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- 1791: My Leadership Ability and Working Well With People
- ... camp I was recognized by the pastor for the job I did. Another example of my leadership was when I was in the fourth grade when I received the Role Model award for my entire school. I received a bike and a plaque that I still have today. These examples prove that when you are a leader people do notice. Being vocal on the football field and basketball court are also examples of my natural leadership. Saying something that needs to be said or leading by example prove my teamwork abilities. I have participated in many community service activities in my community through school and church. I am a member of my schools Service Club. One of our activities was to buy gifts for needy children. I also raked leaves for seniors and delivered food to their homes. I was also involved in a dance marathon at my school that raised almost $2,000 for the Doug Flutie foundation for Autism. Through my church youth group I have also done many voluntary activities. I volunteered at a carnival for the kids of the ...
- 1792: Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights
- Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights Everyday our children wake up and make the dangerous journey to school. With the recent occurrences in Jonesboro, Arkansas and Littleton, Colorado, our children are even more scared to make this dangerous journey to school. With the threat of death becoming more apparent, parents are questioning as to whether or not they should even let their children go to school. What is this dangerous threat to children, and how can this threat of death be stopped? Although the answer is complicated and will continually be debated a solution must be posed. We must outlaw ...
- 1793: George Orwell
- ... class system.("Orwell " Compton n.pag.) Orwell was born into a lower middle class family that struggled to provide him with an education("George" Discovering 1). In 1911, his family returned to England. He attended school in Sussex, where he was known for his poverty and intelligence. He then attended Eton College but decided not to continue and went to Burma in 1922, as a member of the British Imperial Police ... mid-thirties("George" Discovering 2). Orwell died at the age of 46 from complications from tuberculosis("Orwell" Twentieth 745). Throughout Orwell's educational process, he had build up a sense of bitterness. St. Cyrian Prep. School, in which Orwell had attended, provided him with his first glimpse of misused power.("George" Discovering 6+) In 1922, he became an officer for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. After five years with the ... related to his experiences as a child, in the Spanish Civil War, and in World War II. As a child he saw his first glimpses of power being misused, while attending the St. Cyrian Prep. School. In the Spanish Civil War, Orwell saw the threats that a totalitarian government, such as communism, can possesses. He also observed all of the destruction of humanity that totalitarianism is capable of doing. During ...
- 1794: Educating Rita – Coursework Piece
- ... do you think they are, human? Proper students don’t read and study. RITA – Y’ what? FRANK – A joke, a joke.” Despite this she uses some sarcasm of her own. “[She is describing her old school] Nah, just the normal, y’ know; borin’, ripped up books, broken glass everywhere, knives and fights. An’ that was just in the staff room.” “Does Forster’s repeated use of the phrase ‘only connect’ suggest ... anything except the examiners terms and urges Frank to let her continue. “Here, it’s crap. So we dump that in the bin (She does so) an’ we start again.” When Rita returns from summer school at the beginning of the next act she is a different person altogether. She is wearing new second-hand clothes when she enters and is jubilant and happy. “Frank, it was fantastic!” She has moved ... hand gear in the market.” She has learnt a lot and is a long way towards her final goal of becoming ‘educated’. “I’m dead familiar with Chekhov now.” “We did him [Blake] at summer school.” She has also given up smoking. “I’ve packed it in.” She also has a flat of her own with her “flatmate, Trish” who is “dead class. Y’ know like, she’s got taste.” ...
- 1795: Monasticism And Intellectual L
- ... by Saint Benedict of Nursia. He wrote the famous "Benedict’s Rule" between 520-530. The fundamentals of the rule was that each day was divided into a series of activities with an emphasis on prayer and manual labor. The monks would all gather together seven times each day for prayer. These were all male institutions, however, Benedict’s sister, Scholastica founded monasteries for women. Many of the texts we have today are with us because of monks. Beginning in the ninth century, the monks used ... representative government for themselves. These were both all male orders, but new establishments for women, called Beguines, were also developed in the thirteenth century. These were poor women who were devout Christians and dedicated to prayer. They lived together and supported themselves by begging and working menial jobs. They took no religious vows, however, and were free to leave as they pleased. They were accepted by the church until the ...
- 1796: Peer Pressure In The Osage Ora
- ... everywhere but at the crowd" (369). The narrator himself said, "I might talk to her, I thought. But of course it was out of the question" (371). The author didn't talk to her at school but he would at the tree. "The next day at school I didn't ask whether her father wanted to take the paper"(370). He was afraid to be seen with her. The narrator asked himself, "could anyone in the house have been watching. I looked back once"(370). Peer pressure prevented the narrator from socializing with Evangeline at school. Sometimes peer pressue involves people making fun of each other. Although the narrator never made fun of Evaneline, other people did. She was made fun of with such comments as, "Why look at Evangeline- ...
- 1797: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- ... were too small, and their skin was see-through, and they walked on their heels, not on the balls of their feet. 3. Explain how their education in Stamps prepared Marguerite and Bailey. How is school different in St. Louis from the one they attended in Stamps? Marguerite and Bailey were prepared for school because of their education in Stamps. They learned arithmetic through working in their store and they said they read so much in Stamps because there was nothing else to do. They also said the schools ... first female Negro trolley conductorette in San Francisco. 10. How does Ritie handle her pregnancy? She does not share with anyone, but her brother that she is pregnant. She continues to work and go to school while concealing her pregnancy. Essay question: In the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Marguerite was influenced by a great deal of characters. One of the biggest influences was her brother, Bailey. ...
- 1798: Presonal Writing: My First Impression of My Teacher Miss Vicki
- ... was a highly authorative figure towering over me. Her voice boomed and the earth shook whenever she marched. She seemed like such an unapproachable and distant person. That was in the first year of High School. She was my Literature teacher then. During my first year in school, she struck terror in my heart. And everyone else's of course. The mere mention of her name made the most unruly classes silent. The birds stopped screeching. Even the earth felt still. The omniscent ... to leave Singapore for the Philippines where she would participate in a voluntary teaching programme for the poor. We did not know what to think actually. All of us cried at the airport. Back at school, we got another teacher for English lessons. But that is another story altogether...
- 1799: Personal Writing: The Evaluation of My Coaches
- Personal Writing: The Evaluation of My Coaches Throughout my high school basketball career I experienced several different coaches. Every new coach brought a different approach to coaching. The varying techniques of coaching brought about different attitudes and expectations during practices and games. I found that during ... had different methods of coaching during and after the games. Practices are very important to basketball. If you practice hard and take it seriously, your team can become successful. All of my coaches in high school took practices seriously. I basically had two different types of coaches when it came to practice. There was the drill sergeant type, which had the team line up in the same place every day to ... during practice. This makes practice more fun. The coach is serious about making our team better, but he realizes that people are not perfect. During calisthenics he would talk to us about our day at school and tell us dirty jokes, and just try to be our friend. While we were practicing he pointed out our mistakes, but when we did something good he praised us. This made practice fun ...
- 1800: Washington Irving
- ... Irving was born April 3, 1783, in New York City. He was the eleventh child of Sarah William Irving. His father was a strict man, a merchant and deacon in the Presbyterian Church. He started school at the age of four, but he never took it seriously. Even when he was older, he did not really care for school. He did impress any of his teachers as outstanding. It was out of school where his real interests developed. His interests were more into reading books of adventure and travel. He was very good at writing, though. He loved the theater. His fascination with the arts grew and ...
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