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- 3411: George Bush Biography
- ... a strong interest in politics which led to his position as Senator of Connecticut. Bush had three brothers and one sister who were all brought up strictly and well-mannered. He attended private Greenwich Day School and exclusive Phillips Academy where he was indeed popular. Along with his good grades, Bush was president of the senior class, captain of the baseball and soccer teams, and also played varsity basketball. After graduating prep school in 1942, his original plans of attending Yale University had been delayed due to the U.S. interest in World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. National Reserve where he received flight training ...
- 3412: Florence D. Griffith
- ... stand out and be her own self. She had her own ideas about how to accomplish this. In kindergarten she wore her hair in a single braid that stuck up in the air. In high school she had a Boa Constrictor Snake for a pet. Florence was also an exceptional student. These tree things were not enough for Young Florence. She proved that she was an exceptional athlete. At age of ... with the rabbits. When she decided that she really liked running. She joined the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation. This time she ran against children her age.S he beat them all. But in high school she did set reacords in the sprint and the long jump. But there was one girl she just couldn't beat. Her name was Valerie Brisco. Bobby Kersee became her coach. Later, Valerie Brisco joined ...
- 3413: Anti-Affirmative Action
- ... phrase, I realized that the student, whom I knew and worked with so many times, the one with such a lack of motivational ability, confidence, and ideas, was now occupying my chances towards a preferred school. "Affirmative action", I soon found out, was used by President John F. Kennedy over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin. As a policy ... is the admission practices at the University of California Berkeley. In the same article by Pasour, it states that while whites or Asian-Americans need at least a 3.7 grade point average through high school to be in consideration for admission in Berkeley, most minorities with much lower standards are automatically admitted. All the preferential treatment may provide a basis for employers, employees, as well as real applicable students to ...
- 3414: The Tragedy at Columbine
- ... fact that the only ones to blame for the massacre are the two dead killers. They were the ones who pulled the triggers and they were the only ones with all the answers. Gun makers, school officials, and the police should not be the scapegoats. They are simply pawns of society who are paid to do their specific jobs, not raise children. Another "sore" afflicting the community is that the parents ... were shooting at everyone. Once again the people of Littleton would love to point the finger a certain race or religion and say they are to blame. However, after police found bombs placed in the school by the killers, it is obviously apparent that their goal was to kill everyone. In closing I would like to remind the people of Littleton that, like a person with Herpes, they will never be ...
- 3415: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... father and laid him on a railway track, claiming he committed suicide. Alone and without money, Louise Little got more and more desperate, before the white authorities sent her to a mental hospital. Malcolm attended school until eighth grade living with different families. When his teacher stopped him from trying to become a lawyer, he dropped out of school and went to his older half sister, Ella, who lived in Boston. There, he took a job as a shoeshine boy at the Roseland Ballroom. A career as a hustler seemed a more tempting option ...
- 3416: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... was left with him and his four other siblings. At the age of 18 he graduated from Harvard University and was a teacher for three years in Boston. Then in 1825 he entered Harvard Divinity School and preached for three years. At the age of 29 he resigned for ministry, partly because of the death of his wife after only 17 months of marriage. In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and ... higher reality that exists beyond the powers of human comprehension. Plato explained that the idea of absolute goodness transcends human description. Neoplantonism was a collective designation for the philosophical and religious doctrines of a heterogeneous school of speculative thinkers who sought to develop and synthesize the metaphysical ideas of Plato (Encarta). Ralph Waldo Emerson found motivation to write in anything he did, whether it was visiting England, the Transcendental Movement or ...
- 3417: Heros Essay
- ... music playing for me when I was a baby? Would I be such a fan of sports or play basketball if my father hadn't been a state champion in track and field in high school and a Division I soccer player in college? If he hadn't introduced athletics to me, helped me with them, let me develop in them at my own pace, and shown me that one must ... we see Rivas descend into the deepest circles of depression, so that all his hopes and dreams are clouded by a dark mist originating from his abuse of drugs and alcohol. Rivas drops out of school, saying he felt "no guilt in lying to" his mother as he deceived her into allowing him to do so. He then proceeds to go on "a mad hunt for drugs." This costs him his ...
- 3418: Can't We All Just Get Along?: Competition
- ... just how this competitive nature affects our everyday lives. Nearly every aspect of our day has competitive under tones. Some of this competitive nature is unknowing to the person at the time. For instance, a school is one of the best demonstrations of competitive nature at play. Why do some students work so hard in school? To be better than the rest, to be successful. For one to become better than others, and consciously be doing it, there are definite competitive acts going on. Tests are competitions, sporting events are competitions ...
- 3419: Lord Of The Flies Reflection
- ... the novel to the movie was the time setting between the two. In the novel the estimated time was the 1940's, and the boys reflected this by starting off on the island as good school children that had respect for their elders, etc. In the movie the time frame was anywhere from the late 80's to the early 90's, it was somewhat hard to define an exact date. The time setting showed in the technology that was present at the time such as helicopters. Also in the movie the boys started off on the island as boys who are going to military school and were partially desensitized to violence, possibly from the television and media of the 80's and 90's which is a great leap from the 40's. This quite possibly might have made a ...
- 3420: Bar Kochba Revolt
- ... 212, 380 2. Rabbi Dr. Raphael Posner, eds. Junior Judaica, Encyclopedia Judaica for Youth, (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House Jerusalem LTD., 1982) s.v. Bar Kokhba pages. 106-107 3. Suri Cohen, Mashiach, Mashiach, Mashiach. 1996 (?), School Booklet. Shevach High School, New York. pages. 13-18 4. Naomi Ben-Asher and Hayim Leaf, The Junior Jewish Encyclopedia (New York City: Sheng Old Publishers Inc, 1967) s.v. Bar Kokhba, Simeon page. 53 5. Encyclopedia International (Canada ...
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