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- 1581: Who Are You?: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder
- Who Are You?: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Since His Earliest Days as a Popular High School Actor and His Years as The "Best Networker" in the San Diego Music Scene, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Has Reinvented Himself as the Voice of an Alienated Generation. A Rolling Stone Special Report "Welcome ... Seattle native and son of a local lawyer, has co-founded a small record label, Loosegroove, which his sister Shelly helps run. Mike McCready, a local boy who began playing in bands in junior high school, has come the closest to falling prey to the occupational hazards of rock stardom: He did a stint at a Minneapolis clinic for booze problems, in 1994, but is by all accounts now clean and ... from an unhappy childhood and an alienated and lonely adolescence. In a wide-ranging series of interviews that he granted to Rolling Stone, in 1993, he shaped his myth as a reluctant star -- a high-school dropout turned surf-slacker whose ascent from humble beginnings occurred almost despite himself. This, too, fit perfectly with the grunge doctrine, which rejected the careerism and grasping ambition of the pandering 1980s hair-metal ...
- 1582: Carson Mccullers The Heart Is
- ... age. She shocked her mother at age six by sitting down and playing with both hands a song she heard for the first time that afternoon in a movie theater. From then until late high school, she practiced fervently and hoped to carry her work onto a musical education at the New York Julliard School. However, at seventeen, she was told that she had pneumonia and would have many complications. Later, she found out she had rheumatic fever. She was too weak to play piano during her long recuperation, so she took to writing plays in the style of a favorite author, Eugene O'Neill. In late high school Carson faced the crushing blow of losing her mentor and piano teacher, Mary Tucker. She was so devastated by this loss that she put aside her interest in piano permanently. She hoped to develop ...
- 1583: RedScare
- ... though Allen´s treatment toward Poe is not exactly known, we know that Allen never treated Poe with sensitivity. In 1815, the Allen family moved to England on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, which would effect his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top ...
- 1584: Music In Therapy
- ... and Universities Below is a list of the colleges and universities which offer AMTA approved degree programs in music therapy. For more information about each program, contact the Director of Music Therapy at the specific school. If you have corrections to this list, please contact me at the address below. * denotes schools offering graduate programs as well. Alabama •University of Alabama, (Tuscaloosa, AL 35487) Arizona •Arizona State University, (Tempe, AZ 85287 ... explanation for any of these types of injuries. Emotional: In infants, failure to thrive or develop at a normal pace. In toddlers, signs of distrust, passive attitude or personality, overly concerned with pleasing adults. In school aged children, difficulties in developing relationships with peers, social withdrawal. Sexual: Incest including father/daughter; mother/son; brother/sister. Other adult/child non-consensual sexual relationships. Contributing Factors •Parental Insufficiency: low self-esteem of parent or guardian. •A Different Child: Inability to control a difficult child. Inability for parent to form strong ties to the child. Over expectation of the child's ability to perform in school or society by parent. •Inadequate support system: Lack of sufficient support system for parent to turn to in times of extreme stress. •Inability to cope with crisis situations. •Lack of lifestyle management. Behavioral Symptoms ...
- 1585: Beloved 2
- ... that her show of mercy is also murder. Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the duplistic nature of her actions. Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. I wasn't going back there[Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead"(Morrison 42). Sethe's words suggest that she has made a moral stand by her refusal to ... saying is that's a selfish pleasure I never had before. I couldn't let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn't let her or any of em live under School Teacher. That was out"(163). Sethe's love for her children is apparent, yet she still shifts the burden of responsibility away from herself. She acknowledges that it was a "selfish pleasure" to make something ... was clean.(251) Sethe's words suggest that the only part of herself that she cares for is her children. Indeed, the only reason that she killed her daughter is because Sethe refused to let School Teacher or any other white person "dirty" her children as Sethe herself had been dirtied. Sethe's nobility, however irrationally predicated, is apparent. She loves her children to much to let them be tarnished ...
- 1586: John Harlan
- ... to the United States upon completion in 1923. After returning from England, Harlan began working for a law office in New York. At the same time, he was studying law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm. Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 ... and that it would hinder the outcome of many police interrogations. Finally, in Tinker v. Demoines, a case which involved the First Amendment and its Free Speech Clause, Harlan again dissented. He felt that the school's rule regarding the wearing of arm bands was legitimate, and therefor the Tinkers did not have a legitimate complaint. Harlan seems to have been a justice that wasn't afraid to sway. If ...
- 1587: Reconstruction
- ... educational system for their children as well as for themselves. And gradually, towards the end of the reconstruction in 1875, in states like Mississippi, Florida, and South Carolina approximately half of all children went to school. With the same amount of knowledge available to African Americans as there was for whites, it led them to get slightly better jobs, with better pay. The main idea behind African Americans being given the right to a school system was a good one, as well as an important addition to the South’s new government. However it subconsciously began the insatiable chain reaction of segregation. Segregation existed in all the public universities, except ... University of South Carolina. Instead of following the African Americans into an already established schooling that the whites set up and attended, their 14th Amendment rights were violated, and they were placed in a separate school. As much as the Reconstruction failed to change in equal educational rights, it failed in civil rights as well. A person can easily say that the only successful social achievement that came out of ...
- 1588: A Study of the Negro Policeman: Book Review
- A Study of the Negro Policeman: Book Review Nicholas Alex, assistant professor of sociology at The City University of New York, holds a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research and a B.S. from the Wharton School. He was formerly a research assistant with the Russell Sage Foundation, an instructor at Adelphi University, and has had working experience in his academic specialty-the sociology of professions and occupations-while an industrial engineer in the aircraft industry, later as business manager of the Walden School. This is his first book. In this book Alex made an effort to examine the peculiar problems of Negro policemen who live in an age which has not yet resolved to problem of inequality ...
- 1589: Biography Precis -- Black Boy
- ... Richard sees himself as different from others, because he must assume some of the responsibilities of an adult. In contrast to his above characteristics, Richard soon shows his ability in learning, even before he starts school, which he begins at a later age than other boys because his mother couldn't afford his school clothes. Rebellion, hunger (for knowledge and food), and the sense of being different will continue with Richard throughout this book. In the following chapters the Wrights move to the home of Richard's Aunt Maggie ... Richard is sent to his Uncle Clark's, but he is unhappy there and insists on returning to his mother's. Later, Richard confronts his Aunt Addie, who teaches at the Seventh-Day Adventist church school. He also resists his grandmother's attempts to convert him to religious faith. He writes his first story and blossoms in a literary sense. Richard then gets a job selling newspapers but quits when ...
- 1590: Racism In America
- ... American, an American Indian, a Puerto Rican...you might say that American is in definite a major make-over concerning all races. Two white students were suspended for assaulting African American students at Millard High School in Omaha, Neb. And a third white student was threatened by other whites for associating with the school’s 25 blacks. (CQ Researcher; Phillips, Susan, 3) Are you ready for that make-over? Many white students, for example, believe that blacks now have equal access to a college education... (CQ Researcher; Phillips, Susan ... way or another toward racism. I just wanted open your eyes to some of the disturbing things going on in your great nation, and possibly right in your own back yard, at your child’s school, even in your workplace. Shootings happen everyday, but beheadings don’t. If this is supposed to be the year when America and everybody is supposed to re-evaluate the "issues of race"...then what ...
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