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- 1321: Aids Report
- AIDS...Are You Afraid? This week when school starts, September 5th, a new child is enrolling. The school will not give out her name but they will give out more personal things for example, she is HIV infected. I was sad for the girl but i was also happy to hear this, because ... toilet seats or even hugging. This is why we need to educate the people, tell them the truth, you can only get aids through blood, vomit, seman, needles, or vaginal secreations. She will educate the school and the community. It would also be very helpful to this girl who is infected to be let in for once. Not only the girl has fear but her family has fear too. Fear ...
- 1322: Political Economy Of The Ancient India
- ... the ultimate reality, and the relation between it and the finite individual. Its major texts are the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita. Nyaya worked out in profound detail the method of reasoning known as inference; this school is important for its analysis of logic and epistemology. Vaisesika is important for its attempts to identify, inventory, and classify the entities of reality that present themselves to human perception. Samkhya adopts a consistent dualism between the orders of matter and that of the self, or soul. In the Samkhya school, right knowledge consists of the ability of self to distinguish itself from matter. Yoga has greatly influenced several of the other schools through its prescription of practical disciplines for intuitively realizing the metaphysical knowledge put ... the nature of authority All “orthodox” philosophies can trace their basic principles back to some statement or other in the Vedas. The Vedanta schools, especially, had an affiliation with the authority of sruti, and the school of Mimamsa concerned itself chiefly with the questions of interpreting the sacred texts. The Hindu tradition regards the Vedas as being apauruseya—i.e., as not composed by any person. Sayana, a famous Vedic ...
- 1323: Transcendentalism
- ... were identified with stagnation, while flow was identified with development and change, and thus with reform. "The waters become impure by standing still, - by your not trying," Bronson Alcott told his students in his Temple School. Emerson expected everyone's mind to flow. "When a man rests he stinks, if anything could stand still, it would be instantly crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted, and if it were a ... emphasis on sin and punishment. Transcendentalism diverged from Unitarianism because it valued "heart" above "mind". Emerson called Unitarianism "corpse-cold," "an icebox," with "coldness constantly increasing." Immediately after transcendentalism was acclaimed as a separate religious school, a question of miracles came up. Transcendentalists claimed that Biblical miracles are not important because miracles are all around us. "A mouse is miracle enough to stagger quintillions of infidels," said Walt Whitman. For transcendentalists ... passion for simplification and urge for naked confrontation with God. The leaders of transcendentalism were all Unitarian pastors, who took many old philosophies and ideas and wove them into Unitarianism, thus founding a new religious school. The reasons for the rise of transcendentalism were many. With the westward expansion into the vast unexplored regions, a romantic attitude towards nature developed as it was celebrated with the New World spirit. Transcendentalism ...
- 1324: Unity Amid Diversity
- ... off. African-Americans throughout the south looked at each other as if saying, “wait, just wait.” Surprisingly, the initiation came from a young, black girl who had to travel several miles to attend a segregated school even though she lived right next door to a white elementary school. This famous court case, known as Brown vs. Board of Education, determined that segregation in public schools based on race was unconstitutional. This decision was the result of decades of efforts by black segregationist opponents ... had a rough life as a child. His father was beaten and killed when he was only six years old and his mother was put into an institution shortly there after. He dropped out of school, got into trouble frequently and ended up as a “hustler” on the streets of Boston and New York. In 1946, he went to jail for eight years because he slept with a white woman. ...
- 1325: J.P. Morgan
- ... Hartford, Connecticut. He was nicknamed "Pip" by his childhood friends. The family prospered in Hartford until Junius moved the family to Boston where Pip began Boston English High. He did well in the prestigious high school and then in his second high school in Vevey, Switzerland. The family moved to London and John transferred to the University of Gottingen in Germany. John continued to excel in his studies and majored in mathematics. He began to become interested in ... Hartford, Connecticut. He was nicknamed "Pip" by his childhood friends. The family prospered in Hartford until Junius moved the family to Boston where Pip began Boston English High. He did well in the prestigious high school and then in his second high school in Vevey, Switzerland. The family moved to London and John transferred to the University of Gottingen in Germany. John continued to excel in his studies and majored ...
