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- 2901: The Sociolect of Teenage Jocks
- ... portrayed image. The image of the ever popular, ever powerful teenage jocks and this is their sociolect. Jocks are rocks, strong, rarely broken and without common sense. Therefore, whether during half-time or in the school corridors, a jock’s vocabulary level is not excelled, uses exceptional amount of slang words and is usually considered highly unacceptable. To give an example of all these features, I once witnessed a jock get ... dominance and power. Structuring their sentences by using phrases such as, “You gotta’ problem with me?” or “ Come here," illustrates their incredibly simple, seemingly plain sentence structure. Every year, more future jocks come to high school and they are greatly influenced by the current highly popular big guys on campus. Thus, a jock's sociolect is dominated by those legends who came before him, leaving their eternal mark on the rest ...
- 2902: Paul Ehrlich
- ... owned a small distillery. Ehrlich had an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in a time when being a Jew was controversial. B. Childhood When Ehrlich was six years old he started his schooling at the local primary school. At age ten, he boarded with a professor’s family in Breslau and went to St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium. Ehrlich was often at the top of his class and his best subjects were math ... of Biology Most of Ehrlich’s discoveries had something to do with the immune system. The immune system is a body system that is responsible for destroying disease-causing cells. When Ehrlich was still in school, he was staining white blood cells to see their different characteristics with his work on antibodies, he is knows as the “founder” of modern chemotherapy. If Ehrlich had not learned about the immune system, then ...
- 2903: Pablo Friere
- ... or give our opinions to given facts/information. This is what makes the educator the oppressor and us the oppressed. Paulo Freire's "Pedogogy of the Oppressed" deals with the concept of oppression in the school system and suggests an alternative method of education. There is an absolute need for students to "Tear down the wall" (Pink Floyd) of conformity in education and express their individuality. Education in itself can be ... other words, based on the "banking concept", students are told what to learn and expected to learn it. Being told what to learn creates a necessity to rely on an authoritative figure not only in school but also in life, and reject responsibility. This is what the "oppressors" want, the "oppressed" who rely on authority and reject responsibility because that puts everyone under some form of power, and the "oppressed" are ...
- 2904: Gillian Anderson
- ... family was somewhat nomadic. Now being an inhabitant of England, the family moved several more times. At the age of 5, Gillian was living in Crouch End in north London, where she attended her first school. By this time Gillian had spent most of her life in London but had picked up her parents’ American accent. Her classmates teased and taunted her, and she was bullied in the schoolyard. She immediately ... and her punk friends would walk down the street giving the finger to whom ever stared. All of which lead up to her getting arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering into the high school. So it is safe to say that Gillian’s friends, social position, and the society in which she lived all were influential to her life. Gillian does not regret entering the punk scene, because she ...
- 2905: Prejudice Child Of Ignorance
- ... they come out looking stubborn, and ignorant. The child's parents may have put him in an environment where everyone is considered acceptable. His parents may have been wealthy, and put him in a private school that only other rich kids can attend. This would be an environment where there may not be racial differences. Because of the way, he was taught and raised, the child has become prejudiced, and the beliefs that his parents once had are now his own. When this child leaves that school, he has not had any contact with anyone from a different lifestyle. He will not know how to react to someone like a homeless person on the street. Like the child, everyone in America has ...
- 2906: To What Extent Does Acid Precipitation Affect Annelids?
- ... and Hall) Earthworms are easily used for experimentation by researchers because they are "widely distributed, familiar organisms, which are readily and cheaply available in large numbers." (Pierce, et. al, (Sep, 1988 Volume 70) Science Notes, School Science Review.) In soils of pH less than 5, earthworms are usually scarce, and soil breakdown is usually slow, making a "deep layer of slowly decomposing plant remains." (Pierce, et. al, (Sep, 1988 Volume 70) Science Notes, School Science Review.) This is a very obvious sign of wether or not earthworms are present, and more often than not, the pH range can be determined on sight. If you look through soil and see ...
- 2907: Albert Einstein 5
- ... in bed wondering how an invisible force could pass through space (Strathern 13). His uncle gave him his first mathematics book and Einstein read it until he could do every problem in the book. In school, Einstein wasn t exactly a teacher s pet. The teachers at German school during his childhood prided themselves on behaving like bossy, pedantic sergeant majors (Strathern 13). Teachers told him he would never amount to anything. Einstein more than proved them wrong. The first years on his own ...
- 2908: Religion & Evolution
- ... accounting for cosmic origins.2 In the scientific community there is a well known and accepted theory known as the "Big Bang Theory". Most people know of this theory because they were taught it in school. Yet it usually contradicted what their parents and pastors taught them in church. As a result, the Big Bang Theory was generally discarded as something that intellectual minds which cannot exist upon the true faith ... the point was so very valid and without skeptical doubt, then why is it not being taught to our children? I understand the idea of separation between church and state, and the fact that the school is very much a part of state. Yet it seems to me that if the idea is a basic building block in today’s society then why not teach this to the young? Why is ...
- 2909: David Copperfield
- ... Dartle's part. 'Sniveling hypocrisy,' again we see Heep classified under this category but more so there are two other very evil characters which are very hypocritical: Mr.Creakle, the cruel headmaster of Salem house school. Initially he is the cruelest most disrespectful headmaster alive but towards the end of the novel he has turned into a very nice, polite warden at a jailhouse who has respect even for the greatest ... it has: when we begin to read David Copperfield we start to feel as if the bad luck is all happening to him, his mother re-marries a cruel man, he goes to an awful school, his mother, he has to work unfairly ect... Steerforth's servant Littimer once calls David 'young innocence' (chapter 32). This name is appropriate. David is sensitive, honest and loving as a child, and remains so ...
- 2910: Alchemy
- ... art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the Alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was brought to Morocco and thus in the eighth century to Spain, where it flourished exceedingly. Indeed, Spain from the ninth to the eleventh century became the repository of ... On the introduction of chemistry as a practical art, alchemical science fell into desuetude and disrepute, owing chiefly to the number of charlatans practicing it, and by the beginning of the eighteenth century, as a school, it may be said to have become defunct. Here and there, however, a solitary student of the art lingered, and in the department of this article "Modern Alchemy" will demonstrate that the science has to ...
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