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- 1071: African Americans
- ... case of BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA, KANSAS, the Supreme Court held that separate facilities are, by their very nature, unequal. In spite of this decision, more than a decade passed before significant school integration took place in the South. In the North, where segregated schools resulted from segregated housing patterns and from manipulation of school attendance boundaries, separation of races in public schools increased after 1954. A second major breakthrough in the fight against segregation grew out of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955. The boycott began when Rosa ... college increased markedly, but in the 1980s blacks lost ground. Although desegregation of the public schools in the South proceeded slowly for the first decade after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, by 1969 school districts in every state were at least in token compliance with the 1954 ruling. By that time all forms of de jure segregation had been struck down by the courts. De facto school segregation ...
- 1072: Nature vs. Nurture
- ... birth. Freeman. (1928) The Minnesota Adoption Studies of 1974 included the Transracial Adoption Study to test he hypotheses that black and interracial children that are reared by white parents would perform on IQ tests and school achievement measures as well as other adopted children. Results were that black and interracial scored as well as adoptees in other studies. The high IQ scores of the black and interracial children showed that genetic ... racial differences do not account for a moor portion of the IQ performance difference between racial groups. The study also found that black and interracial children reared in the culture of the tests and the school perform as well as other adopted children in similar families. Marie Dkoday and Harold Shell's {1949) report of a longitudinal adoption study of IQ is one of the most frequently cited articles in developmental ... by white professionals, when compared with their siblings who we reared by their biological parents, the adoptees scored about 14 points higher than the average IQ and were less likely to be held back in school (Schiff, Duyme, Dumaret and Tomkiewicz, 1982). Two of the largest adoptive studies were conducted by Horn, Scarr and Weinberg. They concluded that individual differences in IQ are substantially influenced by genetic differences among individuals ...
- 1073: What Is Zen
- ... be roughly defined as meditation. Dhyana denotes specifically the state of consciousness of a Buddha, one whose mind is free from the assumption that the distinct individuality of oneself and other things is real. The school of Zen Buddhism begins with a Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma, an Indian Buddhist monk who arrived in China in 520. Bodhidharma began the Lanka School which later became known as Ch an (Zen). The doctrine of the Lanka School mainly concerned itself with the study of the mind. The members of the Lanka School were noted for the ascetic life, living faraway from communities. Not until the ninth century, did the name Ch ...
- 1074: The Greek-Trojan War in The Iliad
- ... many ways. One of the ways in which he comes to the aid of the Greeks is by sending an omen. Agamemnon prays to Zeus that his army might not perish. In response to his prayer, Zeus sends an eagle as a sign that he had granted his wish. This prayer is demonstrated as John Scott says : Just at the moment when the Trojans seemed on the point of victory an eagle appeared on the left with a live snake in its talons. The snake kept ... and rally. The Trojans decide that this is the a sign from Zeus to end the battle, even though it seemed it was going to be a success for the Trojans. In addition to Agamemnons prayer, Zeus receives a prayer from Thetis. Thetis, the mother of Achilles prays to Zeus : Father Zeus, if ever before in word or action I did you favor among immortals, now grant what I ask ...
- 1075: Affirmative Action
- ... that some groups of people because of their sex, color, or origin, need special rules to advance in our society, affirmative action only increases discrimination. Those people who are denied employment or education at the school of their choice because a certain number of minorities must be admitted, are undeniably hostile towards the groups that they see as "taking their jobs." If we continue to stress the color lines of the ... Court faced its first challenge to an affirmative action policy based on equal protection grounds was in The University of California at Davis v. Bakke. The facts of the case are as follows: The medical school of U.C. Davis established an affirmative action program that reserved 16 of its 100 spaces for minority applicants. In 1973 and 1974, Allan Bakke was denied admission. Though meeting the standards of admission for ... applicants and his Medical College Admissions Test scores were well above the minority average. The Regents freely admitted that, had Allan Bakke been a minority, he most certainly would have gained admission to the Medical School. When Bakke filed suit, the state court held that program unconstitutional given its classification based on race. The school appealed and the California Supreme Court held that the program offended the Equal Protection Clause ...
