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- 1911: The Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... his human condition. It s told in a monologist manner so it can describe Holden s thoughts and feelings. Holden Caulfield is a teenager growing up in 1950s New York. He has suffered through several school expulsions due to his poor achievement. In an attempt to deal with being expelled from private school he leaves school a few days prior to the end of the term, and goes to New York to take a vacation before he returns to his parents inevitable wrath. He assumes that if he can run ...
- 1912: The Catcher In The Rye 3
- Sometimes characters can allow a strong feeling or emotion to dominate their lives. Holden allows the strong feelings and emotions of death, society, school and innocence to dominate his life. Holden is a very sensitive boy who can not ignore his problems, instead he dwells on them. These feelings and emotions are dominant because Holden believes strongly in them. The strong negative feelings that Holden has for his school and it s community are present because of it s concern for an image. When students do not put in they are expelled to keep the schools high academic rating, This is represented when Holden ... They give guys the axe quite frequently at Pencey. he does not like this as it does not allow students to be individuals and be who they really want to be. Another reason Holden dislikes school so much is because the way teachers have an unfair authority over their students. Mr Spencer used his authority when he read out Holden s paper. holden thought this was rude and said I ...
- 1913: Richard Nixon 2
- ... most of his time working. The town that he lived in was very religious and even prohibited alcohol. Nixon s classmates thought of him as a cocky yet bright student. When Nixon was in high school his older brother died. This is the time when Nixon felt he had to prove something to his mother. Nixon s first political campaign race was for senior class president. He lost. This was one of only two political loses ever dealt to Nixon in his whole political career. Nixon, after high school, was offered a scholarship to Harvard, but couldn t go because family illness. Nixon went to college and later law school and became a known Republican in his area. Nixon was now going to run for public office. Nixon s first stab at political office was when he ran for the Republican seat in the ...
- 1914: Personal Writing: James Marcia's Identity Status of Moratorium
- ... crucial decision making period of my life. I will graduate from Rock Valley at the end of next semester with an Associate in Science degree. I do not know where I want to go to school next year or what I want to major in. Sometimes I wonder if I want to go to school at all. The problem is not that I have had all these decisions thrown at me suddenly or unexpectedly, it is that I have put off making them for four years now. I know that ... I have the abiliy to successfully achieve anything I focus on. Is this egotism part of my problem? Then there is the fear I have of making the wrong decision. What if I pick a school or major that I end up hating or having no interest in at all after I get there? Is that a contradiction to my last paragraph? I realize that I always have the oppotunity ...
- 1915: Muammar al Qaddafi
- ... phones, and recording equipment. The young people are well dressed and fed. He has survived many coup attempts against him. His face and picture are in most buildings in Libya. He always was devoted to school as a kid. He would take a long hike from the desert to school. He would come home only every Thursday, the beginning of the Muslim weekend. Then he would go back to school. He was the first in his family to be well educated. One of his first goals when he was a child was to join the Libyan army. He slowly moved up in rank. It ...
- 1916: The Life Story of Nikita Khrushchev
- ... up their home and move to Yuzovka in another part of the Ukraine. Throughout his childhood, Nikita was forced to work to survive. His education amounted to only two or three years in the village school, for he was forced to go to work herding cows when he was nine. Following that, he was em- ployed as many things, including a farm hand, a factory worker, and finally a miner in ... under such conditions, but Khrushchev, gifted with a talent for organizing and motivating people, was able to succeed. In 1921, he sent his children to live with his parents and enrolled in a mining technology school, where he further developed himself in engineering and politics and learned how to read. A quick learner, Khrushchev finished school in four years, literate and with a comprehensive knowledge of Leninist views. He married again, this time to a schoolteacher named Nina Petrovna, and, at the age 31, encountered the first of a series ...
- 1917: Robert Frost 2
- ... tuberculosis at age thirty-four, in 1885. Isabelle took Robert and his sister back east to Massachusetts. Soon they moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where there was a teaching opening. Robert began to go to school and sit in on his mothers classes. He soon learned to love language, and eventually went to Lawrence High School, where he wrote the words to the school hymn, and graduated as co-valedictorian. Frost read rabidly of Dickens, Tennyson, Longfellow, and many others. Frost was then sent to Dartmouth college by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place ...
- 1918: Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin was the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgewood. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England where his father practiced medicine. He attended Shrewsbury Grammar School which was a well-kn own secondary school which concentrated on teaching classic languages. Even as a boy Darwin loved science and his enthusiasm for chemical studies earned him the name "Gas" from his friends. The headmaster at Shrewsbury, Dr. Samuel Butler noted ... sixteen, his father removed him from Shrewsbury and entered him in the University of Edenburgh to study medicine. He found all of his classes except chem istry dull. After two years at Edenburg, he quit school and went to live with his Uncle Josiah Wedgewood. After he abandoned medicine, his father urged him to attend Cambridge University to study to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow ...
- 1919: Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
- ... Ontario. The death of his friend made him having the desire to be a doctor. However, his father was a devoutly religious man, and hoped that Frederick would become minister. After he graduated from high school, the conflicts with his parents begun. His parents finally persuaded him to enrol in the liberal art course at Victoria College, Ontario. In 1910, he and his cousin Fred Hipwell began their studies at Victoria College. However, Banting's mind was still on medicine. After several arguments with his parents, he entered the University of Toronto Medical School in the fall of 1912. His cousin quoted, "He was a steady, industrious student. He had no top marks or even honor standing, but there never was any doubt that he would pass." World War I While he was still in school, World War I started. In the spring of 1915, his name was enlisted in the Canadian Army. However, his commanding officer, arranged him for his education. Hours after the successful completion of his final ...
- 1920: Carnegie Forum on Education Report, and the Holmes Group Report
- ... was to abolish undergraduate education degrees, and require a fifth year of graduate study. In the state of Pennsylvania, even after you receive your teaching certificate, it is only temporary. Unless you go back to school within six teaching years of graduation and complete another 24 credits, your teaching certificate can be taken away. The fourth point of the Carnegie Forum on Education Report states we should recruit minority students into teaching through federal fellowship. But every year many minority students are given the chance to attend school through scholarships and grants. They already have many opportunities. The other points made in the Carnegie Forum on Education Report do not represent a dramatic shift in the way things are done either. These points ... they already do help education? The fifth point says that we should provide at the state and local levels financial incentives for successful teachers. Although we do not currently have this policy in our public school system, who is to say that it will make public education better? Who will decide which teachers are successful teachers to receive more pay? Some teachers may just use easier tests to make it ...
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