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- 2201: Malcolm X 2
- ... take care of eight children and endure threats from the KKK, suffered a nervous breakdown. As a result, Malcolm and his siblings were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was later enrolled in a reform school and did very well grade wise. He was the best student in his class and wanted to become a lawyer. When the school heads heard about this, they sent a person to talk to Malcolm. This person told and convinced Malcolm that he was black and that he could never become a lawyer because of it. As a ...
- 2202: Malcolm X 4
- ... him crushed his dreams, and made him feel worthless. His teacher if not the most is one of the most influential people because of that statement, that's the statement that pushed him away from school. That eventually pushed Malcolm towards street life, which eventually shaped his aspect of life the most. Shorty, I think had one of the strongest influences on Malcolm's life. Shorty basically showed Malcolm how to ... we can learn a lot from his life, from not always letting some comments affect your life so much to always keep your guard up. I think that this should be read in every high school class because I think people need to know the truth about him. In my own life I have heard many bad things about Malcolm X, that I believed, but until now I know the truth ...
- 2203: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... this book the biggest merit is "The Kid Nobody Could Handle". The music teacher, Helmholtz is appalled to find that Jim Donnini, a juvenile delinquent from the streets of Chicago, has been vandalizing Lincoln High School. Filled with compassion and desperation Helmholtz offers him his most prized possession, John Philip Sousa'a trumpet. When the boy initially shows no interest, Helmholtz hammers the instrument against a coat tree and mutter that "Life is no damn good" ; and only then does Donnini show any interest in Helmholtz. With the start of a new school semester, Jim Donnini takes the last seat of the worst trumpet section of the "C" band. As Helmholtz tells him and the rest of the band "Our aim is to make the world more beautiful ...
- 2204: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... France had annexed the island. He had 7 brothers and sisters, and his father was a lawyer whose family stemmed from the Florentine nobility. His original nationality was Cursican-Italian. In 1779 Napoleon went to school at Brienne in France. There he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as ... did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him. Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army ...
- 2205: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
- ... home and education. Poe grew up in Richmond, Virginia, where his foster parents lived. When he was six years old, he was taken to England with the Allan family and placed in the Manor House School, a private school conducted by a conductor just like the one in " William Wilson, " one of Poe's short stories. Poe returned to the United States in 1820 where he continued to be taught in private schools. In ...
- 2206: Tourette Syndrome
- ... will also display some type of learning disorder. Such disorders include: having difficulty organizing work, having difficulty playing quietly, talking excessively, interrupting and intruding on others, having a shorter attention span, losing necessary materials for school and home, and engaging in physically dangerous activity, with no thought given to the ramifications of their actions. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is also found in sixty percent of those with Tourette Syndrome. Those with ... to friends, and staying away from social gatherings, and learning to deal with emotional trauma. Help however is available for Tourette Syndrome. The goals of health professionals concerning this disorder is to clarify reasons for school problems, and to develop and individualized multimodality treatment program.
- 2207: Prader-Willi Syndrome
- ... scratching and skin picking. Tantrums and unprovoked outbursts are common among children and youths with PWS. People with mild cases of PWS can do many things their normal peers can do,such as go to school,get jobs,and sometimes even move away from home.However they need a lot of help.Kids going to school would need to be enrolled in special education programs(Otherwise theyd be eating their pencil and paper).They need to be constantly supervised.
- 2208: Brown V. Board Of Education
- ... of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decided on May 17, 1954, was one of the most important cases in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Linda Brown had been denied admission to an elementary school in Topeka because she was black. Brought together under the Brown designation were companion cases from South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, all of which involved the same basic question: Does the equal protection clause of ... community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to be undone." Although the decision did not bring about total integration of blacks in the schools, it resulted in efforts by many school systems to remove the imbalance by busing students. The Court's decision had far reaching effects, influencing civil rights legislation and the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
- 2209: Can Genetics Cause Crime?
- ... Element," in Scientific American,(1995 March) pp 100-107, is that a very small number of criminals are responsible for the majority of the violent crime. Sullivan who is now the president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta wanted to try and address the violence as a public health issue. In an interview after he left office in 1993, Dr. Sullivan explains that his rational for this was that ... of gene related violence, genetic information so far has been fairly unpredictable. Finding a defect such as the maoa mutation is an exceedingly rare event. Also according to Margret McCarthy of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, what matters in not whether someone possesses a gene, but whether that gene is expressed. Although seems that genetics is unlikely to tell us much of practical value about crime, other aspects of ...
- 2210: Creative Writing: There Isn't Much Time
- ... there were other important things. Some of these reasons sounds legitimate, but I think these reasons are just excuses for people's fear of failure, fear of lost security, and need for pressure. Back high school, I had a friend, Eric, who dropped out of school because of bad grades. As his friend, I knew he was doing fine until the period of final exams. He was a smart and responsible person which laziness is not a factor of his bad ...
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