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- 1551: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... a dread of others that was combined with a general lack of self-confidence. He was developing a reluctance to change, a need to feel the assurance of familiar places. The prospect of going to school frightened him. The little boy who'd once seemed so happy and self-assured had been replaced by a different person, now deeply shy, distant, nearly uncommunicative." Lionel suspected that the move from Iowa to ... teenager would show some outer signs of mental illness. But Jeff just became more isolated and uncommunicative. Far from rebelling, he never argued with his parents because nothing seemed to matter to him. In high school, Jeff had average grades and participated in a few activities: he played tennis and worked on the school newspaper. However, his classmates considered him a loner and an alcoholic, who brought liquor into the classroom. He actually had a prom date, who he later invited to his parents' house for a seance. ...
- 1552: Greek Orthodox Customs
- ... get married. I wanted to be a singer. When I was 14, my family moved to a Greek Orthodox community. Suddenly, even though I could still barely say " hello" in English, I was going to school and being exposed to all these wonderful Western things. Then, at a neighborhood Greek festival, my mother, who was convinced I was boy crazy, saw me talking to a guy, and decided that if she ... marriage, I stopped getting my period, but nobody explained that that meant I was pregnant. When I told my mom, she said I was going to have a baby. I had to drop out of school. I was 14. I had a C-section and Sophia was born. I'd sit on my stoop and watch neighborhood kids play. I ached to join them, but I had to clean and cook ... aunt and I would go to McDonald's. That was the big treat. Once, my uncle took me to a movie. I watched a lot of TV. My dearest wish was to go back to school. But after Sophia was old enough, I had to work in a factory with my mother, making men's jackets. My husband worked the night shift in a restaurant. He wasn't a bad ...
- 1553: Life And Legend Of Howard Hugh
- ... get stories on Hughes. Howard was also associated with what has been called one of the greatest publishing hoaxes in history. Howard Hughes Sr., commonly known as Big Howard, was a graduate of the Harvard School of Law, yet never once appeared before a court of law. Big Howard spent the first 36 years of his life chasing money across the Texas plains, as a wildcatter and a speculator in oil ... motorcycle, Hughes built one for himself, taking parts from his fathers steam car. As a graduate of Harvard, Big Howard sought his son to have the same education, and sent his son to boarding school in Massachusetts in fall of 1919. After one year had passed it became apparent that Sonny was not going to succeed in grooming school. Big Howard traveled across the country to collect his son, and they attended a boat race on the way home. After losing a bet to his son on the outcome of the race, Big ...
- 1554: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huckleberry Finn
- ... boy like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women ... beautiful women--but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out too late that Tom's adventures are imaginary: that raiding a caravan of "A-rabs" really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday school picnic, that stolen "joolry" is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another ... in front of his face; his skin, Huck says, is white like a fish's belly or like a tree toad's. Pap's savage appearance reflects his feelings as he demands that Huck quit school, stop reading, and avoid church. Huck is able to stay away from Pap for a while, but Pap kidnaps Huck three or four months after Huck starts to live with the Widow and takes ...
- 1555: Cheever
- ... ordeal was my fault. So I did what was the closest thing to an answer I could think of, I started smoking weed. A lot of it, everyday I did it. I would go to school stoned, come home from school stoned, and go to sleep stoned. I WAS ALWAYS HIGH. All of this weed seemed to worsen my condition though, I thought this was going to help me. I was even more confused. I quit ... so close anymore but still there. They died down for a while but the effects were still there. I let it go and everything was fine for a while. I was so far behind in school it was unimaginable. I tried to get everything back on track but there would have been a better chance of the Titanic resurfacing and all the people being alive. My grades dropped and my ...
- 1556: Are Smaller Classes Beneficial
- ... result of raising your hand for an extended period of time. Wouldn't it be nice if America's children could avoid numb arms and receive the attention they deserve from the classroom teacher? Sometimes school districts can't find the space or the money to reduce class sizes. "The state and federal governments have given over 100 million dollars to schools. The money aids the schools in shrinking the class size to the magic number, 18. School administrators can use the state and federal aid to hire more teachers, buy more supplies and add more classrooms" (Wasserman 6). Some people think that smaller classes are the most important. Others feel that a ... learning in the third grade and lower and the class rosters were no smaller than 15 children. Above this grade and this number of students, there was no substantial change" (Cooper 2). So, should every school push for funding to reduce class size? Of course they shouldn't. Schools need to be granted the money and authority to decide for themselves. There are small rural high schools out there with ...
- 1557: Critical Analysis Of Soldiers
- ... s definition of who he has become. He recognizes he has changed, and this change is played out dramatically against the backdrop of a town where nothing else has changed since he was in high school. His father parks his car in the same place; it's still the same car; the girls walking down the street look like the same girls, except more of them have short hair now. Imamura ... a careful examination of what Krebs was doing before the war and what happened while he was in Europe. Prior to the war, Hemingway tells us in the very first paragraph, Krebs attended a Methodist school in Kansas. He was not out of place then; Hemingway says "There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar" (Hemingway, 145 ... about the Kingdom of God and his lack of ability to love, but when his mother begins to cry he waffles; she will never see that he isn't the boy he was in high school -- or perhaps, the boy she thought he was. Works Cited: Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldier's Home", from Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories. (New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition) 1995. Imamura, Tateo. " 'Soldier's Home:' ...
- 1558: Asian Exclusion Laws
- ... entered as paper sons. The act did not prevent Chinese immigration per se; it simply prevented most legal immigration. The 1907-1908 Gentleman s Agreement was the result of a conflict between the San Francisco school board and the Asian (particularly Japanese) community related to school segregation. President Roosevelt made an agreement with the Japanese government. In exchange for the school board s allowing Japanese students to attend white schools in California, the Japanese government agreed to stop issuing passports to laborers. (Chan) Despite the enactment of the Gentleman s Agreement, some 120,000 Japanese ...
- 1559: Joeseph McCarthy
- Who was Joseph McCarthy? Joseph R. McCarthy was born in 1908 on a family farm in Wisconsin. He went to a country school and decided he was done with his education at the young age of 14. After that, he explained to his family that he was finished with his studies and wanted to become a farmer like ... that he would go to work. At age 19 he became the manager of a grocery store in Manawa, a town thirty miles away. Some friends of his convinced him to go back to high school. He was a very smart man and, at the age of 20, managed to finish four years of high school in just one year. In 1930 he enrolled in Marquette University in Milwaukee where he soon succeeded in getting his law degree in 1935. He ended up moving north to Waupaca. There he ran ...
- 1560: Beloved
- ... people thought of her and her family and what they did to show it. People are cruel, some just show it more than others. I felt bad for Denver and how she was teased at school. They would tease her and accuse her mother of being a witch, which we know is not true But what it shows is how Denver becomes isolated from the world during the years where friends are needed. Im sure that at one point or another Denver told Sethe about what was happening at school, which pushed her more and more away from society. Something else that I noticed is that the public never had much interaction with the characters. Possibly this was the authors way of proving the theme ... in this novel Beloved. The theme can be seen in the isolation of Sethe and her inner self. It can also be seen with Denver and her separation from society because of the children at school. There is also the detachment of Sethes family from the rest of the world because of her past and what people think of the house and the family. Isolation can be a very ...
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