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- 6951: Effects of Gambling
- ... break up a family. If teenager is addicted to gambling it might cause them to not do their schoolwork, which might lead to a drop in their grades. Also a student might drop out of school and go to work making minimum wage just so that they can go to the casino because they are addicted. Also if someone tries stealing things and selling them away for the money they might ...
- 6952: Problems With Racism
- ... going around telling everyone how open-minded they are. What is one of the main problems with racism? Its that many people live in racist conditions, without even seeing it. Oftentimes its in their school, workplace, community, or even in their own homes. Telling a joke with a racial slur seems commonplace and we dont think twice about laughing at one of these jokes when we here one. We ...
- 6953: William Shakespeare 2
- ... On April 26, 1564, John Shakespeare s son, William, was baptized at the Stratford Parish Church. No one knows for certain when his birthday was. (Brown 22) It was thought that young Shakespeare began attending school at the age 7, in Stratford. (Wadsworth 344) Before Shakespeare reached the age of 13, his family endured hardships. Shakespeare s formal schooling ceased. At that time, William may have begun helping his father in ...
- 6954: William Tecumseh Sherman
- ... a bank there. Prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the North and the South, William Tecumseh Sherman was Superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy at Alexandria, Louisiana. After the war, the school moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and became Louisiana State University (LSU). Talk of the secession from the Union was rampant. On January 18, 1861, Sherman resigned his position stating that he preferred to maintain his ...
- 6955: Joshua Larwence Chamberlin
- ... was a strict but generous man, who taught his children to think for themselves, but who never let his children forget who was boss. As a boy I briefly attended Whiting's Military and Classical School, my father intended to fit me for West Point. But my mother wanted me to study for the ministry. I didn't care to do either, but I especially didn't care to go into ...
- 6956: Impact of Television on Society
- ... forced to confront this and consider what is being watched it is very unlikely that we would classify it as education. It would be hard to compare TV viewing with listening to a class in school. Yet the two may not be far apart. In fact such "educational" material coming from television stories probably has more to do with the business of ordinary life/values and ideas involved in our everyday ...
- 6957: The Women of the Nineties
- ... of these things and usually the child ends up suffering for it. There is no reason why a woman can not put her career on hold to raise her children. When her children are in school then she can pursue a career. She is not losing anything by putting her career on hold. If anything she is gaining. Being a mother is a privilege and a woman should want to be ...
- 6958: Mahatma Gandhi: Man Of Peace
- ... more time with parents rather than with each other. Later in his life Gandhi joked that he was a stupidly jealous husband, he said I must say I was passionately fond of her. Even at school I used to think of her, and the thought of night fall and our subsequent meeting was ever haunting me. I have already said that Kasturba was illiterate. I was very anxious to teach her ...
- 6959: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... in music Beethoven came from a musical family, and his early musical training was under his father's guidance. His father taught him piano and violin. His general education was not continued beyond the elementary school. He was practically illiterate in math. II. Self assertion As a youth of 19, in 1789, Beethoven took legal steps to have himself placed at the head of his family. He petitioned for half his ...
- 6960: Sexual Discrimination
- ... the women, they not only have to be successful, they have to be good looking. Men have learned that in order to succeed in relationships, they must succeed in their occupation. They learn from high school that: "Good-looking boy does not equal good-looking girl." (Farrell 251) Women possess superior qualities and power if they are attractive. If men want to reach that level, they must be both attractive and ...
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