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- 3301: Becoming A Soldier
- ... with me fainted, from what seemed to me was fear. The last station was the station that symbolizes the external transition from a citizen in to a soldier, and that is where we got our uniforms and equipment. They gave us three pairs of uniform and military shoes and other essential equipment like different kind of ropes, cleaning pad for the gun and more. There was a big room for all ... our cloths. There was no privacy there, and you had to do it quickly. We went out to a big area that was covered with wet grave. After five minutes came a tough soldier, whose uniforms were ironed and shining and he had a hat that covered his eyes, so we could not see them. He declared that he would be our commander for the day. A few people laughed and ...
- 3302: Walt Disney
- ... to draw, which was not encouraged by his family. He then enrolled in Sat. morning classes at the Kansas City art Institute. His family decided to move back to Chicago in 1917. Walt finished up school and then joined the family and enrolled at McKinley High School (Finch 39-40). Walt’s brother went into the army in 1918. Walt wanted to join his brother, but he was too young. Instead he applied for an ambulance driver and ended up in France ...
- 3303: George Washington Carver2
- ... Growing up, George was captivated by plants. Many neighbors referred to him as the Plant Doctor . Since Carver was an African American, he was not accepted at any local schools, therefore he had to attend school eight miles away from home. He did very well in school. In 1885 he was accepted to Highland College in Kansas. However, race became an issue again and they took away the offer. He became very discouraged and chose to travel abroad until 1890 where he ...
- 3304: William Faulkner
- ... grew older he began to lose interest in his schoolwork and turned his attention to athletics, such as football and baseball, which caused his grades to start to fall. Eventually, he quit both athletics and school altogether. In 1919, his first literary work was acknowledged and published. The poem is a forty-line verse with a French title that acknowledges the influence of the French Symbolists. "From Mallarme he took the ... published "Landing in Luck." The short story, nine pages in length were created directly from his direct experience in the Royal Air Force flight training in 1916. After awhile he began to get tired of school once again. He started cutting classes and finally stopped going. In the summer of 1921, Faulkner decided to take a trip to New York to receive some professional instruction from editors and critics, because Stone ...
- 3305: Rudyard Kipling
- ... contribution to English Literature in various genres including poetry, short story and novel. His birth took place in an affluent family with his father holding the post of Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the Bombay School of Art and his mother coming from a family of accomplished women. He spent his early childhood in India where an "aya" took care of him and where under her influence he came in direct ... received, he suffered from insomnia for the rest of his life. This played an important part in his literary imagination. His parents removed him from the Calvinistic foster home and placed him in a private school at the age of twelve. The English schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team. Returning to India in 1882 ...
- 3306: Nothing
- ... or as servants in white homes. Except for a few years right after the war, they could not vote. Segregation laws, passed only a few years before Faulkner was born, prevented black children from attending school with whites, or from riding the same railroad cars or entering the same churches or stores. So, although many blacks lived in Oxford, the only ones young Faulkner knew were his family's servants. The ... her Mammy Callie. She served as the model for Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner was a quiet, dreamy boy. Despite his interest in reading and writing poetry, he dropped out of high school. His only real friend was Estelle Oldham, and he was sure they would marry some day. But Estelle's family wanted her to marry a graduate of the University of Mississippi. Although Estelle loved Faulkner ...
- 3307: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and His Accomplishments in Office
- ... of these issues. He would have better luck with setting the path for the race to space or arguing steel companies into stopping their price increases. Kennedy would respond to efforts to get rid of school integration in the South. In September of 1962, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ordered the University of Mississippi to accept James Meredith, a black student. President Kennedy ordered 3,000 troops to the ... he used force to help win partial desegregation of public schools in Alabama. Kennedy also sent to Congress a message to desegregate public areas and give the Department of Justice the authority to bring forth school integration suits. Most of these proposals were placed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy served nearly 1,037 days in office and accomplished more in those two years than some ...
- 3308: Who We Are
- ... In book, Black Employment: The Impact of Religion , Economic Theory, Politics, and Law, Irving Kovarsky explains that: The unemployment rate for Blacks is Twice that for whites. In fact it is higher for nonwhite high school graduates than for white high school dropouts… labor force participation rate for nonwhites has been declining, but it has been stable for Whites, not only that but blacks with equivalent jobs or education have lower incomes than their white counterparts. (77 ...
- 3309: The Problem of Teens and Smoking
- ... 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 ...
- 3310: Betty Friedan
- ... into coughing fits. Sadly, around junior high, anti-Semitism grew and those in the Jewish community were excluded from the many new sororities and fraternities. Her whole social whirl had come to an end. High school was thought to be a new beginning, but she still had problems. Betty overwhelmed people and had a bossy streak and strong opinions, which led her to become an outcast. She had an outlet in drama clubs, and participated in many writing clubs at her school. She started Tide, a literary magazine, with two other girls; Evelyn Shemas and Dorothy Stimpson. She graduated June 9, 1938 as one of 6 valedictorians. She attended Smith College where she made a huge name ...
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