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- 1021: Chinesse Education
- ... in which education has played a major role. In 124 BC the first university was established for training prospective bureaucrats in Confucian learning and the Chinese classics. Only members of the upper class could attend school. Peasants and factory workers did not have the time to attend school; therefore as of 1949 only 20% of China was literate. The Communists who controlled China considered illiteracy a major stumbling block in their promotion of political programs. They then combined political propaganda with educational development ... education was started. Out of this review came standardized testing and the reinstitution of entrance exams to get into schools and these exams were also used to get in the civil service. Chinese children entered school at age six and stayed for six years. They would study the Chinese language, math and other basic subjects. After going to an elementary school children would enter a middle school. The subjects the ...
- 1022: To Kill A Mockingbird 3
- ... is told through Scout. Scout is much like a boy, 8 years old, and funny. Scout hated to be called a girl and she wore britches. She knew how to read before she started her school, where most of the first grade had failed last year". She was good at fighting with boys. She loved her father Atticus and brother Jem. Not so much Calpurnia, who always orders her around. She ... father satisfactory: he played with us, read with us, and treated us with courteous detachment". They called their father Atticus. Atticus is an old man in his 50's, and nice. He never went to school, but studied to be an attorney. He wore glasses and was nearly blind in his left eye. He did not hunt, drink, fish, or play poker. He was very intelligent and tries to teach Scout ... stories and myths they heard about Boo Radley. He never comes out of the house, so they have never seen him or really know what he is like. After the first summer Scout starts her school. The new teacher does not like that Scout knows how to read and write, and tells her to tell her father not to teach her anymore. Atticus teaches Scout a simple trick how to ...
- 1023: Justice
- Justice Justice is something everyone deserves, but it isn't always what they get. Justice can be unfair at home, school, and even in the workplace. Siblings always seem to complain about chores. This family member may get too many, while another doesn't get enough. Chores are an argument because they aren't exactly done ... sister uses the car all week, while her brother has to ride his bike. No one deserves the car more, so there should be equal amounts of use. Another place where injustices occur is at school. Budging in the lunch-line, pop quizzes, homework, detentions, and cheating are just a few of the complaints that occur at school. Budging, whether in the lunch-line or the bathroom line, is completely unfair. (Unless, of course, you're the person budging.) A line is formed as a way to make everyone wait the same. ...
- 1024: Personal Writing: Living In Both Texas and New York City
- ... structures and mainframes which we can soon identify or relate with. Although it's located in different regions, it was beneficial to experience and to taste the variety in culture, way of life, and the school system. I was raised in the central Manhattan of the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps. Mass transit and people had always flooded the streets and intersections. It seemed like everyone were heading for ... the public schools. People who transfer to private schools often claimed that they had the text done the material that's been provided a year before. During the courses of my 7th grade in grammar school. I was informed that we would move to Texas. For some bizarre reason, the people up north have always pictured the cowboys and horses in Texas. I was really upset for leaving my friends and ... was under the age of having a license so I often biked my way around the neighborhood within the five mile radius. I began my first year and attended 8th grade at First Colony Middle School. I can say it was the worst year of my life. I guess I felt homesick and didn't want to accept the dramatic change in my life. I was a city person, all ...
- 1025: George Patton
- ... maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when George was sent off to Stephen Cutter Clark's Classical School that he began to catch up on his academic skills; he managed to find plenty of time for athletics as well. While at school, the path toward his goal became focused he planned on attending West Point as the next major step in the pursuit of his general's stars. When he graduated from high school, however, there were no appointments open to West Point in his home state of California, so he enrolled at his father's alma mater, Virginia Military Institute. As a first year "rat" at VMI, ...
