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- 1671: Bill Bradley
- ... the skills they need to build a better future in this time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban and rural school districts. Bill will invest in community colleges to improve their technology infrastructure to provide students and working adults with training and new skills, in partnership with regional businesses and local high schools. Finally Bradley ensures ... the growth of the median wage. Permitting mothers on welfare to keep their child support payments so the child is provided with the care needed. Bill will push for creating a national program of after-school care and community development centers that offer a range of academic and social services to 5.6 million children and adults a year. Bill will create Second-Chance Homes for pregnant teens that offer ...
- 1672: Gertrude Stein
- ... Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Gertrude was the fifth child, and youngest, to Daniel and Amelia Stein, German-Jewish immigrants. She was a bright girl, but was noted for “her lifelong indifference to rules” (Gombar 41), especially in school. The early death of her mother was the cause of this. Her father was the king of his castle, often acting as a tyrant, and Stein “credited her lifelong aversion to all authorities and father ... figures” (Gombar 41) to him. Gertrude always had a close relationship to her older brother, Leo. They were fast friends throughout their childhood, and into their adulthood. Though she had completed few years of high school, and did not meet the requirements in Latin, when Leo attended Harvard in 1892, Gertrude followed in 1893, in the women’s Harvard Annex. While at Harvard, she was taken under the wing of noted ... bachelor’s degree, but the next year, she graduated magna cum laude with the class of 1898. Because of high recommendations from James and her other professors, she was granted admission to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where her brother was also studying. They lived together in Baltimore, and Leo would gather friends on the weekends for their infamous salons. Leo, from his familiar post leaning against the bookcase, would direct ...
- 1673: Social Research
- ... including variable analysis and questionnaires, Hirschi set out to find links between social phenomena and thus explain the causes of delinquency. He concluded in his findings, The casual chain runs from academic incompetence to poor school performance to disliking school to rejection of the schools authority to the commission of delinquent acts. (p.132) This is a classical piece of positivist research, relying on a social scientific hypothetico-deductive approach. Critical and standpoint theory This ... as reflected by the dominant groups in society. That is to say, predominantly white middle class males. During the 1970 s critical theories of Marxism and Feminism gained prominence. Hirschi linked academic incompetence to poor school performance. Marxist theory might approach this from an alternative perspective perhaps concentrating on class inequalities and teacher pupil interaction . Did the teacher have lower expectations of working class children? There followed attempts to reform ...
- 1674: Isaac Asimov
- ... small candy and magazine store. This is one of the places where Asimov began to learn about printing. Also it was here that Asimov learned good business and self-discipline skills (Bloom, 251). Asimov attended school and was a very bright student. He went to college at Columbia University. He graduated from there with his master’s degree in Chemistry in 1941. His career was cut short though because in 1942 ... the lives of 3 young boys living in a small town. At first Asimov gave up writing, for he did not think he knew what he was doing. However, his whole attitude changed when at school one day he told the story he had written. His friend was impressed with it and wanted to borrow the book when Asimov finished it. This gave Asimov the confidence he needed to begin a writing career that would last a lifetime. Asimov’s first published writing was in his high school’s newspaper column. He wrote a humorous story called “Little Brothers.”(12) Asimov’s first published story was in 1939 it was entitled “Marooned Off Vesta”. This story was featured in the magazine Astounding ...
- 1675: Violence Against Women Act
- ... This act is based solely on interstate commerce and is thereforeConstitutional. Because of abuse, Sara Benenson was afraid to get a job because it would anger her husband. She was afraid to go back to school and she was afraid to go shopping or spend any money on her own. All three of these things clearly interfere and affect interstate commerce. Women like Mrs. Benenson are the reason the act was ... connection with interstate commerce,as long as it has a rational basis, makes it possible for Congress to legislate it. In the United States v. Lopez decision, The Supreme Court struck down the Gun Free School Zones Act. It's reasoning was that Congress had overstepped it's power to legislate interstate commerce. The Court decided that this act was not sufficiently grounded in interstate commerce for Congress to be allowed to pass it. The circumstances in this case are entirely different than in the case of Sara Benenson. For one thing, the Gun Free School Zones Act was not nearly as well based in the commerce clause as is our case. The Gun act said that violence in schools kept student from learning and therefore limited their future earning ...
