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- 2341: Policy Profile of Senator Richard Lugar
- ... offered to give insight concerning Senator Lugar's motivations and tendencies to act in the way he does. Biographical Background Richard Green Lugar was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 4, 1932. Attending Shortridge High School he excelled academically and was the class Valedictorian. After graduation, Dick Lugar (as he is commonly known) attended Denison University, in Ohio, and met his future wife Charlene Smeltzer. In 1954 Lugar received his degree ... and a food machinery firm started by his Grandfather over 100 years ago, Thomas L. Green & Company. Both are located in the Indianapolis area. In 1964, Lugar obtained his first political office with the Indianapolis School Board. He then went on to win the Mayoral bid in 1968, and served two terms at the head of city government in Indianapolis. Senator Lugar's next stepping stone in politics would be a ...
- 2342: Prop. 209
- ... rejecting quotas, preferences and set-asides. My brother had a run in with affirmative action. After attending a junior college and getting a 4.0 there he transfered to U.C. Davis for Pre- Med school. Two years later he applied to Davis1s Medical school and was rejected because there were to many white students in the college. He was then told to wait an entire year and apply again. Instead he moved back to our home town of Bakersfield ...
- 2343: Illuminating the Path of Progress
- ... grain port. He spent time exploring the canal and played near his father's shingle business. When Alva was a child, he had scarlet fever. The fever damaged his hearing and delayed his entrance into school. Edison was curious about the world around him and always tried to teach himself through reading and experiments. Alva spent three years in home schooling. He was taught by his mother. He later returned to school but left at age twelve to get a job and help support his family. Edison got his first job selling newspapers and snacks to the passengers on the train between Port Huron and Detroit. Edison ...
- 2344: Christamas
- ... winter, also called the celebration of the sun Is it true that Christmas no longer is a family celebration? Nowadays, more and more people go abroad to celebrate Christmas. They are so tired of job, school, and especially the cold that they buy their own Christmas present - a ticket to a southern country where there are more pleasant temperatures. The ones who just are tired of job and school, not the cold, they rather go to a mountain hotel, skiing and enjoying their Christmas in their own way. Christmas is and will always be a family celebration, full of family-parties where the whole ...
- 2345: Gangs
- ... or her throat. There's others that involve rituals and sacrifices. Teenage gang members are linked to conventional barrio life is obvious. In fact, much of the members' time is spent with the "family", at school, under the eyes of neighbors who are decidedly "square," and, sometimes, with conventional friends or dates. This linkage is usually overlooked in researchers' preoccupation with the life of the gang during the hours that it ... slang term, originally coined by gangs, specifies a youth who isn't in a gang, but who likes to "hang around" gang members wherever they meet and go. Shopping malls, homes, parties, locations near a school, music shops, etc. are typical locales for "hanging." "Hanging out" can act as a magnet for gang (sometimes called "peewees") or at-risk youths who are new to a neighborhood. "Tagging" is one form of ...
- 2346: Reforms Are Need In Canada's Government
- ... their position, and will have the opportunity to run in the election. After three years, the other half will follow suit and resign their position. This will allow a slow filtering out of the old school appointed Senators, to be replaced with elected ones. There would be eight Senators elected by each province, regardless of the size of the province and its population. As well, eight Senators would be given to ... people. Without Senate reform, the Canadian political structure may eventually crumble, much like an old house crumbles when its foundation has degraded. In order for Canada to survive in the twenty-first century, the old-school British system must be revamped, for it is outdated. Canada must cast aside old traditions and replace them with modern ideology and thought.
- 2347: Television Violence In The United States
- ... part in the attack said they were imitating a scene form Born Innocent, an NBC television movie they watched three days they committed the crime. The movie, which takes place in a girl's reform school, shows a new inmate cornered by four girls and graphically raped with the handle of a plumber's helper (Levine 12). It is time to move past the debate of whether or not the entertainment ... tenets: first, by accepting the child's behavior and feelings; and second, by provoking the child with opportunities for "catharsis" (Kauffman 185). Therefor the development of critical viewing skills should be part of every elementary school curriculum. Teaching children how to watch television more productively is extremely important because the use of educational television and other media appears to be growing throughout all educational levels. (Primavera 8) Parents also play a ...
- 2348: Of Mice And Men
- ... Francisco with his family and more frequent trips to the Monterey peninsula (Fontenrose 2). In 1918, he became ill with pneumonia and almost died, but he was able to recover. After graduating from Salinas High School in 1919, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University, taking courses in English and Marine Science (Bloom 11). He was always an excellent student, eager to learn both in and out of school, interested in books, music, science, religion, and sports (Fontenrose 3). During this time, he worked as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand, and factory worker, and left Stanford permanently in the fall of 1925 ...
- 2349: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... in 1566, Anne was born in 1571, Richard in 1574, and Edmund in 1580. This made William the eldest. Little is known about William's childhood. He was educated for free at the local grammar school, and learned Latin and a little bit of Greek. His plays suggest that he did not enjoy school, and it seems that he did enjoy sports. Many different play companies came to Stratford to perform, and since John Shakespeare was in charge of the theater at some times, it is almost for sure ...
- 2350: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of eight children, and was the eldest son of John Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare would of taken over his father's business, but according to one account, he became a butcher because of reverses in his father's financial situation. According to another account, he became a school master. That Shakespeare was allowed considerable leisure time in his youth is suggested by the fact that his plays show more knowledge of hunting and hawking than do those of other dramatists. In 1582, he ...
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