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- 2301: College Essay
- ... we were little, my brother and me have always tried to be better than each other. For example, we would compete on grades, in sports, and in other things. My brother is on his High School football team, and I am on my High School’s girl’s basketball and softball teams. Boys don’t want to play sports with me sometimes because I am a girl, but when they do they are surprised. I have many trophies at home ...
- 2302: Teenage Parenthood
- ... In addition, marijuana opponents argue that many users attain a psychological dependence on the high that marijuana can create. Such dependence can result in stunned emotional and social maturity as these users lose interest in school, job, and social activities. About 100,000 people each year resort to drug abuse treatment programs to end their marijuana addiction. Marijuana is also viewed by some commentators as a gateway drug that can lead ... a medicine, marijuana is a health hazard. Who would call a drug recreational if they realized that chronic use caused permanent brain damage? Marijuana use is never cited by proponents as a factor in high school dropout and failure rates, as well as the increase in promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases. Such is the case, however. Another area they ignore is the dramatic effect cannabis has on the ability for one ...
- 2303: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... in the north woods of Michigan, a period of his childhood which left important impressions later reflected in several of his short stories such as "Up in Michigan" and "Big Two Hearted River." In high school, Ernest edited the school newspaper, excelled in football and boxing, and ran away from home twice. Upon his graduation, seventeen year old Hemingway headed to Kansas City to enlist in World War I, in outright defiance of his parents ...
- 2304: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... in the north woods of Michigan, a period of his childhood which left important impressions later reflected in several of his short stories such as "Up in Michigan" and "Big Two Hearted River." In high school, Ernest edited the school newspaper, excelled in football and boxing, and ran away from home twice. Upon his graduation, seventeen year old Hemingway headed to Kansas City to enlist in World War I, in outright defiance of his parents ...
- 2305: Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
- ... a wealthy brewer and tavern owner until the Prohibition. Then he worked as the manager of the Springfield Zoo. Ted also had an older sister named Marnie. He went to college at Dartmouth and graduate school at Oxford. While at Dartmouth he got into a bit of trouble when the police arrested him for drinking. (This was during the Prohibition.) As punishment he was kicked off the school magazine, The Jack O'Lantern, to which he contributed as a cartoonist. To get around the rule he began to sign his work as Dr. Seuss. And that is why Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss ...
- 2306: The Effects Of Television Viol
- What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a major source of violence. In many peoplesŐ living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the ... young viewer into a hypnotized nonthinker (Langone 48). As you can see, television violence can disrupt a childŐs learning and thinking ability which will cause life long problems. If a child cannot do well in school, his or her whole future is at stake. Why do children like the violence that they see on television? ŇSince media violence is much more vicious than that which children normally experience, real-life aggression ...
- 2307: Davy Crockett
- Davy Crockett Davy was born in 1786 in Greene County, Tennessee. He went to school at 13 years old. But he didn't like school. He ran away to the woods for 2 1/2 years to avoid being punished for missing days. Davy Crockett's father was from Ireland and he married Rebecca Crockett. They had three boys and ...
- 2308: Flatland: Social Satire of Victorian English Society
- ... successful theologian, classics scholar, and Shakespeare expert (which explains the Shakespearean references in the frontispiece and several quotations in this book), as well as proficient in mathematics. He was headmaster of the City of London School, a day school from which he had graduated. In his book Flatlands: Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott describes the journey of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women who were thin straight ...
- 2309: Charles Lindbergh
- ... and repair it". Attending the University of Wisconsin, Lindbergh studied engineering for two years. Although he was an excellent student, his real interest was in flying. As a result, in 1922 he switched to aviation school. Planes became a center of his life after his first flight. His early flying career involved flying stunt planes at fair and air shows. Later, in 1925 he piloted the U. S. Mail route from ... now wanted 70,000 dollars. A third ransom note given to Lindbergh on March 8, dictated that a negotiator proposed by the Lindbergh's was not acceptable and that Dr. John F. Condon, a retired school principal, was suitable. Negotiations for the ransom money took place in the Bronx Home News newspaper columns using the code name "Jafsie." Dr. Condon eventually met with the kidnappers and they negotiated until the kidnappers ...
- 2310: A Three Generation Comparison of Discipline
- ... Would you look to yourself as patient or short-tempered? 7. To what degree of misbehavior would you rationalize a spanking? 8. Do you believe physical punishment should be permitted in other environments, such as school, or preserved primarily for parents? 9. Do you feel children today are more or less inapt to responsibility compared to your own generation? 10. Do you feel your opinion on spanking is based on how ... an suburban environment in a safe neighborhood. Looking back, I can see that I was a sheltered child. Maybe I still am. I don’t have much responsibility laid upon my shoulders. My job is school, in the words of my parents. My parents pay for all my bills, and give me a car and spending money. I am very fortunate to have all that I have. I do have a ...
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