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- 2061: Prime Of Miss Jean Broadie
- By: Morgana To be in Miss Broadie’s set was to be set apart from the rest of the school. They were outwardly looked upon with disdain. Inwardly, however, others were jealous of them for the distinction they received. Each girl in the Broadie set was held on a pedestal. Each had something special about them, reasons why they were chosen by Miss Broadie, and that puts them at higher regard. Each girl was famous in school for something. They really have very little in common with one another aside form their friendship with Miss Broadie. Each girl was selected for their individual personality traits, and further chosen because Miss Broadie knew ... girls left to go on their separate ways, all knowing that they are better people having been taught under Miss Broadie. All were smarter and well rounded than most, as is shown before they leave school, with the exception of Mary, of course. Mary dies early, and as stupidly as she always is, running around in circles in a burning building until she collapsed and died. Had she not died ...
- 2062: Socrates
- ... had a reputation for her patient and intuitive skill in delivering babies in and around the neighborhood. The latter, his father was a craftsman, stonecutter by trade. As a young boy, Socrates was teased in school about his appearance, and often would prey to the Gods to make him beautiful both inside as well as outside. He was known for asking many questions as a child, because he was very curious ... the morning and stood in the mud across his tent on and high hill, his feet planted, for a whole day. He did not say a word, until the next morning, when he gave a prayer to the sun and resumed his normal activities. No one asked why he had done that. Upon return to Athens he gave up stonecutting completely and invested his money and regularly, as if by set ...
- 2063: Muammar al Qaddafi
- ... phones, and recording equipment. The young people are well dressed and fed. He has survived many coup attempts against him. His face and picture are in most buildings in Libya. He always was devoted to school as a kid. He would take a long hike from the desert to school. He would come home only every Thursday, the beginning of the Muslim weekend. Then he would go back to school. He was the first in his family to be well educated. One of his first goals when he was a child was to join the Libyan army. He slowly moved up in rank. It ...
- 2064: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... major university attempted to regulate what types of Internet access its students had, with results reminiscent of a 1960’s protest. A research associate at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study of pornography on the school’s computer networks. Martin Rimm put together quite a large picture collection (917,410 images) and he also tracked how often each image had been downloaded (a total of 6.4 million). A local court had recently declared pictures of similar content obscene, and the school feared they might be held responsible for the content of its network. The school administration quickly removed access to all these pictures, and to the newsgroup where most of this obscenity is suspected to have come from. A total of 80 newsgroups were removed, causing a large disturbance ...
- 2065: Pidgin: Dialect of English Spoken on the Hawaiian Islands
- ... people of the islands look at this dialect as a sign of a poor education and up-bringing. My mother did not want her son associated with such a group of individuals. When I started school at Maunawili School and began to pick up Pidgin and start to speak it at home she took it upon herself to change me. At this time she was teaching sixth grade at Keolu Elementary. She saw how ... not speak proper English, only Pidgin. Many of them also wrote in Pidgin, something I had begun to do. My mother saw this behavior and forced me to change. My parents put me in Punahou School, one of the best private schools in the nation, to facilitate this change. It may seem that she did not want me to grow up proud of my Hawaiian heritage, but that is far ...
- 2066: Dr. Suess
- ... puts stars on the plain-belly sneetches so that they couldn’t be told apart, proving that both groups are equal. Teachers often include Seuss’s work in their lesson plans, not only in grade school, but also up through the college level. In the early years of school teachers use The Lorax to help in studying the issues of habitat and recycling. They also use books such as Hop on Pop, to learn about initial and final sounds in rhyming words Why are ... very short attention span, it is important for children’s authors to find ways to keep the stories interesting. We can all agree that reading to children is an important part of preparing them for school and helping them learn more quickly. Dr. Seuss’s books are the ideal choice for young children because with his rhyming words and imaginative stories, he is able to keep their attention longer than ...
- 2067: Black Boy Essay
- ... violence was prominent between blacks and whites. Racial prejudice is the cause of several things not just physical violence racial prejudice can cause serious psychological stress. Richard’s friend Ned, who he’d known from school, had a brother, Bob, who worked at a hotel in town; the hotel was known for it’s trouble with black employees, prostitutes, bootlegging and many other things. Bob had been murdered by a group ... no way was going to be beaten, whether that meant running, hiding, or fighting. Richard was what you call a "book smart" kind of guy, he knew how to read and write proficiently, he enjoyed school, and was a fast learner. Richard’s going to school for so long may have been why he wasn’t very "street smart," but because he was a fast learner he was able to cope and learn the ways of living. In the end ...
- 2068: Television Violence
- ... such garbage off themselves(4). Another argument for the television stations is that children here violent terms and see violence any way so why take it off the air. This argument states that children at school hear such terms as "drop dead out-fit ", and " break a leg " so why stop it on television . They also state that at schools children see fighting and hate between other students so why don't people try and ban violence at school before they try to ban anything else(1). Television stations also fight that there is no substantial evidence saying that violence on television directly effects the way people and children act, and until there is ... of today before the problem gets to big. In conclusion, I hope that this information given can help show the problems with television violence. It is said that by the time children graduate from high school they would have seen eight-teen thousand murders or other violent acts on television(10). That is to many acts of violence to not effect the way children or adults behave. There must be ...
- 2069: The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
- ... affectionately known as ‘The Confederation Poets', consisted of four main authors: Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. The Poets ofConfederation "established what can legitimately be called the first distinct "school" of Canadian poetry"(17, Keith). The term ‘The Poets of Confederation' is a misnomer since not one of these poets/authors was more than ten years old when the Dominion of Canada was formed in ... by Charles G.D. Roberts. Lampman describes his over powering emotion when as a youth he came across this published work(in the quote on the title page). The importance of having this distinct literary "school" was a driving inspiration in his art. Lampman is regarded "as the most talented of The Confederation Poets"( W.J. Keith 18). It is amazing that this unspectacular man could have such a profound effect ... to explore the Nature of Canada. As a young adult Lampman was educated first at Trinity College and then he pursued his studies at the University of Toronto. After he had graduated, he taught High School for a few unhappy months before he chose a career as a clerk in the Post Office Department in Ottawa where he remained for the rest of his life. This position allowed for him ...
- 2070: Writings of Maya Angelou
- ... when her mother’s live-in boyfriend raped her. After that she returned to her grandmother and was a voluntary mute (“Maya” 16). At the age fourteen she received a scholarship to attend California Labor School (17). After that she attended George Washington High School. While there she wanted to be a street conductor. She applied for the job several times and finally succeeded (Holte 109-110). At one time Angelou was not sure of her identity. She thought she ... a lesbian, so she invited a classmate of hers to come over and have sex with her. This resulted in pregnancy. She gave birth to her son, Guy, a month after she graduated from high school in 1945 (“Maya” 18). When she was growing up, she suffered from people being racist toward her. For example, when she was younger her grandmother took her to a white dentist that refused to ...
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