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- 3141: Examination of Puritan Philosophy in Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
- ... on Thomas Morton's character. He continues, "After this, they fell into great licentiousness, and led a dissolute life, pouring out themselves into all profaneness. And Morton became the Lord of Misrule, and maintained a School of Atheism." Morton and his fellows also resorted to trading with Indians, and as Bradford puts it, "(They) got much
they spent it as vainly in quaffing and drinking, both wine and strong waters in ... take over the plantation, as the servants probably didn't want to be sold in Virginia. Bradford also implies Morton is a pagan. He calls Morton "the Lord of Misrule", and said Morton maintained a "School of Atheism". He views Morton as worshipping the maypole, as Morton and his fellows danced around it endlessly, and posted poetry to it. To Bradford, the drunken, hedonistic lifestyle that Morton maintained stood against everything ...
- 3142: Children And The Internet
- ... of the time children spend on the computer can be attributed to the internet. This computer overuse results in less time for children to study, do homework, read, exercise, or participate in any out of school organizations. Such a pattern will eventually affect the childs grades, health, and social life. Spending too much time on the internet isnt the only problem that children can encounter. The content which children ... future is their loss of social interaction. Chatting over the internet can slowly begin to replace the important interaction with friends and family. Many children go straight to their room once the get home from school, and only come out to eat and use the restroom. Eventually the children grow apart from their friends because they would rather chat on the internet than go out on a Friday night. Even though ...
- 3143: Woodrow Wilson
- ... Wilson went to private schools his whole adolescent life. When Wilson went to college, he studied to be a politician. Later Wilson decided he wanted to become a lawyer, this failed so he enrolled in school to study history. Over time, Wilson gained a lot of respect and rose to high places because of his essays and public addresses. As the University President, Wilson resigned and looked into the Democratic point ... a part of history that needed one. Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924). Bibliography The History of American President's CD ROM. (c)1994. Westing House. Encarta 95 & 97 Encyclopedia. (c)1994-1997 Microsoft. US History Book. (School Edition)
- 3144: Maturation Of Scout
- ... realizes that Calpurnia is nice and that she always means good when Scout thinks the opposite. On page 29, Scout tells us about her and Cal's conversation one day when Scout came back from school. Calpurnia said that she had missed Scout that day while she and Jem were at school. All of a sudden, Calpurnia was really nice to Scout. She let Scout watch her fix supper, she made crackling bread for her, and she even kissed her. Scout describes how she feels after all ...
- 3145: Albert Einstein
- ... Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Germany. His family owned a small business that manufactured electric machinery. The business failed and they left Germany. Albert was fifteen years old and he dropped out of school. When Albert was five when he received his first compass and he began to investigate the world. Little did he know that that compass would make him famous. By the age of ten he becomes so fascinated by the world of science he self-educates himself to learn as much as possible. Albert then went to a secondary school in Switzerland. Albert felt that the academics and education were not satisfying enough so he started cutting his classes and used all his free time to learn about physics. He had learned so much that ...
- 3146: John A. MacDonald
- John A. MacDonald John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada in the years 1820 with his parents when he was five years old. He was educated at Midland District Grammar School and John Cruickshank School in Kingston, Ontario. John A. McDonald was married in 1843 to Isabelle Clark and had two sons but one died when he was a small baby. His first wife died in 1856 and he remarried ...
- 3147: Aum Shinkyria
- ... a very poor family in China. Throughout his entire life he had one solitary goal - to become a leader of some sort. This started from an early age, when he would run for class and school president every year in elementary, middle, and secondary school. Being the unusual boy he was, he would constantly be declined presidency, as the other children feared his political standpoint and his threats. According to Marty Butz, a writer for a prominent occult magazine, perhaps ...
- 3148: Charles Darwin
- ... on modern thought in general. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on February 12, 1809. He was the fifth child of Robert Warning Darwin. After Char-les had graduated from the elite school at Shrewsbury in 1825, young Darwin went to the University of Edinburg to study medicine. In 1827 he had dropped out of medical school and attended University of Cambridge to prepare to become a cler-gyman of the Church of England. There he met two stellar figures, Adam Sedg-wick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a naturalist. Henslow ...
- 3149: The Sport of Running
- ... up. Since John F. Kennedy made a Presidential physical fitness award for students to show them how they rank in fitness with the country and making every child take it a couple of times during school. Also he introduced many new sports to school (swimming, cross- country, soccer, etc.). With these new sports he got children interested and the children got their parents going. With this new interest the first "Running Boom" started. Since then many people have passed ...
- 3150: Effects of the Great Depression on Canada
- ... fixed salaries and lived comfortably. The teachers and the ministers were two groups of people who really found the Great Depression a struggle: People who really affected from social effects of the Great Depression were school teachers and religious leaders. Teachers saw gifted students be forced to leave school due to the lack of funds. Ministers saw sickness, malnutrition, want and poverty without power to do more than comfort and sustain. 10 People during the 1930's revealed through their music their feelings, explanations ...
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