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- 1711: Celiac Sprue Disease
- ... summer, I understand more than someone else may how hard it is to follow the diet needed. Yet no one can comprehend how difficult it is except the patient. My brother, who attends Ridgewood High School, eats lunch at school just like everyone else here does. The only difference between his menu and others including pizza, pasta, and sandwiches, is that he may have a type of cold cut (turkey, roast beef, etc.) just rolled together. At home when he wants an after-school snack, he doesn't even look in the drawer with the chips and the coffee cakes; instead, he reaches for his rice crackers and cheese. When going out to eat, there is a card ...
- 1712: Socrates
- ... had a reputation for her patient and intuitive skill in delivering babies in and around the neighborhood. The latter, his father was a craftsman, stonecutter by trade. As a young boy, Socrates was teased in school about his appearance, and often would prey to the Gods to make him beautiful both inside as well as outside. He was known for asking many questions as a child, because he was very curious ... the morning and stood in the mud across his tent on and high hill, his feet planted, for a whole day. He did not say a word, until the next morning, when he gave a prayer to the sun and resumed his normal activities. No one asked why he had done that. Upon return to Athens he gave up stonecutting completely and invested his money and regularly, as if by set ...
- 1713: A Study of the Negro Policeman: Book Review
- A Study of the Negro Policeman: Book Review Nicholas Alex, assistant professor of sociology at The City University of New York, holds a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research and a B.S. from the Wharton School. He was formerly a research assistant with the Russell Sage Foundation, an instructor at Adelphi University, and has had working experience in his academic specialty-the sociology of professions and occupations-while an industrial engineer in the aircraft industry, later as business manager of the Walden School. This is his first book. In this book Alex made an effort to examine the peculiar problems of Negro policemen who live in an age which has not yet resolved to problem of inequality ...
- 1714: The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
- ... a printmaker. He was born in Leeuwarden, Holland and was the son of a civil engineer. He spent most of his childhood in Arnhem. He wanted to be an architect so he enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. He stared studying there in 1919. But he did not do well in school and got very bad grades. However he was very good at graphic arts and he decided to shift from architecture to drawing and printmaking upon the encouragement of his teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. In ... 1950's. Among his first admirers were mathematicians, who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas. This was remarkable because he had never had any math courses after high school, where he had learned only the basics. As his work developed he read more about mathematics and showed in his art an understanding of projective geometry and non-Euclidian geometry. He was also fascinated ...
- 1715: Personal Commentary on the Drug Problem
- ... to the users. The Gov. cannot change children’s behavior or anybody else’s. In schools there is even a bigger problem. The states have created an educational program against drug abuse for the public school system and some authorities claim that this is not a school problem, but the truth is that it has not only been said by some school officials but by disturbed parents and a concerned community. It is too late to either wait for this thing to “just dry up and blow away” or to deny that this is not “our ...
- 1716: Jane Eyre: Ladies First
- ... demonstrates a strong need to be herself, to take responsibility for her action. She is put to the test by her daily teasing and abuse from her cousins. When she is brought to a boarding school she soon distinguishes herself through her classes. Eventually ends up in Thornfield where she meets Edward Rochester. While growing up in Gateshead Hall, Jane is treated less than a servant. Her cousins John, Eliza, and ... hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds of the choicest plants in the conservatory:”(pg.9) Jane becoming unable to withstand her treatment at Gateshead Hall she is sent to Lowood, a boarding school for the poor. Before she leaves Gateshead she tells her aunt how she feels. “ I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you, but I declare I do not love you ... because of Mr. Elton loved Emma instead of Harriet. Jane Eyre soon arrives in Lowood, where she becomes friends with Helen Burns, a sickly child whose saint-like encouragement helps Jane with the hardships of school life. Here is where Jane's renewal in faith starts to develop. Helen who dies in Jane's arms tells Jane that they will meet again in heaven. Jane soon begins to thrive on ...
- 1717: The Whites Versus Native and African Americans
- ... them. The Native Americans had limited educational opportunities, therefore their written language was structured around learning the symbols for food and water. Education was a challenge, an example was in the story called the Indian School Girl. This young girl was sent to a boarding school. The acceptance by her classmates required her to change her appearance to match those of the white students. She had to cut her hair, wear uniforms, and lose her self which led her to feel like, “ one of many animals driven by the herder.” Her loneliness at the boarding school coupled by it’s conforming nature lost her ability to maintain her individuality. The African Americans culture was rooted in the heritage of their African tribes. It was strong in family, ritual, and pride. ...
- 1718: Flour Baby Project: Parenting
- ... go back to work. There are many different types of daycare’s. Many of them have different times that you can drop off your children and they also have programs that can take children after school. Day care can either be at a facility like a school or at a persons home. Price can also vary depending on how long the child stays, were the facility is if it is in a home or in a school. As a parent you want to make sure that you can trust the person that your leaving your child with. Quality time with the family becomes a very big part of your life. Everyone ...
- 1719: The Chocolate War: Comparison Between Book and Movie
- ... Brother Leon is an adult and Archie is just a teenager, they both have many common qualities. Archie and Brother Leon are both leaders in there own way. Brother Leon is the leader of a school, and Archie is the head of the Vigils. They are both very mean males. And they both have the power of getting people to do what they want. Jerry is a Freshman in high school, which has a tradition in which the eldest kids pick on the newcomers. And in Jerry's case there is a high school "Gang," who chooses freshman and make them do things that would not be able to do and not get in trouble for it. (The fact that Jerry gets chosen to do all sorts of ...
- 1720: Lee De Forest
- ... Kraeuter, 74). As a child he was fascinated with machinery and was often excited when hearing of the many technological advances during the late 19th century. He began tinkering and inventing things even in high school, often trying to build things that he could sell for money. By the age of 13 he was an enthusiastic inventor of mechanical gadgets such as a miniature blast furnace and locomotive, and a working silverplating apparatus. (A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries). His father had planned for him to follow him in a career in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, ...
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