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- 1631: Grease: Theme
- ... slumber party and malt shop to the dance contest and drag race. Better yet, it has a sense of humor about those days, to the point of including ultimate icon Frankie Avalon in the "Beauty School Dropout" dream sequence. That brings up the main draw of GREASE -- the music. As I type this, at least one Top 40 station across the country is playing the "Grease Megamix," a medley of the ... virginal good-girl from Australia he had a fling with over the summer. They parted ways, him headed for his senior year and her headed back for Australia, only to find themselves at the same school. Sandy finds out that the sensitive, caring boy she knew over the summer acts completely different at school, but she's hopelessly devoted to him anyway. There's a song about it, of course. The plot is thin and transparent but has to be that way so that all the production numbers ...
- 1632: John Kennedy
- ... started out by going to a couple of Public schools in Brookline. He later moved onto Private schools in Riverdale, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut. In the years 1935 and 1936 John attended the London School of Economics. Later on in 1940 at Harvard University he graduated with honors. John also did some graduate work in economics at Stanford, the prestigious university. In his college thesis he wrote "Why England Slept ... In 1962 James Meredith, whom was surrounded by US marshals, was escorted onto the University Of Mississippi campus. When a riot broke out due to the racism of whites against this colored man going to school at the college, two people were killed and some two hundred marshals and National Guardsmen were injured. President Kennedy was In favor of the desegregation of schools and public places. John was a civil rights ... sat in the front seat. Since it was a nice day the top was down on the convertible and the windows rolled down. Suddenly shots were fired at the president from the seven story Texas School Book Depository. The first hit John in the throat. Connally was also wounded by that same bullet through the back, came out his chest and got lodged in his thigh. Another shot was fired, ...
- 1633: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... soldier in the Civil War, contracted typhoid fever and dies. This caused Kate to go into seclusion for two years. She spent most of her time in the family attic. Missing a great deal of school at this time did not cause Kate to flounder. Although she was a scholastic student, she being a creative storyteller. After finishing school, she took two years off and became the belle in St. Louis Society in which her mother, Eliza, was so fond of. It was during this time that Kate started being criticized for her rebellious ... and a great-grandmother raised her. She grew up with women making decisions about their lives, and on tales of women being dominant and strong. Some of her influencing may also have come from the school she attended. The nuns were strong and durable, and showed her women could be in charge of their own lives. Many critics believe this is when Kate became rebellious of the way women were ...
- 1634: The Lord of the Flies: SUmmary
- ... Lord of the Flies: SUmmary The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, an adventure and suspense story, is written in 1857. The story sets on an deserted Pacific coral island. A group of school boys are marooned on this island after a plane crash on a trip to Australia. The story begins with a large number of school boys on an uninhabited tropical island and two of the elder boys who have leadership qualities compete to achieve a semblance of order so as to survive. Ralph, who has found a conch and blows ... suspense and horror, captures my imagination and my interest throughout. The author=s message of what mankind must guard against if the human race is to survive is depicted through the boys= rapid transformation from school boys to savages. In the novel, Ralph represents democratic societies while he tries to hold a civil society together where every man is allowed personal freedom of thought and actions and Jack represents dictators ...
- 1635: Animal Farm: Animal Satire
- ... Empire. A few years after Eric was born, he retired on a low pension and moved back to England. Though their income was not much enough, the Blair family sent their son away to boarding school which was an exclusive preparatory school, to prepare him for Eton Collage. Eric then won a scholarship to Eton Collage. During his education from the age of eight to eighteen, as he wrote in his essay about his school experiences titled "Such, Such Were the Joys," he experienced many things about the "world where the prime necessities were money, titled relatives, athleticism, tailor-made clothes", inequality, oppression and class distinctions in the schools ...
- 1636: Preparing The Educational Syst
- ... sole domain of the friction-zone residents. What I mean is the inevitable pressures our children were exposed to via the media s description of the events, public mobilization exercises, Civil Defense exercises in the school, lethal terrorist activities, security checks at the entrances of amusement parks, the father s departure for reserve service, conversations of adults in their vicinity, etc. Besides the threat in the form of physical strength in ... non-bombarded kibbutz, and in a catharsis of stress situations that is enabled by discussions on the subject between the adults and the kids. From here stems the need for enforcing the level of the school s level of organization, in improving the readiness of the educational staff in dealing with the predicted difficulties. As well as in insuring the readiness of the team itself in dealing with stress situations. The ... Nord Pub., Haifa. Eilon, A., Lahad, M. (1990). Children in the Shelter, The Remainder Citizen Defense Journal, and HagMa r 5, the Ministry of Defense, pp. 50-52. Binyamini, K. (1975). Emergency Psychological Help for School, Opinion 5, pp. 5-13. Granot, C., Brander, M. (1987). Community Services in a state of Emergency, the Matnasim Society, Jerusalem. Lahad, M. (1981). Program for Preparation of teachers and Students for States of ...
- 1637: History of Basketball
- ... name is Dr. James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of ... a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1891 (after serving as McGill's Athletic Director) Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with several problems. One problem was making a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a not ...
- 1638: A Separate Peace
- ... really shows what a strong character Finny has. Gene on the other hand is a definite conformist, he is constantly striving to be seen as great by others. This is why when Finny brakes the school one hundred yards free style record without any training Gene cannot understand why Finny whishes to keep it quiet. Finny loves Gene, and Gene doesn’t seem to understand why a great person like Finny ... my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then tumbled sideways.” Gene cripples the best athlete in the school and his best friend and this eventually leads to Finny’s death. Gene’s admission to being responsible for Finny’s fall hurts Finny so much that he refuses to listen to him, so Gene ... then, or after the funeral, because Gene had become an extension of Finny and “you can’t cry at your own funeral.” Gene does enter the war, Gene says that he killed his enemy at school, I believe this enemy not to be Finny but Gene’s “ignorant heart.” he realizes that Brinker was wrong about how wars are created, Gene now knows that wars are created by “something ignorant ...
- 1639: Affirmative Action
- ... a business context because there are other discriminatory laws in place to protect outside of work. I can remember from past schooling that there was a Supreme Court case that a white male sued a school institution because he was anti discriminated against because the school had a affirmative action program in place. I would like to know exactly what affirmative action is and then decide a stance on whether I support or oppose the use of affirmative action programs. The ... nature. A popular case that has occurred in our history was that of Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978). Allan Bakke is a white man who applied for admission to the medical school at the University of California at Davis. In this case the University had reserved 16 of its 100 openings for minorities. The other 64 slots had already been filled, but because Bakke was not ...
- 1640: Premature Specialization
- ... In order for doctors to get the best experience and education needed, training must take place early on in education. An abundance of science courses in college is a good start to prepare for medical school. Even though medical schools might cover the material that is offered in undergraduate biology and chemistry courses, repeat exposure to the material can only be beneficial to the student. The more experience that a student ... broad level. According to Thomas, English, History, the literature of at least two foreign languages, and philosophy should come near the top of the list, just below Classics, as basic requirements, and applicants for medical school should be told that their grades in these courses will more than anything. (Thomas 115) Educating premed students in these courses is important, but science is the most significant part in an undergraduate program. It ... science classes is bound for success. The risk factor for a doctor practicing medicine that has thoroughly been educated and has completed all necessary science classes, whether it be premature specialization or courses in medical school, will ultimately be a safe doctor and will create a more secure atmosphere in the field.
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