- 1026: How Cultures Affect Teenagers
- How Cultures Affect Teenagers As a teenage girl in Cairo, Egypt is locked away in her home, studying madly for a upcoming high school exam. A teenage boy rushes down the fields of Brazil handling a soccer ball and his future. Another teenage boy in Rajasthan, dessert in Northwestern India is guided seven times around a sacred fire as ... and the other will not experience marriage until his dreams of being a soccer player is over. All teenagers have goals in life from reaching fame, to being a star or achieving high marks in school. A teenage girl named Aman lives in Cairo, Egypt studying long hours at home preparing for upcoming exams at her high school. Exams are very important to her and the rest of her classmates in her school. "There is a obsession to pass high school in Cairo, Egypt." (Turning 16, 1991) This quote explains why most ...
- 1027: George Washington Carver
- ... more knowledge made George more aware of racial prejudice. He was in need for more knowledge because he knew everything the Carvers old blue-back speller could offer. He then enrolled in a public school during the week that met at the church he attended. Thanks to the constitution of 1865 made it mandatory for blacks to get an education under certain circumstances. Since Georges county did not meat the requirements, he had to attend a white school. Whites became angry and soon the church that he went to on Sundays, he was forbidden on weekdays. This rejection taught him about racial prejudice, but also frustrated him with his attempt to get a ... house with Mariah and Andrew Watkins in exchange in helping with the chores. He was more that willing to work hard for a great education. As he stepped through the door of a one room school house to meet his teacher Stephan Frost, it was then that he finally met someone with more knowledge than he. This began to fall apart because he learned so well and fast, he had ...
- 1028: Arianism
- ... because they held the creation of the Son to be out of nothing. But a view so unlike tradition found little favour; it required softening or palliation, even at the cost of logic; and the school which supplanted Arianism form an early date affirmed the likeness, either without adjunct, or in all things, or in substance, of the Son to the Father, while denying His co-equal dignity and co-eternal ... of God to be everlasting, they imagined Him as having become the Son to create the worlds and redeem mankind. Among the ante-Nicene writers, a certain ambiguity of expression may be detected, outside the school of Alexandria, touching this last head of doctrine. While Catholic teachers held the Monarchia, viz. that there was only one God; and the Trinity, that this Absolute One existed in three distinct subsistences; and the ... heathen philosophies. Associated with Paul, and for years cut off from the Catholic communion, we find the well-known Lucian, who edited the Septuagint and became at last a martyr. From this learned man the school of Antioch drew its inspiration. Eusebius the historian, Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Arius himself, all came under Lucian's influence. Not, therefore, to Egypt and its mystical teaching, but to Syria, where Aristotle flourished ...
- 1029: Describe The Main Limitations Suffered By Those With Chronic
- ... to have similar levels of anxiety or neuroticism. It was found most asthmatics exhibited varying levels of anxiety in relation to their beliefs and, in particular, their constant fear of another attack and anxiety over school and work prospects. (Lane, 1996). Similarly, fear also plays a predominant role in children who suffer from asthma
. with one in four Victorian children fearing not being able to breathe as a result of asthma (King, 1988). Furthermore, the relationship between asthma and emotional and /or severe behavior problems is documented in a 1995 study by R,Bussing et al. In particular they tend to suffer from limited school functioning, inability to attend school and need for special school or special classes. In Australia, school loss caused by asthma accounted for approximately 965,000 days annually. (Aust Bureau Statistics, 1991) In particular poor academic performance and greater risk ...
- 1030: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... many people, the difference being that Holden acts upon those thoughts and has them down in writing. Holden Caulfield is a teenager growing up in New York in the 1950s. He has been expelled from school for poor achievement and was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all. He decides to leave school a few days than what he is supposed to in an attempt to deal with his current situation. Besides, I sort of needed a little vacation. My nerves were shot. They really were. Caulfield goes ... know I got the ax again. Towards Phoebe, Holden has a special sentiment. To him, she represents purity, childhood, and what he wants to stay as. He ignores that Phoebe like the movies, participates in school plays, and criticizes him. This is probably because to him Phoebe isn t phony so he is willing to accept criticism and rules from her. Holden has a poor attitude towards life resulting from ...
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