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- 1801: Newly Independent Nation Seeks Advice From Other Nations
- ... area in which the nation is seeking advise is in the area of education. They are seeking advise from Japan. Japan puts much stress on its education. In Japan there are 240 days/year of school at six days per week (Mon.-Sat.). This is part of the reason Japan has a 99% literecy rate. In Japan if a person wants to get a good job then they usually need to have a college degree. The newly independent nation should not choose this system because it puts to much stress and pressure on the students. For example to get into a good high school or college you must pass a difficult exam. Many students who do not get into a good school often turn to suicide, Japan is second in the world behind the U.S. in teen suicide. I would not choose this because a good system of education is not worth teens killing themselves. ...
- 1802: Peyton Place
- ... corrupt young minds. Wealthy communities banished Peyton Place. To read Peyton Place was to read it in secret and were sometimes discussed only among the closest of friends. Everyone was reading it - college and high school students, college graduates, mothers, wives, and even husbands and fathers. In 1956, a sexual act such as sodomy, oral sex, and intercourse with another married person in most states was illegal. Also, abortion was illegal ... As a child, Allison was always teased about being childish, and not interested in boys, and always into books. But as she grew up she was full of conflicting sexual emotions, and after graduating high school, she left Peyton Place to pursue a writing career in New York. Connie Mackenzie, to her neighbors, was a beautiful, young, widow that owned her own thrift store. Many eligible bachelors Everyone had a desire for her and wished to have her, until Thomas Makris, a teacher from New York City arrives into town to take the job of headmaster at the Peyton Place grade school. Thomas pursues Connie and terrified that he knows her secret, she avoids him. He shows up at her house one night and persuades her to a date, which leads to him raping her. They ...
- 1803: Catch-22 Book Review
- ... can never tell whether an event you were reading about happened before or after previous happenings in the book. For instance, when Lieutenant Scheisskopf first made an appearance, it was while Yossarian was in flight school. However, the book began with Yossarian out of flight school and well on his way to his fortieth mission. This organization provides for quite a bit of confusion for the average reader. Joseph Heller had excellent use of the power of description at his fingertips ... Overall, this is an educational, detailed, in-depth look at life in war and the conquering of the rational mind over mindless authority. It is an enjoyable book that will stand highly recommended to high school students. Yossarian seems to be surrounded by lunatics, yet they all think him crazy. He is the only one sane enough to claim insanity and ask to be sent home. His proposal is refused, ...
- 1804: Government Cutbacks
- ... have the worst time of all, and who the cuts are going to hit, is going to be the kids that need the attention. It is happening all the time, kids are dropping out of school, when they turn sixteen. They dream that they will go far, but they are failing badly and decide that school's not for them. 90% of all the prison population in the United States, are high school dropouts (Statistic of C.N.N.). That statistic alone is enough to continue our high standards in education. Continuing on to healthcare. We have grown to love our health care system. Anytime that we ...
- 1805: Woodrow Wilson
- ... Wilson also taught Woodrow respect for other people.His mother[Jessie Wilson] was shy and reserved,but looked and acted like Woodrow. Woodrow's life was different from mine by the way he went to school.His father taught him till he was nine,and then he went to school. Woodrow spent some of his spare time with his gang, called the Lightfoot Club.Also when Woodrow was fourteen,his education was continued at a private school with fifty boys enrolled that cost seven dollars an hour. One of the parts of the book that I liked was when Woodrow Wilson won the Presidency.One of the things that helped him ...
- 1806: Affirmative Action
- ... five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they can accept a more diverse group of students. This solution is ridiculous, simply because everyone has a chance to do good. It is just a matter of effort. If a ... raise their own standards in order to improve our society. For example, the University of California in Berkeley has a diverse student body with a majority of Asians. An Asian student coming out of high school with a 4.0 GPA, and a list of extra curricular activities would not be accepted simply because of his ethnicity. Instead the school would rather accept a Mexican student with a 3.0 GPA. Why should the student who did not study as hard be rewarded just because of his race? Nobody has the choice of ethnicity ...
- 1807: On The Waterfront
- ... Characters – The main character is Terry an ex semi-professional boxer who became friendly with the mob during his career. He is a common unintelligent man (typical of his town) that unlike his brother quit school. He was the man that helped the mob kill a good man in the opening scene by distracting him to come onto the roof and check out his pigeons (Symbolic). His brother keeps the mobs ... make money. They live like animals in a Social Darwinism. The other main actor is the sister of the murder victim named Iddie. She comes from a totally sheltered life, growing up in a catholic school raised by nuns. She refuses to return to school because she wants to face a real problem, not just read about them. She also wants to find out who killed her brother. The priest plays the role of the godly guiding force that ...
- 1808: National Honor Society - Vice President Speech
- National Honor Society - Vice President Speech I would like to be the Vice-President of the Huntington High School National Honor Society. The main reason I chose to run for Vice-President instead of running for President is because I have several extracurricular activities that would prevent me from giving my undivided attention to ... paper goods and chips. Charbroils are very good fundraisers to do. Parents always volunteer to cook the chickens and help to organize things, at least mine do anyway. If we wanted to do an in school fundraiser, the best thing to do is sell candy. Students will buy candy as if it were going out of style. As long as we get permission from Mr. Dilworth, selling candy would be a ... an admissions counselor from a college to come and speak. That way, we could get some pointers on how to prepare for college. We could also tutor students that needed a little extra help after school. There are just so many things that the National Honor Society could do. I think I would make an excellent Vice-President because I like to accomplish things. I have numerous ideas that can ...
- 1809: Amerigo Vespucci
- ... know as Lorenzo the Magnificant. When Amerigo was older, but still a young man, his father Antastagio Vespucci sent him to the Monestary of San Marco to study with his uncle Giorgio. In his new school, Amerigo along with the other European boys learned Latin, math, grammar, history, Italian and Greek Literature, geography and astronomy. Amerigo learned to love astronomy, because he was fascinated about all of the shapes the stars made, that his uncle called constellations. Amerigo thought about traveling about the Earth, but he thought it to be impossible, because he was tought in school that the equator was a ring of fire that made the waters boil there. Amerigo's hopes of traveling the world were become more realistic over time. The first thing that sparked this was the ... oceans. Another reality check occured when Amerigo was 19. What happend was the Portugese finally sailed to the equator and found no boiling seas, which proved the Roman theory that young Amerigo was taught in school wrong. But then came a period in his life that Amerigo realized he would never see the world, for Florence, unlike the nation of Portugal, which had humongus navies, where Florence had just tiny ...
- 1810: The Catcher In The Rye Is Hold
- ... visible. Looking at his normal side, Holden is rebellious against the world, and despises the fakeness of it. Mainly he hates people. He thinks that rich people are crooks, and that the more expensive the school is that he's attending, the more crooks there are. He says when he goes to visit Mr. Spencer that he's not too crazy about sick people. He doesn't like how Catholics stick ... they are supposed to commit suicide or something when they lose. And as if thinking these things aren't bad enough, he goes off and rambles about all of this to Sally. "Well I hate school. Boy, do I hate it. But it isn't just that. I hate living in New York and all. Taxicabs, and Madison Avenue buses, with the drivers and all always yelling at you to get ... ve got the atomic bomb invented because if there's ever another war, he's going to sit right on top of it. He'll volunteer for it. When he's walking to Phoebe's school, he kept feeling like he was going to die every time he crossed the street. He then started talking to Allie and planning it out so that he could move out west and become ...
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