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- 2241: Teenage Smoking
- ... the age of 19, Sean Marsee was dead. A look at the tobacco industry will tell you that teenage smoking is going down. And it is. If you go back to 1975, 27% of high school seniors smoked daily compared with 19% in 1993. Smoking among teen’s fell by about a third during the 1970’s, but during the past decade has neither risen nor fallen according to the National ... the Bush administration, looks at current smokers, meaning those who report having smoked within the past 30 days. This is significant, he says, because while some teens are only experimenting, many light smokers in high school tend to become heavier smokers a year or 2 later, when they no longer spend most of their day in the classroom. Two years ago, the survey that was previously being give to ninth graders ... only about half of eight graders believe that smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day is dangerous. The seniors are more knowledgeable about the health risks. That may be why almost all high school seniors believe they will quit. More than half have tried—and found that they couldn’t, according to surveys given by Johnston. There are millions of people taking surveys each day. Half of them ...
- 2242: Analysis -- Buffy The Vampire
- ... Dracula and Beverly Hills 90210, which might be an accurate description ¡V the show does contain elements of a horror movie and tries to include situations experienced in a teenage soap (the characters attend high-school and experience friendship and love). Mise en scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is usually quite similar in each episode, and ¡§Dead Man¡¦s Party¡¨ isn¡¦t really an exception to this belief. The settings used are Buffy¡¦s house (located in a middle-class suburb), the school corridors and library, and Giles¡¦ apartment. The behaviour of the actors, in terms of humour, is often cynical and sarcastic, and though most characters share this, it does vary depending on each character. There are times when the characters behave threateningly towards other characters, such as near the end of the episode in which Giles threatens Principle Snyder to let Buffy back into the school. Some of the behaviour seems a little apprehensive, or awkward, especially with Buffy and Joyce; they both seem to feel intimidated by each other¡¦s presence. Behaviour seems to change often during the party: ...
- 2243: A Separate Peace: True Friends
- ... torment of jealousy towards his best friend. This drives him to do despicable things. Gene's jealousy flourishes for Phineas every time Finny accomplishes something new. It reaches it's pinnacle when Phineas beat the school swimming record and does not want anyone to know about it. As if the feat itself wasn't enough, being humble about it angers Gene even more. He tries to deny the jealousy by figuring: " I was more certainly becoming the best student in the school; Phineas was without question the best athlete, so in that way we were even. But while he was a very poor student I was a pretty good athlete, and when everything was thrown on the ... end tilt definitely toward me"(47). So in Gene's mind he was better than Phineas, and this appeased the grip of jealousy for awile at least. Peace is once again retained at the Devon school, but it wont last. Neither Gene nor Phineas can foresee the agony which will soon be beckoning them.(4) The summer was quickly passing for these two boys and Gene nearly forgot his jealousy ...
- 2244: Critical Analysis Of Soldiers
- ... s definition of who he has become. He recognizes he has changed, and this change is played out dramatically against the backdrop of a town where nothing else has changed since he was in high school. His father parks his car in the same place; it's still the same car; the girls walking down the street look like the same girls, except more of them have short hair now. Imamura ... a careful examination of what Krebs was doing before the war and what happened while he was in Europe. Prior to the war, Hemingway tells us in the very first paragraph, Krebs attended a Methodist school in Kansas. He was not out of place then; Hemingway says "There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar" (Hemingway, 145 ... about the Kingdom of God and his lack of ability to love, but when his mother begins to cry he waffles; she will never see that he isn't the boy he was in high school -- or perhaps, the boy she thought he was. Works Cited: Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldier's Home", from Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories. (New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition) 1995. Imamura, Tateo. " 'Soldier's Home:' ...
- 2245: Drug Use Among Teenagers
- ... use is peer pressure. I feel that peer pressure does not cause drug use among teens. Most teenagers do not use drugs. Stop This Problem There are many solutions to this problem. Stricter laws, stricter school policies about drugs and alcohol ( a few months ago, a girl was suspended for a long period of time from school for having aspirin with her, a student at Cranston West came into school drunk, threw up, fell on the floor and was only suspended for only 7 days!!! ), crackdown on students that are constantly in trouble with drugs, have a strong faculty and police presence around all ...
