. Type C causes only a mild illness that is indistinguishable to the common cold. In general, type A is more debilitating than type B. Pnemonia develops very suddenly with the onset of high fever, shaking chills, chest pain, and a very definite feeling of sickness or malaise. Within hours enough puss is produced within the lung for the patient to start coughing up thick yellow or greenish ...
- 3438: Human Experience Of Eduation
- ... altering ideas or approaching concepts from different angles as you become more educated and mature. Creativity allows you to take your ideas in any direction that you wish. When you start your education in elementary school you learn very easy concepts. As you proceed, you build upon early ideas with more advanced concepts. Your intuition increases through education and you have a broader background of facts and information to use. In ... a new world, and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purposes" (Whitehead, 15). Many individuals in my generation have very short attention spans. They can't be fully interested in school, without the freedom to express their own ideas and imagination. I believe that capturing student's interests involves acts of incorporating imagination in the classroom and being encouraged by the teacher. If this happens, students ... the key to students understanding boring information that they think they'll never use again in their life. An example of this is teaching mathematics, word for word, right out of the textbook in elementary school. The kids do the work mostly because they are required to do so rather than the desire to learn. If math is taught with objects on tables and a group interaction of the specific ...
- 3439: Who was Adolf Hitler?
- ... in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art ... the removal of the Jews from German society. The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but were thwarted by the Munich police. Hitler was Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve ...
- 3440: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job as organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians, for example, the church choir, rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he became involved in some hot disputes during his short stay. In 1707, at the age of twenty-two ... was a demanding one. Bach had to compose cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conduct the choirs, oversee the musical activities of area churches, and teach Latin in the St. Thomas choir school. Accordingly, he had to get along with the Leipzig church authorities, which proved rocky. But Bach persisted, polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds with ...
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