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- 2441: The Odd Couple: Summary
- The Odd Couple: Summary On the evening of November the eighth, I saw the play The Odd Couple, by Neil Simmon. The performance started at approximately 7:30 in the Centennial High School auditorium. The Centennial High School Drama Department performed this two and a half hour play. The level of performance for this play was amateur and the tickets were sold for five dollars apiece. There were two intermissions where the audience ...
- 2442: Television - In Living Color
- ... front of a television continues to grow with each generation. The number of hours a child spends in front of a television is rapidly overtaking even the number of hours that they will spend in school. Included in their weekly television viewing are an extraordinary amount of commercial messages. Before entering school, young children will have formed many of their beliefs of what is good by the commercials they have viewed. Due to the number of hours spent watching television, advertisers use the concept of repetition to ...
- 2443: A Separate Peace: Changes
- A Separate Peace: Changes Edward “Leper” Lepellier, from John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, never showed resentment openly. He enlisted in the army during his junior year in high school, but after he saw horrific images during boot camp, he returned home. He went back to school to visit and his peers noticed a significant change in him, psychologically and socially. He changed from being a quiet detached person, to a person who expressed his anger toward anything that agitated him in ...
- 2444: Hate Crimes
- ... drinking on a Saturday night. John William King, 23, was the trio’s unofficial leader, a foul-mouthed convicted burglar whose prison nickname was “Possum.” Shawn Allen Berry, also 23, was King’s former high school classmate and partner in crime. Lawrence Russell Brewer, 31, had served seven years on a cocaine conviction, released on condition he be treated for an undisclosed mental illness. All three had tattoos or personal items ... activities of hate groups, the three men who murdered Byrd match the stereotype of perpetrators of hate crimes. All three were going through tough times struggling to stay afloat: King, Brewer, and Berry were high school dropouts unable to hold a steady job, working variously as yard workers and lumber company employees, and they were about to be evicted from the apartment they shared (Pressley A9). According to the SPLC’s ...
- 2445: Creative Writing: Stanley
- ... to buy beer. It was too late for college, he failed out two years ago, so all he had was his weed and his work. His car was shitty, his friends were flunking out of school left and right, and he hadn't got laid in two years. He was praying that he would win the lottery, be offered a better job somewhere, just anything that would improve his social and ... for so long, something had to fuck-up sooner or later. The fuck-up was far from being done, as Stan would soon see. Stan was racist. He admitted it freely. In the first high school he went to, there was one black kid that everyone called "Chu," who transferred schools after one year. His entire hometown was racist. Stan was in the worst position he could have been in, since ...
- 2446: Personal Writing: The Game
- ... free throws. Hearing the sound of the final buzzer, the Shelby Tigers had won their first ever State Basketball Championship and Todd was the MVP. Todd had recorded the first ever quadruple double in high school basketball history tallying; 39 points, 17 assists, 13 steals, and 11 rebounds. They had finally done it, their dream had been fulfilled. After high school, Todd jumped straight to the pros and became the best basketball player of all time.
- 2447: Silicon Science: The Job of a System Analyst
- ... work as teams and are constantly dealing with some form of new computer technology. They may build and design new systems, or they may provide consultation on the purchasing of computer systems for a company, school, or small business as to what type of computer system to purchase. The analysts who build new systems must design the circuit boards, peripherals, and choose how the computer will recognize files. System analysts must ... consumer may have with the new system, which, in turn, involves the use of more math models. In order to be capable of completing the above tasks, a system analyst must continue education beyond high school. The post-secondary education required for a system analyst can be found only at a four- year institution. A student looking to become a system analyst must concentrate on the science and math courses offered ...
- 2448: Aristotle
- ... Macedonia's capital, and became the tutor of the king's young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great. In 335, when Alexander became king, Aristotle went back to Athens and established his own school, the Lyceum.Since a lot of the lessons happened when teachers and students were walking, it was nicknamed the Peripatetic school (Peripatetic means walking). When Alexander died in 323 BC, strong anti-Macedonian feeling was felt in Athens, and Aristotle went to a family estate in Euboea. He died there the following year. Aristotle, like Plato ...
- 2449: Adam Smith
- ... From 1764-66 he traveled with his pupil, mostly in France, where he came to know such intellectual leaders as Turgot, D'Alembert, AndréMorellet, Helvétius and, in particular, Francois Quesnay, the head of the Physiocratic school whose work he much respected. On returning home to Kirkcaldy he devoted much of the next ten years to his magnum opus, which appeared in 1776. In 1778 he was appointed to a comfortable post ... at the beginning of our century, but has been gradually abandoned since then. I shall group these answers together under the name of the Colourless theories. A second party says, Capital produces the surplus. This school, amply represented in economic literature, may be conveniently called that of the Productivity theories. I may here note that in their later development we shall find the productivity theories splitting up into many varieties; into ...
- 2450: 90s
- ... 1990's mainstream country music, and the limited range of styles and sounds that are typically played on country radio stations. Rap Music Rap of the late 70's and 80's, commonly called "old school", was made by DJs scratching records and playing drum loops, with MCs rapping over the resulting rhythms. As the genre progressed, hard-rock guitars and hard-hitting beats were introduced by Run-D.M.C ... With the return of these retro bands a lot of today's bands want in on the action. Trent Reznor sings Kiss's praises, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready carried a Kiss lunch box to school, and Courtney Love was caught sporting a Kiss T-shirt. The Rolling Stones returned with their comeback album "Voodoo Lounge" featuring all of their greatest hits. The original punk influences of the 70's, like ...
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