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- 541: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House "was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison." While attending Hodder House, he studied chemistry, poetry, geometry, arithmetic, and grammar. After his experiences at Jesuit ...
- 542: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House "was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison." While attending Hodder House, he studied chemistry, poetry, geometry, arithmetic, and grammar. After his experiences at Jesuit ...
- 543: Nhalants
- ... as a stimulant. Butyl nitrite is packaged in small bottles and sold under many names such as "locker room" and "rush". It is also classified as a stimulant, and like amyl nitrite, it produces a "high" that lasts from a few seconds to several minutes. The immediate effects include decreased blood pressure, followed by an increased heart rate, flushed face and neck, dizziness, and headache. Inhalant abuse is on the rise ... young people, especially between the ages of 7 and 17. This is because inhalants are readily available and inexpensive. In fact, kids in the 7th grade are more likely to use inhalants than seniors in high school. Children can unintentionally misuse inhalant products that are often found around the house. Parents should see that these substances, like paints, medicines, and hairsprays, are kept away from young children. Inhalant abuse may result ...
- 544: Creative Story: Fast Eddie
- ... bring me here. My mind wanders back to when I was an innocent eight year old kid. I worried more about what games to play than anything else. My mom brought us to the Mile High City after she and my dad started fighting. She thought it would be good to grow up near relatives. She never knew what was in store for us all. No one knew except the scientist ... years of civil war, life is very hard. This brings us up to a week ago. My story, in my opinion, is about a kid trying to stay alive in the streets of the Mile High City. Each day a struggle for food and a safe place to sleep at night. I lost my mom at the disaster relief center set up in the city park. She was killed for the ... trouble? I stood silent for a minute before I spoke. "Who do you think I am?", I stuttered. "How would you like me to address you?", it spoke. I had heard electronic speech before. At school, most of the CD Rom disks we used in computer lab had a lot of speech but this seemed different. It came clear and smooth from the speaker. "You can call me Vanessa, everyone ...
- 545: Forrest Gump
- ... sorts of fiascoes happen during the course of this novel. Throughout the novel, Forrest is telling of his remarkable life that he has led. It starts when he is a child. When he was in school, he was transferred to a special school because he had an IQ of an idiot and did not fit in with the mainstream. When he was about sixteen, a guy stopped him on his way home from “nut school” and asked him why he had not seen him around before. The next week, he was taken out of that school and placed in a public high school so he could play football. He ...
- 546: Africa 2
- ... northwest, the Ahaggar and Tibesti ranges in the Sahara, and the East African highlands stretching from Ethiopia to Tanzania. The highest mountain in Africa, snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro at 19,340 feet (5,895 meters) high, is in the Eastern Highlands. Running the length of the highlands is the great Rift Valley. This deep, narrow break in the Earth's surface has a number of branches in which long, narrow lakes ... as many as 3,000 different tree and plant species per square mile. The forest usually forms three layers: a ground cover of shrubs and ferns between 6 and 10 feet (2 and 3 meters) high; a woody layer of trees and climbers reaching about 60 feet (18 meters); and a canopy of broad-leaved evergreen trees growing as high as 150 feet (46 meters). Between the equatorial rain forests and the great deserts to the north and south are the savanna areas. These are open grasslands scattered with trees such as acacias and ...
- 547: Richard M. Nixon
- ... gas station and a general store on it. Business was good, but it took much work to keep the store running. The whole family worked hard at the store and the children worked hard at school. But tragedy struck in 1925. Arthur died. Richard was always a serious child. By the age of six, he was already reading the newspaper and talking politics with his father. He was a good public speaker, and by junior high school, he was a master debater. He tried his hardest to get the best grades in school. In 1926, he entered high school. He was very busy. He did his schoolwork, he studied, he helped ...
- 548: The Gothic Age
- ... flashy style and glitz. Just think what a person who has never seen either one of these places, or any place anything like it, would think when they saw a choir with a roof so high a fourteen story building could fit in there* and not even touch the rafters.5 And Imagine what you would think of a stadium that was so large it could hold one million people (the ... the then modern-day ways of life, such as how a common belief in those times was that the closer you were to God, the holier you were. The architects would build huge spires and high ceilings which would make the building look absolutely massive. Another clever technique of the time was to create picture stories on the windows with stained glass since the vast majority of the people couldn¹t ... only go so far using frescoes, paintings and other ways to portray a picture, stained glass was an interesting alternative. Before since the walls were thicker and build more as a means to support the high ceilings, stained glass never really was an option, but now with the help of the two previously mentioned means of support, the walls could be made thinner so glass also could be used now. - ...
- 549: Physical Education In Secondary Schools
- ... is that a physically fit person "values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle". The plan as physical educators is to have each child be a physically fit person, by their exit of high school. This will take some work but I believe it could be done. Another very important issue to be learned in secondary physical education is teamwork. This is a very important aspect in everyday life. This ... students to get into the teamwork mentality. This could help students be dependable on each other and trust each other. Education is not only a necessity, but a major part of life. Some children perceive school as a punishment. Including myself, that was the way I felt as a child. But as I grew older I found out that learning can be fun. Some children seem to take education for ...
- 550: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House “was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison.” While attending Hodder House, he studied chemistry, poetry, geometry, arithmetic, and grammar. After his experiences at Jesuit ...
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