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- 871: Famous African Americans
- ... University. During World War II Brooke served in the infantry, rose to the rank of captain, and was awarded the Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman's Badge. After the war he attended Boston University Law School. In 1960 he was appointed chairman of the investigative Boston Finance Commission, and in 1962 he was elected attorney general of Massachusetts; he was returned to this post in 1964. Two years later he was ... Rock Nine were U.S. civil rights figures. Bates was born in Huttig, Ark.and cofounder of Arkansas State Press in 1941. She was president of Arkansas chapter of NAACP in 1957 during Little Rock school integration crisis and while state guardsmen, at Governor Orville Faubus's request, she blocked black students from entering high school buildings. Bates stood firm with students and was arrested along with nine black students. She demanded protection of President Eisenhower for returning students. The 10 were awarded Spingarn Medal 1958. Weaver, Robert Clifton was ...
- 872: Guaranteering Civil Rights
- ... to hear the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The case involved Linda Brown, an eight year old black girl from Topeka. Linda was required to attend an all black school 20 blocks from her home, even though there was an all white school only a few blocks away. With help from the NAACP, Linda's father, Oliver Brown, sued the Topeka Board of Education so that his daughter could attend the nearby all whtie school. NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall challenged the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling and argued that even if seperate black schools were equal to white schools, black children were still suffering great psychological damage. On May 17, ...
- 873: Germany 2
- ... roughly 38.7 million people. As said earlier industry employs around 41 percent, agriculture employs 3 percent, and services employ 56 percent. The unemployment rate is 12 percent. Children are required by law to attend school full-time from the age of 6 to 15 or 16, depending on their course of study. After four years of primary school (Grundschule), students go on to one of four kinds of secondary schools. About 60 percent attend a Hauptschule for another five or six years. this type of school provides a general education. Most Hauptschule graduates then attend a vocational school part-time for three years while they learn a trade. Other students, after passing an examination, may attend an intermediate school (Realschule) ...
- 874: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... 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 " ...
- 875: Harlem Slums As A Result Of Th
- ... children. Youngsters "with keys tied around their necks on a ribbon" wandered around the streets until families came home at night. Substantial portions were products of broken home, families without a male head. One Harlem school principal testified that 699 of his 1,600 pupils came from families whose fathers were not living at home. Nor did the majority of Harlem schoolchildren ever have time to accustom themselves to the regularity of school life; many families were rootless. Three-fourths of all the Negro pupils registered in one Harlem school, for example, transferred to some other before the end of one school year; some schools actually experienced a 100 percent turnover. Pupils from the South were seriously deficient in educational training: "They are at ...
- 876: History Guidelines
- When you read an elementary or high school history book you get the same general idea. In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. These books have to follow the standards called National History Guidelines. Should we change these guidelines to reveal the ... own country. Another point to be taken into consideration is that the space for teaching these hidden facts about history just isnt available. To add these facts to the history books would extend the school year (Bruer 01). I feel that the school year wouldnt be extended because we could take out the not son important facts and replace them with the hidden facts. Altouth the standards for United States history neglect to mention that George ...
- 877: Billy Graham
- ... article about his life before becoming a preacher. "I lived on a farm. The only difference was I had to get up early in the morning and go milk cows. When I came back from school that day, I had to milk those same cows. There were about twenty cows I had to milk. By hand. That was before they had those machines. I loved being a farmer. But God called ... views by his parents, he was still influenced spiritually from his upbringing. At age seventeen, Graham was in the position just like many other seventeen years old's he knew. Graham was popular in high school with the girls, played sports such as basketball and baseball, but was lost on what his future would have in store for him. During this time an evangelist named Mordecai Ham came to Charlotte, to ... they graduate, Graham blindly enrolled at Bob Jones College in Cleveland, Tennessee for the simple reason that Jones' preaching had once impressed his mother. If Graham did not know who he was prior to entering school, he soon learned that he was not meant to be a Bob Jones student. He found the discipline to be absolutely restrictive and the theology to be at odds with the notions of God ...
- 878: Neoplatonism
- ... was the founder of Neoplatonsim and was born in Egypt. He studied at Alexandra with the philosopher Ammonium Saccus. Along with 224 others he helped carry the Neoplatonic doctrine to Rome, where he established a school. Other important Neoplatonic thinkers were the Syrian-Greek scholar's, Porphyry and Lablichus. The Syrian, Athenian, and Alexandrian Schools Neoplatonism was the last of the great schools of classical pagan philosophy. Platonism, as well as ... awkward understanding of classical Greek paganism. It incorporated philosophy, mysticism, and theosophy. For three centuries it served as a last bastion of pagan wisdom and esoteric philosophy in an increasingly hostile Christian dominated empire. The school of Alexandra was not the same as the academy under Ammonius. It seems to date back to the late fourth and early fifth centuries, represented by the mathematician Theon and his daughter Hypatia, who was ... than those of other pagan Neoplatonists. It was only with Heimonius and his son Ammonius that a definite succession can be traced at Alexandra. Olympiodorus, the Platonic commentator, was the last pagan head of the school. After his death it passed into Christian hands under the Aristotlean commentators Elias and David. The school's last head, Stephanus, moved to and became head of an academy in Constantinople in 610. In ...
- 879: Early Intervention And
- ... varying degrees of severity, from profound to mild. Dr. Temple Grandin is an assistant professor at Colorado State University who was diagnosed as autistic at a young age, yet with proper help, she continued through school and earned a Ph.D. Autism is usually diagnosed in the first three years of life. Early indication of autism may be seen in one or more ways. First, there is a lack of response ... are too many to try and list individually. Certain physical disabilities are more easily recognized at birth, or shortly after because they are more readily apparent and noticeable. Some diseases do not manifest themselves until school age, of which muscular dystrophy is a good example. Clumsiness, walking with a strange gait and repetitive falling down, trouble rising to a standing position, and difficulty climbing stairs are signs of muscle deterioration and ... his or her class mates could be exhibiting sings of an underlying physical impairment. Of the three disabilities mentioned specific learning disability, or SLD, is one of the few that does not become apparent until school age. The newest of recognized disabilities, it quickly became the largest group in the area of special education. Almost half of all students identified as eligible for special education classes are SLD. It is ...
- 880: Adolf Hitler
- ... day. Klara Hitler protected young Adolf from her short-tempered husband, Alois. Adolf grew into a thin, dark-haired, blue-eyed boy with an angular face (Twisted 63). At the age of 6, Hitler started school and showed excellent achievement in his classes. Outside of school young Hitler was energetic and had many friends. Adolfs home life was far less happy. His father ran the household like a military boot camp. When his father was in the same room as ... signs of Adolfs aggression showed up at the age of 7. Adolf would challenge his tyrannical father and was beaten severely for it. In 1900, at the age of 11, Hitler entered a secondary school that turned out to be disastrous. After entering the school, Adolfs grades dropped in every subject except drawing. Hitler explains this change in academic performance in his book Mein Kampf. Hitler states that ...
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