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- 1581: The Glass Menagerie: A Study in Symbolism
- ... beautiful, a sharp contrast to her real life. The fragility of the unicorn, its second part, recalls Laura’s delicate psychological condition. Laura’s emotional problems caused many difficulties in her life. While in high school, Laura was very self-conscious about the brace she had to wear, as evidenced in the following passage: Laura: I had that brace on my leg -- it clumped so loud! Jim: I never heard any ... had to go clumping all the way up the aisle with everyone watching! Jim: You shouldn’t have been self-conscious. Laura: I know, but I was (93). Laura suffered all the way through high school. Unfortunately, she scored poorly on her final examinations and dropped out of school. After such a failure, her fragile self-esteem dropped from low to almost non-existent, and she could not face going back. Six years later, with pressure from her mother, Laura took another stab ...
- 1582: Glass Menagerie
- ... the other and has battled with it her whole life. She is very shy and is different from everyone around herm and because of this she does not have any friends. Laura did not finish school because when she was in school her brace that she wore made noises when she walked. the sound was horrid to her, but to others it did not seem to attract very much attention. Because of this she dropped out of school. Laura was constantly pushed by her mother to take a night coarse in typing so that she could get a job and make money for the family. Laura is much like the unicorn that ...
- 1583: Search of April Raintree
- In Search of April Raintree is a novel written by Winnipeg born writer named Beatrice Culleton. Beatrice Culleton was born in 1949, in St. Boniface Manitoba. She attended George Brown College, 1970, and Banff school of Fine Arts, 1983. She was raised in foster homes, as were her brother and two sisters, because of her parents alcoholism. Both sisters committed suicide and Culleton turned to writing for and emotional release ... wanted to fit in with the white people. She did not tell anyone she was half Metis, but she did tell everyone that her parents died. She told her little sister about how great the school was and then Cheryl wanted to go there to finish her education. April convinced her sister not to transfer schools because Aprils’ classmates would find out she was a Metis. When Cheryl decides not to transfer school April is considerably relieved. April says, “I didn’t want Cheryl at the Academy because of the lie I had told about my parents and because I was white as far as the other ...
- 1584: Education System After The Revolution
- ... proper balance between freedom and order by supplying all citizens with the knowledge to decide their own happiness and morality.(Spring p.59) The second side of the debate was the idea of the common school. Led by Horace Mann who was born in 1796 in Massachusetts. Received a college degree from Brown University which he used to serve in the slate legislature and helped him create the Massachusetts State Board ... not allow for much variation. Newt Gingrich says, "If society is responsible for everything, then no one is personally responsible for anything.".(Gingrich p.26) This shows that the plan set forth by the common school in teaching conformity for society gives an individual someone to blame for their problems and the nations problems and it is not themselves. In other words it allows for a lack of personal responsibility for political, social and economic problems. "Without personal responsibility there cannot be freedom. It is just that simple.".(Gingrich p.27) The common school system never became a system for students of all walks of life. The system did not allow for the destruction of the current economic, political and social systems, but it did not allow the ...
- 1585: Son of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
- ... open top limousine in Dealey Plaza. Roscoe White shot from behind a fence atop a grassy knoll to the right and front of the limousine, his son says. Two other marksmen were in the Texas School Book Depository and Records buildings behind the vehicle. Three shots struck Kennedy; a fourth wounded Texas Gov. John Connally. Ricky White says the two shots that his father fired both struck Kennedy: the first in ... was accused of firing all the fatal shots, Ricky White says. Ricky White says the diary referred to the other shooters only by code names: Sol in the Records building; and Lebanon in the Texas School Book Depository. The diary indicated each of the three riflemen was accompanied by an assistant who disassembled the rifles after the shooting and carried them out of the area, Ricky White says. According to the ... Club. OTHERS FIND OUT Until he discovered the footlocker, Ricky White says he didn't think much about his father or the Kennedy assassination. He grew up in Dallas and Paris, where he went to school, got married and moved to Midland where he and his wife have two children. There he took a job selling oil field equipment. As shocking as the diary was to Ricky White and his ...
- 1586: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... all directions which would heat all parts of a room. The Franklin Stove today is still in use as a wood burning stove and very little modifications have been made to it. Probably every elementary school student knows his experiment to prove the relationship between electricity and lightening. He was very interested in reading about electricity. In 1752 when he was in France his experiments proved that lightning was a form ... 1772. His later achievements included formulating a theory of heat absorption, measuring the Gulf Stream, designing ships, tracking storm paths, and inventing bifocal lenses. Benjamin had a great love for learning. He only went to school for two years and had to quit when he was ten. He did not let leaving school stop him from learning. He read everything he could. He sets an example that no matter who we are or where we are or how much money we have, we can learn anything we ...
- 1587: Leadership
- ... in a leadership program. This is one of the reasons I want to be part of College's Leadership program. I want to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make a different in my school, my community, my county, and even my world. This program will give me the information so I can become a leader, not a follower. The skills I learn will be taken back to my community and applied to a middle school program that I am involved in, and in Lincoln County 4-H. Leadership is not something you can take lightly. Many students at my high school would get elected to a leadership position and not perform the jobs and duties associated with the office. It was more of a popularity contest than a serious commitment. Over the years, I have ...
- 1588: Because I Could Not Stop For Death
- ... if not frightening, tone in Dickinson's poem. Dickinson uses controlling adjectives-"slowly: and "passed"-to create a tone that seems rather placid. For example, "We slowly drove- He knew no haste/ ...We passed the school.../ We passed the setting sun," sets a slow quiet, calm, and dreamy atmosphere (5, 9, 11, 12). "One thing that impresses us," one author wrote, " is the remarkable placidity, or composure, of its tone" (Greenberg ... ideas on a unifying track heading towards a buggling atmosphere. Dickinson's masterpieces lives on complex ideas that are evoked through symbols, which carry her readers through her poems. Besides the literal significance of the "school," Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring" much is gathered to complete the poem's central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of the life's'cycle. Ungraspable to many, the cycle of one's'life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shawn as follows: "School, where children strove" (9). Because it deals with an important symbol, the "Ring" this first scene is perhaps the most important . One author noted that "the children, at recess, do not play as one ...
- 1589: Robert Frost
- ... tuberculosis at age thirty-four, in 1885. Isabelle took Robert and his sister back east to Massachusetts. Soon they moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where there was a teaching opening. Robert began to go to school and sit in on his mother’s classes. He soon learned to love language, and eventually went to Lawrence High School, where he wrote the words to the school hymn, and graduated as co-valedictorian. Frost read rabidly of Dickens, Tennyson, Longfellow, and many others. Frost was then sent to Dartmouth college by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place ...
- 1590: Louis Leakey
- ... of ancient Africans, truly links to the past, Leakey knew that the rest of his life would be devoted towards discovering the secrets of the prehistoric ancestors of humankind. Despite not being accustomed to the school structure back in England and the accompanying problems he had in public school, Leakey was accepted into Cambridge in 1922. However, blows to the head sustained during rugby games resulted in epilepsy and headaches for Leakey, and he had to leave school in 1923. This, however, was a blessing in disguise, for Leakey landed a job as an African expert on an archaeological mission to Tendaguru in what is now Tanzania. He was to accompany the ...
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