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- 321: Cinncinnati: Loveland: Paxton Woods
- ... the city’s early settlers arrived by putting several weeks worth of food and their life’s possessions on flatboats, which were really nothing more than a small log cabin sitting on a modified Huck Finn-style raft, and drifting down the river. The current was their source of power, and travel was slower than an L.A. freeway during rush hour. John Filson, one of the area’s first settlers ...
- 322: Peoples Lives
- ... position and was to start first in Sunday’s race. Sunday’s race started off on a tragic note as well. A young Portuguese driver, Pedro Lamy, did not see the stalled Benetton of a Finn Yurki Yarvi Lehto, slamming his Lotus into Lehto’s car at a high speed. The debris flew all over the spectator’s stands, injuring five people. One of them was hurt so bad, he went ...
- 323: OBE: The Restructuring Of American Society.
- ... the global society.. Goals 2000 is a federal blueprint for education, over-riding local control and establishing a mandatory curriculum from the top down. It has no concern for academics. It was developed by Chester Finn. The Goals 2000, Educate America Act, signed by Bill Clinton, is legislation specifying: 1. School based clinics. The ultimate goal is to provide life-long services to the child and his family, making the data ...
- 324: The Need for Federal Government Involvement in Education Reform
- ... reform around standards is the shift in emphasis from what schools put into the process of schooling to what we get out of schools that is, a shift from educational "inputs" to educational "outputs". Chester Finn describes this shift in perspective in terms of an emerging paradigm for education. Under the old conception education was thought of as process and system, effort and intention, investment and hope. To improve education meant ...
- 325: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... her children to lectures, recitals, and plays. She instilled in her sons her belief in the essential goodness of all people and the importance of religious devotion. "Reagan describes his boyhood as a rare Huck Finn idyll in which he discovered butterflies and birds' nests, explored the dark mysteries of woods and waterlands in the rolling hill country of northwestern Illinois."2 Ronald Reagan was always the boy who hoped to ...
- 326: View of Individual and Society by Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Mark Twain
- ... does stand for is freedom. If rebellion is necessary to obtain that freedom, then so be it. To expound upon that idea, he takes a journey down the Mississippi River through the eyes of Huck Finn. Throughout his adventures, Huck is constantly revolting and running away to regain his freedom. The book is cyclical in nature in that Huck runs from society to avoid being conformed in the beginning, and he ...
- 327: Biography of Samuel Clemens
- Biography of Samuel Clemens Samuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. This was the home of his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek and Lover's Leap. Clemens described the residents of Hannibal as happy and content with the ...
- 328: Tom Sawyer
- ... quiet or lie. At the beginning of the story Tom is introduced by climbing in his window after a long night of cavorting with his friends. Soon after the start of the story Tom meets Huckleberry Fin. Huck is a local outcast of society who likes to live by his own terms. Tom and Huck become good friends. One night the two boys go to the grave yard. While they are ...
- 329: CSIS
- ... Intelligence Service ( CSIS )” was introduced in Parliament in May 1983. It passed by both Houses of parliament and given Royal Assent in June 1984. CSIS began its formal existence on July 16, 1984 with Ted Finn as Director. In addition to creating a civilian security intelligence service, the Cat also created SIRC, to review the activities of CSIS. CSIS is a government agency dedicated to protecting the national security interests of ...
- 330: Tom Sawyer
- ... drunk and asleep so Injun Joe blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot", then in their own blood they signed their initials ...
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