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- 901: Kobe Bryant
- ... to him from the NBA for him to study.At the age of 14, Kobe's Dad brought his family back to the United States. Kobe's game picked up while attending Lower Merion High school. Kobe jumped directly from high school to the pros in 1996 and had an impressive rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He won the Nestle Crunch Slam Dunk and was the lead scorer in the Schick Rookie Game during the ... He was the all time leading scorer in southeastern pennsylvania history with 2,883 breaking the marks of former Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlan and of Carlin Warly. As a senior at Lower Merion High School, Bryant was choosen by USA Today and Parade Magazine as the National High School Player of the Year. He was also named Naismith Player of the Year, Gatorade Circle of Champions High School Player ...
- 902: The Copernican Plan
- These days public school districts seem to be under attack for their quantity not quality education standards. These school districts face big problems in attempting to deliver quality education to their customers, the students. How can a school district enhance the quality of time that students spend in the classroom, provide more time for collaboration and coordination among it's professional staff members, promote continuous professional development, and do so with as ...
- 903: House On Mango Street 2
- ... family lives in a run down house on Mango Street, but most likely the best place they have ever lived. Esperanza had to get a job in order to go to a private Catholic high school. Catholics do not attend public high schools. Also Esperanza s father said, Nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad. (53). Esperanza s job was at a photo shop that her Aunt had once worked at. At the photo shop she matched the negatives with the photos. She ... People who come to her neighborhood want to leave because it frightens them by being so run down and dirty (28). The final thing she is ashamed of is not having money to pay for school and her having to get a job to go to high school. Esperanza was depressed during her earlier years of going to school. The thing, she has no friends, she even gave two girls ...
- 904: Elizabeth Blackwell
- When Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical School in 1849, she became the first woman doctor in the United States. When she enrolled in the Medical Register of the United Kingdom, this made her Europe’s first modern woman doctor. Elizabeth Blackwell was ... and forced the family to move to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1838. Her father died shortly after this move and meant that the boys now needed to find work and the girls now needed to attend school. The Blackwells made contributions in aiding escaped slaves and in the Intellectual movement. In 1844, Elizabeth determined that she wanted to become a doctor. At first, she had trouble because no medical school would admit her because of her gender. Because of this, she studied privately with doctors in Philadelphia and in the South. In 1847, Elizabeth was admitted to the Geneva Medical School of Western New ...
- 905: Pinocchio
- ... the ca rbineer he was in and set foot for home. When he entered the small room he noticed a voice talking, the voice was the talking cricket. The cricket advised him to go to school and called him an Imp for not wanting to go, Pinocchio in his rage threw a hammer at the poor cricket and "SPLAT" that was the end of the cricket. Pinocchio then dozes of in ... and seen himself. Sorry for the puppet Geppetto then made Pinocchio a new pair of legs. Geppetto then feeling sorry for Pinocchio gives him his breakfast of three pears. Then Pinocchio promises to go to school, Geppetto then goes out and sells his coat so that he can buy Pinocchio a spelling book. Pinocchio, on his way to school, heres music and excitement and heads towards it's direction curious. It lands up to be a fair and Pinocchio wanting to go in to see the puppet show sells his spelling book for ...
- 906: Al Gore
- ... in Washington, DC. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., a congressmen from Tennessee, served in the House of Representatives. His mother, Pauline (La Fon) Gore, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. At once a Washington thoroughbred and a hometown Tennessean, Gore grew up accustomed to both environments. In the nation’s capital, Gore attended the exclusive St. Alban’s Episcopal School for Boys. In Tennessee, he worked on his family’s farm. Gore then attended Harvard, where he roomed with future actor Tommy Lee Jones. He earned a degree with high honors in government in 1969 ... politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions. While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbilt’s law school. Just two years later, he began to campaign for the Democratic nomination for Tennessee’s Fourth District congressional seat. When he won the nomination over Stanley Rogers, it was a big enough success to ...
- 907: Booker T Washington
- ... 50-cent piece coin. After being freed, Booker helped support his family. He worked on salt and coal mines. Booker self-taught himself the alphabet. Soon he began studying with a teacher from a nearby school for blacks. Booker soon than began attending the school, and had to work five hours before every night class. In school he called himself Booker Washington. Later his mother told him his name was Booker Taliaferro. Soon Booker changed his name to Booker Taliaferro Washington. His friends called him Booker T for short. Booker T ...
- 908: Mockingbird Cunninghams Vs. Ew
- ... proud and honest people. The Cunninghams did have a run in with the law one time, which caused several of the boys to be sent to "prison". The prison was more like a state industrial school, were the boys actually were fed and given an education. Some of them went on to higher education and became professionals. So once again they capitalized on an unfortunate event but, used it to progress ... Robert Ewell spent the family money on drinking. The Ewells were truly guests of the county of Maycomb. The Ewells children had little or no education. In fact the only reason the children went to school was to be able to continue receiving their relief checks. Since the requirement was that the children had to at least show up for the first day of school in order to collect the relief money, they sent their kids to school on the first day and that would be the extent of their school year. They did not make any strides to ...
- 909: Benjamin Franklin 4
- ... dependence on wisdom and intelligence. Franklin was sincere, honest, and was apt to self-examination. He acquired long lasting friends from persons of every age. Franklin found unquestionable delight in living. Benjamin Franklin started attending school at the age of 8 and was at the head of his class by the end of his first year. After only attending his first school for one year he moved on to math and arithmetic school. He failed out of that school by the time he was 10. He then quit school completely in order to assist his father in the soap and candle making business. At age 12 he ...
- 910: Huck Finn
- ... while a free spirit is a person who knows no boundaries, and cannot be tamed by society. It may appear at first that Huck is an escapist, for he enjoys not having to go to school when living with his father. He escapes from the cabin and his father’s abuse; however, he escapes from his father’s cabin out of the necessity of survival, not because he didn’t want ... was escaping, but the rules that society had imposed on him. Huck didn’t mind learning new things and being knowledgeable, but he did not like to get dressed up, to have to go to school, to be well behaved and polite, and to learn good manners. “I was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing…and my clothes got to be all rags and ... has everything a free spirit needs; a good companion, enough food and water to comfortably survive, and of course a swift moving river carrying him down the path of life. The huge river is a school for the free spirited. The river is where Huck found out he belongs; there he can be free from society’s rules. He can travel along next to the civilized world, stopping and visiting ...
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