- 1676: Drugs Should Not be Legalized
- ... own without the help of their country. Legalizing drugs would have a devastating result that would affect society as a whole. "Audiences need to understand that 70% of drug users are employed, and that the school bus driver who drives your children to school could smoke marijuana, that the surgeon who operates on you may have cocaine in his system, and that the driver in back of you may be on speed. The debate needs to demonstrate graphically how ... American farmers earned from all crops combined. About 60% of the illegal drugs sold worldwide end up in the United States" (Grolier). The problems that society already faces with the unemployed, homeless, criminals, and high school drop-out rate will simply increase. What society would want such problems to escalate. The thought of how seriously this could impact our entire nation is both ridiculous and terrifying. I strongly believe that ...
- 1677: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... United States are living in fatherless homes - this adds up to 19 million children without fathers. Compared to children in two parent family homes, these children will be twice as likely to drop out of school, twice as likely to have children out of wedlock, and they stand more than three times the chance of ending up in poverty, and almost ten times more likely to commit violent crime and ending ... doing the violent crimes are more impulsively violent and remorseless than ever. For instance, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham who sits on the Council on Crime in America, speaks of the frightening reality of elementary school kids who pack guns instead of lunches. Likewise, Dan Coburn, a former Superior Court Justice and Public Defender in New Jersey, recently wrote that "This new wrote horde from hell kills, maims, and terrorizes merely ... least one of his parents also has an arrest history. He has received long-term and continuing social services from as many as six different community service agencies, including family, youth, mental health, social services, school, juvenile, or police authorities, and continues to drain these resources for years before he is finally incarcerated as a career criminal. The typical SHO's family history follows a classic pattern of social pathologies: ...
- 1678: No Sugar
- ... white people by pressuring the Aborigines to adopt the white way of living if they are to coexist. A clear example can be taken from the Australia day celebrations where Billy and Bluey are provided uniforms to wear. However, in an attempt to show how whites still marginalise them from society Davis has described the uniforms as "New but absurdly ill-fitted uniforms". This is incorporated to indicate that even though the White authorities are insistent on Aborigines becoming apart of their society their place or position in a white society will always be "ill-fitting". Another ...
- 1679: Macintosh vs. IBM
- ... it basically turns your monitor into a touch screen. As well as hand held ones that move the cursor based on the position of your hand. The Apple computer has usually always appealed to the school systems. With the IBM-compatible computers going more towards businesses and personal use. The main reasons behind this are that the Apple had many types of software directed towards children and helping them learn. They were also easier to use so that appealed to the school system, for they would be able to have children that are five years old be able to use a computer with no problem. The IBM computer went more with businesses, because of its ability to ... of doing things, just because of the many different software out there as well as its ease of adding or upgrading it capabilities. The IBM-compatible computers have been becoming increasingly more popular with the school systems, because of Apple going down hill and having less and less software available for it. The IBM and Macintosh computers have been in competition with each other for years, and each of them ...
- 1680: JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy
- ... was on its way to Washington, Bethesda Naval Hospital made preparations to receive it. The three doctors chosen to do the autopsy were Commander James Humes, M.D., director of labs at the Naval Medical School in Bethesda; Commander “J” Thorton Boswell, M.D., chief of Pathology at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Finck, M.D., chief of the Wound Ballistic Pathology Branch at the Armed Forces Institute of ... P.) (1749,2794,5,8). In addition to the three pathologists, there were two Navy enlisted men who served as autopsy technicians, three radiologists, and two photographers. One of the photographers was Bethesda's medical school chief of photography, John Stringer (2797). Dr. Humes was told personally by Rear Admiral Kenney, Surgeon General of the Navy, to “find the cause of death” (2796). According to Breo, Drs. Humes and Boswell thought ... the kind of weapon used. This is not so. The Warren Commission proved that it was one man using an Italian made, Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, which was found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building (Petty 1552). Lee Harvey Oswald shot the President from this building, expending three bullets from that rifle. The first bullet was shot from a range of one hundred seventy-five feet ...
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