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- 451: Japan On Its Way To Be The World's Largest Economy
- ... disastrous to the country. Japan's trade surplus is its only generator of wealth. This is a fact of life that is preached through the media and taught constantly to Japanese throughout their lives in school, from parents, and when they enter the working world. The message is clear: Japan is always vulnerable, we must protect her. "Obsessed with national character, the Japanese are proud and ambitious, constantly measuring themselves against ... supplemented by extensive intraining programs by many of the major employers."6 "The primary and secondary educational system is probably the most comprehensive and most disciplined in the world."7 Where North American students attend school 175 days a year, Japanese students attend 240 days. . Japanese students attend elementary and secondary school six days a week and for two months longer each year than North American students. In addition, they have long hours of homework. A large majority of Japanese students attend juku, or preparatory schools, ...
- 452: Settings In Jane Eyre
- ... not find love there. She was an unwanted child, and she was an outsider in her own home, the only home she ever knew. Jane was sent away from Gateshead Hall to a charity boarding school called Lowood. Mrs. Reed decides to send Jane there after the doctor, Mr. Lloyd, advised her that Jane should attend a boarding school to control her temper. However, despite the poor conditions, in Lowood, Jane began to feel accepted. Miss. Temple, who runs the school, and Helen Burns, a fellow classmate, helped her become a stronger person. Helen taught her to not worry much about what others think of her. Lowood was a school formed to educate orphaned children. ...
- 453: J.D. Salinger
- ... His sister, Doris, was eight years older than him, and played a key part several of Salinger's later characters. Following the role of a later character Holden Caulfield, Salinger started in a public grammar school, then enrolled in McBurney School, a private school in Manhattan, along with several others in the area. Young Salinger did well in school, but his weakness was in arithmetic. Salinger showed an early interest in drama, voted most popular actor at a ...
- 454: Student Feelings On School Vio
- Statement of Purpose The purpose of this questionnaire is to measure the extent to which school staff and students agree with statements that sufficient measures to prevent school violence exist. Furthermore, it will reveal staff and student classifications in the areas of gender, whether the subject is a staff member or student, and the grade level if the subject is a student. Description of Population This pilot survey was conducted by gathering responses from staff members and students at Flintville Junior High School in Flintville, Tennessee. Selecting every 10th name from a list of approximately 350 students created a random sample of 10% of the student body. If the 10th student was not available, the next ...
- 455: Improving Education
- Improving Education Introduction and Program Overview Due to the increased accountability attached to student scores, the focus of educators has shifted beyond the realm of the regular school day to providing intensive instruction in a smaller group setting. Extended day is an after school program, held on campus, designed to target students with low achievement in writing, reading and math on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills or TAAS test. The program was started during the 1996- 1997 school year and services approximately 125 students per year which is about 22 % of the total population. Out of the total population of 569 students, 36.6% are considered "at-risk" therefore, a large percentage ...
- 456: School Prayer Should Be Allowed
- School Prayer Should Be Allowed I attended twelve years of Catholic School. My parents consented to the decision of my enrollment and they knew what was involved. They knew that the study of God and prayer was mandatory. Prayer in school in my case produced and environment of discipline and respect for the teachers. The involvement of my parents and the faculty in the use of prayer was in full agreement. However, my view was ...
- 457: School Prayer Should Be Allowed
- School Prayer Should Be Allowed I attended twelve years of Catholic School. My parents consented to the decision of my enrollment and they knew what was involved. They knew that the study of God and prayer was mandatory. Prayer in school in my case produced and environment of discipline and respect for the teachers. The involvement of my parents and the faculty in the use of prayer was in full agreement. However, my view was ...
- 458: ... is expected to do a myriad of chores and to become a "lady". She is advised on how she should act and how she can avoid being a "slut". In "Two Kinds", the mother has high hopes; she believes a person can be anything they want in America and she wants a daughter who excels in some area. All of the mother's hopes lay on the daughter. Her hopes are ... her child can as well. The mother wants her daughter to be the best she can be, but she has unrealistic expectations. The girl in Jamaica Kincaid's essays is not being held to such high hopes and dreams. The expectations placed on her are not as high, but are equally unforgiving. Her authority figure wants her to be the perfect "traditional" girl. She is expected to cook, clean, iron, and not assert her independence. Children, though, are naturally independent and free- ...
- 459: Personal Writing: Exchange Student in Japan
- ... mixed emotions that I really did not know how to feel so I will just say that I was excited. At the airport I met my best friend and two other friends of mine from school. We would all be traveling together, most all the time. The only things that would really be different would be where we lived and who we would live with. As the flight, Northwest number 69 ... I encountered on my trip. As we neared the home, I began to feel tired and this day ended fast, almost as quickly as it began. The next morning we awoke early to go to school. This was a very exciting day for me, because I would get to meet my friends from America at school, and I would get to meet new people from Japan. In the way that American Children take the bus, Japanese children take the train. We got on a train at around 7:35, switched ...
- 460: Ernie Pyle
- ... tasks at hand: raising chickens and produce, caring for her family and serving the neighbors. Pyle describes her, She thrived on action, she would rather milk than sew; rather plow than bake (Tobin 6). Through school Pyle loved to write. During high school he was reporter, then editor, then editor in chief for his high school newspaper. When he graduated high school, he too was caught up in the patriotic fever of the nation upon Americas ...
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