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- 3291: Advice I Often Receive From Pa
- A piece of advice that I often receive is "as long as you do your best." This refers to success in everything from school to careers. I believe that this is good advice because it tells me that they trust my judgment and will respect my decisions, even if they are the wrong ones. This helps to take pressure off of me when I am going to school because I don't have to live up to certain standards and try to accomplish goals that are unattainable. Instead, I can just worry about doing the best I can. It is possible that I ...
- 3292: Adolescent Depression - The Under Acknowledged Disease
- ... for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, 1995). Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is greatly underdiagnosed and leads to serious difficulties in school, work and personal adjustment which may often continue into adulthood. How prevalent are mood disorders in children and when should an adolescent with changes in mood be considered clinically depressed? Brown (1996) has said the ... find themselves overwhelmed and full of stress. How can parents and friends help out these troubled teens? And what can these teens do about their constant and intense sad moods? With the help of teachers, school counselors, mental health professionals, parents, and other caring adults, the severity of a teen's depression can not only be accurately evaluated, but plans can be made to improve his or her well-being and ...
- 3293: Francesco Petrarch
- ... s dismay he studied law at the University of Bologna and he earned his degree. Beyond the levels of his peers at an early age it was obvious the intellectual presents he had. Moving from school to school he realized that his true interests were in the ancient authors, not the law. He sought out and recovered manuscripts' Cicero, Virgil, amongst others. When his Petrarch's father found these manuscripts and threw then ...
- 3294: Finding A Job
- Finding A Job In May of '83 I graduated from Cherryvale high school. I enrolled in Coffeyville Community College as a music major. In the two years that followed I learned about the occupation of being a music teacher and decided that it would be too time consuming ... father, for the first time in my life, and it was very exciting. My son was born on May 23rd 1991 three days before my 25th birthday. Earlier in 91' I had went back to school and in December I receive an associates degree from the local community college.1991 was a big year for our family. The next four years at my work place seemed to get more and more ...
- 3295: Inclusion Of Master Harold And
- The claims for the inclusion of MHATBs’ in a specified course of secondary school English study are entirely justified. This play by Fugard, while set in the specific South African locale of Port Elizabeth, reflects the universal and age-old tensions, which exist between those who occupy a dominant ... almost childish in the way he interacts with others. Willie has none of Sam’s complexities and subtleties. In the drawing and sustaining of all three characters, Fugard’s skills will be appreciated by high school readers. In justifying this play as a worthy inclusion to a course of study, mention must be made of the playwright’s use of motifs. Many novelists and playwrights exploit symbolism in their writing, and ...
- 3296: Ben Franklin
- ... important concepts of his experiments were the existence of positive and negative electricity, the fluidity of electricized particles and the identity of lightning and electricity (Cohen 48). The experiment with the kite is taught in school to nearly every American child. It sparked the birth of lightning rods. The rods kept people's homes from getting hit by lightning and catching fire. House fires caused by lightning were one of the ... a long arm device for moving books on high library shelves, a combination footstool-ladder, a clock with internal workings, the odometer to calculate mileage, a combination chair-table which is now used as a school chair, bifocals, a rubber catheter, and a candle made of whale oil that gave a clean white light. All of these inventions became solutions to ordinary, everyday problems and needs. Franklin was not only an ...
- 3297: The Immigration Problem
- ... tend to be better students. One of the biggest concerns Americans have with immigrants is education. It is a common and incorrect stereotype to believe that immigrant children bring substandard skills and poor attitudes to school (Woo A1). People from all over the world have brought with them their culture and enthusiasm for education. Prevalent, it is, that many immigrant students, legal or not, have grades substantially higher than their American ... the Door to Mexicans." L.A. Times 31 Jan. 1995: B7. Wishard, Van Dusen. "The Wider Vision Seeks to Inspire the Best in People." Vital Speeches 6 (1994): 153. Woo, Elaine. "Immigrants do Well in School, Study Finds." L.A. Times 3 Apr. 1995: A1.
- 3298: The Bluest Eye 3
- ... the actual story but there is also an omniscient narrator who tells us about the character's lives. The book starts in the fall of 1940 and Claudia and Frieda have just gone back to school. Their family is having some troubles paying the bills so they rent a room out to Mr. Henry but then find out that they will have another guest soon because Pecola Breedlove is going to ... of all the other students and teachers. Claudia, Frieda and Maureen are walking home together, even though Claudia and Frieda don't like her, when they see Pecola getting harassed by some boys in the school yard and they rescue her. Maureen tries to befriend Pecola but only to torture her some more. Frieda stands up for Pecola but then Maureen makes a comment on how the girls are black and ...
- 3299: The History and Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco
- ... a huge increase of 44%! In 1990, the ages of teens from twelve to seventeen that smoke went from 9.1% to 10.9% in 1994 (that’s a 20% increase!). 31.2% of high-school teens confessed to smoking in 30 days, half of high school seniors in a survey that was conducted said they think that think that smoking makes teens look “insecure” and “un-cool.” Adult’s opinion’s are that us teens know the risk of smoking, we ...
- 3300: Joseph Stalin
- ... died that same year.(Tyrant) Stalin’s mother, Yekaterina Geladze, was a house servant for an upper-class Georgian, she was a deeply religious women.(Joseph Stalin) Stalin was sent to the Gori Church Run School in 1888 to 1894, it turned out that he was their best student and as a result he was awarded a full academic scholarship to Tbilsi Theological Seminary. He attended this to prepare him for the entrance to priest hood.(Red Tsar) At the Seminary School Stalin converted to Marxism and was a devoted follower by 1897.(Joseph Stalin) Before he graduated from the Seminary, he left and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1899. He started as the distributor of ...
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