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- 1771: Rosa Lee Parks
- ... Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. Rosa Parks was well educated in a rural schoolhouse. When she completed her education in Pine Level at the age of eleven her mother enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private institution. She went to Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes for eleven and twelth grade. She was unable to graduate because of her grandmother’s illness, Rosa Edwards. After her grandmother’s death she decided to return to school, but her mother got sick so she had to stay at home with her mother. Rosa then married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. He supported Rosa’s desire to complete her formal educaton ,and in 1934 she recieved her high school diploma. The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a white customer could sit down. She was ...
- 1772: Howard Hughes
- ... get stories on Hughes. Howard was also associated with what has been called one of the greatest publishing hoaxes in history. Howard Hughes Sr., commonly known as Big Howard, was a graduate of the Harvard School of Law, yet never once appeared before a court of law. Big Howard spent the first 36 years of his life chasing money across the Texas plains, as a wildcatter and a speculator in oil ... motorcycle, Hughes built one for himself, taking parts from his father’s steam car. As a graduate of Harvard, Big Howard sought his son to have the same education, and sent his son to boarding school in Massachusetts in fall of 1919. After one year had passed it became apparent that Sonny was not going to succeed in grooming school. Big Howard traveled across the country to collect his son, and they attended a boat race on the way home. After losing a bet to his son on the outcome of the race, Big ...
- 1773: John Marshall Harlan II
- ... to the United States upon completion in 1923. After returning from England, Harlan began working for a law office in New York. At the same time, he was studying law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm. Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 ... and that it would hinder the outcome of many police interrogations. Finally, in Tinker v. Demoines, a case which involved the First Amendment and its Free Speech Clause, Harlan again dissented. He felt that the school's rule regarding the wearing of arm bands was legitimate, and therefor the Tinkers did not have a legitimate complaint. Harlan seems to have been a justice that wasn't afraid to sway. If ...
- 1774: Bill Bradley
- ... the skills they need to build a better future in this time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban and rural school districts. Bill will invest in community colleges to improve their technology infrastructure to provide students and working adults with training and new skills, in partnership with regional businesses and local high schools. Finally Bradley ensures ... the growth of the median wage. Permitting mothers on welfare to keep their child support payments so the child is provided with the care needed. Bill will push for creating a national program of after-school care and community development centers that offer a range of academic and social services to 5.6 million children and adults a year. Bill will create Second-Chance Homes for pregnant teens that offer ...
- 1775: Hate In Our Society
- ... impressions on our society. Sullivan says that there is no way to abolish hate, but that we have to learn to live with it. Cullen states that all the rumors spread about the columbine high school killings are untrue. Both authors share common ideas about hate, how it affects our society and how hate derives within hate. In Cullen's article, he states that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were "equal ... to learn to live with it or "co-exist despite it" (8). Both authors agree that hate derives from hate. Cullen stated that investigator found out that Harris and Klebold were often called names in school and that they were even outcast from the so-called Trench Coat Mafia. People tried to link this events and others, the blame to be sure that this could no happened in their district. Parents ... example that Jews are now more susceptible to hate Germans, or the kosovars and serbs hate them self and are always in conflict. As Cullen, Sullivan that the criminals of the shooting in columbine high school were hate victims. Therefore his hate could have begun as the result of this harassment of his fellows. “They were victims of hate before they were purveyors of hate” (5). Sullivan as well as ...
- 1776: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... s but today there are civil laws that citizens of the United States must abide by. In 1946, with the support of the NAACP, Herman Marion Sweatt applied for admission to The University of Texas School of Law. The University registrar rejected his application because Sweatt was an African American and The University of Texas was a segregated institution. Sweatt, with NAACP counsel, sued. Although Sweatt lost in state court, the United States Supreme Court on June 5th, 1950 ordered the integration of The University of Texas School of Law and also The University's Graduate School. This case set the precedence for all other institutions and made it possible for African-Americans to attend these schools. Recently the prevalent racism that has been in the news has been hate crimes. ...
- 1777: Teen Smoking
- ... and have urged tobacco companies to do the same against under age smoking. Despite all positive actions against it, "pack-a-day" smoking has risen thirty-three Percent in the past ten years among high school seniors. Throughout life children and adults are being persuaded to do or try something that goes against what they believe. Peer pressure is common place in grade school, where children are constantly being exposed to smoking. Cigarettes are being smoked everywhere authority is not, during school or any other place kids congregate. Kids smoke because they want to feel like they 'fit in' and they want to rebel at the same time. "U.S. News discussed the smoking issue with ...
- 1778: In Cold Blood
- ... factor in the media. When looking back on his childhood, Capote associated his mother with emotional neglect and his father with leaving the family. Even though he had a rough childhood, Truman always excelled in school, especially in English classes. From elementary school he maintained an A average, even through high school. When Capote was 17 years old, his first story got published in a national magazine (Gale 2). Capote was excited and proud of this accomplishment. At the age of 18, Capote took an I. ...
- 1779: My Friend T.W.
- My Friend T.W. T.W. Gerron and I met in the fifth grade when I first came to Cooper High School. We weren’t in the same home room, but we were friends from the get go. I met him on the soccer field my first morning. I will never forget it because he outran me ... last ten years of our relationship, all in one short paragraph. We were, as I said, the best of friends pretty much throughout elementary and junior high. We started running with different crowds in high school, but still remained friends. Our senior year arrived and T.W.’s parents had just gone through a divorce. T.W. became a little less conformist and a little more rebellious which made us running ... thousand and one stories that I could tell, and even more that I can’t. It’s not to hard to imagine what it was like being seventeen and the only two kids in high school to have their own place. A lot of partying, a little studying, and a whole lot of financial difficulties pretty much sums it up. God, those were the days. T.W. now is a ...
- 1780: The Hurt of Others
- ... over and saw another student with his head down. I assumed it was Fred. At lunch I met up with Fred. I introduced myself and we started hanging out together. We started doing things after school and on weekends. But then I started to realize that Fred did different things then I did. I started making new friends and lost touch with Fred. Fred was a different person then most. He ... few bad names. Then on Fred was a social outcast. I didn't realize at the time, by not including Fred, really hurt his feelings. By this time it was almost the end of the school year, and our class had to move on to another school. The last day came around and we all said our goodbyes. I saw Fred leaving so I ran up to him and we stood talking. As we were talking, I felt sorry for having ...
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