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- 2341: An Autobiography: Tom Landry
- ... very dangerous job, so he greatly respected his father. He looked up to his dad a lot. For example, he would follow his dad whenever he would go to a fire. He was good in school, which you could probably attribute to his parent's discipline. His parents were Christians, but they didn't really focus on teaching him the Word. They wanted to teach him other stuff. Tom ended up playing high school football, which led to his love for pro football. He ended up coaching for the Dallas Cowboys. He led them to many playoffs and Super Bowls. He was a great coach for them. After he ...
- 2342: The Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
- ... England, many opted to move to the New World to seek their religious freedom. By 1640 the Massachusetts Bay Colony had about 10,000 settlers. The colonists built churches, where they gathered in song and prayer to receive moral instruction. Their churches not only were places of worship, they doubled as the seat of Puritan colonial government. At church, men gathered to vote, elect officials, debate laws, write charters, and consider ... the Putnum family. They all became members of the secret circle, but none of them could keep a secret."9 Guilt began to set in on Betty Parris. She began to act strangely at evening prayer and rather than reciting her prayers with her family she would speak gibberish. Only Tituba could recognize the words as a chant from her native West Indian tongue. Betty's fit spread like wildfire to ...
- 2343: Martin Luther King
- ... and a younger brother coming later. As a boy, Martin was extremely smart, and could read before the age of six. He had already set academic standards for himself by stating that he would finish school priorr to his year older sister. In my opinion this could have had a major effect on King's life by encouraging him to learn faster and better. Martin was first exposed to racism at ... sources specified his exact age at the time) when he was not allowed to play with some white friends of his. Martin also became accustomed to his liberal ideas while he was still in grade school. This became known to his mother after Martin said "You know, when I grow up to be a man, I'm going to hit this thing, and hit it hard, Mother; there's no such ...
- 2344: Louis Sullivan An American Arc
- ... Sullivan developed an intense concept of nature, which would be apparent in his later work. By the age of twelve, Louis decided to pursue a career in architecture. Moses Wilson, one of Sullivans high school teachers, introduced him to the disciplines of silence, attention, and alertness, which are necessary components of the abilities to observe, reflect, and discriminate. These would serve to help him in his career pursuits. Asa Gray, a botanist from Harvard who lectured at his school, caught his interest in the morphology of plants. At the age of sixteen, he was admitted two years early to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sullivans first employment came as a draftsman for the ...
- 2345: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of eight children, and was the eldest son of John Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare would of taken over his father's business, but according to one account, he became a butcher because of reverses in his father's financial situation. According to another account, he became a school master. That Shakespeare was allowed considerable leisure time in his youth is suggested by the fact that his plays show more knowledge of hunting and hawking than do those of other dramatists. In 1582, he ...
- 2346: Advocating The Death Penalty
- ... from Syracuse University, were abducted at gunpoint, the same way that Jaime was. The police soon realized that the three kidnappings had significant connections linking them together. These three women had all gone to high school together. Not only did they go to the same high school, they had all dated the same man at one point in time- Brian Duffy. It wasnt long before police tracked him down for questioning. Brian Duffy was arrested in April of 1997 for the ...
- 2347: Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
- ... with a controversial look at society which is greatly enhanced by the integration of his own life experiences, dialect and religious philosophies into his stories. "Salinger was the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school." -Norman Mailer (qtd. in "Salinger" SSC 291) The story of J. D. Salinger begins in downtown New York, NY, where he was born on January 1, 1919. Little is known about his early childhood, but his parents; Sol and Miriam, were known to be of upper-middle class stature and the family dwelled in downtown New York. As Salinger began to attend junior high school, his grades began to drop so his parents decided to send him to Valley Forge Military Academy, which is located in Pennsylvania. While enrolled in Valley Forge, Salinger's IQ level was tested at 115 ...
- 2348: Dubliners
- ... Allen is pointing to the reason behind Jimmy's freedom of choice about his life. He says the reason he does what he wants to do is that he just wants to fit in at school. He makes friends with rich people and gets along with them relatively well. However, later on in the story he is robbed of a lot of money by his friends during a poker game. In the end it might seem that even though Jimmy used his friends to gain status at school, his friends used him for his money. The final bit of freedom besides the final sentence of the story happens at the start of their party aboard Farley's yacht. Joyce writes, "Villona played a ...
- 2349: Foucault and Truffaut: Power and Social Control in French Society
- ... control mechanisms. Truffault depicts the schooling, prison, and family systems as technologies that seeks to inculcate children, criminals, and subversives in the proper behavior of society. Trauffaut's film exposes how these mechanisms work. The school seeks to isolate punish and ostracize children into forming a pliant populace. The family seeks to enforce the discipline of societies larger moral codes on children. Notice how in the movie the mother in a seemingly kindly attempt to bond with her child is in fact teaching him the moral codes of society: running away from home is wrong, school is good, respect your elders, follow rules, and don't lie. The prison system in the movie seeks to isolate the deviant members of society classifying them as perverts, neurotic, madmen and in need of ...
- 2350: Norman Rockwell Bio
- ... Post where he did most of his work from 1916 to 1963. Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894 and since his childhood years had always aspired to be an artist. Instead of finishing high school Rockwell left high school to attend classes at the National Academy of Design and later on the Art Students League in New York. Here Rockwell was recognized as an above average illustrator with good potential. Rockwell then after developing ...
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