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- 1821: Into The Wild
- ... Although he did some unusual things, he was sane. Alex was well educated and highly respected by everyone who knew him. Christopher McCandless came from a rich suburb of Washington D.C. He excelled in school and had been an outstanding athlete. He graduated with honors from Emory University in the summer of 1990, and soon after he dropped out of sight. He changed his name from Chris to Alex, gave ... his possessions, and burned all of the cash in his wallet. He desired to live off of the land and traveled across North America. In the story, Alex did many weird things. He went to school just to please his parents. Everything he did before he graduated from college was to make his parents proud. Once he was done with school he went off to do something for himself, and before he left he knew there was a chance that he might not return. He sent a letter to Wayne to return all of his ...
- 1822: Biography of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... and disappeared with the money. Suddenly, Elizabeth's father died leaving the family with debts, bills, and only twenty-five dollars in cash. The family had to make money quick, so the girls opened a school and the boys got jobs. The boys made so much money the girls were able to close their school. Elizabeth walked around the house for days wondering what to do with her life. One day, she was visiting her mother's sick friend when the lady said that she could be the first woman ... amazed by her medical knowledge. Many people prejudged Elizabeth, which made things very hard. Elizabeth then went to Dr. Elders private study and he was also amazed by her knowledge. The search for a medical school that would admit her continued. Dr. Allen, another doctor that Elizabeth studied under, taught her how to disect. Soon, good news came. Elizabeth was accepted to a medical college. In 1847, Elizabeth entered Geneva ...
- 1823: Hooked on the Internet
- ... online, whereas nondependent users reported fewer then five (43). The bright graphics of the Internet, the anonymity and speed, are too much of a good thing for some users, who will neglect family, work, and school in order to stay online. These people find themselves ignoring important aspects of their lives, in favor of playing in cyberspace close to 40 hours a week. "It is tearing families apart, destroying careers, and ... that arise out of not structuring your time, and another with a list of benefits of doing otherwise. My friend, an ex Internet "junkie", has his own solution, which he expresses as a humorous serenity prayer: "Almighty Webmaster, grant me the serenity to know when to log off, the courage to know when to check my e-mail, and the wisdom to stay away from chat rooms."
- 1824: To Kill A Mocking Bird 3
- ... Robinson trial. Finally the children learn about prejudice and the effect that it has on everyone else in the world. B.) I believe that people learn much more from life experiences, rather than from what school teaches them. School teaches you things that society wants you to know, instead of the stuff you should now to get by in life. School of course helps people in the long run, by preparing them for a career, but if you do not have what is called Street Smarts , than there is no use for Book Smarts. For ...
- 1825: Frederick Douglass
- ... and it must be whipped out. And yet there was not a man any where round, who made higher professions of religion, or was more active in revivals, -more attentive to the class, love-feast, prayer and preaching meetings, or more devotional in his family, -that prayed earlier, later, louder, and longer, - than this same reverend slave-driver. He looks back to Sundays with an amount of pleasure not to be ... and for what does he hold the thunders in his right hand, if not to smite the oppressor, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the spoiler?" Every moment they spent in that school because their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. This narrative reflects a lot of the way Frederick felt and the way he viewed Christianity in ...
- 1826: Desensitized America
- ... think of many instances that we accept, and in many ways we become desensitized to their horror because they are so common. A big example of this is the rampage of violence especially in our school systems. I can remember my freshman year that there was a bombing in a primary school in Scotland. I cannot even remember all of the details, but it was a truly tragic event. The fact that I cannot remember too much more of this story is an example about how we ... in my mind is the Columbine tragedy, but in between the huge stories, are the instances that are just as tragic but get less press. So many times we hear of children bringing guns to school, teens that play around with guns that don’t belong to them, and someone gets hurt or even dies. In the summer before I was in eighth grade a boy in the class ahead ...
- 1827: Louis Pasteur 2
- ... France great through science. Scholar and Scientist Louis Pasteur was born on Dec. 27, 1822, in Dôle, France. His father was a tanner. In 1827 the family moved to nearby Arbois, where Louis went to school. He was a hard-working pupil but not an especially brilliant one. When he was 17 he received a degree of bachelor of letters at the Collège Royal de Besançon. For the next three years ... married in 1849. Pasteur's wife shared his love for science. They had five children; three died in childhood. Research in Fermentation and Souring In 1854 Pasteur became professor of chemistry and dean of the school of science (Faculté des Sciences) at the University of Lille. Hearing of Pasteur's ability, a local distiller came to him for help in controlling the process of making alcohol by fermenting beet sugar. Pasteur ... acid and its function in souring milk in 1857. Further studies developed the valuable technique of pasteurization (see Dairy Industry). The same year he was appointed manager and director of scientific studies at his old school, the École Normale Supérieure. During the next several years he extended his studies into the germ theory. He spent much time proving to doubting scientists that germs do not originate spontaneously in matter but ...
- 1828: A Brief Overview Of Psychedeli
- The computer has become one of the most important and influential luxuries of this generation. Young people use computers every day for school, work, and entertainment. They are the first generation to have become computer literate as early as the onset of adolescence. For most of their lives they have used computers, so it is not surprising that ... my dorm mates are on academic probation. My age group is not the only part of Generation X that has a fixation with Video games. Whether it is kids sneaking in video games during high school computer class or adults downloading the latest games onto their computer while their bosses head is turned Xers turn to video games for a good time. For these individuals, the computer has become the main ... define itself as computer dependent. We have grown up in a society where computers are the trend. And, furthermore, we constantly reaffirm our dependence upon them, as a substitute in the work place and at school, as well as a substitute for a rewarding social life. If this trend continues the dependence will become greater as computers continually offer to make our lives easier and more convenient.
- 1829: Who Are You?: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder
- Who Are You?: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Since His Earliest Days as a Popular High School Actor and His Years as The "Best Networker" in the San Diego Music Scene, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Has Reinvented Himself as the Voice of an Alienated Generation. A Rolling Stone Special Report "Welcome ... Seattle native and son of a local lawyer, has co-founded a small record label, Loosegroove, which his sister Shelly helps run. Mike McCready, a local boy who began playing in bands in junior high school, has come the closest to falling prey to the occupational hazards of rock stardom: He did a stint at a Minneapolis clinic for booze problems, in 1994, but is by all accounts now clean and ... from an unhappy childhood and an alienated and lonely adolescence. In a wide-ranging series of interviews that he granted to Rolling Stone, in 1993, he shaped his myth as a reluctant star -- a high-school dropout turned surf-slacker whose ascent from humble beginnings occurred almost despite himself. This, too, fit perfectly with the grunge doctrine, which rejected the careerism and grasping ambition of the pandering 1980s hair-metal ...
- 1830: Abstract Expressionism
- ... long streaks of paint, our eyes move freely around the painting, providing some sense of unity. Another influential Abstract Expressionist was Hans Hofmann. Hofmann was born in 1880, in Weissenberg, Bavaria. He opened an art school in Munich and taught in california during the summers of 1930 to 1931. In 1932, he moved to America and opened an art school in New York soon after. "The highest three- dimensionality is two-dimensionality, which no layman can ever understand," said Hofmann. "Depth is nothing less than suggested volume. I have students who come to me painting ... we see pretty much the same amount of darks as we see lights, and, again, neither overpowers the other. Willem De Kooning was born in Rotterdam, Holland in 1905. He owned and operated an art school in Munich, and then moved to the United States when he was 22. He first did drawings, then switched to painting, using only black and white paint as a transition from the paper to ...
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