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- 2161: Hands: Paranoia
- ... as the town people called him, was a dreamer, he wanted others to dream with him and experience what he did. "Adolf Myers walked into the evening or had sat talking until dusk upon the school steps lost in a dream."(p. 884) "In a way the voice and hands, the stroking of shoulders and the touching of hair were a part of the school Master's effort to carry a dream into the young minds."(p. 884) This is a man that was run out of a town for something that was not a bad thing. Nor was this something intended the wrong way. Mr. Myers did touch only to pass on something great, a dream. Mr. Myers was run from a town. "They intended to hang the school master."(p. 885) "As he ran away in the darkness they repented their weakness and ran after him."(p. 885) Mr. Myers was so paranoid about touching someone he would do anything to keep ...
- 2162: Microsoft Corporation
- ... offered the world its first software manufacturing company was Microsoft Corporation (MSFT on the NASDAQ exchange). At the helm of this young, innovative company are William Gates and Paul Allen, a pair of former high school chums who envisioned a world of home computer technology years before such a dream became even remotely possible. Early Influences Their story begins at Lakeside High, a private high school in Seattle, Washington. The Mothers' Club at Lakeside decided to purchase a computer terminal for the kids with proceeds from bake sales and rummage sales. Students at Lakeside became enthralled with this new toy. True ... Mothers' Club was unable to afford continued use of computer time at $40 per hour, they decided to make it students' responsibility to purchase their own computer time. Most students complied by getting jobs outside school. Gates and Allen became programmers in the summers for compensation of computer time and $5000 in cash. In his 1995 book The Road Ahead, Gates describes the mainframe computers of the early >70's ...
- 2163: The Lottery
- ... and what time of year the story takes place. This is important to get the reader to focus on what a typical day it WAS in this small town; iT WAS AN EARLY SUMMER MORNING. SCHOOL HAD JUST RECENTLY LET OUT FOR THE SUMMER. THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN A RURAL COMMUNITY, WHERE the grass WAS \\"richly green\\" and \\"the flowers were blooming profusely\\" (196). These descriptions of the surroundings give ... victims of social tradition and rituals. Anyone with knowledge of current events must be aware of times when society has seized upon a scapegoat as means of resolution. Countless politicians, military leaders, corporate executives and school administrators frequently use this proven technique. The people of the small village were very similar to the leaders of our society. The village people believed that someone had to be sacrificed to insure a good ... reader to focus on what a typical day it is in this small town. The time of day is set in the morning and the time of year is early summer. She also describes that school has just recently let out for summer break, letting the reader infer that the time of year is early summer. The setting of the town is described by the author as that of any ...
- 2164: Emile Durkheim & Anomie Or Strain Theory
- ... the various hypotheses. Paternoster and Mazerolle (1994) article found partial support for general strain theory. It was consistent with Agnew and White’s (1992) work, finding that negative relationships with adults, dissatisfaction with friends and school, and the experience of stressful events, such as family breakup or unemployment were positively related to delinquency. But they found no evidence that a broader exposure to negative stimuli causing strain was not effected by ... related to subsequent delinquency regardless of level of delinquent peers, delinquent disposition, moral beliefs, self-efficacy, and conventional social support networks. They admit that other strategies to cope with strain were not discussed, such as school activities, athletics, or escapism through drug use. They was also unable to test Agnew’s key variable anger. In “The conditional effects of stress on delinquency and drug use,” Hoffman and Su (1997) found that ... group or individual (differential association), that negative relationships could teach or promote deviance (learning theory), that could create the stigma of being deviant (labeling theory), or reduce social bonds with positive relationships, such as family, school, and church (social control theory), which leads to an increased likelihood of deviant behavior. This basically means that other theories may be the cause of deviance that leads to strain, or some of them ...
- 2165: Careers;mis
- ... widely used. IT has developed into a popular and a well paying job entering the 21st century. To become an IT professional, one must obtain a good educational background. Early preparation is important in high school. During that time, four years of math is required although more than four years would be better. The types of math classes are both Algebras, Geometry, and Trigonometry. Another important class to have is four ... consider. The most important foreign language to know is computer language such as COBOL, C++, PASCAL, and BASIC. In addition, high grades are required in those classes. If you have a poor record in high school, attending junior or community college can make up for the bad ones. Those schools also serve as excellent preparatory schools for universities (Bailey 55). Many big colleges offer Management Information Systems as a major. If one chooses that major,MIS can lead into a successful profession as an IT. The type of school does not really matter, as long as they offer an MIS major with a well-planned curriculum.In IT or MIS, the job can be separated into many different classifications.MIS generally falls into ...