- 2246: National Honor Society - Vice President Speech
- National Honor Society - Vice President Speech I would like to be the Vice-President of the Huntington High School National Honor Society. The main reason I chose to run for Vice-President instead of running for President is because I have several extracurricular activities that would prevent me from giving my undivided attention to ... paper goods and chips. Charbroils are very good fundraisers to do. Parents always volunteer to cook the chickens and help to organize things, at least mine do anyway. If we wanted to do an in school fundraiser, the best thing to do is sell candy. Students will buy candy as if it were going out of style. As long as we get permission from Mr. Dilworth, selling candy would be a ... an admissions counselor from a college to come and speak. That way, we could get some pointers on how to prepare for college. We could also tutor students that needed a little extra help after school. There are just so many things that the National Honor Society could do. I think I would make an excellent Vice-President because I like to accomplish things. I have numerous ideas that can ...
- 2247: Great Expectations 3
- ... boy like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women ... beautiful women--but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out too late that Tom's adventures are imaginary: that raiding a caravan of "A-rabs" really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday school picnic, that stolen "joolry" is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another ... in front of his face; his skin, Huck says, is white like a fish's belly or like a tree toad's. Pap's savage appearance reflects his feelings as he demands that Huck quit school, stop reading, and avoid church. Huck is able to stay away from Pap for a while, but Pap kidnaps Huck three or four months after Huck starts to live with the Widow and takes ...
- 2248: Air Force History
- ... Air Force History. 2- In April 1949 Chief Barnes entered the U.S. Air Force, and received his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. After completing basic training, he attended Aircraft and Engine School and Hydraulic Specialist School at Chanute Technical Training Center, Illinois. During this time period the Soviet had controlled East Germany came into existence as the German Democratic Republic. In October 1950, he was assigned to the fourth Troop Carrier ... In September 1951, he transferred to Tachikawa, Japan, and continued flight engineer duties. Chief Barnes transferred in June 1952 to the 30th Air Transport Squadron, Westover Air Force Base, Mass., where he attended C-118 school and continued his flight engineer duties in that aircraft. In September 1965, he went to Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., and continued duties as senior controller. In October 1966 he entered the F-4 ...
- 2249: Epstein’s Welfare in America
- ... urban slum”. According to the Journal Sentinel, Senator Gwendolynne Moore (D-Milwaukee) says, “I guess the good news is that if you were not African-American, that if you had a GED or a high school diploma, and if you did not live in Milwaukee County, you were lucky.” (Journal Sentinel 1998) The Senator is automatically restricting certain races and other criteria. She is practically inviting more conflict within the boundaries ... on welfare must work within two years or lose benefits; lifetime benefits will be limited to five years; states can provide payments to unmarried teenage parents only if mother is under age 18, stays in school and lives with an adult; future legal immigrants will be ineligible for most federal benefits during their first five years in the United States; states must provide Medicaid for anyone who qualifies under current law ... have 87% of the state’s cash welfare cases, up from 66% when W-2 started. Senator Moore cited state figures form April showing that 35% of the state’s W-2 participants lacked high school diplomas and 63% were African-Americans. (Journal Sentinel 1998) These statistics demonstrate the variety of social inequality that exists in our society today. By understanding the conflict theory provided by Karl Marx, we can ...
- 2250: US Generals Of WWII
- ... other Allied forces catch up. (Blumenson, pg. 264) Omar Nelson Bradley was born in a log cabin on February 12, 1893. He received a good education and became a star baseball player in Moberly High School. General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley played a critical role in World War II. He supported the formation of tank forces and promoted the growth and development of new airborne forces. His best contribution to the war was the development of the officer candidate school or OCS. The OCS turned thousands of lieutenants needed to lead platoons of an eighty-nine division Army. The OCS alone produced over 45,000 officers. Bradley was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U ... in 1915. By the end of World War I he had advanced to the rank of major. Between the two world wars, Bradley was on duty at various army posts and attended successively the Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. He attained the rank of major general in 1942. In 1943 he assumed command of the U.S. II Corps in the North African campaign of World War II. Later ...
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