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- 2511: Policy Profile Of Senator Dick
- ... 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 ...
- 2512: Being Popular
- ... to a party every weekend, they become used to the alcohol and drugs and begin to drink and do more drugs. Then they become addicted. Once they re addicted, their life begins to fall apart. School grades drop, they are not studying at night any more, they don t pay attention in class, and they don t do the assigned work. They don t take care of themselves, they don t ... is drunk or on drugs. They smell bad, and their attitudes have changed. Drug and alcohol abuse is a serious problem among many young people. If young people would try being themselves and focus on school work, instead of trying to fit in, there would not be as many problems with drug and alcohol abuse.
- 2513: Aristotle
- ... the Macedonian court. At the age of seventeen, he was sent away to study in Athens. It was there that he transformed to a disciple of Plato. Over time, Aristotle became the "mind of the school". Later in his life, he followed his mentor and became a teacher in a school on the coast of Asia minor. Aristotle was the professor of young prince Alexander, who went on to become the ruler Alexander the Great. Aristotle was the first known person to make major advances in ...
- 2514: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- ... was 13 years old, he constructed his own telescope, and changed a bike light to transmit sound along the path of light it gave off. Arthur made his first literary connections by writing in the school newspaper. He attended elementary, Middle, and high school in his home town, and then later went to King's College in London, where he made honors in Math and in Physics in 1948. After Arthur had finished college, he became a member of ...
- 2515: Sports And Society
- ... between Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma fans from both sides were extremely rude and obnoxious towards each other. "Schools should support one another... and fans should support their team and represent their school with class (Cudd, Campus' Voice). The behavior at these events is unacceptable and needs to stop. In England rowdy fans were arrested after a soccer game. These English hooligans attacked a British journalist and two ... another match, France actually had to enforce an emergency legislation that expelled some English supporters to prevent insubordinate and unlawful behavior (Balmer, Reuters). Improper behavior is also a problem at youth events. "On the high school level and in the youth recreation leagues, many spectators... are prime examples of unbecoming behavior" (Quesenberry, Blare County Messenger). Parents and other relatives go to the youth events and behave like uneducated hoodlums; they curse ...
- 2516: Computer Crimes
- ... individual outlaws and entire "gangs" have broken into computers all over the U.S., using their wits and wiles to pilfer and destroy data"(Behar p62). In a case of a 14 year old high school freshman who was convicted of using stolen credit card numbers to order thousands of dollars of computer equipment, and then having it shipped to a vacant house. He obtained the stolen numbers through his computer ... percent of the unauthorized copies represent packages that would have been purchase, it is estimated that the revenue lost in 1985 was $800 million more. A major part of software piracy is done between high school and collage students. Other students need a program and know a friend that has the program so they just let them copy it. They fell why should they pay $50, $250, or even $500 for ...
- 2517: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... in Bozeman, Mont., he could not afford a college education and anticipated a career constructing floor molds for engine castings at a foundry in Portland, Ore., where he went to work in 1942, after high school. But in 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps and was stationed in the central Pacific as an airplane armorer and gunner. After the war, the G.I. Bill offered him ... and soon was winning awards, including top honors at the 1950 National Ceramic Exhibition at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, in New York. Encouraged, he chose ceramics as a course of study in graduate school at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, from which he graduated with a master's degree in 1952. Around the same time, he married Margaret Cone and had a daughter, Pier. His ...
- 2518: A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
- ... No real hardcore prep thinks that way! Chet Douglas lives in his own educational world. He's so absorbed in this alternate reality in which Calculus has a justified existence that he forgets what the school is trying to teach him, and actually goes out and seeks more academia than what the school is already shoving down his and everyone else's throat. The standard prep is only concerned with being on the top of the Honor Roll, so that everybody's parents can marvel at how smart ...
- 2519: Being An Inroads Intern
- ... that I must go to college in order to prepare myself, and that requires a whole new set of goals. Primarily, my main goal for my first five years after college, is to attend graduate school, and get a masters and/or doctorate in whichever field I end up pursuing. While, and after, attending graduate/professional school I plan to get a job that is related to my major. Im not sure which type of job exactly, as I havent yet decided on a major or job, but I know ...
- 2520: Emmy Noether
- ... father was Max Noether, a noted mathematician of his time. Her mother was Ida Amalie, for whom Emmy was named. As a child, Emmy Noether did not concentrate on mathematics. She spent her time in school studying languages, with a concentration on French and English. Her mother taught her the traditional skills of a young woman of that time. She learned to cook, clean, and play the clavier. At the time of her graduation from high school, she passed a test that allowed her to teach both French and English at schools for young women. At the age of 18, Emmy Noether decided to take classes in mathematics at the University of ...
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