- 1326: JFK
- ... summer of 1948. Due to a lack of money, Marguerite was then forced to move Lee and her family into a poor house. Because his family was constantly on the move, Lee never stayed in school long (Posner 8). Marguerite kept her family moving around, mainly back and forth from Texas to Louisiana. His mother also had a depressed attitude towards life. In January of 1950, John Pic left home to ... leaving only Lee and his mother (Posner 10). In the summer of 1952, Merguerite and Lee moved to New York. However, this caused problems for Lee; because New York did not allow children to skip school. He was put on probation and was evaluated by psychiatrist who said, "Vivid fantasy life, turning around topics of omnipotence." (Parshall 72) Which basically meant that Lee was in his own world and did not ... the ideas of Marxism (Parshall 72). Like his brother Robert, Lee also wanted to join the Marines. Oswald did eventually join the Marines a week after he turned seventeen. Oswald would never obtain a high school diploma, and he recorded a below average score on his aptitude test. Oswald was assigned to the Second Training Battalion of the Marines. Three weeks after training had begun, Oswald scored a 212 on ...
- 1327: Frederick Douglass
- ... a good father although he was often gone. His wife had their fifth child Annie. She was born in 1849. Unfortunately Rochester's public schools would not admit black students, so for Douglass's children school was private. But Douglass fought to end segregation in the Rochester school system. He got his wish for his children to go to school in 1857 when the school system allowed black students. Along with his fight for integration he was an important part of the underground railroad. After meetings with John Brown, Douglass started believing that pacifist ...
- 1328: Ernie Pyle
- ... tasks at hand: raising chickens and produce, caring for her family and serving the neighbors. Pyle describes her, “She thrived on action, she would rather milk than sew; rather plow than bake” (Tobin 6). Through school Pyle loved to write. During high school he was reporter, then editor, then editor in chief for his high school newspaper. When he graduated high school, he too was caught up in the “patriotic fever” of the nation upon America’s entry into WWI (Whitman 2). He enlisted in the Naval Reserve but before ...
- 1329: Important Presidential Electio
- ... influenced by a devoutly religious household headed by his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Wilson studied at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The Johns Hopkins University for graduate study in political science. His book, Congressional Government, was published a year before he received his doctoral degree. Success in ... born on January 30, 1882, at Hyde Park, N.Y., to James Roosevelt. He was an average student at Harvard University, edited the Harvard Crimson in his senior year, and after graduation attended Columbia Law School. He dropped out of law school upon admission to the New York bar and worked for a Wall Street law firm. Franklin married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, on March 17, 1905. Her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, gave the ...
- 1330: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... Abilene, Kansas, where Eisenhower was brought up. He was the third of seven sons. He and his older brothers were all called “Ike” by their family, Eisenhower was known as “Little Ike”. In his high school years, he was known to excel in sports due to his active nature. After he graduated, Eisenhower wanted to attend college, but his family could not afford the tuition. Dwight and his brother planned to ... for obtaining such involved passing a difficult exam. While Eisenhower had no original plans to be a soldier, he still prepared well for the competitive West Point entrance exam and won an appointment to the school in 1911. The Coming of a Commander in Chief Unknown to him at the time, Eisenhower would later lead many military forces though the course of both world wars, winning decisive victories and helping push ... Russians disagreed, but the meeting still ended on a positive note, despite their refusal. In 1956, Eisenhower ran and won again in the presidential election. During his second term, he used federal troops to enforce school desegregation in the Little Rock Central High School incident. That same year he signed a Civil Rights Act. He signed yet another in 1960. The President was a strong believer in the Civil Rights ...
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