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- 1371: Basketball
- ... to the game, but no young, brash superstar wants to take time to learn the game when his talents alone will allow him to drive the most luxurious Lexus now. My junior year of high school my team played one of the perennial powerhouses, Elsik. We lost the game by a large amount of points, but what was most impressive was Rashard Lewis. He was drafted right out high school into the NBA. Considering that we were about the same age, I question how can he be ready for the NBA? I can barely handle college classes, and he is already started his career. Rashard ... exceptions, because Jermaine O'neal, Al Harrington, and now Jonathan Bender are experiencing what the NBA is like off of the television. These kids are possibly ready physically, but mentally they are retarded. Every high school player who jumps straight to the NBA has difficulties adjusting to the wild women of different cities, the power of their enormous salary, and the pressure to perform right away. Tim Duncan, as talented ...
- 1372: William Shakespeare
- ... was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to ...
- 1373: Hard Times 3
- ... Gradgrind had inquired whether or not she might have had another proposal which he was unaware of: You have never entertained in secret any other proposal (79). This led to Louisa revealing how her fathers school of facts had not permitted her to explore with her own emotions : Father...what other proposal can have been made to me? Whom have I seen? Where have I been? What are my hearts experiences (79). Louisa continues on explaining that he should have known better than to ask such a question, considering she has never been able to question or wonder past his school of facts : Why father...what a strange question to ask me....You have been so careful of me, that I never had a child s heart. You have trained me so well, that I never ... home descend upon her. The dreams of childhood - its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond ... - what had she to do with these? (149). Louisa keeps realizing that her fathers school of facts has left her with nothing in place of her childhood : Her remembrances of home and childhood were remembrances of the drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart as ...
- 1374: Hard Times 2
- ... that had a tendency to destroy the balance, and should therefore, be eliminated by every possible means. The chief means for such elimination he believed, was education. On these principles, Mr. Gradgrind set up a school where just like with members of his own family, the principles of his "hard and fast system" were rigidly instilled in the minds of his students. Such pupils of the Gradgrind school were continually crammed with facts from day to day until they 'spilled over 'with them. Such facts were to remain in the mind, pressed down in all forms of memory until all finer sensibilities were ... especially apparent with Mr. Gradgrind's two older children, Louisa and Tom. Tom became morose and discontented, while Louisa stayed somber and hopeless and neither of them like their home, which in actuality, the Gradgrind school was based on and it's teachings were very similar. The rigorous program taught by Mr. Gradgrind was not concurrent with many of the more common teaching theories and practices of today. It is ...
- 1375: Robert Frost - Use Of Everyday Items In His Poetry
- ... 12 years old. Frost was born a year after his parents had gotten married. After Frost's father had died in 1885, he moved with his family to New England where he attended Lawrence High School. "Frost had published several poems in the school magazine and was named class poet." (Bloom p.12) "He graduated in 1892, sharing valedictorian honors with Elinor White, to whom he became engaged." (Bloom p. 12) Frost then went onto Dartmouth College, he ended up dropping out of school after one semester. "He instead pursued a variety of jobs, including teaching at his mothers private school and working in a textile mill. In 1894 he published a few poems in The Independent and ...
- 1376: Penalty Of Death-Analysis
- ... outcome of the rest of his life, he learned from his mistakes, thought about what he did while he was in rehabilitation and decided on a better path for his life. Paul attended Pittsburgh High School and where he lived had made him already decide on a better life for himself. He was very conscious of his surroundings and didn’t like the life on "Cordelia Street." Every time he came ... never hear the end of that piano. At first, Isabel would write me, saying how nice it was that Sonny was so serious about his music and how, as soon as he came in from school, or wherever he had been when he was supposed to be at school, he went straight to that piano and stayed there until suppertime. And, after supper, he went back to that piano and stayed there until everybody went to bed. He was at the piano all ...
- 1377: J.D. Salinger
- ... J.D. Salinger show the quest for happiness through religion, loneliness, and symbolism. Salinger’s works often use religion in order to portray comfort. In Salinger’s Nine Stories Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" to cope with the suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69). Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny. The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation. Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick 71). Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caufield, ...
- 1378: House On Mango Street
- ... that changes is David F. Gomez. David was raised in a mostly white , lower-middle class neighborhood in southwest Los Angeles. David first realized that mainstream society considered him inferior in kindergarten. When he entered school, it was predominantly white and the rest were either Mexican, black, or Oriental. All of the teachers were white. He was the only Hispanic in his class. David thought everything of value or importance in school was white and clean. White children called him 'dirty Mexicans' because his skin was brown. All he wanted was to become part of the white society. Instead, he was caught in the middle, alienated from ... as equal by the whites. This had a destructive affect on him because he gave up his Mexican heritage to become part of white society but felt like an outsider to both worlds. By middle school, he still wanted to become part of the white society. There was a couple of Hispanics who wanted David to become part of their gang but he didn't want to. He chose to ...
- 1379: Hard Times
- ... that had a tendency to destroy the balance, and should therefore, be eliminated by every possible means. The chief means for such elimination he believed, was education. On these principles, Mr. Gradgrind set up a school where just like with members of his own family, the principles of his "hard and fast system" were rigidly instilled in the minds of his students. Such pupils of the Gradgrind school were continually crammed with facts from day to day until they 'spilled over 'with them. Such facts were to remain in the mind, pressed down in all forms of memory until all finer sensibilities were ... especially apparent with Mr. Gradgrind's two older children, Louisa and Tom. Tom became morose and discontented, while Louisa stayed somber and hopeless and neither of them like their home, which in actuality, the Gradgrind school was based on and it's teachings were very similar. The rigorous program taught by Mr. Gradgrind was not concurrent with many of the more common teaching theories and practices of today. It is ...
- 1380: Great Expectations - Chapter Summaries
- ... from Joe – The convict was taken on a boat and disappeared into the night Chapter 6 Setting: At home; Pip receives an odd job Pip learns to write at Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt’s school When Uncle Joe was a kid, he had parents who drank heavily and so Joe didn’t attend school Miss Havisham- rich and grim lady who lives in a large and dismal house barricated against robbers Pip is invited to play at her house, but he doesn’t know why Chapter 7 Setting: At ... from Joe – The convict was taken on a boat and disappeared into the night Chapter 6 Setting: At home; Pip receives an odd job Pip learns to write at Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt’s school When Uncle Joe was a kid, he had parents who drank heavily and so Joe didn’t attend school Miss Havisham- rich and grim lady who lives in a large and dismal house barricated ...
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