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- 2071: All The Kings Men
- ... all over the state, so people knew who had given them everything. Willie began with a failed campaign as County Treasurer in Canoma Count. He had lost nevertheless he was renowned by people when the school building collapsed due to faulty bricks. Bricks, bricks that he had fought against them using because they were cheap and from a political contact of the County Treasurer Pillsbury. The state got a hold of ... time he asked them questions. He approached one man saying, Are your clothes worn because you don t have the money to buy new? then he asked a woman, Are you kids ignorant, because the school s just don t teach anything? Posing these questions made the audience think, but what made them see more was when he started his story. This wasn t some fairy tale; moreover it was a ... worked the farm during the day, and stayed up nights studying his books, with aspirations to become a lawyer. When he became a lawyer he didn t start thinking about the people, but after a school building collapse in his own county it became apparent the people needed him. They praised him, because he had spoken out against the faulty bricks used to build the building. Soon after, some people ...
- 2072: Lord Of The Flies
- ... uses this form of symbolism. From the very beginning of the story the boys inwardly strip themselves of the remnants of the basic civilized world. This is shown when the boys shed their clothes; their school sweaters, then the rest of their clothes are torn off. Their hair becomes increasingly disheveled, long, and entangled with small twigs. Since the boys are left without any adult supervision they have to turn to ... boys on the island and remains the leader throughout most of the novel. He is described as a pure, English lad. Such details as his fair hair and the fact that he is wearing his school sweater symbolizes many things. First of all the fact that he has fair hair represents that he will be the positive force throughout the novel, as opposed to Jack who is described as having red hair. The fact that he keeps his school sweater symbolizes his desire to keep the island somewhat civilized. He does everything he can to keep the boys under some kind of society. He makes laws including the freedom of speech. Ralph becomes ...
- 2073: The Life Story of Nikita Khrushchev
- ... up their home and move to Yuzovka in another part of the Ukraine. Throughout his childhood, Nikita was forced to work to survive. His education amounted to only two or three years in the village school, for he was forced to go to work herding cows when he was nine. Following that, he was em- ployed as many things, including a farm hand, a factory worker, and finally a miner in ... under such conditions, but Khrushchev, gifted with a talent for organizing and motivating people, was able to succeed. In 1921, he sent his children to live with his parents and enrolled in a mining technology school, where he further developed himself in engineering and politics and learned how to read. A quick learner, Khrushchev finished school in four years, literate and with a comprehensive knowledge of Leninist views. He married again, this time to a schoolteacher named Nina Petrovna, and, at the age 31, encountered the first of a series ...
- 2074: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... unexpected happens. However, when an irony happens in a scientific model, it is time to re-examine that model. The author refers in a few places to the peppered or speckled . I recall my high school text book used this to "prove" evolution. That text was first published in 1962 and was first American textbook at the high school level to present evolution as scientific fact. The moth was white with some dark morphs. It lived in white birches. As the industrial cities and white birches in England became more grimy, the dark morphs ... as he did in Mathematica Principia." (Vardiman, 1997) Who is "having the appearance of a closed mind"? 7The more I think about this, the more I am baffled. Even a cursory check of a high school European or American History text shows how important religion was in those three centuries or so. Even those who were opposed to religion (e.g., Voltaire) were very conscious of it and spent a ...
- 2075: Hackers
- ... eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, This crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time How to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid ... from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You bet your ass we're all alike... We've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... The bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that ...
- 2076: Robert Frost 3
- ... 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 Eleanor 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 ...
- 2077: Darwin Vs. Wallace
- ... values has also brought the return of age old debated topics. One issue that truly separates Americans is the issue of creation versus evolution. Since the 19th century, this divisive topic has been debated in school boards and state capitols across America. In many instances religious fundamentalists won the day by having banned the instruction or even the mention of "ungodly" evolutionary thinking in schools. With today's social and political ... of necessary skills . . . but these skills do not exhaust the limits of what such a complex machine can do" (57). Gould ends by describing Wallace's thinking as having direct ties with creationist thought. A school of thought that Gould obviously portrays as wrong throughout his essay. Throughout The Panda's Thumb, Gould tells us about the debate between Darwin and Wallace over sexual selection and the origins of human intellect ... friendly" while sufficiently and consistently arguing a clear and precise point are the attributes that make Gould's essay such a delight to read. More important, however, is the social implications of this essay. While school boards across the nation debate the subject of whether evolution should be taught in the schools, Gould's work stands out with it's overriding validity and straightforwardness. It is an example of reasonable ...
- 2078: Biography of Anne Frank
- ... company, Opteka, in Amsterdam and began planning to bring his family there. The Frank family finally moved into a house on Medwedplein in Southern Amsterdam in 1933 and Anne began to attend the nearby Montessori school, where she excelled. Seven years later, 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and in five days, Holland surrendered to the invading German forces. Anne’s father had already begun to convert the annex of his company at 263 Prinsengracht into a hiding place. Under German law, Anne was forced to the leave the Montessori school and attends the Jewish Secondary School. On her thirteenth birthday, in 1942 Anne received as a gift from her parents a diary. A few short weeks later Margot, Anne’s older sister, received a notice from the Nazi SS to ...
- 2079: The Problem of War and Peace
- ... working together with government and educational cabinet members to put together a unified educational program in the schools of every country in the world to teach constructive approaches to resolve conflicts peacefully within the family, school, and community environments. As a student in public schools, I have learned much about the military, nuclear weapons, and war, but very little about peace. Through special program, I have had the opportunity to Send ... could be developed into a world peace theme program and taught in schools world-wide. This simple verse has become my personal philosophy of life for dealing with individuals and groups within my own family, school, and community. I believe that this verse can be used to develop an educational peace program for my generation because it teaches that one person can make a difference. These words can empower students with ... a generation of reliable and caring individuals ready to take on the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. If an educational peace program that teaches students to think for themselves is offered in the world's school system then, as tomorrow's leaders, we will not allow other governments, drug dealers, or friends to manipulate us, nor will we choose to manipulate others for personal gain. Each day the media details ...
- 2080: A Separate Peace: Antagonists and Gene
- ... hard for him to mature and become his own person, because part of being mature is making your own decisions. Then Finny makes Gene get involved with athletics which takes time away from Gene’s school work, and doesn’t allow Gene to mature by doing what he was already good at. Finny also affects Gene’s decision to enlist in World War II. When Finny found out about Gene joining ... to do. When Finny said, “Enlist... what a nutty idea” (Pg. 100), this slows down his maturing process because in order to mature you have to make your own decisions. Another inner issue is his school work. He knows he should do well in school, but he also wants to fit in by playing sports. This slows down his maturing because he’s not doing what’s good for him. Inner issues are what mainly affected his maturing process. ...
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