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- 1061: England
- ... commonwealth immigrants are coming from southern Asia. Since there are so many different kinds of people there has been a lot of fighting between them. England’s economy is very strong because of an excellent school system. Their school system is much like ours except they only have to attend school from ages 5 through 16. Although they don’t go to school as long as us they learn things at a faster rate and school involves harder work. The English also play sports. They ...
- 1062: 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 ...
- 1063: Teenage Pregnancy
- ... the number is growing. Many socioeconomic factors influence pregnancy rates, such as; different races, different religions, financial status, education and family background. Another influence is the sexual education children are receiving or not receiving at school and at home. While the problem of teenage pregnancy is acknowledged, solutions are coming slowly. Some parents feel that pregnancy is a result of the lack of sex education courses taught in schools, while others ... have any influence on the teenage pregnancy rates. The reason for this may be that the courses are just not being taught effectively or are targeting the wrong age group: Two major goals of the school sex education programs are to reduce the incidence of unwarranted pregnancy as well as the rates of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. However, to be effective, programs must begin early. If we wait until an age when most adolescents are sexually active, we might have to combat an acquired behavioral pattern of ineffective STD/pregnancy prevention behavior. Some statistics found that in the 1984 survey of school superintendents found that children do not all seem to know what we expect them to know. It was found that 50% of schools offered a family life education program. Whereas 87% of urban districts ...
- 1064: Booker T. Washington
- ... but his intense desire to learn enabled him to master a Webster spelling book, and even led him to more ahead the hands of the clock at work so he could get to his night school by nine. While playing marbles with other boys, an old colored man told Booker about the meaning of Sunday school. He gave up his marble game for regular Sunday School attendanceand later became thee teacher and superintendent of the school where he had learned to read. In 1881 Washington was selected to head a newly established normal school for blacks at Tuskegee. The real ...
- 1065: Im The King Of The Castle
- ... to tell him something, but not now. He thought it had something to do with the coming marriage, which Edmund told him. Chapter 11: Mrs. Kingshaw told Charles that he would go to the same school as Edmund, which wasn't St. Vincent. They went to the same school together now. Charles wanted to run away again, he ran to a shed. When he was inside the door slammed shut, and he heard the click of the padlock. Edmund closed the door, there was ... when he heard a voice call his name it was Edmund, he said he had the key and Charles started to yell at him. Edmund told Charles that he had a lot of friends in school, and they would do everything he said. Charles started to weep. Chapter 12: They all went on a sort of familytrip. They went to Leydell castle. It was a castle ruin and beside it ...
- 1066: Stephen King
- ... Maine. Around his 11th anniversary Stephen’s mom moved to Durham, Maine, along with Stephen and his brother, to take care of her parents, whom were to old to take care of themselves. Stephen’s school days were spent in the Durham Grammar School. He then attended Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. He went to college at the University of Maine at Orono, at which, during his spophomore year, he worte a weekly column for THE MAINE CAMPUS. During his years at college ...
- 1067: Jim Thorpe
- ... After that Jim kept to himself. Being only nine years old, he would go out raccoon hunting with his dog. Often making camp and not coming home for days. He was barely inside at all. School was unbearable for Jim. He wanted to be outside. Jim went to Carlisle school. Carlisle school was set up by Lt. Richard Henry Pratt of the U.S. Army as a way to help Indians integrate into the American culture. They hired Glenn S. "Pop" Warner as a football coach. ...
- 1068: Hitler's Ambitions
- ... ran away from home because of the constant beatings he had received from his father. Now Hitler’s father’s abuse was put upon Hitler (Flood, p6-7). When the time to choose a secondary school came, Hitler wanted to go to a classical school but was forced to go to a technical school by his father. In secondary school Hitler’s grades dropped dramatically (Heyes p21). Hitler was however very interested in German Nationalism and figures such as, Bismarck and Frederick despite his low grades (History place). ...
- 1069: House On Mango Street
- ... the book was Sally. Sally was a child that was physically abused by her father. Her father believed that her beauty would get her into trouble. Her father was extremely religious. When Sally came to school, she wore make up, but when she walked home, she rubbed it all off and stared at her shoes. She refused to look up. The boys say bad things about Sally. It’s hard for ... to me. In this chapter, Esperanza’s mother talks about how she could be have been something. Esperanza’s mother has so many talents, but she never had the chance to use them. She quit school while she was still young. She quit school because she didn’t have the right clothes, therefore she didn’t feel that she fit in. She was smart thought. Due to this, Esperanza’s mother wants Esperanza to get a good education ...
- 1070: The Reign 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 ...
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