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- 931: Personal Writing: My Experiences of Interracial Schooling
- Personal Writing: My Experiences of Interracial Schooling Throughout most of my school years, before attending MCTC, I had never experienced inter-racial schooling. I went to a small high school with about twenty minority students. These students were not outcasts they were treated as any other non-minority student. Therefore, I had little experience with minorities in a non-minority school. After the speech that was given by Michael Jefferson, I was more informed on the effects of stereotyping of minority students in a non-minority school. Stereotyping may cause students and teachers to view ...
- 932: The Philosopher, Aristotle
- ... rhetoric. Therefore those who taught this art stood to obtain a lot of wealth from their endeavors. These were known as sophists with whom much contempt was held by such philosophers as Socrates. "The greatest school of Rhetoric in all Greece was at this period held in Athens by the renowned Isocrates, who was at the zenith of his reputation."(Collins p. 11) A competitor with this school was Plato's Academy of philosophy which is where Aristotle arrived at in the year 367 B.C.. Plato became Aristotle's teacher and soon realized the massive potential and sheer intellect that Aristotle possessed ... at Plato's Academy that Aristotle was realized for his potential and was able to grow in knowledge and understanding of philosophy. It was not long before Aristotle became known as "the Mind of the School" and he stayed there for about twenty years. During this time Aristotle became well known and respected as a writer and orator. His philosophy however grew to differ greatly from that of his mentor' ...
- 933: Michael Jordan: King Of The Court
- ... game. I learned about a lot about Michael during the first week of my search since he was getting so much attention from the media at the time. When Michael Jordan was attending Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina nobody thought that he would ever turn out to be the player he is today let alone make it to the NBA. In fact, James Jordan, Michael s father, actually thought that Michael s best sport was baseball. His high school didn t think he was so great at basketball either so they cut him from the varsity team when he was a sophomore. To Michael playing basketball in the NBA seemed something of a distant ... he was cut from the varsity team Michael still practiced every day. Michael s practice paid off in his junior and senior years when he was the best player on the varsity team. After high school Michael was off to the University of North Carolina where for three years he would have some amazing accomplishments in basketball. Perhaps Michael s most memorable collegiate moment occurred while he was a freshman. ...
- 934: The Life of Jack London
- ... lungs were damaged. Since John could not walk very much to make a living, John moved his family across California to Oakland where he tried his hand in farming. Oakland is where Jack first attended school. When Jack first attended school the first thing he did was learn to read. From then on Jack read a lot. At the age of seven Jack had his first encounter with alcohol. While taking a pail of beer to ... he was a vagrant, Jack was immediately sent to prison. Jack wrote about his experience in prison in his book The Road. Shortly after being released from prison he returned home and entered Oakland High School enrolling in the winter class of 1897. As Jack entered high school he had the determination to become a very educated student. Jack London started studying nineteen hours a day. Jack continued to read ...
- 935: Albert Einstein 3
- Around 1886 Albert Einstein began his school career in Munich. As well as his violin lessons, which he had from age six to age thirteen, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, in particular the calculus, beginning around 1891. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan but Einstein remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to ... be stateless for a number of years. He did not even apply for Swiss citizenship until 1899, citizenship being granted in 1901. Following the failing of the entrance exam to the ETH, Einstein attended secondary school at Aarau planning to use this route to enter the ETH in Zurich. While at Aarau he wrote an essay (for which was only given a little above half marks!) in which he wrote ...
- 936: American History X
- ... Danny's latent writing ability. After turning in a glowing review of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", when asked to discuss a book about civil rights, Danny's now being forced by a concerned, hard-love school teacher to write an account of Derek's journey from the "heights" of murderous skinhead leadership to the depths of brutal rape in a prison shower. In the film there are unnerving scenes of racial violence: of black youths kicking a helpless white student in a high school restroom; of a Korean-owned grocery store terrorized by skinhead thugs; of an African American whose skull is split open by a skinhead who orders him to lie face down on a curb. Unlike many ... rape, robbery, and arson, that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as part of the inevitable texture of American life. "Racism" is never shrugged off. For example, when a White Georgetown Law School student reported earlier this year that black students are not as qualified as White students, it set off a booming, national controversy about "racism." If the student had merely murdered someone he would have ...
- 937: The Life of Hitler
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative ...
- 938: A Christmas Memory Vs. The Gra
- ... his friend. Another way in which these characters are alike is that both boys leave at the end of the story, though for different reasons. Buddy leaves because he is forced to go to military school. Colin leaves because he is sad over the death of Dolly, his best friend. For these reasons the boys are very similar. The boys also have many instances in which they are separated or isolated ... peers and their pages. Colin and Buddy are both rejected by their peers. As a result they are friends with older people. When Colin goes to live in the tree, he is separated from his school and community. He is also isolated from the outside world. Colin also experiences separation in The Grass Harp. At the end of the story he loses his best friend Dolly and then leaves the place were he lived. Similarly, Buddy is isolated from society; he is never at school and no one ever comes to visit him at his home. At the end of A Christmas Memory Buddy is sent to a military school by the people who live in the house with ...
- 939: Margaret Sanger
- ... and, consequently, the stone cutting commissions that kept the family fed were often lacking. The children did not fair much better than their father in terms of public ridicule. The Higgins children would arrive to school to chants of "Children of the Devil". One day, her teacher saw to it that Margaret was made the brunt of the torment in class, at which point she simply picked up her things and left the schoolhouse vowing never to return. Margaret was exceptionally bright in school and her father pleaded with her to go back. Margaret refused. Margaret's two older sisters, Mary and Nan, offered to pay for the cost of a private school out of their paychecks if Margaret agreed to wait tables for her room and board. So, in 1896 Margaret ended up at Claverack, one of the first coeducational schools in the East. It was ...
- 940: Character Development
- Character Development School Trying Character Education on For Size The role of the school is changing today. The school now must realize its role in character development. Schools must recognize that they cannot accomplish the academic aspect of their mission if they do not attend to the needs of the whole child, and ...
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