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- 3001: Concerns Facing the United States in the 1990s: Crime, Education, and Employment
- ... was passed in 1994 which has put more police on the streets, increased drug enforcement, border patrols, and crime prevention programs. Another concern we deal with as Americans is education. Many students drop out of school early. Many of the rest graduate knowing less math, science, and history than other industrialized nations. Illiteracy rates are high, and more and more students are graduating from school even if they have been absent more days than allowed. To improve this, committees have been organized will develop voluntary national and state standards for education and authorize grants to develop model programs to improve ...
- 3002: Beloved - Toni Morrison
- ... shows this desperation when she sends her children away from Sweet Home, when she travels, alone and pregnant, from Sweet Home to Ohio, and when she attempts to kill her children to keep them from school teacher. Although she hardly can get on without them, Sethe, in desperation, sends her children to live with their grandmother, Baby Suggs, to keep them from becoming slaves themselves. The depth of her need for ... horrid. Contrary to common sense and driven by her desperation to be free, Sethe, alone and pregnant, makes the journey to freedom. She is desperate and is willing to do anything to escape slavery, the school teacher, and his nephews. In Sethe's mind, slavery and its affects are worse than the threat of death. This threat of death is genuine; Sethe and her baby, Denver, probably would have died had ...
- 3003: Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
- ... was developed during this time as he read the Oz books, Alice in Wonderland, Tarzan, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and the works of Poe. In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, where Bradbury attended high school and joined the Los Angeles Science-Fantasy Society. While a member, Bradbury published four issues of his own magazine, Futuria Fantasia. After graduating from high school in 1938 he took various jobs which allowed him to devote much of his time to writing. His first story, published in 1940 by Script magazine, was "It's Not the Heat, It's the ...
- 3004: Frederick Winslow Taylor: Business Management
- ... attended Phillips-Exeter Academy. He was a devout student, doing very well with his studies. To achieve good grades, Taylor studied many long hours. It was quite unfortunate that Taylor was to miss Harvard Law School due to bad eyes that doctors attrributed to studying in the poor light of a kerosene lamp. In later years it was realized that his eye problem was actually caused by stress, as it improved ... needed to continue his education. He convinced the people at Stevens Institute of Technology to allow him to attend classes long distance. He would study in his spare time in Philadelphia and go to the school in New Jersey to take his exams. In June of 1883, Taylor graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree. He subsequently joined the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Midvale Steel Company The Midvale Steel Company ...
- 3005: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- ... and Today and Tomorrow I can remember as a child in the 1950s and early sixties, the air-raid sirens, and everyone getting under their desk, or going to the ground floor of the school building and curling up with our faces against the wall. It was a game. It was like a fire drill, a chance to get out for a few minutes, out of our studies, out of ... son Dennis was getting ready for bed one night. He was sobbing inconsolably. I believe he was in the 7th grade at the time. He had seen parts of the movie The Day After in school about 5 years after it aired. I know for a fact he did not view that movie when it first cam out. It was hyped with many warning statements as to the content. I found ...
- 3006: India's Economic Success
- ... one's country, India has exploded in schools and enrollment in these schools. As we can see by page 2, both chart's, the difference in a little more then 10 years is considerable. Both school enrollment and the number of educational institutions have increased by an average of 63%, however do not get fooled by these numbers. The Indian's school system are extremely overcrowded and many children drop out to get a job to help support their families. This problem with India's educational system falls in two parts, the first being that children who ...
- 3007: Kennedy Assassination
- ... the people in their country what had happened and to give advice to the Dallas Police Station. Everyone everywhere was upset by this tragic loss. People were sent home from work, kids sent home from school, and an entire nation with one question, who? The only answer that was given and is still the accepted answer is that, Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin in the murder of President John ... death had a deep effect on Ruby. Ruby killed Oswald because Oswald killed Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. There is no evidence to support a conspiracy. A conspiracy of that level takes months to plan. If it was a conspiracy attempting to blame Oswald, then how did they come up with ...
- 3008: Careers in Investment Banking
- ... strategies for clients. All this work can appear to be very time consuming, and it is. According to Linda C. (So You Want To Be, 2) a typical day for an investment banker out of school is to start at nine in the morning and work fairly consistently until midnight, five days a week. To be considered for a job in the securities industry one must be content living in or ... The typical analyst works mainly on analytical work and also does a fair amount of writing.(So You Want to Be A,4) From here an analyst has the option to either go back to school and pursue an MBA, or try to advance to the position of a junior associate, which basically has the job of supervising the analytical work done by the analysts. Junior associates are basically trying to ...
- 3009: A Pharmacist
- ... can get them if a patient needs them immediately. Charles Rudolph Walgreen Sr. Is the founder of Walgreens. When he was twenty, he borrowed twenty dollars, and moved from Dixon, Illinois to Chicago. Throughout pharmacy school, he worked for pharmacies in the day and went to school at night. When the United States went to War with Spain in 1898, Walgreen was enlisted as a private. There were many diseases in Cuba, and Walgreen fell sick. The doctor was so sure that ...
- 3010: The Protector Of The Scots And The Hammer Of The Scots
- ... our time and English propaganda of Williams time he was not the poor uneducated farmers son. Indeed, for Sir Williams day he was quite well educated (Fisher 65). Even as early as his school days William had a reputation for defending himself and punishing the aggressions of intruders, whenever the opportunity arose. In December 1291, while still in school William was publicly insulted by a youth named Selby, the son of the governor of Dundee. Selby noticed the rather outstanding sight of William, who was not only a towering figure, he was wearing bright ...
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