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- 1661: Jean Toomer
- ... distance." Eugene and Nina and a new husband moved to New York in 1906; however, upon Nina's death in 1909, Nathan moved back to Washington and his grandparents. When Jean Toomer graduated from high school he began traveling. He studied at five places of higher education in a period of less than four years. At the University of Wisconsin, he enrolled in the agriculture program. Half a year later, however ... I have lived by turn in Washington, New York, Chicago, and Sparta (Georgia)... I have worked, it seems to me, at everything: selling papers, delivery boy, soda clerk, salesman, shipyard worker, librarian-assistant, physical director, school teacher, grocery clerk, and God knows what all. Neither the universities of Wisconsin or New York gave me what I wanted, so I quit them." It was in Chicago that Toomer began to broaden his ... himself to Ishmael by having "mentally turned failure to triumph." One of the most prominent literary characters with whom he became enthralled was Victor Hugo's character Jean Valjean; Toomer His southern sojourn as a school principal in Sparta, Georgia (1922) found in him the belief that he had located his ancestral roots (from Toomer's experience and influence, Sparta was popularized as an ancestral root source by many of ...
- 1662: Senseless Lawsuits
- Senseless Lawsuits I am pursuing my bachelors degree in pre-law and then will be attending law school to continue my quest towards a law degree leading me to a lustrous career as an attorney. The one thing I will not do as a lawyer is take on cases that are senseless. In ... was filed against a college for a computer course that was too hard. Twelve students failed the course and decided to sue the college because the corse was not as easy as perceived by the school. If I were the judge on this case I would throw it out of court on the basis of the Senseless Lawsuit Act. Is this going to be a way for college students too pay for their education by failing a course or two and then suing the school for the money or even a diploma? Finally there was some justice done on a case involving a restaurant serving an intoxicated male a roast beef sandwich where he choked and died from it. ...
- 1663: Teenagers and Alcohol Do Not Mix
- ... teenager wanting to follow a role models lead and do just like they do. Peer pressure is another huge reason why teens decide to drink. I conducted an interview with a fifteen year old intermediate school student who happens to be my brother. I asked him if he had ever drank before to which he responded yes. I than asked him why he choose to drink. He said that he and ... Some of the symptoms of a hangover include: headache, thirst, fatigue, irritability or any combination there of. Hangovers can hurt you professionally also, they cause a lack of production at work or slacking off at school. They are just all around trouble. All of these symptoms are well known, while the causes are less known. Some experts attribute these symptoms to low blood sugar, while many others say that it is ... you. Another responsibility that teens need to assume when choosing to drink is what the long-term effects of alcohol use. Addiction is a long-term problem. If you find yourself wanting a drink after school or in the morning when you wake up this is one of the tell tale signs of addiction. Drs. Robert Morse and Daniel Flavin who wrote for the Joint Committee of the National Council ...
- 1664: Robert Frost
- ... tuberculosis at age thirty-four, in 1885. Isabelle took Robert and his sister back east to Massachusetts. Soon they moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where there was a teaching opening. Robert began to go to school and sit in on his mothers classes. He soon learned to love language, and eventually went to Lawrence High School, where he wrote the words to the school hymn, and graduated as co-valedictorian. Frost read rabidly of Dickens, Tennyson, Longfellow, and many others. Frost was then sent to Dartmouth college by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place ...
- 1665: Lassie
- Lassie Characterization Lassie is a very courageous dog as well as very smart. Each day when Lassie trots over to the school building to pick up Joe Carraclough from school the town folk see him and say "oh, it must be a quarter to four. "Lassie was always on time and was very faithful to Joe. Setting This story took place in two different countries ... lot of people and some are very nice and help him if it wasn't for them Lassie would have never made it. He did though one afternoon when Joe Carraclough was coming out of school there he was waiting as before. Joe saw him and ran out and hugged him real tight he had never been more happy in his entire life. That night every thing was back to ...
- 1666: Rosa Parks
- ... Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 in was raised in an era during which segregation was normal and black suppression was a way of life. She lived with relatives in Montgomery, where she finished high school in 1933 and continued her education at Alabama State College. She married her husband, Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932. She worked as a clerk, an insurance salesperson, and a tailors assistant at a ... Council. She also contributed to the Montgomery Voters League to increase black voter registration. During the summer of 1955 Rosa accepted a scholarship given to community leaders which gave her a chance to work on school integration at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. This was an excellent opportunity for her because she was able to experience racial harmony which nurtured her activism. Obviously Rosa, like many others, dedicated many years of her life trying to ...
- 1667: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... Cunningham's are very respected by the citizen's of Maycomb county. The Cunninghams took nothing, unless they could pay it back. Walter the youngest in the Cunningham clan was in the same class at school as Scout Finch the daughter of Atticus Finch. While in school, a fresh young new school teacher known as Miss Caroline did not know the reputations of the predecessors of these two children. In what looked like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and ...
- 1668: Candidate Profile Paper on Alan Keyes
- ... with his position. Alan Keyes was born in New York into a military family. He and his sister and three brothers lived the traditional military life, moving around constantly. When asked where he went to school, he said In a number of places. Since I was an army brat I went to different schools when I was growing up. I went to high school in San Antonio, Robert G. Cole High School, which was on the base. Actually spent all four years there. And then did the first part of my undergraduate work at Cornell, finished up at Harvard, and then did my graduate studies at ...
- 1669: A Biography Of George Orwell
- ... not very wealthy and like most middle-class English families of that time, their livelihood depended on the Empire. In 1907, his family returned to England. His parents managed to send him to a private school in Sussex and when he was thirteen, he won a scholarship to Wellington. Soon after that, he won another scholarship to the well-known public school, Eaton. After being forced to work very hard at preparatory school, Blair lost interest in any further intellectual exertion that was not related to his personal ambition. In his book Why I Write he says that from a very young age he had known that ...
- 1670: The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
- ... juniors and seniors can drink, but sophomores and freshman cannot. This automatically breeds unlawful activity, because college freshman and sophomores can't "party with their friends" according to the law. By the time most high school seniors graduate they have already turned 18, and those who haven't soon will. If the minimum drinking age were lowered to 18 or 19 it would dramatically cut down on the number of incidents ... and a non-alcoholic one. However 19 as a minimum drinking age is a much more realistic goal. The theory is that by 19 most people have completed or are at least out of high school and are out functioning in a world much older than that of their days in school. They are expected to be more mature, and to act as adults in all other ways. They can smoke, marry, have sexual relationships, have children, buy lottery tickets, make contracts, and die, but in ...
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