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- 991: An Anaysis Of Sexism Against The Female In Athletics
- ... Viverito, Chairwoman of the NCAA’s Committee on Women’s Athletics. The newspaper took a detailed look at the issue in late 1995, when it stated numbers for 1994 of the 107 Division I-A school. Since then, the Equity In Athletics Disclosure Act, requires all colleges to report data on men and women’s athletics. The Federal law took effect April 1, 1997. To ensure that A college is in compliance with Title IX, The Department of Education office for Civil Rights, uses a three-pronged test to decide. A school is in compliance if it passes a single prong. One prong asks its school to show a history of continuing expansion of women’s athletics programs. Another asks if interest and abilities of women athletes have been met. The only measurable prong asks if the percentage of women ...
- 992: The Color Purple - The Struggl
- ... one above would have never been published. Lack of education was a way the South tried to keep the blacks in a lower class. In The Color Purple, Celie is not allowed to go to school because she is to be kept barefoot and pregnant. She still received an education by learning what her little sister was teaching her, though. It was believed that if the blacks were kept uneducated then ... were coming south and starting colleges for colored people. Booker T. Washington wrote, in his autobiography, ONE day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia. This was the first time that I had ever heard anything about any kind of school or college that was more pretentious than the little coloured school in our town. In the darkness of the mine I noiselessly crept as close as I could to the two men who were ...
- 993: Personal Writing: Life is Short
- ... care about being careful or making smart decisions up until about a year ago. During the past few years I have had several experiences that nearly have killed me. I had just began a new school year and I just started going to High School. I missed my friends from my old school but I figured High School was better. My grades had improved dramatically, and I was much happier here. I was going out with several friends one night and I never expected what was to ...
- 994: Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)
- ... encouraged to try his best, he was punished when he did not do well. This may explain why he acted the way he did when he grew up. Hitler did not do much better at school than he did at home. He was a poor student, not because he wasn't intelligent but rather because he never applied himself. His teachers often complained that he was lazy and disrespectful. In 1905, two years after the death of his father, as his situation at home worsened, Hitler dropped out of school. After leaving school Hitler would spend his days roaming around the streets and drawing anything which sparked his interest. Eventually he met Kubizek, the man who would end up being his only true friend. Kubizek recalled Hitler ...
- 995: Adolf 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 ...
- 996: 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 ...
- 997: Calamitatum Of The Individual
- ... war." (p. 58, ll. 7-9). This is remarkable for the son of a soldier to make such a choice - even renouncing his inheritance - and pursue only intellectual advancement. Leaving home, he traveled off to school in Paris. He was welcomed for a short while, but soon found disfavor with his teacher Champeaux, the grand master of dialectic at the time, by refuting his arguments and proving himself several times to ... his individuality. One of his intellectual rank finds it hard to conform to others' standards, and naturally becomes a spectacle when showing his skills. This early conflict caused Abelard to leave and start his own school. Unfortunately, he could not maintain it and had to return home. Years later he was teaching in Paris again, he tells us how pupils flocked to him from every country in Europe, a statement which ... present calling, but I did not wholly abandon the instruction of the profane arts in which I was better practiced." (P. 77, l.31) - "This aroused the envy and hatred of the other heads of school against me." (P.78, l.5) It would seem that Abelard's extreme individuality led him into trouble no matter where he turned, or what endeavour he undertook. When he did apply himself to ...
- 998: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... ways to catch a glimpse of their weird neighbor Boo Radley. Boo is mysterious to them because he always stays in the house and they have never seen him before. After the summer is over, school is about to start and Dill goes back home to Mississippi. This is Scouts first year of school and on her first day she gets into trouble with the teacher because she already knows how to read and write, and gets into a fight with Walter Cunningham. While walking home from school one day Scout finds a stick of gum in a hole in a tree by the Radley’s yard. Later on Scout and Jem find more gifts in the tree, but then suddenly Mr. ...
- 999: Peer Pressure Around Us
- ... hard to stay away from the pressure of peer pressure. I think we all go through a period of peer pressure which affects our life in a major way. By looking at friends, family, and school I will show that peer pressure is a major part of our everyday life. In life friends are a major part of our decision and thoughts. When you are growing up you always feel like ... than everyone else. When we see families which are better, we feel the pressure either from parents or from ourselves to try and improve. We don’t want to compromise the integrity of our family. School is important to all of us and the pressures that come from the schools are high. We all have the pressures of achieving good grades, and doing well so that we can succeed in the future for us and our families. In school, you feel the pressure from your friends to do well because they might be doing better than you. It’s hard to avoid your the pressure from your family when it comes to getting ...
- 1000: Glass Menagerie
- ... the world outside of their apartment. She collects tiny glass animals and she treasures them more than actually participating in daily contact with the public. It comes to where Amanda enrolls her in a business school so that Laura will have some sort of trade which she will be able to support herself in the future. But Laura is so shy that she does not attend classes and is eventually dropped ... inviting a nice young man from the shoe warehouse over for dinner at the apartment. When Jim O'Connor comes to dinner, Laura recognizes him as the boy that she had a crush in high school. After dinner, Amanda tells Jim to keep Laura accompanied in the parlor. Initially Laura is petrified but she begins to feel more comfortable around him as they reminisce over high school days. Jim dances with Laura and kisses her, only to reveal that he is engaged to another woman and must leave. Which I think is the downfall of the play. Amanda believes that Tom ...
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