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- 781: Savage Inequalities
- ... Many of the resources needed to expand their education such as books, computers, and even teachers are hard to find. And once found, they are hard to hang on to. Chicago's Du Sabre High School cannot even hire a teacher and be sure they will last past the first few days. Funding for a school such as Du Sabre almost does not exist. They do not even have money to build a school that does not endanger the safety of the children. The classrooms are too full, and most of the time the teachers don't care enough to teach the children the basic rules of life. ...
- 782: Teens: Obstacles in the 90's
- ... teen drug abuse. They are also faced with the peer pressures faced by theses drugs plus the pressure to be like everyone else. Teen alcoholism is effecting teens in many ways from doing good in school to trouble with money and the law. One way that alcoholism is effecting teens is how they do in school. I believe more teens are getting bad grades because of the way alcohol effects there attendance habits and study habits. Alcohol also effects the way they remember facts such as remembering things for a test ... kid is drinking and driving or just have alcohol on them they can lose there licenses for a 6 months or more. They can also be put in juvenile hall or be kicked out of school. An alcoholics lifestyle also leads into other things such as drugs and sex. Once a teen gets into this party lifestyle it can lead them into stronger stimulants such as pot and stronger drugs. ...
- 783: Does Violence In Movies Contribute To Violent Teens
- ... And Ron are new to the force but have already encountered two teenage murders. Recently, they had a kid that grew up in Flat Rock, one day over the summer he went into Woodhaven High School and shot and killed a kid, the teenager told the police that he was inspired by the lyrics in one of Marilyn Mansons song and also from a gang related movie that he had ... professor and now a well know expert on how soldiers are taught to kill. According to him those same ways are being taught to our youth, but I dont see the kids in middle school, and high school walking around in formation, wearing the same uniform, and carrying semi-automatic machine guns, sure they can find someone who has nothing better to do than buy one for them, but without that person ...
- 784: Multicultural Education
- ... that one could not have a true understanding of a subject by only possessing knowledge of one side of it, this brings up the fact that there would never be enough time in our current school year to equally cover the contributions of each individual nationality. This leaves teachers with two options. The first would be to lengthen the school year, which is highly unlikely because of the political aspects of the situation. The other choice is to modify the curriculum to only include what the instructor (or school) feels are the most important contributions, which again leaves them open to criticism from groups that feel they are not being equally treated. A national standard is out of the question because of the ...
- 785: My Lost Love
- ... like 5 hours. We talked in the park for about an hour and a half. She told me her name was Kristeen Thorne and told me that she was a new student at Orangeville High School; the same school I attended. We found that we had six out of seven classes together, which was a very good thing. I asked her to go out with me that Friday night. We went to the movies ... she said yes. We started going out together almost every weekend and talked on the phone all night and walked with each other to class everyday, and I gave her a ride to and from school everyday. We had been going out for about 3 months. The student body voted us cutest couple of the year. We had to get our pictures taken for the year book. We went to ...
- 786: Isaac Newton
- ... English town called Woolsthorpe. His father was a farmer, but died shortly after Isaac was born. Isaac's mother remarried 3 years later, but his stepfather died when Isaac was 14. Newton was sent to school at the age of 12, at the King's School, near Grantham. At first, Newton was a poor student. He was at the bottom of his class. He cared more about painting, making kites, and inventing toys. Amazingly, one day, a big bad bully gave him a hard kick. The little dreamy boy flew into a mad rage, and beat the other boy thoroughly. Yet that didn't satisfy him enough. He wanted to beat the other kid in school work, too. Soon he was at the top of his class. When Newton's stepfather died, Isaac had to be drug out of school to help with the farm. Farmwork was not for him ...
- 787: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read ... loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories. In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the football team at Oak Park High School. As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and studied English with a fervor. He contributed articles to the weekly school newspaper. It seems that the principal did not approve of Ernest's writings and he complained, often, about the content of Ernest's articles. Ernest was clear about his writing; he wanted people to " ...
- 788: James Earl Jones: A Voice in the Crowd
- ... for all, my mama and my papa@ (18) . Less than three years later, the Connollys moved to Dublin Michigan where James Earl and his >brother= Randy grew up in a remodelled chicken barn. His early school life had a great impact on his style of speech and diction. AOn my first day at school, I could not believe my ears,@ recalls Jones, AThey called me James Earrrrl instead of James Uhl, as it had sounded in the South@(40). After the initial shock of hearing Northern dialect, Jones Aquickly ... I was on my guard from then on...I had no need for words@(54). The Aturning point@ in Jones= ability to cope with stuttering came in Professor Donald Crouch=s English classroom in high school. After falling in love with Longfellow=s AThe Song of Hiawatha,@James Earl was inspired to write a poem about his love for grapefruit. He patterned his work after Longfellow=s cadence and rhyme ...
- 789: Bill Gates
- ... was born in the midst of a scenic Seattle on Thursday, October 28, 1995 to his parents Mary and William Henry Gates Jr. His childhood was uneventful and was well raised. He went to Sunday school at the Congregational church and sang in the choir. He was a Boy Scout but never showed interest for either of these activities. Gates was an unusual child who spent long periods in his room in deep thought. He loved science and showed great skill in the area of math. In fact he scored a perfect on the math section of the SAT. His high school English teacher Anne Stephens was amazed at Gates' memory. She commented on how Gates had remembered a 3-page soliloquy for a school play in one reading. He read often, tried to take up the trombone, had no interest in philosophy but rather thought of himself as a "scientist." His science teacher, William Dougall, remembers if the ...
- 790: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... of them. Manson's mother often neglected Charles after her husband left her. She tried to put him into a foster home, but the arrangements fell through. As a last resort she sent Charles to school in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mrs. Manson failed to make the payments for the school and once again Charles was sent back to his mother's abuse. At only fourteen, Manson left his mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His ... near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had a place to call " ...
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