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- 1811: All Quiet on the Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
- ... the young innocent boys into callous men. Through the events of the war it can be seen how Paul and his friends became the “lost generation”. The novel went through Paul’s life from his school days with his teacher, Kantorek to his eventual death in the war. Between these extremes are the important parts of Pauls journey and they are basic training, the death of his close friend Kemmerich, his ... the end Paul himself died. With these events in mind this is how the rest of this is organized: chronologically. Paul and his friends started to lose their innocence the day they enlisted after their school days. In school their master, Kantorek pounded into them an idea that they are men and are obligated to do their duty for the country of Germany. Kantoreks blind patriotism led all the boys, none more than ...
- 1812: 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 ...
- 1813: To Kill A Mockingbird-- Plot S
- ... for years. The children are scared of Boo because of the morbid legends about him. Dill resolves to get him to come out of his house, but nothing comes of it that summer. Scout dislikes school from the first morning. A few times when Scout and Jem walk home from school, they discover small gifts in the hollow oak tree at the edge of the Radley yard. When Dill returns for the summer, the children devise a new game of acting out their own version of ... shotgun, and as the children flee Jem s pants get stuck in a fence and left behind. Later when Jem retrieves them, he finds that Boo clumsily mended them where the fence tore them. When school begins again, Scout and Jem find more trinkets in the tree. They write a thank you note to whomever is leaving the things for them, but Mr. Radley cements up the knot hole. During ...
- 1814: American Studies
- ... the past and current methodological approaches in studying American culture and what different authors have to say. “The methodology of early American Studies practitioners in the 30s, 40s, and 50s was named the symbol myth school approach. They came up with a set of assumptions that would guide those working in the field. 1. There is one homogenous mind 2. The American mind is distinguished by its place in the New ... throughout the years. There was a historical shift from racializing European ethnic groups to using color to determine race. I think that this is still going on today. If you would walk into any middle school, you would most likely see kids separated by color. You would see the White kids, the African American, Oriental kids, and then the rest of the “minorities” as it is said to be. This is ... I have always thought of everyone to be equal. I have been treated differently because I am a Jewish girl. I have been treated differently by students and most of all by teachers in high school and even some in college. It is something that is very difficult and frustrating to deal with. I know that what I experienced does not even compare, but I do know what it feels ...
- 1815: Personal Essay: The Drainpipe
- Personal Essay: The Drainpipe For a half hour, every school day, for a few months, I was really happy. A friend and I would go to the drainpipe, and we would sit, talk, eat our lunches, and listen to my walkman. It was the perfect ... two of us, and we were tiny compared to the long grass surrounding us. Then again, it could just been the freedom of knowing that we were listening to the walkman that was banned from school, and we weren't getting caught. What ever it was, it doesn't matter because analyzing something takes away the feeling it gives when you think about it. It was just a great place, and ... never found us. Even to this day, I go to the drainpipe. When things get to hard at home, and I need to just escape, I make the excuse that I forgot a book at school and I leave. I cross the soccer field, then the gym, sometimes stop at my locker to put away my backpack, and I run to the drainpipe. I lay down in the grass, and ...
- 1816: Hero Worship
- ... over car ready to explode does show heroism. The news media is always looking for acts of heroism as they make for captivating news. Just recently, a fourth grade boy grabbed the wheel of a school bus after it was involved in an accident. This boy may have saved the lives of the children loaded on the school bus by preventing the bus from careening out of control. Because of the unusual circumstances of this incident, the media rightly focused on this child as a hero. Many other forms of heroism do not fit this very succinct definition. The school teacher who has the rare ability to turn students around and prevent them from throwing their lives away is one example. Another example is the counselor who spends extra time and transforms a drug ...
- 1817: Salvidor Dali
- ... early age Dali began his strange behavior, he was prone to tantrums, self-induced coughing fits and wet the bed until age eight, as he knew this upset his father. After a year at public school, Dali was still unable to read and write he was then sent to a Christian school, however that did not improve his scholastic abilities (BBC). In 1914, German artist Sigfrid Burman gave Dali his first set of oil paints while the family was vacationing in Cadaques, Spain (daliprint). Five years later, Dali had his first public exhibition in the style of Cubism (duke). In the early 1920’s, his sister was his only female model. At this time he was attending the Madrid Fine Arts school as his father wanted him to gain skill to become a teacher. It was here that he met Luis Burnel and Lorca who would eventually replace his sister as chief model (BBC). In 1925, ...
- 1818: The Blind And Deaf
- ... a sonar device that is in a pair of glasses. These glasses send out sonar that reflects back sound. There are also many other types of glasses made to help the partially blind. The first school for the blind opened in 1784. Today more that 60% of blind children go to regular day school. Some go to special classes and others go to seeing classes. Many blind students go to college. There are many institutes that will educate blind people and even help them find jobs in the work ... writing where letters are drawn into the hand of the impaired. There is a huge field for education and training for those who are deaf. Children relieve special education all the way up to high school. The children learn the methods mentioned above, and some even learn to speak. The deaf can move on to universities and can join the work force. Deaf people can lead fulfilling lives. Blindness and ...
- 1819: Greek Orthodox Customs
- ... get married. I wanted to be a singer. When I was 14, my family moved to a Greek Orthodox community. Suddenly, even though I could still barely say " hello" in English, I was going to school and being exposed to all these wonderful Western things. Then, at a neighborhood Greek festival, my mother, who was convinced I was boy crazy, saw me talking to a guy, and decided that if she ... marriage, I stopped getting my period, but nobody explained that that meant I was pregnant. When I told my mom, she said I was going to have a baby. I had to drop out of school. I was 14. I had a C-section and Sophia was born. I'd sit on my stoop and watch neighborhood kids play. I ached to join them, but I had to clean and cook ... aunt and I would go to McDonald's. That was the big treat. Once, my uncle took me to a movie. I watched a lot of TV. My dearest wish was to go back to school. But after Sophia was old enough, I had to work in a factory with my mother, making men's jackets. My husband worked the night shift in a restaurant. He wasn't a bad ...
- 1820: Biography of Robert Frost
- ... speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New ...
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