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- 1711: Stephen Crane
- ... with faith are evident in most of Crane’s work, Throughout his writings he tried to shake the thought that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101). Stephen Crane began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because he refused to do any work. After leaving Lafayette, he moved ... also played baseball, and wrote for his brother’s news service (Colvert 12:102). It is said that Crane wrote the preliminary sketch of his novella, Maggie, while at Syracuse. He eventually decided to quit school and become a full time reporter for the New York Tribune ("Stephen" n.p.). Crane began his writing career in poverty, hoping that it would inspire him to write. Along with his beliefs in ...
- 1712: Depression and Its Effects
- ... youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Cited in Blackman, 1995, p51). Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is greatly under-diagnosed and leads to serious difficulties in school, work and personal adjustment which may often continue into adulthood. Matsumoto (1995) highlights that " like schizophrenia, depression is one of the most common psychological disorders in the United States". In a large-scale study, Myers ... longitudinal study of young women found that; although the risk for new onset of depression occurred across the age range, the highest risk was between 18 and 19 years, when these women graduated from high school and started college. The overall risk was highest in the first 2 years (a time when they began their college education and some moved away from home). After that, there was a trend for diminished ... childbirth, infertility, and/or oral contraceptives. "Women are also more likely than men to underestimate themselves in terms of their relationships with others," Boston-area psychologist Eda Spielman, Psy.D., who teaches at the Massachusetts School of Psychology. "As a result, women tend to experience losses more deeply, which makes them more vulnerable to depression." (Rao, Hammen & Daley, 1999). On the other hand, compared with women who have children, mothers ...
- 1713: Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader of Germany
- ... bench that resembled the swastika, which was later used to symbolize the Nazi party. Adolf was a fairly good student. He received good grades in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed mathematics and German. He dropped out of school at the age of 16, spending only ten years in school. From childhood it was Adolph’s dream to become an artist. He was a fairly good artist, as some of his surviving paintings and drawings show but he really didn’t have any originality. ...
- 1714: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... lessons by private tutors, up until she turned fifteen. Her mother had wanted her to receive part of her education in Europe, so granting her daughters wish, Ms. Hall sent Eleanor to Allenswood, a finishing school just outside of London. At the end of her first day, she had already made a big impression on the other girls at the school and the headmistress.®)1¯ ®)3¯At the school everyone was required to speak French. This was no problem for Eleanor, during dinner time all of the students were afraid to speak,but not Eleanor. She sat opposite headmistress Mlle. Souvestre and babbled ...
- 1715: Louis Pasteur 2
- ... France great through science. Scholar and Scientist Louis Pasteur was born on Dec. 27, 1822, in Dôle, France. His father was a tanner. In 1827 the family moved to nearby Arbois, where Louis went to school. He was a hard-working pupil but not an especially brilliant one. When he was 17 he received a degree of bachelor of letters at the Collège Royal de Besançon. For the next three years ... married in 1849. Pasteur's wife shared his love for science. They had five children; three died in childhood. Research in Fermentation and Souring In 1854 Pasteur became professor of chemistry and dean of the school of science (Faculté des Sciences) at the University of Lille. Hearing of Pasteur's ability, a local distiller came to him for help in controlling the process of making alcohol by fermenting beet sugar. Pasteur ... acid and its function in souring milk in 1857. Further studies developed the valuable technique of pasteurization (see Dairy Industry). The same year he was appointed manager and director of scientific studies at his old school, the École Normale Supérieure. During the next several years he extended his studies into the germ theory. He spent much time proving to doubting scientists that germs do not originate spontaneously in matter but ...
- 1716: Lee De Forest
- ... Kraeuter, 74). As a child he was fascinated with machinery and was often excited when hearing of the many technological advances during the late 19th century. He began tinkering and inventing things even in high school, often trying to build things that he could sell for money. By the age of 13 he was an enthusiastic inventor of mechanical gadgets such as a miniature blast furnace and locomotive, and a working silverplating apparatus. (A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries). His father had planned for him to follow him in a career in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, ...
- 1717: Thomas Hardy
- ... an avid reader beginning to spell out titles at the age of three. He had a remarkable memory sometimes dressing as a parson and delivering sermons from his head. He did well at the village school and he caught the eye of Mrs. Julia Martin. She thought he was a star pupil and he became somewhat "in love" with her. His parents and her had a disagreement over the decision to move him to a school in Dorchester , the young Hardy got a " a stinging foretaste of the pain and humiliation of the Victorian class structure." At 14 he was proficient in Latin, knew Shakespeare, the Bible, and Pilgrim’s Progress, which were all major works of literature. Part of Hardy’s education wasn’t in school. He learned how fierce the world can be. He witnessed two executions and heard tales from his father of people being burned at the stake and savage punishments. All around him people were in ...
- 1718: Rural Healthcare
- ... to hospitals, absence of consultation and continuing medical education opportunities, lack of opportunity for their spouse, and cultural deprivation. Professional, as well as personal isolation are very real factors, reinforced by some extent by medical school faculty and preceptors in residency programs who caution about going to the very rural areas for fear that he or she would get out of touch with medical developments (Raffel and Raffel, 1989). Although there ... community involvement was essential as donors and volunteers donated the necessary funds and labor to make it possible. One of the greatest factors to the success of this clinic is its relationship with the Marshall School of Medicine. Since many of the Clinic's clientele are very poor, it is difficult referring them to specialists when necessary. To ease this problem, Marshall provides a referral resource of specialists and a local hospital where faculty have admitting privileges. In return, the school gets a clinical site where students and residents can be trained. A successful idea for providing health care insurance was implemented in northeastern Minnesota, with the development of The Health Ensurance Coalition (HEC). It ...
- 1719: Biography of Carolyn Chute
- ... her novels and through her organizations. She also connects to people who have not felt her pain, because in her novels every word expresses one of her life’s hardships. Carolyn Chute was a high school dropout at age 16, and almost immediately married and gave birth to her first child. Unfortunately this first marriage ended in a divorce, and the quality of her life and the life of her family ... rapidly spiraled downward. Chute managed to survive with her daughter by continuously working in a long series of dead-end jobs. During this time, the “extravagance” of her work included plucking chickens and driving a school bus. She miraculously managed to support a household of two with $2,000 a year. Times got better for Carolyn, though. She married Michael Chute in 1978, and soon completed high school. She even took some writing courses at the University of Maine. Carolyn’s courses seemed to help her writing because soon after she published her first fictional works for magazines. After her success with ...
- 1720: Anti-Social Personality Disorder
- ... that they are inadequate, shamed and because of that they are teased and made fun of. The child characteristics of a future sociopath consist of being incapable of following the rules. The youngster will skip school, bully, steal! , torment animals, run away from home and the child is likely to develop Attention Deficit \Hyperactivity Disorder or AD|HD. At an earlier age than their peer group the child will smoke drink ... Rules- often staying out all night dispite parental rules that begin before the age of 13 13. running away from home at least twice (once not returning for a lengthy period) 14. frequent truancy from school · significant impairment in functioning socially at school or work · in individuals 18 or older but symptoms don't meet criteria for Anti - Social Disorder The diagnoses of a sociopath is extremely difficult because they have so many mental problems to contend ...
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