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- 661: Creative Story: The Ride
- ... to parties every night. My life was in control without any abusive habits, it was just fast paced and fun times with friends. Never being at home added to an already stressful family environment. My high school education suffered from too much fun and too little studying. My father made being at home a very uneasy feeling, making me want to stay away even more. He never took any time to help me with school, car or money. I always had to work to earn everything, the only thing I wasn't paying for was rent. In turn I wanted little to do with my father, stepmother or brother, ...
- 662: Computers and Society
- ... probes will go over the body and then a computer printout will have the name of your illness and the drug to cure it. Expert systems have been used very little mainly due to their high price and because of the lack of trust in them. Computers have also reached into other places besides business, schools. Children sit in front of computers and are drilled or taught about certain subjects selected ... in another country to teach a class through video confrencing. The attempts to spread computer technology into the class room have produced results and taught lessons as to how computers should be applied. The Belridge school district in McKittrick California was one of the most technological school districts in America. Every student had two computers, one at school and one at home, which contained many brand new teaching programs. The high school had a low powered television station that broadcasted every ...
- 663: Athletic Trainer
- ... prospect for the athletic trainer with only the baccaulereate degree. Those with this degree are better suited to seek employment in the rehabilitative therapy clinic setting. Many of these clinics have contracts with the local high schools or university thus allowing for more employees and allowing these entry level positions. Clinics also tebd to employ the student trainers who also have a tendency to move on after their education. With third party payees coming more into this field there should be an increase in the job availability for the athletic trainer in the clinical setting. There are also many openings for trainers in the high school level. The down side to this area of work is that this position is not generally based on the care and concern for the health and well being of the student athlete but is ...
- 664: What Was The Effect of The Space Shuttle Challenger
- ... seven(7). 11:39:17am, Tuesday, January 28th, 1986. As the Space Shuttle Challenger soared into the sky that morning, 74 seconds into flight, it exploded, killing all 7 crew members on board including one High-School teacher. This was the worst accident in the history of the U.S. Space Program. It was witnessed by thousands of spectators and visitors who watched at the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded before their eyes. Among the crew killed were: Francis R. Scobee, Commander; Michael J. Smith, Pilot; Judith A. Resnick, Electrical Engineer; Ellison S. Onizuka, Engineer; Ronald E. McNair, Physicist; Gregory R. Jarvis, Electrical Engineer; Christa McAuliffe, High-School teacher. For most of the crew, it was just an ordinary mission with the exception of the school teacher. For Christa McAuliffe, it was everything out of the ordinary. She was the one ...
- 665: Kurt Cobain
- ... from the rest of the kids my age. But Cobain's music touched on what I was not able realize at my age, that being yourself is all right no matter what the "trendy" junior high school kids thought. Though I would not understand the impact of his music or what his words meant to him, and that those songs would pull me through the hardest times in my life. Research Question ... 2). He was passed around from aunts and uncles, to his grand parents. He started his creative process first through art(Wilson 2-3). Where by later he turned down two art scholarships to art school, and never did finish high-school. Then when he was 15 he started playing the guitar, also he found the underworld of drugs(Wilson 3-4). He played the guitar and did drugs by ...
- 666: Teenage Smoking
- ... By the age of 19, Sean Marsee was dead. A look at the tobacco industry will tell you that teenage smoking is going down. And it is. If you go back to 1975, 27% of high school seniors smoked daily compared with 19% in 1993. Smoking among teens fell by about a third during the 1970s, but during the past decade has neither risen nor fallen according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It didnt change in spite of the fact that fewer high schoolers used illegal drugs or alcohol, adults were giving up cigarettes in droves, and no one in the country could miss the message linking tobacco to cancer, strokes, emphysema, and heart disease. University of ...
- 667: Pete Rose
- ... he was growing up he rooted for the Cincinnati Reds just like every other kid in the area. In the summertime of most of his childhood years he played baseball constantly. He also played in high school, however he thinks that he was a better football player than a baseball player in school. He said that he liked to play football more because many people would attend the games, and not many showed up for baseball. "You could throw a bomb into the stands at our (high ...
- 668: Marijuana
- ... use marijuana because they hear songs about it and see it on TV and in movies. Some teens may feel they need marijuana and other drugs to help them escape from problems at home, at school, or with friends. The effects of the drug on each person depend on the user's experience, as well as: how strong the marijuana is (how much THC it has); what the user expects to ... place) the drug is used; how it is taken; and whether the user is drinking alcohol or using other drugs. Some people feel nothing at all when they smoke marijuana. Others may feel relaxed or high. Sometimes marijuana makes users feel thirsty and very hungry - an effect called "the munchies." Some users can get bad effects from marijuana. They may suffer sudden feelings of anxiety and have paranoid thoughts. This is ... greater when other drugs are mixed with the marijuana; and users do not always know what drugs are given to them. Marijuana affects memory, judgment and perception. The drug can make you mess up in school, in sports or clubs, or with your friends. If you're high on marijuana, you are more likely to make stupid mistakes that could embarrass or even hurt you. If you use marijuana a ...
- 669: Youth Violence
- ... develop appropriate social skills. Because of teacher rejection, the child may be subject to receive inadequate instruction or placed in behavior modification classes (Gable, Bullock, and Harader, 1995. p.22). The dropout rate is very high among youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (Osofsky 1997, p.156). Additionally, 80% of all crimes are committed by high school dropouts (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.18). Furthermore, these children will have few social skills, psychological problems, and most likely will turn to drugs. Former surgeon General, Everett Koop ...
- 670: William Henry Gates
- ... was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. ATrey,@ as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and mother, a former teacher now on several prestigous boards (Moritz, 238). At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking a computer studies class. After scoring a perfect 800 on the mathematics half of the SAT, he graduated from Lakeside school and enrolled at Harvard University as a prelaw major. As a student Gates was a wonder. He received an A in an economics class without attending and cramming the night before the final exam. In ... through the years and will be in the future as long as ! it keeps innovating new and exciting computer software. Bill Gates has his eye on the future. He sees the world in a Apowerful, high-speed network-both within companies and across the so called Information Superhighway@ (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the Transformation from Personal Computers to nets. Gates predicts that an explosion of ...
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