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- 1091: Wilhelm Roentgen
- ... Wilhelm and his family moved to Apeldoorn, Nederland. His father owned a thriving cloth business so he was pretty well off. He lived right next to the Kostschool of Martinus Hermanus van Doorn, a boarding school with around eighty students, which he attended. He was expected after he graduated to go into his father’s business and eventually inherit it. At sixteen, he finished van Doorn’s school. His parents thought he was too young to start working, and he had a strong desire to learn, so a few years later, he ended up at the University of Utrecht. There was one problem ... the name of the man he had lived with in the past. People tried to find the real author but all they could find were the initials W.C.R. Wilhelm would later go to school in another college called Swiss Federal Technical School in Zurich, Switzerland. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy on June 22, 1869. While he was attending the Swiss Federal Technical School, he met the ...
- 1092: Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ... 200. All candidates must posses a valid driver's license and muss pass a polygraph examination, a drug test, and a color vision test. They also must be graduates of a state-accredited resident law school, or a resident 4-year college with an accounting major and at least three years' work experience in this field. After being accepted into the FBI, agents are given 15 weeks of intensive instruction at ... four-year college degree. They include Personal Security Specialist, Intelligence Research Specialist, Computer Specialist, Management Analyst, and Language Specialist. The technical positions require individuals to be over 16 years of age and have a high school diploma. Examples of these jobs are Fingerprint Examiner, Evidence Technician, Computer Operator, Telecommunications Equipment Operator, and Accounting Technician. The craft/trade/maintenance positions also require an individual to be over 16 years of age, to have a high school diploma, and have technical training. The Laborer, Utility Systems Repairer-Operator, Maintenance Mechanic, Carpenter, and the Automot ive Mechanic, are all examples of these jobs. The clerical positions, which are always in need, require ...
- 1093: The US Government
- ... born March 11, 1936 in an Italian majority section of Trenton, New Jersey. His father, Eugene Scalia was a literary scholar and a professor of Romance Languages at Brooklyn College. His mother was an elementary school teacher. Scalia attended Xavier High School, a Catholic Military academy. He graduated, first in his class, in 1953. One of his good friends once said: "He was brilliant, way above everybody else." He later majored in History at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he again graduated first in his class. Soon after leaving Georgetown, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was known around the campus as an effective debater. From Harvard he earned an LL. B. Degree and in 1960 joined the Cleveland based law firm Jones, Day, Cockly and Reavis. He ...
- 1094: Theme and Setting In Coming of Age
- ... in Mississippi is to stand up and fight for what you believe in. Setting In Coming of Age in Mississippi, one of the most important settings in Anne’s childhood would have to be the school. She talks so much of school and her teachers throughout her childhood. She often speaks of competition with Darlene over their grades, how she became homecoming queen, and how she started a trend with her tight jeans. She had many antidotes from her school life. She spoke of her embarrassment at lunch when she had such a poor lunch. She talked about how Adline and Junior would follow her around at school and how it embarrassed her. Mostly ...
- 1095: Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
- ... a product of their environment? In Jonathan Kozol's book Savage Inequalities, he speaks of children who are deprived of the right to a descent education. But how can this be the case. Is one school given more money than another? Funds for public schools come from property taxes. In wealthy communities where property values are generally higher more money is allocated, than in a poor communities with lower property values ... textbooks. Members within the communities also have the opportunity to contribute money into their schools via fundraisers. This allows the schools to give their children the technology and materials needed. This in turn allows the school to use funds for other things such as renovations and simple luxuries like air conditioning and an advance curriculum. Yet some poor communities can not even afford to provide a playground or a lunch area ... teachers who have no regards for there future, how can they be expected to want more for themselves? Kozol describes schools in which children attend unsupervised classrooms and where some classes are held in the school gymnasium. When children observe their environment and what opportunities are available to them and see no future they are easily disillusioned. When these underprivileged children compare their environment to others, and see the discrepancies, ...
- 1096: Im The King Of The Castle
- ... to tell him something, but not now. He thought it had something to do with the coming marriage, which Edmund told him. Chapter 11: Mrs. Kingshaw told Charles that he would go to the same school as Edmund, which wasn't St. Vincent. They went to the same school together now. Charles wanted to run away again, he ran to a shed. When he was inside the door slammed shut, and he heard the click of the padlock. Edmund closed the door, there was ... when he heard a voice call his name it was Edmund, he said he had the key and Charles started to yell at him. Edmund told Charles that he had a lot of friends in school, and they would do everything he said. Charles started to weep. Chapter 12: They all went on a sort of familytrip. They went to Leydell castle. It was a castle ruin and beside it ...
- 1097: Immigration to the United States (Maryland)
- ... for these communities that they already had. Many of these Hispanic immigrants are uneducated and can’t speak English. How are these people supposed to get good jobs and support a family without a high school diploma? Many of these people live a life of poverty and uncertainty. I will now focus my attention to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I have many family members that have lived on the Eastern ... their entire lives and they have told me they also have impoverished Hispanic immigrants living in their towns. In Kent County, there are 508 Hispanic immigrants living there. Of these 508 immigrants, 31 have high school diplomas and only 13 have college degrees. These are 64 households, and 10 of these makes under $15,000 a year. Caroline County has a population of 29,072, of those 178 are immigrants. Of ... an education drastically increases the chance of them living an impoverished life. Talbot County has a population of 32,405, of these there are 123 Hispanic immigrants. Of these 123 immigrants, only 2 have high school diplomas. This pattern is ridiculous, allowing these people into our country and then not helping to educate them. The Eastern Shore of Maryland doesn’t have the spatial distribution problem that the Metropolitan areas ...
- 1098: Egypt: Notes
- ... in Egypt goes back to 3100B.C. Education in Egypt is free. It is paid for by the goverment. law in Egypt says that children between the ages of 6 and 15 must go to school. The school system goes like this. 6 years of primary school. 3 years of preporatory school. 3 years of secondary school. Then if they want they can try to get into one of the 5 universities in Egypt. But it is very hard to get ...
- 1099: England
- ... commonwealth immigrants are coming from southern Asia. Since there are so many different kinds of people there has been a lot of fighting between them. England s economy is very strong because of an excellent school system. Their school system is much like ours except they only have to attend school from ages 5 through 16. Although they don t go to school as long as us they learn things at a faster rate and school involves harder work. The English also play sports. They ...
- 1100: Hazing A Benefit Or Burden
- ... in the way of hazing. Fraternities were founded as secret organizations designed to protect students from corrupt universities. Fraternities gave their brothers the freedom to express their ideas and break down the corruptness of the school and church. Militaries were made to hold secret agendas for the purpose of keeping the freedom of the nation and protect it from others trying to harm it. During the civil war, many students were forced into war and fraternities ran thin. When the war was over, the brothers went back to school and brought life back to their fraternities. They brought with them their new knowledge of how to form unity among a group of individuals. Forms of hazing were transferred from the military boot camp directly into the fraternity for their pledges (new members). Fraternities have been looked down upon by many people for their “constant parties”, lack of concern for school, treatment of women, and most of all their hazing. Hazing is now illegal in most states and forbidden by most fraternity headquarters. There are a few problems faced with banning fraternities. First of all, ...
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