- 2166: Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led to Murder: Summary
- ... tale. First is Doris Kryciak Leatherbarrow, born in Calder, Saskatchewan in 1920. Doris grew up in poverty, the oldest of seven children in the farming family. Doris was a good student when she went to school, but quit at fifteen and worked at school. She married George Artemenko, a shipyard worker, and became pregnant soon after. She gave birth to Sharon Doreen in March of 1943. This daughter never knew her father; George died in a fall at work ... when Sharon visited Doris in nearby Tsawwassen. They would break in, wait for the pair, then club them and slit their throats. Darren, in the meantime, had become delusional. He staged a play at his school called "Caligula", a play about a Roman emperor who symbolizes absolute freedom and consummate evil. He began to speak of ruling small countries, and reveled his murderous plans to his girlfriend, Amanda Cousins. She ...
- 2167: Problems In Today's Society
- ... cause the neighbourhood to become a bad place to live. This will cause people not to go there or move in there because of these violence. There are also many violence and gangs in some school, causing some of the school to be very unsafe to go. With these violence and gangs, students will probably be afraid of these people. In addition, the media can contain violence too. These violence, can cause kids to do what ... and he sometimes does wrestling moves on me for no reason and thinking it's fun. Even though it doesn't hurt me because I'm bigger than him, he might hurt someone smaller in school or something. The third problem in the society today is pollution. Many things these days cause pollution such as cars, air conditioners, refrigerators, factories, CFC cans, etc.. All these things together can cause a ...
- 2168: Lord Of The Flies
- ... turn, to anger. Jack s eyes are always used in the novel to depict his emotions, as they are in the quote above. When the boys land on the island they are all wearing their school uniforms, but Jack and his choir are wearing cloaks and caps. Oddly enough, Jack is one of the only boys whose last name is learned. I think the author does this to make Jack stand out ...
- 2169: Barney The Hitler Of My Generation
- ... of his Nazi-like teachings. Barney & Friends is a show that PBS should definitely remove from its television line-up. Following the film Jurassic Park and TV shows such as Dinosaurs, Sheryl Leach, a Texas school teacher frustrated by the lack of "quality interactive and educational entertainment," created a fat purple dinosaur named Barney, and a dragon sidekick named Baby Bop for her two years old son(Tolentino 2). Thus, the Barney phenomenon was born. Conceived as a show that would help little children celebrate childhood and understand the complex business of growing up in a world where sixth graders carry guns to school, Barney & Friends has achieved a cult-like following among toddlers who swear upon their mother's graves that he is God himself. Barney has become a marketing win-fall. With an international fan club of ... scrutiny from researchers asking whether the overstuffed purple menace makes the grade as a teacher. A study by Yale University suggests that "The show contains many positive educational elements that aid young children preparing for school" (Walsh 1). Barney teaches ideas such as sharing, respect for different cultures, and washing your hands after you go potty. However, other observers argue that the show suffers from unfocused educational goals. Gerald S. ...
- 2170: Analysis -- Buffy The Vampire
- ... Dracula and Beverly Hills 90210, which might be an accurate description ¡V the show does contain elements of a horror movie and tries to include situations experienced in a teenage soap (the characters attend high-school and experience friendship and love). Mise en scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is usually quite similar in each episode, and ¡§Dead Man¡¦s Party¡¨ isn¡¦t really an exception to this belief. The settings used are Buffy¡¦s house (located in a middle-class suburb), the school corridors and library, and Giles¡¦ apartment. The behaviour of the actors, in terms of humour, is often cynical and sarcastic, and though most characters share this, it does vary depending on each character. There are times when the characters behave threateningly towards other characters, such as near the end of the episode in which Giles threatens Principle Snyder to let Buffy back into the school. Some of the behaviour seems a little apprehensive, or awkward, especially with Buffy and Joyce; they both seem to feel intimidated by each other¡¦s presence. Behaviour seems to change often during the party: ...
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