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- 1741: The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
- ... a printmaker. He was born in Leeuwarden, Holland and was the son of a civil engineer. He spent most of his childhood in Arnhem. He wanted to be an architect so he enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. He stared studying there in 1919. But he did not do well in school and got very bad grades. However he was very good at graphic arts and he decided to shift from architecture to drawing and printmaking upon the encouragement of his teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. In ... 1950's. Among his first admirers were mathematicians, who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas. This was remarkable because he had never had any math courses after high school, where he had learned only the basics. As his work developed he read more about mathematics and showed in his art an understanding of projective geometry and non-Euclidian geometry. He was also fascinated ...
- 1742: Elvis Presley
- ... up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar. In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, Memphis Recording Service-Make ...
- 1743: Hiroshima (book Report)
- ... working in their hearts. Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto Mr. Tanimoto saw a woman holding her head and on her back, a small boy 3 or 4 years of age. He transported them to a grammar school not far away that had been previously been designated for use as a temporary hospital in case of an emergency. He arrived to the school, surprised to see about 60 injured people in there already. Everything around him was in ruins, the houses especially. Mr. Tanimoto turned away from the sight when he heard Mr. Matsuo call out to ask ... bank in Hiroshima, and a clerk told here that after checking her numbers against the records the bank would give her money. She got the money and rented a shack. She sent the children to school. She raised enough money to fix her sewing machine. Father Kleinsorge Father Kleinsorge arrived at the hospital, very much sick with the very high temperature of 104 and a low blood-count of 3, ...
- 1744: Interior Monologue
- ... people like me growing up having to deal with all this crap. Ive had to deal with these people issues all my life, Im sick of it. As I was coming home from school one day about a year or so ago, there was a group of about four of five school boys from another school sitting at a bus stop. I remember as I went past them one of my legs started shaking, its kind of annoying when it does that but the doctor said its just ...
- 1745: Rosa Lee Parks
- ... Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. Rosa Parks was well educated in a rural schoolhouse. When she completed her education in Pine Level at the age of eleven her mother enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private institution. She went to Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for eleven and twelth grade. She was unable to graduate because of her grandmothers illness, Rosa Edwards. After her grandmothers death she decided to return to school, but her mother got sick so she had to stay at home with her mother. Rosa then married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. He supported Rosas desire to complete her formal educaton ,and in 1934 she recieved her high school diploma. The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a white customer could sit down. She was ...
- 1746: Epsteins Welfare in America
- ... urban slum. According to the Journal Sentinel, Senator Gwendolynne Moore (D-Milwaukee) says, I guess the good news is that if you were not African-American, that if you had a GED or a high school diploma, and if you did not live in Milwaukee County, you were lucky. (Journal Sentinel 1998) The Senator is automatically restricting certain races and other criteria. She is practically inviting more conflict within the boundaries ... on welfare must work within two years or lose benefits; lifetime benefits will be limited to five years; states can provide payments to unmarried teenage parents only if mother is under age 18, stays in school and lives with an adult; future legal immigrants will be ineligible for most federal benefits during their first five years in the United States; states must provide Medicaid for anyone who qualifies under current law ... have 87% of the states cash welfare cases, up from 66% when W-2 started. Senator Moore cited state figures form April showing that 35% of the states W-2 participants lacked high school diplomas and 63% were African-Americans. (Journal Sentinel 1998) These statistics demonstrate the variety of social inequality that exists in our society today. By understanding the conflict theory provided by Karl Marx, we can ...
- 1747: Alcohol and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... from mild learning disabilities to a less severe form of FAS. FAE is much harder to detect than FAS and extremely difficult to diagnose at birth. This is because FAE conditions begin to occur during school years. These conditions include behavioral problems, short attention span, language difficulties, and hyperactivity. (Timberlake and Birch, p.1) Occurrence The number of new cases each year of FAS and FAE are significantly underreported, therefore it ... with their higher than average congenital anomalies. Infants with FAS are at risk for CNS problems, therefore, they must be carefully watched. Patients with FAS/FAE are placed in special education classes beginning in elementary school. A child in a small class room may benefit highly if their is a lot of individual attention. Even if it does not show an increase in the child's intellectual level, it may prevent further deterioration. Many patients will reach an academic plateau in high school. However, it is important that these patients still learn basic life skills, such as safety, money management, and interpersonal relating. This is where the role of their family comes into play. Patients with FAS/ ...
- 1748: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow 2
- The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod Crane was a school master in a small town called Sleepy Hollow. He was greatly amazed by the tale of a ghost called The headless Horseman . It was a ghost that roamed the small valley of Sleepy Hollow. Then ... was tall and very skinny with narrow shoulders and very long arms and legs. His head was small and flattened on top. He had huge ears, large green eyes and a long snipe nose. His school house was a low building of one large room. It was made of logs. The sounds of children s low voices could be heard on drowsy summer days, like the sound of bees in their beehive. After school hours, he would be the companion of the older boys. He would spent long Winter evenings with the old Dutch wives. He used to listen to their stories. He was interested in the legend ...
- 1749: Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer, educator, and civil rights activist was born in Washington, DC on June 13, 1937. After graduating from Dunbar Senior High School, she received a BA from Antioch College. Norton then went on to attend Yales Graduate School and School of Law to receive a MA and a LLB simultaneously in 1964. From 1965 to 1970, she served as Assistant Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As Assistant Legal Director to ...
- 1750: Childhood Enemies
- ... primary goal of this paper is to reveal the influences of technology and social environments experienced during early to middle adolescence that contribute to shaping adult personality. Research Section By the end of the high school years, young people have developed a unique mixture of characteristics that appear to have a profound influence on their adult personality (Doherty, 1997). How these life shaping individual characteristics come about, however, remains a central ... women are beaten each year by their partners. One-fourth of all adolescents contract sexually transmitted disease before they graduate (U.S. Department of Justice, 1992) Since 1940 the top disciplinary problems in public school have changed from chewing gum and running in the halls to teen pregnancy, rape and assault (Berry, 1993). In the midst of all this, the percentage of families with one parent at home with the ... dropped from 66.7 to 16.9 percent (U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1994). And the average age child spends seven hours a day watching television. By the end of grade school hefs seen over eight thousand murders and one hundred thousand acts of violence (Berry, 1993). Is it realistic to think that children are going to be impervious to the murder and killing and ...
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