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- 1831: Age Of Reform In America
- ... of capital and the servility of labor (Brinkley 337). Mann recognized that the strongest backing of democracy was education. Horace Mann is known foremost for the great amount of changes he brought to the Massachusetts school system, making it a much more education-friendly environment. All across America public support for school systems was increasing. Elementary schools were now commonly found from town to town as opposed to the rarely seen schoolhouses of the past. Due to America s diversity as a nation, along with the fact ... teachers weren t even well-taught themselves compared to those in New England. In the South, the slavery system forbade black education. Besides that, very little of the white population went to schools anyway. Establishing school systems in these areas was a tricky job. Despite problems in the South and West with education, America had grown into a more learned nation. Over 80% of the population (excluding the slavery population) ...
- 1832: Staples' “Just Walk On By”: Prejudice and Intimidation
- ... toes.” All this was a common day to day occurrence for me while growing up in my predominantly white neighborhood. As a matter of fact, there were only about five black kids in my grade school. Don’t get me wrong, my Grandfather was never violent toward black people (they actually scared him) and he was never a “white supremacist,” but words were constantly said. My teenage years changed how I ... the world. I can wholeheartedly agree with the Staples essay when in it he describes what makes a thug. My family and I had moved into a different neighborhood by the time I started high school. This fact proved very helpful in aiding me to pick out the thugs of the world. The thugs I grew up near were known as “power junkies.” A power junky is a person who lives ... moment of truth arrived; there was no escaping. Well, to my surprise, it was none of the horrible things my mind had conjured up, but rather my very large, very kind friend J.R. from school. As it turned out it, he was worried about me and had come back around the block to ensure my safety to the bus stop. So, like Staple’s victim, my fear was unfounded. ...
- 1833: Wright's "Black Boy": An Oppressionist Impression
- ... trouble came quickly- a bloabk boy came bounding past me, thumping my hat to the ground and yelling.” To keep his audience from dazily drifting into a state of semi- consiousness, Wright interjects into his prayer with action in an excited and staggering tone. “A blow landed on the back of my head. I turned and saw a brick rolling away and I felt blood oozing down my back. I looked ... express a valuable peace in hysteris. When action is not present Wright seems to speak in a peaceful voice that softens the reader to his pains. “... I was reserved with the boys and girls at school, seeking their company but never letting them guess how much I was being kept out of the world in which they lived, valuing their casual feiendships but hiding it, acutely self consious but covering it ...
- 1834: Rock And Roll
- ... at his hip, hopping about on one leg in what came to be known as his “duckwalk,” Berry also changed the role of the rock guitarist from sideman to star.10 In 1957, Berry released “School Day.” He dared to say what every teenager in America had already known: high school was boring and oppressive, and it was at its best when it was three o’clock. Berry was in his late 20’s when “School Day” was released, but more than any other composer of his time, he had found a voice for the desires and emotions of teenage listeners.11 Killed in an air crash at the young ...
- 1835: Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer, educator, and civil rights activist was born in Washington, DC on June 13, 1937. After graduating from Dunbar Senior High School, she received a BA from Antioch College. Norton then went on to attend Yale’s Graduate School and School of Law to receive a MA and a LLB simultaneously in 1964. From 1965 to 1970, she served as Assistant Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As Assistant Legal Director to ...
- 1836: 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, ...
- 1837: Airika
- ... government ever conceived by man". The fourth, "Free Enterprise" was the end to high-finance exploitation. And finally, "Positive Christianity" was the right of Americans to practice their Christian faith, including but not limited to prayer in school. Preconceived notions are quite arguably the most widely acknowledged form of racism today. Use of derogatory terms, such as the quite offensive "n-word" and slang such as "spook", "porch monkey", etc. are all terms ...
- 1838: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 and died in 1902. During the eighty-seven years of her life she accomplished many goals and over came numerous obstacles. Elizabeth attended Emma Willard's School in Troy where she obtained her education to the fullest extent possible for girls in those days. She was a suffragist and Quaker abolitionist. In 1840 she was chosen as a delegate to the World ... fifty years to help women achieve the vote and other equal benefits. Lucretia Coffin Mott Lucretia Coffin Mott was born in 1793 and died in 1880. Lucretia was educated at Nine Partners, a Quaker boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York. She married James Mott, who had been a teacher at that school. Lucretia was an American abolitionist and feminist. In 1817 she became involved in the Society of Friends, and in 1827, the society split into two parts; she and her husband joined the group called ...
- 1839: Animal Farm: Animal Satire
- ... Empire. A few years after Eric was born, he retired on a low pension and moved back to England. Though their income was not much enough, the Blair family sent their son away to boarding school which was an exclusive preparatory school, to prepare him for Eton Collage. Eric then won a scholarship to Eton Collage. During his education from the age of eight to eighteen, as he wrote in his essay about his school experiences titled "Such, Such Were the Joys," he experienced many things about the "world where the prime necessities were money, titled relatives, athleticism, tailor-made clothes", inequality, oppression and class distinctions in the schools ...
- 1840: Evolution Or Ignorance
- ... caused them to evolve may have caused humans to evolve as well. Yet still some schools in America have tried banning the teaching of evolution in the classroom. Every student in a United States public school has a constitutional right to hear the whole story when it comes to evolution. It is called the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. According to the American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU, the ... way around teaching evolution by teaching a so called "intelligent design theory" (Washington State). This is just one of the many guises of creation science, and it does not change the fact that states and school districts may not adopt religious theories as standards in school curricula. Creationists will always exist, since ignorance will always exist, although evolution will always have a place in science curriculum. Creationists believe in creation because their masters have told them to believe in Creationism ...
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