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- 191: Bill Cosby
- ... three brothers, and their names were: James, Russell, and Robert. His father ran away near Christmas time when he was very young and he had to get a job to help support the family. In school he was the class clown and was sent to a special school for rowdy boys. In his new school his teacher was Mary Forchic. She saw that he was a great comedian and she put that into her lessons to make them more understandable for Bill. She made the lessons fun for him ...
- 192: Arthur Kornberg
- ... into the sweatshops as a sewing machine operator. He, along with his brother Martin, 13 years older and sister Ella, nine years older, was encouraged by loving parents to obtain a good education. The public school reinforced this ideal. Education was the road of opportunity for social and economic mobility out of the sweatshops. His early education in grade school and Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn was distinguished only by his "skipping " several grades. There was nothing inspirational about his courses except the teachers encouragement to get good grades. When he received a grade of 100 in the ...
- 193: A Story Of College
- ... very important part of maturing. Though, the physical separation from home is for some a difficult transition to college life. What are those things one takes for granted while living at home, and attending high school? What changes does one face upon entering college? Just think of all the times the alarm clock did not go off, and mom was there to make sure school was still reached on time. When the alarm clock fails to go off at college, then the first class of the day is simply missed. At home breakfast is made to order: eggs, bacon, pancakes ... ten random visitors is considered boring. At home, family was the only people living inside the house. In college the entire floor becomes family. The phone is the link of communication between friends in high school; e-mail becomes a second language in college. Conversations at home are often revolve around the evening news; while at school, it is totally the opposite. For the college student Western Europe could be ...
- 194: Tinker vs. Des Moines
- Tinker vs. Des Moines My representation is the defense of Des Moines, Iowa. 1. On a cold, brisk December morning in 1965 five students, and their parents of Des Moines high school made an extremely poor decision by wearing dark, filthy black, inappropriate material representing non- existent peace in a thriving nation. Earlier that week the principal of the high school warned the students and the parents that the armbands would create a nuisance and disrupt the learning environment making the educational atmosphere discontent. They wore the armbands anyway and when they refused to take off the bands they were merely suspended as punishment which is still thought of today as appropriate response to direct refusal to obey school rules. Parents of one of the students, MaryBeth. The Tinker's disputed the suspension of MaryBeth and her brother, John, and took their case all the way to the Supreme Court. 2. The Tinker' ...
- 195: Spy Games - Creative Essay
- ... Thursday we had decided to draw up entire new names and careers for ourselves. Agents usually have more aliases than friends, so we decided to change ours every month. It was kind of hard juggling school work and memorizing new alias information each month. Yet when we were out in the `real world' doing maneuvers it all seems worth it. The table was round, so there really was no one at ... alias was John Inglis, and I went to one of the local high schools. As a part time job I supposedly worked for McDonald's. Everybody's main story was that they went to high school. It helps give credibility to your story. Perhaps the only thing that varied from person to person was their name, and their part time job. After some more talking, we decided on our next target ... daily income was. "One more thing" Jen said. "One of the sales people was Tammy Contenda. Maybe she can give us the information were after". Tammy Contenda was a girl we all knew from high school. Although she was fairly popular, none of us could be considered her good friend. Acquaintances is perhaps a better word. None the less, we had our lead. Now all we had to do was ...
- 196: Bouldering
- ... to work from dawn to 9:00 PM, receiving very few breaks during the day. During his breaks he would study his spelling book, teaching himself to read. While working with his stepfather, a local school opened up for black people. But because of Booker's value to his family in the mines, he continued to work there at the request of his parents. Eventually, he talked his stepfather into letting him attend school a few hours during the day. Booker, however, ran into another problem. His stepfather wanted him to work until 9:00 AM and the young Booker found it difficult to reach school in time. He therefore did something that he was not proud of later in life. Washington learned to change the clock every morning from half past eight to nine so he could arrive at ...
- 197: Columbine High School
- Columbine High School Imagine knowing that you've done something wrong or not even that, just the fact that someone was prejudice against you. You are innocently sitting in class, the library, or just walking down the hallway ... Colorado, this is not an imagination, it is reality. Why should students have to experience something so tragic and life altering at such a young age and in a place where you should be safe, school? The answer to the question is simple, they shouldn't, no one should. School. A place of education, a place where most people met they friends, and discover what they want to be. School should be a place of safety. An environment where metal detectors should not be ...
- 198: Languages In High School
- ... begin in elementary grades, children would have more years to practice and learn the language. It is ridiculous that teenagers are expected to speak a foreign language fluently after two to four years of high school language classes. More time is needed to comprehend and absorb a language to the point where it can be spoken fluently. Therefore, it is necessary for foreign language education to begin much earlier than in high school. Furthermore, foreign language education would be much more effective if were taught at elementary grade levels because children are more likely to practice the language. They are less likely to feel uncomfortable speaking in a ... ensue in an elementary language class. Young children are also more likely to participate in activities that help one to learn a language such as singing songs and engaging in hypothetical dialogue. In contrast, high school students have a much harder time learning a second language. "Only three percent of American high school graduates reach a meaningful proficiency in a second language." (Crawford 2) This astonishing statistic could be altered ...
- 199: Bilingual Education
- Bilingual Education Hello! My name is John Kephart. I am the superintendent at Brook School of Learning in Miami, Florida. Hola! Me Ilamo es John Kephart. Yo superior mejor en Brook School of Learning en Miami, Florida. Our school is based on the sole purpose of preparing our children for the future. As a result of the growing population of Spanish and Latinos in our community, the need to learn both Spanish and ...
- 200: Censorship of Books: Freedom of What?
- ... might offend one person may not offend another person, and it is unjust to prohibit someone from reading or seeing inappropriate material based on the opinion of someone else. Censorship occurs quite frequently in the school system. Books are banned from libraries and literature teachers constantly have to change the material covered in their course as a result of complaining parents. If a child goes home and discusses a topic they learned in school and their parents don't like it, many parents automatically go ballistic. Many try to get rid of it before they have even taken the time to read it. If a parent feels that certain ... means that we can access any of these materials. It doesn't mean we have the freedom to control what others access, that would be referred to as communism. In Triverton, Rhode Island a middle school class was assigned to read a book called Go Ask Alice. The book portrays a fifteen-year-old girl who is trying to overcome a drug addiction. It is written as a series of ...
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