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- 1761: The Effects of Alcohol on People
- ... addictive. Alcohol is found and drank in many parts of the world including the United States. ( Pittman , page 1 ) Thirty five percent of wine cooler beverages are sold to and drank by middle and high school students. Between middle school students and high school students drink one point one billion cans of beer a year. Roughly over half of the United States traffic fatalities are alcohol related. Alcohol or alcohol related problems cost society over ninety billion dollars ...
- 1762: JFK
- ... Kennedy was the youngest man elected president of the United States, dying from an assassins bullet after serving less than one term in office. Kennedy attended private elementary schools, including a year at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, and four years at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He spent the summer of 1935 studying at the London School of Economics. He entered Princeton University but was forced to leave during his freshman year because of an attack of jaundice. In the fall of 1936 he enrolled at Harvard University, graduating cum laude ...
- 1763: Creationism
- In a typical American high school, Mr. Doe, the science teacher begins his discussion on the theory of evolution. John, a student opposes the idea the humans came from apes and evolved. John believes that men came from God and that ... great example of this would be the Scopes Monkey Trial, in Dayton, Tennessee where in 1952, a man was found guilty and fined for teaching evolution (Sullivan 63). Just as there is a ban on school prayer, the teaching of evolution is just in fact a theory, which means it isnt exactly a law therefore it isnt something set in stone that should be allowed to be taught in the public school system. There are many that are followers of Jesus, but dont find a need to be members of traditional churches (Sullivan 66). There would not have been a civil rights movement had it ...
- 1764: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... unexpected happens. However, when an irony happens in a scientific model, it is time to re-examine that model. The author refers in a few places to the peppered or speckled . I recall my high school text book used this to "prove" evolution. That text was first published in 1962 and was first American textbook at the high school level to present evolution as scientific fact. The moth was white with some dark morphs. It lived in white birches. As the industrial cities and white birches in England became more grimy, the dark morphs ... as he did in Mathematica Principia." (Vardiman, 1997) Who is "having the appearance of a closed mind"? 7The more I think about this, the more I am baffled. Even a cursory check of a high school European or American History text shows how important religion was in those three centuries or so. Even those who were opposed to religion (e.g., Voltaire) were very conscious of it and spent a ...
- 1765: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... a helping hand. Young William would get up before the sun to get all the chores done that were assigned to him. If he got his work done then he was allowed to go to school. He was left-handed and his writing was awful. He was constantly scowled by the school master for the terrible unlegible handwriting. William decided the only way to perfect his skills was to write right-handed. So he practiced and forced himself to learn to be right-handed until his was the best script in the school. Probably even the best handwriting in the whole town. At the age of seven years old his handwriting was put on display in the front window of the Newburyport bank. (Faber 19) The distinct ...
- 1766: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
- ... by Mordecai Richler is a novel about the life of a young man named Duddy Kravitz growing up on Montreal's St. Urbain street. The novel chronicles his life from when he was a troublesome school boy up until he was a young man of nineteen desperately trying to make something of himself and own his very own piece of land. Along the way to becoming a success Duddy has to ... a few friends along the way. Firstly Richler shows us in his novel how Duddy's character developed from a young age. The book starts out with Duddy as a fifteen year old attending high school. At the beginning of the book we find Duddy in a bitter conflict with a teacher at the school, Mr. MacPherson. As is seen in this dialogue: -"I know you're responsible for the drawing on the board and I think it cowardly of you not to have taken complete responsibility." said the ...
- 1767: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... was to help others and she decided that the best way for her to fulfill her dream was to go to college and become a physician. When they got to America, her mother opened a school. Elizabeth taught for many years although she did not enjoy it. A few years later, she decided to do what no woman had ever done before... attend medical school. She applied to many schools. Twenty-nine of them denied her acceptance. But Geneva Medical School of New York accepted her. Unfortunately, it turned out that they only voted her in as a joke because they did not believe a woman was capable of being a doctor. After two years ...
- 1768: Flag Burning
- ... to violently protest the foundation of the nation. That is what the flag burners are doing. The freedom of expression in article one of the constitution has been abused by allowing flag burning. In Elementary School, Middle School, and High School children have been taught every morning to stand up, place your right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. They then recite facing the flag, I pledge ...
- 1769: Albert Einstein
- ... his 1921 Nobel Prize was awarded not for Relativity, but for his theory of the Photoelectric Effect. Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, to middle-class Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany. He disliked school because of the mindless drilling. He much preferred to study at home, especially geometry and books on popular science. At the age of 12, these studies came into conflict with his deep religious feelings when ... could not be true. He blame his lifelong distrust of authority. This no doubt led to the ease with which he was able to discard long-standing scientific prejudices. Around 1886 Albert Einstein went to school in Munich. He also learned how to play the violin from the age 6 to 13, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, mostly calculus, beginning around 1891. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan but Einstein remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to study ...
- 1770: William Butler Yeats
- ... artistic influences, due to the fact that his father Jack Butler Yeats was a noted Irish painter. He had no formal education until he was eleven, at that time he started at the Godolphin Grammar School in Hammer*censored*h England and later he enrolled in Erasmus Smith High School in Dublin. Throughout his schooling he was considered disappointing student, his studies were inconsistent, he was prone to day dreaming, and poor at sports. In 1884 Yeats found his way to the Metropolitan School for the Arts, here he met a poet by the name of George Russell. Yeats and Russell sheared the same dreams, visions, and the enthusiasm for them. Russell and Yeats soon founded the Dublin ...
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