- 1076: Democracy
- ... trials and the statutes that were created because of them. The John Peter Zenger trial is a prime example of how a trial established a well-known statute of freedom of the press. The General School Act of 1647 was the origin of modern education laws and the Maryland Toleration Act was the basis for freedom of religion. These, however, were not the first step towards democracy. The Virginia House of ... by the politically powerful Catholics in Maryland to provide protection from the non-Catholic majority of the population. Another act, which is the basis for a fundamental principle in the United States, was the General School Act of 1647 in Massachusetts. Also known as the "ye olde deluder Satan" act, it required towns with 50 families to establish a grammar school and towns with 100 families, to establish a grammar school that will prepare its students for the university. Democracy in America did not appear out of nowhere. It has its roots in Colonial ...
- 1077: Learning CPR
- ... New Yorkers are not trained in CPR. I feel that CPR should be a requirement for graduation in all New York City high schools. The state of Washington has had mandatory CPR for its high school graduates for several years. They also have one of the highest survival rates for pre-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Many are apprehensive about getting involved in a situation that requires CPR out of fear of ... rather be prepared for a situation, should it arise? I feel that long-term research should be initiated in order to determine the potential costs, methods of implementation, feasibility and time frame that a high school CPR program may require. A pilot program could be set up and monitored in one or perhaps several high schools. Some people may feel that a CPR Requirement would put a financial strain on an already tight school budget. They might say that the majority of students who become trained in CPR will never use the technique, or that such a program would take funding away from other vital school programs. I ...
- 1078: The Catcher in the Rye Summary and Analysis
- ... the Rye is narrated by Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year-old boy recuperating in a rest home from a nervous breakdown, some time in 1950. Holden tells the story of his last day at a school called Pencey Prep, and of the situations leading to his psychological meltdown. As the story starts we find that Holden has been expelled from Pencey for academic failure, and is on his way to say ... story by refusing to talk about what happened after that, but he fills in the most important parts by telling that he went home, was sent to the rest home, and will attend a new school next year. He regrets telling his story to so many people saying that the more he tells it the more he misses everyone. Character analysis Holden is The Narrator, and main character. Allie is Holden ... New York City on January 1, 1919. Jeromes father Sol Salinger was a Jewish importer of hams and cheeses. Jerome was the second of two children. He was an average student at the public school he attended on the Upper West side of Manhattan. Sallinger went on to be voted as most popular actor at Camp Wigwam in Main. At the age of 13 he was enrolled at the ...
- 1079: Multiculturalism 2
- ... everyone seems to have a different opinion on what will work. Since education is at the root of the problem, it might be appropriate to use an example in that context. In 1980, the American school, Stanford University came up with a program - later known as the "Stanford-style multicultural curriculum" which aimed to familiarize students with traditions, philosophy, literature and history of the West. The program consisted of fifteen required ... that one could not have a true understanding of a subject by only possessing knowledge of one side of it, this brings up the fact that there would never be enough time in our current school year to equally cover the contributions of each individual nationality. This leaves teachers with two options. The first would be to lengthen the school year, which is highly unlikely because of the political aspects of the situation. The other choice is to modify the curriculum to only include what the instructor (the school) feels are the most important ...
- 1080: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... Roosevelt was born. James Roosevelt, Franklin's father, was a prosperous railroad official and landowner(Lawson 25). His predecessors, when they came from the Netherlands, were succes Roosevelt learned from private tutors, not going to school until the age of fourteen. He had already studied German, Latin and French by the time he had started school(Freidel 6). Sailing, bird hunting and stamp collecting were among his hobbies. On his In 1896, at the age of fourteen his parents sent him away to Groton, Massachusetts, to a private, boys only, boarding school. He was not very popular among the students, but was respected by his peers and was never the object of pranks pulled by the ol From there, Roosevelt went on to enter Harvard in ...
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