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- 3251: Brown V. Board Of Education
- ... of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decided on May 17, 1954, was one of the most important cases in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Linda Brown had been denied admission to an elementary school in Topeka because she was black. Brought together under the Brown designation were companion cases from South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, all of which involved the same basic question: Does the equal protection clause of ... community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to be undone." Although the decision did not bring about total integration of blacks in the schools, it resulted in efforts by many school systems to remove the imbalance by busing students. The Court's decision had far reaching effects, influencing civil rights legislation and the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
- 3252: Harry S. Truman
- Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884. He grew up in the near by town Independence, Missouri, not to far from Kansas City. After his High School graduation, he worked at many different types of jobs, but finally he took over the family farm and had steady work to do. Truman graduated from the University of Kansas City Law School. During World War 2, he was stationed in France to fight. He returned home after we defeated the Germans for the first time, but not to work on the farm. Him and a partner went ...
- 3253: Mao Zedong
- ... become affluent as a farmer and grain dealer,(McHenry 1992). He grew up in a time and place where education was only considererd necessary for keeping records and accounts. He was educated at a primary school and there he learned the basic knowledge of the classics of Confusous. Continuing with his education, he then went to a secondaryschool , and later graduated from the first provincial school in Chang-Sha (McHenry 1992). Mayo’s goals were formed in the matrix of the May Fourth Period. Along with many of the young Chinese of his generation he was concerned with how to maintain ...
- 3254: Teens and Suicide
- ... can be found at a suicide prevention crisis center, at a local mental health clinic, or through your church. It will also help to become familiar with the suicide prevention program at your child’s school. Contact the Guidance Counselor at your child’s school for more information on programs being offered to help your family deal with this. (Teen Suicide.com) Statistics show that teen suicide has nearly tripled since 1960, making it the leading cause of death in ...
- 3255: Walt Disney
- ... to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody." Replied Disney when a little boy asked him about his job. "I guess that is what I do." At the age of sixteen, Disney left school and briefly started studying at art schools in Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. By that time he really knew what he wanted to do after he was done with school. In 1923, at the age of twenty two, Walter began to produce animated motion pictures in Hollywood, in partnership with his brother Roy. Did you ever wonder who was behind the creation of some of ...
- 3256: Thomas Alva Edison
- ... factors. Many things during Thomas Edison’s family life guided him to a career as an inventor. When he was only seven and after only three months of schooling his mother pulled him from public school because of behavioral problems. She decided that she would home school Thomas and that is when he got interested in chemistry and sciences. His Mother first got him interested by showing him a elementary physical science book. Shortly after that she helped him set up a ...
- 3257: Only The Heart 2
- ... restore the balance of Yin and Yang. Since coming to Australia the Vo family has been very fortunate. As well as getting away from their communist county to a free one, Toan experiences success in school and later on as an actor. Vo Kin Tueyt believes that in order to restore the balance of good and evil something bad will happen, "good and evil, light and dark". Near the end of ... reverse the damage done. Not even when Linh gets revenge by seeing Tang killed. On the other hand, Toan experiences the opposite. Everything that happens to Toan is for the better. He does well at school and later becomes a successful TV actor.
- 3258: Stephen King
- ... imagination took over from there (Beahm 44). Then you have the birth of truly a classic novel. The next town that had influenced King was that of Lisbon Falls in Maine. King went to high school in this town. He graduated from Lisbon High. While he attended that school he knew a troubled girl by the name of Carietta White. He knew she wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer and then his imagination kicked in and he thought of her maybe having ...
- 3259: Challenging The Traditional Cl
- ... very talented student. His ability to learn is enviable. Many times I would wish that I were able to get into my academics as much as he was into his. For example, while in high school, my English class was reading several plays by Shakespeare. With all the difficult words and hard to follow story lines, it would have been extremely helpful to have been able to go through the plays ... family. The intimacy once shared between them was disappearing. “He takes his first step toward academic success, away from his family.”. His family also understood the importance of education, as his siblings did well in school, but were never “so anxious about their schooling”. Upon making sure that her children learned English, Rodriguez’s mother would tell them to maintain their Spanish. This was obviously a hint to the children to ...
- 3260: George Washington Carver
- ... Growing up, George was captivated by plants. Many neighbors referred to him as the “Plant Doctor”. Since Carver was an African American, he was not accepted at any local schools, therefore he had to attend school eight miles away from home. He did very well in school. In 1885 he was accepted to Highland College in Kansas. However, race became an issue again and they took away the offer. He became very discouraged and chose to travel abroad until 1890 where he ...
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