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- 3441: The Need For Affirmative Action
- ... colleges and universities around the country. And why? Just because they can run fast, jump high, or throw. Why don't the whites question that is it because it gets some of their kind in school also, or just because the blacks it does get in school will later on entertain them on Super Bowl Sunday or Monday night football. Others say the having affirmative action totally defeats the minorities esteem to work. I have heard that having affirmative action is like ...
- 3442: Francesco Petrarch
- ... s dismay he studied law at the University of Bologna and he earned his degree. Beyond the levels of his peers at an early age it was obvious the intellectual presents he had. Moving from school to school he realized that his true interests were in the ancient authors, not the law. He sought out and recovered manuscripts\\' Cicero, Virgil, amongst others. When his Petrarch\\'s father found these manuscripts and threw then ...
- 3443: Robert Frost
- Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "The Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent. In 1895, Frost married Elinor ...
- 3444: Saint Francis of Assissi
- ... solecisms. In later years he avoided holding a pen; he preferred to dictate, and to sign his pronouncements with a cross or tau, a semisacred symbol. However, he learned enough Latin for his purposes, for school routine and for the comprehension of the ritual. Francesco also had the education of the home and shop. He could admire his father, honest and worthy, but an austere man, taking up where he laid ... of the Franciscan Order, after the chapter of 1266 at which it was decided that such a life was needed, because of the proliferation of apochryphal and spurious lives, records that Francis was sent to school to the priests of Saint George's, also in Assisi. But he seems to have learned little from them except enough Latin to read with difficulty and write great labour. In later life, the clerky ...
- 3445: Tobacco
- ... Between 1979 and 1989, the number of teens aged 15 to 19 who smoked at least occasionally was halved to 23%. In contrast U.S. efforts have been a huge disappointment. Some 30% of high school seniors smoked through the 80's and now there is an alarming increase. Clinton's program doesn't include a stiff tax increase and experts say that is where Canada's progress stemmed from. The ... smuggled in from the U.S. A pack of 25 now sells for around $2.50 in Ontario, down almost 44% from 1993. Now, a University of Toronto survey found a third of Junior High School are puffing more. Moreover the number of teens smoke occasionally jumped to 27.8% in 1994 from 22% in 1991. Clinton's program includes Prohibition of sales to minors. Canada has found such bans are ...
- 3446: Policy Profile of Senator Richard Lugar
- ... offered to give insight concerning Senator Lugar's motivations and tendencies to act in the way he does. Biographical Background Richard Green Lugar was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 4, 1932. Attending Shortridge High School he excelled academically and was the class Valedictorian. After graduation, Dick Lugar (as he is commonly known) attended Denison University, in Ohio, and met his future wife Charlene Smeltzer. In 1954 Lugar received his degree ... and a food machinery firm started by his Grandfather over 100 years ago, Thomas L. Green & Company. Both are located in the Indianapolis area. In 1964, Lugar obtained his first political office with the Indianapolis School Board. He then went on to win the Mayoral bid in 1968, and served two terms at the head of city government in Indianapolis. Senator Lugar's next stepping stone in politics would be a ...
- 3447: Prop. 209
- ... rejecting quotas, preferences and set-asides. My brother had a run in with affirmative action. After attending a junior college and getting a 4.0 there he transfered to U.C. Davis for Pre- Med school. Two years later he applied to Davis1s Medical school and was rejected because there were to many white students in the college. He was then told to wait an entire year and apply again. Instead he moved back to our home town of Bakersfield ...
- 3448: Muhammad Ali
- ... in Louisville, KY., on January 17, 1942. He grew up in a poor family. His adolescence was influenced by a prejudice society, and the poor black neighborhood where he grew up. Ali had problems in school at an early stage and felt he wanted to do something different. His dreams were going to be fulfilled at an age of 12, when Joe Martin, a police officer and a boxing instructor, encouraged ... does a lot, of charity work in order to help others. What Ali did do is unmeasurable, he gave all young blacks the hope of a successful life. They all knew Ali dropped out of school, but still made it. They also knew Ali became one of the greatest success in sports. He helped to get young black people light when all there was were black clouds. He helped young blacks ...
- 3449: Reforms Are Need In Canada's Government
- ... their position, and will have the opportunity to run in the election. After three years, the other half will follow suit and resign their position. This will allow a slow filtering out of the old school appointed Senators, to be replaced with elected ones. There would be eight Senators elected by each province, regardless of the size of the province and its population. As well, eight Senators would be given to ... people. Without Senate reform, the Canadian political structure may eventually crumble, much like an old house crumbles when its foundation has degraded. In order for Canada to survive in the twenty-first century, the old-school British system must be revamped, for it is outdated. Canada must cast aside old traditions and replace them with modern ideology and thought.
- 3450: Jim Abbott
- ... of hands, but right from the very beginning, Jim loved baseball. So, Jim's parents bought him a baseball glove. However, Jim was not just involved in baseball. He was the top scorer in his school's intramural basketball league, and played two years of varsity football. Jim's various athletic exploits resulted in press attention. When Jim got to college, he picked up right where he had left off in high school. His two main goals were to get an education and to become the best possible pitcher he could be. At this point, his fastball was close to ninety miles per hour. Jim to worked hard ...
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