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- 1791: Katha Pollitt's Argument About Media Being Biased Against Liberals and Allan Levite's Argument That Media Is Biased Against Conservatives
- ... says that the media ignores the other cases of more serious offenses dealing with the same subject. She sights two other cases that she would have us believe are more commonplace than incredibly stupid elementary school kids. Her first example is the case dealing with the sixth grader who received death threats does not even clearly state what kind of hate was involved. It could have been sexual harassment, or it ... argument is just as common as what she is complaining about, or maybe less common. No one is trying to bash feminism. This was not planned out to happen. (I hope) Also, kids in elementary school always are not thinking about getting their secretaries to have sex with them for raises. Personally, I think kids are stupid. Even I was a stupid kid. When I was in third grade a guy ... and getting turned on by this. He now cleans pools for a living. I doubt either of us cared at the time. Although I remember some crying. People who pee in their pants in grade school usually do not pee in their pants when they are grown up to be heads of the country. We would know about it if they did. Many children form weird attractions to doing many ...
- 1792: Affirmative Action: Public OPinion vs. Policy
- ... student from the suburbs, thinks about affirmative action, he thinks about what happened when he sent out letters seeking scholarships so he could attend Stanford University after being accepted during his senior year of high school.The organizations that wrote back told him their money was reserved for women or minorities. To Americans like Ketcham, it's a matter of fairness. The average white male will claim that it's not ... of the passage of the Civil Right Act of 1964, it has emerged as one of the nation's major topic of disagreement and debate. From government set-aside to workplace preferences to race-targeted school admissions, it is under attack from opponents who want to abolish of and from reformers who want to refocus it.Although these policies were unpopular with white Americans from the outset, they were grudgingly accepted ... sent an unmistakable message: as for as the government is concerned, America is a country that counts by race and gender.The adminstration's attitude was perhaps most vividly demonstrated ina case involving a public-school teacher in Piscataway, New Jersey. In 1989, the local schoool board had been confronted with the need to lay off one of two home economics teachersone white, one black, with equal seniority and ...
- 1793: An Ethical and Practical Defense of Affirmative Action
- ... force people to hire unqualified minorities? No. But affirmative action programs should cause us as a society to re-evaluate how we assess qualifications and how we measure merit. Let us become tenured Harvard Law School professors for just a moment. Suppose we have two applicants for an open associate professor position. The first candidate is white, a Harvard Law School graduate, has impressive board scores, served as editor of the Law Review, etc.... , but has never practiced law before. The other candidate is Black, a Howard Law School graduate, average board scores, has excellent person skills, and practiced law as the county defendant in an inner- city neighborhood. Under the traditional system of merit the white Harvard graduate gets the appointment hands ...
- 1794: Affirmative Action
- ... s Electric Encyclopedia, 1993) Affirmative action plans that establish racial quotas were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of University of California VS. Bakke in 1978. This case arose when the medical school of the University of California at Davis twice rejected Allen Bakke's application while admitting members of racial minorities who had lower test scores. Bakke charged that the medical school's policy of setting aside 16 of the 100 positions for racial minorities was a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In a complex 5-4 decision the Supreme Court ordered ... line in the debate to minority VS. minority, as well as black VS white. On the side of those who favor Affirmative Action and would like for it to remain a part of California's school system are many optimistic voices. Affirmative action at Berkeley represents an essential and healthy adaptation to a changing California and a changing nation. Affirmative action is not for underrepresented minorities. Affirmative action is for ...
- 1795: Psychological Stress
- ... men. Men are thought of in our society to be the provider of money and security to their families. It is one way we measure or "manlyhood". Unrealistic pressures such as this, and pressures from school, work and social life will lead to high levels of stress. Conflict happens when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression. There are three classifications of conflict; approach/approach, avoidance/avoidance ... policeman came to my door with a complaint. Apparently, a friend of mine and I had been accused of a crime that we did not commit. The threat that we could possibly get expelled from school or even worse get put in jail for a very long time comes with a very high level of stress. The investigation has been going on ever since they first came to our door. They ... sophomore year and very good friend was found in his grandmothers barn dead. Two days later, a friend of the family lost his battle to lung cancer. Some other frustrations that I am having include school. I have only five options left for classes next semester. I am having trouble getting in to some of the classes that I want. I have yet to start looking for a job for ...
- 1796: The Ice Storm
- ... struggles of life fuels their growing separation from each other and themselves. They are forever going to talk about it in the morning , but morning arrives with husbands on the train and children off to school. With alcohol and sedatives never in short supply, evenings are spent discussing all but what is truly important. Elena knows that her husband is having an affair with Jane Carver, but even at the point ... decide to participate. Many cocktails numb the uneasiness those in attendance feel as the moment approaches. Meanwhile, outside the house rages an ice storm, called the worst in a century . Paul Hood, home from boarding school, travels to New York City to woo his high school crush, Libbets Casey (Katie Holmes) his amorous intent thwarted by his dilettante roommate and the obligatory chemical overindulgence. Wendy goes to the Carvers house, ostensibly to see Mike; however she ends up drinking vodka ...
- 1797: Robert Frost
- ... speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Eleanor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New ...
- 1798: Yamamoto
- ... aboard the cruiser Nisshin as a deck officer, and as a gunnery specialist. The Nisshin was one of the cruisers used in the Russo - Japanese war. In August,1905, Isoroku was sent to the gunnery school at Yokosuka Naval Base. In September of that year, he was promoted to sublieutenant. In October, 1905, He received a letter of commendation for the brave action taken in the Battle of Tsushima Strait, which ... the U.S.A. Army trying to convince Congress that airplanes could sink a battleship, but nobody believed him. He left America in 1922. In 1922, Yamamoto was appointed to teach at the navy staff school. In August, he left the school, and took a job as an executive officer aboard the cruiser Kitakami. Also in 1922, Yamamoto and his wife had a son, Yoshimasa, and one of his obligations as a member of the Yamamoto ...
- 1799: Yamamoto
- ... aboard the cruiser Nisshin as a deck officer, and as a gunnery specialist. The Nisshin was one of the cruisers used in the Russo - Japanese war. In August,1905, Isoroku was sent to the gunnery school at Yokosuka Naval Base. In September of that year, he was promoted to sublieutenant. In October, 1905, He received a letter of commendation for the brave action taken in the Battle of Tsushima Strait, which ... the U.S.A. Army trying to convince Congress that airplanes could sink a battleship, but nobody believed him. He left America in 1922. In 1922, Yamamoto was appointed to teach at the navy staff school. In August, he left the school, and took a job as an executive officer aboard the cruiser Kitakami. Also in 1922, Yamamoto and his wife had a son, Yoshimasa, and one of his obligations as a member of the Yamamoto ...
- 1800: Great Expectations 3
- ... boy like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women ... beautiful women--but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out too late that Tom's adventures are imaginary: that raiding a caravan of "A-rabs" really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday school picnic, that stolen "joolry" is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another ... in front of his face; his skin, Huck says, is white like a fish's belly or like a tree toad's. Pap's savage appearance reflects his feelings as he demands that Huck quit school, stop reading, and avoid church. Huck is able to stay away from Pap for a while, but Pap kidnaps Huck three or four months after Huck starts to live with the Widow and takes ...
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