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- 1021: A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
- A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: The narrator (Gene) returns to the Devon School in New Hampshire, that he graduated from 15 years earlier. He goes to a certain tree and switches back to the past. Phineas dares everyone to jump from a branch in the tree into the ... falls to the ground, then Gene jumps into the river. Chapter 5: Finny has a shattered leg. Gene bears private guilt. He puts on Finny's clothes and the sensation excites him. Dr. Stanpole, the school physician, informs Gene that Finny wants to see him. Finny recalls the fall, and expresses that he thought Gene wanted him to fall. Gene is about to confess when Dr. Stanpole interupts. Finny is taken ... everyone could forget about Finny's accident. Finny confesses to Gene that he is no convinced that the war is real, and also explains that he has seen Leper hiding in various places around the school grounds. Brinker conducts a war trail, investigating the cause of Finny's accident and ambiguously accusing gene as the guilty party. Brinker asks Finny to recall the events leading up to his actual fall ...
- 1022: "Beware of the Fish" by Gordan Korman: A Review
- ... by Gordan Korman: A Review 'Beware The Fish' is one of the funniest books I have ever read in my life. It is about two boys named Bruno and Boots who go to a boarding school called 'Macdonald Hall'. Their headmaster is a grim man named Mr. Sturgeon(a.k.a 'The Fish'. A sturgeon is a kind of fish.) It all started when Elmer Drimsdale, school genius invented somethingthat is sort of like a television broadcaster. He didn't know it really worked!!!! When Bruno and Boots found out their school was broke and needed more money, Bruno began to think up schemes to put their school on the map.All his attempts seemed to fail, so he vented his anger on the television broadcaster, ...
- 1023: Response to Susan Horton's Article "Mothers, Sons, and The Gangs"
- ... how much the neighborhood could mean. She states '"Here the neighborhood, it is family."'(Horton233) She claims to understand the loyalty to the neigborhood because "her whole life,...is wrapped up ...in it" (horton233) During school her son gets into a fight with a rival gang member because each claimed a different neighborhood. Her son was expelled and she says '"The principle at his school was upset because my son said 'I'd die for my neighborhood.' If he's said 'I'd die for my country,' the principal probably would have given him a medal."' (Horton233) Garcia knows that ... to Jamie and he found gang life more attractive so he ran away from home. "Jamee started seeing these guys out there who were wearing expensive clothes and they didn't have to go to school or ask their parents for money." So to be like them he began to sell drugs. When he tired of life on the run he returned home and Kary still expected he abide by ...
- 1024: Ben Carson
- ... moved to Boston, Massachusetts. They lived there for two years and moved back to Detroit in 1961. Ben Carson wasn't always the "smart guy". In fact for a long time he did poorly in school. It wasn't until after Ben failed his eye test in fifth grade that his grades changed. He had very poor eyesight, which was restricting his learning. After Ben began to wear glasses, he gradually began to do better in school. With his mother's help he became the smartest boy in his class. Even though Ben grew smarter, he had acquired a bad temper. His attitude had gotten him in trouble before, but never anything ... revelation. Ben realized that his temper would destroy him and vowed to not let it ever control him again. The change in Ben's attitude only led to better thing for him. Later in high school he joined the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) program. He did so well in ROTC that Ben was offered a full scholarship to the United States Military Academy. In 1968, Ben Carson received a ...
- 1025: History Of Womans Education
- ... John was the director of was robbed, leaving Emma and John in a bit of financial trouble. Partly to recieve additional income and partly to satisfy herself Emma asked John if she could open a school for young women in their own home. John hesitated at first, but he then approved her plan. She began teaching girls "higher" subjects, mostly mathematics, which had not been introduced to women before this time ... Monroe, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. They all approved her philosophy, although Emma never maintained that women were the political equals of men or should assume roles independent as men. In 1819 Emma moved her school from Vermont to Waterford, New York. The Troy Common Council raised four thousand dollars by taxes for Emma's expendatures, John Willard leased a building for Emma at a cost of four hundered dollars. In ... with ninety girls enrolled, twenty-nine from Troy, and some from as far away as North Carolina and Georgia. The schools popularity only grew, in 1830, as Troy's population neared 15,000 Emma's school was known throughout the country; daughters of goveners attended. For a few years the Troy Female Seminary was the sole source of reasonable education for women in the United States. One of the more ...
