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- 3591: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... sister, Ruth.1 His love for art began on the farm. Since he was too young to work on the farm, he drew the animals. When he was seven, he and his sister began attending school, but in 1917 his family returned to Chicago.2 In Chicago he took a summer job on a railroad. When he began at McKinley High School, he took the money he earned to pay for art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross during ...
- 3592: Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
- ... Bradbury recalls “‘It was one of the greatest years of my life because I was acting and singing in operettas and writing, beginning to write my first short stories.'” (Johnson 2). After graduating from high school, Bradbury bought a typewriter and rented an office with the money saved from selling newspapers. While in his early twenties, Bradbury sold one science-fiction short stories every month for four years. He was paid ... an important role in formation of this science-fiction author. At the age of 75, it is Bradbury's turn to influence the young generation. In addition to having several of his works in high school textbooks, Bradbury recently released “ “The Martian Chronicles” on CD-ROM (“Sci-Fi for you D: Drive” 89). Works Cited Johnson, Wayne, L. Ray Bradbury. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1980. Kunitz, Stanley, J. and Haycraft ...
- 3593: Policy Profile Of Senator Dick
- ... 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 ...
- 3594: Goundwater
- ... they dumped approximately 352 million pounds into the canal until 1952 (www.ethics~101.org). Worried about their public opinion, Hooker just covered the canal over. Later, the Education Board built a playground and elementary school there, and through the next twenty years, the waste that had been buried in the Love Canal began to seep through the soil and enter peoples' basements, contaminate underground pipes and wells and enter the Niagara River poisoning the fish Lake Ontario so much that the fishery had to be closed. It was not until the 1970s that the danger of these wastes were understood. In 1977, the elementary school was closed and the families were relocated, but the fish from Lake Ontario are still too contaminated with PCBs and Mirex to be sold commercially (Chiras, 1988). CONCLUSION Groundwater is a precious resource which needs ...
- 3595: Great Gatsby
- ... past with money. He also says he has a past at Oxford, he spoils Daisy with wealth, and sometimes tells absolute obvious lies. In his past at Oxford, the author uses a prestigious, ivy league school that Gatsby visited in order to imply that Gatsby did come from a high class background. Fitzgerald avoids saying for how long, for what reasons, or why he has attained entrance at Oxford. Being misplaced ... unfortunately serves as a hindrance. Gatsby shows Nick a picture "A souvenir of [his] Oxford days . . . " (Fitzgerald), as if to imply that he was there. In all actuality, Gatsby had only dreamed of attending a school such as Oxford, and even a small, dishonest taste of this makes him dream of changing his past. This, as Malcom Cowly states, "past holds something that Gatsby [longs] for, a simpler, better, nobler time ...
- 3596: Isaac Newton
- ... the perfect time for a scientific revolution like the one Newton created (Anthony, 82). Nevertheless, it was not easy for him to gain the knowledge and background necessary for great discoveries. He was sent to school at Grantham at age 12, where his mechanical proficiency excited some attention. He used this ability to build sundials, windmills, and clocks that were surprisingly accurate. However, he was not a prodigy, as is shown by school reports of him being "idle and inattentive". In 1656 he returned home to learn the business of a farmer, as was requested by his mother, but spent most of his time solving problems, making experiments ...
- 3597: Mcdonaldization Of Society
- ... individualized attention, and they are forced to make their schedules on their own with little guidance. This is because the main interest is on quantity, rather than the quality of the schedules. In fact, the school prefers to have the lack of guidance, because it causes students to take unnecessary credits, and they then must spend more time in school, while paying even more money. This system is fairly predictable, although not in a good way. During registration time, students know that they will have to spend many hours just waiting in line with nothing ...
- 3598: Civil Rights
- ... but alone I don't think they would solve the problem. How are people going to get these jobs with no education or experience, he failed to mention any job training or assistance to finish school. His idea would work for the few very determined people, but for the majority of the lower income black population it will have no effect. They can not relate to his success story. Lewis M ... There are still segregated and very poor residential areas known as ghettos. He says racism on a personal basis has improved, but now the problem is institutionalized racism. Some evidence of this is: "opposition to school busing, open housing laws, affirmative action, and the failure to vote for a black candidate for public office." He is comparing this opposition to the cold war, instead of the Russians the blacks are now ...
- 3599: Great Expectations
- ... Every one of these authors left a mark on the young mind of Charles Dickens which is easy to see in his style and attitude throughout writings (Carey 6). During this time Dickens started attending school where he excelled and pleased his father greatly. Although he was a solitary child, Dickens was observant and good natured and often participated in different comical routines for the class. Looking back on this period ... difficulties, the Dickens family was forced to move into a shabby suburb of Camden Town. This move must have shown the family how good they had it back in Chatham. There Dickens was removed from school and forced to work degrading menial jobs in an effort to help his struggling father put food on the table. Dickens was put to work in a blackening factory among many rough and cruel employees ...
- 3600: Jobs Are Not For Everyone
- ... bosses are strange people to deal with, and hard people to work for, and there is enough confusion in a teenager’s life without someone like Bob to add a little more. Being in high school is a busy time of one’s life, and having a job makes it even busier. For myself, I think that having a boss that wasn’t that bright made things even harder. One time ... again. These are the reasons that being employed is no fun, especially at a grocery store. It is important to understand that all the things I talked about apply in many other jobs a high school student could have. My theory is that I will work when I grow up so why work now. I have had enough bad experiences to know that working is not for me at all. For ...
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