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- 2661: Creative Writing: Stanley
- ... to buy beer. It was too late for college, he failed out two years ago, so all he had was his weed and his work. His car was shitty, his friends were flunking out of school left and right, and he hadn't got laid in two years. He was praying that he would win the lottery, be offered a better job somewhere, just anything that would improve his social and ... for so long, something had to fuck-up sooner or later. The fuck-up was far from being done, as Stan would soon see. Stan was racist. He admitted it freely. In the first high school he went to, there was one black kid that everyone called "Chu," who transferred schools after one year. His entire hometown was racist. Stan was in the worst position he could have been in, since ...
- 2662: Personal Writing: The Game
- ... free throws. Hearing the sound of the final buzzer, the Shelby Tigers had won their first ever State Basketball Championship and Todd was the MVP. Todd had recorded the first ever quadruple double in high school basketball history tallying; 39 points, 17 assists, 13 steals, and 11 rebounds. They had finally done it, their dream had been fulfilled. After high school, Todd jumped straight to the pros and became the best basketball player of all time.
- 2663: Mein Ghetto: Black Racism And Louis Farrakhan
- ... Walcott, conceived during a rape. Farrakhan was brought up in Roxbury, Boston, a West Indian influenced black section of the town. Growing up with talents in music, Farrakhan enjoyed scholastic success. After graduating from high school, he attended the Winston-Salem Teachers College in North Carolina for a couple of years and got married to his high school sweetheart. Through continuing his love for music - especially calypso - Farrakhan gained local fame and, in 1955, was invited to a Savior's Day convention to hear Elijah Muhammad (head of the Nation of Islam of ...
- 2664: Jurassic Park
- ... on Jurassic Park they were close but after a while they became friends again. She is asked to acompany Malcom and levine on the exploration of "Site B." Kelly and Arby are students at the school at which Levine tutered. Levine did not choose to do this. He was arrested for speeding at the school zone and had to serve community service. Kelly and Arby often ran errands for Levine. Kelly is the act now think later type of person. While Arby is the nerdy whimp type of person. He ...
- 2665: Maria Mitchell
- ... sky. He also encouraged her toward teaching and passed on a sense of God as in the natural world. By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public ...
- 2666: Lockie Leonard And Lex And Rory
- ... about sex and you need to know. “It’s time we thought about sex” said his mum. This already shows that Lockie is not ready for a sexually involved relationship. He is the typical stereotyped school boy who is in constant trouble with school teachers. “Outside, get out of my room before I tear your head off and use for a blackboard duster.” Yelled his teacher. Lex on the other hand is a boy lacking self confidence and has ...
- 2667: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... Montgomery buses are desegregate. In 1957, At a previously all-white Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1,000 paratroopers are called by President Eisenhower to restore order and escort “The Little Rock Nine” to attend school. In 1960, the sit-in protest movement begins in February at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and spreads across the nation. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed at a ... are given to underrepresented minorities. In more resent years, the U.S. Supreme Court outlaws racial quotas in a suit brought by Allan Bakke, a white man who had been turned down by the medical school at University of California, Davis.1989 Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes the nation's first African American to be elected state governor. Four years ago, in 1992, the first racially based riots in years erupt ...
- 2668: Ignorrance is Bliss
- ... seen that only stupid people are breeding, Creatons cloning and feeding". Im sure he didn't have to travel far to come to this conclusion. This is what I see every day. Not just in school, school is actually where I meet the brightest people throughout the day. Maybe, I thought, it is because I work at a fastfood resteraunt, at a truck-stop in a redneck county. Then I began to ...
- 2669: Life Of Raphael Sanzio
- ... until 1511. Raphael had painted the walls to celebrate the four aspects of human accomplishment: theology, philosophy, arts, and law. To represent theology, was the "Disputation of the Sacrament". To represent philosophy was the famous "School of Athens", in which Raphael paints Michelangelo and himself in amongst the philosophers. To represent the arts was "Parnassus" and finally to represent law was "Cardinal Virtues". When fused together, these four aspects marked the ... perfectly into his paintings. Two of Raphael’s most famous artworks, that I found to be the most astounding, seemed to symbolize his never ending quest to create the perfect masterpiece. In the painting "The School of Athens", Raphael immortalizes all of the great philosophers for all of time by capturing them in the height of the Italian Renaissance. Also in Raphael’s "The Deliverance of Saint Peter from Prison", the ...
- 2670: John Steinbeck The Pearl
- ... their lives changed. Not only did Kino buy the rifle but he was granted the title of Chief of the village. His songs never sang of evil. Juana had more children, and Coyotito went to school and became the village doctor. 2. After hiding in the cave for the night Kino was sure that he had fooled the trackers. The next morning he and his family traveled further confidant that all ... a marriage in the church. Jaun Tomas discovered the trick that the doctor had played on his brother and rallied the villagers to kill him. Coyotito, although he was able to attend the white mans school, chose to stay in the village and keep the family tradition of fishing alive. Never again was a pearl as large as the “Pearl of the World” found.
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