- 1026: HAMLET
- ... Claudius conducts several pieces of business during the beginning of this scene. He first tries to take measures to prevent a war with Norway, then discusses Laertes' request to leave court and go back to school. Claudius agrees with Polonius, Laertes' father, that Laertes' plan of going back to school is a good one. He gives Laertes permission to go. This familial scene brings Claudius' mind to Hamlet. He recognizes Hamlet is upset and he tries to make amends and urges Hamlet to stay in Denmark, instead of returning to school. After his mother echoes Claudius' request, Hamlet agrees to stay. Hamlet is left on stage after everyone else leaves. He speaks a soliloquy expressing his anger at the present circumstances in his life and ...
- 1027: To Kill A Mockingbird 3
- ... is told through Scout. Scout is much like a boy, 8 years old, and funny. Scout hated to be called a girl and she wore britches. She knew how to read before she started her school, where most of the first grade had failed last year". She was good at fighting with boys. She loved her father Atticus and brother Jem. Not so much Calpurnia, who always orders her around. She ... father satisfactory: he played with us, read with us, and treated us with courteous detachment". They called their father Atticus. Atticus is an old man in his 50's, and nice. He never went to school, but studied to be an attorney. He wore glasses and was nearly blind in his left eye. He did not hunt, drink, fish, or play poker. He was very intelligent and tries to teach Scout ... stories and myths they heard about Boo Radley. He never comes out of the house, so they have never seen him or really know what he is like. After the first summer Scout starts her school. The new teacher does not like that Scout knows how to read and write, and tells her to tell her father not to teach her anymore. Atticus teaches Scout a simple trick how to ...
- 1028: Muhammed Ali
- ... guy. He was polite and always did what he was asked to do. He carried his Bible with him all the time, read when he could, and loved it. Throughout his amateur career and high school, Clay worked at the Nazareth College Library. Clay also was viewed as a kid obsessed with boxing. Clay got bigger and stronger as his talents grew. Sometimes, to keep in shape, Clay would race the city buses to school. Bettie Johnson, a school counselor said Clay wasnt a good student, and if he had not been a boxer, he would not have stood out in any way but he went to school like he was supposed ...
- 1029: Ancient Japanese Art
- ... reminds me of walks with my dad when I was a kid. After waking up just the two of us, we would eat some soggy cereal and putting on our shoes, (me velcroing my grade-school-grandpa-shoes), and heading out to look for a good place to catch some catfish and a cold. Maybe this is the place that he first went fishing with his dad too. Who knows? I ... for the present; thus the styles of many past masters were kept alive as options within the painter's contemporary vocabulary. Innumerable works are signed as "in the manner of" some earlier artist. The Wu school, an important school of Ming landscape painting founded by Shen Zhou (Shen Chou), was based on these values.(Groliers, Ming Dynasty: Chinese art and architecture) Did you see that? The Wu school founded by Shen Zhou, that ...
- 1030: Dancing And Ballet
- ... is best known for her three minute solo of "The Dying Swan". Pavlova traveled all over the world and could often make people cry when she danced this piece. She studied at the Imperial Ballet School and then joined the Imperial Ballet Company. In 1906 she became prima ballerina of the company. She later formed her own company and took it on tours until the time of her death. Enrico Cecchetti ... Cecchetti is best known for his leading male role in "La Scala" and the Bluebird role in "The Sleeping Beauty". He was born in Rome and began teaching in 1890. He taught at the Imperial School of Ballet and later became an instructor for the Ballets Russes de Diaghilev in Milan, Italy. In 1918 he opened a private school. He was the last great dancer of the strict Italian tradition. George Balanchine (1904-1983) Balanchine was a Russian choreographer who developed a new trend in American and European Ballet. His ballets usually weaved ...
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