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- 1971: A Man For All Seasons
- ... England and a very religious man. Once, during a conversation with Wolsey (Chancellor at the time) about the King needing a son, Wolsey asks if Sir Thomas would like to govern the whole country by prayer and Sir Thomas agrees. This shows how strong his faith was. Sir Thomas is a friend of King Henry VIII, but when he disagreed with the King’s opinion on marriage, he was beheaded. King ... All Seasons. In Act I Scene 1, the book introduces you to some of its’ main characters. Sir Thomas and Master Richard Rich are first to be introduced. Rich is offered a job as a school teacher, but he wants to be in office. Sir Thomas gives Rich a silver cup that was given to him as a bribe by a woman who put a lawsuit into the Court of Requests ...
- 1972: The Biography of 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 ...
- 1973: Porn on the Internet
- ... far away from children's reach. Still, there is one thing that many parents do not think about putting away. It is the computer. Although the computer is mostly used for helpful things such as school work and business work, it can be manipulated to show vulgarity. Sites that contain pornography can be linked to with ease. These sites can be seen whether or not the child is purposely or mistakenly ... use for their children by purchasing and installing a program that filters out pornography. Surprisingly, there is an unlimited amount of pornography on the Internet. Search engines that most kids use for gathering information for school projects are the tools that anyone can use to connect to the pornography sites. Some search engines that teachers recommend to studnts are www.yahoo.com, www.aol.com, and www.gateway.com. However, once ... act of sex. Another topic that a child can type into the search box to find links to pornography sites is "farm animals." When a child is assigned a project about farms and animals for school, he or she is most likely to use the computer at home to gather beneficial information. One will wonder how the topic, "farm animals," could associate to pornography. Astonishingly, the links gathered by the ...
- 1974: Shampoo Planets - Book Report
- ... his parents are Dr. Douglas Charles Thomas and Janet Coupland. He is the third son out of four in the Family. Douglas moved to Vancouver, Canada, when he was four years old and he attended school here until he graduated at Sentinel Secondary School in 1979. After high school he attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1984. He was quite a good artist, for he earned a solo art show at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In Japan, in completed a ...
- 1975: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... was to help others and she decided that the best way for her to fulfill her dream was to go to college and become a physician. When they got to America, her mother opened a school. Elizabeth taught for many years although she did not enjoy it. A few years later, she decided to do what no woman had ever done before... attend medical school. She applied to many schools. Twenty-nine of them denied her acceptance. But Geneva Medical School of New York accepted her. Unfortunately, it turned out that they only voted her in as a joke because they did not believe a woman was capable of being a doctor. After two years ...
- 1976: B. F. Skinner
- ... a secretary, in a law office and later in a railroad chief executive's office. His father, William A. Skinner, was an attorney, who studied law with another local attorney at a New York Law School. Skinner's parents were both good students. His father had bought several sets of books, so there was a lot of reading material their children. Skinner said that his parents never used physical punishment, except ... inventor and he loved build things. One of his inventions included a device that automatically reminded him to hang up his pajamas in the morning. He played the saxophone in a jazz band during high school and played piano until his failing eyesight made it hard for him to read the music. In college, he was very independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1926 and ... people are against control, because the people in control use their power it in a negative way. For instance, In the family, a child is controlled by the fear of punishment from his parents. In school, the students are placed in a threatening environment in which they can escape only by learning. Our government controls us through laws, rules, and regulations. Skinner claims that what is needed is not less ...
- 1977: Lives Of The Saints
- ... doors and discover the truth, but perhaps they are overlooking the key to the lock… our children. Vittorio Innocente is a young boy who has not always lived up to his name. ‘My attendance at school had not been very regular-it had somehow fallen out that I’d spent much of class time wandering up to the top of Colle di Papa or down to the river with my friend ... filched from his father. La Maestra had paid a visit to my mother one afternoon, to advise her of my truancy and vices….’ (9). We find that Vitto is trying to turn around his poor school habits, and has been trying to read through a novel called Principi Matematici, but to no avail. As he sat stranded on page three of his mathematical conquest, he was overcome by a wealth of ... absences. But when his mother’s affair becomes common knowledge around the town, La Maestra feels pity for the young boy. Knowing that the older boys are after him, she asks him to stay after school and sweep the floors or do other chores in the classroom. Eventually, their silent friendship grows to that of a mother-son relationship. Seeing that Vittorio has changed his classroom habits, La Maestra begins ...
- 1978: Foreign Students and Hardships
- ... make fun of them, because they cannot say the sentence right, or with the good accent. It makes it even harder if an ESL student comes to a foreign country and has to go to school right away. Sometimes it may happen that such a student will miss the class very often, trying to avoid contact with other people. A lot of it depends on teachers, other students, but also foreign ... learn nothing unless they know the new language good enough. The best way to learn it is to spend as much time as possible with the people who speak it. That means do not miss school on purpose, spend some time with teachers or other students after school, listen to other conversations, or maybe even get a job which does not require great language skills. It might be bagging or pushing carts at a Super Market for example. But students also have ...
- 1979: The Growth of a “Scholarship Boy”
- The Growth of a “Scholarship Boy” Richard Rodriguez discusses his education and study habits from early education up through graduate school. Throughout his essay Rodriguez describes how he is changing and growing as a person. In his early education he describes himself as a “scholarship boy”. Now that he is done with his education I feel ... and not let education completely run your life in order to be called a “scholarship man.” That is something that Rodriguez has not been able to accomplish over the years that he has been in school. Rodriguez made it very apparent in his essay that he had grown away from his parents through much of his life. At one point in the essay he stated, “ I was not proud of my ... out on his own. I think Rodriguez looks down on his parents because they can not help him with his work. Simply because they do not know anything about the things that he does in school since they have never done it before. So I think he needed someone that knew more than him to look up to. His teachers fit the description perfectly. In his opinion he thought his ...
- 1980: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... emphasis on Black self-help. Thomas grew up not knowing his biological father but recalls his “grandfather as the greatest single influence in his life”. The only time he wore shoes were to go to school, he also worked six hours a day at his family owned icehouse and fuel station, in addition to schooling. He also had other chores that included raising chickens, pigs and cattle; cleaning house as well ... He credits these lessons early in life of hard work and self-reliance for giving him the drive to be where he is today. His grandfather, who could not read, sent him to a Catholic school run by a group of White nuns that was established for poor Black youth. He later became one of the first Blacks at his all-white Catholic high school. His first premonition was to enter the priesthood but declined after a fellow seminarian student exclaimed, “ Good I hope the SOB dies” following the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. He came to ...
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