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- 2391: Rene Descartes
- ... La Haye, Touraine. Descartes was the son of a minor nobleman and belonged to a family that had produced a number of learned men. At the age of eight, he was enrolled in the Jesuit school of La Fleche in Anjou, where he remained for eight years. Besides the usual classical studies, he received instruction in math and in Scholastic philosophy. Roman Catholicism exerted a strong influence on Descartes throughout his life. Upon graduation from school, he studied law at the University of Poitiers, graduating in 1616. He never practiced law, however--in 1618 he entered the service of Prince Maurice of Nassau at Breda, Netherlands, with the intention of following ...
- 2392: Technology and Education
- ... today. Technology has made a fundamental impact in most industries, providing a competitive advantage that has come to be essential to many businesses. Institutions of education are also using technology to improve the educational process. School systems are considering the purchase of computer networks and justify its purchase by applying it to routine administrative tasks, such as attendance records and grading. While these tasks are very important, they only show a small part of what technology can do for a school. Technology has gone further than simply keeping attendance; it also focuses on keeping students interested and productive. Educators are discovering that computers are facilitating learning. Also computer based communications, or Telecommunications offer many educational opportunities ...
- 2393: Ray Bradbury
- ... years of my life because I was acting and singing in operettas and writing, my first short stories." In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, where Bradbury has remained. He attended Los Angeles High School, where he wrote and took part in many dramatic productions. His literary tastes were broadened to include Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway when he took a creative writing course. In 1938 Los Angeles High School yearbook, the following prediction appeared beneath his picture: Likes to write stories Admired as a thespian Headed for literary distinction After graduation Bradbury sold newspapers until he saved up enough money to buy a typewriter ...
- 2394: Homelessness
- ... speech.” (Constitution) Making it illegal for homeless people to ask for money limits their right of free speech. The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty released a report about Hopper 4 homeless children attending school. Homeless children are often denied their right to attend public schools because of residency requirements. Also, for many homeless children, it is impossible for them to obtain birth certificates and immunization requirements needed to attend public school. This is a violation of the federal law guaranteeing equal access to public education. In many cases, separate schools are created for homeless children. These schools are not taught by certified teachers, do not follow ...
- 2395: Closure At The Wall An Analysi
- ... 190) Despite Sam's concern for Emmett, she goes through life just as confused. Sam Hughes is an eighteen-year-old girl who lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with Emmett, her uncle. Sam has completed high school and is trying to decide what to do with the life that lay ahead of her. However, before she does this, she must discover who she is and what she longs to find. Since she ... Irene, wants Sam to go to the University of Kentucky, her almumator. While Sam prefers Murray State University because it has a better track team, "she hoped to commute", and it isn't the same school her mother went to (28-29). Irene is remarried and lives in Lexington with her husband, "Lorenzo Jones" and her daughter, Sam's half sister, Heather (56). Sam lives in the past, while her mother ...
- 2396: Why I Want to Be a Teacher
- ... me all of those years ago, because I had one of those bad kids. My son was not bad; he just needed a little extra help staying on task. I started going to my sons school just to help out a few hours a week, then I realized there where a lot of kids in his class that needed help staying on task. Soon I started going to the school on my lunch hour and any day that I had off work. I would sit and listens to them read or watch them struggle with a math problem but when they would finally get the ...
- 2397: Causes And Solutions For Teen
- ... that occur, there are signs that are evident in these times that if noticed, can stop the waste of another life." These series of events are impossibilities or failures, such as problems at home or school, that feel overwhelming to the individual. The next step in this phase commences when the individual begins to feel emotionally broken, as if there is no one there that understands what they are feeling and ... unheard of 40 or 50 years ago. These adolescent want to "fit in" and be part of "the group." Another problem that may arise in their troubled thoughts are family problems at home, troubles at school with their teachers and/or peers, the thought of writing an exam that they have been dreading, or money difficulties. The worst frame of mind for an attempted suicide is when all of the individual ...
- 2398: Trudeau: The Politics of My Way
- ... his stations. As a boy, living in Montreal, he favoured the English instead of the French and when his friends were unhappy of the French losing, Pierre was celebrating. Many of his teachers in primary school said that Pierre was a headstrong individualist who involved himself frequently in fights and practical jokes. In 1924 or 1925 Charles-Emily, Pierre father died, and Pierre was only fourteen years old at the time. Since his parents were so rich he got driven to school by a chauffeur and ran with a crowd called LES SNOBS. As a student Pierre joined the COTC, Canadian Officers Training Corps. Pierre lack of self discipline got him into trouble a lot and he ...
- 2399: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- ... towards Federalism and its ramifications on Canadian citizenry. Born and raised in Quebec, he attended several prestigious institutions that educated him about the political spectrum of the country. After his time spent at the London School of Economics, Trudeau returned to Quebec at a time when the province was experiencing vast differences with its Federal overseer. The Union Nationale, a religious nationalist movement rooted deep in the heart of Quebec culture ... students to gaze upon, let alone only be recommended by critics who have studied the works of Trudeau. Such monumental beliefs embodied into one man is reason enough for a student in University or High School to open Federalism and the French Canadians and learn more about Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
- 2400: It Is Time To Reaffirm Our Act
- ... on race and gender, in the workplace. For instance, the following issue is commonplace in today's workplace: "Two business education teachers --one black, one white-- were hired on the same day by the Piscaway School Board. When the board was forced to fire one eight years later, it dismissed the white teacher rather than her black colleague, who was at the time the only black teacher in the 10-member ... by a coin-toss. Sharon Taxman, the white teacher, filed a reverse discrimination suit with the support of the Bush administration Justice Department. But under president Clinton, the Department switched sides and argued that the school district could take race into account in this instance" (United States, Courts Establish Boundaries 1). Clearly, that was an example of how the American society has lost the notion of plain common-sense, as it ...
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