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- 3381: Lisa Bright And Dark By John N
- ... think she is making it up. With no adult help, the problem has to be taken into the hands of Lisa and her three teenage friends. Lisa Shilling starts off as any normal teenager, attending school, going out with friends, and even dating. As the novel progresses, Lisa slips into dark, depressive moods on occasional days, and then into depression altogether. Lisa s friends notice her change and take it into ... state of depression, which helps to make the atmosphere of the novel very mysterious. Just when it appears that Lisa is getting better, another episode occurs. The story is disturbing, being set around Lisa s school and home. With other characters in the story, such as Lisa s parents, causing conflicts with Lisa receiving proper treatment, the story is given a disturbing yet realistic feel. Instead of the story being told ...
- 3382: A Separate Peace Is A Story Of
- ... goes AWOL from the army after enlisting. Gene dexcribes his relationship with Leper as "always a fight, a hard fight to win when you're seventeen years old and lived in a keyed up, competing school, to avoid making fun of him. But as I had gotten to know him better this fight had been easier to win." (Knowles 87) They sat down to have a nice conversation and ended up ... he never killed anybody and never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because his war ended before he ever put on a uniform; he was on active duty all his time at school; he killed his enemy there." (Knowles 196) This proves "A Spearate Peace" is a story of war because all of the death, hate, jealousy, and ignorance that go into the story are what the story ...
- 3383: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire ...
- 3384: Teenage Drinking
- ... It has been estimated that more then 100 million alcohol drinkers in the United States. A large majority, approximately 11 million, are under the age of 21. Many of these 11 million are currently high school seniors, who openly admit that they have tried or currently drink. Many of them also admit to have taken their first drink by the time they turned 12. Of the 11 million under-age drinkers ... involved in alcohol related accidents the odds are against them. Since alcohol contains ethanol, motor skills are slowed and depth perception is distorted making driving a hazard. Teens who drink often may drop out of school, or if they stay their grades can slip. If they are caught drinking by police they will be arrested, and have the charge on their police record. If one drinks to heavily they can get ...
- 3385: Abstract Expressionism
- Abstract Expressionism Order and chaos finally have meaning together. The movement of abstract painting emerged in New York during the nineteen-forty’s. It is also called action painting and the New York school. “The New York school was significant in American paintings because it declared independence from European styles and it influenced the development of art throughout”. (1) Jackson Pollack was one of the pioneers of abstract expressionism and his style consisted ...
- 3386: Personal Writing: Game Over
- ... trip to hospital was one that I regretted and in two weeks form then, would be paying for in the operating room. The weekend seemed to drag on forever and finally Monday rolled around. Throughout school I had shooting pains in my finger and all I could think about was what exactly my coach was going to say when I gave him the news that I was going to be out for six weeks. The day ended and I packed my school bag as usual, I then headed for basketball practice. I got there and everyone came up to me asking ho my finger was, I responded with an upset disappointing tone, that I would be out ...
- 3387: Personal Writing: Changing Grades and The Consequences
- ... he said this, I did not realize how serious my actions had been. I had violated the trust of my teacher, and the dean. And there was no way back. I was expelled from my school and transfered to another local high school. I hope that I actually learned my lesson.
- 3388: Mark Twain
- ... being rejected it was being raved about by some of the great authors of that time. Huckleberry Finn was praised by T.S. Elliot, celebrated by Ernest Hemmingway and strongly recommended by thousands of high school English teachers around the country. This novel used such great characterization and humor it is often lost among the thousands of books written by the critics merely to tell their view on the book(85 ... Huck Finn was a real boy Twain grew up with in the small town of Hannible Missouri. His name was Tom Blankenship; he was in every way just like Huck: he didn't go to school, slept on doorsteps, and spent most of his time fishing and swimming. Mark wrote what Huck would do by picturing in his head what Tom would have done in that situation(Cantwell 127). Mark Twain ...
- 3389: Abortion
- ... women to have control over their own bodies and life. One activist said, "If I hadn't had that abortion my life would have been a disaster. I wouldn't have made it to medical school. I was married at that point to a very ill man and it would have been terrible to have to have my baby. People who need abortions are in some kind of turmoil and it ... abort the fetus he suspected wasn't his. He successfully did so and Caroll believed Hollis set out intentionally to kill that fetus and that is in fact murder. Kristina Kleg a graduate from high school has recently become pregnant and decided against abortion. She feels that it's an innocent child inside of her. It has a brain and a heart therefore it also has a right to life. "Abortion ...
- 3390: Paul Ehrlich
- ... owned a small distillery. Ehrlich had an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in a time when being a Jew was controversial. B. Childhood When Ehrlich was six years old he started his schooling at the local primary school. At age ten, he boarded with a professor’s family in Breslau and went to St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium. Ehrlich was often at the top of his class and his best subjects were math ... of Biology Most of Ehrlich’s discoveries had something to do with the immune system. The immune system is a body system that is responsible for destroying disease-causing cells. When Ehrlich was still in school, he was staining white blood cells to see their different characteristics with his work on antibodies, he is knows as the “founder” of modern chemotherapy. If Ehrlich had not learned about the immune system, then ...
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