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- 3561: Marilyn Monroe
- ... death. She didn’t believe in a person being a failure, either. She did believe the mind could achieve anything it wished to achieve.” Marilyn had problems with her diction when she went to High School. She also stuttered a lot. No one really knew, but her mother bought her a piano that belonged to the famous actor Fredric March. Marilyn Monroe always looked older than her age. When she was ... death. She didn’t believe in a person being a failure, either. She did believe the mind could achieve anything it wished to achieve.” Marilyn had problems with her diction when she went to High School. She also stuttered a lot. No one really knew, but her mother bought her a piano that belonged to the famous actor Fredric March. Marilyn Monroe always looked older than her age. When she was ...
- 3562: Aristotle
- ... the Macedonian court. At the age of seventeen, he was sent away to study in Athens. It was there that he transformed to a disciple of Plato. Over time, Aristotle became the "mind of the school". Later in his life, he followed his mentor and became a teacher in a school on the coast of Asia minor. Aristotle was the professor of young prince Alexander, who went on to become the ruler Alexander the Great. Aristotle was the first known person to make major advances in ...
- 3563: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- ... was 13 years old, he constructed his own telescope, and changed a bike light to transmit sound along the path of light it gave off. Arthur made his first literary connections by writing in the school newspaper. He attended elementary, Middle, and high school in his home town, and then later went to King's College in London, where he made honors in Math and in Physics in 1948. After Arthur had finished college, he became a member of ...
- 3564: Japan: A Changing Society
- ... countries such as the Us.5 The Japanese language took a major turn, too, with the addition of borrowed words from all over the world.6 Japan borrowed the American education system of elementary, middle school and universities during this time.7 A new western style army and universal military conscription program were soon set up by General Yamagata Autamo as well.8 The Meiji period was an important part of ... change less dramatically, but never stopped. Within recent times, many western- style appliances and such can be found in Japanese homes.16 The Japanese schools, based on America's, teach the same things in grade school as American schools.17 Many of the students are learning in these schools to take English language courses to help them as they get older.18 Sports today, are shaped similar to America's. Japan ...
- 3565: Internet
- ... very valuable if used as a tool for learning. In the group Families Against Internet Censorship, they understand the concept of parental filtering (Censorship 2000). One of the families uses primarily the Internet to home-school their children. When a child signs on to the web, he or she has almost infinite resources right at the ends of their fingertips. Where else can you maximize the worlds resources from inside the ... thing the male brought up in the conversation was sexual offers. So within twenty minutes this police officer has already been offered sex and alcohol. This officer, Detective Mike Harris, recently went to the middle school where he resides in Jefferson County Colorado. He was speaking to the kids about all the dangers on the net, and ran across some crazy statistics. Out of 185 students, 145 of them have the ...
- 3566: “Barrio Boy” and The House on Mango Street Comparison
- ... very different lives, but they both have goals which effect their thoughts and their lives. Ernesto’s life aids in the reinforcement of the critical lens. His goal was to fit in with his new school and neighborhood. He had self- confidence that allowed him to succeed. He thought of the Americans as strangers. This controlled his thoughts. He did not allow himself to be the stranger. As a result of ... continued to stay with him for the rest of his life. It impacted him time and time again. He was extremely confident in himself. This allowed him to run for president of his class in school. Ernesto’s attempts to succeed with his goals in his Barrio make it evident that the quote is correct. Esperanza’s life on Mango Street sustains the message captured by the critical lens. Esperenza and ...
- 3567: Monasticism
- ... was done individually. Cenobitic: The main difference between Cenobitic and Eremitic monasticism, is that the Cenobitic way of life is more communal, and there are sets of rules that everyone follows. They include rules for prayer, worship, study, work, and service. The first community of monks living together and following the same rules was founded in Egypt by Pachomius. It was started in 340, at Tabenna, which is an island in ... built a monastery for him at Inde, near Aachen, Germany, supported him. Benedict's restructuring of the monastic life was far reaching, but because other monks protested aspects of his austere life-style devoted to prayer, study, fasting, chastity, self-denial, and mortification, he was not able to make all the changes he would have liked. A Monk’s Normal Day A monk’s day revolves around the Liturgy. The “hours ...
- 3568: Huckleberry Finn - Freedom
- ... old Miss Watson on account of my clothes." This in part why Huck wants his freedom, of doing what he likes, because they want to civilize him. Chap.4: pg.16 "At first I hated school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommonly tired I played hooky…" Huck doesn’t like being caged in school, but begins to like it because when he gets tired of it he can take a break anyway. Ch.5: pg.19-23 Huck confronts his father who spends some time with the judge and ...
- 3569: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... is the source for another magnificent Tchaikovsky opera by the same name, as well as several ballets. Sections of this epic Romantic poem in novel form are still memorized by Russian and other Eastern European school children as reverently as if they were verses from the Bible. Pushkin was the first giant to achieve a truly international status while working in the Russian language, although, ironically, his great fame beyond the ... library of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French classics. In 1811 the young poet was enrolled in the first class of the lyceum at Tsarkoe-Selo, the site of the Czar's summer palace. This special school had recently been established by Alexander I (the Czar who defeated Napoleon) to educate the sons of prominent families with an eye to grooming them for important government posts. His early poems won prizes and ...
- 3570: Comparison Between Gandhi and Hitler
- ... stubborn and when his father refused to let him chase a career as an artist, he decided to stop doing his work, and his grades began to fall drastically. When his father died he quit school and for the next few years lived off his family’s money. He did nothing but read books, draw pictures and daydream all day long. When he was 18 (in 1907) he moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and tried to get into an art school there. But unfortunately for the world, he failed his entrance exams, twice. His mother died a few years later and he inherited quite a bit of money, so for the next part of his life ...
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